“I just think my mom, the last bit of family I have left that I know, is the missing link to understanding who and what I am. Idon’t have this massive, big reunion style family where we have meetings and dinners like you do.”
“You cannot compare a pack of wolves that dates back several generations to–––”
“I’m not comparing. I’m just saying, it’s always been my mom, my granny, and my dad. That’s it. I’ve never known what a big family is like but now to hear about the First Family, I was kind of…excited and scared,” she noted with a roll of her eyes. “I’m not gonna lie, I thought it was a possibility they would kill me, but it just turned out to be a bunch of old skeleton freaks that are barely breathing and now they’re dead. My cousins are probably dead, and Bellamy is all I have left, and he too is…who knows where he is.”
“He’s in love,” I told her.
“Woopty doo!” She let out like a mad woman. “I miss what I know and what’s familiar to me and now that’s gone. All I have is…”
Maggie threw her hands up with a shrug.
“Me,” I answered for her. Her shoulders dropped.
“I mean of course you but I…I would love to just…walk back in my house and lay in the bed with my mom and annoy her again like I used to. That’s all I’m saying.”
She turned back towards the living room mess and began going through outfits.
“Anyway, I have a plan…well Souxie is usually the plan maker, and I follow what she does. We’re going to do this ourselves.”
“With everything going on, I think it's best that you…just wait until this blows over…lay low so the attention doesn’t turnon you. It’s already turning on you because of who and what you are.”
“I didn’t do anything,” she said as she turned to look at me. “I didn’t kill anyone.”
I inhaled a deep breath, wondering if she truly had no idea and her brain wanted to block it out… Gaia kept that side of her protected or she was pretending not to know. I could never tell who I was talking to when she gets…anxious like this.
“I would never harm anyone, and I barely like the sight of my own blood. You’ve seen me on heavy days.” She whipped a jacket in the air with both hands to hold out. “A pad and tampon don’t cut it.”
“I’m aware,” I replied dryly. “I just don’t want anybody to come for you. Can you promise me that whatever you’re going to do, you keep a low profile? Just lay low until it settles…”
“So don’t try and break the spell on the only little family I have left?”
Yes, because you might be in danger, woman.
“No, just…be careful. If something happens to you. I’m on go. If I’m on go, my brother will react. If he reacts, the pack reacts. Your brother will lose it. You put your parents at risk…There is a lot of shit that is going on and I just need you to think before you step, okay? I can help and do my part in figuring out what we can do about your parents. Just give me some time, okay? Lay low and just wait…be patient.”
Little did she know, Bellamy gathered up more than enough information about what’s going on with their parents. Although it may not seem like it because he kept his distance, he was doing his part to protect his sister and their parents. He too, wanted tomeet his mother so she wasn’t the only one anxiously wanting to settle this.
“Alright,” Maggie conceded. “I’ll…lay low…for now.”
“You promise?” I asked. With her hand, she slashed the air just at the corner of her forehead in a proper military salute.
“Scouts honor.”
Chapter Three
Souxie Lafayette
The ringing phone interrupted the quiet stillness in the dark bedroom as my eyes slowly peeled open. I could see peeks of daybreak between the blinds but the scent of cologne, sweat, body, and sex pulled me back in as I turned away from the light. I could see the light brown curves of his shoulders disappearing into the sheets as he slept soundly.
I ignored the ringing until it stopped as I closed my eyes again. My body had little time to prepare for the next round of sex. After four months of violating one another, sleep was the only time we could catch a break.
Bzzzz
Bzzzz
The phone started to ring, vibrating in the sheets as I exhaled. When it stopped again, I was just about to settle when it started again. Slowly, I turned around, feeling for my phone before looking at the screen to see Maggie Grey…had called fourtimes. With a sniff, I swiped at the screen and laid the phone against my ear.
“Hello?”
