Page 102 of The Alpha and His Song: Volume One

His dad countered, “Odette doesn’t know that. We kept her ignorant of this life. All you had to do was show up and woo the girl. Then you lost it, and now she calls you a stalker! Morgana yelled at me for an hour for badly you overstepped.”

“We wanted Odette here willingly at first. Then once she was here, she simply wouldn’t have left. The way I hear it, she doesn’t want anything to do with you. You were too busy with that girl.” He spat out and pointed to the girl Luke was making out with. Hurt flashed in her face, Luke hissed at his dad for it.

His dad continued, “You lost sight of Odette. Now she’s trained on fighting skills. She’s even surfaced because she feels like she’s endangered by you. Do you even comprehend the magnitude of your screw up? I told you that you could have both girls.”

“You only need Odette for her soul, an heir, and last name. You could kill her the second your child is born and be with Delana officially. You could be with Delana the whole time Odette is yours. All you had to do was get her here. That’s it! You had to do one little thing!”

The song in my head was hissing. Yeah, total agreement with the song here. What an ass. These people were definitely a danger to us. The hissing song deal was completely right about feeling that way. I could not believe they were discussing my life as if it didn’t matter.

Luke’s dad stood and began to pace. I was absolutely emailing Caspian after this, because Luke’s dad had to go. They wanted to kill me for no reason. He was just casually throwing out that I was to be kidnapped, raped, and murdered.

I wanted to groan because I didn’t know enough about the mob to know about the soul part; however, kidnapping and raping someone would kill my soul. The man continued, “Now Morgana is unreachable, and the girl notices when she’s followed. Your stupid uncle approached and scared her. I’m sure her song is hissing. None of you understand, all you had to do was be nice!”

“Odette’s been isolated. She’s practically starving for attention and love. We did that on purpose, and you all RUINED the easiest part of the plan! Jesus Christ, she was born to breed and die. Odette would’ve been so easy to take, but noooo my inept family has now scared the little thing.”

“Caspian is watching us like a hawk and suspects we are up to something! Don’t you understand that we can’t lead him to Odette? If that happens all is lost. I’m going to distract him by raiding Scylla. I’ll kill a few people, and he’ll have to come. Does anyone besides me understand that?!” He was going to say more when I was jerked backwards.

I woke up looking into Keaton’s eyes, my man had to leave. That was good and bad. I needed to email Caspian, but I would miss Keaton. Man, I needed to get a grip. I also owed Noxus a response too. I also needed to find a self-defense class around here to brush up on my skills.

These people were talking about murdering me. Maybe I could actually get that girl, Delana, on my side. She wanted to be with Luke, for some reason. I cautiously also wanted that for them. Luke seemed like he was actually nice to her.

Maybe it was me that brought out the worst in Luke. I wondered why. Why did he even sound possessive of me when he wanted Delana? The jerk. I wanted him far away from me so I could stay with Keaton. My man made plans to come by tomorrow.

I waited until I heard the lock turn. Ok, can any part of me be scared that the guy I’m dating can get in and out of my apartment without a key? Nope. Cool. I’m so abnormal. UGH! My song sang happily about it, which was not normal but hey I had a song in my head. So, normal was off the cards with that situation. I ran to the other room and fired up my computer. I couldn’t process my other emotions about what just happened, so I replied to Noxus first.

Noxus,

Lux V and Beatrice seemed to believe whatever my mom did to you was really bad. If she makes your head sing, I have to agree with them. I don’t take help easily as I’ve learned to rely on myself. When everything gets tough, the one person who is always there for me is me.

I was in a different place tonight, and it was creepy. I wish I had come to you guys again. That place felt devoid of love. I thought my life was tragically sad, but hell if my life isn’t rainbows and sunshine compared to the coolness of that place.

If you were my dad, I’d have been happy. I always wanted a dad. They had father daughter dances at my schools. I could never afford to go, but sometimes I’d sneak in and watch all the dads with their daughter’s. I wanted that, but it wasn’t in the cards for me.

My song boy is so dreamy. He keeps showing up saying he’s not going away. Time will tell; I guess. It might kill me if he does. I grow so despondent when we are fighting or not speaking to each other. It’s weird. I’m oddly depressed when I don’t know what’s going on with him.

Something happened. I feel like he went somewhere dangerous. I couldn’t eat or sleep until I saw him again. Then we had a fight, more like a misunderstanding. I got really pale and could only rest with his shirt on. God, that’s weird. Moving on.

You honestly seem too nice to have anything to do with my mom. It’s really for the best if you move on from her. Mom seems to be a drain on her boyfriends. I’d swear she gave some wrinkles and gray hair. Which I know is crazy, but I’m telling you she did.

Mom always says I’m an embarrassment, definitely not rare or special; I’m more of an inconvenience to her. That she apparently sold to some family who wants to kill me. That’s not the point though.

I think, provided you all aren’t full of shit, I would’ve liked growing up with you guys. I loved growing up with Lux. I thought he was the best and still do, I really miss him. You don’t need to worry about Lux. He’s always been into training. He was going to take me when I got older, he promised.

His dad was all about training. Lux was fit so I can’t imagine that changed, just leave him be. It isn’t his fault that I got you guys involved. I only wanted to find him. I still do. I feel so alone without Lux, sometimes. That’s getting better lately though.

Mom never said anything about you guys, so I have no preconceived notions. I just don’t want anything to do with the mob. It’s sounding like I don’t have a choice though, since mom made some backdoor deal with a different, crazy family.

Mom has always been calculating. She always says she’s shrewd, manipulative, and she always gets what she wants. From what I’ve seen, that’s true. Everyone has to lose eventually though. I’m not going to marry Luke, so she’s going to lose that battle.

Based on what I heard tonight, I’m like pretty sure you guys are definitely in the mob, but I’m beginning to not care. I liked coming to see you guys. I still don’t want to be “brought into the fold” or whatever the mob people say. I would miss you guys if you stopped emailing though.

Also, from what I heard tonight that war is coming, and I am going to do my best not to get involved. Apparently, I just have to keep hiding from people. That should be fun. I’ve never seen mom give anyone a second chance. Except Luke. So, she can do it apparently.

I find it strange you are interested in my diet. I try to follow the plan mom set out. My old and new friends say it’s bullshit. They didn’t / don’t let me follow it. I have a friend here who gets me carbs all the time. Mom has a very strict vegan, gluten, and sugar free diet for me to follow. I’ve broken it a lot, but I do try to stick to it as much as I can.

I like meat though, so it sucks. Also, bread is delicious. Do you have any idea how many things have gluten? I can’t buy packaged shredded cheese. Not that a lot of people offer vegan shredded cheese, but some do. Few offer the block vegan cheese.

Mom’s diet is really hard to stick to with what little money I had. She’d die if she knew how much I survived on Ramen and pizza rolls. They are cheap though, and we lived in Wisconsin one winter. I needed to keep the heat on.