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I could see Storm thinking over my words. She had to believe me; I was telling the truth. Seeing her like this, frantic over her separation from her omega friend, I knew there was no way she wasn’t just as connected to her as I was to my alphas.
“Do you mean it, Ry?”
“Yeah, I do. Your friendship means the world to me, firefly. I have been a mess the last few months with you being upset with me.”
“Are you only sorry because of that? Because you miss talking to me?”
“No. That was only the catalyst to me trying to figure out what I had done and said that was wrong.”
Storm nodded once and then turned on her heel and marched across her nest room. I glanced around and winced. Her normally carefully constructed nest was a mess. There was no rhyme or reason to any of it. In fact, the majority of her cushions and blankets had been tossed to the side of the room. The only thing she had was a pile of clothing smack in the middle.
That was where she headed to. She hit her knees and burrowed in under the pile of clothes. I watched with my head tilted as the pile shuffled around and then stilled. Her hand reached out from under the pile and moved the sleeve of a sweatshirt, revealing her eyes. She studied me from her spot and then motioned with her finger for me to come in.
I swallowed thickly and then took a step into the one place in her room she’d never invited me into before. I refused to think too much into it yet. Storm was clearly hurting and she needed her friend. That was all this was.
Right?
Chapter25
Declan
Our beta was in so much shit. Sitting beside me, driving as fast as he legally could, was Victor. I could feel the waves of anger rolling off him. I almost felt bad for Ryan once we got there. Almost.
We didn’t give him many directions to follow. Hell, we barely asked anything of him. The one thing we had asked was that he leave Storm alone. I knew he was getting antsy the longer we made him wait, but we had a plan. We were going to all go over and apologize as a pack together. We felt she deserved that. But no, Ryan had to go there today on his own.
I blew a frustrated breath out, ruffling my bangs. “He had good intentions . . .”
“I don’t care. We asked him to wait. He should have waited.”
“We didn’t tell him why we wanted him to wait. We should have done that.”
“Doesn’t matter. He should have enough respect for our pack to listen to what we asked. What if Storm rejects him? His heart won’t take the heartbreak again. To hear him talk about how he felt the first time, when he didn’t designate as an alpha, it almost broke him, Declan.”
“He’s different now than he was then, though. He has us. Ryan knows he’s not alone. And he knows how important Storm is to us and that we intend to tell her as soon as she is in the right frame of mind to accept that information.”
Victor huffed. He wasn’t happy, and I hoped for Ryan’s sake that he was ready for whatever it was Victor had planned. I hadn’t wanted to believe him when he told me Ryan ignored his call earlier. That was so unlike him. But then to find out he had left work early and gone to Storm’s house had my ire sizzling under the surface of my skin as well.
Pulling up to the Vareth estate, Victor spoke to the gate guard for a few moments. The guard radioed into the house. They granted access to us and the gate creaked open, and Victor took off down the driveway.
His hands tightened on the wheel as Ryan’s little coupe came into view as we neared the front of the house. Our car had barely stopped before he was yanking the key out and leaping from the vehicle. I hurried to catch up and caught him right before the door.
“Settle, brother. The Vareths do not deserve your irritation.”
He sighed but closed his eyes and tried to relax his stiff stature. At the front door, I rapped my knuckles loudly and waited for someone to answer. A few seconds later, it was being opened and Storm’s father Tony was standing there, a grim look on his face.
“Alpha Victor, Alpha Declan. I’m sorry. We weren’t expecting you.”
His omega, Amber, appeared next to him and placed a hand on his arm. He turned to look down at her, a soft smile crossing his features. “I’ve been expecting them ever since Ryan got here. Come on in, gentlemen.”
She moved off into the interior of the home, and Tony shrugged, stepping aside so we could enter. Victor and I followed the family into the living room, where they motioned for us to have a seat.
“I’ve gotta say,” Greg said once we sat. “I honestly didn’t expect you to come back here. Not after the way you talked to our daughter last time.”
“We owe you an apology for that,” I said.
“No,” Corey said, his eyes narrowed. “You oweheran apology.”
“You’re absolutely right. We do. But we also are sorry to you and your omega, her parents, that we spoke to her like that in her own home. We should have stopped and listened to what she was saying, not made snap judgements based on emotions that were running way too high,” Victor told them.
