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“Have you talked to Lucy about this?” Micah asked.
“No. We wanted to talk to you about it first. If you had someone else you preferred for the role, we would have given you that option. Since you don’t, Lucy it is,” his father said.
“So, I get an option but Lucy doesn’t,” Micah asked.
Once again, he was met with a round of hard stares.
“The decision is final,” the elder said.
As everyone left the room, Micah thought,I’m glad that I’m not going to have to be the one to have that conversation with her.
Considering what Lucy had said about being glad she could determine the course of her own life, being told that she would be forced to go through a mating ceremony would go over like a ton of bricks. He could almost see the fireworks already.
2
Lucy
Lucy was smiling when she got home. It had been another successful day. She had been working with a girl who had been abused as a child and was struggling to fit in with her foster family. However, the girl was starting to understand that the world around her wasn’t trying to hurt her and was largely made up of good people. It had been a very long process and Lucy was in the mood to celebrate.
Her version of celebrating was going home to her nice apartment and ordering Chinese food to be delivered so she didn’t have to cook. Afterward, she made herself a nice glass of wine and ran a hot bubble bath. Hot water, wine, and a good book was the perfect combination in Lucy’s mind.
She was just about to get into the tub when there was a loud knock on the door. Lucy quickly wrapped her soft, plush robe around her and rushed to the door. Someone banging on her door this time of night, without a warning, couldn’t be good news.
Her heart sank when she saw who was standing on her doorstep. Her grandfather, who was an elder in the clan was there, along with her father, and the alpha. She stared at them in stunned silence for a minute.
“Can we come in?” her grandfather asked politely as he took a step inside.
She wanted to push him back out the door and tell him “no,” but her good manners and self-preservation took over.
“Of course, come in,” she said.
She backed away from the door, trying to ignore the sickening knot in her stomach that threatened to make her double over.
She motioned to the couch and chair while she sat down in her favorite recliner. The comfortable chair normally helped relieve all the tension from her day, but this time it was no help. She simply waited, with her arms folded in her lap, for the world the come crashing down on her.
They got the pleasantries over with relatively quickly. None of these men really cared what kind of day she’d had or how she was doing. She just wanted them to get to whatever nasty business they had.
Her grandfather spoke. She hoped that her face didn’t reflect the dislike that she had always felt for this cold, unfeeling, manipulative man.
“As you know, when you were a child, you went through a betrothal ceremony with Micah,” he said.
“To be honest, I don’t even remember it,” Lucy said, her heart thundering a million miles an hour.
Now she knew why they were here.
“I was practically still a baby when that happened.”
Her grandfather ignored her comments and continued.
“Micah is going to become the alpha of our clan in two months’ time.”
“I’m glad for him,” Lucy said.
“He will need a mate,” her grandfather said.
“I wish him luck,” Lucy replied.
Lucy could tell that her grandfather was becoming very irritated with her responses. She really didn’t care.
