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“That won’t go over well,” Dean said.
“Once I’m alpha, there is nothing that they can do about it,” Micah said. “However, I will admit that I’m rather fond of her, and I will try to persuade her to go through the ceremony with me.”
“I don’t know whether to wish you luck or hope that you fail,” Dean said.
Micah ran into Lucy’s father the next day.
“How is Lucy?” Micah asked.
“I guess that she is still mad. However, once she calms down, she will realize that it is her duty to go through the mating ceremony with you. She will obey the elders and do her duty.”
That didn’t set well with Micah. He wanted to talk to her about the situation. He was hoping that he could convince her that they were great friends, which was a great start to their relationship, and that they would do well together. She could still live her dreams while having the benefits of being an alpha queen.
Figuring that she had time to cool off, he called her the next day, but her phone went straight to voice mail. She didn’t reply to any of his text messages either.
“I guess she really is angry,” Micah said to himself.
She still wasn’t answering his calls or texts the next day. He went by her house and saw that her car was gone.
“Maybe she is just working late,” Micah reasoned. “She is dedicated to her job.”
However, he was still worried about her and called her work.
“Micah, it’s so good to hear your voice,” Martha said. “How are things?”
“They are going great,” Micah replied. “I was wondering if I could speak to Lucy.”
“Oh, well,” Martha said, her voice dropped. “Lucy took an extended leave of absence a couple of weeks ago. She said that she didn’t know when she would be back. She didn’t tell me where she was going. I hope that everything is okay.”
“I’m sure that she is fine,” Micah said. “She’s just dealing with a personal issue right now.”
“Hey, Henry,” Micah said, when he got Henry on the phone. “Lucy took an extended leave of absence from work. She didn’t tell her boss where she was going or when she would be back.”
“Meet me at her apartment,” Lucy’s father growled.
The landlord reluctantly let them into Lucy’s apartment. Everything was extremely neat, as Lucy always left it. Micah went into Lucy’s bathroom and saw that her toiletries were missing. Several articles of clothing were also missing.
“Damn it,” Henry yelled.
Micah hurried out of Lucy’s bedroom to see a red-faced Henry clutching a note in his white knuckled hands.
“I can’t believe that she would do this to me. This is a disgrace,” Henry yelled.
Micah took the note from Henry and read it.
I’m not ready to be anyone’s mate. When, and if, I am ready, I will be mated with someone who I have fallen in love with. I will not be forced to go through a mating ceremony with someone I do not want to spend the rest of my life with. Micah, if you find this note, know that I love you dearly – as a friend. It would be an injustice for you to be mated with someone who doesn’t love you the way you deserve to be loved.
“I will have her exiled out of the clan for this,” Henry exclaimed.
“Don’t be hasty. This must have come as a shock to her. She had her life planned out and all of a sudden she is told that her plans and dreams aren’t important and that she is going to have to give them all up,” Micah said. “She has a right to be frustrated and angry.”
“She does not have a right to humiliate her family or you,” Henry growled. “She has known about this betrothal her entire life and she knew that this time would come.”
“Please, don’t do anything rash,” Micah said. “I’ll find her and I’ll make her see reason. Who knows, maybe she has had a chance to clear her head, and she’ll understand that we need her to accept the situation.”
He winced when he heard the words coming out of his mouth, but his main goal was to calm Henry down and prevent him from doing anything rash and stupid like automatically taking steps to having Lucy exiled from the clan.
Henry nodded and said, “I hope that you can make her see reason. She has three months to figure things out. She is a smart girl.”
