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The game tonight. Fuck.
“What time is it?” I stand, blinking. I still feel nauseous. I need to get to Lauren.
“Five o’clock.”
Five o’clock. That’s the time we’re supposed to be in the locker room for the game. But I haven’t spoken to Lauren yet. Haven’t fixed my mess–if it’s even fixable.
“I called Coach to tell him you’ll be a few minutes late, but you’re coming. He heard about the seizure at school. The whole town has by now.” My dad’s judgment hits me like a punch to the gut, but I don’t flinch.
I walk toward the door.
“Hold up.” My dad uses Alpha Command, so my body freezes of its own accord. “I’ll drive you there. I don’t want you behind a wheel yet.”
I growl my dissatisfaction. How will I get to Lauren without my car?
“You could pass out behind the wheel and hit a human.” My dad says. “Give me the keys.”
Gah. This day couldn’t get worse. I hand over the keys, and we walk out to the Rover.
But then it does get worse because as soon as my dad gets behind the wheel, he says, “What happened to the money in my safe?”
My stomach knots. My eye starts to twitch. I flip it back on him in my usual deflective mode. “Really? You’re going to grill me right before the game you care so much about?”
“What happened to the money?” My dad’s using a form of Alpha Command. The blast of it sears through my skull.
The danger to Lauren makes my wolf snap and snarl. My vision goes dark in the center. The light through the windshield hurts my head.
Stick close to the truth. It’s the only solution.
“Lauren saw me shift.” I shade my eyes, trying not to show how much pain I’m in. “I called Austin, and he told me about the safe and gave me the contact info for a vampire. I took her there and took care of it.”
Close to true. I took care of shooting Thomas when he tried to drain Lauren instead of mind-wiping her.
“Which vampire?”
“His name was Thomas.” A shudder runs through me at the memory of Thomas sucking Lauren’s blood.
“Thomas. He’s not trusted by our kind. That was dangerous, Abe. Taking matters into your own hands is not how things get handled in this pack.”
“I know, Dad. I do. But I’d been told to stay away from Lauren. I figured it was better to take care of it myself. And I did.”
“You did?” Do I hear doubt in my dad’s voice?
“I did.” I’m trying to say it firmly, but it comes out as alpha command, and it pushes my dad’s body back in the seat.
Whoops.
My dad frowns as he pulls up in front of the school. I throw open the door and hop out. My nose is starting to bleed, my head is killing me, and I can barely see.
I shut the door without waiting for my dad’s game advice. I frankly could care less about this game.
I am nothing without Lauren. That’s already epically clear.
I’ve been denying what I knew from day one–she’s my mate. The episodes with my vision are worse because my wolf is desperate to mark her.
My only hope is that Lauren will come to the game tonight, and I can somehow make things right.
Lauren
