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Claudia hummed in thought. “You should’ve seen him when you weren’t feeling well. The others tried to take you away from him and he wouldn’t let them by the time they got back here. From what the others tell me, Silas wouldn’t let anyone but them near you right away when he tucked you into his bed. That is why you were there.”
I had wondered that.
“He wanted you close.”
He did? Then where was he now? That couldn’t be right.
After another minute, Jacob sat down a mug on the table in front of me. I smiled up at him, and his face eased from the strain that had been creasing it.
“Could you boys give us a minute?”
“But—”
“Leeson,” his mother said in a tone that must’ve been one that she used often when he was a child.
It almost brought another small smile to my face. I didn’t understand how I could even consider smiling at the moment, yet here we were.
I was a complete mess, truly.
With a huff, Leeson looked at me. “Yell if you need anything.”
I nodded before the two of them headed back down the hallway.
Then it just left me and Leeson’s mom.
Reaching out, she paused again with her hands an inch over mine. “May I?”
Oh.I nodded.
“Sorry, omegas are touchy people,” she said. “From what I understand you hadn’t grown up that way, but I thought it might help. Perhaps the both of us.”
Holding my hands, it was almost natural the way she gently squeezed them and that sat between us. A connection. A safe feeling washed over me.
“When my boy called in a panic about his omega, I couldn’t decide whether I was horrified over how they were treating you or thrilled that Leeson found you. Definitely a bit of both,” said Claudia. “Scent matches don’t happen every day, though my pack and I had some of that luck as well.”
“I panicked when it happened. I never exactly fit the omega mold. I wasn’t supposed to, growing up.”
“The world is changing,” she said. “I didn’t go to the academy either, I’m sure you know. I was home-schooled and tutored most of my life growing up so that I could be on the ice doing something that I loved.”
I nodded.
“Are you doing something you love here at school?”
I paused. “I don’t know yet.”
“I’m sure you’ll find out. Yourhappy. Here in the pack and in yourself as who you want to be. You deserve it all, Vera, even if it hasn’t seemed like it just yet from the looks of things.” Claudia looked around the apartment as if it held everything she needed to know. “For now, though, if you’re ready, I’d love to know more about you and how we got to this point. I may not be all-powerful, but I am more than happy to help you. I will. However I can, now that I know you are going to be a part of our family.”
Family? I nearly wanted to cry all over again.
Instead, I told her everything. It just all came out in a wave. I told her about the appointment with my doctor on campus who treated me like a lab experiment needing to be contained torunning into Leeson and then Jacob at the party and how well they treated me even when I shoved them away. I told her about how I was struggling to even want to go to class anymore, before and after being forcibly withdrawn from the one course I did slightly enjoy, and then how right when I was finally coming to terms with who I was as an omega…
I felt like I was right back to square one. Or if I wasn’t, I should be.
Because that is what was safe. For me, anyway. It was what I was used to.
“And Silas. He um, he…” I swallowed.
He rejected me.
