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“You’ve been cavorting with a pack and didn’t even speak to me about it.”
Cavorting.
I blinked. “I was just…”
“Did you not think to ask me what I thought or my opinion? You know this wasn’t what we had planned. You still have so much time left at school, and you still have the chance to find yourself in a career.”
“I didn’t ask you your opinion, because I knew what it would be!” I finally let out.
My mother’s eyes widened.
“You hate all alphas that aren’t you and you think omegas are a plague because someone wanted one more than you a long time ago and now you want me to be nothing like them.”
“That is not?—”
“It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter who I am or what I ever wanted or dreamed of if it wasn’t what you did too. I don’t know what I even want to do with my life,” I stammered.
“So you’re just going to throw it away to be just like some other omega who opens her legs and has alpha babies for the rest of your life? Is that what you want? To tend to a house and children and be at an alpha’s beck and call whenever they please?” she asked. She wasn’t shouting or barking and yet it still brought a new line of tears to my eyes. “That is never what I wanted for you. You deserve more than the hand I was given and you're throwing everything I set you up for away.”
“Mom,” I choked.
“Is there a problem here?” A presence stepped up behind me as I bit the inside of my cheek. With a deep breath, all I could smell was heavy, thick honey.
My mother met the alpha behind me as she rolled her shoulders back.
I didn’t bother turning around. “I…”
“What’s going on?”
“It’s fine, Silas. Please, it’s fine.”
When I didn’t even have to look to know that it was him, knowing instinctively who it was behind me, my mother’s eyes widened.
“Well, I see that it’s fine,” she said softly. “It looks like I’m already far too late to have any sort of opinion on just how you deal with your future. I hope you have a good semester. Call me when you are ready to talk as my daughter, Vera,” my mother paused. “But this is your mistake to make.”
I watched her turn her back. I watched her walk out of the rink and even further until the door shut. I didn’t follow. I knew better than to think that she would turn around or come back, but I was still shocked when my chest heaved forward like I couldn’t breathe.
She didn’t even look back.
She didn’t care to look back at her daughter. At me.
She just left.
Suddenly I was turned around, my face being pressed into a warm and slightly damp jersey.
“You don’t dare listen to her right now. You don’t listen to a damn thought inside your head right now telling you terrible things, you hear me, omega?” Silas commanded above me as I shook, not quite crying as I breathed him in, my innate response to trying to steady myself. Maybe he knew that.
Yet that made no sense too. Silas was barely a friend. I mean, I wanted him to be my friend. I wanted him to be my everything even though I knew that it was a terrible decision to even consider it when I was still willing to take morsels of pleasure and kindness from him like a stray dog rather than a partner.
“You are a good person no matter how much you accomplish. You are a better person than ninety percent of the population just for waking up in the morning. I’m sorry I fucked up, but you’re not leaving here without us right now. Okay?”
“I… I…”
Silas, for the first time, waited.
“I didn’t mean to fall in love with you all, you know.”
“Well talk about it later, okay?”
