Oliver: Yes ma’ am Sam: Do you love the girls more than me now?
Kota: *thumbs up* emoji Cam: We’ll see you soon Mateo: On our way “We are all together, why do you all respond?” Sierra asks, looking up from her phone. I was thinking the same thing.
All the guys let out a little laugh. “What?” I askas our phones ping again.
Luna Ava: Girls?
“She wants confirmation from all of us. She found out the hard way that some of us pretend like we don’t get the message and claim plausible deniability. Cam laughs.
“It was one time! And she won’t let it go.” Sam exclaims.
“And now we all suffer, if we don’t all respond. It’s her proof, so none of us can get out of anything with her.” Oliver rolls his eyes next to me.
Another ping.
Luna Ava: GIRLS!
Me: With the guys, on our way now.
Sierra: See you!
We are all laughing as we pull into the garage not a minute after sending our responses. Sierra and I rush upstairs to the Luna’s floor and she is waiting for us outside the elevator.
“Quickly, into the shower please. We have no time to lose.” She claps her hands pushing both of us towards the bathroom. “And give me those things, you have been training most Of the day, they are disgusting. We both laugh at her. “You two are as bad as the
“Don’t blame me, Luna Ava, blame the tyrant over here. She’s trying to get noticed by the warriors so she can get recruited and get out of here.”
Sierra blurts out as we both undress and drop our clothes in a pile, stepping into the already warm shower heads. I have definitely lost my shyness with these two. I still make sure my scars are covered at all times but the guys have seen them now, so I’m not as afraid if my shirt rides up. But, the looks they get when I catch them staring at my injuries, that guilt is something I don ‘t enjoy.
“What? Sky, you really want to leave? What about your mate and graduating school? n She leans against the sink, crossing her arms like she’s
stealing herself for bad news.
“They don ‘t start taking trainees until junior year, so I won’t even qualify until next year at the earliest, since technically I’m ahead in school. I just
want to get on their radar, Warrior Nikolas said that anyone in high school could do the trials. That it would give me a baseline for what the warriors
might be looking for in the future.
“But that training is two years, what would the boys do without you?”
“They didn’t even notice me until this year and I have literally been around them my whole life. Truthfully, they will probably score more dates if they
weren’t hanging out with me. I’ve been thinking about doing the warrior training for a long time. There really isn’t much available to me as the beta’s
second child and daughter. I can finish high school while training and even do college courses so I won’t be delaying anything or holding myself back
There are a lot of reasons for me to go and do this.”
“Is your father one of those reasons?” I could hear the clip in her words.
“He’s not NOT a reason. I want to go and do something with myself, use my skills to make other people better. And if I go now, then I will be back by
the time I turn eighteen and am ready and able to find my mate.” I try to sound cheerful at the prospect. I turn off the water and we step out to her
holding towels, looking lost in thought. I wrap the towel around me and grab her hands making her look at me. “I promise, I’m not trying to run away,
but I have to try this, I need to do something that makes me feel accomplished and right now I don’t have that. I promise that I will come back” I look
her straight in the eyes for a moment before she pulls me in for a tight hug.
