Chapter 28 Call
Alec POV
It’s been three days since she told me to leave her alone.
Three long torturous days.
I haven’t been able to sleep more than a few hours every night. I have barely been able to keep any food down. It doesn’t surprise me that the whole group is here in my living room trying to get me to stop moping around, but how could I ever be okay again when I don’t have my mate? When my mate hates me, when she thinks I’ve lied to her, cheated on her, and I don’t know what else she thinks I might have done.
“You need to snap out of it, buddy,” Kyson says.
“You don’t know what it’s like, you haven’t met your mate yet. I feel like she’s going to reject me. I might die if she doesn’t talk to me again.”
“Then call her and be honest with her about what happened.”
I give Noah a deadpan look. “And tell her what? It doesn’t make any sense for me to have made Cassie befriend her unless she knows about werewolves. Which I’ll remind you, she doesn’t know anything.”
“Tell her everything.”
“How can I just tell her everything. It’s not like this is some simple secret.”
“Well, you have to tell her someday, so maybe now is the perfect time.” Noah offers.
Although it doesn’t fill me with confidence that this situation will be handled any better, I can’t deny that he isn’t wrong. She will have to be told someday, and maybe now is better than later. But how do I even tell her what if she thinks I’m lying?
“How do I tell her?” Kyson smirks.
“Show her your wolf. Turn into it right in front of her. Then there is no denying physical evidence.”
I sigh loudly, rubbing my hand down my face. “Do I contact her or wait for her to contact me?”
I can’t believe I’m here taking advice from them.
“If she doesn’t contact you by tomorrow, then text her,” Noah says.
“Call her now,” Kyson says.
We all know I’m going to listen to Noah’s advice first. I can’t listen to them much longer, going back to my room. I spent the rest of my day waiting, hoping, and praying for her to contact me. I can’t focus on anything but her. It hurts so badly to be away from her. Every minute away from her and every minute of her being upset with me makes my heart hurt. It is physically painful to be without her.
I need to talk to my dad about this. I walk into the main pack house, slightly nervous about what I’m going to talk to him about. Although he’s really not judgment I still worry about what he might say. I find him in his office talking with another member.
“Can I talk to you for a minute?” I ask, giving the other man a polite smile.
He looks from the paper in his hands to my dad. My dad looks me over, obviously gauging how important this is.
“Yeah, sure, give us a minute, Bob.”
The other guy gives a nod, stepping out of the room.
“What’s up, son?” He takes his glasses off, leaning back in the chair to give me his full attention.
I don’t sit in the chair in front of his desk; instead pacing in front of him.
“It’s Anneliese.” He gives me a nod to continue.
I’ve told him and my mother everything there is to know about our relationship. Their approval means so much to me. I tell him everything. Everything about my original plan with Cassie to Anneliese coming to my house tonight.
“Okay, so you want to know how to handle this situation?”
“Yes, please, the guys think I should tell her everything, but I’m so worried it’ll only make things worse.”
He nods understandingly. “I agree it could very much make things worse. But if she loves you as much as you say and you love her more than she’ll believe you and choose you.”
I nod even though I’m still not fully convinced.
“I know you’re scared, but it’ll be okay. I know it’s not the same thing, but when your mom and I first met, I was so scared to tell her that I was the alpha of my pack, even though we were so young. But she didn’t care, even though it made her life so much harder, she still chose me.”
“Well, she did ignore for a few weeks, though.” I point out the flaw he’s left out.
“Well, yeah, but she still came back, and we’ve never been better.”
I finally sit in the chair, leaning my head onto my hands. “So I need to show and tell her the truth and then let the dust settle?”
“Yes, it’ll be a bit hard at first, but I have trust that she’ll take it well.”
“Do I reach out to her first or wait?” I ask the other question that’s been hanging me up.
“Wait for her. Don’t push it, that’ll only make it worse. Your mom hates being pushed into something.” I chuckle, he’s right mom is never one to be pushed into something.
“When can we meet her?”
“Let’s get through this first.”
“Yeah, yeah, whatever, tell your mom that, she’ll be happy to hear this.” He makes me feel better, reassuring me I’m on the right path, that I’ve made the right choice. I just hope and pray that she’ll stay, that she won’t be scared of me.
Please, Anneliese, don’t leave me when you find out the truth.
Anna POV
“I think I’m going to call him.” Beth’s face crumples.
“Anna, you gotta hold out longer.”
“I know, but I can’t. I don’t know why or how, but it hurts to be away from him, Beth, like physically.”
“I can’t pretend to fully understand, but I can comprehend you missing him. You two have been like love-sick puppies every time I’ve seen you.” She takes a breath,
“And I genuinely think he’s made you really happy all the time until now at least.”
“Okay, I’m going to call him now.” I grab the phone, pull up his contact, and press call.