Alpha’s Regret-My Luna Has A Son by Jessicahall Chapter 114
Another four weeks later.
Everly POV
Mum was getting blood tests, and the vaccine needed to be administered every few days now. I have just hit the 2nd trimester, and the Hotel was only a few weeks from finished. Valen sold most of his shares to pay half the debt owed to Nixon. Still, Nixon pressed for more, and we had enough.
Valen’s scientists had managed to replicate the vaccine a week ago, and now they were working on finding a cure. Yet as we suspected, my mother was becoming immune to the vaccine, and with it came early-onset dementia. She was losing her grip on reality. Dad was beside himself, and Ava was devastated.
Macey and Zoe were doing everything at the moment, from the school run to managing the renovations, now that the structure was fully fixed. Kalen ran the Homeless shelter while Dad worked for my pack and Valen his.
Life was hectic, and Ava and I were tasked with watching over mum, which meant taking her to these appointments. We also carried tranquilizers everywhere we went with her, just in case. But she could seemingly pull herself out of it before anything wrong happened.
Valen hated that I offered to help watch over her, said I was putting myself at risk, and he was right, but she was my mother. The woman taught me to walk, speak, and use a d**n spoon, and I knew if our roles were reversed and it was his father, he would be by his side too.
Mum thanks the nurse that took her blood before the doctor administered the next dose, stabbing it into her arm, and she shivers. Her hair was beginning to grey, and she was aging quickly. All this LA MSING because of Nixon. We had filed against Nixon to have his pack dismantled. My father went to the media two nights ago and outed everything, including the debt and how Nixon was the one who injected my mother.
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We were waiting for the repercussions, everyone on edge since Dad went lives across the city. Nixon was officially under investigation, and the werewolf council was now involved.
Unfortunately, that meant my father was also under investigation C;){x6:. forced to remain in his pack territory, the same as Nixon. It was also another reason why I had to help Ava with mum.
Dad couldn’t leave pack borders, and until I married Valen, he had to stay on the opposite side of town, and the vaccine, now that Nixon wouldn’t administer it, could only be given on Valen’s territory. The investigation was a slow process that would buy us time,
maybe not much with tensions on the rise.
Riots had started in the streets already, the city wanting answers. Nixon’s pack had gone quiet. They don’t leave their borders, and only trucks with supplies have entered since he found himself in hot water.
Mum was in a cheery mood as we left, almost childlike and giddy as she climbed in the car. Ava sat next to her. She was deteriorating fast, and the scientists that are working on the cure were working around the clock. More rogues had gone missing, more turning up along the borders as forsaken, which only amped up Nixon’s claims that they were deliberately turning forsaken to overrun the city.
Speculation and theories hung over the entire city like a dark cloud, over whose claims to believe. Clipping my seatbelt, my phone started ringing, and I quickly answered it, seeing Zoe’s name pop up on the screen.
“Hey, what’s up?” I asked.
“I need you to pick up the kids for me. We have sprung a leak. And the fire alarms, for some reason, turned on and have yet to turn off. Macey is also locked in the basement because it tripped the locks, and I am currently standing in water to my knees,” she sighs.
Great, this is all we needed. This new tech system was becoming a pain in the a*s. So many sensors and I was second-guessing the whole thing “Is Macey alright? Is it flooding down there?”
“Yeah, she is fine. Currently eating all the chocolate and drinking all the wine. At least we know the basement is waterproof,” Zoe laughs. I chuckle. Bad news, but we would live.
“The damage?”
“Costly,” she answers, and I groan.
“Okay, I will grab the kids.” I glance at my phone screen to see I had to get them now and curse.
“I may need to drop mum home first. I only have five seats in this car, and I have mum and Ava with me,” I tell her, which means I would be late when I see Tatum
outside walking directly toward us. S**t! He must have followed us out. He was on security at the clinic, and he had tried to stop me on the way in but got called away.
“Never mind, I have a solution,” I tell her hanging up, just as Tatum taps on my window. I push the door open and climb out.
“I thought I missed you,” he says, tugging on the tie around his neck to loosen it.
“Nope, still here. And I kinda need to ask you a favor,” I tell him.
“Great! Then maybe you could do me a favor?” he asks in return. I knew what he wanted, and we had all been at Macey for weeks about it, but she refused to listen. The woman was stubborn, but this was the first time I had spoken to Tatum. Usually, all messages came through Valen, to me, to Macey. It was driving me insane!
“You first,” I tell him.
“Macey has not answered a single call from me. She refuses to speak to me, and I can’t even mind-link with her since she isn’t a pack member.”
“Well, I have a solution to your problem, too, since you are about to solve mine,” I chuckle.
“I’m all ears,” he says with a smile.
“Macey is stuck in the basement, but it has an intercom. Zoe is held up, and I need to get the kids from school,
including Taylor. Come with me and help pick them up. I don’t really want them in the car with mum,” I whisper, and he glances behind me and nods his head.
“Now that I can do. I haven’t seen Tay in ages. Wait! Will Macey be okay with that? “he asks, and I shrug. It was either that or I will be 20 minutes late getting them by the time I drive mum back home.
“Well, I am out of options, so she’ll get over it,” I tell him.
“You sure?”
“She has no choice. Besides, you should both talk. I am sick of passing notes for you both,” I tell him, opening my door.
“I’ll meet you at the school,” he says, and I nod. We pulled up out front, and I quickly raced in and got the kids from their classes. Valen’s pack school was under heavy security at the moment. All children were being required to be signed out with the growing missing reports of out with the growing missing reports of the rogues, Better to be safe than sorry.
Walking back out to the car, my phone rings, and I pull it from my pocket and answer it. My father was on the other end.
“I am just about to drop her home,” I tell him.
“No, don’t. Investigators just showed up. I was ringing to see if you could hang onto her a bit longer? She doesn’t do well with strangers in the house, and I currently have seven with warrants,” he tells me. F**k! Could anything else go wrong today?
I pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration. “That’s fine. I will figure it out.”
“Why? What happened?” he asked.
“Nothing; I have the kids, is all,”
“She won’t hurt them,” yet I could hear thatnarin hicuaian the worry in his voice.
“It’s fine. Tatum will drop the girls off, and I will ask Kalen to get Valarian. Valen doesn’t want Valarian around her when it is only Ava and me since I can’t shift,” I tell him and Dad sighs.
“As soon as they leave, I will send someone to come get her,” he replies.
“Okay,” I tell him, hanging up. The kids look up at me, but I shake my head. Walking out of the school. Taylor spots Tatum and squeals, running ahead of me.
“Hey Tay!” he says, scooping her up, and she wraps her arms around his neck before showing him her pasta necklace around hers. She takes it off before wrapping it around his neck.
“Aw, thanks,” he says, pecking her cheek.
“Are we coming back home soon?” she asks, and I know she must be confused. Tatum had been part of her life for months now, only to wake up and not see him again.
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