Alpha's Regret-My Luna Has A Son novel Chapter 82

Chapter 82 – Everly POV 

Hours passed, and dinner was going cold while I waited for Valen and Valerian. Not that I made anything special; I was too tired and wanted to sleep. So I only made spaghetti bolognese.

However, Valen said he would be home before dinner, and dinner was cooked two hours ago. Glancing at the clock, it was 730 PM, and the storm outside had intensified. Lightning streaked across the gloomy sky, not one star in sight as the clouds blocked out even the moon. Walking back into the living room, I snatched my phone off the coffee table and redialed his number. The phone didn’t even ring; it went straight to voicemail.

Waiting another 10 minutes, I picked up my phone again to call when it began ringing in my hand. A private number came through, and I sighed. Finally, he thought to ring back. Only when I answered I wasn’t expecting the feminine voice I heard.

“Hello, is this Everly’s phone?” comes my mother’s voice. Shocked, I pull the phone from my ear to look at the screen before placing it back.

“Mum?” I asked.

“Oh, thank God, I thought your receptionist gave me another wrong number,” she says. I didn’t know what t o say. It was one thing seeing her on the day of the Alpha meeting, but I found myself suddenly lost for words on the phone. I no longer knew how to speak to the woman who gave birth to me. So much had changed, and I had changed. My family were suddenly strangers to me, and I no longer identified myself with them anymore.

“Are you there?” she asks.

“Ah, yes, sorry. Why are you calling?” I blurted, without thinking. She had never rung before, not even when she promised to when I turned up on her doorstep that stormy night. So many broken promises, our relationship now non-existent.

“I um. I wanted to check on you after the incident with the rogues. Your father tried to see, but your mate wouldn’t let him in.”

“Well, you could have visited; he let Ava in,” I tell her, and she falls quiet. I found it hard to make chit-chat with her. The silence as we tried to think of what to say was awkward.

“So, how have you been?” she asks, and I bite my lip, hesitant to answer. Did she genuinely care? Something bothered me with how she rang out of the blue.

“Yeah, good, waiting for Valen and Valarian to get home,” I tell her.

“He looks so much like his father,” she says, and I nod, moving into the kitchen and covering their dinners.

“So, ah, how is Ava?” | ask, trying to divert the conversation.

“Ava is Ava. She is being difficult.”

“And why is that?”

“Because she wants to go away to university, she doesn’t want to take over the pack,” My mother says.

“Well, find someone else to take over then,” I tell her, looking at the clock and the minutes ticking by. I was starting to worry that something had happened because I had heard no word. Placing the phone on the loudspeaker, I searched for Valarian’s tracking device in his watch…

“It’s not that simple, and you know that,” she answers.

I watched it load before seeing he was at the shopping complex and sigh when I see it leading toward the car park and know they must be on the way home now.

“Are you listening?” my mother asks. “Yes, still here,” I tell her, turning the loudspeaker off.

“Sorry, I was checking an email,” I lied. I had no idea why I lied, but it wasn’t like it was any of her business.

“There is another thing I wanted to talk to you about.”

“What’s that?” I asked.

“Your father said you put a petition in to change the laws surrounding the rogues,”

“Yes, interested in signing it?” I ask, knowing I needed at least four Alpha signatures.

“No, but you should pull it. You are drawing unwelcome attention. Your father nearly had a heart attack when it hit his email. Withdraw the application, Everly,” my mother says and laughs, shocked by her words.

“I am being serious. You have no idea what is at stake!” she snaps.

“Did dad put you up to this?”

“No, yes… But he is correct. Are you hoping to start a war? It will change nothing. No Alpha will sign that petition. It will change nothing but cause issues within the City.”

“I am not pulling the petition, Mum. I don’t care who it upsets. It is time things change. This is a good thing,” I tell her.

“It is reckless and will cause trouble for your father. You have no idea what you are getting yourself into. You have been Luna for all but 5 minutes and are making poor choices already!” she says, and I scoff.

“I know exactly the trouble it will cause in the City, and it is why I am doing it. Try living in the rogue’s shoes for once, mother. Without your credit cards or the pack’s money, you wouldn’t last one day. Nothing you say will get me to pull that petition, so jump on board and accept it. I don’t care about your reputation or dad’s. You never cared for mine.” I snapped back at her.

“You are going to start a war!” She screamed.

“War?” I laugh.

“I have been at war with the packs since I was 17. Packs don’t scare me, mother. I learned to live on my own without a pack. Instead, I built an empire. And I sure as hell don’t need a pack because I have something far more valuable than a pack of mindless idiots that follow orders from Alpha that has no care for his people. I have a family, and families fight for each other. You may not have fought for me, but I will fight for mine!” | tell her before hanging up.

I cursed, annoyed she would ring me just to get me to pull a petition and berate me. Shaking my head, I was about to ring Valen again when I heard the front door open and close.

“Finally!” | sighed with relief as I walked toward the hall. Valarian comes rushing toward me excitedly, soaking wet.

“It’s raining,” Valerian says, and I chuckle.” I can tell. Where did you and your father go?” I ask him just as Valen steps past me, pecking my cheek as he heads for the kitchen with grocery bags.