My Two Alphas novel Chapter 10

　　Lucy POV

　　Mitchell’s mum made beef stroganoff for dinner. It felt weird sitting at a table eating with a family. Usually I was in a mess hall full of others like me, the chatter was endless and you could blend in easily and remain invisible. Mitchell’s father was on pack patrol, so he didn’t join us. It was just Meredith and Mitchell. His mum asked a never ending amount of questions.

　　“Have you found your mate yet?” Meredith asks and I see Mitchell give his mother a look.

　　“What?” His mother asks, shocked by his glare.

　　“You know she hasn’t got a wolf” Mitchell tells her.

　　“Neither did Queen Aria when she ruled, she still found her mate” Meredith tells me. Aria was my stepfather’s mother, even though I wasn’t technically related, or in other words was just a prick relation. She always treated me as if I was her grandchild. I loved my family dearly but they just didn’t understand what it was like being an outsider and a constant disappointment. I know what they think, I am not stupid or blind. They think of me as troubled. A mess they wish could clean itself up. We ate dinner in a comfortable silence after that, then I helped Meredith do the dishes.

　　Mitchell walks into the kitchen before grabbing his keys. I told him about being expelled but once again never gave him a reason. I just let him make it out how he wanted, I didn’t care to explain myself. No one would believe me anyway.

　　“Want me to run you home?” Mitchell asks, grabbing his car keys. I also hadn’t told him I was kicked out. Sometimes I wish I was human, they didn’t realise how free they were without having to worry about pack issues, mates, or no mates. Didn’t have to be the illegitimate child of the Alpha Queen.

　　“No it's not far, I want to go for a run anyhow” I tell him, grabbing my jumper and pulling it on. Mitchell gives me a hug walking me to the door.

　　“I can run you back?” He offers but I shake my head. I wasn’t even sure where I was going myself.

　　“Nope I am good, it's still only early. I will see you tomorrow” I tell him.

　　“I have school, stop by after” He calls and I nod heading for the treeline. I darted into the trees, heading home. Hoping my mother was calm enough to let me come back, it had been a few hours. Maybe she would at least let me stay, she didn't seem keen on me going to Ace and Tyson’s place so hopefully she changed her mind. On the run home, I feel the mindlink open up, Ace’s voice flitting through my head.

　　“I told you to be home before dark, where are you Lucy?” He asks.

　　“Heading home now, I am nearly at the packhouse” I tell him.

　　“Which side, I will meet you” He says and I could hear Atticus mumbling about me being out in the woods, I shake my head at his wolf as he slipped through the link.

　　“No, I am heading home, home. Back to mums” I tell him and he goes quiet.

　　“So she let you back, that's good then, I will be home tomorrow if you want to come over while everyone is at school and work” He tells me and I nod before realising he couldn’t see me. I nearly ran into a tree, only just managing to stop before I hit the low hanging branch.

　　“By ordering my teacher to let me out” He laughs and I roll my eyes. Of course he could, he has an Alpha aura even though he still hasn’t got his wolf yet.

　　“Ok, meet me at the park at twenty to three and can you bring me some spare clothes” I tell him.

　　“Ok.. and sis.. I love you” he tells me.

　　“I love you too, make sure you eat your dinner so you can have your dessert” I tell him before cutting off the link. Now what? I thought to myself, I couldn’t go to Tyson and Ace's. I already told them I was at home. And I didn’t really feel like listening to Melana with Ace all night. Just thinking of that grinded my gears.

　　Walking back amongst the trees, I head for the only place I can think of, the river. For the most part it was safe there and also the the border patrol hardly manned it here because on the other side was a mountain, not much activity by the pack house whereas near Tyson and Aces territory across the river was Alpha Jamie's pack but I would be safe there.

　　It took me twenty minute to walk to the river, gathering wood as I went. Just like camping, I think to myself. Ace and Tyson used to take me camping as a kid, I loved it. We would stay out in the woods for days, and that was the first time I ever ate rabbit. Tyson's wolf caught it and I was repulsed at the thought of eating the furry critter but it doesn’t actually taste bad, like any other meat just off a cute furry creature. But that just reminded me of another issue I will face while out here. I needed blood. I could go a day or two but it will become uncomfortable if I go too long. I couldn’t ask Rayan to grab any from the freezer. It will go yuck sitting in his bag all day.

　　I make a fire before flopping on the ground next to it and pulling my arms inside my jumper to keep warm. I stare at the stars littering the night sky. I used to play dot to dot with stars when I was kid, trying to imagine joining them to make pictures. One thing about being out here, it was peaceful. No one to judge me or look down on me, it was quiet leaving me to my own thoughts, not that they were any less depressing.

　　Sometimes I actually missed the facility, at least it was routine and predictable. No one expected anything of you there; they just let you rot in the cells. But I never had to worry about anything in there because we were all the same, all equally nothing. Here people expect you to be a certain way, act a certain way and when you don’t meet those expectations you are faced with nothing but disappointment and the judgement of others.