The Golden Lycans (Ella) novel Chapter 64

Back to Exton

Soon, it was the day we were heading back to Exton, and Will and I were in my kitchen after one final lunch.

“I hope you don’t mind, but I paid for a taxi to take us straight back to school,” Will says, washing up his plate.

“What, why?” I ask, knowing that was probably very expensive.

“It’s safer. I don’t fancy Erebus testing you again and on a confined train no less. Also, don’t worry about the cost, my family has very deep pockets,” he jokes, putting the plate away.

“Do you not miss your family?” I ask, seizing the opportunity, now that he’d mentioned them.

Will looks a little awkward by my question. “I do, but it’s hard. I’m the youngest. The others aren’t at school anymore, so I haven’t seen them at all since I got back. We’ve spoken on the phone, but that’s it, otherwise I’ve not seen my brothers for around two years now.”

I frown.

“I think you should go back next time you are able. They should see you. They need to see you the way that I see you,” I implore.

“You’re very sweet, but I don’t think they’d care, to be honest. I’m third in line. I’m basically nothing, just a ‘spare’ in reality, unless something awful happened to Marcus and Kyle,” Will says, his voice pained.

“You’re not nothing, certainly not a spare either. At least, you aren’t to me,” I say warmly. Will looks like he is about to say something when his phone pings. He checks it.

“Our taxi will be here in fifteen,” he says. I hastily stuffed the rest of my sandwich in my mouth and go to grab my things from my bedroom.

“What’s that?” Will asks as I come down the stairs with my suitcase and a long garment bag.

“It’s my dress for Austin’s birthday party next weekend,” I reply, “I got it in Harrods when I went shopping with Mum.”

“Ah

yes,

the swanky black tie affair most of the sixth form have been invited to. May I see?” Will asks, trying to get a better look at the bag. I unzip it halfway and hold it up.

“Wow, that’s…wow,” Will says, a little lost for words.

“I’ll take that as a positive reaction,” I laugh. He looks at me oddly.

“For someone supposedly so unsure about accepting Austin as your mate, you’re going to look insane at HIS birthday. You realise he is definitely going to confront you that day, right? No matter how respectful and restrained he’s been, he’s not going to be able to ignore the call of his mate, the day he, as an heir, comes of age,” Will says with a furrowed brow. I sigh.

“Yeah, I’ve got a week to figure out what I need to say to him,” I reply anxiously.

A car horn sounds out front, and Will’s phone chimes once more.

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< Back to Exter

“Time to face your destiny,” Will says dryly before opening the front door.

+25 Points>

After an hour of travelling we had left most built up areas, and we were finally travelling through more rural parts. I could feel the faerie in me delighting at the trees and hedges whipping past as well as the fields and crops of trees that were visible in the distance.

My heart makes a nervous leap as the taxi turns off the road and down the poplar lined driveway toward the elegant building of Exton College.

Will looks at me as the car stops and then he looks around me as I was now very used to him doing.

“Ella-” he begins to say.

“Will, please don’t,” I sigh sadly, as I get out of the car. I really did need yet another weather report about my inner turmoil and chaotic aura.

I get out the car and thank the driver as another male student waves to Will and heads towards us. Will turns to me briefly.

“That’s my roommate Ethan, I’ll see you Monday after chemistry during the free period? Our usual place?”

“You got it,” I say with a smile, giving him a quick hug before he goes off with his roommate.

I open the door to my room, which is a much welcome and familiar sight. I carefully put my garment bag into my wardrobe and unpack my suitcase. I can tell Freya hasn’t come back just yet.

I lay on my bed for the next hour, watching a series on Netflix that I’d downloaded at home. My phone chimes: it’s a text message from Freya.

Freya: we will be back in an hour or so. Dad has had Austin in his office ALL day. Honestly, I think coming back to school will be a nice break for him!

I frown at Freya’s message. I can’t imagine how it must feel to constantly feel like you weren’t living up to the expectation of a parent, particularly when mine were so kind and thoughtful about my physical and mental wellbeing.

I decide to check in on the plants in the greenhouse. They are in need of water but otherwise still look to be full of life. I water them, enjoying the feeling of the rush of magic back to my hands for the first time since I’d used the fire magic. I absentmindedly turn around and stare at the still empty patch of dirt at the end of the greenhouse.

I still had no idea what to do with it.

But, sometimes, it really did feel like I was saving it for something in particular, but I just didn’t know what. It was one of many questions I had drifting around in my head, right now.

My thoughts are interrupted all of a sudden by a jolt in my mind and I stop and stand there for a minute, feeling like I’d been alerted to something. An ache suddenly erupts in my chest, getting stronger and stronger along with a strange desire to leave this building and go…somewhere else…

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< Back to Exter

Austin must be back.

trubbed my chest, not that it does anything to ease the feeling in my chest, of course.

Sure enough my phone buzzes in my back pocket.

Freya: We are back! Where are you?

Me: greenhouse, I’ll be up in a bit.

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