I sighed before replying to her, “you’re still weak, Jas. And I’m not dead, that counts for something right?” She just rolled her eyes at me.
I wrapped my body in a towel and went into my room to grab some clothes from the ones I shopped for the day before. I remembered Lyla and smiled, I should reach out to her. But how?
I don’t have a phone nor can I mindlink her. I decided that I was going to ask Rose about it later. Hopefully, she can let me go out to see her, I’ve already been slacking as a maid already.
I picked a pink sweatshirt and black jeans to go with it. I picked sexy black underwear and I felt a bit confident in my body. The things lace underwear can do to your self-esteem.
I was about to get dressed when I remembered the ointment Rose kept on my bedside table. I applied it and felt a lot better. I dressed up and went downstairs to see Rose.
The smell of food wafted into my nose and my stomach grumbled loudly just as I set foot into the kitchen threshold. Rose looked up from she was doing and laughed at that.
“Glad to hear that you’re hungry, I prepared all of these for you”, she said with a smile on her face. Her flawless face looks swollen and she seemed to be forcing herself to be cheerful. I felt bad, knowing that I was the cause of her tears. 1
“About yesterday, I…..”, she gave me a stern look before coming over to the counter to hold my hands. “You will not apologize about last night nor take blame for anything. You are the victim, you were the one in pain. If anyone should be sorry, it should be my sorry excuse for a son”, she said sincerely and my eyes watered at her words.
For 8 years, I never had a mother figure to defend me against people that hurt me, it felt really good to be sided with. I nodded my head at her words and she led me towards the table where a lot of food awaited me.
I ate a lot that morning, partly because Rose wouldn’t have it any other way and because I actually feel like I could stomach a lot of food, which I did.
Rose and I were cleaning up when Adrian came down looking like he just survived an apocalypse, I still found him handsome despite his appearance. 1
He came into the kitchen and took his food while Rose and I completely ignored him. I don’t know what transpired when I slept but he seemed quite remorseful and Rose seemed upset too. I refrained from asking Rose about how I could contact Lyla for that day.
Immediately Adrian left the kitchen, I felt the need to work on myself and build a life for myself here in this pack.
“Rose?”I called out softly. “Yes, Lola?” She turned to look at me. “I was wondering if you could tell Alpha Jayden to allow me to start training. I don’t want to keep being the weak wolf of the pack”, I said the last part lowly to myself but she heard anyway.
The kitchen was silent afterwards and I looked up to find her staring at me with her mouth open like she was in shock. I opened my mouth to apologize when she pulled me into a hug.
“Of course, of course Jay is going to allow you to train. No, what am I saying? He’s going to train you himself. You’re going to start tomorrow. I’m so proud of you for thinking about taking this bold step”, she pulled me into a hug again and a smile broke out on my face.
The rest of the day was spent talking about random things, with Rose doing the talking of course. We cooked dinner together and ate when Jayden came back. He agreed to train me and I felt happy taking the cold step for myself. 1
As I went to bed that night, my heart was filled with happiness and joy. I knew it was a new beginning for me.
