After parting ways with Reign, I went to the room next to her office, that will be my office and notice that my new office chair came in and so did my desk. I sit at the chair behind the desk and smile, its nice to have my own office.
I decide that I am going to go downstairs to the second floor and unhook the computer I have been doing my work on and bring it up here. As I open my office door, I see Cole standing not far in front of me as if he were headed this way.
“There you are,” he says, and I look around thinking he must be talking to someone else but there’s no one.
“Me?” I ask and he smiles, and it makes me cringe internally.
“Yes, Vanessa I have been so worried about yo-” I cut him off.
“I didn’t even think you knew I existed. Why were you worried?” I reply bitterly.
“Everyone was looking for you after your family was attacked and of course I know that you exist. Matter of fact it broke my heart that you cut ties with the pack.” He says trying to be sweet, but I could sense something about him, something just told me he wasn’t genuine.
“Well thank you for your worry but I am fine. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have work to do.” I reply and attempt to sidestep around him, but he follows suit blocking me. I try once more but again, blocked.
“Vanessa please wait,” he says, and I stop trying to get around him hoping if I listened to him talk, he would then let me walk away. “I want you back in the pack. I know you don’t feel safe there, but I know how to benefit us both.” He paused waiting for me to respond.
“What?” I asked rolling my eyes clearly irritated.
“Come home and be my Luna, no one would dare cross you, and you can master the abilities that come with you being a hybrid.”
“No, this is my home now,” I replied again trying to walk around him and he once again blocks me.
“At least think about it?” He asked.
“No, this is my home.” I said with more force this time and Cole takes my hand in his and brings it to his lips.
“Please, think about it.” He says before kissing my hand. Just then an electrical pulse comes through my hand, and he is zapped hard. The pulse was great enough to send him back a few feet and as he lands on his butt, I see Alpha Jon standing in the elevator with the door open. I run into the elevator and push the button for the door to close and I am thankful it does so, quickly.
“Are you okay?” Alpha Jon asks me.
“I think so,” I say a little shaken by the events that just happened, “I don’t know how I did that though.” I add.
“Actually, I was just coming to talk to you about that. Reign’s mom has diaries from her great great grandma, she was a hybrid, product of fated mates. Anyway, I read them over and I have some insight. First, I learned that the gift of visions Reign has her grandma also had. It has been passed down to first born females since witch was bred into their blood,” the elevator opens and we walk out and head for Jon’s office as he continues talking. “I don’t know if that will last forever or if our wolf blood might eventually water it down. Secondly, I learned that first born witches are the most powerful among their siblings and being a hybrid makes it a little more erratic. From what I can tell it is because when you get your wolf your emotions can end up controlling your powers and until you are able to keep your emotions and wolf under control it may continue to happen. Reign didn’t start getting visions until recently, her journal has been helping her master her emotions and what the journal doesn’t help with her combat training helps. So, I am going to do two things for you.” Jon said getting comfortable behind his desk. “First, I am going to talk to the weapons master here and after you are officially beta you will have to find time to meet with him to work out your frustrations and secondly, I am going to try and get in contact with a witch to help you with your abilities.”
“Thank you, Alpha Jon, this means a lot to me,” I reply feeling truly touched that he went through old journals just to help me understand more about myself.
“Just call me Jon, please,” he politely requests. “When my daughter decided to make you her beta, I knew there may be some obstacles involved so I thought I would get ahead of the one I could foresee.” He explains, “though the diary gave answers, i also have more questions now. We also now, apparently may have to worry about Cole. We’ll deal with all that later though, but I do wonder how you were able to knock him on his butt. Don’t get me wrong witches are powerful especially those that are first born but you don’t know how to control your magic yet so how did you knock down an alpha?” Jon asked.
“Honestly I don’t know, Silva and I were disgusted by him and though I managed to keep her under control when he kissed my hand the heat of my anger just traveled through me and hit the source of my anger,” I replied, and he nodded quietly deep in thought.
“I don’t know, Vanessa but maybe a witch will when I find one to help you,” he said. “There is one that I know of that lives in a town just a couple hours from here. I will make travel arrangements once we get this ceremony done with. For now, don’t worry about it too much and if there are further problems with Cole mind link me immediately and I will head wherever you are. I know you have powers but just in case they don’t work.” He said in a fatherly manner, and I smiles.
“Thank you, Jon. Now I suppose I should go ahead and move my computer.” I said and left to do just that.
After finishing with my computer, I go see Jan down in the kitchen, “Do you need any help serving lunch?” I ask
“No, today we set everything up buffet style for all the incoming packs. Are you nervous about the ceremony?” she asked me as I sit on one of the barstools across from her in the kitchen as she loads the dishwasher.
“Very,” I replied. “We got our dresses, after I tried on like a hundred of them. I finally settled on a floor length yellow dress, the top of it is like a corset and the bottom is flowy with a little sparkle. We modified it to do what Reign’s dress does. The back corset releases when I shift so that I don’t destroy the dress. And Reign is wearing the dress her mom wore for her Luna ceremony. It’s a navy blue high low dress and the back of it is long enough to touch the floor. The underneath of the skirt is yellow, and the collar of the dress is like a choker around her neck with a tear drop shaped cut out on her chest. I think they nicely compliment each other; my yellow dress is the same shade of yellow as the under part of hers.”
“Do you know what you’re going to do with your makeup?” Jan asks.
“Not yet, I hadn’t even thought of it yet,” I admit.
“I’ll do it,” She offered.
“Really?” I ask and she nods excitedly, “Thank you! You know I never really had friends in my old pack I was basically a loner but here I already have Reign and you.”
“I’m glad to be a friend, you know Reign and I have always gotten along and if she needed someone for shopping or makeup, I was the girl but since you’ve been here, we’ve hung out more than ever and I really enjoy having girlfriends.” She says and we continue to talk for hours until Reign mind links to ask me to bring her dinner so no one would know where she was. I excused myself from Jan but promised her we could go out for dinner together tonight when she is able and we could just hang out the whole evening.