Alpha's Chosen

20

Lily's POV

"Has he still not returned your calls?" Mum asks, her voice too screechy for this time of morning.

"No" I reply, quickly covering the phone to shush Mitchum as he rolls over beside me.

"No" I repeat, forcing myself to sigh as I add, "I'll try again today, maybe even talk to this... Meredith".

"And you can ask him what possessed him to have a she-wolf answering his damn phone. I mean he didn't take any she-wolves with him did they? I can't remember a Meredith among your ranks" Mum continues on as Mitchum again stirs beside me.

"Mum... mum I gotta go. I'll call you back later" I whisper, hoping I can sneak out before this trainwreck of a wolf wakes beside me.

"Well let me know..." she begins her reply as I hang up.

I pull the blanket softly back, getting up to begin the search for my clothes.

I know I probably won't find many of them, Mitchum favouring ripping over a simple button but something is better than nothing.

Eventually giving up my search, the wolf more a brute than I thought, and I steal one of his shirts and a pair of basketball shorts before slipping out.

I wonder how long it will be until Cole finds out about this one.

Although he didn't seem to care much about the last one, maybe he's finally growing a pair.

My question is answered as Petra rounds the corner in front of me, giving me a disapproving look before turning tail away from me.

Who the fu*k is she to judge? Like she's perfect.

None of them have any idea how it feels.

One little mistake. A tiny indescrection and Cole still refuses to let me wear his mark, refuses to wear mine.

The wolves, what are meant to be our wolves, look at me in one of two ways. One as if I'm lost and may be in need of assistance. The other to get lost.

Once I finally make it back to our rooms I slam the door firmly behind me, ready to rid myself of any memories of the wolves beyond its doors.

Heading for the shower, I'm also ready to rid Mitchum's scent from me, but I'm stopped by my phone vibrating in my pocket.

Helena.

Goddess why couldn't you have given me a mate minus a mother in law? Was that so much to ask?

"Darling. If you would like to have breakfast with us we are going to eat in the hall with the pack this morning" the simple text reads, and I can't think of anything worse.

Getting grilled by my in-laws and stared at by the pack the whole time. No thanks.

I swipe away her message, switching over to call Cole instead.

My mate will hear me and hopefully then he can send his parents back to whereever they have come back from.

"This is Meredith..." she begins her usual speel.

"Get Cole. Now" I cut her off bluntly, I'm hardly in the mood for her sing-song meery little virgin voice this morning.

"Alpha Cole is currently speaking with another Alpha, is their something I can do or a message you would like me to pass on?".

"Go fu*k yourself and give him the fu*king phone now. I'm not one to wait like some little omega" I reply.

Her continued silence forces me to prompt, "Now child".

"Lily" Cole's deep voice echos down the line, letting me know to never trust this little Meredith nor her lies.

"Cole" I reply, forcing my voice into the sweet, innocent one he knows so well.

"Something urgent?" he asks, a bruntness to his voice I don't quite care for.

"Your parents...".

"I will deal with upon my return. I'm working Lily. In the middle of decisions with another Alpha. Tell me you didn't interupt that just to complain" he interupts, and now, now I'm mad.

"Are you kidding me Cole?" I seethe. "You parents have arrived home and are now strutting around like they own the place. Mum has had to go home because they've made her feel so unwanted. They keep asking about this function and that, like I'm meant to know. And you don't have a minute to make one little phone call to make them go back to wherever it is they came home from?".

"They are home" he says, his bluntness gone only to be replaced with something worse. Indifference.

Indifference would usually be my preference, but I kind of need him to care for him to actually listen to me.

"Cole, did you not just hear what I said? They are here undetermining me, undermining you and all you have to say is 'They're home'? This was their home. Then they gave it up, retired, remember? They have no right to be here now. To strut around giving everyone orders, questioning the way we do things. Questioning things that have been running just perfectedly, even better than they ever were under them".

"Lily, I'm working" he again reminds, like I care about some little pack in back roads nowhere when I, his mate, are having probably within our blo*ody home.

"Cole" I warn. The final word I'm allowed apparently before the line goes dead.

I scoff, shaking my head, surely he didn't mean that. Maybe that Meredith bit*h hung up and he's calling me back now.

Yes, that's it.

But then I wait and I wait.

Maybe his phone isn't working, gone dead or out of reception.... suddenly.

Sighing to myself I decide to give him the benefit of the doubt, pressing his name again and calling him back.

'This call can not be connected, if....' A womans monotone voice begins to sound down the line.

He never lets his phone go dead.... maybe this bit*h has been playing games or music on it or something....

"Urgh" I groan aloud, throwing the phone down on the bed and stripping my body of this wolf's hideous scent. Cole doesn;t have many things going for him these days, but atleast he doesn't smell like barn animals.

Stepping into the shower I again think of if all this effort, is worth it?

I mean I could easily leave and find another Alpha, one who is ready to treat me right and not like I have some illness because I enjoy s*x.

Maybe I could find one without in-laws to annoy me, and a Beta and Gamma whom are also a pain in my a*s.

But then I wouldn't be with the strongest Alpha I admit to myself.

Then I would have to stand there whilst Cole and his whole stupid pack look down on me and whatever little alpha I'm able to find.

They probably wouldn't be as rich either....

Or own as much land....

Have as many alliances....

"Urgh" I again groan, turning off the spray, not worrying about a towel as I wrap my robe around me instead.

I guess here is home.... but maybe I could make it a little more like my home instead of theirs....