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In the end, I choose 6 more men to add to the group, so I had 8 in total. The only ones who were mated were Finn and axel.
max, Tate and miles were in the same year as me in school but Ace, gunner and Theo were a year older and I only knew them because I'd watched them train and they were impressive.
“You all know that when we go here we are on our own. It’s us against the werewolves, we are completely at their mercy and I hope we don’t have any trouble but if we do I’ll need your help to keep us safe while we get back up”
“They may be d***s but they won’t hurt you love, but let me make this clear they ARE going to be d***s”
Dad says to us all, I groan
“Seriously and you want me to go there?”
“It’s been seen love, no matter what I do it ends the same way anyway so this is the easiest option. So be ready to kill if you have to”
Dad says to me and the boys
“Of course, we will protect her with our lives”
I snort at Finn
“Yeah well if it ends in a fight I guarantee you lot will be the ones hiding behind my daughter but it’s good that she will have backup”
“Hahahaha I love him, he’s the best dad ever”
Karma says snorting like a damn pig in my head, I have to admit that I feel a little chuffed with that compliment
“Thanks, dad, that means a lot”
“I meant because werewolves fight like s**t but whatever”
I gasp punching his arm as he laughs
“Sorry I’m just joking, it was funny though wasn’t it”
I roll my eyes as karma sticks her fingers up at him in my head
“But anyway my daughter is well trained and she is prepared for anything, but you still need to be her backup, look scary so they choose not to start anything and if they disrespect your queen they die”
I frown
“And does Branson know that rule?”
I ask dad, he shrugs
“Don’t care, if he wants you to move there he follows my rules or I put a stop to it all”
My stomach sinks, and the weirdest feeling passes through me. The thought of him putting a stop to my moving there actually scared me a little. I was so against him but suddenly I wanted this, I wanted to have a mate that will love me as everyone else has.
All my cousins that I grew up with are all mated and gone, I’m the last one and honestly, it sucks. We lived together and it was as if overnight they all just left, leaving me alone with my good friend poitín.
I clear my throat and step away, feeling a little emotional suddenly.
“I’ll get back to work, I’ll see you all Friday”
I say, dad gives me a sympathetic smile as I leave and head back inside. I needed to work, I needed to get lost in work until I could once again drown my sorrows so that’s what I do.
I work all day until it was dark, I quickly shower and dry my hair as my phone beeped.
(Branson)
‘What you up to?’
Branson asks
(Katy)
‘Just getting ready to go out, you?’
I continue to dry my hair, then I pull it into a messy bun on my head
(Branson)
‘Are you going to meet your ‘friend’’
I roll my eyes, lifting my phone to text back
(Katy)
‘I’m not meeting anyone, I’m just going to the pub, if he’s there I’m not going to ignore him’
He sends back eye roll emojis
(Branson)
‘Or we could go on a date
“A what?”
Karma snaps, pushing forward. Suddenly I was speechless.
“What the f**k do I say to that!”
I snap, stressing out.
“We could just ignore him”
She asks, shrugging as she bites her nail. I grab some mum jeans, rolling them up at the bottom with a pair of yellow doc martens and a baggy Star Wars shirt that I had ripped to make it into a crop top.
“Can we ignore him though?”
I ask her, adding lip balm to my lips, I usually drink until I pass out so I avoid makeup at all costs. Someone raps at my door
“Just a minute”
I call, adding a little gel to my eyebrows and looking myself over so I don’t look like a total mess. Satisfied, I open my door and freeze.
Karma flies forward as I stand there with my gob on the floor. Standing casually leaning against my door frame was Branson.
“Why does he have to look so f*****g beautiful!”
“I know, it’s hard to be mad to someone’s face when it’s so damn pretty”
Karma snaps back. He was beautiful, his dark red hair was wavy and thick, shaved at the sides and full on top, messy from where he had pushed it from his face.
His eyes were gold, hooded and broody, but yet still held that same cheeky sparkle they always had, his face was slim yet muscular, and his nose was perfectly straight and sat in perfect proportion to his full pink lips.
His jaw was sharp, defined by his messy 5 o’clock shadow. He wore a white shirt that stretched over his large frame, he must be well past the 6-foot mark, his muscles were ripped and defined and I can’t stop my eyes from roaming down his body, stopping at the sharp v where his shirt had ridden up just a little.
I swallow the lump in my throat as I look at him, my mouth officially dry and my heart officially racing as I take him in. He wore dark jeans and black boots and he looked so damn pretty.
“W—wha—“
I swallowed trying to find moisture, he had completely taken my breath away
“Real smooth”
Karma chuckle
“You b****y talk then”
I snap back looking at him to talk
“What are you doing here”
I ask, he shrugs a smile playing on his lips
“Well I wanted to see you so I just took my chances and look, here we are”
I zero my eyes in on him, walking past him and up the stairs
“So you drove 3 hours on the off chance that I might be free? You do not think you should have called first?”
“I text you”
He skips beside me, his legs were huge so he didn’t need to work as hard as I did.
“You text me 1 minute ago, and I didn’t even text back yet”
I snap, mum and dad were sitting at the kitchen island as we arrive up smiling smugly at us both
“You could have warned me”
I snap at them
“No, if we warned you, you would have climbed out the window and that’s just Not graceful”
Dad answers, I glare at him
“You would have jumped out the window?”
Branson laughs
“I still might”
I snap back, crossing my arms over my chest.
“So what do you want to do”
He asks me, I glare at him
“I want to go to the pub and I still haven’t said I’d do anything with you”
I huff going to the drinks cabinet and pulling out a bottle of tequila and opening it.
“Oh come on it will be fun, I’ll meet your friends, and we can have a drink”
He says looking at his feet, I zero my eyes in on him
“Are you f*****g serious! You drove 3 hours to get here just so I wouldn’t go meet my friend!”
Mum snorts, but when I send a glare her way she tries to hide her smile
“Well yeah.. kind of”
I look to dad
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