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Ace shouts at dad as he lands right beside him, dad glares at him not saying a word making aces eyes pop out as he slowly takes a step away from him making me c***k up
“See he doesn’t like him, he just sent him here to annoy me”
Branson snaps pointing at dad who looks so confused
“Him, he’s weird but he’s protective”
I see the corner of his mouth tip up just slightly
“that’s what she said”
I say automatically, mum chuckles lifting her fist for me to bump it
“You ready we are late?”
I look at Branson
“Why would you put an alarm on that was so late?”
“I put the alarm on an hour before it so we could wake up and have s*x but we slept through that one”
“Nice”
Ace says grinning, lifting his fist for Branson to bump, Branson glares at him until his eyes widen and he walks backwards, then Branson points at him glaring at dad
“Seriously”
“It’s too early to laugh this hard”
Karma cries from inside my head as mum tries to hide her amusement
“Can we go before this conversation gets any weirder I don’t want to go through ace and Max’s thing again”
Finn says tiredly, Mum looks at me frowning
“Why what did they do”
I project my memory to her, dad glares at Branson
“Seriously, are you not like 30 years old? Why do you have toys and why do you care about them so much”
Branson gasps pointing at me
“She has comic books that I’m not even allowed to touch!”
He shouts at dad
“Well obviously you can’t touch them they are worth more than your house”
“Why is it ok for her to have comic books and it’s weird that I have them”
Branson shouts back, I take another sip of coffee as I watch them bicker
“It was an investment in her future, if we accidentally went broke she could buy a yacht or even better a comic book store, sell more of them and make us rich again”
That makes me laugh as Branson huffs shaking his head
“Can we go before I kill everyone”
“Ahh family, aren’t they great”
I grin at him, and he zeros his eyes at me childishly making me laugh again as I fall into his arms, he sighs relaxing as he wraps his arms around my waist and everyone steps forward grabbing mum
“Oh, so we ain’t walking? Oh ok then”
She says casually as I shake my amusement off, getting ready to face the crowd who are most likely ready to kill me. As we arrive on the field everyone was lined up and ready to go. Branson kisses my head
“You want to fight me today?”
I smirk up at him
“Hell yes, I’m ready to kick some alpha butt”
I shake my hiney for effect
“Don’t do that I don’t want them looking at what’s mine”
“Nope your not fighting her I can’t stand your thoughts”
Dad snaps stepping in between us
“Awk dad please”
“No, he’s a dirty-minded fucker and I refuse to listen to it, teach him to block me out then you can fight him”
He throws Branson a dirty look as dad subtly pushes me further away from him, I huff blowing out a breath as Finn steps up
“Don’t worry you're fighting me”
“Yeah but kicking your a*s isn’t half as satisfying as what kicking his a*s would be”
He nods
“Yeah, but for now I’m all you’ve got”
He answers smiling, as I look behind him and I start stretching I see a lot of looks my way, some were smiling others were just simply gawking at me
“Ignore them, Luna, they will come around”
I look at Finn sighing
“I don’t see how after yesterday”
“It’s because of yesterday that they will, now come on, ignore them and stretch up, let’s show these wimps what real fighting looks like”
He winks at me as I grin at him, Finn was older than me by a while but he was always around as I grew up, his dad was my mum's best friend in the world, he looked after her since she was just 10 years old and he went on to become her beta. So Finn was a friend in a way yes but mostly he had been taught to protect me, to teach me just as much as daniel taught mum, it was poetic in a way if you think about it.
We spar for over an hour then switch up and spar for another hour, by the time I’m done my muscles were cramping and sore, my mind was clear and my body was tired.
I fall on my a*s exhausted, taking a moment to relax as everyone starts to leave. some form circles while they stretch out and talk as others continue to stare at me.
Mum was busy chit-chatting with Ella and Aaron with dad, Branson was talking with his head trainers as I just sit and take in the area.
I stopped coming here years ago, when I was so angry with Branson I couldn’t stand to be around him, I had forgotten how pretty it was.
As I look around I can see a girl make a beeline for me from the corner of my eye
“Keep looking at the trees, hopefully, she will think we are busy and go away”
Karma snaps trying to act cool, I roll my eyes and look towards her as she skips right over, Finn steps up stopping her from coming any closer to me.
she was short, blonde and perky, wearing bright pink clothes, everything I normally hated, all she needed was a Barbie T-shirt, short shorts and a lollipop sticking out of her mouth to complete the whole I tried f*****g hard but I’m pretending I just threw this on look.
“Sorry, can I get past?”
She asks stepping towards me again, Finn moves to stop her
“Nope”
“But I just want to talk to her”
Finn growls
“It’s Luna to you and you can talk from right over here”
She looked to be at least 25 years old, but she didn’t seem very wise. She rolls her eyes at Finn then smiles looking at me.
“Hey I’m Katherine”
I see Branson’s entire body go stiff off to the side as he slowly starts to turn
“I wanted to welcome you to the pack, we thought for a long time that the alpha was going to have to choose a mate, is that what he did for you? Choose you? Or was it strategic?”
My jaw pops open as she wags her hand
“Ah well it doesn’t matter now it looks like your all settled in, for a long time we all had a pool going to see who would get marked by him first, I was front runner the entire time because we are so well suited, we went to school together and we just clicked you know?”
“Does she realise she’s still talking?”
Karma growls, furious that they thought they could trick Branson into mating with someone else. I was so dazed by the information overload that I didn’t see Branson appear beside me until he talked, making us jump.
“You started the pool?”
he asks her, It was barely a whisper as I look up at him, I’m suddenly hit with a mixture of terror and anger through the bond, his face was like stone
“No, well yes, me, Kirsty and Beth started it together, it was just meant to be us 3 then it grew and grew, Of course, Beth died a long time ago and after that, we never did it again”
She says scratching the back of her neck, he moves fast, grabbing her by the throat and he squeezes down on it as she pulls her nails down his arms, struggling to breathe as she kicks and hits him, flailing around as she tries to break free. Then he snaps her neck dropping her to the ground as he turns to a guard standing close by
“Find me Kirsty! I want her immediately”
He snaps, and the guard runs off like a scared little mouse as Branson stares at her dead body shaking his head. He was fuming. I get off the ground as everyone else just stares at him in shock, slipping my hand into his I squeeze it.
“Are you ok?”
He shakes his head
“No, I’m going to the office, I’ll see you later”
He kisses my head then he turns storming off towards the packhouse, my heart sinks as karma whimpers
“What is wrong with him”
I ask her, she shrugs
“I don’t know but it hurts”
She cries, she was right, the amount of emotional pain through our bond was overwhelming, taking my breath away as we follow him inside. I use my nose to find him, going to a group of offices that held different names on each plaque at each door, I don’t bother knocking as I walk in, Branson looks up as he paces back and forth across the room freaked out.
“What’s going on?”
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