A Girl Adopted By Wolves (Three book set) novel Chapter 127

“Daddy.” I barged into the meeting house whining.

“What? What’s wrong? Are you hurt?” Dad asked as I jumped in his lap.

My stomach chose the exact time to make its discomfort known. Ben snickered and Dad chuckled. I could feel my cheeks heating up.

“Are you hungry princess?” he asked softly.

I nodded puffing my cheeks. I haven’t had any food today. It’s not my fault that my stomach is being so vocal about it.

“Let’s get you home then.”

“What about Ethan?”

“Ben will stay with him.”

“Go home sis or your stomach will end up eating you.” Ben joked. “We will be home soon.

Like he has a right to laugh. He had already devoured everything we brought earlier.

“Uncle Ryder took mom home. She was feeling weak.” I told dad.

“What? Is she alright?”

Dad looked like he was about to start panicking.

“Yup. She is just tired from all this. She said she wants to rest. We will have to cook today dad.”

He looked more horrified at the idea of cooking than he looked relieved from hearing that mom was okay. Then his face lit up.

“Nahh. Cassidy will cook for us.” He said grinning.

“When did she arrive?” I asked.

“Yesterday. When you were fast asleep. Grayson is also with her and …” He hesitated. I looked at him with eyes. Is uncle Austin here too? I haven’t seen Zahra for months. “The Knights came with her.” I gasped in shock. Ben growled lightly behind me. “Alexander is with them.”

Dad looked down, avoiding my eyes. He looked downcast.

It doesn’t matter if he or they all came back now. This is my family now and I am not going anywhere.

“The house must be full then.” I said hugging him close.

“Aria…um… your father is back.” He said hesitating on the last part.

“Come on dad. Mom must be waiting for us back home.” I said turning towards the door.

I was almost out of the door when a palm closed around my hand and I felt sparks where our skin touched. I heard two very angry growls but Zeno didn’t let go.

“Wait. Can we talk please?” He more like begged.

A pleading Zeno. Well this is new. What does he want anyways? He must be wanting to make it clear about not wanting to be together. Oh well, let’s get this over with then. Sooner the better. I will be able to move on easily like this. Only if Ajax was here. I wouldn’t even have had to think about moving on over my mate.

“Sure.” I replied trying to get my hand out of his grip but he laced our fingers together, grinning at me.

He looked utterly gorgeous. I mean handsome.

Huh! Wait a minute. No! He is none of that. He is a bad person. This stupid bond is just messing with my head. This wasn’t making it any better.

Uhhhh! I got to get everything under control. I can’t go swooning over someone who is clearly going to hurt me every opportunity he gets.

I squared my shoulders and gave my hand one more unsuccessful tug as Zeno marched to the trail with me in tow.

“I will be back soon.” I shouted over my shoulder to my utterly angry father and equally mad brother.

I am glad they didn’t interfere. I have a really bad feeling about this though.