Wolves Of Secrets Book 2

Dancing With Werewolves

Ray frowned as his daughter stepped carefully down the stairs and into the kitchen. He scanned the little strapless dark blue dress with a black silk sash around her waist she was wearing, obviously for Jay's benefit, before his eyes flashed the deadliest shade of yellow a werewolf's eyes could. Kai, Cole, Lloyd, Skylor, and Morro were gathered in the living room. They were all waiting for Ray and Maya to go on their date night and for Jay to take Nya to the dance.

Since no girls had asked them, the guys couldn't go to the dance.

Skylor just didn't want to go to the dance, making the excuse that her father wouldn't give her any money for a ticket. After everything she had done, Harumi had the guts to ask Morro if he wanted to go to the dance with her. She shouldn't have been surprised when he turned her down in front of the entire student body. The only ones in their group going to this dance were Jay, Nya, Pixal, and Zane.

"Nya Aura Smith, what do you think you're wearing?" Ray glared.

"Mom said it was okay!" She quickly defended. "Don't freak out on me, Jay'll be here any moment," She growled, flinging her dad a matching glare as Maya walked into the kitchen. As soon as he noticed his wife, Ray gestured with an outraged look on his face at the scantily-clad teenage werewolf in front of him.

"Honey, what do you call this? There is way too much of our daughter's skin showing here!" He cried, not thinking his daughter's outfit was appropriate for a small high school dance. The dress was definitely not Nya's typical style. The skirt was short, and the back of the small dress left much of the girl's back uncovered. For all its skimpy qualities, however, the little dark blue dress did successfully cover any questionable areas. It was hard to criticize it too harshly without sounding too bigoted, and that's exactly what Maya's stare told her husband.

"Nya is no different than I was at her age, you do remember the dress I wanted to wear to the prom when we were teenagers?" She reminded him and Ray folded his arms, looking angrier than ever.

"Yes, and I distinctly remember your parents forbidding you to wear it!" He argued as Maya folded her arms too and threw a look right back at her husband.

"Yes, and we will not be making the same mistake, I'll have no body-shaming in this house!" She warned. "Now, this is a perfectly reasonable dress and this is Nya's choice, and I won't have you saying another word about it; not unless you like sleeping on the couch tonight." She ordered before helping Nya double-check her hair and makeup. Grumbling something under his breath Ray slapped a hand to his forehead, counted to five, and forced a bright expression on his face.

Nya came up to her dad and took both of his hands in hers, giving them a comforting squeeze as she strained on her tiptoes to kiss him on the cheek.

"Dad, please try to understand, I'm trying to wow Jay, you trust me, don't you?" She asked and Ray looked down at his daughter, his thin mustache twitching as he fought back the urge to snort. All the kids did lately was irresponsible. He loved his children but after everything that had happened this year, he didn't know if he could trust them anymore. It didn't help that Kai's cast had come off a couple of days ago. He'd have to rest his leg for a few more days but now he and the others were free to do more irresponsible things.

The thought of that absolutely terrified Ray and Maya.

Both he and Nya simultaneously thought back to the two times Kai had run away from home and everything else that had happened to their pack this year, but gradually the creases along Ray's brow smoothed out, and he gave his daughter a hug.

"Just... be careful tonight and don't give in to your wolf too much, and don't trust Jay, not even for a second." He warned and everyone had to refrain from rolling their eyes. "If he gets too grabby, you put him in his place immediately."