Shadow of the Day (Wolf Moon Sequel)

Chapter 69: Gift

Ivy POV 

"I am going to sleep for a week," I groaned, dragging my feet up the path to our house.

Training today had been rougher than usual, as Wyatt and Lila had finally allowed Matt and I to be near each other and practice getting close, as well as add more fighting training to the mix and I was wiped. It had gone pretty well though, no casualties or injuries, except for a bruised ego when I couldn't catch a rabbit and ended up sliding into a pile of mud and leaves. We had to make a pitstop at Wyatt's on the way home for me to get cleaned up and change clothes as I looked like some feral child with leaves in my hair and mud smeared across most every inch of me, which made them all laugh. 

It was still bizarre to be seeing Matt and Lila as wolves, to watch them roughhousing and having fun and not be scared out of my wits by the sight, but as we adjusted to each other's new forms, it became a little easier to swallow. Especially having Lila spread across my lap like a warm blanket afterwards, petting her soft fur as she snoozed after a long hard run. Matt had yet to be allowed that level of proximity yet, so he was relegated to dozing in the corner by a tree with Wyatt spaced out in between us just in case.

"It'll get easier," Lila said, carrying my bag and hers up the path. She'd insisted since I was so wiped and I had been too tired to fight her on it, already having napped a little in the car while Wyatt drove us home.

"By the way, did you warn Wyatt there would be no sleepover tonight?" I asked. Lila and I were bunking together for the rest of the week as Grandma had extended her stay. Originally she'd been staying a hotel not to put us out, but I was feeling stable and good and I didn't mind sharing with Lila, especially as it gave us a good cover to talk about magic stuff or sneak around without it being too suspicious. Which left Grandma in Lila's room and Lila in my room and no more secret alone time for her and Wyatt.

"Yes, thank God. I forgot last time and he almost got--" she stopped short before we reached the porch steps. "What did you just say?"

I grinned at her. "You heard me."

"You knew!?"

"Of course I knew! Give me some credit, I have a nose and exceptionally good hearing now. You guys are so not subtle, I noticed it almost immediately. But now I'm curious, the last time Grandma was here Wyatt almost got caught? That was forever ago! You guys have been doing this since the beginning?"

I knew she hadn't shared the exact details of their relationship, but clearly she had me spared quite a lot of information on what she and Wyatt were like. We had barely just moved here when Grandma had come to visit and that was definitely early days for Wyatt to be sleeping over. Who knew Lila had it in her? I was pretty proud of her honestly.

"Yes, he almost got caught. I hadn't had a chance to warn him, but he's good at being sneaky thankfully so it turned out okay," she said, grumpily clomping up the porch steps now that she had been found out. "I can't believe you knew all this time and didn't tell me."

"I didn't want to make you uncomfortable, but I figured it would be good to double check now that there's been some room swapping. We don't need Grandma to have a heart attack or Dad to murder Wyatt for being in your room at night where he is most definitely not supposed to be."

"We're not doing anything inappropriate," she said, but the words were way too quick and defensive for me to really believe her. I knew she wasn't ready for sex, but that didn't mean there wasn't plenty of other things to do besides going all the way.

"I don't really care if you are as long as you're happy," I said, elbowing her in the side. "Besides, who wouldn't want to get inappropriate with Wyatt? Half the girls in school would kill to have the opportunity to breathe the same air as him."