DESIRE

19

When Liv woke a feeling of dread had appeared in her stomach. 

Facing Kennedy today would not be pretty, her reaction would be even uglier. Liv didn't want to go to school in the first place to see everyone glaring at her is her worst nightmare. 

She liked people liking her, smiling at her. She wanted to be liked and appreciated by everyone, and if Jace's pack didn't like her then how would she be able to settle in with them and be the Beta female?

He had reassured her countless times the night before when she had called him at 2am, her anxiety keeping her awake. His husky voice calmed her as he heard her anxieties and reassured her that she would be fine, and everything would be okay. Even if the meeting ended in disaster everything would still be okay.

 "Morning," Her dad greeted her as she came downstairs, he was leaning against the kitchen island sipping his morning coffee. Unlike every other morning, her mum wasn't home, which made her heart pound. Not telling her mum about what was happening at school that day could be seen as a betrayal. 

 "Can I tell you something and you won't be mad?"

 "You can tell me something, but I can't guarantee that I won't be mad." Her dad chuckled, sitting his mug down onto the island. His face sobered up "is everything okay sweetheart?"

 "Well," She took a deep breath before speaking as fast as she humanly could. "I've been seeing Jace, the Beta's son, and we're actually mates, and I really like him a lot but there's been a lot of drama at school recently with Kennedy and Jace is Kennedy's half-brother so it's been really awkward, and I couldn't tell her I was with him so I just kept it a secret. But then Kennedy was really rude to the shifters, and she shared this video of me and now I think all the shifters hate me and then Jace and I went to the old shifter school, and we found Kennedys cardigan and told the Alpha and Luna and now in school she's going to be questioned about it today."

Is what she should've said. 

Instead, her lips parted to say, "I've been seeing the Beta's son, and I would like us all to have a family dinner."

"Okay," He looked a bit flabbergasted running his fingers through the scruff on his chin "I'll speak to your mother once she's home and we can try to organise a dinner sometime soon?" 

Liv was relieved and a weight she hadn't even noticed was on her shoulders, lifted. Her dad's old beliefs about the shifters had put her off from telling her parents just the extent of her and Jace's relationship.

 "Thanks dad." She grinned giving him a kiss on the cheek, a car horn honked from outside as her phone lit up with a text from Jace "that's him. I'll see you tonight."

 "Bye honey," Her dad chuckled watching his daughter grab her bag and hurry out the door. She didn't want to keep Jace waiting.

 After keeping him awake for two hours last night as they talked through her anxieties, she had offered to drive that morning, but he insisted on picking her up. 

 "Hey," she pressed her lips to his in a quick peck pulling away once she realised Marcus was in the back seat grimacing at the two of them, "thanks for coming to get me." 

 "Of course. Are you feeling better?"Hiding her shaking hands in her lap Liv forced a smile "I'll feel better once todays over."

 He pursed his lips before smiling at her sympathetically. The Luna had decided that morning that it would be herself who conducted the meeting ignoring June's requests. Jace had listened to his mum complain about that situation all morning. If anything, this meeting would just mean Kennedy was no longer in his life, and all the drama would leave with her.