Second Chance.

Chapter Eight.

*Wyatt Jones in the picture*

The first thing I do when we get home is take my wolf for a run. It's been too long cause there aren't many places to go for a run in a city full of people. I like to bring Avery with me she enjoys the feeling of the ride as much as I do. She tells me, all the time, she can't wait until she's able to shift and run. Our wolf isn't seperate like in most of the stories you read there's no seperate voice in our mind. We think with one mind. We are the wolf and the wolf is us if that makes any sense. When we get back Avery runs inside and heads straight for the kitchen.

"Mommy I'm hungry," she pouts.

"How about you go see if Auntie Zari and Uncle Jacks want to go out to get something to eat and let me know what they say," I tell her.

"Okay!," she runs down the hall calling their name and I use it as an opportunity to bring our bags to my room. I know I won't have any time to unpack anything so I just go back downstairs. I'll do it later.

I walk into the living room.

"They said yeah mommy! Can we go to IHOP?," she asks me.

"Yeah come on let's go," I smile at her.

She takes off in front of us but waits patiently at the door. I go tell my parents that I am borrowing one of their cars and they say 'okay.' I get to the front door and Avery is anxiously jumping up and down. I laugh at her and open the door so she can run to the car. I end up taking my dad's because that's the one that already has her car seat. Zari sits up front so we can catch up while Jacks rides in the back and Avery wastes no time in telling him every detail of her life. Avery ends up talking to him the whole way there.

When we get there they sit us in a booth. Zari and Jacks on one side, of course, while my little Lily and I sit on the other. I make her sit on the inside cause if I don't she'll roam around the resraurant talking to everyone. It's one of the qualities I love about her. She still has this innocence about her in terms of how she looks at the world.

The waitress takes our order and we start telling stories as we wait for our food. Avery won't stay seated she keeps standing in the booth and I start to grow tired of her not listening. I am just about to tell her to sit down for the hundreth time when a scent catches my attention.

"Hey man what's up?," Jacks says to someone behind me.

I don't have to look up to see who he is talking to but I look up anyway and my eyes come in contact with the same green eyes that took my breath away the first time I saw them. My breath catches in my throat all over again and I can't speak or look away. I probably look like a creeper the way I am staring at him right now, but he doesn't break eye contact either. I can see Zari out the corner of my eye looking back and forth between us ready to act if anything goes wrong.

"Hey Anastazsia," Kellan breaks the silence first. I just mumble a vague 'hello' and finally get my thoughts together enough to look away.

"Mommy who's that?," Avery asks. I totally forgot she was here I can see Kellan's body stiffen at the fact that she just called me mommy. So many emotions flash through his eyes; regret, sadness, confusion, but the emotion that remains is pure anger and I know this is not going to be good.

I should have just stayed in New York.