Crimson's Daughter

Chapter XII: Hermosa

"Oh my goodness Claire I miss you so much! Its as if I haven't talked to you in decades!" Lydia's voice was high pitched through the phone.

"Please chill it hasn't been that long since this morning. How are you and Samson?" I asked as I walked through the halls of the pack house.

Leo and I had returned home awhile ago and I retreated to my bedroom to try and escape earlier's events. He had gone to take care of business and I wished Mae was home so we could talk. It seemed like Leo didn't want to leave me but he didn't have much of a choice. He had already devoted some time to taking me to my packs land and to steal anymore time was selfish.

"We are wonderful! We completed the mating process and will be visiting Samson's distant family in a week. I wish you could come visit me."

I could tell through the tone of her voice that she was pouting. It was amazing that while Lydia was so serious at times she was as well as can be so childish. Maybe there would be a possibility that Leo would let me go visit her sometime after our trip with his distant family.

"I'll talk to Leo about it..."

"Oh how are you and that mean piece of eye candy- Oh Samson stop growling you know I'm only teasing Claire." she shouted over the phone.

Curse my easy ability to blush. My face must have been as red as a tomato as I passed by pack members who might have caught ear of my conversation.

"Shh! There are people around...but we are okay. I mean our relationship is more on a friendship level but even while I don't know him my soul tells me to trust him."

"That's how mates work. Your ability to trust him is inevitable because that is how it works in our world. Same as how he is destined to be your protector." she said in all seriousness.

It was world that where I thought I knew everything about werewolves I was still learning new aspects of them every day. As much as I wanted to deny what she said, it was true. While I constantly was trying to keep my relationship with Leo platonic, it was growing more than I would like it and forming into much more than friends. It scared me that I wasn't sure what Leo thought of me other than our past lives together. What if he only liked me because of what he knew of the past? I'm not the same girl I obviously was back then. What if he only is nice to me now because of finding out I'm the 'Claire' he lost long ago.

He may have clarified some things for me but I still was very much scared of how he viewed me.

"We have a past together. I got a piece of my history before the Monroe family took me in and I keep getting memories back every now and then."

There was silence on the other end of the line for a bit of time that I wondered if she had even heard me.

"What do you mean? You have to explain everything, maybe I can help."

And so I delved into all the things Mae and Leo had told me. How I was apparently a Royal and that my pack had been burnt to the ground, my father dying, and my mom probably roaming the earth somewhere or captured. While I couldn't remember but few memories of my parents and couldn't hold much emotion towards a past that was vague to me, I still felt anger towards the people that did this. The memories I got always made me emotional because it was the first time witnessing them practically.

"That's intense...how do you feel about it all?"

"Unsure. If I'm being honest it makes me terribly nervous not knowing what Leo thinks of me or if he just views me as the little girl he failed."

"It takes time Claire. Just while you have had troubles remember he has probably faced some as well."

"Yeah-"