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Chapter 19; Danny

Chapter 19 - Danny

“She’s lying. Why would you let her lie Dan? I thought we were friends.” Jay’s bloodshot eyes turn inward as he yelled in my face. I commend him for not killing himself. If it had been Alayna I would probably have offed myself by now. However, that’s probably because I have known she was my mate for a while, and I damn near went crazy when she continuously rejected me.

Jay had known deep down that this was a possibility. That may be why he isn’t upstairs tying a noose. I’m not trying to be funny either, Jay is just over-dramatic sometimes; much like his mate.

“Jay, knock it off. Show her to Fredrick, that’s the end of it.”

“What’s she planning on doing Dan? Play with me? Make me believe Kam is going to come back and breathe, and talk to me, and hug me, and marry me, and have kids with me? Does she think that’s how this is going to work? Do you Alayna? Do you think that you can just control the universe? That you of all people are capable of controlling life and death?”

I wanted to step in, to scream at him, my wolf was begging to, clawing at me from the inside to morph onto the outside. But he needed this, and I’m certain that Layne is capable of handling herself.

“Look, you’re a wreak right now, and a bit irrational. But you need to get off your ass, stop feeling sorry for yourself and actually try to save what’s left of my best friend. At least I’m thinking of things, you’re just yelling at everyone. Now you can help us, or you can get out of my way so I can find Fredrick.” She pushed him back into his doorway. “Patrick!” Layne called for Jay’s father.

What the hell was she doing this time?

Patrick Mathews came out of a room near where we were. He saw Layne and smiled. “Hello, I’m Patrick; although I have a feeling you knew that.”

“I’m Layne. Dan’s mate, I’m assuming you know Danny. But I’m also Kamren’s best friend. I believe I have an idea on how to get her, ya’ know, living again. And Jay refuses to take me to Fredrick.” She spoke a mile a minute. I’m not exactly sure if this plan was going to work or not, but if it made her feel better to try, then why not. It wasn’t going to hurt anybody more than it had already hurt her and Jay.

I liked Kam; of course, she was hilarious and made two very important people in my life happy. It’s a shame she lived the type of life she did.

“Jay, show the Luna to the killer.”

“Thank you so much Patrick. You’re a life saver, literally.”

The car ride over to Jay’s pack house was long and tedious even though it was only a mile or two away. A mixture of anger and sadness filled the car. I looked over at Alayna fiddling with her phone, dragging her apps around. It’s moments like these when she’s the most beautiful. When she doesn’t realize anyone is actually paying attention to her; when her mind begins wandering to something that happened 5 years ago, or just a couple of hours ago, or something that could happen 10 years from now. Her mind becomes a hurricane of wreck less, yet beautiful thoughts.

She looks so calm, so at peace, but I know that’s not the case on the inside. Within the few weeks Layne and I have become closer, I’ve seen her raw being. Not sexually of course, but her feelings and thoughts. I know when she is faking it; most of the time she’s angry. She’s so angry at the universe, and I’ve begun to see why. She likes the world to be fair: everyone to have love, everyone to have parents, everyone to know what it’s like to be happy. Alayna has been so attached to Kamren, she knows that life isn’t fair and it makes her angry. Even before I left, she was angry. Audrey’s mate died their parents too. Kam even died.