Alpha Pierce is Mine

Chapter 17: Shopping

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Diana's POV

"Oh Diana we have to go shopping!" Mrs. Wedlock says excitedly and I internally groan. Of course I love shopping, well, for the first half hour at least.

"Oh Mrs. Wedlock--"

"Isabelle" she cuts me off.

"Right, Isabelle, you don't need to do that for me!"

"Of course I do dear! You are the new Luna! You are taking my place, the least I can do is take you shopping!"

She sits while I think about my answer.

"Okay fi--"

"YESS!!!! Mother daughter bonding time!!!" She screams.

'Ugh great.' Gretchen groans inside my head.

'Shut up Gretchen and be nice! She's doing a very nice thing for us!'

'Do you honestly want to go shopping.'

'Well...No I guess not. But I'm doing it for our mate.'

'How does this affect our mate? If you want him to be happy just finish the mating process with him already! I can tell his wolf's getting reckless.'

'Gretchen!' I yell at my wolf.

'I can hear you, you know.' Pierce's voice then chuckles in my head.

'Ohhhhhhhhh shitokee mushrooms.' I mumble.

"Diana, are you okay? You've been spacing out." Isabelle touches my cheek tenderly. God I love her.

"I'm fine Isabelle. Should we go shopping now?" I ask, desperately trying to change the subject.

"Oh, YES!"

"Yay..." I say like a strangled optimist.

"Oh we are going to have so much fun!" She squeals, and runs to the garage.

I mind link Pierce and let him know we are going out. This should be good since I really didn't feel like talking to him about the conversation my wolf and I had earlier.

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We were just entering the mall. I was kind of nervous considering what happened the last time I was here but I just kept telling myself that my crazy mother in law would keep me busy enough to get my mind off Rick. Oh that reminds me, I have to get that map after this whole shopping excursion.

Isabelle's motherly voice brings me out of my thoughts as she looks for a good store to go to.

"Oooh! Look! It's Garage!" She squeals like a teenage girl and I laugh as she drags me toward the store.

Soon I am equipped with what had to be billions of outfits. I look at the mirror as I'm trying the last dress on. I had tried on plenty of outfits but this was the first dress.

"How're you doing sweetie?" Isabelle cooes from outside the dressing room.

"Ummm." I am at a loss for words.

The dress was very pretty, but I could see it wasn't meant for me. I just felt too......

'Diana don't you dare say that! You have a beautiful body! It's just the stupid trials of life thing!' Gretchen scolded.

'Oh come on, do you honestly believe that's actually true? We were just imagining mom and dad!'

'No. It was real and you know it!'

'Look Gretchen, you can think what you want, but I was never one of those pretty skinny girls, even Alpha Rick says so.'

'You're going to listen to that idiot?!'

'Gretchen, shut up!' I broke and yelled at her, blocking her from my mind.

"Hon, the dress?"

"I think I'll pass on this one Isabelle." I do a poor job of hiding my emotions as I speak. But she understands.

"Okay sweetheart. I'll check out and we can go home. I assume you're probably tired." She says with a sympathetic laugh.

"Thank you, Isabelle."

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Once I get home, I immediately go to find my office so I can work on getting the map for Pierce. I figured he would go crazy if I didn't.

I worked for hours in the pack library trying to find the map of his pack. It had to be around here somewhere... it took me by surprise when the door opened and light flooded into the dark library only lit by a few torch covered chandeliers. At first, my wolf was on alert for an unwanted intruder. I realized it was okay when Pierce put a warm hand on my shoulder.

"How are you doing, hon?"

"I'm fine. Just trying to find that map for you."

"Oh, that's right," Pierce put a hand to his stubble covered chin, "I know where the pack is, I just need a map of the inside."

"I don't understand why you need to do this."

"It will help me when I declare war with Rick's pack."

Wait...

"War?" My mouth hangs open.

"Yes. What else would I do? Ask him to apologize to you like a kindergartener?"

"Well I assumed you'd just give him a piece of your mind."

Pierce started to get angry, "Diana, don't you want this?"

"Of course I want revenge on Rick, but I don't want anyone innocent to get hurt. And that's what happens in wars!"

"He abused you! No one from his pack helped you when they could've! None of them are innocent!" He raised his voice and I raised mine right back.

"They were scared Pierce! He would have hurt them like he hurt me!"

"WELL THEY SHOULD HAVE SUCKED IT UP!" He screams.

There was a long pause. I couldn't believe he just said that. My mate, my harmless, sympathetic, kind mate. This wasn't Pierce. This wasn't him.

"Pierce..why would you say that?" I squeaked, putting a hand on his cheek.

"Get the map." He said bluntly and walked out of the room, shaking my hand off.

My expression went from shocked and hurt, to angry as I searched the whole library for all the books on Alpha Rick's pack, and burned them outside with a blowtorch.

I then went to our room and found Pierce sleeping with the body pillow hugged close to his chest. I wrote a note and put it on the side table before going to the guest bedroom where I'd sleep that night. And every night until Pierce changed his mind about the war, and apologized.

The truth was, I had never felt more terrible without him by my side.

Hello from the other side! Look! It finally happened! I updated! I know it's been forever but I've been so so busy lately. I love you guys and I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did writing it.

Love you N8ERs!

Lilin8er ❤️