The Alpha's Eden

A meeting

Eden PoV

I hated walking away from Blake, especially when he was so angry and disappointed in me.

The way he said he felt second best to Jace made my insides twist and turn violently, everything in my body was screaming at me to jump on him and kiss him hard until he believed he wasn't second best.

That he believed I adored him just as much as I did Jace, but I couldn't. Not right now anyway. I had plans, people to meet and I couldn't put it off.

Blake's mum and the people Indy had brought here was going to keep both of my mates occupied for long enough to enable me to slip away without getting any grief from either of them or them following me because right now I needed to do things by myself, well at least without them.

It was the only way things could go down for now because I knew they'd most definitely stop me from doing what needed to be done, or they would try to do it themselves in order to protect me.

But there were some things in this world even my mates couldn't protect me from.

I needed to deal with certain things, certain people myself in order to become who I was fully meant to become.

I needed to do this myself, not just for me but for my mates, for the pack and the people that had somehow joined us lately.

I needed to do this for my family. It felt like this was my destiny all along, that I had needed to be destroyed in order to build back up to my fullest potential.

My gang of merry accomplices had gathered by the side of the packhouse out of direct view of the rest of the pack who were busying themselves helping out Freya's people settle in.

I swelled with pride as I watched Jace from a distance standing tall and deep in discussion with the new alpha. He was such an amazing alpha.

So strong, inspiring and kind yet the most powerful, deadly fierce wolf I had ever met.

Then a pang if guilt hit me like a sucker punch in the gut as memories of what I'd put him through flashed through my mind. The mistrust, the pain is caused him. How I'd ran away from him too because I was too scared to face him in fear that he would reject me.

Blake was right- I had been telling them lies and keeping things from them and soon I'd tell them everything.

I just needed to get through today and I could work out a way to move forward, a fresh start for all of us.

"You ready?" Alex's voice brought me out of my own head and I nodded casting my eye over at him and Caleb and Devon who looked rather confused as to why he was being dragged along with us.

"Ethan stayed back with Nat I assume?" I questioned with a roll of my eyes and a soft chuckle.

"Yeh what's that look for?" Caleb narrowed his eyes at me as we began to walk towards the tree line.

"You seriously haven't figured it out?" Men really were stupid sometimes.

"Figured what out?" Alex scratched the back of his neck and blushed clearly not liking the fact that he'd missed something that I'd seen.

"Hey wait for us" Ethan's voice called out from behind us and I turned around to see him and Natalia running to catch up with us.

"Just pay attention" is all I said to Ethan's brothers before he and Nat joined us.

"She shouldn't be here" Caleb frowned looking utterly unimpressed that Ethan had allowed her to join us at all.

"Yeh I know but try telling her that" Ethan smirked as if he was proud of that defiant streak in Jace's sister.