Obsidian Night Pack

28

"Daddy?!" I exclaimed as I looked from Lily to Brett seeing no physical resemblance at all. Lily lightly pulled down on my hair so she could whisper something in my ear, which confused me evermore that these two people were related. While one blabbed his mouth and this little angel whispered everything.

"That's daddy. He is busy."

"I don't think he is," I told her and she shook her head shaking all of the curls along with her.

"Lily pad did you lose Samantha?" Brett's entire expression melted as he gazed at Lily. He rested an elbow on the table and his head in his hand. Lily blushed as she shook her head again and hid her face in my chest. I slowly patted her back and peered back at Brett.

"Brett I didn't know you had a daughter."

Brett exaggerated a little as he gushed over Lily and how pretty she was, but how she was shy and didn't speak to many people let alone initiate a conversation. She had a nanny who was Brett's sister that watched her while Brett worked, but she always managed to sneak away from her to find Brett. However, even when she found him she never approached him, she just watched from a distance.

"What? So, she goes and looks for you, but doesn't approach you?" I questioned him.

"Yes! My own baby girl won't come to me if we are in public. When it's just the two of us she's fine, but once there's a third person she starts to whisper everything." I looked down at Lily and she still was hiding her face in my shirt and clung to my blouse.

"To think that my own daughter chooses you over her own father!" Brett called out with desperation as he tried to wave over to Lily to get her attention but to no avail.

"Lily?" I muttered down to her and her eyes peered up at me in curiosity.

"Why did you want to meet me?" I asked her in a hushed tone. She let go of my blouse and wiggled her finger at me, asking me to, again, come closer.

"Don't tell daddy, it would make him sad." She then proceeded to hold out her pinky finger. I mouthed to her "okay" and we locked out fingers together in a promise. I snapped my eyes over to Brett and Alaric.

"This is a private conversation, please do not eavesdrop." Alaric laughed and nodded standing up from his chair and said he would be back in a minute. Brett's mouth, once again, fell open in disbelief and protested, but Alaric grabbed him by his collar and pulled him away from Lily and I. I then turned my attention back to Lily and gave her my full attention.

"Samatha told me that the Luna is the mommy of the pack. I never met my mommy, but I still want one."

This girl! She just wanted to make me cry! This time I was fully aware that tears were coming out of my eyes and hugged Lily closer to me.

"You are just the sweetest little girl you know that!? I love you so much!" Lily gave me the brightest smile and even her own eyes were filled with some tears.

"Lily," I began to say as I pushed back some of her hair to get a better view of chubby cheeks and pretty eyes, "I think you need to tell your daddy about how you feel." She shook her head at me.

"If I tell daddy he will be sad." She pouted at me. I sighed as I kissed her forehead.

"Well, do you want to know a secret?" Her eyes lit up as she became excited. I looked to my right and then to my left as if to make sure no one would hear me. I saw Alaric and Brett standing in the corner of the room. Alaric was talking to some pack members that were no doubt fangirling over me and Lily. I knew this because the older women that were talking to him were smiling and pointing at the two of us. Meanwhile, Brett was gazing longingly at us sitting together with a woman standing next to him who was patting his back, who I guessed was Samantha.