Forever (Book 1) (Editing)

Chapter Thirty Two

The days passed brutally slow since I'd finally given in and allowed Colt to put his mark on me. I surprisingly didn't regret that he'd done so and I actually cherished the scarring tissue on my neck holding the imprint of his teeth in an almost tattoo like mark. Unfortunately Colt and I had very little free time to spend around each other the past few days outside of school. While he and his father were working on trying to repair the damage done to my living room Greg had me out training and trying to control my new found abilities. It was a very grueling task and I was making progress slowly with it too but I at least have managed to avoid burning myself or losing complete control like I had before. It helped that Liam had elected to stay away once he’d come home from the Alpha house out of fear of boosting me before I was ready for it. He used the two hours Greg kept me training to visit with his family. Colt was unable to accompany us either now that his father had him working on repairs to my house. I wasn’t the least bit disappointed about it either.

 I’d accepted wholeheartedly that we were together now and that no matter what it would stay that way. Even if I changed my mind about all of this and left him, my life would still be spent pining away after him and the feeling of being complete that I felt when I was with him. I wanted to be with him all the time now; I wanted him to know me and what I really was. If he’d asked me about it I would’ve gladly told him the truth but I wasn’t about to be the one to bring it up. Saturday, when we raced, would be soon enough. He already had the thing he wanted most of all, me, and he wasn’t the least bit questioning over my abilities or what I was anymore. He knew I would tell him soon enough and he trusted in that knowledge. I knew he was still more than a little curious about me but I was grateful to him for leaving it alone for now.

I was actually looking forward to our race. I knew that no one would be around to watch it and that I would be able to let loose once and for all. I was more than just a little curious of how fast I could really run. Colt had told me he was the fastest in the pack and I had the sneaking suspicion that I was faster than even he. I truly couldn’t wait to test my theory on Saturday with Liam and Greg there to bear witness over my success, or failure. Colt was looking forward to it as well. It was all he could talk about when we were all hanging out at school. It earned us a few curious looks but he never once said when or where this ‘Big Race’, as he referred to it, was to be held. He never once mentioned that it was between the two of us either but he didn’t have to. The four of us knew and that was more than enough.

As Nick had predicted that afternoon on Colt’s roof top terrace, I had in fact joined their group at lunch times. I’ve even managed to earn a few other friends as well but I’ve also managed to earn a few more enemies to Layla’s rank as well. In fact the enemies I had made were by her doing and not my own. It seemed that she had followers who would rather be in her good graces than bad. It was fine by me. Everyone had a right to their own choices and whether I was royalty or not, I wouldn’t take the choice from them. No one else knew who I really was still and I was beyond happy for that. I had accepted it now but I was nowhere even remotely close to being ready for it to come to light yet. I was patiently biding my time, waiting for when my father would make it here and I’d have his support as well as that of Colt and his parents.

I was nervous of what the pack would expect from me once the truth came out and I was worried over how they would feel about it. They were used to being led and ruled by men. Never in all their history had a woman ever possessed more authority than a man within the pack and this was bound to bring out a mixture of feelings. I really didn’t want to be hated by them for simply being born as I was but sometimes things like that were unavoidable. I knew of quite a few I was sure would stand behind me now though and that brought a small amount of comfort for the whole situation. I knew many of the women would be happy to support me in this job I’ll have as leader as well. More than a few of them were tired of being held in the past where the man’s word was the last and the law between mates. We’d discussed as much a few times while I’d been at Colt’s.