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Chapter 10 : After Hours
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Astrid My first week in Bridgewater was coming to an end and I couldn’t be more grateful. I kept expecting it to get easier being around Tristan, but so far, it hadn’t. I had trouble keeping my eyes off of him and I found it difficult to focus on what he was actually saying. So far, it hadn’t impacted my performance in class, but if things continued this way, it would. Outside of class, I had spent my time pouring over all of the project documents in mom’s office. I filled an entire notebook with notes to help myself keep it all straight. Dad had informed me that he was hosting a formal dinner in order to introduce me to the pack members that mom had been working with on all of these projects. I was nervous about it, but he insisted that it was just a formality. He didn’t understand that him telling me not to be concerned only made me more concerned. The dinner was tonight, and I’d been pacing around the packhouse all day. I felt like the slightest thing could push me int
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Astrid When dinner was announced, we all took our seats at the table. It felt incredibly strange for me to have the staff serving us. When I was a kid, I never thought twice about it. Now, I understood how rare it was to have this kind of service. It made me feel out of place. I made sure to thank each member of the staff and they seemed amused by it. I didn’t mind that. It was better than being rude. I could tell that Tristan was also amused by my behavior. He was looking at me with a poorly concealed smile. I shrugged at him and he looked away quickly. I couldn’t tell if he was embarrassed I caught him looking, or if he was trying to hold back a laugh. Once we were all served, the conversations started. I was glad that people weren’t discussing business. This dinner was about getting to know those that I would be working with, so it made sense. “How is your daughter?” Bruce asked Deb. “I heard that she’s found her mate, you must be thrilled!” Deb beamed with pride.
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Astrid Halfbreed. The word cut straight through me. I hadn’t been called that since I left the pack. The word had always hurt, but back then, I was used to it. Now, it struck a raw nerve. I had never heard Solomon say anything like that about me. He’d called me a pain and talked about how inconvenient it was to have me around all the time as a kid, but I had never heard him outright insult me like this. Had he said things like that to my dad before? I didn’t hear dad respond. He didn’t yell. He wasn’t angry. ‘How could he allow someone to talk about me like that?’ I thought in shock. The lack of response from him only deepened the sting of the insult. Tears sprung to my eyes and I turned and rushed away from the door. I didn’t want to risk either of them catching me there. I hadn’t meant to eavesdrop, but that didn’t mean that they would forgive me for overhearing. I couldn’t go back into the dining room. I couldn’t cause a scene in front of the guests. If I tried t
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Astrid My heart nearly stopped as the kitchen door opened. I pulled away from Tristan so quickly that I stumbled backwards into the counter. We were standing by the kitchen island in the center of the room, so we were easily visible from either doorway. The door that I was facing was the door that led to the dining room. The one that had opened was to the hallway. I looked up at Tristan and I saw a strange expression flash across his face, but it was gone before I could identify it. There was no mistaking what had been going on here when the door opened. My face was flushed and Tristan was standing very close to me, despite my attempt to put distance between us. Whoever was standing in the doorway knew what they had just walked in on. Or at least, then knew that they had just interrupted an intimate moment. I was terrified to see who it was. I might be able to convince Sigmund or Crystal to keep this a secret, but Victoria or Solomon would tell my dad immediately. He w
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Tristan It was late by the time I finally got home from the formal dinner. It had been far messier than I had imagined. My plan to sneak out early was completely destroyed when Astrid ran into me. I kicked my shoes off and tossed my jacket in the general direction of the coat hook. I was too tired to worry about putting things back in their proper place. My wolf had been so riled up for the past few hours that it had zapped every ounce of my energy just holding him in check. I walked into the kitchen and collapsed into a dining chair. “This was supposed to be easy,” I grumbled. It was supposed to just be dinner and some small talk. I wasn’t even going to directly interact with Astrid. I should have been able to fulfill my obligation to the Alpha and get home without any undue stress. Of course, things didn’t pan out that way. I thought that I had pulled it off when I managed to sneak into the kitchen without anyone noticing my absence. But, I couldn’t possibly leave
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AstridA heavy silence fell between Eddie and I as I mulled over what he’d told me. My mom wasn’t the much beloved Luna that I thought she was. There were people in the pack that hated her for being human so much that they were glad to hear about her death. They were probably the same people that mocked and bullied me when I was a kid. I was so wrong about my mom—about a lot of things. Guilt shot through me like a bullet and I had to fight to keep myself from breaking down. If I couldn’t still feel the judgemental stares all around us, I might have let myself cry. This was a lot to take in. I let Eddie lead the way. I wasn’t really paying attention to where we were going, so I was surprised when I looked up and realized we were on Haronia’s campus. “What are we doing at the college?” I asked. “I promised you lunch,” he said. “The best cafe in town is on campus.” “Are you a student here?” I asked. I couldn’t imagine Eddie having the patience for college. He laughed.
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Astrid As we wandered through campus, the silence between us was oddly comforting. It was like Eddie and I had always been friends. Maybe it was the fact that we grew up in the same household, and had a similar upbringing. Well, similar in the sense we were both children of higher members of the pack—not similar in the sense that my dad and Solomon were two very different men. “So, tell me more about your life,” Eddie started, pulling me out of my thoughts. “Do you have a lot of human friends?” “Not a lot,” I replied. “But I do have some very close friends. A few of the ladies I met in college still live in the city, so we spend a lot of time together. They even offered to come home with me so I wouldn’t have to deal with this mess with my dad alone. I couldn’t bring them, obviously, but, yeah.” “Could you imagine?” he laughed. “If you showed up with humans, my dad would have lost his mind.” “Oh, I know,” I agreed. “You know,” Eddie began, leaning in a bit closer to me
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Astrid I was even more tired than I realized, and I slept until the next morning. When I did get up, I quickly dressed, and then I groggily made my way down to the kitchen. My stomach was growling. I hadn't eaten anything in over a day. I wasn't sure what I was going to find, considering Solomon's promise yesterday about having everything replaced. What I hadn't expected was to see that he had taken my comments about pre-packaged food very seriously. Everything in the freezer, the refrigerator, and the pantry was in an individually sealed packet. But that didn't guarantee that Victoria couldn't tamper with anything. It sure made it a lot more difficult for her, though. I gratefully took a freezer pack of smoothie mix and made myself breakfast.Once I ate, I found it a lot easier to think clearly. I should have waited for Solomon, but I couldn't. That didn't mean I had to be careless about how I went about this. I knew that there was something about Victoria that I didn't know.
