CHAPTER 3

As soon as I finished the training session with the kids, Evan met me at the field and we walked home together. 

Dad didn’t want either of us to have a car because he thought that was just lazy. We could walk wherever we wanted to go. Besides, the pack wasn’t that big so it wasn’t going to be a massive task to walk somewhere. 

When we got home I put my bag in my room and I went back to the kitchen and I finished helping mom with dinner. 

The three of us sat down to eat together, but dad was nowhere to be seen. 

“Where is he?” Evan asked, sitting at his seat. 

“I don’t know. He just told me that he had important business happening at the packhouse.” Mom said. 

“Do you know what was going on this morning? The Beta never comes to the house that early in the morning unless it’s pretty urgent.” I said. 

“I told you everything I know. I’m sorry. Now, stop asking and eat your dinner.” Mom said. 

Evan and I exchanged glances, not really believing that mom didn’t know what was going on. 

She knew more than she was telling us. She just didn’t want us to know. 

But we knew when to stop probing. If they wanted us to know then they would tell us. And if they really didn’t want us to know, we knew to back off. 

“Listen to me. I know that you two must be pretty confused right now. A lot of stuff is going on but your father is the head warrior. So, he’s a pretty important person in this pack. I don’t know exactly what’s going on but can you two just promise that you are going to stay close?” Mom asked. 

“Sure. We can do that.” Evan said. And I nodded my head. 

As soon as I finished dinner I went to have a shower and I got dressed for bed. 

I went into my room to do my homework and I could tell that my father still wasn’t home. So I sat at my desk and did all the homework that was assigned to us that day. 

Every subject and it was a pain in the ass. I knew most of it and it was just a tedious task at this point. 

I don’t know why they wouldn’t let me take college classes while I was still in high school. 

I think it’s because the Alpha doesn’t want humans snooping around the pack. But everything would be done online. There wouldn’t be any humans coming to the pack. 

I sat on my bed reading after I finished my homework and I heard my mother go into her room and close the door. 

Which meant she was going to bed. 

I waited another half an hour before I got up and I walked over to my wardrobe. 

I took my pajamas off and I got dressed into a short black mini dress with thin straps and black strappy high heels. 

I brushed my hair and I grabbed a couple of fake hair extensions. Blue ones, that I put in my hair and I put on makeup and made sure that I looked good before I quietly opened the window. 

I snuck outside the window and I mindlinked my friends and told them that I was out of the house. 

I walked down to the end of the street and Ryan was waiting for me in his car with a couple of his friends. 

As soon as he saw me coming he told his friend to get in the back so I could sit in the front. 

“Hey. Bros before hoes.” Brandon said. 

“Did you just call me a fucking hoe?” I asked. 

He slowly turned to look at me before he quickly jumped in the back with the other two guys that were there. 

So I got in the car and Ryan peeled away from the curb and we headed for the highway that led out of the territory. 

It took us half an hour to get to the human town, but that’s only because Ryan doesn’t know what a speed limit is. 

We pulled up outside of a club and there were two cars following us from the pack. All of our friends. 

We all got out of the cars and Ryan grabbed my hand and we walked towards the bouncer who was keeping a lot of people outside waiting before they got into the club. 

He was one of us though. And he definitely knew Ryan, so he let us all go through straight away. 

We went inside and saw a lot of werewolves inside. 

We didn’t know who they were, so they were from different packs, but they were definitely werewolves. 

Now we just had to make sure that no fights broke out between different packs. 

That was always a problem in these sorts of places. 

We went straight up to the bar and Ryan ordered his drink and ordered my usual. A shot of tequila chased down by a rum and coke. 

It only took a minute for me to finish both of them so Ryan ordered some more. 

After we had been at the bar for a bit, Ryan grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the dance floor. 

As soon as we got to the dance floor he turned around and pulled me close to him so there was absolutely no space between us and we started dancing together. 

The rest of our friends followed and I saw Tris was dancing pretty close to Brandon. 

I never noticed if there was anything going on between them two, but I was going to be keeping an eye on it now. 

Ryan and I were dirty dancing all over the dance floor, not caring who the hell was watching us. 

We were all over each other and having a great time with each other while we were doing it. 

We were so into each other that no one else in the room mattered. Every touch and caress from Ryan felt like he was setting me on fire. And I felt like I couldn’t get enough of it. I needed more. I needed to be close to him. And I knew by the way he was staring into my eyes, that he felt the exact same way.

We saw our friends watching us, but they knew what to expect. Neither of us were shy and both of us were pretty good dancers. So we were showing off everything we had together. 

We stopped briefly to go and get a few more drinks. 

It sucked because our metabolism worked differently to humans so we didn’t get drunk as easily as they did. But I was starting to feel a slight buzz when we hit the dance floor again. 

We were only on the dance floor for a couple of minutes when suddenly someone grabbed my arm and I turned to see Evan staring me in the face. 

“You are so fucking busted.” He yelled. 

That definitely brought me back to reality. 

Suddenly we heard some shouting in the middle of the dance floor and we started getting pushed out of the way as a few guys, werewolves, got into a fight with each other. 

Someone grabbed me around the waist from behind and at first I thought it was Ryan or Evan, but when I turned to look, it didn’t smell like either of them. 

When I looked up at his face, he was a complete stranger to me with dark eyes staring at me. 

“Amberly.” Ryan screamed from behind me.