After breakfast, Kyle and the twins had left for the Pack Hall to attend to their duties, since the twins had been gone for almost three weeks and Sarah was busy with appointments. Jane had the house to herself amidst the few Omegas who worked there during the day.Jane was in the living room, browsing online shops but so far nothing had caught her eye. She was in charge of decorating their wing. Their bedroom was nice and luxurious but it was stark, no personal touches.The doorbell rang and Jane pushed herself off the couch. She had a slight frown on her face because nobody just showed up at the Alpha House. She opened the front door and felt the air get stuck in her throat.“Britney?”“Jane? What are you doing here?”Jane’s mouth went dry as she looked at Britney standing in front of her, the slight curve of her stomach telling her all she needed to know. She could taste the bile rising in her throat and the look of disgust in Britney’s eyes took her back to her old school.“I need
Ryan had left before dawn. He ran the perimeter every morning and then reported for training with the warriors. After that on a normal day, they’d go to school with him then working alongside his father in the office.She knew Reid would be doing the same thing too but she didn’t want to think about him too much because it hurt. Was Britney in his bedroom with him? Did she sleep next to him last night? She shook her head as she got ready for the day with no firm plan in mind.She thought that she should go to her old room and get some of her stuff moved to the new wing and then maybe actually do something about their room. It was too stark for her, the cream walls, cream bedding, cream carpet, she couldn’t live with how plain it was.Omega workers smiled and bowed their heads at her and she smiled back at them. She knew them all by name and they were all nice people. She should start to pay more attention to their needs now because she’d soon took over the Luna duties from her mother.
Jane groaned as Ryan’s hand slipped between her legs rubbing over her shorts. She could feel his body heat and his erection against her ass, feather light kisses against her shoulder. It was still dark outside but she knew that she was done sleeping. “It’s still dark out,” she complained. Ryan chuckled as his hand slipped inside her shorts and squeezed one globe of her ass. “It’s overcast and raining. We’ve got about an hour before the alarm goes off.” He yanked her shorts down and she yelped as he flipped her over on her back. His knees widened, opening her legs as he pushed his own pajamas pants down and grabbed a condom from the bedside table. “You really couldn’t wait any longer?” Jane asked him with a grin on her face. “Do you have any idea how long two days are?” Her period had stopped the previous afternoon but she hadn’t said a word to him, wanting to see how long he’d wait. His fingers found her clit and she arched her back as his thumb drew circles over it and he plunge
Over the next few days Joseph became Jane’s shadow. Most times she didn’t notice him until she was actively looking for him and he would just appear. It freaked Jane out and Joseph seemed a natural Gamma. Reid had withdrawn completely and Ryan spent more and more time with Kyle or at the border. Jane spent more time with her mother and learning about Luna duties. Britney always seemed to hover wherever Reid was. “So what does a Luna actually do?” Jane asked her mother as they sat in her office, adjacent to Kyle’s. “Essentially you’ll be the pack’s mother. You organize every important event. You make sure your Alpha knows about births and ceremonies and outside events that you’re invited to. You will always be the one to pick out gifts when other Alpha’s take over and retire. It’s important to know which packs you have treaties with and which ones you don’t. The only times you’ll invite neutral packs to functions is if it’s to do with the Alpha committee and your pack hosts it, other
A week went by and Jane hadn’t spoken one word to Reid. He seemed to avoid her and he’d stopped attending school. Joseph had told her that Reid had switched to homeschooling for the last few months.It hurt more than she thought it would hurt. She saw Ryan at dinner and most nights he was so exhausted he was asleep before she was. He saw Reid every day though for their Alpha training and she couldn’t help but feel that it was just her Reid was avoiding.Jane walked softly down the stairs in the dark. It was past midnight and she couldn’t sleep. She found Reid in the kitchen and her shock was so great that she’d faltered in the doorway as he looked up at her.“Hey,” he said softly.Jane just stood there looking at him. He wasn’t wearing a shirt, just his flannel pajama bottoms and he seemed so foreign to her. She looked at the tattoo on his chest and she could feel the sting of it on her own chest.“Jane …”“Reid!” Britney’s voice came from the stairs and Reid rushed out of the kitchen
Jane had showered and dressed all before seven am. She couldn’t see any of them going to school today and she had no idea where Ryan was. Her phone was still on the bedside table and there wasn’t even a text from him.Her head snapped up as the bedroom door opened and Ryan walked inside looking pissed off. She frowned slightly and stood up from the bed. The anger was rolling off of him and it made her feel uneasy.“Is everything okay?”Ryan’s eyes had darkened as he turned to look at her. “I don’t get you, Jane. I’m here every single day. I give you everything you ask of me but at the first hiccup, you run. I get you’re feeling sensitive but I can’t have a Luna that runs every time something is difficult.”“I’m sorry …”“Sorry doesn’t cut it, Jane. I have to wake up in the middle of the night to find you gone! Then when I get to the hospital I have to hear that you’ve run, again! I’m getting sick of this bullshit!”“Ryan …”“Do you have any idea what it felt like to stand there with B
Jane cried herself to sleep that night and by the morning she could wiggle her toes. She’d snapped her spine in the fall and it taken her a full day to regain some motion. The doctor wanted to keep her there until she could walk.“Hi, sweetheart,” Sarah said as Jane opened her eyes and kissed her forehead.“Hi, mom,” she whispered.“The doctor says you’ve made amazing progress. He predicted that it would be a full week before you could move your toes.”Jane couldn’t even muster a smile as her mother sat down on a chair next to the bed. “He said I could go home when I could walk.”“Just concentrate on getting better. Ryan’s in a hearing right now with Kyle and Sebastian and his father.”“Why?” Jane asked perplexed.“You’re in the hospital, sweetheart, that constitutes an attack on a future Luna. Someone has to answer for that,” Sarah said.“It was an accident, Mom. Sebastian and Ryan were fighting and Joseph took the brunt of our first fall. He tried to save me.”Sarah smiled then and
After dinner Jane followed Britney back to her old room. It had been changed into a nursery since it was across from Reid’s room and right next to Britney’s room. Nobody had even asked her but she knew she was being childish. She had a whole wing on the other side or had.The room was very basic. It had a crib, a changing table and a rocking chair. A dresser stood on one side that held the baby’s diapers and toiletries. A nightlight was on and the lighting in the room was dim but Jane could still see that barely any money had been spent on this room.“It’s about time for her next feeding. You can stay if you like,” Britney said softly. Jane could tell she was nervous.“I’d like to if you don’t mind.”Britney smiled and her eyes lit up as she walked to the crib and lifted the pink bundle from it. She took her over to the changing table and gently unwrapped the blanket from around her. Jane was mesmerized at how different Britney seemed.“Her name’s Rein, R-E-I-N,” Britney said with a s