Chapter48
“Nick is coming.” he said in a bored tone.
“So?” asked confused.
“So? SO?!” I heard Shirley screaming from another part of the house. Her rapid footsteps followed and she flew into the kitchen while screaming and waving her hands in the air. “My baby is coming! We haven’t seen him in over a year, and he’s finally coming home!” At the end of her rant her eyes became all glossy, and then a panicked expression took over Jonathan’s face while he rushed to her side to wrap her in a soothing embrace.
“Calm down, darling. He’ll be here soon.”
That was the first time I saw Shirley so emotional and that Jonathan being so frightened. Wow, I guess all this mate thing is really awesome. Not for me, though. Nope, no man shell have me again. He maybe a good man, but no, nope, no way Jose. Nope. I’m ok on my own. I have my family now, that’s all I need. Keep telling yourself that. Said my inner voice. I just ignored it, I knew my truth,
that’s that, basta.
“But that’s amazing! Congratulations, guys! You must be missing him big time!” I said still with a huge grin.
“Yes, of course, he’s our boy!” Said Shirley somehow outraged, as if I insinuated that her love. wasn’t big enough. I chuckled at that. A slight pang of envy settled in my heart – do my parents miss me? I did miss them, yeah, but it was their choice to shun me, and I was hurting, that was unfair, so
unless they make the first step, I ain’t doing nothing.
As if sensing the direction of my thoughts, Shirley broke out of Jonathan’s embrace and replaced him with me, pushing some air out of me on the way. I laughed, all jealousy forgotten.
“We are preparing his room, it was deserted for a while now, needed dusting and all…”
“Sure” I smiled warmly at her. I hope we’ll get along with Nick, if would be horrible if not.
Anyway, since you’re awake, you need to eat! Sit!” And the sentimental Shirley was gone, the bossy one back. Again I laughed and obediently sat at the kitchen table. Twins turned to me with huge grins on their faces, even Seamus had this boyish glint in his eyes.
“Guess what, Ems?” Simon almost screamed at me.
“What?”
“I saved you some ice cream!” – how proud he was of himself!
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“Geesh, thanks!” I rubbed my hands together in excitement, it was ice cream after all.
“Yeah, and who bought the ice cream?” Seamus furrowed his eyebrows in Simon’s direction.
“Does it matter? I saved it from the vultures so that Ems could enjoy the exquisite taste of it!”
“Yeah, except that the only vulture here is you!”
“Unnecessary details!” Simon brushed Seamus away. Seamus rolled his eyes and turned to me.
“Emily, you see who’s the good guy here, right?” eyebrows raised expectantly at me.
“Sure, you are. And Simon as well, for keeping his urges under control, that’s something, right? It’s the effort that counts, so you both are my heroes now!” was my conclusion. They both beamed at me, until I forged an angry glare and said: “Now hand me the ice cream. NOW!”
They both scrambled to their feet, Simon almost throwing the tub my way and Seamus carefully handing me the spoon, as if I would bite his hand of. I tried keeping the glare, but the scene was so hilarious, that I couldn’t contain my laughter.
“Congratulations, you’ve got yourself two puppies. Good luck getting rid of them now.” said a still
bored doc Evans.
“Meh, I’m fine with that.” I just shrugged my shoulders and dug into the ice cream. I didn’t even notice how fast my tube ended, with all this friendly banter around me, but I was suddenly startled by the bang. I jumped in my seat and dropped the spoon to the floor, the sound deafening in the quiet of the kitchen. Wait, when did it become quiet? I looked up and saw the twins and Lena looking on something behind my back with confused expressions, so I naturally turned around to look at this ‘something myself. Well, the ‘something‘ turned out to be a ‘someone‘, and that someone was a carbon copy of Nathan, minus the calm aura around him and replaced with anger. Here in front of me was another werewolf and he was livid. After a few moments my eyes finally met his and I realized, that he was not just mad, he was angry with me?…
