wolf,” He continued before ruffling her hair. They reached the nurses office and he turned to her, “Really though. I’ve always been here for you and now that I know that you’re my little sister, that doesn’t change a thing and I’m not going to let anything bad happen to you,” He smiled softly.
Samantha smiled back and hugged him, “Thanks…”
“No problem… Text me if you need me, and feel better…” He said before walking away.
Forty minutes later the nurse had called Melody and had Samantha dismissed from school. She went right out to her car and just sat there for a few moments. She sighed, turned her car on and drove straight to Jaden’s house. She parked right in front and stared at the house for a moment. She wasn’t quite sure why she had even shown up there and she sighed. Her hands shook as she got out of the car and went up to the front door. She knocked once then folded her hands behind her back, trying to control her breathing as she waited.
Samuel opened the door and stared at Samantha for a moment, “…Samantha…” He practically gasped.
“Hi… Jaden had said that you wanted to talk to me…” She said softly, her voice almost trembling.
“Yes… Yes, come on in…” Samuel said as he stepped aside.
Samantha stepped inside and looked around quickly, “What did you want to talk to me about…?”
Samuel just shut the front door and stood quietly for a moment, “Nothing…” He finally said, “I just wanted to see you.” He tucked her hair behind her ear, caressing her cheek, “You’re beautiful… Just like your mother…”
Samantha looked up at him, “Can you just tell me what happened between you two…? And why you never came around…?” Samantha pressed, clearly uncomfortable.
Samuel was shocked, “Well… I met your mother a few months after my wife Abigail passed away giving birth to Jaden… I fell in love with her immediately. I offered for her to come to my pack, but she didn’t want to, so I left my pack to be with her… I thought she was going to leave her husband… But when she found out she was pregnant with you she called it off,” Samuel sighed, “Then Colin banished me and demoted Elizabeth to scout for cheating on her husband…”
“Your alpha was just going to let you leave the pack…?”
Samuel was silent for a moment, playing with a ring on his finger that Samantha had yet to notice. She took a step closer to him to get a better look at the ring. It was big, like a man’s high school class ring, with a huge wolf head adorning it; an alpha’s ring.
“That’s the thing… I was the alpha… I denounced my alpha-ship and passed it down to my second in command…”
“Oh… And my mom… What was she demoted from?”
“She was a beta… Nobody ever told you?”
Samantha shook her head. The silence that followed hung heavy in the room. Samantha shifted uncomfortably before finally speaking.
“So… Why did it take so long for you to attempt to be a part of my life…?”
Samuel sighed and shifted his weight as well, “Colin ban me from speaking to both you and Elizabeth. I was just too cowardly to do anything about it.”
Samantha frowned and looked towards the ground; that wasn’t exactly what she had hoped to hear, “…Well, I have to go…”
“So soon…?” Samuel furrowed his brow.
“I’m sorry, but yes. I’m supposed to be meeting with someone…”
“Then we will just have to catch up another time. Perhaps over dinner? You can come and bring your boyfriend, Jaden tells me you’re with Riley McLaughlin, and Jaden and Olivia can come as well. How does that sound?”
Samantha forced a smile, she wasn’t sure about how she felt about the situation, “That sounds nice…” She mumbled.
“Well, goodbye then…” Samuel said as he walked Samantha out.
She nodded slowly, “Yeah, goodbye…” She walked down the front steps, not
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