“Dixon do you and Braxton want to ride your bikes back to Stone Moon, or do you want me to take them to Dark moon with me, for you to pick up when you come to visit?” I asked them.
“I will ride mine back, it will keep me from having to ride back to Stone Moon with Asher”. Dixon says to me.
“Me too, I don’t want to ride with him on the way back home either. When he figures out that you are gone Jade, he is going to lose his shit” Braxton tells me.
“I can’t really believe that Braxton, we all heard the same thing come from his own lips that he couldn’t believe that Ashley would have done what Calvin said she did. But he had a really detailed story for it not to be true. As a matter of fact, I will have Nicole message him to meet us at 5 am to follow us back to Dark Moon. I believed what he said. This is just like when he took her side about what happened at school with Brittany, and he believed I was the one in the wrong well before he even knew me. I mean, he Alpha Commanded her to stop coming after him and me, and she did this the NEXT day. Obviously, she isn’t scared to piss him off, or completely disobey the command, and I know why now, because he is wrapped around her finger, and will always take her side over mine. I need to distance myself from him as he had already wormed himself into my heart and then proceeded to step on it to make sure he didn’t miss a spot.” I realize I am now crying and the whole back seat is low growling. Tyler pulls me over to him and gives me a side hug as Asher watches from across the street and narrows his eyes. I know he wants to get out and come over to us, but it is coming close to the time frame between 630 to 645 pm when they are supposed to meet so we all look over to the convenience store to watch for Eric’s SUV or Ashley’s car.
About 5 minutes later at 631 pm, we see Ashley pull up, park, and head into the store. She comes back out about 5 minutes later with a drink in her hand and goes to sit on the bench in front of the store. At 642 pm, we see Eric’s SUV pull up at a pump and start filling up his gas tank, while Kyle runs in to use the restroom and get some drinks. I guess they were planning on staying out there for a while, watching my house and I thank the Goddess for sending Calvin to let me know. I shudder in my seat just thinking of what they were planning on doing to me and can’t prevent the low whimper that came from my throat. I feel my brother Tate and then Dixon both reach up to me from the back seat and each grabs my shoulder from the side that they were sitting on like they were trying to give me strength through the shoulder squeeze.
“We have you, Jade, they will NEVER get their hands on you. We will be going to war with their pack very soon and finishing this, so you won’t have to worry about them ever again”. Tyler tells me and reaches over to grab my hand and give it a squeeze.
I look across the street at Asher and see that he is watching the store and is watching Ashley as she gets up from the bench and walks over and gets into the back seat of Eric’s SUV. I keep staring at him and wait until he looks across the street to me, and I have no response for him, I just keep looking at his handsome face. I almost wish I could tell him I am leaving in the morning, and that we are done, but I know if I did do that, he would try to stop me. I just don’t want to be around him right now. I feel like he would take her side over mine, in everything, and that thought makes me so sad. I need some separation so I can make better choices, because when I see him, my heart and my wolf just want him, no matter how much he hurts us. I have to take a stand, it is going to be tough, but I have done it before. I am tough and I will get past this too.
I lean my head back onto the seatback behind me and look at the roof of the truck and wonder again, why Goddess? Why? Why couldn’t I have been paired with Mason, or Travis, they were both attractive guys, who already loved me and would have protected me. I know that they both probably have mates out there somewhere, but I just can’t figure out what I have done in my life, to have resulted in me going through what I have been through. I feel unlovable.
I look back over at Eric’s SUV. Kyle was now in the passenger seat turned around talking to Ashley, and Eric had gone into the store a few minutes ago. I guess they all went to the bathroom to be able to hang out for the next couple of hours. Eric comes out and gets in the SUV and starts it up. Looking up into his rearview mirror, I guess he is talking to Ashley to know which way they need to drive. I go ahead and unfold the sunshield to spread across the front of the truck. The guys watch Eric pull past us on the road and head off towards our rental house. They never even looked in our direction. I lower the screen and fold it back up and send Nicole a message to send Calvin a text to be at our house at 5 in the morning and to be ready to hit the road at that time, as we will not be stopping. I also told her that he could leave and come to our house tonight if he wanted to, when Eric and Kyle came back to their hotel room tonight, and just leave his stuff behind in their hotel room so they wouldn’t know that he is leaving. That it was his choice. I also told her to make sure that he deleted all the messages from his phone after he reads her message. I figured that Eric and Kyle would be leaving after they confirmed that I was staying in that house, and that would give him 20 minutes to pack and get out before they came back to their hotel.
I cannot believe that treasonous tramp set up my mate. I thought that there was no chance that he had been telling the truth, that maybe he got a few things right, just enough to convince us that he was telling the truth. Yet, I just watched her pull up and park at the store in the time frame we were told. I thought since I Alpha Commanded her to not speak to me or Jade, ever again, and for her to not cause any problems for any Stone Moon pack members, that she would be bound by the Alpha Command to not cause us any more problems. Plus, I didn’t like that Calvin got to swoop in and be the hero in this. I am glad he did tell us, really, but to see her hug him, her ex-mate, killed me. I didn’t want him to be anywhere around her ever again.
Did the Alpha Command not work because I hadn’t actually taken over the pack Yet? I was going to have to ask dad, I need to get this taken care of because I could see Jade across the street from me but it seemed like the distance between us was way greater than that. I had tried to talk to her, I know she was upset, but I just wanted to talk this through with her. I didn’t want to have to kick a family out of the pack, without proof, and I knew Ashley, I didn’t know Calvin. Maybe I just didn’t want to trust him because I knew that Jade had liked him for two years before she was mated to him, it could have been jealousy, but I needed to confirm that Ashley had done what he accused her of. I knew I had messed up, but I knew if I could just explain it to her, she would understand because Jade is smart, and would see what I was trying to say.
I saw her start crying and I was wondering what was going on in the truck, to make her cry, for her brothers and Dixon to try to give her comfort. I just need to stay calm and watch this play out. The bad news was Ashley was already here, just like Calvin had said. She had gone inside for a couple of minutes and came out with a Coke. She sat down on a bench and was obviously waiting on someone. We had to wait almost 10 minutes before Eric and Kyle showed up. Now I knew for sure. Ashley had indeed set Jade up to try to get me back and to be Luna. This meant that it was basically all my fault, I started this ball rolling and my mate was almost kidnapped and r@#$d because of this hateful slut. She is gone. I will get with dad tomorrow. I need him to banish the whole Conner family over this. Ashley was warned and even Alpha Commanded, and she still did it. Her parents were warned by my father the night before last, they probably spoke to her yesterday, and she still did it. I cannot imagine what she was thinking. I would have never stopped looking for Jade. I would have gone to war with the Howling Wolf pack, and I would have gotten Jade back. The problem would have been the heavy emotional scarring that would have come with whatever she had, had to have endured. I was furious, how dare Ashley have the audacity to have pulled something like this. How could she have possibly thought that she would have gotten away with it, I would have thought of her first, she would have been the obvious choice to have done it. I would have thought of Eric second, but at no time would I have ever thought of her going to Eric to get rid of Jade. That was pure evil, it was brilliant on her part, so she could play innocent, but a totally evil act for her to have done.
I watch Eric fill up the tank, and Kyle runs into the store. I see Ashley slowly get up from the bench and come out to the SUV and then get into the back seat. Kyle comes back a short time later and gets into the front seat. Eric stops filling the SUV up and goes inside the store himself. When he comes back a short time later, I see him look up into the rearview mirror and I guess he speaks with Ashley for a minute. They pull out and head in the direction of the rental house. Aries wants blood. That slut set my mate and Luna up. I want to kill all three of them right now as they pass me, I had put my head down, so my SUV looked empty.
I don’t even know what to do right now. I want to speak with Jade, but the look of betrayal on her face isn’t giving me warm and fuzzy impressions. Jade is pissed and I can’t blame her. She already knew it was true and I was the one who had doubted. I tried to speak to her when she left the living room, and again when she came out of the bathroom. I stood there just outside of the hallway so I could hear her when she came out. I could hear her in there crying, even with the water running. I just wanted to hug her and comfort her and remind her that she is the only girl for me and that I will take care of this for her. I just needed proof, as I couldn’t believe that Ashley would have done something like this. She had never done anything like this before, I mean other than when she got her sister to harass Jade at school when she twisted the truth before. But I mean it has only been two times, I felt I should cut her a little slack.
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