“Yeah?” he looks to me with a tilt of his head, but the smile across his face his was so genuine it gave me butterflies. “In a bad way?” I have to say it feels quite nice to have someone here pay me attention. It happened every now and again whilst I was away studying, but back here at pack I had always felt invisible…
“No, not in a bad way at all. Though, it is not often guys in the pack bother talking to me, Harley.” I admitted with a shrug. “So, you may want to consider that offer carefully, unless you are only doing it to make me feel stupid ?”
Harley grabbed his chest like I shot at him. “I don’t know if to be insulted by that or not, Bailey, but considering how nasty some of the people in the pack can be, I can’t say it surprises me. But, I am going to say this, I am not like that. And, how about we say screw them? We will go for that ice cream, yeah? Meet me after training. What do you say?” he looks at me like he is waiting nervously for my response, like he is unsure of himself.
As we reach the door of the pack gym, Harley pauses, still waiting for his answer, so I smile at him. “Aww, I guess I had best not keep you waiting, had I? That sounds good, thank you, Harley.”
“I thought you were not going to give me an answer then. Trying to torture me there? Seems I may have to keep my eye on you!” he playfully winks at me. “I shall see you in a few hours then, Bailey.” He lowers his head to softly kiss me upon my cheek, taking me by surprise, before he winks again, and walks inside the gym.
I moved across the parking area to the doors of the packhouse, my head a whirlwind of confusion at what the hell had just happened! Harley had known me for years… had been in my classes at school… where had his interest come from all of a sudden? I know I have changed a little since school, thanks to my roommate at college being a dab hand with a make-up brush, and giving me a few lessons in make-up and also on how to tame my mane of curls. So, I now look a slightly better styled version of me, if nothing else. Plus, my eyesight had begun improving once my wolf had arrived, along with a little additional help from laser-eye surgery, so I could completely rid myself of my glasses…
But, I still do not see there was that much of a difference that I would catch the eye of a warrior. A small part of me can’t help but wonder if he was doing this for a dare…
“Bailey! There you are.” I heard my Dad’s voice, the moment I stepped inside the packhouse, instantly distracting my train of thoughts.
“Oh, hi Dad, are you okay?” I looked up to smile at him, only to find the expression upon his face was not a happy-looking one. No. In fact, he looked far from impressed. Did I even want to know what was bothering him?
“Hmm, heard you have been causing chaos with our upcoming Alpha.” He says with a shake of his head, and before I even had a chance to defend myself he began lecturing me again. “Bailey, you have barely been back five minutes and you are causing problems. It is something we can do without. I know you and Miles do not get on, but he will be your Alpha one day, so show him some respect. It isn’t difficult just to fall in line, is it? I think you need to go and find him and apologize.”
I looked at my Dad in shock. Well, that explained the miserable face I suppose, but did he actually expect me to apologize to that fool? Wonderful…
My Dad literally dragged me to the Alpha office, where my Uncle was sitting at his desk, but sadly for me, Miles was sitting on the sofa at the opposite end of the room, his feet propped up on the coffee table, looking more than relaxed. Doing what he did best, absolutely nothing…
“Ah, hi Bailey sweetheart. How are you finding being back on pack?” Uncle Marshall asked me with a big smile, like he was pleased to see me. Needless to say, the feeling was not mutual with his son, whose dark glare was focused solely upon me from the moment I had walked into the room. If looks could kill, I would have dropped dead the second I came into the room. A painful death, no doubt too…
“Hi Uncle, it is a little odd, I can’t lie. I think I got used to being away.” I admitted, and saw him frown.
“Well, we are glad to have you back sweetheart.”
I heard what sounded like something crossed between a snigger and a cough from Miles, making me turn to look toward him, and he shook his head at me. He thinks he bothers me? That I care he doesn’t want me back here? I didn’t want to be back here. Strangely, it was them that told me to come home. I couldn’t care less about his view on it.
“Bailey wanted to come and see Miles, actually.” My Dad began, and I felt myself wanting to curl up and die of embarrassment. “She needed to apologize, I believe.”
“Oh?” My Uncle questions.
Though what catches my eye is the smug expression upon Miles’s face. “Is that so?” he looks at me with his brows raised. “You realized you need to show me some respect, little girl?”
I could see the confused expressions on the faces of both my Uncle and my Dad. Unsurprising really when this stupid fucker is addressing me in such a way. I don’t care if they thought Miles deserved my respect or not. But I had no intention of apologizing to him when he was calling me little girl. I was a year younger than him. And even if I wasn’t there was no need to be patronizing and call me that.
“Lost your tongue Bailey?” Miles stood up, striding across the room and was soon standing in front of me, looking all cocky. I could feel my wolf, Akira rippling beneath my skin at how he was behaving. She did not like how he was treating me. She had never forgiven him for rejecting her. “Or is it just hard to admit you are in the wrong?” he smiles smugly at me.
I shook my head. “No. I don’t find it hard to admit when I am wrong, actually, Miles…” I began.
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