- Cleo -


    "We arent looking for trouble Dad. I just don''t feelfortable letting Callie go alone. If Jace


    was here, he would go with her.


    They won''t do anything with another pack''s luna around. Besides, Ares ising with us." Dad blocks the very vehicle that Callie and I both n to take. Callie herself wasn''t keen for me toe but I didn''t trust her parents, her mother especially.


    "You aren''t going end of." Dad bluntly deres, as if I was still a little girl seeking his permission.


    "Dad, this isn''t up for discussion." I roll my eyes, my arms crossing in front of me as I prepare to wait him out.


    "Then I''ming with you." He grunts out, finally moving to open the car door for


    me.


    "What about Mum, you can''t leave her alone."


    "Ares will stay and remain with her. If it is only a fleeting visit like you say it is, she can cope


    without me for a few hours. They won''t try anything with an alpha with you."


    "I appreciate your offer Alpha Arancea but it really is unnecessary. As I have told Cleo repeatedly, I can go alone." Callie sighs out, standing to the side of us.


    "I don''t want you to go by yourself." I can''t just remain here, not when I know her parent''s are up to no good.


    She hasn''t said so, but I think a part of her is hoping they have changed their minds. That they are going to wee her back. That they''ve seen the error in their ways and want to make amends...I''m not so sure.


    "She won''t be going by herself..." An unexpected male''s voice calls out to us.


    It was Colt, walking towards using from the direction of the hospital. I didn''t


    even realise he had been discharged from the doctor''s care.


    "You should be resting." Callie growls out to him, her tongue clicking in disapproval.


    "I''ve rested long enough, I won''t let you go alone."


    "Colt."


    "I won''t let you go alone. Thank you Luna and Alpha, but I can take it from here."


    Take what from here, he can barely stand up. Beads of sweat appear on his upper brow from the


    strain of just walking here from the hospital. He was in no fit state to attend, let alone back Callie


    up in a tricky situation.


    "Colt, you need to rest more, I''m taking them, we really won''t be.


    long." Dad walks past Callie, tai


    on


    the keys from her hand before moving to the driver''s door.


    "Jace would have a fit if he knew I remained here whilst his pregnant mate... congrattions by the way...left pack grounds and I remained sat up in bed."


    He pauses mid sentence to offer his congrattions to me before continuing with his reason foring.


    He was an entric character, even in the way he dips his hat to congratte me. I can see why Jace likes him, he''s very different to the other males in his life.


    A breath of fresh air.


    The four of us enter into the car, Callie sits in the front to guide Dad for most of the journey, who takes it upon himself to be the driver.


    Except for the asional direction from Callie to Dad, she remains quiet for the entire journey.


    Colt was doing his best to not let on that he was still in a lot of pain...shifting and taking in deep breaths when Dad takes a corner too sharply, or the road has a bump.


    He really should still be in hospital, but who was I to tell a stubborn male what to do.


    "So...you and Jace huh?" He steals my eyes away from my window where I was taking in thendscape.


    "Hmm me and Jace." I slowly nod out, my eyes travelling down to my belly. Now it was Jace, me and a baby.


    "I knew there was somebody, I just knew it."


    "No you didn''t." Callie disagrees from the front.


    "Yes I did. He was always so cagey about his past, I knew he was running from something. From someone. If he wasn''t running,. he wouldn''t have found us. So


    guess fate works in myst Soen


    ways."


    It sure does.


    "Who are you running from?" I ask out, keen to know more about this male beside


    me.


    "Me? No one. Unlike Callie and Jace,


    I don''t have a pack. I was born as a


    rogue,


    which meant pack life has


    never really appealed to me. Oguess, I don''t know any different."


    A rogue... he certainly does smell like a rogue. He doesn''t have that rogue smell.


    "Born a rogue?" Dad repeats from the front just as he takes a turning, guided by Callie.