Chapter 025
HANNAH
Although Jace drove really fast, I felt like he could not get to my house fast enough. I sat on the very edge of the car seat, wondering what horrors Asher and his father had unleashed on my mother, now my only present family. Jace, thankfully did not go on offering hollow words of comfort. He seemed to know that silence was what I needed now. Silence was what I needed to process this.
"She will be fine," was all he said and I held on to those words fiercely. If anything happened to her because of me, I would never be able to forgive myself.
Jace started to say something when he pulled up in front of my house but I was already out of the car, racing to the front door. I threw the door open, expecting... Well, I didn't know what I was expecting but it was a relief to see that the house was still intact. And there my mother was, sitting on the sofa with a piece of paper that looked like a letter in her hands. She was here. She was alive and fine and that was all that mattered.
"Mum." I stopped for a few seconds to catch my breath. "You sounded urgent over the phone. What happened?"
I felt, rather than saw Jace enter the room. My mother glanced at him, at the letter in her hand but was too distressed to explain at the moment. She held up the letter.
When I got close to her, I saw the envelope had the insignia of the pack; two wolves standing on their jobs legs with their teeth bared. My heart sank. Hadn't I suspected Asher or his family had a hand in what was happening? This letter was undoubtedly from the Alpha.
"I just received this," my mother explained. "The Alpha had it delivered here. I had to show it to you."
I took the letter with slightly shaky hands. With every line I read, I found myself relaxing. On getting to the end, I looked at my mother in some confusion and relief. Over my shoulder, Jace was reading the letter.
"Is this it? All of it?" I asked her.
"What do you mean?" she said, her brow furrowing in confusion. "Did you read everything?"
"I did, but you sounded frantic over the phone was scary, mum. I thought something bad had happened to you or that Alpha Dawson hurt you. Didn't know you called me back home for just a letter."
"Just a letter!" she exclaimed, staring at me like I had grown two heads. "It's a letter from the Alpha, so how is it that you are not the least bit concerned about what's written there? Have you forgotten what the Alpha has tried to do to you in the past? Have you forgotten what he did to your father?"
"But mum, he's just wrote to tell me about a meeting where I would get to decide between Asher or Jace and his brothers. Isn't that all there was to the letter? Or is there something else I'm missing?"
"That's all the letter says, yes, but Hannah-"
"Then I don't see what the problem is. I have already decided that I don't want anything from Asher, so my choice is already pretty obvious. I'm choosing Jace and his brothers and that's it. I will tell him that at the meeting and then I will be finally rid of Asher."
"Oh no. Open your eyes, dear. I don't think- in fact I'm pretty sure the meeting will not be as straightforward as you think it will be. I think Alpha Dawson has something up his sleeve. It will be foolish to think that this meeting will be just... a meeting. Don't you understand what I'm saying?"
"The only thing I understand right now is that you are worrying about this too much. You are making Alpha Dawson out to be more scary than he actually is. Please don't fuss, mum. It's all going to be sorted out. I can take care of myself."
She gave a resigned shrug.
"If you say so," she said, still not looking convinced at all.
I squeezed her hand reassuringly, jerked my thumb in the direction of the front door, a signal for Jace to join me outside.
"I'm sorry I had to drag you all the way out here for nothing," I said when we were finally outside.
I looked back. Through the window, I could see mother reading the letter again. I felt it was going to be a while before I would be able to convince her to put that thing down.
"I am happy I could be of help. I have to get going now, but first..." Jace shifted my hair to the side so he could press his lips against mine.
Never minding the fact that my mother was within with, I was transported back in time to earlier today, to the restaurant's bathroom. I remembered every detail of what Jace and I had done there. Jace still tasted faintly of ice-cream. Vanilla, what was getting to be my favourite. The taste of him was heady. It fired up my blood. I swayed on my feet a little, deepened the kiss.
An unknown length of time later, he pulled away and I almost groaned.
"Bye for now," he said, turned on his heel and left.
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