Chapter 450

I woke up with swollen eyes and dried drool on my chest from where my mother was curled up on me. I would have laughed if it wasn’t so sad. I wiped at my tender eyes and my mom lifted her head. “Hey baby.” She pushed up and saw her drool. She giggled. “Sorry.” She pushed all the way up and pulled her hair back. “How are you feeling?”

“Rough.” I pushed myself up. “Very rough.”

My mom nodded. “It was an emotional night.” She looked to the bedside table where we had moved the letters after we finished reading them all. “He was very much in love with you.” She turned back. “How are you…. I was going to ask how you’re feeling again and I already know the answer. But…” She trailed off. “How are you dealing with everything?” She had this tiny flash of hope, but I shook my head.

“Honestly…I don’t know.” My alarm went off again. “What I do know is that I have to go to work today. I need to call the king today.” My stomach clenched. “I need to speak to Daddy, and Thoth today.” I got out of bed and went to the closet. “I have too much to do to stay in bed like I want to.” I grabbed the first thing I could and went to the bathroom.

My mom called after me. “I can help.”

I shut the door behind me so I could have a quick shower to wake myself up. I slipped behind the frosted glass before my mom charged right in. “Mom.”

“No baby. I don’t want to hear it. I told you I can help and I mean it. Let me call your father, the king. We can handle that part. You just have to tell me the plan.”

“I’m in the shower.” I groaned, but she just laughed.

“Babe, I’ve seen you naked. You came out of me, remember?” I cracked the door open to glare at her, but she just shrugged as she slid onto the counter by the sink. “We have the same body.”

“Mom.”

She shook her head as I closed the glass behind me. “I’m not leaving until you tell me. So you might as well cut the time in half. What’s your plan?”

I groaned and hit my head against the tile. “I honestly don’t know.”

She hummed. “Well, let’s start with what you need to say to the king.” I smiled at how she was avoiding saying his name.

“I need him to allow me to transfer to Dad’s old pack lands.”

She tilted her head. “Why?”

“Because Brandon made a fool out of me last night and it is the perfect time to disappear. We can use it and the space to attack the rogues and get Daddy’s pack situated back home. But the most important thing: we can use the closet to move people into the pack lands before the mating ceremony.”

“Why would we need to do that?” My mom picked up my brush and started in on her wild mane.

“Because three days ago Shannon had the insane idea that the mating ceremony should be a masquerade, and I know she is stupid enough to run with it.”

“You have to be kidding me.” My mom laughed. “Of course she would call for that. She always had to be unique.” My mom shook her head. “She probably thought that if it was your mating ceremony, she could knock you out and take your place.”

I snorted. “Probably. But I think it was so ‘the brotherhood’ could come too.”

“The brotherhood?” My mom shook her head. “Doesn’t matter. What about your father?”

I grabbed my shampoo. “Nix, can you change back our scent a little more?”

On it. She moved over to the clearing.

“I need to tell Daddy to move people back to the pack, slowly.” I sniffed my strawberry shampoo and sighed. “And I want him to send someone to scout the cave, or send his magic in there to see if the rogues are still there.”

My mom pulled her phone out and put the call on speaker. “Hello dove.” My father’s voice rang through my bathroom. Great.

“Hello Gav.” Her voice was lower, almost sultry, and I nearly gagged.

“Mom.” I groaned, causing her to chuckle.

“Baby?” My father sounded confused.

“Yeah, Amy is here with me, and she has a plan.” My mom started as I shut the water off. I popped my head out of the shower to ask for my towel.

“What’s the plan? About what?” He sounded confused.

My mom wiggled the phone towards me as I stepped out of the shower with the towel wrapped around me. I sighed as I grabbed for it. “Pushy.”

She laughed again. “You mispronounced helpful.”

My dad blew out a breath. “I can’t wait to have you both back.” He sounded almost needy.

“Well…I guess I have a plan for that.” Then I laid out my idea.