My Alpha Mate

Luna In Training

Chapter 24: Luna In Training.

Dedicated to: Applepie_IsLife

{Valerie}

Greyson and I have been sitting outside for about a good hour playing my suggested game.

After fifteen minutes or so of us doing just fine on our own Sophe and Michael decided it would be safe to go inside since I had things under control.

As for Darren, he left sometime during everything. Technically Greyson could've kept Darren a prisoner even though he's a Prince but it would just make all these types of problems that weren't needed.

So it was a stupid idea but it worked. I decided to play twenty-one questions in a way. It's obviously been more than twenty-one questions but it's taken Greyson's mind off everything and to my surprise he's never played.

When Greyson had started to get mad again and his eyes were red, he asked if he could hold me. It was more of a rhetorical question but I thought it was nice of him to ask even though he would've probably grabbed me anyways judging the state he was in.

So now here we are and Greyson's been trying to ask questions about Darren but I've been brushing them off even though I know they'd have to come up eventually.

"Will you tell me what he was talking about now?" Greyson asks and I sigh as he plays with my hair, my head on his chest, and we lay in the grass.

"That's not a specific question Greyson. Plus it's not even your turn." I say then move around in Greyson's hold sitting up much to his protests.

"You marked me. Why?" I ask then look down at him.

"Because you said I could." He says simply and I roll my eyes. Smart ass.

"You know that's not what I meant." I say and he looks up at the sky.

"I've been waiting for you a long time. I found you when I was fourteen and I had always wanted you with me, it's just,"

I need him to go on. I needed his validation that he really did want this. I know his mark should prove that but, I don't know what I'm looking for.

"You were nine at the time, it was two years before your mother left you. I was scared of leaving you without me there. I wanted to take you but I also knew it would be selfish to keep you from your parents. You were a child. I kept you away for so long because I know you'd only get hurt." Greyson says and I just sit there stunned to silence.

I was silent because I didn't know what to say. Maybe because he talked about my mother, maybe because I felt bad he met me so young, maybe because I was angry that he stayed away from me because he thought I'd get hurt, or maybe it was from him saying he's always wanted me.

None the less, I was silent.

"But now I realized I've been holding onto an excuse that was
only good when I was younger and untrained. I've been scared this whole time because I thought I couldn't protect you. I marked you, because I know I'm ready now, I know I can protect you now in a way I couldn't before. I care about you, I wasn't good at showing it but I do. That mark wasn't a spur of the moment heat induced mark, I gave you that because I wanted people to know you're mine." Greyson admits and I stay quiet.

How am I supposed to tell Greyson about Darren now that he's told me this? He'll distance himself, I know it. Then I'll never see this part of him again.

The mere thought breaks my heart and puts me on the verge of tears.

When did I become so damn emotional over a guy?