Kapitel 20: Book 2 - Chapter 3
Echo's POV
"What does my father want?" Over the years I had drifted away from my father, since he didn't even try to reach out to me. "I don't know, Peter just said that he wants to talk to you" I sighed and nodded. "Alright" We drove back to the pack house and I got Silvie out the car. "He's inside" Malia said in a slightly worried voice, I brushed it off and entered the pack house. Everything looked the same, there were still the pictures hanging up in the hallway, and nothing had changed since I left.
I found my father sitting in the living room, staring at the fireplace. "Father" I said, once I entered the room and sat down on the opposite sofa. "Echo" He replied, now looking at me. "And this is?" He asked, pointing to Silvie. "Silvie, my daughter, she's five" My fathers eyebrows raised. "Five, that means she'll shift soon" My daughter looked up at me in curiosity, "Shift?" She questioned, staring at Deaucalion. "She hasn't told you?" My father smirked at my daughter. "Its nothing Silvie" This time my father was laughing to himself. "She'll find out eventually, better be now huh" I glared at him.
He opened his mouth to say when somebody else beat him to it. "Enough" I swear my heart stopped beating for a moment. He was standing in the hallway with a frown. "We tell young betas when they're ready, obviously, she isn't ready" He said, completely ignoring me. I won't lie, it did hurt me for a moment. My father chuckled and walked out, purposely leaving him and I alone. I stood up and lifted Silvie in my arms before leaving, accidentally brushing Derek's arm along the way. Sparks flew up my arm, but I ignored them and carried on walking.
I knew Derek had a pained face, but I've moved on, that's what I keep telling myself. I heard another car pull up and realised that the car belonged to Max, wonder how he managed to find this place. "Echo!" He called, if you didn't know that it was my name, you would think he was trying to get an echo in the woods. "Yeah Max?" He rushed towards me and engulfed me in a hug. "Not that I'm complaining, but why are you here?" He pulled away and stared at me. "Just felt like coming to see you, and that you had been gone longer than you told me" I sighed and grabbed his hands. "I'm alright okay? I can look after myself" He smiled and kissed me, unfortunately with Max it never felt special, no fireworks, no sparks, nothing.
"What the hell?!" It was him, he was standing in the porch, with his arms crossed and a deadly expression. "Go away Derek" He did the exact opposite and stalked towards us. He looked at Max and frowned. "A human, you spent five years with a pathetic human. I can't believe this, and you said you moved on. At least now I know you haven't" The whole place went silent. As I said, I told Max about the werewolf stuff, but maybe not the mate stuff? You cant just tell that to you're boyfriend. "Hey big man, why do you think you can talk to her like that?" Max yelled, oh no.
"What did you say to me human?" Max slightly cowered but stood up tall. "I said, why'd you speak to my girl like that" OH GOD NO! "Your girl? You seriously think that she loves you wholeheartedly. Ha, well human, you got another thing coming. And for the record she is not your girl" Max just looked livid at this point. "What makes you so sure, Mr big guy?" Derek smirked. "Well, three years after Echo left, I gave up on trying to talk to her, doesn't mean I stopped reading her thoughts. Oh and Echo?" I looked up at him. "Trudy wouldn't have wanted this"
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I was stunned, and so was everybody else, except Max, I might have also forgotten to tell him about Trudy. "Who the hell is Trudy?!" But it was too late, Derek had already gone back inside. I got in the car and Silvie was being unusually quiet, and Ace seemed to be asleep. Max got in the car with a frown. "Who's Trudy?"I ignored him and rested my head against the window. "Can we talk about it later, it's a difficult subject to talk about to people" He weakly nodded and drove back to the house. I had so many thoughts, what if Derek knew the twins were his, what if he knew that Max didn't know about the mate bond, what if he knew-
"Echo!" My boyfriend broke me out of my daze and I focused back on reality. "Sorry, just thinking" He weakly nodded. "You are going to have to tell me about this Trudy person eventually Echo, I cant go on like this in the dark, ok?" I nodded and gave him a small smile. We entered the house and heard my mom in the living room, she was dancing to a song, not cooking, not doing anything, just dancing. Se entered the house at just the right time, to hear the chorus.
'Jaja, DING DONG, ding dong' I couldn't help but snicker when she flaied her arms around when the DING DONG rang throughout the room.
"And that is what I call dancing, come on let's join in" I told Silvie and Ace, who had now woken up and were smiling at their Grandmother. The song ended and the twins frowned, "Another!" They shouted in sync, all the adults laughed at them and we decided to add another song to dance to.
Ace attempted to sing the next song, and I'll say, he wasnt bad for a five year old. My taste in music is, well, I don't really know how to describe it, it ranges from Luke Combs, to One Direction, to Amy McDonald. Yeah, I like to have a variety. That night, I noticed that Silvie had been happier than usual and only grew tired once I put her in bed. I sighed to myself in happiness, if only Derek were here to see it.
Derek's POV
I repeated her own words back to her.
Trudy Wouldn't Have Wanted This
Wöchentlicher Energiestatus
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Rangliste 
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