Chapter 31 – The Moon Wolf

I wrapped my b*dy in a towel and went into my room to grab some clothes from the ones I shopped for the day before. I remembered Lyla and smiled, I should reach out to her. But how?

I I don’t have a phone nor can I mindlink her. I decided that I was going to ask Rose about it later. Hopefully, she can let me go out to see her, I’ve already been slacking as a maid already.

I picked a pink sweatshirt and black jeans to go with it. I picked S**y black underwear and I felt a bit confident in my b*dy. The things lace underwear can do to your self–esteem.

I was about to get dressed when I remembered the ointment Rose kept on my bedside table. I applied it and felt a lot better. I dressed up and went downstairs to see Rose.

The smell of food wafted into my nose and my stomach grumbled loudly just as I set foot into the kitchen threshold. Rose looked up from she was doing and laughed at that.

“Glad to hear that you’re hungry, I prepared all of these for you“, she said with a smile on her face. Her flawless face looks swollen and she seemed to be forcing herself to be cheerful. I felt bad, knowing that I was the cause of her tears.

“About yesterday, I……“, she gave me a stern look before coming over to the counter to hold my hands. “You will not apologize about last night nor take blame for anything. You are the victim, you were the one in pain. If anyone should be sorry, it should be my sorry excuse for a son“, she said sincerely and my eyes watered at her words.

For 8 years, I never had a mother figure to defend me against people that hurt me, it felt really good to be sided with. I nodded my head at her words and she led me towards the table where a lot of food awaited me.

I ate a lot that morning, partly because Rose wouldn’t have it any other way and because I actually feel like I could stomach. a lot of food, which I did.

Rose and I were cleaning up when Adrian came down looking like he just survived an apocalypse, I still found him handsome despite his appearance.

He came into the kitchen and took his food while Rose and I completely ignored him. I don’t know what transpired when I slept but he seemed quite remorseful and Rose seemed upset too. I refrained from asking Rose about how I could contact Lyla for that day.

Immediately Adrian left the kitchen, I felt the need to work on myself and build a life for myself here in this pack.

“Rose?“I called out softly. “Yes, Lola?” She turned to look at me. “I was wondering if you could tell Alpha Jayden to allow me to start training. I don’t want to keep being the weak wolf of the pack“, I said the last part lowly to myself but she heard anyway.

The kitchen was silent afterwards and I looked up to find her staring at me with her mouth open like she was in shock. I opened my mouth to apologize when she pulled me into a hug.

“Of course, of course Jay is going to allow you to train. No, what am I saying? He’s going to train you himself. You’re going to start tomorrow. I’m so proud of you for thinking about taking this bold step“, she pulled me into a hug again. and a smile broke out on my face.

The rest of the day was spent talking about random things, with Rose doing the talking of course. We cooked dinner together and ate when Jayden came back. He agreed to train me and I felt happy taking the cold step for myself.

As I went to bed that night, my heart was filled with happiness and joy. I knew it was a new beginning for me.

Lola’s POV

Jayden came to wake me up around 5am. I knew it was around that time because I could barely sleep from the excitement of embarking on my journey of self development.

Jasmine was awake too, another reason I could not sleep well. Her excitement and constant chatter contributed to the reason I could not fall asleep back after waking up by 3am.

I couldn’t blame her though. This is a big feat for us.

He was surprised to see me awake and ready when he knocked on my door. I went to get the door and saw him already dressed up for training and that was when it occured to me that I had no clothes to train. I could have worn a sport bra but I wasn’t comfortable enough around people with my scars.

“You’re awake already. I see you’re so excited to start training“, he smiled at me and I looked down shyly. “Get dressed and meet me downstairs in 10 minutes. I’d be waiting for you in the living room“, he said and turned back.

I contemplated telling him about my outfit and finally summoned the courage to call out to him when he was about to reach the stairs.

“Alpha Jayden?” I called out to him and he turned back to face me. “Yes, Lola. And call me Jayden, please“, his deep voice sounded in the hallways.

These people are obsessed with being called by their first names.

“Is Rose awake?” He looked at me quizzically at that question so I rushed to finish up my sentence. “I have nothing to wear to train as I just decided on it yesterday night. I was wondering if she had spare clothes she could give me to train. in“, I rushed out.

“Yeah, she’s awake“, his eyes glazed over after that reply, signaling that he was mindlinking someone. “She’ll bring them to you in a minute. I’ll be waiting downstairs for you“, with this he turned and went down the stairs.

Rose came around with a gym leggings and longsleeved top to go with it. She hugged me tightly before she went down the stairs too.

I went into the bathroom to wash my face and brushed my teeth before hurrying back to the room. I hurriedly put on the clothes as I did not want to keep Jayden waiting. I put on a black Converse and made my way down the stairs.

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