chapter 200

Thaddeus and Ryland didn’t return till the next morning from the council as I was getting ready

to head to work. Ryland didn't like the idea of me going, but calmed down after I rang Amara and

she said she would spend the day working with me, since Imogen was busy looking after Bianca

who was recovering slowly.

I was walking to my car and had just opened the door when Orion stopped me, grabbing my

arm. I turned to look at him.

“Are you going to work?” He asks.

“Yes, I know I am supposed to stay home for 72 hours but”- Orion crushes me against him, his

arms wrapping around me cutting off my explanation.

“Just be careful, I will be in the city later today with Mara, I will pop over” He says and I nod

hugging him back.

“I'm sorry Evie"

“I know you are, your guilt has been eating at me” I tell him, pulling away from him and

hopping in the car. Orion turns walking back inside and I reverse out pulling out of the driveway

only to jam on the brakes when I see Thaddeus behind my car.

He laughs walking around the side of the car and opening my door, “Can“t believe you would

actually try sneaking off’ He says leaning in the car.

“I have to go to work, at least until I find someone to take over” I tell him.

“I know but can you tell Amara to come see me tomorrow” He says and I look up at him

wanting to know why.

He sighs” Amara’s magic isn't working properly, I was looking through the library at the council

and might have an idea to fix it for her” He explains.

“Her magic isnt working?” I ask him and he nods.

“Yeah since I brought her back, she still has it but it is weak”

“Maybe we can go to mum and dad's tomorrow, I want to speak to your mum anyway" I tell

him.

“Why? Something wrong?” he asks.

“No, but I want to see if she either wants the cafe or sell it"

“You don't want to work anymore?” He asks.

“No, but Mara is growing fast, being home yesterday I realised how much I was missing. I want

to stay home with her and Orion” I tell him.

“I would prefer that but it's up to you, it's your place” he says before leaning in and kissing my

lips softly.

“I will see you after work” He says, closing my door. I reverse out of the driveway before

heading to work. Amara was waiting out the front for me by the front door.

I get out grabbing my keys and unlocking the doors and shutters.

“Sorry I'm late, I got held up” I told her.

“All good not like I have anywhere else to be” She says, following me inside.

“How's Bianca?” I ask walking out the back and grabbing the til out of the safe.

“Yeah good, they are trying to wean her on to blood, they don’t want her to just drink and

struggle with losing control”

“Like Lana?" I ask and she nods.

“Yeah they dried her out pretty good but she will be okay” Amara tells me as she starts

chopping salad stuff she got out of the fridge. I wash my hands before going to help her. The

morning passed by uneventfully, around lunch time we started to get a bit of a rush, and Amara

became quite flustered making me laugh at her.

I watched as she spilt coffee all over herself muttering to herself as she walked back behind the

counter.

“Bloody looks like I pissed myself” She whispers looking down at her jeans.

“I have a hand towel out back” I snicker.

“Don't laugh, do I look like a waitress, this shit is stressful and I have now ruined my favourite

jeans” She says “and why do most of the customers have to overwieght middle aged men, where

are all the ladies” She says.

“Why looking for a perve”

“Need something to entertain me” She says before walking out the back. When the lunch rush

finished Amara helped me wipe down the tables as we tidied up. I load the dishwasher before

coming out and cleaning the display cases that hold the cakes and deserts.

Amara comes over with her tray before dropping it. “For fuck sake” She says and I smack her

arm at her language, luckily we had no customers. I helped her pick up the pieces of broken glass.

“You are the most clumsiest Tribrid I have ever met” I tell her.

“My nerves are shot, this no magic shit makes my hands tremble, it is driving me insane” She

mutters using the tea towel to wipe up the spilt sugar pushing it in a pile. I hear the bell ding

signally someone had entered. Looking up, I see a man enter and I could tell he was Lycan by the

size of him.

“I will be with you in a second” I tell him looking down and Amara was frozen in place staring at

the ground. “Mate” I heard her say, making my head snap to look up at the man, he had a smile on

his face and I knew he heard her. Amara finally lifted her head up looking at me, not even bothering

to look at the man behind her.

“Please tell me it has a vagina” She says and I snicker, the man however looked confused

looking down at himself before scratching the back of his head awkwardly.

“It's man isn't it, it smells manly, it has a cock” She says her face holding disgust. I snicker the

poor man had no idea he was mated to a lesbian.

“But I'm your mate” He says, confused, stepping toward her. She curses hearing his voice.

“You and your cock stay over there” She says, still refusing to look at him.

“He is nice looking, " I told her, trying to encourage her to look at him.

“Nice looking?” She says obviously not impressed her mate is a man.

“Yeah, nice looking for a leprechaun,” I tell her with a laugh.

“What?” She says her head snapping to look at him horrified.

He waves to her awkwardly.

“Werewolf not a leprechaun” he tells her. Amara stands up looking him up and down and he

steps closer to her.

“This is so not fair, my brother gets three mates and the fates give me one and it's a man” She

says, outraged. The man stands there watching and I know he could feel how strong she was

because if she were normal I could almost guarantee he would have jumped her the first chance he

got. It was quite entertaining watching a werewolf man unwilling to approach a petite female such

as Amara, though it was clear he wanted to.

“You smell nice, I suppose I will keep you, you can be my new airfreshner” She says thinking and

I could tell accepting him was hard for her. This would have to be the most awkward exchange I

have seen between mates.

“So can I come near you?” He says.

“Argh he even sounds like a man” She says looking at me while I try not to laugh

“Probably because he is one, maybe you should check” I tell her snickering to myself.

“You should probably take a seat, she may take awhile to get her head around it”

“Head around what she is my mate?” He says and I could tell he was becoming annoyed at her

rejection of him.

“She is also a lesbian, and you are not a woman” I tell him. He seemed a little shocked.

“I guess I will sit here then” He says, flopping in the chair at a table. I go to make him a coffee

and Amara follows me. “What are you doing, go speak with your mate?” I tell her.

“He has a dick, what the fuck am I going to do with a dick?” She says. I hear the bell ding again

as another person walks in before his scent hits me.

“Ryland” I hear Amara's mate say.

“Emmet right, you're the new one Tobias let in the pack?” I hear Ryland say. I walk out and see

them shake hands.

“What are you doing here?” Ryland asks.

“This can't be happening right now” I hear Amara mutter behind me.

“Waiting for my mate to come out, she is hiding in the kitchen”

“You best not be talking about her " Ryland says pointing to me and I could hear the threat

behind his words, his claws slipping from his fingers.

Emmet shakes his head, “ no of course not, I can smell you all over her. The other girl, not sure

what her name is” Ryland looks at me and I chuckle when Amara walks out, arms folded across her

chest. Emmet's eyes lit up while Amara was bright red, refusing to meet Rylands gaze. Ryland looks

between the two of them before he bursts out laughing.

“This is the best” Ryland chuckles, clapping the man on the shoulder, “I can't wait to tell her

brother” He chokes out between laughing.

“Wait, who's her brother?” He asks, looking at him.

“Thaddeus, oh and your Alpha, that his daughter” Ryland says laughing, tears rolling out of his

eyes. The man pales slightly at his words. While staring at Amara with new recognition of who she

is.

“Yeah real fucking funny Ryland” Amara says.

“It's hilarious, good luck mate you're gonna need it" Ryland says walking toward me before

wrapping his arm around my shoulders.

“You just made my day, love ya sis” Ryland tells her and she slaps his arm and growls at him.

She looks at her mate, clearly not happy.

“Well I suppose you can come with me, just don't touch me” She says, stepping past him like

she was going to catch something from him. He sighs before following after her though he now

looked a little terrified of her or maybe it was because he realised who her family was.

“Why are you here?” I ask looking up at Ryland when they leave.

“Pick you up early, Orion and Mara should get here soon”he says, kissing my cheek.

“Well since you're here you can help me finish cleaning up then” I tell him hopefully.

“Argh, fine where do you want me then"he says.000000