My mothers eyes darted to me and her voice flitted through my head a second later.
“You still feel nothing?”
“I don’t know now, I like the way they smell, and I get tingles, but I thought it was their aftershave and because their skin was so warm” She nods to me both Drake and Tate watching me and mothers exchange without words.
“My daughter is not leaving, so you two need to figure out your shit because I am sorry, but I can’t handle the bickering between you two and the stress this is causing my daughter” She tells them. They look at me both nodding, but I could see they didn’t want to leave.
“What do we do then?” Drake asks, looking at Tate.
“May I suggest something?” Arial says stepping forward. Everyone’s eyes snapping to hers. Even I look to her wondering what she had to say.
“Lana has two years left of school, let her finish and come back when she is eighteen, maybe then she might feel something for you”
“You want us to go two years without our mate?” Tate asks and I suddenly felt hopeful, hopeful that they would leave.
“I think it’s a good idea” My mother says.
“Our wolves would be weakened by not seeing her,” Drake argues. My mother shrugs.
“I didn’t say you couldn’t see her, just visit or call till she finishes school and until she is comfortable to go back with one of you or both. It will also give you two a chance to sort out your shit. I will not let my daughter leave a good home and be tossed between two different places always having to pick sides”
Tate and Drake both looked at me and I suddenly felt bad for them, I shift my weight from one foot to the other not liking the attention being cast my way.
“And you want this?” Drake asks. I glance nervously toward my mother.
“It’s up to you Lana” She says.
“Yes” I answer guiltily. I didn’t want them here. Tate sighs.
“What if she doesn’t answer her phone?” Tate asks.
“I will answer, I promise”
“No,” Says Drake, his eyes darkening to his wolf’s. “I want assurance that when she turns 18, she comes with us,” I look to my mother in panic, and she pinches the bridge of her nose.
“I will not force my daughter to go anywhere” She tells him.
“Then I am staying”
“Fine, I will go when I am 18” I blurted just wanting them gone.
“Lana you don’t have to agree to this, I will banish them if you want” My mother says at Drake’s challenge. Tate looks at me in panic and so does Drake before he growls. It wouldn’t do well for him to challenge my mother and panic courses through me when she steps closer to attack him.
“No, when I am 18, I will go, mom don’t kill them please on the off chance one of them is my mate” I tell her. She stops but I could see her hands twitching like she wanted to punch him.
“So everything is good then?” Arial asks, diffusing the situation. They both nod.
Drake POV
Lana was everything and more than I had hoped for in a mate, yet I had to leave her behind. I could understand her mother’s concern, and understood that Lana didn’t feel we were her mates. I honestly thought I was always doomed with the mate I had, until I laid eyes on her. Perfect that was the only way I could describe her, yet I had to leave her behind. My wolf whined as I hopped in my car.
Putting the key in the ignition, I tried to turn it over but all it did was wind. “Fuck” I curse. I knew I should have fixed the darn thing before I came here. Just my luck. I try again when Tate taps on the window. I open the car door and he peers down at me. “Send for a tow truck, I will drop you back” He tells me, and I run my fingers through my hair before sighing. Not like I had much choice.
Great, now I had to spend hours in the car with him. Not how I wanted to spend the rest of an already horrid day. Grabbing my bag from the back seat. I walk over to Aria. I hand her my keys and she takes them from me.
“I will send for a tow truck; can you give them my keys?” She nods, taking them from me. Lana watched from the doorway, longing filled me as I turned my back on her walking to Tate’s car. I hop in the passenger side. Winding the window down so I don’t have to put up with his scent filling the car. Tate hops in starting the car, I move away as far away as possible from him.
“Your father isn’t here, Drake. You don’t have to be so on edge” Tate says, but I ignore him. Tate drives down the long driveway toward the road. We sat in silence for over an hour. I could feel him glancing over at me and I tried my best to ignore him before he spoke.
“So, what do you want to do about Lana?” He says turning the radio down.
“What do you mean?”
“Well, you heard her mother, she won’t allow her to be torn between us” I sigh, I had no idea what to do. Could we force her to choose between us?
“I know what you’re thinking, and I would reject her rejection if she tried” He answers. Well, there goes that idea.
“We can’t both have her” I tell him.
“Why because you don’t want to stand up to daddy?” He mocks. I growl at him, but he pays no attention.
“My father has nothing to do with this” I tell him.
“Well, I know your father and he will have plenty to say about this, your father needs to wake up to himself, it’s the modern century, things have changed and yet you choose to allow him”-
“Is this about Lana or us?” I snap, growling at him. He doesn’t even flinch, his eyes not leaving the road.
“Both, this would be simple, if you would stand up to your father” Tate tells me.
“It’s wrong” I tell him, and he shakes his head.
“Only because you say it is, the Moon Goddess isn’t wrong, your father is, there is nothing wrong with us being together” I could hear the longing in his voice. He wanted us to be together, all three of us. My wolf wanted him just as much, but it would never work.
“I’m not gay” I tell him.
“So, you keep saying,”
“I’m not fucking gay Tate” He sighs, and I love the sound he makes when he suddenly grabs my hand, sparks exploding on my skin before I jerk my hand away.
“Not gay huh” He says with a chuckle before his hand drops to my thigh. My pants tented with my erection, almost instantly.
“Fuck off Tate” I snap shoving his hand off my leg.
“You can fight it all you want; it won’t change anything, and I will never accept your rejection. We are fated just like with Lana why do you keep denying it. Fuck your father. He can eat a dick; you are Alpha now why do you keep bowing down to him?”
“I’m not bowing down to him,”