My gaze fell on my grandma knitting her dress as I walked up to her and sat down in front of her.
She was an old woman in her late sixties. Sat on a brown couch, her white hair tied as a bun and wore a pink sundress. She was still beautiful, smelled so good, despite how old she was. People say I looked like her when she was young.
I took her eyes and features, except for the hair.
I guess no matter how long she aged, she still looked beautiful and motherly. She paused at what she was doing and looked at me.
“You seem downcast, Courtney.” She commented and resumed her knitting. “Anything the matter? Did you fight with Larcade or Wendy again?”
“Why will you think I always fight with those two?”
She knows I am always neck and neck with Wendy or Larcade.
“Because I think so, and it is pretty obvious.” She remarked. “Everyone knows it.”
I laughed. “What about Chelsea? We have issues too.”
But we rarely have issues.
“But not as much as Larcade and Wendy? If anything is bothering you, one of those two is the reason. Am I right?”
“Kind of, Grandma.” I smiled sadly and looked around me once again.
If only she knows what is going on.
I can’t believe I was leaving this beautiful house I grew up in and leaving my grandma behind. Wouldn’t I be an awful person for leaving someone who raised me and took care of me when no one else did?
“Talk to me. What are you worried about? Don’t be a crackhead. Too much thought kills the brain.”
How can too much thought kill a brain? My grandma was sometimes hilarious to me.
“I’m not a crackhead, granny. Just in my little world, like you always call it.” I defended and rested my back on the couch.
“You know you can talk to me about anything. I know you more than you know yourself, child.”
I know my grandma wants to help, but how do I explain to her about Wendy and the others?
How was I going to leave her and go to the city with Wendy? Wouldn’t it just be better if I stay here? After all, I’ve always wanted to go to the city to see what it looks like. It has always been my dream to go to the city, but I can’t leave my grandmother here and all by herself.
Twilight Springs is a place like paradise. Very different from the cities.
“What do you think of me going to the city?” I folded my legs to the direction of my vagina and looked straight at her.
She slightly furrowed her brows and looked at me. “What happened? Are you going to the city?”
“I’m just asking grandma. Will you like it if I go to the city?”
She thought for a minute before shifting her attention back to her knitting and wriggled her eyebrows.
“Not bad.” She lowered her lips like a boat and shrugged her shoulders. “If you want to go to the city, it should be something beneficial.”
“What if it’s with Wendy?”
Her eyebrows perked up. “Wendy’s leaving here?”
I nodded. “She wants to go meet her grandfather.”
“Oh.” Her expression softened. “What happened to him?” She frowned.
“It’s nothing serious.” I answered. “I mean, I don’t want to say it’s nothing serious, but Wendy wants to check up on him. Larcade, Chelsea, and I agreed to go to the city to check up on him as well.”
“Why do you want to follow her?” She questioned after having her thoughts. I guess she is thinking if she should let me go or not.
“I just don’t know what to do, grandma. I’m worried about her. Chelsea feels the same way. Larcade is my mate and wants to be with me. He wants me and I do too, but I’m not sure if I can trust him. Grandma, I’m just terrified of the future. Wendy wants to go home-” I explained everything that happened back at Wendy’s home to her. “Do you think it’s right for her to go? I’m worried about her. I can get a heart attack because of her. She loves to keep things to herself. She doesn’t talk about herself that much. What if she gets killed, right? Larcade is so worried about her and wants to go with her too. Chelsea just wants to be an escort after Larcade forced her to go to the city with Wendy. And I don’t want to stay behind. It would look awkward, grandma. I would be here all by myself. So, I agreed to leave here and go with her too. Grandma, do you think I am a bad person?”
“You want to go with them because Larcade is in love with Wendy, isn’t it?”
I couldn’t give a response to that as I looked at the chandelier above me with a tear almost flowing down at the side of my left eye.
“You seem surprised I know about your little secret. The four of you are still kids and I definitely know what is happening before y’all even realize it.”
“That’s not the reason.”
“You can deny it all you want, but you can’t escape your feelings. You don’t trust your mate because he has feelings for her?”
“Grandma, I don’t know what to do.” I let out, using the back of my hand to wipe off my tears.
“You seem fed up. But he wants you and seeing what he does, he wants to make things work with you. You are his mate and he doesn’t want to abandon you. He wants to put in the effort and make both of you work.”
“Grandma, he wants us to work because I’m his mate, not because he loves me. I want him to love me. He’s in love with Wendy and I can’t change that. I can’t force an alpha to love me. Of course, I feel inferior, but Wendy is an Omega too. He wants her. I’m just lucky, or should I say happy, that Wendy doesn’t know about his feelings for her.”
“Is that what you are worried about?”
“Mama, Wendy is gorgeous. She has the perfect shape. Her gray eyes and golden hair. She is feminine and kind-hearted. Which alpha wouldn’t fall for someone like her?”
“But you are pretty, too. Alphas want girls like you, too. You are alluring, almost like a doll. Alphas go crazy over you when you walk by.”
“But not Larcade, grandma.”
“Listen, Courtney. You are young and have a long life ahead of you. Give Larcade some time to figure things out. If he doesn’t love you and rejects you, let him go.”
“I can’t do that!”
“Yes, you can. He’s an alpha, and he’s entitled to as many Omegas as he wants. You can’t force him to pledge to you. He has to do it himself. And you know Wendy can’t accept him and you know that.”
“But what if-“