I was sitting in the corridor when Jacob mindlinked me.
“Lucy, what did you do? I can’t come in. Your mother has gone into labor.” I perked up at the news.
“Really?” I asked excitedly. I was about to grab my bag and rush out of the school to meet her at the pack hospital.
“I will go get Rayan,” I told him.
“Ryker already did. But I can’t come till he gets here,” Jacob said.
“Rayan is already on his way to you?” I asked.
He paused. “I will come to get you when I can,” he said.
“Okay, let me know how mom is. I could walk home if you told the school. Then I could ride my bike over to the hospital,” I told him, wanting to meet my new little brother.
“Maybe it’s best if you don’t. Amanda has control, Luce. I will send Ace,” he said before cutting the link. My mother didn’t want me to come. Jacob was just too nice to say it outright. It stung.
I grabbed my history book and started reading my notes. I didn’t know how long I stayed there before I heard footsteps and looked up to see Ace walking down the corridor. He stopped in front of me, and I looked up at him.
“Come on,” he said, holding his hand out. I took it, and he walked me into the office to sign me out, and the deputy principal came over to him.
“Jacob said you were picking her up. Lucy will be suspended for four days for violence. Can I ask why her mother or father aren’t listed in her contacts?”
“Because she doesn’t belong to them,” Ace said.
“Sorry, I am confused, Ace,” she said.
“Alpha Ace. And what happened to the boy who was picking on her?”
“I sent him to class. She broke his nose.”
Ace smirked, looking down at me. “And?” Ace asked her, and she looked confused.
“I am not sure I know what you are saying, Alpha.”
“She broke his nose, but what punishment does he get?”
“I think a broken nose is punishment enough, Alpha,” Mrs. Geld told him.
Ace turned to me and bit his lip. This was so embarrassing.
“Next time, Lucy, break his jaw. And if he still doesn’t stop, I will remove his tongue for you,” Ace said before glaring at the deputy.
“Alpha, I am afraid I can’t have you threatening students. If it continues, I will have to bar you from school grounds,” she said, but I heard her voice get softer and softer as she continued to speak, looking away from him.
“Do you think your Alpha would tolerate someone speaking shit about his Luna?” Ace asked her.
“She may be the Alpha’s step-daughter, but she is still a student here, and we don’t condone violence, Alpha.”
“No, but a student talking shit and slandering her name is okay. Now, if Ryker heard someone talking about his Luna like that, student or not, what would he do?”
She swallowed. “But Lucy has no title, Alpha.”
Oh my god, he wouldn’t?Judging by the smirk on his face, he would. And, he did.
“See, that is where you are wrong, Tina. Lucy has got a title because she is my mate. Therefore, my Luna,” he told her, and his eyes darted to me.
She went to say something, but he growled, and she bared her neck to him before nodding.