“Thank you. This has been an experience, I appreciate everything that you both have taught me so far.”
“Don’t act like we are saying goodbye, Midge. We have no idea what we will find tomorrow. We could bring down a whole operation, hopefully. Or we could just be scratching the surface and take in a bunch of brainwashed minions who have no real connection to their leader. No Thanks or Goodbyes yet.”
I smile as I make it up to my room with my bottle of water. I change into my pajamas and grab a blanket and pillow and walk to Mina’s room and knock.
“Yeah?” The muffled question comes out like a whisper.
“Can I stay with you tonight? It doesn’t feel right to be separate right before something this big.”
“Of course!” She sits up straight, then pops out of bed to run over to me and wrap me in a hug. I returned it. I have missed her. Her and Sierra have been my rocks the last year, helping me navigate the wide world around me after being in my own personal hell bubble. I needed the time I spent away from her, but now I know I need her. I need the people I trust most around me for this. It is calming and grounding to have something like this connection with them. It reminds me what is real.
“I know Osiston and Nickolas asked, but are you really ready for tomorrow? You’re going to be by yourself with these guys and we don’t know what their plan for you is. I know that you have Tyler permanently in the friend zone now, but something is still going on. You wanna talk about it?”
“Yes and no.” I laugh a little as we both sit on her bed.
“It would help to know where your head is at before we go into this. I know you haven’t told Osiston and Nickolas everything you and Tyler talk about.”
“The part that is the most confusing is Tyler keeps saying I will be a great Luna, like he already knows my mate is an Alpha, but when he says it he looks like he’s in pain. He also basically confirmed that he and his friends are up to something in the woods, he just didn’t say what that was. He also keeps saying ‘this wasn’t supposed to be that hard’ which doesn’t make any sense to me. Like he’s fighting against something. He also told me about his mate.” I launch into the story and we stay up way too long talking, but it feels good to be able to confide in her again.
She doesn’t have any different thoughts on Tyler’s behavior than I have, but she agrees that he’s keeping me close for a reason and something about Robbie approaching me yesterday set him off a bit too. She even asked if I wanted her to join us for training in the morning, which sounded like a perfect idea, but at the same time he’s been opening up more and more the longer I spend alone time with him.
In the end we decide that she should be up when I leave so he can see she’s watching me too, but that I should go alone to see if there is anything else I can get out of him, before sh*t hits the fan tomorrow night.
