Page 16 of Fight between Alphas

“I will tell you in the car not here, I don’t want you blowing up in front of everyone” I tell her knowing, no matter what she would either be pissed off or shocked.

“Whatever” She says, looking back out the window toward the road.

“Lose the attitude Lana, if anyone has the right to be angry, it is Tate and I, for you making us wait over two years to come get you” I snap at her. Her attitude was starting piss me off and I could tell Elias was getting fed up with it too. Mate’s hardly argued, and I hadn’t even got her home yet and we already were.

“So, have you got a mate?” She asks Elias. Her question irked me; did she fancy him? Elias shakes his head.

“No, Luna” He answers, and I notice she cringed when he called her Luna. I thought it a little odd when she was technically a princess, maybe she didn’t like titles. I did notice Aria preferred her name but accepted her title. Hopefully, Lana would too.

“Why do you want to know if he has a mate?” I ask her. She stares at me or more like glares.

“Do you fancy him?” I ask her and her face flushes red.

“No, I was just asking him Drake”

Our food comes out before she can say anything else. She smiles politely at the woman and says thank you. So, she is capable of being nice.

I take a bite of mine, while Lana picks hers up and I smile when I see her trying to figure out how to take a bite of it. The burgers here were huge and her little hands barely fit around it holding it together, she bites into the side of it, and I laugh as she tries to bite it. Even squeezing it, she couldn’t fit it in her mouth.

She puts it down on the plate.

“Thing is bloody huge, do they have knives and forks?” She asks.

“You're going to eat a burger with a knife and fork?” I ask her.

“Yes, or I will end up wearing it trying to fit it in my gob” She says. Elias gets up and grabs her some cutlery before handing it to her.

“Thank you,” She says before cutting into the burger. I must say I have never seen someone eat a burger like that. She even made me feel insecure by using my hands, she didn’t even look out of place.

“You’re right the burgers are nice here” She says, before popping more in her mouth. When we finished eating, I went to pay despite her protests of wanting to pay for herself before walking out to the car. Elias takes off, jumping in the back. Lana huffs annoyed, why didn’t she want to be near me? She stalks over to the passenger side and hops in.

“Sorry Luna,” He mumbles once she is seated. I knew why he did it, he could tell I wanted her close. Elias and I have been friends since we were kids, and even though I am constantly at war with his Alpha that hasn’t changed.

“Seatbelt Lana” I tell her, and she buckles herself in. We leave driving back onto the highway.

“So, what is this big secret you wouldn’t tell me?”

“It’s not a secret, you will be staying with Tate for a bit”

“Why? So, you haven’t sorted anything out with Tate? I am not going back and forth between Packs Drake” She states.

“I don’t expect you too, it’s just that I haven’t told my father or the Pack about you yet” I tell her trying to gauge her reaction. She says nothing, but I could tell she was taken aback by my words.

“So, no one knows I am your mate? Why are you ashamed or something?” She thought I was ashamed to have her as a mate. Surely, she wasn’t that insecure.

“No, Drake's father is a dick and very over opinionated” Elias adds, and I give him a thankful look.

“If I told my father I found you, he would have demanded I drag you back, but that’s not also the only reason. My father believes werewolves should be with other werewolves, doesn’t believe in mixing species”

“But I am a werewolf” She says.

“yes, but you are also vampire, even hybrid’s, my father is funny that way, wants pure bloodlines”

“What’s purer than a direct descendant of the Moon goddess?” She asks, and I could see she felt insulted. She was right, she was purer, purer than us but that would probably just irritate my father more, that not only would she be stronger than him, but the fact she wasn’t wholly werewolf and had no wolf.

“I can’t believe this shit; you keep telling me, I had two years to prepare for this and in two years you still couldn’t tell your father?” she asks, incredulous.

“Am I expected to be a side hoe?” She growls.

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