Chapter 43
“Hello Jessic. My name is Celia. Pleased to meet you.” Celia greeted with a gentle tone, while extending her hand, and waited for the other to shake it.
Jessie immediately took hold of her hand with both hands, and enthusiastically shook it, a small smile adorning the round young face.
“The pleasure is all mine Alpha. I have heard so much about you.”
“Please call me Celia. The guys are obligated to call me Alpha because of the rules, but I prefer my name.” Celia said expressionlessly, but the corners of her lips were already slightly tugging up in her usual almost unnoticeable smile. She could not deny, she was a little overwhelmed because of the attention. Beside Clarissa, this was the first time another girl seemed happy at talking to her.
“Okay, I will do so. These are Leah, my classmate, her sister Lisa and Lisa’s classmate, Angie.” Jessie pointed at each one of the girls, introducing them to Celia.
This time Celia only nodded acknowledging the other girls. In the first place she was not a sociable person, she treated Jessie friendlier because she was Jake’s sister. And anyway, the other girls did not seem that enthusiastic as Jessie to meet her. It was evident, considering they were silently
hecking Jake out and only looked her way when their names were mentioned.
“Now then Alpha, my sister would like to come with us to the city. She and her friends do not have a car. Would that be alright with you?” He said reluctantly while looking directly at Celia’s eyes for any sign of disapproval, then also added using the pack link.
“I had to ask because she threatened me with telling my mom and I would like to avoid a two–three hour long call from her. But if you feel uncomfortable it is not a problem to refuse.”
“Okay. I can ride in the other car. They can all ride in this one.” Celia of course wouldn’t refuse, the young girl was Jake’s sibling, so it was not a big deal to also bring them along. Not to mention, she was only a passenger in Jake’s car, it was not really her decision to make. As she replied, she was already about to unbuckle her seatbelt, when he denied her offer to move to another car.
“No, it is alright. Jessie and her classmate can ride with us and I will ask Marcus to bring his car also and take the other girls.” Jake immediately refused, then went to the other car, without waiting for someone to say more.
The ride to the city was a little tiring in itself. Jessie was curious about Celia and kept asking questions about the training, and the acceptance exam. From time to time, Jake intervened knowing
was forcing herself to well enough that Celia did not like to talk much, even now he could see sh
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reply gently to his sister. From his own experience, when the pack talked and joked around, Celia quite liked to listen to them, but she was not one to speak much.
After some time, he stopped the questions altogether when Jessie got a little too personal. She had asked Celia if she had a mate or at least a boyfriend already. Jake immediately intervened then, and the questions finally stopped.
Arriving in the city, Jake asked his sister where should he drop them off, but she only said they would tag along wherever they went, so they could go back together.
He wanted to refuse, but Celia accepted it before he could. She already knew from the beginning that coming with them was the actual purpose. And though Jake had asked his sister, he of course knew as well this was the girls‘ intention.
The girls had thought that the guys would go to a club, but they were surprised to find them roaming the mall instead, and even more surprising actually staying together without separating. They also went to a family friendly restaurant, instead of a fancy one, which was unusual considering that all of the pack members looked and were dressed in high end fashion.
“Are we eating here?” Lisa asked checking from left to right the place, her face showing a little distaste that she did not manage to hide in time.
“Yes, this is always where we eat.” Marcus replied showing a similar face towards her. Then using the pack link, also added “But we will probably switch to another place to make sure we don’t run into you next time.”
He was usually a sociable person, perhaps the most sociable of the entire pack. He liked to talk and meet new people and he could find subjects to talk about with anyone, but the ride here made him reconsider this part of his personality. He should choose in the future who to talk to. The girls would not stop asking him about himself and about the other members, as they sat in the backseat of his! car. It did not seem like they were only looking for a ride to the city, he could bet they were actually looking for boyfriends.
Evan had also ridden in the car with them, but after asking him a few questions to which he did not bother to reply at least in common courtesy, they gave up quickly. Unluckily for him, Marcus did not possess such foresight, and as a result only he was assaulted with questions..
