Changing Loyalties by Nicole Field

Author:Nicole Field [Nicole Field]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781684311743
Amazon: B0798NQNF8
Goodreads: 36684611
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2012-10-21T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

It had been over a week since Dahlia had held a crying Luca in her arms after his father's death. A full week since Al's burial. Still no word had come from the house; not from Luca, not from Charles, not from anybody. She was willing to give them the time and space they needed, and not fall into a pile because they weren't communicating with her. It didn't mean they didn't miss her, didn't mean she was abandoned. Luca had said that she was welcome to come to the pack house to visit him. She just didn't want to crowd them right then.

She must have written about thirty text messages, discarding each of them because there was something wrong. This one was too needy. That one too offhand. If a third came across like she was all shrewish that he hadn't called, the next one sounded like she was a weepy girl left alone without him.

Eventually, she settled on one that seemed to get the tone right, and said what she needed to say, if not all of the things she wanted to.

Hey Luca. Just wondering how you are. Haven't seen you in a while. Hope things are not too terrible with you. Look forward to hearing about it when you get the chance.

Three minutes after the miniature mailbox sailed across her screen, indicating that she'd sent it, Dahlia was utterly sure she'd said the wrong thing.

In less than twenty minutes, her phone rang. It was Luca.

"Hey." She didn't ask him how he was. She didn't offer any platitudes. She didn't need to.

"Hey." He sounded tired. "I'm really sorry I haven't called before now. Things have been crazy here."

"It's all right. I know that becoming Alpha is a huge responsibility."

"You're not kidding." A whoosh of breath sailed through the phone, and Dahlia wished she could actually see his face for this conversation. "How have you been doing?"

"I've been worried about you. Not much has changed over here. Oh, except, I've gotten to see my mum again."

"Cool. That's... wait, what? Your mum? As in, Meredith?"

"Yup." If he didn't want to talk to her about pack business, at least she could take his mind off it for a little bit. "I don't know if Al told you: she showed up at Annabelle's one night, as a ghost."

"Whoa... whoa. I wish I... Wow, Dahlia. How are you dealing with this?"

"Well, there are so many impossible things in my life already. What's one more?" It was a gross exaggeration of her cool, but she was attempting to keep Luca calm, not rile him up.

A couple of seconds passed in silence, like Luca was gathering himself towards being as collected as Dahlia was coming across. Then, "Wow Dahlia. I wish I could have been there for that."

"She was with William," Dahlia said. "All the way up to when he died. And you can see her. I mean, probably. She said most people can't see ghosts. But I don't suppose a werewolf would have trouble with seeing a ghost.

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