TALA by Laura Ryles

Author:Laura Ryles [Ryles, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The next thing she knew it was morning. The smell of coffee woke her, nose-first. She sat up in bed and looked over to Drew’s side of the room. His bed didn’t look like it had even been touched. She threw the covers back and got up. She was worried. Had something happened after she went to bed, she wondered. She flung the bedroom door open. Her anxiety ebbed just as quickly as it had escalated. There he was, lying on the couch with Lark in his arms. I guess this is where he slept then, she thought. As she walked over to wake him up, Oakley came around the corner from the kitchen and shook his head at her. He put his finger up to his lips in a shushing motion and then waved her into the kitchen. When she rounded the corner, Oakley was waiting for her with a cup of coffee.

“Do you take sugar or cream?” He whispered.

“Both please,” she whispered back. Oakley grabbed the creamer and a bowl of sugar and led her out to the porch. Once they were outside, Tala thought it was safe to use her normal voice.

“Why didn’t you want me to wake them up? Is that where they slept?” Tala asked.

“I believe we may have a bit of a love connection on our hands in there,” Oakley admitted. “Yes, they slept just like that. I think we should give them a little more time together before we wake them up and they act like it was an accident that they fell asleep in one another’s arms. Besides, he’s drooling on her head and I think we should let him.” Oakley laughed. Tala snorted into her coffee cup. Yep, that sounds like Drew for sure, she thought.

“Are you really okay with it? With him being human and all? I mean, isn’t it against the rules?”

“It is, but it’s an old rule. A rule that was supposed to be for the benefit of the pack. Wolves weren’t supposed to mate with humans because it was said to make their offspring weaker and less wolf-like, therefore putting the pack in danger. That’s how the rule came about, but it’s obvious now that it’s not true. Look at you. Drew has told me about your transformation, and if you were truly big enough and strong enough to take on a full-grown Alpha and win right after you turned for the first time, then those reasons can’t hold up anymore. Besides, I’ve never seen anything wrong with humans. I think that if they can make one another happy, and they make each other stronger together than they are apart, then that’s the right person for my daughter. That’s all any father can hope for really.”

It was way too early for this much sentimentality. She had only been up for five minutes and Oakley was already about to make her cry. Suddenly there was a shout from inside.

“Ahhhh! What the hell?” Lark’s voice carried through the door and out to the two of them standing on the porch.

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