Taken by Anaya phoenix (the little red hen ebook .txt) 📕

about to hurt him with ‘the breath’ but I stop her with a slap before she can. Michael’s hand drops and they both look at me my mother with hate and shock and Michael with pure shock.” I’m done mother,” she starts to talk but I raise a finger, the birds stop talking and the sky turns a dark grey “I’m done with you thinking you own every one and every god dammed thing. You don’t ok and I’ve been wanting to tell you off for years now but I never had the guts too. You are an evil spiteful bitch who loves men more than her own daughter, you try so hard to control everything and fool everyone else into thinking you are the perfect mother and the perfect wife but the truth is mother you aren’t. your child came to you at 12 to tell you that her father, her OWN father showed her how beautiful she was but he hurt her, then when she showed it to you, you slapped her and told her to stop making up lies.” My eyes water and I sniffle “the only thing you cared about for those 8 years was how dad was doing if he was ok if he was having problems but you couldn’t give a dam about your daughter. And mother I’m done, you will not come over here and mess up my life because you want things to go your way. My life will go the way I want it too,” it started to rain and I walk away from her toward the cottage door.” Oh and mother,” I open the door and talk to her over my shoulder “you touch my mate again and I will chop your hands off” lets see If she can catch the lie there!
Whoa that was new, I actually wanted my wolf to come up and he didn’t say anything retarded. And she slapped her mom, who still stood there like a statue, her mouth open and her eyes distant. She took a deep breath and looked at me with hazel eyes “well that’s new” she was surprised, really? From what I heard Alexis was raped by her father and told her mom about it and from then on her mom had been a cold heartless bitch. And I thought I had family problems. She looked as awkward as I felt, here we are standing in the rain and Alexis is in there probably crying her head off- crap! Alexis! I rushed to the house and found her fumbling around in the kitchen slamming things on the stove and counter with unnecessary force. ”lexy, you ok?” she stopped moving but kept her back to me. I saw her take shuddery breaths and realize that she is crying ( plus the sniffling gave it away). “I’m fine” then she began to bang away, I walked behind her and wrapped my arms around her “it’s ok she and nobody else can hurt you”
“I wouldn’t be so sure about that”
Did she always have to do this?! Did she always have to and mess up my happiness. Whenever I found a pretty flower she would toss it aside and call me a ‘foolish girl’. Now I have a mate, and alpha mate at that, and a child, a child that was going to be taken away but still. I step away from Michael and look at my mother “what do you mean?”
“well the council know’s you have mated they don’t know with who exactly” she casts a quick glance at Michael “they’ll be visiting soon. I’m not sure when probably in the next month or so” she looks at my stomach.
Are you able to change back? She asks mentally
No, I look somewhere else. I don’t want to tell her about the vision it’s still to painful for me to comprehend, so I put a wall up and hear her gasp. She walks to me and puts her hand on my cheek “show me child” mother, my mother is back! I show her the vision and feel the tears come. Michael starts to put back the pots and pans I took out in frustration so he doesn’t see. My mother stands back after seeing the vision and purses her lips, I remember that look she’s debating something. The wall is up in her mind so I cant see exactly what she’s thinking. Instantly her face clears and she smiles a bright smile “ok, dear well I’m going to go now” she kisses my forehead and I’m confused. “wait, what do you mean your going?” no use in confusing myself when I can just ask her,
“I mean I’m going” she says and turns around, I should be glad right? But I don’t something about tht smile sent chills up my spine, something is going on. She kisses my forehead and heads out the door, I watch as she walks outside and makes grassy footsteps to the driveway. She spreads her wings and fly’s away without a look back.
“you ok?” shouldn’t she be happy, she was so upset when she saw her mother and now she’s sad? I will never understand her, I wrap my arms around her waist and she puts her hands on them. I hear her gasp and she turns to look at me “your alpha” she says brightly her eyes orange “do you feel different? Oh my god I knew it, well I didn’t exactly know it but I felt it. Your wolf is always so pushy that must be why-“ I stopped her with a kiss, a quick peck but it shut her up. “what was that at john’s house I saw” she squirmed in my arms “it was a vision, all sprites are allowed one vision during their pregnancy about their childrens’ future” she muttered quickly. Then she looked up at me her eyes clear blue and watery “maybe it wasn’t true you know, I heard sometimes there are fake visions” I smelled her lie but I knew she needed to believe this. “yeah maybe it was faulty” I say dubiously but try to sound as realistic as possible, I look over her head outside it was probably 6-ish, I knew she wouldn’t want to cook. “come on lets go out to eat” I say taking my arms from around her and she nods and walks upstairs solemnly, she needs to grieve alone so I’ll stay a healthy distance away from her.
Yay we were going out to eat, if only my mind wasn’t stuck on my mother or the vision or the child. I peel out of my tear stained clothes and slip on a simple halter dress that comes up to my thighs and some strappy sandals. I don’t really feel fancy so I just put my hair in a ponytail and walk downstairs. There he is sitting in the chair waiting for me “ready?” I ask sounding eager, I am suddenly in the mood for steak. He looks up at me and his face glows with happiness “you look pretty” he says sounding like a kid in a candy store.
“thank you”
“ready?” he grabs the car keys
“yup I’m all set” I walk down the rest of the stairs and meet him at the door. He pecks my forehead and I walk to the car blushing, he presses the car alarm and I nearly jump out of my skin. “sorry” he says walking toward the driver side “it’s fine” I get in the passenger door and buckle myself in, ready for some steak! He gets in and flicks on the radio, we drive out and head to the town hall, while in the insufferable traffic one of my favorite songs comes on. Instantly I turn it up and start singing it, to Michaels surprise, I know all the lyrics:
“tommy used to work on the docks, unions been on strike he’s down on his luck it’s tough so tough” Michael looks at me in amazement but I don’t care, this song is a classic
“gina works the diner all day working for her man she brings home her pay for love mmm love” to my surprise Michael joins me for the chorus
“she says we gotta hold on to what we got, it doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not, we got each other and that’s a lot for love, we’ll give it a shot, ooooh we’re halfway there ooooh living on a prayer take my hand and we’ll make it I swear oh oh living on a prayer!” we get honks from cars and yells from people to keep it down but we don’t pay attention. I sing , terribly. And Michael air guitars with his knee’s driving the car. When the song ends I click off the radio and giggle all the way to the restaurant, whoever runs the radio station must know I needed this song.
She had a beautiful voice and I was surprised that she actually knew a song. She spent the rest of the ride giggling which I found enormously cute, I decided to go to a steakhouse hopefully she ate meat. We parked in the parking lot and she practically jumped out of the seat and when I unbuckled my seatbelt she tapped on the window made a hurry up gesture and patted her stomach. I’m guessing she was hungry and I was taking too long. I got out the car and she looped her arm through mine “how did you know I wanted steak” she asks suspiciously. I look down at her grey eyes and smile
“I didn’t even know if you ate meat” I told her truthfully, and she nodded
“as a matter of fact I am probably the only carnivore in my family” her voice dropped to a whisper at family. She opened her mouth to say something but then she snapped her eyes to the restaurant, she probably smelled the steak because she walked a little bit faster. So she’s a carnivorous sprite who has family issues, maybe I’ll figure her out tonight, all of her.
no no no you will not think about your problems tonight, tonight you are out and you are normal, well as normal as you can be for a pregnant sprite mated with a werewolf and the council coming to see. But no talk like that or thoughts for that matter, yes I’m talking to myself. We walked to the maitre d and I was instantly shocked, he was a wolf, Michael sensed it and tapped my hand
“relax it’s just max, and he knows about you so it’s ok” max’s eyes bulged as he stared ate Michael with bright green eyes. “alpha” he whispered, he shook his head and smiled “table for two?” he asked. Michael nodded and we were escorted to a table in the middle of the restaurant, Crap! I forgot about the humans, they all stared at me with eyes off envy and lust and quite frankly it made me a little uncomfortable. I sat down on the left side of the circle and Michael pushed my chair in before going to his seat. He looked at me with a wary eyes
“you ok?” I squirmed a little bit
“I forgot about the humans”
“ I forgot about your eyes” he sighed and rubbed his face. I forgot too, it was natural and I never really had to hide it from anyone. “me too” I decided to calm myself and took a few breaths. He watched and smiled “thanks”, he decided to say that when the waiter came and lucky me it was a male. I heard male humans are vile and awkward creatures so I just smiled at him and that owed me a glower from Michael. “what can I get you two?” he asks not taking his eyes off of