I look up to see Maya leaning on the door frame watching us all with Ryder. I stand up to go and join her.
“You ok?” I ask as I approached.
“Yeah. Just thinking Ryder seems to have gained a family over night” she smiles.
“This is nothing, wait until he meets my aunties and the older ladies on pack, he will be spoilt” I tell her.
She laughs.
“You sure about this though?” I ask her.
“What leaving here? I have to, don’t I?” she says.
Is that how she sees it? That I am forcing her to leave now? Yes, before, with the situation with Alpha Noah, when I had asked her to consider leaving I would have done almost anything to make it happen to get her away from him, to make her safe. But she thinks she has no choice?
“Well, technically, now this is part of our pack and now that Alpha No
