The Cruel Alpha's Daughter's Mate

Chapter 8

Lara

We had been cleaning the ensuite bathroom of my father’s bedroom when we heard raised voices coming from downstairs. There was something familiar about the woman’s voice and I couldn’t pinpoint it until Phoenix asked, “Isn’t that Tiffany?”

“I think so,” I replied.

“Are they fighting?” she asked, and I giggled. “Look at you, you, nosey little wolf,” I told her still giggling.

“So, I see you had an interesting evening,” we heard Tiffany say, her voice dripping with snootiness.

“Oh no,” Phoenix groaned putting her paw to her head at how foolish Tiffany was to say such a thing to an Alpha. “He’s not going to like her saying that,” Phoenix added, shaking her head.

“What makes you say that?” we heard my father ask her, sounding amused by what she had said.

“Oh, here we go,” Phoenix said, realising she was about to get some entertainment.

“Oh, cut the crap Grayson. I came by earlier and I saw the state the house was in. Your little cleaner girl was trying to remove the evidence of your little slumber party. So, who did you have over?” she asked in a tone that was nothing short of demanding. I gasped quietly at the tone she was using to talk to her Alpha.

“For a Beta she sure doesn’t know how to go about respecting an Alpha, does she?” Phoenix asked.

“This isn’t going to end well for her,” I told her.

“Tiffany, what makes you think you have any right to question me on anything?” my father demanded.

“Oh Grayson, come on. We have something, the two of us. Why would you want to go and mess around with other silly girls? Especially when I can give you everything that you need,” she asked, sounding like she was pouting.

“This girl is clearly not the sharpest pencil in the box. Does she know what would happen if our father made her his Luna?” Phoenix asked. Before I could answer Phoenix’s question, my father snapped at Tiffany.

“We don’t have something, as you put it, Tiffany. I mess around with you just like I messed around with those girls last night. You have a mate. You are messing around with me behind your mates back. You are probably hoping that you will leave your mate for me, and become the Luna of this pack. But that isn’t going to happen. You are nothing more than a body I use. So, from now on, don’t just barge into my house whenever you feel like it. And don’t you dare question me on anything. And from now on, you will show my daughter some respect,” he growled out in a harsh voice.

There was total silence downs stairs for a while, and then we heard Tiffany quietly say, “Grayson, don’t do this, please.”

“That’s Alpha Grayson to you. And too late, it’s already done,” he bit out harshly in response.

We heard Tiffany start crying and it wasn’t long after that that we heard the slamming of the front door.

“Well, maybe they won’t be hooking up anymore,” Phoenix mused, making me quietly laugh.

“Well, whether they do or they don’t continue to have their little hook up sessions, just remember, it is none of our business,” I reminded her.

“I know, I know,” she said, nodding her head in agreement.

I continued cleaning, slowly getting through the room. Once I was done, I made my way downstairs to the laundry room. The washing machine cycles were finished, so I got the bedding out of the large top loader and put it in one of the clothes dryers. Once I had started the clothes dryer, I put the wet bath towels into the top loader washing machine and got that load started on its wash cycle. Removing the assortment of clothing out of the front loader washing machine, I put that load of wet clothing into the second clothes dryer and turning it on. With the second dryer turned on, I began putting the clothing I had picked up from around my father’s bedroom and bathroom into the front loader washing machine. Once the load had been started, I made my way through the house, making sure there were no other shocking messes that I had to clean up from my father’s activities from the previous night.

Thankfully the remainder of the house seemed to be in order.

I went back into the kitchen and tidied up a few things around the kitchen, dining room and living room.

“All finished?” my father asked, looking up at me from where he was sitting on the sofa watching a movie.

“Almost. There are two loads of laundry that will need to get put into the clothes dryers when they are finished,” I replied.

“Okay. Um… Lara, I just wanted to say thank you for everything you did today. I mean, you did well to get everything cleaned up so fast. So, don’t worry about the laundry. I will put the loads into the clothes dryers when they are done. Why don’t you go and enjoy the rest of your day with your friend, Heidi,” my father said, before giving me a smile.

“Wait… did he just… thank us? Since when does he thank us?” Phoenix asked, sounding as confused as I felt.

I ignored Phoenix’s questions and looked at my father. “Are you sure?” I asked him, unable to believe what I had just heard.

“I’m sure. Go. Have fun,” he told me, still smiling.

Not needing to be told twice, I said, “Thank you, father,” and left the house before he could change his mind. I quickly made my way back to the Omegas accommodation, entering Heidi’s bedroom, and laying on her bed to await her return.

“So, where do you think Tiffany is right now?” Phoenix asked as we lay there in silence.

“I don’t know. She might be in her bedroom crying her eyes out. Or, she might be trying to come up with some desperate plan to get her hooks into our father. I wouldn’t put it past her to fake a pregnancy or something to get him back,” I replied.

“Well, she might do something like that. Or it could go a different way. I mean, for all we know, maybe our father is planning to apologise to her and take her back,” Phoenix said, catching me by surprise.

“What makes you think that our father would ever consider taking her back?” I asked her in confusion.

“Well, why else would he let us leave before our chores were finished?” she asked.

“Maybe after last night and today’s fight with Tiffany, he just wants some alone time. He might be tired. Maybe he wants to catch up on his sleep,” I told her.

“Well, I think he is planning on taking her back and that he wanted some privacy so that they wouldn’t be disturbed,” she stated, somehow making it sound so… final.

She seemed so sure of herself that it had me wondering if she knew something that I didn’t. But before I could ask her about it, Phoenix changed the subject and said, “I can’t wait until we start moving up the mountain. It is going to be so good. We will be free to do whatever we want, whenever we want. Ooh, I can’t wait!”

“I know you want to move up the mountain, but I am still in doubt about how that would all work out for us. I think we will have a good time up there on the rare occasions we can get up there for a few hours or a day. But we can look at other options for places we can relocate too. We will be able to make a life for ourselves wherever we end up,” I assured her.

“I know you are right. It’s just… well… the thought of living up the mountain is so… freeing. Being out in the wild. No rules, no pandering to others. Plus, no more cleaning up after randy Alpha’s,” Phoenix stated, shuddering in horror at the latter.

“Yeah, I can’t wait to get away from here and live my own life. I mean… it’s not like our father will miss us… not really. All he will have to do is wrangle up a few Omegas to do the chores we do for him at home, then he will be able to forget we ever existed,” I told her.

“Well, we will start looking at our options to leave this place tomorrow,” Phoenix said, making the decision for us. I didn’t say anything to contradict what she had said, because I was in agreement with her. Tomorrow morning, we would look at what options for relocating were available to us. Wherever we ended up, it would be a fresh start for us to start anew away from the pack.