Midnight Visitor

2. Family time

Esme POV.

Looking at my daughter just walking around like nothing happened makes me angry sometimes.

Don't be mad at our pup.

I ignore Ava, I have also been mad at her, she should have felt it sooner that he was in danger. A image of the field flashes before my eyes and I shut them tightly, I start to walk away from the people training. I am stopped soon by my son.

“Mom, Ariel told me to take you to the store, ready?”

I look back at Ariel standing and looking at the people training, she looks so much like her father. She must have heard me break everything last night and figure I needed more alcohol and food. I just nod at Sebastian and we start to walk to the cars.

Ariels POV.

I watch them walk towards the house and I mindlink the people to start to clean her house. I have no idea what to do with her. At these moments I wish I had a mate to help me with these decisions but then again would I really listen to anyone else but myself about my mother?

Alpha. You have a call in your office.

I turn around and start to walk to my office. I am expecting a call from Alpha Louis about a witch traveling our lands. We have not been able to catch her or figure out what the hell she wants but she has been hovering over our lands for about a week.

“Alpha” I answer.

“Alpha” he answers with an old rasp voice.

Alpha Louis was a good ally with my father, he even has a son my age that he hoped would be my mate. He and father had an understanding that he then extended to me when I got the pack but I can feel that he is a little intimidated by me, if it is because I am a woman or what I don't know.

“Have you caught her?” I ask.

“No but her scent is leading back to you, from the north side”

“But that does not mean she is on her way here she could go straight over to Alpha Winstons lands”

He clears his throat.

“Yes I know but I just thought you would want to know that she is that close to your borders”

An uneasy feeling sets in my stomach.

“Thank you for the heads up and I will let you know if my warriors find her scent”

Silence.

“Bye Alpha” I say and just hang up on him.

I sit down at my desk and take out my phone, I check my emails and then dial the number for my vice president. He knows better than not to answer my call right away.

“Good morning”

“I will make a trip to town in the next days, I will have my assistant tell you what days and time, I want a meeting with all of the departments and then I want about 4 hours with you to go over the fourth quarter”

“Got it”

I hang up the phone and lean back in my chair. I have almost doubled my fathers business in less than three years and I have to say it feels nice. I sold two of his apartment buildings and bought an up and coming company. That company took flight and then changed the last apartment building to offices. My company is flying, I have been able to make some additions to the pack and I have earned some respect from the neighbourhood Alphas. I just wish that my personal life could be as easy to handle as my business one.

Frederick, my office.

I pour myself a drink while I am waiting for him, I love feeling it run down my throat and burn. He walks into my office without saying a word, he just stands there looking at me. I hate the look on his face, he looks like he hates me, he looks like this is my fault.

“Frederick, the witch is still out there, she keeps giving everyone the slip. Could you take charge of the north side until I have more information about her whereabouts? Alpha Louis says she was last seen heading there but that would lead her over to Alpha Winstons lands but I will not take any chances when it comes to witches”

He only nods his head.

“Don't kill her, I want her alive” I narrow my eyes at him.

He nods his head again and turns around to walk out of my office.

“It would also be nice to have you and mother join me and Sebastian for dinner”

He stops. I take a sip. He walks out.

Alpha, her house is clean but I will give Melly a list of the things we need to buy again.

I rub my eyes.

Tell her to order plastic shit now, I don't care what she says, if she will keep on breaking everything then she will get it plastic.

Got it Alpha.

I stand up from my desk and walk out of my office, I walk right to her house and inside. The house looks very empty without the dining room table, the couch and the tv.

Esme POV.

My son did not say anything to the amount of alcohol I was buying but that is expected, he has never once since that day said anything against me, unlike his sister. We did not talk the whole time we were together but then when walking into the house I see my daughter sitting on my kitchen island and I knew we would have words.

“Mom”

She says in the same cold voice that her father had. She is not being cold towards me, this is just her voice and people can misunderstand her.

“Ariel”

I walk with the bags into the kitchen but I don't bother to take the bottles out of the bags as I shove them in the fridge.

“I want us to have dinner tonight. All together”

I fist my hands, reminded that all together does not include him anymore.

“I have plans tonight” I answer quickly without looking at her.

I hear her jump from the kitchen island.

“No you don't, come to dinner, you are getting skinnier by the day”

Anger starts to build up in my chest.

“Ariel, I said no!” I raise my voice.

“Well to bad, I am saying yes, I will see you in my apartment at 7, then we can all go out for a run”

I hear some footsteps and I figure she is leaving.

“Ariel, don't bully mom around! She says no! That means she is not coming” Sebastian comes to my defense.

“I expect you to come too and Fredrick is also coming. I am the head of this family and I am calling this family dinner” Ariel answers him full throat.

“You can not bully all of us to hang out together like nothing happened!”

I can not turn around and look at my children, I know they are fighting because of me, I know I should have been strong and been there for them but I just couldn't.

“Sebastian, as head of this family, I can do whatever the hell I want. If I wanted to kick you out of the pack for talking to me like that I could. If I wanted to cut out your tongue so you would finally shut the hell up then I could! I am the eldest so what I say goes! See both of you for dinner, dress casual” she says then the door slams after her.

“Arrogant bitch! I should challenge her and then I could show her how it feels” he says in anger.

I just walk to the fridge again and take out a bottle.

“Challenge her and she will kill you” I say.

I feel his eyes land on me again. I look up and look right in his eyes.

“She is just like your father and she will not have you or anyone else disobey her”

I open the bottle and don't even bother with a glass.

“See you at dinner”