Chapter 2
Chapter
Two
Luke
“Now, Luke, don’t be unreasonable,” she intones. My blood heats, stirring my alpha from the mere suggestion that I drop everything in my life to get my ass to the airport to pick up some girl I’ve never met, all on account because they said so.
My father grumbles as my mother holds her hand up to him.
“It’s just for a month, Luke. It’s not forever.”
“I will not fall in love with some stranger out of forced proximity, Mother.” I growl at my father, my wolf antsy and prickly at both my human’s resistance, and my father being in my space. Dad or not, he’s still an alpha, and my alpha wolf doesn’t like other alphas in his space one bit.
My father glares at me.
“No one is asking you to fall in love with the girl,” he gripes. My mother massages the bridge of her forehead with a heavy sigh.
“Oh, well, that’s refreshing,” I bite back as he crosses his arms, focusing his stern gaze on me.
“Give the omega a chance,” he says. It’s not a question or a plea, but a statement. A command.
I roll my eyes as my wolf pushes against me. The mere mention of omega has his tongue practically rolling out. I shove him back. Omega or not, this girl doesn’t know me. Not really. We met once, and it was for five seconds at her Dad’s funeral, so I doubt she remembers me.
“She has a name,” I bite. “It’s Emily.”
My mother preens with pride. “Ah, so you do remember her.”
I don’t have the spoons to tell her, of course I remember her. She was by far the prettiest omega in the room, but it felt strange to admit that at such an event I was stealing glances at the deceased’s pretty daughter.
“Her flight should be landing soon,” my mother says as she catches up to my stride. I freeze at the door as my father grabs the keys to the Range Rover, holding them out to me like some sort of peace offering, when I know this is anything but.
I grind my jaw, a low growl escaping me.
“Save that growl for the omega, son,” my father says, completely unbothered by my seething inner wolf. “And for the pedal. Lord knows you’ll need it to get to the airport on time.”
“Like I have a choice, right?” I bark as I push past him and grab the keys from his hand.