To Lana's fortune and her wolf's disappointment, she still managed to escape from Greg. And an essential role in this, by the way, was played by a secretary who, without knocking, flew into the office with another beauty in tow and caught them in an unambiguous position. In fact, it wasn't really the way it looked like. Lana at this moment diligently tried to crawl out from under the excited Greg and even managed to pull the upper part of her body away from the couch. Only now Greg was so comfortably attached to the second part, that it didn't leave the girls any room for imagination. Having seized the moment when he was distracted by the uninvited guests, Lana like a snake slipped away and made a run for it.
Now walking home, Lana kept thinking: "What to do with all this ?!" and "How to live on?".
But a new surprise was waiting for her at home too. The front door was opened, and her dearest children sipped tea calmly, watching the movers pack their things.
"Mr. Brooks, please be careful with my posters. How will I stick them on the walls if they all crumbled?" - Vicki whined, rushing to one of the workers, who was carrying a pile of some paper from her room. But before reaching him, Vicky stumbled, noticing Lana.
" Oh, Mom, you're back so fast!" - she shouted joyfully, rushing to her mother. - "We're almost ready. Only your staff is not packed."
Lana looked around in surprise.
"We agreed that you will not let anyone enter the apartment. What are they doing here?" - Lana looked at her kids quizzically, they deliberately looked away.
"Mom, please don't be angry. I just guessed right away whose idea about the moving was, when I saw the invoice. I was curious about what kind of person - this Greg is. So I searched the Internet. You know how much I've dug on him!? You're going to be stunned. He's just like a rock star! - the information from the girl burst out in an endless stream as always, but Lana cut her off.
" Vicki! But I asked you! I told you ... - Lana couldn't find the right words.
"Mom, you said that it's not possible between you two, etc. But you know, me and Nicky don't have any running noses. After your meeting at the college, I've noticed more than once his smell on you. And he was here at our place, too. You don't seem to avoid him all that zealously. Maybe it's enough with this push-pulling game?"
Lana stiffened hearing the words of her daughter. Vicky looked at her with such knowing eyes that Lana immediately began to blush. And how should she tell them about the new job now? They will understand everything wrong for sure!
Lana tiredly sighing and rubbing her forehead because of a sudden headache, sat down on the nearest chair.
"I just don't know what to do." - she finally said. - "You understand, in which crazy world we live. He is a public figure, wealthy man. Even if I was the most ordinary, how would everyone look at this? A penniless single mother with two grown-up children hunts for a millionaire. This is ridiculous! And now add to this the fact that I'm also a werewolf, the situation with Ralph, the Council and my original pack commanded by my father, everything! It's just crazy! It seems more like a nightmare than a romantic story. Greg just doesn't know how many luggage I have. And I can't tell him everything until I'm confident that he will stay with me. And if I wait until then, and he still leaves? Or will stay and suffer? Humans are much weaker than us. It's just awful!" - in desperation, Lana hugged her legs and hid her face in her lap.
" Mom, maybe you shouldn't overthink it? What if everything will be okay ?! What's wrong with being werewolves? We are not the monsters from movies that can't control themselves and turn every full moon. I even saw a couple of new ones, where they portray us quite well. They say it's also popular theme!
" Baby, why do you think in these your movies, if the werewolf and human are in some romantic relationship, it's always a male werewolf? Never female."
Vicky shrugged, although her eyes could tell that she knew the answer perfectly well. But Lana decided to finish her thought.
"Do you think a man will feel good if he knows that his woman can not only carry him easily like a princess. But also rip his throat off and gobble him up?"
" Well, firstly, I do not see anything wrong with your strength. Only for insecure men, this can be a problem." - Nicky unexpectedly decided to enter into the dispute. - "Plus, You can't really rip his throat off and gobble him up. He's your Mate. You can't hurt him, and you won't hurt someone else just because you can. It's not about you being a werewolf, but what kind of person you are. One nondescript weak human can sometimes cause more harm to others than a whole pack of werewolves."
"You know it, and I know it. But will he think the same? Imagine if you had a girlfriend, and then you'll find out that she, for example, is a bear, a polar bear!"
Nicky suddenly turned his eyes away and with increased interest began to consider peeled wallpaper.
"By the way, Tina was a very nice girl, I don't know why you broke up so quickly ..." - sang Vicky , giving her brother away in a blink of the eye.
Nicky threw a promising glance at his sister and hurried to explain.
"We parted, not because she was a bear, it was even somehow ..." - Lana choked seeing a dreamy expression in his eyes. The one she wasn't ready to see just yet. Nicky cut himself, realizing that he was going somewhere in a wrong way. - "In short, we just agreed from the start that this is temporary. Everyone doing so in college. I am not into celebating until the wedding. Or rather, until Mate."
Lana looked at her children with disapproval. She was not at all pleased with the thought that Nicky was already dating girls and took such a frivolous attitude towards the opposite sex.
"Nicky, this is irresponsible!" - started Lana, but immediately shut up, catching a glance from him, in which you can read with the large letters: "Look who's talking"!"
" Mom, maybe you should just relax and see what will happen? If you always look back, be afraid of what lies ahead, you will go off the deep end very soon." - tried to reduce the degree of tension Vicky.
" Vicki, sunshine, I already lived like that, closing my eyes on the problems, ignoring the obvious. And what happened? I don't want to rush headlong into a new relationship, which again can go sideways. Give me just a little time. I already talked to Greg and agreed to move. But not because I want to come back to him, but because I want a better life for you two. And I don't want to guess, what'll happen next with our relations."
Nicky shook his head but didn't say anything, and Vicky patted mom's shoulder reassuringly. Nobody could master coverage to tell her that she just closing her eyes and avoiding the problem again. And only a wolf somewhere deep in Lana's soul slyly grinned, she knew that it won't be long for her to run alone anymore.