Lana tried to tame down her anger during the whole return trip, repeating like a mantra: "They just wanted to make things better, they're just stupid kids." But the look of Nikki's hulking figure in the review mirror, whose head was almost propelling up the car's ceiling, and Vika's eyes without a single trace of shame made her boil with anger again. Fortunately, the trip was short, and after she slammed the entrance door of their apartment behind them, Lana could no longer keep it inside:
"Are you for real?" Gosh, you ...How could you ..." - She was so furious that the sentences came out all broken. Instead of anger, tears began to choke her. Seeing this, both kids were utterly at a loss and finally started to look quite ashamed.
"Mom," Nick began, coming closer, "We did not want this to happen. In fact, I received an invitation to several colleges, but seeing the name of Mr. Wells's sister on the list of professors, Vicki and I thought, why not ?! We did not know that he will be there himself. And then I just wondered what kind of person he was."
"That's just the point, baby! He is a normal person, a human! Didn't you understand anything last time we talked?" - all her anger was blown away like a cloud of smog, as soon as she looked into her son's honest eyes.
"Maybe he's a human, but he's not a bad person. He is brilliant, handsome, many respect him, and besides, I heard that he is wealthy and powerful." - Lana looked at him in surprise. Typically, it was difficult to squeeze out of him even a few words, and now he was singing praises to this almost unfamiliar man.
"Nicky, then tell me, since he's so wonderful, why would he need me?" Don't you understand why he is so angry with me? Imagine, the girl threw you away, and then, when you became successful and famous, she suddenly appears again and wants something from you. Besides, she has two grown-up children, absolutely broke, Oh! And she's also a werewolf. What would you do?"
"I personally would not care much about this," - Nicky stressed. -"If she's my Mate, nothing would matter. Besides, I would not let her go in the first place."
Lana felt something warm in her chest. Her little boy began to turn into a man. And she liked what kind of man he became.
"It's all right, but do not forget, he's a human. He doesn't care that I'm his Mate. For him, I am just ordinary, one of many. And if there was a rating of potential brides for him, I'm unlikely to even go into the top ten million."
"Then why is he so angry?" - the immediate question of her son, made Lana pause.
"I just explained it," Lana said with a sigh.
" No, Mom! Usually, he is calm and reasonable. When students try to jump him during the break, he rather treats them with humor. I even saw a pair of teachers trying to flirt with him very openly, they caught him in the cafeteria or the library and were very energetic. But he only joked and immediately forgot about them. But when he saw you in the parking lot, and this from the second floor, he came running at the speed of light. And he was fuming like crazy. And you didn't even see with what kind of stare he followed you when you got back to the car."
Lana shook her head, ignoring the sudden jump in her pulse.
"Nicky, Vicki, let's finish this meaningless conversation. I'm not going to get close to Greg again, especially since he made it clear that he does not want it either. We will quietly live here, study, work and we will be happy. We can be happy, just the three of us. Right?"
Nicky silently embraced his mother and Vicki immediately turned it into a group hug with a bunch of laughter tweaks and clasps.
That evening, while Lana was preparing dinner, Vicki settled comfortably on her brother's bed.
" Nick? We are not backing off, right?" - she asked, distracting him from writing some work at his desk.
Nick looked at her thoughtfully, still lost in thought.
" Vicki, I don't know. What can we do if Mom does not want this? Bind them or lock them in one room for three days?"
Vicky grinned:
" Let's leave this idea as a last resort. Otherwise, who knows, we'll have to think about where to hide Greg's body."
" I heard that he served two years in the army, in the special troops. So the question is, which one of them is stronger. "
Vicki only shrugged her shoulders, not particularly interested in this fact.
"If mom does not want to take the first step, then why don't we force him to take this step. You said that he was definitely interested."
" The problem is that he doesn't understand how much he is interested, Vicki. They're a Mates! Even taking into account the fact that he is a human, he simply can not ignore Mom. And this enrages him."
"Then why don't we play with it?" - Vicki smiled slyly, forcing Nicky to frown. Sometimes it seemed to him that in his indulgence to his sister, he turned her from the right path. He hoped that he didn't unintentionally create a monster...