"You seem in a good mood."
I jumped before casting a fleeting glance at Elsa. Apparently, my long silence soon caught her attention and now she's wondering. Already she's super annoying when I'm close to Jessy yet there's nothing between us except that I find him cute - even after seeing Greg again, I tell myself that no one can be compared to him... it's true I'm a frivolous woman - so I don't want to imagine how she can react knowing that I have seen my ex again whom I was madly in love with and that it is not to be excluded that I still feel the same thing for him many years later - especially if the ex in question is her Big Boss -
"I'm fine... I'm just very tired... I want to sleep."
" Yes, speaking of that, you will now live with me in my house. Tom is waiting for us two streets away with your luggage"
I gasped in surprise as I stood dumbfounded by this news nearly falling over with the car running. How does that and where does it come from all of a sudden? I don't understand and why do I have to live with it? Who did she think she was?
"How do I have to live with you? I do not agree and my opinion than in all this?"
Elsa sighed before taking a cigarette and putting it on.
" Is it because of this vulgar omega that you make a big deal out of it? Having to separate from him?"
I clenched my jaw before frowning. This woman is as vicious as her pack.
" It has nothing to do with Jessy. It's about respect. I have my opinion to give on the question of the choice of my lodging. Moreover, this place where I lived, the tavern of Tom, I was at ease there then why do I have to leave there?"
Elsa sighed before looking me in the eye.
" Once again this omega is underlying your opinion on the matter. But let me teach you one thing. Your stay with Tom was limited to when you would pass adulthood now that it's done it's up to me to educate you so that you master your powers."
" How is it limited?"
Elsa sighed before I felt the car stop. She made me go downstairs and we ran into Tom who had my suitcase and another bag with him.
" Yo, did it go well?"
He greeted us and I just nodded in response. Elsa went to collect my luggage as I watched Tom lose. As usual, his face was impassive as he had his hands in his pockets.
" Well, my little Sophia, it was a pleasure to host you at my house even if it didn't last. I hope you will be well in the future and above all, you have to consider Elsa as an ally. She only wants you well."
My good ass, yes. Since when can a member of Soul Moon wish someone well? Especially me, from whom they took everything away from me.
" Why so suddenly? While I was unaware? Did she force it on you?"
Tom looked surprised at my question as he crossed his arms. He put a hand on his forehead before realizing that Jessy must have spoken ill of Elsa to this poor child. She is still so young and easily manipulated. It would be easy for an omega to use his charms to manipulate such an inexperienced lycan. He shook his head, omegas say they're weak but their power is very effective in some cases even if it's more for inexperienced or weak-willed humans and lycans.
" I don't know how you see this woman but I already know from having spied on Jessy and me in one of our conversations that you are aware that you have a sponsor."
" Yes ... well no."
Shit, so he guessed I was listening to them behind the door? Me who thought I had been discreet.
Tom smiled, shrugging as I smiled embarrassedly.
" In short, to make it simple... Elsa is this sponsor and she's the one who told me about you. About you coming to Capital City."
I frowned at this revelation as my head was filled with many questions. How was she my sponsor and also how did she warn him of my coming?
It seems to me that that day it was completely by chance that Jessy met me and it was when he discovered that I was a lycan that he decided to help me because his first thought was to sell me in their traffic.
Besides, it doesn't make sense, if my damned grandfather hadn't pushed me away, I would be with them in the forest and I would never have met Tom. All this is ridiculous... Totally ridiculous.
" it's impossible... Jessy accosted me in the street to get me into your traffic. What you say doesn't make sense...."
I refrained from telling him about the rest of the encounter between Jessy and me, not wanting to expose myself as Sam's daughter from Shield of Rain, especially since there was an impending Soul Moon member nearby.
" Indeed it would seem ambiguous at first but the truth is so. Two days before you arrived in Capital City, Elsa made it clear to me that I should be harboring a young lycan until her coming-of-age ceremony and that this girl was the Luna of one of her dear friends, an alpha, she didn't tell me from which pack, but he must be very strong if I believe the scent of this night."
Tom seemed lost in thought for a moment before I cleared my throat.
" Yes, excuse me. Indeed she knew that you could not easily manage alone in this city so she asked for my help in remembrance...Hmm well…"
I rolled my eyes as I looked at this man. So I was right, he and Elsa did have an affair. What is certain with such an authoritarian woman, especially since she is an alpha and he is a beta, it didn't work. In short, let's continue.
" Yes?"
" Yes I mean, I accepted this request…"
You surprised me that you accepted. You're so dogged behind her it looks like you still love her.
"That morning, I asked Jessy to meet you without telling him who you really were. He just had to take you back to the hideout like one of our businesses, so he lured you in as such. I didn't know he would find out your true nature until I told him myself."
I was truly stunned before frowning. So the fact that he seemed surprised and all to meet us was a pure comedy?
" Ah, I just couldn't tell you, Sophia, I sent Jessy to pick you up because I know you're a lycan and I want you to come and live with me... You would have found that suspicious, wouldn't you? It's more plausible if it's known that I have an information network that gives me news of new girls arriving in Capital City."
There he is not wrong. I sighed before nodding my head. Elsa arrived asking us if it was good and I nodded. I said goodbye to Tom instructing him to pass my regards to Jessy. It feels weird to leave like this but I know we'll see each other again soon, but I mustn't forget the fact that I have a goal to achieve and that Elsa can help me achieve it.
I must control my powers, learn more about Soul Moon and its Alpha, and finally kill him with my own hands.