The Dark Thrall Mating Olivia

Chapter Five Everlynoveldrama

Sid and I made our way down the steps of my dorm. Cami hadn't shown back up and I wished that she had so that I could tell her goodbye again.

One of these days, I was going to convince her to come home with Sid and me. I could only imagine how she would react to finding out that Sid and I were shifters.

I wanted to tell her, but I knew that I couldn't. Shifters weren't supposed to tell anyone what they were. Sure, some humans knew about us but we didn't go around telling people what we were.

It was one of the reasons why the dragon's had a council. They had been hunted until most were extinct. Granted that had always seemed so strange to me.

Two of my dads were dragons and Sid was a dragon. I'd grown up with dragons and wolves, for me they were just as normal as breathing. But I knew that they were rare. My parents had told me as much and in all the time that I'd been out in the world. I had yet to meet another dragon while here.

Sid wrapped his arm around me and I leaned into him. He was warm and smelled like me now. He smiled at me and I bit my lower lip.

"I'm glad you liked your gift. Maybe we can take it for another round later?"

"I wouldn't say no." I smirked up at him and his smile grew wider.

"I love you, Evy. You know that?"

"Love you, too. Are you going to get all sweet on me?" I said, letting him guide me over to his black motorcycle that was parked in the parking lot next to the dorms.

"Only if you let me." He winked at me, tucking my bag away in the saddlebags on his bike. He closed the flap on it and picked up the helmet that he always kept for me. "I like being sweet on you."

He reached up, tucking a lock of hair behind my ear before I pulled on my helmet. Sid pulled his on and climbed onto the bike. He held his hand out for me and I slipped my fingers into his. Climbing on the back of his bike, I wrapped my arms around his waist. He put the keys into the ignition and the engine roared to life.

"Ready to head home?" Sid asked and I nodded.

For some reason, it felt different from normal. I couldn't put my finger on the feeling, couldn't explain it if I tried. It felt like something big was going to happen.

Sid and I drove until we reached the packlands. It was an easy drive and being on the back of his bike, with my arms wrapped around his trim waist gave me time to think. The low purr of the engine made it almost impossible to talk to one another, yes we could do it.

We were shifter and had shifter hearing, but it was nice to lose myself in the moment. School was going well. I liked my classes and the friends that I'd made. But it wasn't like being home. I had a pack and my beast knew it was where we belonged. It was hard though, seeing the man that I'd grown up watching and wanting but knowing that I could never have him. Micheal was my alpha, but he was also my parent's best friend. I wanted him, but I knew that I couldn't have him. That he didn't see me as more than just a little girl. I tried to tell myself that what I felt for him was just a crush. That he was just the man that I had watched as I grew up, that I wanted him because I was a wolf and he was my alpha.

He was always so calm and in charge, commanding the pack while still being there for all of its members. Firm when he needed to be yet always so gentle with the children of the pack. My brothers and myself included.

It was just a crush from watching him for so long. That was all that it was but it was still one of the reasons why I had left for college early. I didn't want to accept that I couldn't be his mate and that he couldn't be mine.

Going to school was a way to escape that. I knew that I needed to accept it, but I'd been using it as an excuse to not find out if we were mates. I had given myself time since my eighteenth birthday, time to make sure that I would be okay if he wasn't my mate.

Now, I was ready for it. It would hurt, but it was time to rip the band aid off. I had been away from my family and my pack for too long. It was going to hurt but I knew that Sid would be there to help me through it all.

He knew that there was someone in our pack that I was avoiding. I hadn't told him who it was. Sid was my best friend but it was like if I said it out loud it would make it real.

Right now, no one knew about my feelings for my alpha. If I said it out loud people would know and it would make it real. Make it harder for me to hide.

Sid turned onto the street that led to my parent's house. The suburban neighborhood was all cookie cutter houses that were setup for families like mine.

It had been the perfect place to grow up. My dad and daddy bought it for mom when they mated with her. They had their own place, but my dads had chosen to stay here for mom and

me.

My papa had family here and they hadn't wanted to take us away from that. My Abuela and Abuelo were always helping out with my brothers and me. If we had lived in their lair, we wouldn't have been able to see them nearly as much.

Growing up, we had taken vacations and summer holidays to the lair in the mountains. I could always tell that they missed it, but I knew that daddy and dad wouldn't trade the life that they had with all of us for it.

Or the home that they had bought for mom.