What you both just did will put them on their toes. They won’t think they can easily manoeuvre around you anymore because your wolf has manifested itself.Megan’s voice was confident as she chastised us. She knew that this would make our lives a little harder.You both should have held it together back there.
I thought about it. “You’re right.” I admitted, and Nix nodded with me. “We should have behaved back there. It would have been easier to move in the shadows without them knowing I could shift. But we still have the upper hand.” I pointed out the fact, and they both agreed.
I pushed up from the bed and made my way to my closet. I couldn’t smell anything when I first entered, but I knew it smelled like my actual scent. I pulled all of my clothes and I dumped them onto the floor of my room. I felt panic bubble up from my center. If Brandon walked into my room or even by it right now, he would figure out the truth.
I heard the door slam on my last trip from my closet, and then there was a knock. I froze. Please, Goddess. Please. I slowly made my way to the door and waited. A second knock came, and the door opened. I moved to slam it shut, but my mother’s voice stopped me.
“What are you doing?” She fully came into the room and made a small circle. She turned to me, eyes wide.
“My scent…” I trailed off and looked down at the clothes at my feet, then back to the closet. I turned and realized that I was screwed. “My scent, my actual scent, is stuck in this room. My clothes can be washed, but what about my bed? Mom, I don’t know what to do.”
My mom quickly surveyed the damage. “Well then, let’s use your outburst to our advantage.” My mom grabbed my basket and pushed a load of clothes into it. “Grab your dry clean only stuff and put it on your bed, along with any coats.”
“What are you doing?” I was still frozen, unsure of what to do.
“I’m helping you. Now do as I said.” I nodded as she left the room. I heard her head down stairs as I went back to my closet. I pulled all my coats and dropped them on the bed, then I pulled out anything that had to be dry cleaned like she told me to do. She came back in and nodded, then pulled out zippered dress bags and zipped my dresses and coats in the bags.
“Mom?”
She stopped and looked at me. “We are going to wash your clothes with descenting spray. We will bring these to the dry cleaners and explain that someone else wore these and your wolf has become territorial and refuses to keep these in your room. They need to be cleaned and descented. Then we will go to the furniture store and buy a new mattress with same-day delivery and disposal services for the same reasons.”
“Will that work?” As I nervously tried to take hold of her hand, she raised her hand and cupped my cheek to reassure me.
“We will just have to sell it, babe.” She leaned in and kissed my cheek. “I won’t allow you to go to that family, not if you don’t want to.” She pulled back and stared into my eyes. “Are you sure? Living without your mate will be hard.” I saw something flash in her eyes, pain and something else.
“I’m sure. I would rather be alone than dead.” I gathered the clothes that were already bagged up. “I’ll put these in the car.”She nodded her head and continued bagging more clothes. I left the room and ran down the stairs, grabbing my keys on the way into the garage.
I went to my Jeep and stuffed the clothes into the back seat before I locked it and ran back upstairs. My mom handed me the rest as she stripped my bed. “Just toss the bedding.” My mom looked up at me.
“Why?”
“I wanted a new comforter, anyway. This way it saves us more laundry. Just bag up everything and toss it all.” I turned to leave but turned back. “Will dumping descenting spray on everything cover my scent until garbage day?”
“Yeah. It will work. But we will need to buy more.” I nodded and left to dump the clothes in my car.
I came back to my room and my mother was spraying the pile of clothes with a bottle of what I could only assume was descenting spray. There were two garbage bags by the door and she nodded to them. “Bring those to the trash. I’ll meet you downstairs in a minute.”
“What are you doing?” I pointed to the pile of the clothes.
“Covering our asses until we get back with more spray and finish washing everything.” She lifted her lip and continued spraying. She ended up cursing under her breath and unscrewed the lip and upending the bottle on my clothes. “Stupid thing would take forever.” She pointed to the garbage bags, and I lifted them and ran down the stairs. I ran to the trash and dumped the bags, then ran back.
“I told you I would meet you downstairs.” My mom was using a soaked top to run some of the descenting spray all over my mattress.
“I know, but I wanted to lock my door before we left.” She tossed the shirt back into the pile and went into my washroom and washed her hands. She came back out and grabbed agarbage bag and went back into my bathroom. I followed her in. “What are you doing?”
My mother started dumping all of my shampoo and conditioner, then deodorant, and lotions. She turned to look at me and sighed. “Baby, you have been using the same things since you turned twelve. They have become almost a part of your natural scent. We will need to find new stuff for you.”
I stepped back and sighed. “You know how hard it is to find a smell that your wolf will tolerate.”
“Yes, yes I do. But like I said, you used strawberry so much, it accented your natural scent. I’m worried that if we don’t change it, it will still be too similar.” She came over and kissed my head. She buried her nose in my hair and took a deep breath. “Your scent is burned into my soul, and this new one is still close enough.” She pulled back and looked at me. “I don’t want you to go through all of this, only for Brandon to find you one day and think you smell close enough to his mate that he grabs you. If he feels the sparks, your entire plan falls apart.”
“I’m just going to reject him when I have the space to do it without him figuring it out.”
My mother grabbed my face. “You can’t.”
She was squeezing my cheeks so much my lips puckered. “What do you mean I can’t? I have to.”
“Amy. If you reject him, he will feel it. He will go absolutely insane when he figures out his mate rejected him without facing him. His wolf will search you out, and he will come to you first.”
