I'm crying again. I don't know what else to do. I think I need to talk to Megan. Megan! Is she okay? I was so busy out here I forgot that she's literally calling off her own wedding. I wipe away my tears, open the door and slip inside. What's waiting for me is so much worse than I could have imagined. At the end of the aisle, Megan and Tristan are staring each other down. They are equal in dominance and neither of them is budging. Tristan's face is ugly and twisted with anger and hatred, his hands are shifted into claws he is gripping Megan's arm in a way that has to hurt. Darrien is standing next to Megan. He also seems to be frozen, stuck in the battle for dominance. Tristan must actually be as dominant as Megan and Darrien if they are all stopped like this. Apparently, these battles aren't just a two person thing. Well that's useful information I suppose.“You BITCH!” Tristan screams. Everyone else in the room seems frozen, not able to move under the waves of power coming from the

“Hello?” I'm surprised to hear Megan on the line instead of Darrien.“Ry! Are you okay? You've been gone a while. You aren't off crying again or something are you? Are you still with Bellamy?” She blurts out her questions one after the other, not giving me a chance to answer.“Woah, woah, Megan. Calm down. I'm fine. I'm with Bellamy right now. I should be asking if you're okay?” I turn the question back to her. She is quiet for a moment.“I'm okay. Today clearly did not go how I had planned. But I'm okay. Tomorrow I'll be a little more okay. I- I didn't want to kill him Ry, but I couldn't let him hurt Darrien.” Megan is crying now. Shoot, I didn't mean to make her cry. I can hear Darrien attempting to soothe her. He takes the phone from her.“She's okay, just in shock. I'm taking her home. Aaron and Shaun are seeing to Tristan.” he explains.“Should I come look after her?” I ask. I can hear him repeat my question for Megan.“She says if things are going okay with her brother then she

He heads into my room and I take a minute to think. I'm proud of myself, sure I wanted to avoid that conversation, but I survived it, I didn't run away. I follow Bellamy into my room where he is tucking his phone and his tie into his pocket.“What time is it anyway?” I ask, I'm so out of it. I feel like I slept a long time, but there was daylight coming through the windows, which means either we slept for only a couple hours OR we slept through the night and it's daytime again.“It's about one, we slept almost 24 hours. I'm not surprised I slept that much, you're like a knock out drug to me, but you must have been really tired to have slept so long.” He looks at me contemplating something. I just shrug.“I did say I haven't been sleeping well.” I sort through my drawers looking for something comfortable to wear. I haven't really been doing much laundry lately either. I really need to catch up on my housework. Eventually I settle on a pair of leggings that I'm pretty sure are clean and

Without missing a beat Bellamy hops out the car and runs around to open my door for me. Before I can so much as blink he’s leaning down over me and pressing his lips against mine. Just for a moment but I'm not expecting it and I freeze in shock.“For luck.” He states calmly, a click at my side tells me he’s undone my seatbelt. I flush red as I scramble out of my seat and take the arm Bellamy is holding out for me. There’s a smirk on his face and I can tell he’s enjoying how flustered I am.I take a few deep breaths as we approach the front door and try and relax. Megan is the one who has the right to be freaking out, not me. Things are actually looking up for me, I really have no right to complain. Bellamy unlocks the door, I did plan to head straight up to Megan’s room but I can hear noise coming from the kitchen. Is she… humming? I glance at Bellamy who shrugs and gives a confused expression which tells me he doesn’t know what’s going on either. I peer around the doorway and see Meg

I turn to Bellamy about to ask how he’s doing when he sweeps me up into a hug, pulling me right off my feet.“Thankyou so much. I thought I could handle her but then she started crying. Usually I don’t have a problem with dealing with people who get angry but it’s not like SHE did anything wrong and I just… got stuck.” I can feel him breathing into my hair as he places me back on my feet, holding me close. I stay still a few moments until he releases me.“Sorry if I overstepped. I just didn’t like seeing her yell at you. Also I was worried she would wake Megan, she’s finally asleep.” Bellamy shakes his head.“You didn’t overstep. I know you aren’t ready to be… well, all in yet. But helping with this kind of thing, emotional Shifters. That is what the Alpha female does. You are going to be so good at this, I just know it.” I take a step back in shock.“I…um. Didn’t mean to…this doesn’t mean.” I stammer out. Bellamy takes my hand and runs his thumb over the back of my hand soothingly.“