EMMA POV


    My dads were giving me the side eye after my date with Lucasst night. I didn''t see my mother at all. They said that she was out on official duties, which I guess I believed, but I was shocked to see that all three of them were here and they let her go without them.


    Even if she does have guards and dragons protecting her.


    They didn''t ask me directly about Lucas but I knew they could smell him on me and they saw us at the bottom of the stairs.


    I just hope they didn''t scare him off. I do really like Lucas.


    So, when he was waiting for me at the park this morning, I was really happy that he was


    waiting for me.


    When we got to school Avery was waiting for us outside the building like she always did, but she was surprised to see that I was with Lucas again.


    Lucas had to get to his first ss while Avery and I went to our ss.


    "So, how did your parents handle it?"


    "Well, my dads were acting really weird all night. I know that they wanted to ask me questions


    but they didn''t. I don''t think they knew how. Mom talked to me this morning. Without them


    around." I exined.


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    "She was fine. She just asked me the questions. That''s what I wanted. She wasn''t angry, she


    wasn''t pissed off. She wasn''t telling me to be careful. She just wanted to know about him and what we didst night." I exined.


    "Your mom is so cool. I wish mine was as easy as yours. And yours is the Queen. She should


    be more strict.” Avery said.


    "When ites to security, she''s strict. But otherwise, she''s good. She didn''t expect me to start dating the week after I turned 16, but she''s happy for me." I said.


    "That''s great." Avery said.


    "He wants to get together again this afternoon. I don''t really know what we''re going to do though. There''s not much to do around here." I said.


    "That''s because you haven''t really lived like a teenager." She said.


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    "I guess not. Do you have any suggestions?" I asked. And she smirked at me.


    I knew that meant trouble when it came to her. But I needed to find something to do that was going to be fun around here.


    I don''t want Lucas to think I''m a loser or anything like that.


    So as soon as school was over that day, I showered in the locker room and I got dressed.


    I walked out the front of the school building and I saw Lucas talking to Hazel, causing me to stop walking.


    He saw me standing there and Lucas said something to Hazel before he walked over to me.


    "It looks like you''ve got a fan." I said, but he scoffed.


    "No way. She''s my cousin. And the biggest pain in my ass." He said.


    "Oh. I didn''t know that you two were rted." I said.


    "Unfortunately." He said.


    "I bet she loves that we''re hanging out." I said, sarcastically.


    "Oh yeah. Totally pleased. She gave us her best wishes." He said, ying along. And I startedughing.


    "So, I was talking to Avery and I think I''vee up with something that we can do today. But it''s a bit of a hike. Are you alright with that?" I asked.


    "Yeah. I''m cool with that. Are you gonna get in trouble? Your dads didn''t look too happyst


    night."


    "It''s alright. They''re always like that. I know they are going to give you a hard time when they first meet you. So I am trying to put that off as long as possible." I said. So Lucas held out his hand and I grabbed onto it and we started walking down the road.


    We walked through the vige until we got to the woods and we followed the trail right to the beachside.


    We stood on the pebbles that made up the shore next to the ocean and we walked a little further up until we came across a log that was ced next to a firepit.


    We weren''t going to need the firepit right now but we are going to use the log.


    As soon as we sat down, I opened my bag and I started pulling things out.


    "What''s all this?" Lucas asked.


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    "Pic." I said, showing him the nket that I pulled out of my bagst and Iid it on the ground in front of us.


    I set up all the food on the nket and sat on it while leaning up against the log. So he slid down and sat next to me.


    "I can''t believe how beautiful it is here." He said, looking out at the ocean.


    "I know. It''s a beautiful ce to grow up. Mom said that she would rather have raised me here


    than in California. That''s where she came from." I said.


    "Yeah. She had a pretty crappy life there. I know the history. I think everyone does."


    "Yeah. She did. But then she met my dads and everything went up from there. That''s what she told me anyway. They tell it differently. Apparently my mom drugged them with wolfsbane once because they were following here as she going to head off some enemies that wereing for them. She needed to get rid of them and they weren''t meant to follow her. She was


    trying to protect them." I said, starting tough.


    "Holy s**t. Are you serious?" He asked.


    "Yeah. They''ve got a very interesting history that''s not written in the history books." Iughed


    out loud.


    I turned back to look at Lucas and he was staring at me with a strange look on his face.


    He was making me a little nervous. I couldn''t tell what he was thinking. But then he slowly started moving closer to me and he kissed me, softly and gently.


    He cupped the side of my face and deepened the kiss as he leaned me back,ying me on the


    nket.


    1 was getting so wrapped up in the moment that I barely even noticed the pebbles and rocks that were under the nket.


    Lucas started moving his other hand towards the hem of my shirt and he slid my shirt up slightly.


    I grabbed a hold of his hand and I stopped him from moving it any further, suddenly feeling really ufortable and I pushed him away.


    He looked a little confused at first, but I sat up and he sat next to me.


    "I''m sorry. I guess you just found my w." I said, unable to even look at him.


    "That''s not a w. That''s just something for me to admire more about you and respect." Lucas


    said.


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    I looked over at him and he looked so sincere that I couldn''t stop from smiling.


    When I got home that night my dads were waiting for me in the sitting room.


    "So, were you with him again?" Dean asked.


    "I was." I said.


    "And when are we going to meet him?" Koda asked.


    "When I know that you''re not going to scare him off."


    "We need to know who is spending all this time with our daughter." Koda said.


    "I know that. And you will. But not just yet." I said.


    I then heard mome into the room and she stood at the doorway staring at my dads.


    I could tell that they were mind linking with each other and my mother was definitely scolding them right now.


    They try to hide it when she''s revving them, but I''ve gotten used to the look on their faces when she does it. So it''s pretty easy to tell now.


    "It seems that your mother would like to talk to you. So, we''ll finish thister." Tyler said.


    And they all walked out of the room. And my mother reached her arm out, so I walked over to her and she put her arm around me and walked me through the castle until we got to the courtyard out the back.