Fated Human Mate novel Chapter 3

"I'm not going," I sat back down in my spot on the couch and turned the TV volume up hoping that it was a sign that I didn't want to talk to her any longer.

"What?" She asked shocked. "If anything your dad wanted you to go to college." She took the remote from me and turned off the TV.

"I have to stay here, take care of the house and the family business," I said referring to my family restaurant that my dad spent his life building.

"Alex, Jack can run that place with one hand tied behind his back. You have to go to college."

"I can go to the local community college. It's the same education." I took the remote from her and turned it back on.

"But what about the experience. When I went to college-." She started before being cut off by me.

"You dropped out after your first semester," I argued.

"It doesn't matter, it was still a great time." She sat down next to me.

"I'm staying here and that's final. I've already enrolled into Blue-Ash Community College."

"Fine." She pouted. "At least go out with me tonight."

That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

"I think you've gone out enough, go home with your kids. I sick and tired of you leaving your kids on everyone else when you're the person that laid down and had them." Slowly my voice started getting higher and higher to the point where now I was screaming at her, and once I started I couldn't stop. "For god sakes' you're almost thirty and you spend more time going out than with your own kids! You've never had a steady job and when you do, you find a way to screw it up! And then who have to bail you out? Dad. Newsflash he's dead and if you think that I'm gonna to be his replacement then you have another thing coming! Why don't you grow up and be a responsible adult for once!"

Maybe I was taking my angry out on her, but everything I had said was valid and it was something that needed to be said. I am sick of her acting like a child when she had three of her own. It was about time that she grows up and take responsibility for her actions.

By the look on her face, she had no response. She stood up and faced me. "Fine, I'll go out by myself." She scoffed and without another word she left.

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A week later...

I woke up around six in the morning and beginning getting ready for work. We opened at 8 a.m. and served breakfast, and I had to be there earlier so I could help sat up. I've been neglecting going there since my father's death and even before I wasn't a regular, only coming in when I needed the extra cash. I unlocked the door and already inside was Jack the head chef doing the prep work for breakfast.

"How is it going, Alex?" He asked with a sad smile.

"Good," I said as I put on clean gloves. "What can I help you with?"

She was a small petite, brunette with a slim figure. She was almost an exact replica of my mother, from her dark brown eyes to her over the top personality.

"Where's mom and dad?" I asked as I massaged my forehead to relieve some of its tension.

"He and mom left for Italy this morning."

Like many other retired Alpha's, my parents spent their time traveling the world and only making short stops to check on us and the pack. I was overjoyed that my parents got to live out their dreams the only downfall was that I was left with the burden of raising Lily. In the beginning, I thought it would be a piece of cake having forgotten all the craziness that goes on with teenagers.

"Isn't it the last day of school, do you have to go?" I whined.

"Of course, I have an exam."

Things had really changed. Teenagers actually enjoyed going to school. I remember begging my mother if I could stay home, rather than spend eight hours been taught things that I really didn't need. My destiny was to become Alpha of the pack, and no amount of quadratic equations was gonna help me accomplish this.

"Fine." I groaned as I got up from the bed and went to my bathroom and hopped into the shower.

If it was anyone else I would have made them run to school in wolf form, but with her being underage it wasn't allowed in my pack. Ever since a young wolf had run in human territory and had been spotted by a human, underage wolves we are not allowed to run in wolf form unless they were in pack territory.