Beauty and The Beta (Bailey)

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Chapter 12 Bailey

I adjust my skirt as I look out across the party wishing I could be anywhere but here. My Dad had requested us all attend with him. Represent him as a family. Goddess knows why, but that is what was asked of us. The party of a former Alpha of a pack on the edge of our region. Yet all we had done so far was follow my Dad around looking like weirdos. I was sure of it.

“Heard you been causing sh it with Miles again.” Jordan said quietly as my Mum and Dad stood together chatting having a drink together.

I gave my brother a dark glare. I had managed to avoid him since the incident in the Alpha office, so he hadn’t had a chance to say anything about it, but I could only imagine his best friend would have had something to say to him about it. “Not going there, Jordan.”

“Oh, I can imagine.” Jordan shakes his head while looking ahead. “You know you are pushing your luck with Miles. His Dad will only protect you for so long. He changed the conversation to mindlink, I assume, so nobody else could hear him.

“Not going there, Jordan.” I repeated.

‘You think you are better than us all, do you because you have a degree? Sorry to disappoint you Bailey, you are below us all, because we have titles. What are you? A Beta’s daughter, and a f**king pathetic geeky one at that, one that nobody gives a sh it about. One that best watch her back before she gets kicked out of her pack!

I bite my lip to stop the tears that are threatening to come. My brother is not going to get the better of me. He is almost as bad as Miles. You would think as my brother he might want to protect me…

haha, no. It seems he enjoyed seeing me suffer as much as Miles did. Saw me as nothing more than an embarrassment.

I could see my Dad chatting to a man I did not recognize. Though reading their body language and the friendly way they are chatting to one another, I would say they are familiar with one. another. They are laughing and talking, both seemingly happy to see one another. I looked. around the party, wondering why my Dad needed us here. We don’t know anyone.

-Bailey, come here please.” Dad called me over. So I walked over to where he and my Mum were stood talking to a man dressed smartly in suit trousers and a gray shirt. He had to be my Dad’s age if not a little older.

placed his arm around my shoulder in what felt like quite a proud gesture. “Bailey, this is the former Alpha of Autumn Valley Pack,

smiled politely again, offering my hand to him to shake. “Pleased to

that dear.” He says with a wobbly smile, making me wonder if he has had a little too much to drink. Though this is his birthday party after all, so I am sure he was entitled to a few

nod. “I was just telling

teacher Bailey.” My Dad

my hopes begin to build. Has my Dad

seemed to have gone unanswered. I was truly beginning to wonder if Miles

for a teacher, Mr Garcia?” I asked, going for a formal title, seeing that I was

be. Are we?” he asks me, and I hold back the smile that is threatening to come. I definitely think he

Dad chuckles. “Is Alpha Caleb around Isaak? Maybe we

who is fixing jobs I think.” The older man says, though he looks at my Dad like he is asking him a question. I don’t think we are going to get much sense from him, and I am beginning to lose any hope I had of finding work with them in their

suddenly yells, making me jump

man?’ Akira complained, and I have to say, she makes a valid point. That came from nowhere, and I have no clue who he was yelling at! It could be anyone that was here… one

close to a yell, and began to walk at somewhat an unsteady gait across the party. He definitely did not have the ability to walk in a straight line anymore, only further solidifying my thoughts that he had been drinking. I glance at my Dad in uncertainty, who simply shrugs before quickly following

time he has stopped

first glance, a f**king scary looking man. He looked moody as

raises his gaze to look at the former Alpha. He has

related to him? Like a child of one of the Alpha’s siblings? Or was he his Uncle like the

you been?” the former Alpha greeted the man with a slap to