Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 33

“Brielle? Well, who is she? Thank God, I was starting to wonder if I was needing to find you a husband, though I don’t know many personally, wait, Brielle is a girl?” my mother rambles, her surprise evident.

“Yes, she is female with a vagina. Well, I hope.” I tell her.

“Don’t be so crude son! Talk of vaginas and…”

“I came out of your VAGINA mother, don’t be a prude.” I tell her and she snickers.

“Right you are.”

“So this Brielle, the one you think is a woman?” I roll my eyes.

“She is a woman!” I tell her.

“Well what is she like, when can I meet her?”

Shit, what have I done? I think, realizing of course my mother would want to meet her. Realizing what had just happened and how serious it was for me to say such a thing without Brielle’s consent or knowledge first makes me wince internally.

Idiot! I scold myself, realizing I had just got myself in more, rather than less trouble. “Oh love I have wonderful news,” my mother says alerting me to my father now being near her. “Soren is engaged!” she squeals. I pull the phone away from

my ear.

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this true son?”

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process what has just happened. Before either one can

smile as I watch them, and the warmth in her eyes is unmistakable, causing

my mother asks and I answer absentmindedly.

She is

anything I’ve ever known. And

“Oh, it sounds like you’re quite taken with her!

Brielle to my family.

my

does she look like?

asks.

glow ethereally. Her eyes, as deeply captivating, sparkle with laughter,

into the phone, more to

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my parents.

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call ends, a sense of apprehension settles in. I’ve spun a tale, a falsehood, which involves Brielle without

work out. I’ll say she cheated. And that I dumped her, and she will be none the wiser. At least it will get my parents off my back for a little while. Besides, it’s not like they‘ Il ever meet her. My parents are on

~Aubrey