Chapter Forty-Seven

It was late the next day, the day of my dreaded party. Most people would be happy that their job is throwing them a party, while I am insanely grateful for everyone taking time out of their lives to celebrate my achievements, I just hate the attention. It's also the night I'm gonna have to arrest my family, something that seemed great at the start but after seeing that video, I didn't know anymore. The whole day was spent with us going over plans, there were many different options but we finally settled on one. After Morgan does the speech for me, I'm gonna be scanning the party to see if my family turned up. If I find them, I am to go over first and start having a chat with them just acting normal. When I'm ready, I will start saying the normal things I would when arresting people, which will alert the team and they'll run over to help me. In hindsight that seems like a simple enough plan, but I didn't know if I'd be able to handle it emotionally, it's been a weird few months. I was just in my bedroom getting ready for the party, I was doing my hair and makeup while Toby was in the shower. It's basically not my room anymore, it's ours. Yesterday, was the first time in weeks he'd been back to his bedroom. In no time I had finished my hair and makeup and was looking into the mirror, I wish I could be more happy about this and not just have the constant reminder of who I'm about to arrest. I scan myself to make sure everything was perfect, I knew all eyes were gonna be on me tonight. I wore a burgundy knee high dress with spaghetti straps, the top was a heart shape design while the bottom was skater skit like fit. I actually really liked this dress, it was given to me by an agent a few years ago as she brought the wrong size. It's been at the back of my wardrobe since, I never knew when would be the right time to wear it until now. Out of the bathroom walks Toby, his shirt still undone drying his hair with a towel. A smile forms on his lips as he looks over at me, I just send him one back before looking in the mirror once again. "You look beautiful, everyone aren't going to be able to keep their eyes off you, unfortunately" he grumbles walking over placing a kiss on my head, I just roll my eyes slightly making sure I positioned my hair in a way it would cover the mark "I actually have something for you" he says throwing his towel on the floor, I just laugh a little walking over to pick it back up. He walks into the draw pulling something out, he soon turns around with a little long box in his hands. He hands it over to me with a smile before crossing his arms to watch, I slowly open the box to reveal the most beautiful necklace delicately placed there. It was a gold necklace with a heart, within the heart were diamonds and little red jewels. "Every Alpha of my family buys their mate that necklace, they purchase it the day they fell in complete love with her. I would always ask my dad how he knew he was in complete love, he would tell me I would know when I know. The day on that roof, something clicked and I understood what my dad meant" he smiles looking down at the necklace in my hands, okay Taylor you can't cry you've just finished your makeup! He walks over taking the necklace out of the box while telling me to turn around, I smile turning around holding my hair up. "Every Alpha personalises it with a different colour, the colour they choose is the colour that they believe represents their mate. Since I met you it's always been the colour red" he explains while placing the necklace around my neck, once he was finished I turn around to look at him "I've had it for ages, I just didn't know the right time to give it to you" he smiles while I place my arms around his neck, this is the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me. "Thank you so much Toby, it's so beautiful" I smile placing a kiss on his lips, but once I pull away I see the tears in his eyes "what's wrong?" I ask looking at him worriedly, I've never seen this man even remotely start crying. "It's nothing, when I got it made I rang my dad to tell him and explain why I hadn't been able to check in with him or my mother in awhile. He was so happy that I found you and was shocked that you're an alliance agent" he laughs a little but the tears still fell from his eyes, I get my hand and wipe the tears that were falling down his face "then he told me how proud he was of me and how sorry he was for how he treated me growing up. The thing about my father was he wanted nothing more than our pack to be the strongest and toughest around, which meant he would always act as this cruel heartless Alpha, all of the pack members were terrified of him" he starts to explain while I listen intently, that's far from a good way to run your pack "than when it was my turn to train to be the Alpha, that is how he would train me to lead in fear. But I didn't want to be the same Alpha he was and fought hard against him, the day I became Alpha I heard some pack members talking. They were saying they were happy I was Alpha as they'll be able to get away with things because I was soft, this caused pure anger to flow through my body and I.....killed them both" he sighs which does make my eyes go wide, I've saw the possessive side to him a few times but never the side he's explaining. "From then on I started leading the pack the same way my father had, all the pack members would shake in fear when they'd approach me, I liked it that way" he says as I shake the shocked feelings off, I didn't want him to feel even worse if he saw how utterly shocked I was to hear this "but then I met you, you somehow showed me that I didn't need to lead my people like that, going back to that roof, I would have killed Henry that second and not thought twice about it. But you stood there and had a conversation with him, you didn't show him any anger but love and compassion and that's how I knew, I was doing it all wrong" he admits while even more tears escaping his eyes as he went, I pull him in closer wiping those tears away too. "When you left and I hung back with Morgan, I called all the pack members in for a pack meeting. I told them everything I just told you and apologised for ever making them feel the way that I did, I didn't want you to hear about the way I was acting before so I ordered that no one spoke about the meeting ever" he says sighing once again, but looks down at me as he spoke "my father went to visit the pack and saw how things were running, that also made him see the way he was running the pack previously was also so wrong, so he came and apologised and said how proud he was of me. That's all I wanted him to say growing up but he never did, but because of you he finally did" he cries while I pull him in for the biggest hug ever, he holds me tightly crying uncontrollably. "I didn't do anything, you never wanted to lead in the way your father did but when you heard what those two were saying, you assumed your father was right" I say pulling away slightly to look at his face while I spoke "you were too far in to turn around and change, but when I came along that gave you the opportunity to change. This isn't your fault, I've spoken with the pack members and they're incredibly happy and grateful for the Alpha you are now"I tell him with a smile, he smiles looking down at the ground slightly. "Oh and for record, our pack is the strongest and toughest out there, I mean look at the incredible Alpha and Luna that run it" I smile laughing a little, he just shakes his head pulling me in for another hug. Well this isn't where I thought that conversation was gonna go.