Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“They knew.
“Knew what?
“They knew I was going to kiss you, I told them flat out I wanted to see if you could feel it. You have your warrior brand, but it’s only partial and you aren’t eighteen, but everything else has happened to you early, so it was a logical question.”
He shrugs “You’re my Luna and have been for at least two years. With all the sh*t you have been through and the more that I find out, the more I feel like I failed you.”
He scrubs his hands over his face.
“You didn’t fail, because you didn’t know. I didn’t tell anybody because it was my problem to handle. That’s what I thought anyway.”
I shrug. “And you need to keep that Luna stuff to yourself. No joking about it or teasing the twins. I don’t know how I feel about the idea. Lucas and Ava mentioned the same thing before he died. I can’t wrap my head around that with everything else right now. They called me a traitor when they had evidence that Kaley was the problem right in front of them. Like they couldn’t see or hear anything I was actually saying.
“You’re not going to reject them are you? You are this pack’s Luna, we need you. They will pull their heads out of their asses soon enough.
“You think they can manage to do that before one of them gets Kaley pregnant?
He stops and grabs my arm. “What are you talking about? They haven’t slept with her since her massive tantrum at the mall when we took you for your birthday forever ago.”
“There’s no way they aren’t sleeping with her. I could smell her all over them, on Cam’s skin. How else would her scent get on him like that?”
“Because she’s a leech and literally attaches herself to their arms whenever she can. She’s been showing up at the pack house every morning, pretending to help Ava. Since you have several warriors housed in all the guest rooms at the packhouse she hasn’t been able to convince anyone to let her move back in. I told you they have cut themselves off as much as possible. I think that’s how they were fighting the effects of the spell. They only left the packhouse when it was absolutely necessary, they dress and act exactly the same and they both even started to answer to both of their names, just to throw everyone off.
I still feel numb, less angry at them, for that infraction anyway. We walked up the steps to the porch of my team’s house. They are all waiting inside, pretending to work. None of them have left wanting to hear what happened after we went to the hospital.
“Have you found out anything about this pentagram and candle?”
I ask, wanting to see if they’ll just not talk about the last day and a half. I am not that lucky.
“You have lost your fcking mind, thinking we are going to talk about that bullsht. Were you injured too? Why were you there for so long? What happened to the Alpha? There are rumors everywhere, but nothing is consistent. Start talking, now!
“I can’t talk if you are asking questions, dumbass. No I wasn’t injured in the obstacle fall, not really anyway. Lucas pushed me out of the way and took the force of the thing falling on his whole body. So even possessed he was able to break through that and save me. Complications from his injuries is why he passed. That’s the story we are telling the pack. You all are going to need to sit down for the full story.
None of them hesitate to sit down, they don’t even question Oliver being here with me. I go through everything that has happened since the collapse of the structure. The only part I leave out is all of the me being mated to the twins’ stuff. It was a little hard to navigate the prophecy part and keep me out of it, though. I don’t want anyone’s opinions on the matter, good or bad. I’m sure they all have varying thoughts on how my relationship with the twins has played out over my lifetime and the very reason we’re even staying in this house is because they couldn’t acknowledge the truth right in front of them.
“The next thing is, now that the spell is broken and we are safe from that, Cameron and Dakota would like us to move back into the packhouse, they believe Jena and I are the target for Mike. They gave me forty-eight hours to convince you all to move our whole operation. Ava said that we could use the Luna’s office as our headquarters for surveillance.
“I wouldn’t mind the move, again, but those two are going to get their asses beat. Don’t try and stop me either.”
Lil pointed at me like I argued.
“Hey, get in line, it’s kind of long right now.”
I roll my eyes at her.
We spent the rest of the day packing up everything. They didn’t hesitate, because it’s for our safety. Nathaniel complained about the whole process and gave us each a very specific piece of equipment to be in charge of for the move. He wanted to set up all of the flat surfaces at the packhouse first, so the move was quick. The twins said he could do whatever he needed to make it work. They were going to regret making that blanket statement very soon.
It took a week to get the packhouse ready for my team. We had to adjust and move warriors from the packhouse into our house on the border to make space for us. Moving one person at a time was painfully slow, but necessary. We had to get Nathaniel here and set up first so there was only hours of downtime from surveillance, not days.
After several arguments, I also gave up my room on the third floor. I rarely used it when I was here and I’m not interested in falling back into old habits of all the guys in my personal space all the time. My winning argument was that the whole leadership team needed to be moved into the packhouse. The twins could go back to sharing a room, someone could take the spare, the media room could be turned into a room and then one of them could have my room. They are the leadership and all the guys are transitioning into their roles right along with the twins, they aren’t just here to hangout and sleep on whatever flat surface is available. It’s real life now.
Thankfully having Mateo and Sam on my side helped. The twins don’t care about Oliver’s opinion at the moment and he and Sam think it’s hilarious. Mateo is better at hiding his amusement.
My whole team has taken the second floor. Jena, Lil and I are sharing a room as usual and Wyatt and Nathaniel are sharing which leaves the largest room for Alpha Reggie and Luna Anne when they get here, a room for Xander, Mina and Oscar and two rooms for their warriors.
Just organizing all the people in this house has been exhausting and we still can’t get a read on the pentagram with our technology, which means we are going to have to do it the old fashioned way and search each and every house and building in the territory. At least Jena and I have a real idea of the size and scale so we can strategically choose places to look. We set warriors on the hunt as a part of their patrol duties. We divided the entire pack territory into a grid system on a map hanging in our mak-shift war room. Wyatt is leading that project. @
Nathaniel is basically at everyone’s beck and call, but he is focusing on Kevin, who is still missing, and anything happening outside the pack borders. Alpha Reggie should be arriving tonight so he is using this opportunity to make sure that we can still actually see outside our borders, not just what is shown to use by the magic from the pentagram.
It’s been two days since we have moved back in and I haven’t seen Ava at all. I didn’t expect her to be hosting and throwing parties after losing Lucas, but I am worried about her. Jena, Lil and I were talking about her last night and wondering if the mate bond break was worse than she let on at the hospital. I haven’t seen Brett either, so I assume or hope that he’s with her, helping her process all of this.
I have never witnessed a matebond break, so I don’t know what to look for or how to help and it makes me feel terrible for her, but I also can’t focus on that. I have to trust that Brett has her and focus on the Mike and Kevin and Kaley problems. 2
We know there is no way Kevin just vanished. But if he’s using magic, he could be hiding in plain sight. Kaley has been less hidden, but she at least took my threat seriously, for now. She walks by the packhouse regularly now, but without her little minions, or really any pack members, she just looks ridiculous. Everyone who is still here is a warrior, all of our Omegas, pups and elderly who shouldn’t be fighting were taken by boat two hours down the coast and then driven the long way around to Alpha Reggie’s territory. Lenny stayed with a couple other Omegas to work the kitchens for us, but they are all well trained and can protect themselves. 2
Kaley, quite literally, has nothing to do. No one is at the school and she doesn’t fight so we didn’t even pretend to put her on a patrol. She would just get someone hurt protecting her. Although, all the warriors are aware of her homing beacon stunt and I don’t think any of them would try to protect her after that level of betrayal.
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