Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“Do what?”
“You were a panicky mess needing protection and reassurance ten minutes ago and now you have totally switched to boss mode. How do you bounce like that?” Kota asks.
“I try not to be a mess in the first place. Some things I don’t have control over. That’s usually when Oliver has to jump in to get me out of my head. Being all business is easier, it’s tangible, I can deal with it and work with it. Emotions are not simple or easy or make any sense to me whatsoever. I try to avoid them as much as possible.”
I shrug.
“F*cking superhero.”
Cam mumbles and Oliver huffs a laugh.
“You guys came for me today too.”
Why am I trying to placate them? I internally give myself an eye roll. “Anyway, we found this shimmer in the corner of the camera view when we were going over feeds on the second floor and Nathaniel found the same shimmer in the feeds from the Alpha’s office from that night. We can’t record magic, yet, but we think that might be him catching magic that is in place or maybe showing signs of magic in the space. He’s checked out other camera views from other days and found similar shimmers when he knew magic was being used. So something was going on that night.”
“How do you know it happened when we showed you the camera?”
It was actually right after that when I got angry and submitted you all.”
“Wait, you guys didn’t tell me she did that?” Oliver’s accusatory tone at least lets me know he’s been playing go between for us.
“Would you tell anybody that your hundred and twenty pound, five foot nothing Beta slash Alpha warrior submitted the entire Alpha family? Because no one outside this group gets to hear that.”
Kotas snarks at him.
Before anything else can distract us
I go on. “Anyway, when I let out my aura, the Luna stepped behind the desk. It was the first time all four of you were separated from me by the desk. The theory is that something was activated then. So I basically did this to myself after losing my temper. I was having Nathaniel show you the different feeds, but what were you seeing?”
“We are going to jump back to the ‘you were giving Nathaniel orders from the Alpha’s sealed office’ thing first.”
I rolled my eyes for real this time. “Have you not figured out yet that my abilities supersede anything you have set up in this pack for protection? I can always contact my team, so yes that night I did to prove ou innocence. Now, what did you see?”
“We saw you placing cameras, but the image was blurry, you also confessed to spying because you thought we were weak and none of us deserved to run this pack.”
Cameron seems to be trying to hold his anger in.
Dakota however, wears his emotions on his sleeve. “You said you were glad you met the Rogue King and couldn’t wait to get back to him.”
He looks so sad and distraught. He scrubbed his hands over his face. “Obviously Nathaniel has showed us the videos, with sound and you said nothing like that but that was probably the worst kind of torture ever, Smalls.”
They all just go quiet. “Was that it?! Seriously? The conversation was so much longer than that. I told you with my brand I can’t lie to Alpha Reggie, I showed the scars on my back, the ones Kaley gave me. You all just stood there.”
“Tiny, you said you were disappointed to be associated with this pack, that helping us was bullsh*t and you were only assigned here because you’re from here. You said you never wanted to come back, that you were better off being as far away as possible.”
Well that helps explain their behavior in the office that night. “What about out on the porch when Kaley and Kevin were talking to us. Kaley outright called me a traitor, she knew I was questioned. I didn’t even think about that until just now. I know there was some kind of magic on the packhouse itself, I could actually see it. Oliver, I think you saw it too.”
Oliver just nods his head. “I saw her talking to you, I wasn’t in earshot though. Then you got pissed and your eyes flashed and they were down on their knees. You told them they chose the wrong enemy.”
“I did tell them that. Kevin tried to tell me I wasn’t welcome in their pack and I should know how to treat a future Luna.”
I chanced a look at the twins. Trying to gauge their reactions.
“Her and this Luna sh*t. She has been going on about being our Luna since the sixth grade. We didn’t even care then.”
Dakota is pacing now, frustrated.
“You know her dad told us before we left the summer after eighth grade that he would be alright if we wanted to sleep with her. Said she would be up for anything we wanted. I knew it wasn’t right at the time, but we were leaving and then I forgot about it, but he was basically wh*ring her out to us, I’m sure hoping we’d get her pregnant.”
He shivered
“You did sleep with her though, didn’t you? I mean I guess I shouldn’t put much stock in rumors, but that would be one I would believe.”
“Once, we have only ever been with her once. And no we didn’t take her together. We were both too drunk for that kind of coordination.”
Cam doesn’t look at me.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.