Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“That’s what we’re calling now?” She laughs.
“You know none of us can do anything like that, stop.”
“Like what? I want to actually hear you say it.”
Why my friend insists on embarrassing me I don’t know. “Your Gamma is a hotty, none of us would blame you.
My eyes go wide. “Stop teasing her and her Gamma. Even he’s blushing.”
Jena chuckles.
I clear my throat then ask, “Where did the other four families go? We didn’t kick them out of rooms at the packhouse did we?” Trying to change the subject.
“No, their houses were fixed within six months. They all stayed at the packhouse while we rebuilt one house at a time and vacated as soon as they could. The Cunninghams project was the last to be started. Kevin said he was being generous and allowing the lower, more needy pack members to be taken care of first.”
Oliver rolled his eyes, going with the subject change. “He just used it to stall, we all know that. As people moved out of the packhouse they slowly took over more rooms on the guest floor, then there were constant problems with plans, or inspections, or materials. Kevin actually spent about two weeks going through each piece of lumber that was delivered and if he found anything wrong he would send the whole delivery back. We had a lot of angry suppliers. My dad had to placate them and then finally kick Kevin off the construction site because people were quitting.”
“So, that begs the question ‘why would it take more than a year for one house when four others were completed in six months?’ Why did no one else catch this, or allow it in the first place?” Lil asks.
“I honestly think that they make so much noise and cause so many headaches, that having them focus on the rebuilding of their house was a break for so many people. While being a massive irritation for others. And Kevin was incharge of the rebuild project so any complaints about him didn’t go anywhere.”
Oliver shrugs.
“But you guys can’t even relax at home with them around. It used to be a safe space to be normal away from pack members and now you don’t even have that. They are everywhere, trying to insert themselves in everything. I mean, just listening to Kevin try to insert his opinion about training programs when he doesn’t even train himself is painful.”
I don’t know why I’m pleading with them, they get it.
“That’s what we are going to fix.”
Jena looks like Christmas came early. “He expects the pack to pay for the full rebuild of his house since it was damaged in an attack. Then recommendations Arom improvements’ were made. Recommendations that came from an uncertified inspector Kevin hired personally, mind you. And before you ask, yes I have concrete proof. With that knowledge alone he isn’t eligible to have the pack pay for the extra expenses. So we are going to build his house as originally planned, when it was torn down.”
“How long will that take? And how do we keep Kevin from stalling again?” I ask.
“You didn’t say how you were going to keep the Cunningham’s in the dark about this.”
I say.
“This is where you and I come in.”
Lil claps her hands. “He already is banned from the construction site, but has regular contact with the contractors. I have talked to the current contractors and they are going to basically move all communication to email, so we can have control over it without him knowing. That will cover that side of it. We will give him the plans and move forward, he will get what he is supposed to, we won’t lie to or deceive him, but we will just word everything in a way to keep him placated.”
“So how do we keep him from checking the sight?”
“We are scrutinizing all of the school’s safety protocols as the Alpha King’s first line of security. They, most likely, already know about the plans to move non-warrior pack members, but until we actually start the move, the safety of the pups is our,” She points between herself and me, “Main priority and assignment from the Alpha King. Alpha Lucas has already sent him instructions to do as we say, which means he’s going to be on our asses. We need to get really specific and have daily early morning meetings with him and of course since it has to do with taking care of the pack’s safety, the ‘future Luna’ should be involved.”
Lil rolls her eyes. “I have already sent them both emails, we are starting right after training first thing tomorrow.”
“That keeps us out of helping to build though.”
I exclaim. I really don’t want to deal with Kaley for a month, even if Lil is there to be my back up.
“But you have such willing and strapping young men to do your bidding.”
Lil winks. “It’s perfect. Kaley is going to be so focused on you that she won’t pay attention to what is going on around her. She’s also going to see this as a benefit since she will see you nowhere near any of your guys all day everyday for a month. And they can’t claim you did anything wrong because you will be with them the whole time.”
I can’t really argue any other points. We spent the rest of the day planning out our security detail for the school. Both plans were a go. We were able to get a hold of the contractors in charge of the Cunningham’s house and they agreed that the constant changes were unnecessary and would only come back if we could guarantee that Kevin would not be involved at all. Alpha Lucas agreed to Jena’s term and even offered to pay a bonus to the laborers if they could have it done before the new year. He seems to be more willing to go against Kevin recently as opposed to just letting him have his way. I would love to ask him about it…when we both have time.
Following training the next morning, Lil and I had a meeting with Kevin and Kaley highlighting all of the necessary changes for the school and several that were not required, but would take time and of course needs their input. Lil and I made a point to make fun over mindlink of the fact that Kaley was allowed to skip classes for this when Kevin tried to give me and my friends a hard time about setting good examples to younger students.
The more that Lil stroked her ego the more Kaley pushed for the extensive changes to her father, wanting to use it as her Luna project for the pack. He couldn’t say no to her. She was on board with everything that Lil suggested and said I shouldn’t f*ck anything up and make her look bad.
We were able to fill the guys in on what we were up to over the mindlink daily, but we didn’t see much of each other until a few weeks later when they needed help hauling lumber to the Cunningham’s property overnight for an early start the next day.
The whole crew was buzzing with excitement and anticipation of being done with this massive irritation. We were able to organize the entire site with all the tools and supplies and the general contractor was confident that with this many people, the second floor frami net would be completed and the roof started by the end of the day tomorrow. All of the other contractors have just been working quickly around adding pipes, ductwork and electrical as they can. It’s been really impressive to see the camaraderie and teamwork. I know they are hoping to put the drywall up in the next couple days, then flooring, paint and appliances.
Kaley did throw a fit about Lil and Jena moving up into my room and repeatedly made comments at dinner each night, until last night Luna Ava told her to deal with it and she would run her pack house as she sees fit. And she doesn’t even allow the future Alphas to act the way that she has been since our arrival. And with the expectation of warriors coming to the pack for the impending war, we need to make preparations. One of those is making room in the packhouse for those warriors to have a place to sleep and eat.
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