Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
I do as he asks, for once, once and head straight to the house. Wyatt and Nathaniel are eating before Wyatt heads to patrols and Nathaniel heads to help with the next training session. “Perfect, we didn’t miss you. Heard a rumor today and think you should check it out.”
Nathaniel stops me as I walk by the island.
“What’s up?”
“Rumor is, the Alpha enjoyed the spectacle of the trails so much that he wants to run something like that again, but no other packs will come here with the threat of the Rogues, so he is going to do some kind of mock trial soon.”
“So what? He can run anything he wants, it’s his pack. Maybe it will boost morale a bit, since everyone has been so focused on training and protecting the pack. It will be something fun to look forward to.”
“Yeah, but we are pretty sure it’s not his idea, because there is also a ball to follow to announce the winner officially, and of course it is going to coincide with the twins birthday.”
He gives me a pointed look. That got my attention. Of course Kaley wants a spectacle surrounding the twins turning eighteen. She thinks she is going to be Luna, and if she has them under mind control, that is exactly what is going to happen.
I am so tired and I just want to sleep, but now I have to figure out what this is all about. At least I have a bit of a time frame. If it is set for the twins birthday, then that gives me two and a half weeks to set them free.
“Sam, Oliver. We have to talk.”
“Little Bit, I’m pretty sure the instruction was ‘sleep’ not ‘overthink and come up with more sh*t to do.””
“What’s up Bitty?”
“Such a suck up.”
“What do you know about mock trials and a ball to celebrate the twins’ birthday?”
Now I have their attention. I explain what Nathaniel found, because that was actually news to them. Meaning they are being left out of conversations, they have always been and should be a part of.
We decide that we need to get to Mateo ASAP and the best way to do that would be during patrols so Nathaniel can be our lookout on the cameras as well as Jena and the guys helping. I’m hoping that having Jena with me will help and not hinder our plan. I’m pretty sure Kaley has been keeping Mateo away from her in the hopes that he will choose one of her friends.
I don’t understand how one person can be responsible for ruining so many lives and is doing it completely on purpose for a title.
Sam said he will get his dad to shift the patrol schedule, but to make it look natural, we have to wait until the weekend when a shift like that would normally occur.
Four days. I have to wait four days to save my brother. They seem to be
??
the longest days ever. Jena and I have been keeping busy in the tiniest spaces of downtime that we do actually have planning a party for the boys. I don’t know if it will happen at all, but the thought of something fun and just for them is helping us both cope with the very real thought that our plan has no back-up or plan B, it has to work to save the guys and the pack.
The pack was finally informed of the Mock Trials and the Ball to follow. Of course the kids who have no idea what’s going on think it’s great. Exactly what I thought, marketed as a distraction for all the bad things that have been happening. And of course with the pack being thinned out all the pups and non-warrior Omegas are still in the Royal pack. It has become a bit of an elitist thing. Only the people here are strong enough, good enough to be here, the cream of the crop, placing the best of the best as choices for dates to the ball.
The Elite warriors of course will be helping to run the mock trials and then are expected to continue providing protection for the pack while the pack members party to their heart’s content.
We are now getting all of our information via mindlink from the Alpha. He is too busy planning to be seen. Planning defenses against the rogues, planning the mock trials, planning the ball and his son’s eighteenth birthday.
In all my life, I have never known him
1.n to plan any of those things without his team and his Luna. He was always a team player, loves to take an idea and have everybody run it. He was always encouraging, never@ssuming his idea was the best or the be all, end all. Maybe that was his downfall. He never, in my presence, looked at someone and just said ‘no.’ There was always the neutral, peacekeeping answers, I’m sure he hoped that if the topic was never approached again it would just go away.
This time it didn’t go away and innocent lives are being lost and we are focused on the wrong things. We should not be having a ball to placate a f*cking princess wannabe, who decided to take, by force, what isn’t hers.
Finally, Sunday rolls around and the new patrol schedule was posted last night, effective immediately. This put Mateo and Oliver on the same patrol with Jena and I. We have to work fast though, before someone discovers Mateo and Jena are together. I think that is the bigger issue over him being with me.
Jena and I make sure we are fully geared up. I am not under the delusion that Mateo will be able to be freed as easily as Sam and Oliver. He has always put this pack first, above everything, including his own wants and needs. He was always taught that the Alpha is right and to never go against him. That kind of loyalty is great, until you have loyalty blindly, then people get hurt.
Oliver gave me a specific place to meet them on the route. He was afraid Mateo might lose his sh*t if he saw Jena and I both at the patrol house to check in. So we showed up early, ran to the location and were just stuck waiting.
Just as I really start to get antsy, I finally hear some noise in the underbrush. Oliver is being loud intentionally and it’s strange, normally he is the most stealthy of all of us. I wonder if my brother suspects something with him acting out of character like this.
Then I see it, my brother’s wolf barreling towards us at full speed, not good, cause he looks pissed.
“Incoming, Bitty. I think he can smell Jena or you, or both of you. I don’t know if Mateo has control right now.”
“We got him.”
is all I have time to reply as I let Jena know.
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