Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
I sit in the chair and get comfortable. I love that she doesn’t hover, but knows that I need the guidance and the time to just go through things at my own pace and ask questions when I need to. I have no idea how long I have been sitting here and so engrossed in this new spell that I don’t hear Cam walk into the room. I jump as he kisses me on the cheek.
“Oh damn!! You scared the sh*t out of me!”
“I’ll have to remember that you can be completely distracted by a book and your reading room to the point of not being able to use your cheater enhanced abilities against us.”
He chuckles under his breath and sits in the other chair with a coffee in hand. Oh wow, I was so distracted that he made it by me, to the kitchen and back and I had no idea. “Don’t look so shocked Tiny, this is our safe space. No one comes up here unless it’s absolutely necessary, you can let your guard down.”
“Unless you really don’t want to be attacked by us,” Another kiss on the cheek. “Then I would keep a little of your guard up.”
Dakota sits on the arm of my chair. “We need to get a couple more chairs in here.”
He looks around the space.
“We can just move to the living room…”
I start.
“No, you like this space, Bitty. The living room has the TV and a bunch of other distractions. You like the simplicity of this space, so we want to be here… with you.”
Oliver kisses my other cheek, but stays standing.
“So what’s on the list of assignments today?” Cam asks over his cup.
“The grimoire was here when I woke up. Not sure if it was here last night, but I don’t think so. There were a couple new spells marked for me to learn. I wish there was some type of description of what the spell is for or what it is supposed to do, though. Especially when they look super complicated like this.”
I turn it towards Oliver and he makes a face.
“I don’t remember that one from before and I flipped through the whole book. Maybe I missed something?” He says it like a question, but we all know he most definitely did not miss anything. He doesn’t miss anything. “Well, let’s treat like information to know, but we won’t do anything with it until we understand what it’s for. At least Elena and Gentry are both here right now and Elena is going to be here permanently, so that will be helpful. You can train regularly on your magic and we can learn what the hell we are doing with these elements now that we all have them.”
I nod. “We should go check in with everyone. I want to know how all of our warriors are and get a rundown of any other damage to the pack grounds that we might need to handle before the Rogue King comes our way, since we know he’s coming, and anything we can put in place now to protect us.”
They nod to me.
“I also have one request.”
Cam looks at me like he’s going to say something I don’t like and I clench my jaw, bracing for it. “I don’t want you to go down to see Mike.”
I inhaled sharply, that was going to be my next stop after they woke up. I want to confront him. I need to confront him. “Hear me out, Love: We didn’t kill him, because we need him to lure the Rogue King and this witch Adrielle out, but I talked to Mateo and other than the ramrod from Jena, he’s taken every single punishment with a smugness, that tells us he’s up to something. I trust Mateo’s judgment. I trust Brett and Kyle on this, something is off. It’s like he’s waiting, biding his time and you are the only thing he has wanted. Until we can figure out his endgame, will you promise not to go down to the cells? Not even to use the gym. Being in the house is too close for my wolf, and I am barely holding onto control of him.”
I roll my eyes and scrub my face with my hands. How can I argue with a request like that? Even though I want to so badly. I want my turn to beat the sh*t out of him, but I know if the situation was reversed and it was Kaley in the room, smugly waiting for my mates, I would ask them not to go too. They just sit there waiting for my answer patiently, even Dakota, who is only slightly more patient than Sam. I take a deep breath and run through every scenario in my head, anyway to get my turn, now, but I can’t find one. I roll my eyes at myself. They are my mates, and this isn’t a hard request, why am I being difficult? It’s the first thing he has asked of me, and he actually asked. I take another deep breath and nod my head.
“Fine, for now, but I want my chance too. I deserve that much since I didn’t get to do anything about Kaley. He took that away from me too. That b*tch didn’t deserve the easy way out either.”
My eyes are focused on the floor in front of me and I can feel the tension in the room, if I tried I could probably taste it on my tongue. It’s so thick.
“Will you ever tell us the whole truth about that, Smalls? I know we don’t deserve it and now there really isn’t anything we can do to make up for it, but I want to know anyway, when you’re ready to tell us.”
“Maybe. Someday. Right now I just want to get through this Rogue King bullsh*t.”
I sigh.
“Well then let’s go see our team and get a game plan together.”
We all get up and head back to the bedroom to change. “Speaking of ‘our team.’ I was thinking about Sam’s question last night.”
“What question, Bitty?”
“The Gamma question. I didn’t think about it before, but everyone always thought about our connection as a Gamma to a Luna, but since we are mates and you are an Alpha now, we are in need of a Gamma.”
“Even if you are an Alpha too?” Dakota says muffled through pulling on a shirt.
“For one thing Jena and Mateo should not be forced to deal with all four of us.”
I laugh. “And another thing we want a Gamma line here, we don’t know if the next female leader will be an Alpha or a Luna, we want to make sure we set up our pack for success for any scenario, now that we know there is more than one possibility. I was thinking about asking Lil to stay. She’s a Delta from her pack, but she has always been my right hand with Elite Warrior missions. I also know her, Jena and I work well together. That has been tested time and time again as well.”
“That is something else I would really like to hear about, Tiny. Your time with the Elite Warriors. You gel were gone for almost two years, and I want to know about you as a warrior outside of this pack.”