Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
Mateo and Oliver take the northern half of the territory. More homes are on this side of the land. The elevation in the center of the pack gives us an easy divide. It is cooler on the Northern side, so it’s better for homes than crops. Dakota and Cam take the southern half, where our crops and farms are more plentiful. We work as a leadership group in the evenings designing the pack center on the plateau of the central elevation of the pack. I am hoping that we can bring back pack members by the end of the month. I have this need for everyone to be home and safe. Ava laughed at me when I asked her about that. Like having the pack divided up is making my skin crawl.
“Oh, Sweet Girl. You may be an alpha, but you are this pack’s Luna too. You have a connection to them the boys never will. They have an innate need to protect everyone, but you, you will feel everyone. All their emotions, their happiness and sorrow. You are the light that holds the pack together. That is why the Luna is so important.”
“How can she be both an Alpha and a Luna?” Lil asks across the table. We are having a rare girls’ day. Our boys are working with Alpha Reggie, Osiston and Nickolas getting supplies in and organized. Sam and Mateo have figured out that their now showing mates won’t stay out of anything unless all the girls are forced to sit on the sidelines too. So here we are. It is so cute to see the little bumps in their stomachs start to develop and no matter how many looks people give me when I get excited for my friends, I am still hoping to have some more time to be just me.
Ava pulls me from my thoughts.
“How has she been able to do anything in her life? She’s special, that’s how. She’s both a wolf and a witch. She’s a leader and a team player. She is an Alpha and she is a Luna. Speaking of which, I think we should do a Luna ceremony when everyone gets back. I know that your alpha aura is the strongest, but it will bond the pack after all of this. So much has happened since we sent everyone away. We lost Lucas and gained four Alphas in the process. They will be so excited you have joined the boys.”
“Yes! I want you in a dress… FINALLY!” Sierra claps her hands.
“I have been in a dress. You missed out because I was on assignment.”
I point at her.
“Yeah, but those pictures and the guys’ reactions were epic! I would like to see a live reaction.”
“Wait! How do you know what their reactions were?” I have my hand halfway to my mouth, suspending a chip with salsa dangerously over my lap.
“I may have snuck into their camp. It was not new or an unusual thing actually. They all snuck around like any other large mass of teenagers would. We were just hanging out actually and a text came through to Mateo, because Xander is not su cidal. Now, the reactions make total sense. Then, it was, because they were so extreme towards someone they claimed was ‘just a friend’ or ‘a beta, so you’re close.”
“What did they do?” Jena leans forward eating this gossip up. “I’ve only known them since we got back and anyone with eyes could see all three of them were in love with her.”
“Honestly, it was pretty much the same before, but everyone was so young and all of them were scared of the ‘mate’ word. Our little Sky here had all of them wrapped around her finger the minute she bested them on the training field.”
We all start laughing.
“They didn’t even notice me before you showed up. It’s all your fault.”
I threw my napkin at her.
“Nah, they would have caught on eventually. It just happened a little faster with me. I still watch the videos of your birthday when we went shopping. I thought your head was going to explode when I brought out the first hideous dress. It was so big and poofy you looked like a porcelain doll.”
She scrolls her phone and starts handing it around. I haven’t forgotten this day, but I don’t remember their reactions being this dramatic.
She takes her phone back and flips to something else and then hands it around. It’s a video from the lake at the Alpha King’s castle. They are all just goofing around when Mateo gets a message. He stares at the screen then almost drops the phone as he scrolls. “What the f*ck?!” He asks the air, which gets the attention of the others, who huddle around him. All their faces go slack, then Sam’s glowing smile breaks across his face. “Yes! Go Little Bit. You guys are f*cked. She looks like that around all those hoity rich bastards. She’s never coming back. They know she can fight, they know she’s smart and now,” He whistles. “She’s a prize. At least she’s with Xander. They look good together.”
I can tell by the look on his face that he is messing with them, but the rest of them are so serious. Mateo looks like he might puke. Oliver went completely rigid behind him. Dakota has his jaw on the floor and looks like he might cry and Cam is pissed. If he were a dragon, there would be flames shooting out of his nose. “I’m going to kill him if he lays a hand on her.”
Cam growls and Sam slaps his shoulder. “Hate to break it to you, but that’s his hand around her waist, holding her real tight, and if she’s meant to stay close to him all night, then that is probably going to be what you will see in every picture. You should have grown a set when she was still with us.”
There’s more, but I pause it.
I look up at Sierra. “What the hell is this? Why have I never seen this before?”
“First, don’t shoot the messenger. And second, you cannot be that blind. They were all in love with you, even Sam. But we are not talking about that because he is mine and my wolf is already territorial about him, this kid is making it worse. I’m so glad it’s quick though. I was talking to Elena and humans take like a whole year to grow a baby. Bleh. I’m two months into my six month stint, I can’t imagine all these hormones for a year.”
Jena threw a cucumber in her mouth. “Yeah, I about ripped Mateo’s head off this morning for putting a glass down too loud on the counter and then cried for thirty minutes for yelling at him. He thinks it’s hilarious, which makes me want to punch him even more. I am less emotional I around you all.”
We all start laughing again. We were all over the moon when the pack doctor confirmed that she is pregnant and everything looks healthy and completely normal.
“That is the female bond you have. Everyone here has the capacity to go through pregnancy and hormones the way you are right now. Your wolves are very close well. The female wolves will always protect and help their pregnant pack members. They are carrying the future.”
Ava looking at each of us. “All your children will be close too. Look at the boys and Sky” She looks at me and wiggles her eyebrows.
“Oh, no you don’t. We are not talking about this. First Sierra what’s to play dress up and then you are trying to get me pregnant. I’m sure you can find other ways to torture me.”
They are all laughing again.
“We know you’re not ready, Sweet Girl. But that doesn’t mean that I’m not ready. And I will never stop asking. I hope you have a dozen.”
She rubs her hands together, like a cartoon villain. I about choked on my water. She has lost her f*cking mind.
She did let the subject go after that, thankfully. And just to make sure it didn’t come up again I mindlinked Gentry and Elena to train with me so I would have an excuse to leave. All the girls complained when I got up to go, butas the resident workaholic, they all know I can only sit still for so long. We did actually work though. I am learning nature magic and how to feel through the grass and dirt. I can actually hear the trees communicate even from the center of the pack all the way out to the mainland. It is so cool, but takes a lot of concentration, which is hard right now having so many decisions needing to be made. I think this will be one of my favorite ways to meditate and relax though.
It only took a few weeks to get enough housing done in the southern part of the pack for the agriculture omegas to move in and begin tending to the damaged lands our produce grows in. The rogues that came through here were focused on getting rid of our food supplies, not the places where wolves who grew the food lived. Nothing is growing yet, that just takes time, but the sight of cleared farmland brings hope to everyone. We also brought in pack members who had any skills in building so the projects could go faster. It’s been great getting a few trucks of members arriving every week or so. We are becoming whole again, piece by piece.
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