“I know what he is, grew up in his social circle, is…was, my friend I guess, just like he was Ori’s, we’re the same age.” She turned and looked at Beckham “in fact I’m two weeks older.” She stated, and then glared at Slade “Respect your elders.” She grated out and stalked off.
He waved off the apology he saw coming from Beckham. He knew Lindal was actually Ori’s closest female friend and Lindal was right. They all hung out together at school and outside of training. There were just 15 of them, all 18 and that was his social circle.
He didn’t blame Lindal for her words, she was mad on Ori’s behalf, it was likely his whole circle of friends would be as well. This was so badly fucked up he didn’t know how to even start to try and fix it.
But that: he’d gotten everything he wanted. No, he hadn’t. He watched them get in the elevator, and he took the stairs himself to go down to his father’s office. Saw Anders look at her suitcase and recognise it, how could he not? It was his daughters. Frowned as he stood in the Alpha’s office doorway, likely waiting for Slade to come down himself.
He watched Lindal herself glare at the pack Beta, for a tiny she-wolf that did not train at all. She had some guts, he realised. Practically took strips of himself and now was glaring at the actual Beta to the pack. No wonder she got herself an Elite Warrior for a Mate. Though her mother was a warrior herself. She was just taking after her father; she liked cars.
Slade wondered just how many of the pack members were actually going to be ticked off about this, the way it had been done? Anders stepped aside for him to pass into his father’s office. The entire Alpha Unit were in there, and he heard the door being closed behind him.
“I don’t think I’m ready to have a calm conversation yet.” He grated out, Hail was already up inside his mind. Also didn’t want to be in this room, it seemed.
“It has to be now, son.” His father sighed, “Before things get too far out of hand.”
“How could it possibly get worse? You lot already fucked things up beyond fixing.”
“Enough with the language, please. And sit yourself down.” His father sighed.
“Why is the Beta in here?” he grated out. He didn’t want to have to look at Anders at all right this minute.
“Son, please. We’re actually trying to help you. You don’t know the things we do.”
“Did a superb job of helping me, right out of my friendship with Ori.” He muttered.
He heard all in the room sigh heavily now, and frowned as he looked at them all. None of them looked at all happy, “What’s going on?” he knew instantly that he had missed something, because Anders wasn’t breathing down his neck right this minute, all the disrespect he’d just gotten, about why he was in the room. He was actually the second in angry about command, ahead of Slade himself, until he took over.
“Anders and I are working on your mating alliance, or the one we’re expecting needs to be worked on, so please calm down. He actually needs to be here.”
“Really, we agreed to wait, two full moons on that.” He glared at his father. “So this is you trying to help me how? And to be honest with you, I think that isn’t at all what is important right at this very minute.” he turned to leave, how could they just blip over Ori and turn to his mating alliance?
The man hadn’t even kept his word on that Alpha deal they’d made he realised, he’d not let Slade tell her in his own way, as was the deal. It had been forced out of him due to what they had done here, prior to him getting back. He turned back to look at his father as he realised that.
“Our Alpha deal, you broke your end, it was I who was to tell her, my way, and you forced my hand. I didn’t even get the chance to do it the way I wanted to. Our deal is off. There will be no mating alliance.” He informed him.
“Sit down Slade.” His father stated in a warning tone, then he watched the man take a deep breath in and release it slowly, “I hear you, but this right now is more important than you actually understand.”
His eyes moved about the room, they were all just watching him, none of them looked mad or angry, annoyed even, actually looked concerned, he realised, even Anders. He walked over and finally sat himself down. And found Anders on the coffee table before him “Son,” he stated.
Slade nearly snarled at the word usage, “Oriana…,” Anders looked at Roman.
Who nodded at him “We have to break the rules ourselves. Before, we can’t fix it.” He stated.
“We think Oriana is your Mate.” Anders told him, when he looked back at him.
“What?” he frowned at the man now, “No, Audrey already feels the sparks of our Mate Bond, she told me so.”
“She told you before the full moon?” his father was standing next to Anders now, looking down at him with a full frown.
“Yes, she knew the moment she arrived at Alpha College,” he nodded.
They were all frowning at him now, “Son, you know yourself that telling a wolf that is against the law, all wolfen laws, is written into the Mate Bond Laws explicitly.”
“She told me, not I her.” He commented “I didn’t coerce her. I kind of picked it up myself. With the way she is when I touch her, after she touches me even.”
“Son, until you scent her out, it is not something you should believe. This pack is very wealthy, large and…”
“And?”
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