Slade
“Son, you’re here because we feel Ori is losing it completely.”
“Well, whose fault is that? You screwed her over. She’s pissed off, managed to somehow contain a full-blown bloodlust, is what Palmer stated.” His eyes moved to Charlton.
“I felt it build, have seen it and felt it twice now, in my lifetime, it’s not pretty. It has a very distinct feeling to it, from a Gamma’s point of view; anger and fury that comes from both the human and the wolf together. Their emotions align and come together. They rolled their pain and feelings of betrayal into that anger. This forms very quickly and takes over in only a few minutes, because they both; the human and the wolf, are consumed with it.” He nodded and sighed heavily, “kind of feels like how a tornado looks I guess, there’s nothing else, no sadness, no fear, no joy, nothing other than a seething blinding rage within minutes, it swallows them whole, and they’re lost to it. That is how she felt out there, but she managed to contain it. I’ve never seen one pull themselves from it and shut it down before.” He shook his head and actually looked confused.
“She was like that because you did this the wrong way.” He told them.
“You were supposed to tell her on the way home.”
“No, I said I’d tell her before I went back to Alpha College.” He grated out.
“Well son, I thought you would do it in the privacy of the car on the way home, where it was just you and her, and no one could interrupt or overhear. You had six hours to explain your reasons why to the girl.”
“Well, you thought wrong”.
“I did, it seems. I couldn’t undo it when I found out you hadn’t told her as you came back into the pack. It was already done by the time you got home. The pack knew, I couldn’t un-announce it.”
He stared at the man and didn’t say anything at all, there was no point. It was too late now.” Why am I here? At this hour?”
“Ori, son. She threatened to leave the pack.”
Did that really surprise him, not really, he thought. “And you want me to do what exactly about that?” He turned and looked right at his father after only a moment’s thought, “why did she threaten to leave the pack? She is staying with Lindal as far as I know. I spoke to Lindal myself.”
“She wouldn’t talk to us, anyone. We waited until Charlton felt less anger from her when he tried to connect to her, and he was trying son. Just to feel her out, that was all not to actually speak to her at that time, and we waited until she felt calmer.”
“It took well over an hour for her to even start to calm down,” Charlton stated.
“Everyone got shut out the entire Alpha unit, both Palmer and Yuri, her own mother, the Luna even, no one was getting through to Ori.” His father told him.
“Well, I wonder why?” His voice dripped with sarcasm.
“Son, we’re just trying to contain her, keep her inside the pack until the full moon. We need her to stay here, it’s important that she’s here for the full moon. I was actually worried she was going to bolt from the pack. And then she kept cutting me off and wouldn’t let me talk to her, so I forced a mind-link to be established, and I held it open, one she couldn’t close-out. I told her that ignoring me was punishable. Which she knows actually would be.”
“Are you insane!” He snapped, “she bloody also knows all the laws, studies really hard, understands all the Beta’s duties including punishments, what rules, regulations go with what punishments, what all the infractions are, everything she and I need to know, so we can dish out punishment when you’re off pack territory.”
“I was just trying to pull her into line, it worked in the past.” His father sighed “she can’t stand the thought of anyone thinking she’s irresponsible.”
“Yes, and there’s a reason for that.” His eyes moved right to Anders, “she needs her father’s approval at all times, has been trying to win and get his approval all her life. That’s why she falls into line.”
“Yes, we know, that’s why it should have worked.” his father stated.
He snorted “Really, you don’t know her so well then, she’s not looking for his approval anymore. She stopped doing that weeks ago, the day I believe she went clubbing in that figure-hugging dress. Whatever you did to her that day, that’s where you lost her. And she stopped caring about being responsible the moment she saw Hayden in her place, on the packhouse stairs.”
“It’s ingrained into her to be responsible, Slade.” Anders told him. “Is currently lashing out, I understand, but we want her here for the full moon, believe that you and she will be mates, scent each other out on the full moon. Your anger around her rises quicker now, and it will continue to do so the closer the full moon gets, it’s you, reacting to her actual emotions, part of your mate bond on display even though you don’t scent her out yet.”
“You all think I’m actually her Mate?” he raised an eyebrow.
“Yes,” his father nodded, “I also think there’s a high possibility she’d reject you, just to stay the Beta to the pack as well.”
“What? Why would she?” He frowned at them.
“Because, son, she’s desperate to keep her position as the pack Beta. Do you think she’d give it up so easily? She wants to be a female Beta, show that there can be such a thing.”
“Still.”
“Son, who would get her position as the Beta if she was mated to you and became the future Luna?”
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