She walked their coffee’s over to them and placed them on the table, “Enjoy, gentlemen.” She smiled, right at them, liked that neither of them actually could detect what she was, here was her very first proof of that. Not even a pure-blooded Alpha wolf could detect it. She truly was safe here from their own Kind.
She’d watch them leave, just walk off down the street; didn’t return to their car and wondered what they were doing. Mind-linked to Maddie, ‘Do you think he knows you used his pack to gain access to the intranet?’
‘What? I doubt it. I don’t think it’s monitored at all.’
‘But you don’t know either, do you?’
She watched Maddie think about it for a long time then just shake her head ‘No I guess not.’
‘Does he always turn up shortly after you access it?’ Ana asked now.
Maddie had stared right at her, ‘I don’t know, never thought about it to be honest.’
They served more customers as Ana really thought about it, then when they got home, she asked “How often do you access the intranet?”
“Hmm, not that often, a few times a year.” Maddie told her.
“And how often do you see that man?” Ana asked.
“A few times a year…” Maddie was quiet for almost half a minute. “Oh, well hey, maybe he has been told.”
“Mm, might want to keep an eye on it.” Ana nodded.
“Hmm, or set a trap to see if he turns up when I use it?” Maddie nodded. “That’s probably the best way to figure it out.”
“Yes, but don’t do it soon, wait a bit, so he goes back and settles back inside his pack.”
“Good thinking 99.” Maddie chuckled.
Slade
Slade had to sit and watch as Audrey, was Alpha ordered to tell the truth about whether she had come here and tried to coerce Slade into Marking and Mating her prior to the full moon. He’d not liked hearing it, but had been told, he, as the suspected victim, must be in this room for the forcing of the complete and utter truth, of the situation he now found himself in.
He’d not liked knowing that, yes, she’d come here and latched on to him, as per her father’s wishes, though she didn’t find it all that difficult to do, she did actually apparently like him, not just his looks but his personality as well. Would like to be his Mate and the future Luna to his pack.
He already knew that she was the third daughter, that she had two older sisters who were both mated off already, though he’d been told by Audrey that they were Goddess-Gifted. When the council dug into that, she’d stated her father had set those up as well. Very similar to the way he’d done this with Audrey herself.
To get alliances with wealthy packs, and have funds come to him from the pack they’d go to. Both her sisters had gotten themselves pregnant to get that wolf he’d set them up with to claim them. She had been doing her best to get pregnant with Slade’s child, but it just didn’t happen, and when she’d tried to Mark him the other night, and he’d stopped her, she’d called her father to tell him, he wasn’t going to.
Her father had told her to play the pregnancy card that she’d just found out only a few days earlier, and was barely pregnant a week at most, because not many would know that by then, only the she-wolf herself. Males, Alpha-blooded or not, wouldn’t really pick it up until two or three weeks in, unless they were actively looking for it.
So it was still plausible that she could be. Then, when she’d failed to get him to claim her, and he’d known she wasn’t pregnant, her father had told her to not go to class today, and plead she’d had a miscarriage, so there was no evidence of a pup, to wear one of Slade’s shirts to smell like him and cover that bases, look sad and hurt. She’d actually done everything that her father had told her to do.
Slade didn’t understand her at all, didn’t know why one would want to mate themselves at 18 to someone that wasn’t their Goddess-Gifted Mate. It wasn’t like their lives were short, they lived for a very long time, they had hundreds of years to be free and find their Mate: That one wolf that was the other half of their very soul.
It came down to that she would be the Luna of a very wealthy pack. Be highly respected and loved by all, something that her father had told her, as the third born, she was unlikely to get at all. She’d be nothing to their pack’s ascension line and would likely wind up with a warrior and just become invisible to another pack.
He’d lied to his own daughter, to get what he wanted, which was just money. Apparently, he himself had not had the opportunity to attend Alpha College due to him already having a child, his firstborn daughter at 17, and had been mated off to his high school girlfriend the minute they both turned 18. Both her older sisters had not gone to Alpha College, so he didn’t know about the moonstone bands and what they were used for.
Audrey’s punishment for now was to go on that shaming post until her father was called in for a meeting about his despicable behaviour. He’d also heard the announcement to the entire college that they had to meet in front of the Wilder dorm, and Audrey had been put on that shaming post once more for all to see, and her crime announced formally.
She’d been wide-eyed and then had just sat there on the ground and sobbed out an apology to Slade for her behaviour. That it was her father’s fault, only to be told by Alpha Gretta. “It may have been your father that put you up to this Audrey, but you came here and willingly went along with it. Could have come to anyone of us, and stated what your father was trying to make you do, and we’d have punished him for it.”
The girl had stared up at Gretta but said nothing and Gretta had then stated “You have ruined Slade’s reputation, over your claiming to be pregnant, and you’re not, never were.” Gretta had told everyone here standing watching “A full shame to yourself and your wolf, your pack, and now you are an example to all others that think it’s okay to coerce, or try to coerce one into marking and mating them just becasue they want leadership of a pack themselves. Shame on you.”
“I’m sorry.” She’d sobbed.
“I bet you are young lady.” Alpha Tyler had stated “You will stay out here until your father has been dealt with.”
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