“I was to intern and learn on-site. She took all that away from me and all because your dad wants to initiate her into the pack, and she refuses to do so. Is playing hard to get, so she gets everything handed to her from your own father. All just to try and placate her in the hope she’ll let him bring her in one day. She’s just stringing it along to get bigger dollars out of him. She’s got the bigger office now, and he’s offered her one of the new penthouse apartments.”
Jared rolled his eyes a little. There it was the jealousy he thought, the girl did nothing but expected to have everything. “So you’ve done what in the past five years? Did you go and get that marketing degree? Study and then show you could do the job yourself? Or did you just spend the past five years whinging that she stole something from you?” he asked directly. “I’ve seen Wynta’s resume, it’s full of achievements and her hard work has paid off is all I saw. Not only that she took her whole team with her, that’s not selfish at all.” he stated.
He could feel Lotti’s eyes on him. “You’re siding with her, a filthy rogue and not with me… that’s”
He cut her off. “Watch your tone and words, I could report those very words to my father about how you feel he’s treated you unfavorably, and you’ll get punished…” His words trailed off as his eyes fell on the road ahead and there was rushing water crossing it just on the edge of the pack road.
“Flash flood,” Lotti murmured. “That’s what happened to me.”
He nodded and pulled the car to the very side of the road to avoid the water and turned onto the pack road. The gate guard smiled at him. “You’re just going to make it Alpha Jared.” He waved them through but frowned at Lotti in the seat next to him.
“There’s a flash flood near the pack road entrance,” Jared stated.
“I heard it, before I saw it,” he nodded and pointed out to the woods where the stream along the pack border was overflowing. “It kind of cut the road and then washed down it, seems to have settled back into the stream, likely an embankment collapse out there forcing the water is all.”
“No pack injuries reported.”
“Nothing yet. All border patrollers are fine as well. We had to sound off.” He nodded.
“Good.” Jared nodded and put his foot down to race up the pack road. He pulled his car up right out the front of the packhouse and got out. He didn’t even stop for his bag, just shot himself through the packhouse front doors.
“Damned near didn’t make,” Dwane laughed at him.
“Blame Lotti,” he stated, and Creed raced him up the stairs at full wolfen speed and into his suite. He didn’t bother to shower, just pulled on that formal suit waiting for him, already laid out, and ran his hands through his hair before racing back downstairs and into the ballroom to stand himself right next to his father.
“You’re late son.”
“I am not,” he looked at his watch. “I got me 50 seconds to spare.”
“Where is Wynta? You’re late because you were to bring her to my office hours ago to finally be initiated into the pack.” His father smiled at him. “Finally I got her here.”
He looked about, “She’s here somewhere. I dropped her off like 25 minutes ago?” he stated.
His father looked right at him and there was a deep frown on his face, and then he took a breath in “You dropped her off! Where exactly? Because I can’t smell her.”
“Lotti’s car ran off the road, so I dropped Wynta at the pack road and headed back to pick Lotti up. I pointed her in the right direction. To the gates.”
“You left Wynta outside the pack, in the freezing cold.” His father snapped at him.
“Wolves don’t really feel the cold.” Though he did recall she’d looked cold to him.
“She’s without wolf, Jared. Did you not notice that?”
“Oh.” He murmured, and the answer to that was no he hadn’t, he’d not even considered it. She smelt wolfen and rogue, he’d not checked to see if she was wolf-less. Why would he? “I didn’t know. Just presumed because she was wolfen, that she had a wolf.”
“You had one bloody job, Jared. Do you know how hard it was to get that woman onto pack territory? I can only initiate her and give her pack protection if she willingly sets foot inside this pack. That was our agreement. Five bloody years of trying, and you managed to blow it in just one day.”
“She’s here, I tell you,” he stated.
“I think I’d know son, if there was a rogue on pack territory.” His father snarled at him and stalked off.
Dwane’s hand fell on his shoulder. “No rogues have come into the pack, Jared.”
“She was fine, standing by the pack road.” He murmured and then frowned as there was something itching his brain.
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