Holden again came up empty handed, nothing in Braidy’s pockets either. “Where is it?”
“I have no idea what you are talking about.” he laughed, claiming no knowledge of what he was being hunted for.
” Who’d you give it to?”
“give what to boss? Jeremy just mink-linked me to run and play along…you know me, I can’t resist boss.”
Holden grit his teeth, clearly Jeremy’s game was still afoot. ‘Oh Jeremy.’ he shot down the link to his Beta.
‘Yes Holden.’ he answered all proper like, Beta respect showing.
‘ Where is it?’
‘ What would you be referring to now?’ he feigned innocence.
‘ You know what!’
‘You sleep walking again boss, having weird dreams again maybe?’ the amusement in his voice. He was unable to disguise. The game he had set up was clearly not close to being over yet. Bloody boys had nothing to do, it seemed, well they would have when he was done with them.
As he walked back towards the pack-house he could only think of one way to end this quickly. ‘ Oh Jeremy…’ Braidy was trailing him, still amused. It wouldn’t be for long, punishment would be dealt out.
‘yes boss’
‘That pretty red head you like…tell her I want a dinner date with her.’ his voice had dropped to a soft husky note, so his Beta fully understood his intentions ‘7pm suits me’
‘ You wouldn’t?’
‘Oh wouldn’t I?’ Holden was the one smiling now, he was un-mated and enjoyed the company of a she-wolf. Jeremy’s latest fling was quite pretty, and he would know, no she-wolf turned down the chance to climb into the Alpha’s bed.
‘ You’re no fun.’ Jeremy huffed down the link ‘its in your office boss.’
‘it had better be, or your red head will be in my bed tonight.’ game over.
Even Rip liked the way he had ended it.
He walked into his office to find Kevin his Gamma sitting on the comfortable couch, smiling up at him and in his hand was the invite. Jeremy was leaning on the side of his desk, still smiling at the game he had set up.
Holden held out his hand “how’d you get that?”
“Jeremy gave it to me as he came out of your office.” he shrugged, but was smiling just as much as the other two were, ” link me to wait in the office with it once you came after him.”
He took the envelope which contained the invite and stared at Jeremy.
“What boss, what you were looking for was right in your office the whole time.”
Holden glowered at him, sneaky bastard, turned the envelope over, to try and figure out how he knew where it had come from without opening it. There were no pack markings on it to indicate the sending pack.
“How’d you know where it came from?”
“I asked the courier who delivered it.”
“What? It was hand delivered.” That was odd.
“Yep and had to be signed for by a ranked member of the pack, so I went, I was down that way.” he shrugged.
Holden was staring at the actual invite now itself. He could smell a female scent on it, the sending packs Luna he presumed. “They don’t normally need to be signed for, right?”
“Correct.” Jeremy nodded, but that stupid grin was back on his face again.
“What now, Jeremy?”
“Holden, I didn’t see anywhere on that invite for you to indicate your reply.”
“No they wouldn’t.” he snapped, reading the invite for himself, looking for the RSVP section, there wasn’t one.
“Yes, I think they would.” Kevin smiled from across the room, joining in on the conversation. “I read it several times. Signing for it is an agreement that you’ll attend the ball.”
“Are they so desperate to mate off their wolves, that they have to use this archaic tradition?” he muttered, his hand had now been forced. His Beta’s signature was as good as his on a matter like this.
Jeremy’s game had started the minute that bloody courier had shown him the blasted envelope. He thought it would be fun to make his Alpha go to a mating ball. Well, he would be punished, that was for sure. His mind was clearly twisted.
Turning to look at the date and then, when the next full moon was, just 9 days away. He frowned, short notice, and he knew that he would be expected the day before. He might not do these things, but the former Alpha had and so had his father. He knew how they worked. You had to arrive the day before to give all the arriving packs time to settle in and mingle first.
“Braidy, you will be in charge of selecting the 20 wolves for this bloody thing.”
“What no, that’s a nightmare of a job, they will all want to go.”
” Yes, for your part in this little joke, you get to deal with all the wolves begging and crying to go, then angry they didn’t get selected.”
He watched very satisfied as Braidy glared at Jeremy, who’s actual fault it was, but if you want to play you might just get burned.
“Jeremy, you will be going with me to this stupid thing. And as punishment for actually having the hide to sign for it, you get to do Creche duties for the next 5 days.”
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