“Get her the fuck out of the Pack-house. Madeline, you are banned from the Pack-house for the entire week. One more mistake after that and it will be permanent.” Alpha Preston says.
It takes a while for things to settle down, but once everyone has settled down dinner gets served and it seems to be the cue for all Pack-members to start talking again.
It is quiet at our table, none of us is too happy with the events of the evening and it might take a while before Pearl is back to her calm self.
After we have gotten our dessert, Pearl is finally able to respond again to everything around her and the first thing out of her mouth is “that fucking Bitch.”
We chuckle as she starts cutting in to her slice of cake and it doesn’t take long before we are finished with dinner. We follow Preston and Pearl up to the Alpha floor, I hope that Ruth can shed some light on the remarks she made.
“Okay, Darius. Out with it, what is on your mind?” Preston asks the moment the door closes behind us.
“I have been thinking about Ruth’s remarks. It has kept me preoccupied all week and I don’t understand why I never thought of it myself. Why is Mother pushing Daniella on Daxton and not me? Why does Mother keep pushing Daxton to a chosen Mate and not me?” I ask.
It is quiet for a moment, before all of them start talking at once and I smile as I hear the cacophony of voices.
“Okay, can we do this one at the time? I can’t make head or tails out of this.” I say and suddenly it is quiet again.
“I have always found it strange and that is why I gave it a lot of thought. Always listening to what Madeline said or how she said it and that is what led to my questions.” Ruth says.
“Dad told me that she made the two of you believe that you were born a year apart and that Darius is the oldest, but he couldn’t get her to tell him why she did it. Just to make this even more interesting, Daxton is five minutes older.” Preston says with a smile.
“Hold on, he is older than me?” I ask, not that it matters to me. It just makes things a bit stranger that is all, Mother always acted as if I was the oldest and now I find out that I am not.
Everyone has a dumbfounded look on their faces, it is hard to understand why a Mother would do that to her own Sons.
“I might have the answer though and I think it has to do with your Mother’s upbringing. In her Pack the oldest of a twin got the position of their Father, the youngest got nothing. I am assuming that your Mother believed it works the same here, but we all know it doesn’t.” Preston says.
It would explain why she favored only one of us, but not why she chose me over Daxton.
“What if your Mother is afraid that Daxton will get the Beta Position? After all she is unaware of the fact that I made both you my Beta, she might fear that I will find out the truth and hand over the position to Daxton.” Preston says.
“If she knows our Pack-laws, she will know that a High-rank with a chosen Mate is not accepted.” Pearl responds.
That could be why our Mother is trying to force Daxton to take a chosen Mate, but I don’t believe it is the correct answer.
Dallas’ p.o.v.
“Did you see the dress code for the Ceremony?” Jesper asks, while turning it towards Joshua.
“No, I didn’t. I don’t need to know, because I will be wearing my uniform.” I reply as I sit down behind my desk.
Usually the dress code for an Alpha and/or Luna Ceremony is similar, you show up in the colors of your Pack. In some cases they just ask you to wear something with your Pack’s emblem on it, for men that usually means a tie with the emblem on it and most women wear a brooch or scarf with the emblem on it.
“No dress code, as long as there is a hint of bright pink.” Jesper says and I roll my eyes at the disrespect Lucy shows to our traditions.
“Let’s just get this started, before we get called away for another mission.” I mumble, not looking forward to the paperwork this involves.
We start with the forms for the Alpha Ceremony, most of the information we have to fill out is easy. It is when we come to the reason for the cancellation that we have to be thoughtful, because if we formulate this incorrectly, it will sound as a challenge towards Alpha Leon.
“The reason for cancelling the Alpha Ceremony is breaking their Pack-law.” I state and both Joshua and Jesper look at me for some answers.
I pull up the information the Elders have on Shadow Valley Pack and I let Joshua and Jesper read it.
“You knew this without having to look it up?” Joshua asks and I just nod my head, there is nothing else to say.
“I didn’t know until I got here, but I also found out that Pack-laws have to be accessible for all Pack-members. Each Pack has to put it into the education of their children, so that no one can say that they didn’t know that they were breaking Pack-laws.
Alpha Leon has admitted reports to the Elders on every child in his Pack that took the class and their grade for that class, but I know that it was never a part of our education.” I state.
Joshua is writing down the reason for cancellation, while Jesper gets the forms for the Luna Ceremony and he starts filling out the information he has.
Once we have filled out all the forms for the cancellation, we start on the forms for a trial and I check the schedule to find a date that will give me some time to prepare, after I have cancelled both Ceremonies.
“Why not chose a date closer to the cancellation?” Jesper asks. “We have all the evidence we need.”
“No, we don’t. There are still a few things I need answers to and I hope to have found them all by the time the trial starts.” I answer him.
“How can we help?” He asks and I hand him the list of questions I wrote on my way over here, most already have an answer. It is the ones without an answer that I need their help with.
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