Eos will have that answer for me before we turn in for the night and once I know the answer I will ask Delia if she wants to come to the competition or not, the choice will be hers and hers alone. However, I would love to see the look on the moron’s face when he finds out who she is mated to.
On our way over the girls discuss the males from Dark Mountain Pack again and Delia asks me who they are talking about, “Alpha Theseus, his Beta Ajax, his Gamma Apollo and his Deltas Xanthos and Midas. They sometimes watch as we play “Capture the Flag” in the clearing between our Packs.” I respond.
Rhea pulls Delia next to her and starts telling her about the males and what they look like, her remark on how hot they look makes Alastor growl. Mom tells him to behave, that Delia will only have eyes for him and it calms him down enough to stop growling.
It is funny to see Alastor as he never was really obsessed with finding his Mate and he is the first of us to get his happily ever after. I wonder how long it will take before Mom brings up the subject of Pups and with that I mean Grandpups, I know she would like to have them sooner than later.
Rhea halts right in front of me as she is looking across the clearing and I see Alpha Theseus standing with his arms crossed in front of his chest, his legs spread as his eyes are locked on me. I don’t pay it much more attention than that as I tell Eos and Rhea to get the Warriors ready.
No one calls me by name as we don’t want them to know who I am, I doubt they actually read the notifications from the Council to inform them of my Father stepping down and I never had to call their Pack to inform them personally as we don’t have an alliance with them.
I know why Theseus’ Father tore up the alliance all those years ago, but I doubt he ever told anyone the truth about it and a small part of me even thinks he never told anyone he tore it up. My Father and I are still waiting for the day that Alpha Theseus asks for our help and we get to tell him there is no alliance anymore.
His eyes follow me were ever I go as I am evading the Warriors, it doesn’t bother me as much as I had thought and I ask myself the question why that is. However, Minerva and I don’t have an answer to that question.
Like last time I take a bow in their direction after I have defeated our Warriors, keeping my eyes on Alpha Theseus the entire time and this time I don’t show him the anger and hatred. I actually smile at him and I have to stifle a smile as I see a confused look on his face.
Eos steps next to me with my jacket in her hand and I see a disappointed look on his face when I pull it on, before I turn around to head back to our territory. Alastor and Delia are waiting for me and Delia has a strange look on her face as I walk towards her, “How the hell…” she whispers.
As we walk back to the Pack-house Dad tells her about my childhood, about my temper that I could barely control until I turned sixteen and he tells her about the event that changed our border patrols. She is in total shock as she finds out that females train and that we even have a lot of female Warriors.
Theseus
After two days of searching through the files, we still hadn’t found the alliance contract we have with White Crescent Pack and I wanted to call my Father into my office to demand answers from him. Ajax told me to ask Alpha Atlas at the Alpha bloodline competition as he doesn’t trust my Father to give us the truth.
We left the contracts out on my desk and with only two more days till the competition I decide to look through them on more time. I look through all the alliance contracts in front of me and I realize there are a few I didn’t know we had an alliance with, making me wonder why my Father never told me about these. I link my men to meet in my private office to tell my men what I found and they don’t have an answer for me as well, but again Ajax tells me to approach them at the competition. Looks like I am going to have a very busy day a head of me during the first day of the competition. I walk into the dining room looking at the chair next to mine, a chair that remains empty until the day I find my second chance Mate and for the first time since losing my first Mate I actually hope to meet her soon.
Penelope walks in with Damien and Joseph and for a moment I think she will leave me alone tonight.
“Theseus, have you made sleeping arrangements for us during the competition?” She asks as she puts her hand on my arm and Damien doesn’t show anything as he watches us. I sit down in my seat and Penelope is about to pull back the chair next to mine, but she releases it the moment my men start to growl.
“Penelope, Ajax made all the arrangements. The hotel is run by a Werewolf who only takes reservations from Packs that are invited to the competition.” I say as I see that Damien gets a mind-link and the paling of his face tells me that Apollo warned him to keep Penelope in check.
“We will leave the day before the competition starts, we will arrive there somewhere in the afternoon and Damien will be well rested before his first fight.” I say as I look at Penelope and she nods her head as Damien tells her to take her seat.
During dinner Damien and Penelope talk about the competition, while my men and I talk through our mind-link and Midas tells me that Penelope’s eyes wander in my direction every now and then. I quickly finish my dinner to excuse myself and retreat to my private office.
One of my Warriors links me that the neighbors are back again and I actually chuckle at the phrase he uses, I contemplate on whether I should go or not, but I decide to stay in my office to get some work done. Work I don’t want my Father to get involved in during my absence, just because I don’t trust him with it.
After I took over from my Father it took me a few months to realize that he had been mismanaging the Pack’s finances, it had taken me three years to rebuild our business and another two years to expand it. We were back to where we were when Grandpa was still in charge, we were a strong, large, and wealthy Pack.
Except my men, no one knows how close my Father brought us to bankruptcy and that is the reason I will leave the business side of things in the hands of Ajax’s younger Brother. He has helped me all these years rebuilding the business and I trust him with it completely.
When I asked him to take care of business for a few days he told me to take as long as I wanted, that he would make sure everything would be taken care of and I know that he will do just that. I told him I expected to be back the day after the competition started, and he said he was with me on Damien’s chances.
I hope Damien will do better than any of us expect, but knowing Damien he will definitely be dropped after round two. He thinks that being of the Alpha bloodline means you don’t have to train, but no matter what Ajax and I have tried over the years he still doesn’t believe us.
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