Belladonna rejected me, Annette.
I had to accept it.
Its in our mating alliance.
He’d murmured, and he heard a snarl come from behind Annette, and he nearly groaned as he realised that Carina had just heard his words.
It had taken her all of 30 seconds to start yelling at him about talking about his ex.
She’d glared at Annette and snarled at her never to bring up that b *** h’s name, actually used the word b *** h instead of Belladonna.
He’d been about to yell at her when Annette had stated point blankly to Carina herself.
If you’d bother to help with the birth of pups, like our former Luna.
Use your Lunas Calm like she did when here.
I wouldn’t have to ask for her to come back, I’ve got 41 pregnant she-wolves all due within 12 days of each other.
Are you going to come in and work in the hospital for 16 hours or more a day for those 12 days, like Bella would? He’d gotten up and put himself between Carina and Annette, snarled at his own Mate as he took the hit that would have landed on Annette.
His hand curled around her arm in a tight grip, and he told Annette to leave, but he kept hold of his Luna, who wanted to strike the pack doctor for simply stating the facts and asking a question.
You touch Annette, and Ill punish you as per pack protocol.
You’ll be doing omega duties for a month in the packhouse kitchen.
Answer to Tony the pack chef.
Her eyes widened up at him as if she couldn’t believe he’d said those words Im your Luna ! she gasped.
Yes, and in my eyes, not above reproach, Im not some Alpha, Carina, that lets everything slide.
You should know this by now, everyone inside this pack is held accountable to all the pack laws.
Including you and I.
That’s insane, we’re in charge.
Not standard pack members.
Really? Parker frowned down at her Have you not read the pack laws in full yet? You’ve been here two months and still you don’t understand that I take all the laws seriously.
Even where you and I are concerned.
I’ve been busy, had to sort out my own Luna Ceremony because the previous … She trailed off and then stared up at him, But no one can talk to me like that.
Like that she wolf just did, and you didnt even admonish her for it.
You should have.
No, I didnt.
I wont be either.
She just lost a pup and is upset and looking for help.
She came in here to ask for help, and you just yelled at her for what? Coming to me, her Alpha, with a legitimate concern that I need to address.
He stated flatly.
He’d watched her turn and stalk out of his office, and towards the front door, mind linked right to her. If you go and take a piece of Annette, I’ll put you on the shaming post for all to see.
She stopped walking and turned to look right at him, and then just turned and stalked off in another direction.
He scrubbed a hand over his face; a storm was brewing, and he knew it.
He, mind linked to Annette The Luna, is ticked off about you requesting Belladonna to come and help.
Let me know if she does anything to you, Ill invoke the pack laws.
I’ve warned her.
I was all she stated, Could be Luna ordered not to say anything.
She muttered right back at him.
He sighed, where Annette came from, that was a thing when the Luna didnt want the Alpha to know she was hurting the pack members.
Tell one of your nurses that you trust to report the interaction if it happens.
She muttered, clearly didn’t like thinking about it. I don’t like it, Alpha, it kind of reminds me of my previous pack.
I understand.
It was the very reason he’d gone in and taken over, to give the pack wolves a better life.
The problem was, he could actually see Carina doing that, she had those tendencies, and he was going to have to talk to her about it.
To make sure she understood that behaviour like this, would not be tolerated.
He’d thought she’d settled down, had been more compliant, and apologetic, since her father had had words with her, the last time he was here prior to her Luna Ceremony.
Until today, she’d been well behaved and nice to everyone.
Belladonna
Life within the Alpha council grounds was interesting.
No day was the same as the next and Bellas belly grew by the day.
She found herself smiling happily down at her growing belly.
Her son was going to be good and strong.
She had yet to pick a name, though Freya had told her it was Bella’s pup, so to choose on her own.
Bella had chuckled softly and reminded Freya that they were one and the same, not separate, so her pup was Freya’s pup.
Freya and reminded her that she had never let Vex mate her.
She was adamant that it was something Bella should do herself, and refused to give any input on the matter at all.
Bella sometimes sat in the evening and just thought about different names, and what she was going to do when he came along.
How was she going to work such a hectic schedule with a newborn? She was worn out at times during the day and found herself napping inside her office sometimes.
Gil chuckled at her a lot, when he had to wake her, Come on Bella, you yourself know pups that grow rapidly, make one tired.
Its all good that you nap, and its not like our hours are set 9 to 5.
Here on the council grounds, she did not work the standard working day.
No, she walked in here anywhere between 6am and 8am depending on what time those appointments had been made around the Alpha College class schedules and those over in the cells or rehabilitation homes.
She often headed home by lunchtime, but was on call from 1pm, and though she was out of her office by 12pm she often got called back later in the afternoon or evening, over in the prison section of the grounds or to help with an anxious she wolf.
That Luna Calm of hers came in quite handy, and it was used quite a bit here.
She’d used that Lunas calm on several of the students as well, they all kind of just stared at her for a minute, and then were drawn to her the way most pack wolves would be to their own Luna.
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