He saved that photo on his phone and looked at the wolf behind her, then frowned a little as he realised it was his own bloody cousin Sam, who was two years older than he and Ori were. Slade didn’t like that she was out there dancing with their future War General, and that man had his hands all over Ori, from what he could see.
He had to let it go. She’d not found her mate, so his cousin Sam was not likely to push it. She was the future Beta and would be off limits. She didn’t date; Sam would know that. Though the picture of her dancing with Sam did remind him of what the council had said, “Alphas would like her, and her bloodline would attract them as much as her looks would.”
He ignored the next text from Anders and flicked a message to his cousin Sam “keep your hands off my Beta…” Then he blinked as he realised it kind of sounded possessive, he quickly sent another, “Anders is unhappy about it.” He just sat there and stared at those texts he’d sent and sighed a little, he’d not even thought about it, just needed to send it, was he being possessive? He pushed it aside; bloody Alpha Gretta had gotten into his head with that comment that she could be his Mate.
He flicked back to the awaiting text from Beta Anders, Ori’s own father, and wondered how things would change in two weeks’ time, or would it? A part of him knew he was never going to reject his Beta if the moon set, and he scented her out as his Mate. Another part of him didn’t exactly know how she would react to it. Their relationship had never been like that, and she’d kneed him in the balls the last time she’d seen him, bloody hard at that, had been filthy mad at him.
He pushed that thought aside. She was his Beta, not his bed buddy. He looked at the current blonde she-wolf next to him, Audrey. She’d only arrived this morning and had latched right onto him, and by lunchtime they were in his bed, and she was all over him.
She was sleeping now, exhausted, it seemed, and easily sated by him. It had been a fun afternoon. She was a pretty girl too; she had long blonde hair, dark blue eyes, was as tall as he was and strong as well, she was always smiling, perpetually happy even while having sex, smiled all the time.
Even now, in her sleep, there was a slight smile on her face. He got out of bed and pulled his pants on, sat at his study desk and texted Anders back ‘What do you expect when Hayden is now training in her place?’ He’d sighed and scrubbed a hand over his face. How did her father not see that was going to be an issue?
‘It’s irresponsible.’ He got right back ‘call her and pull her into line, she’ll listen to you.’
He wanted to say no to that but didn’t. ‘She’s angry and lashing out Anders, you had to know she would.’ He sent back.
Slade didn’t think that him calling Ori would work, he barely got a response from her at all himself nowadays, just short simple answers. He knew she was mad at him, and now it appeared she was mad at everyone.
‘Slade, help me… please. It’s my little girl, she is… I don’t know.’
He sighed heavily ‘not your little girl anymore.’ He sent back ‘she’s 18, and a fully realised pure Beta-blooded she-wolf, who’s angry at you, likely, really angry at you; for the first time ever, I imagine.’
‘I don’t like it, Slade.’
‘Not much I can do about it. I’d suggest you stop Hayden training with Palmer and Yuri, and put her back in. That would likely solve the issue…’ He knew it would, but he also knew they would not do that. He knew what they wanted, even the Alpha Council was in agreement with his bloody father.
‘I can’t.’ He got back.
“Of course not.” He muttered aloud into his room.
‘Any help Slade, she’s barely come out of her suite in a week.’”
He sighed now ‘it can’t come from me. She’ll know it was you or father who asked me to do it. Your daughter is not so dumb.’
‘Then who?’
He thought about that for a long moment as he scrolled back up to look at her picture on the phone once more. Who would be able to get away with it? And have her not think it was his, or her father’s doing ‘Palmer he’s the Gamma, she’d likely think he could feel her anger, and he’s trying to resolve it. Ask him to start a group chat between the four of us.’
‘Don’t you already have that?’
‘No, we all talk via the mind-link. No need for a group chat till now, I suppose.’
‘Oh! alright, talk to her, pull her into line… please, before she’s completely out of control.’
Slade sighed once more. It could well be too late for that, he thought. Ori was not the type to wear clothes that attracted attention to herself, she always covered up. She had told him and his unit on more than one occasion that male wolves had sticky fingers, and he’d seen her shudder as she said it.
It wouldn’t surprise him if someone had tried to touch her when he wasn’t around, or Palmer and Yuri weren’t around, why she shuddered when she had spoken. She likely did notice wolves looking at her, ogling her as much as those she-wolves did him, hell, he looked at the girl when no one was watching him. Had some thoughts about her that he should not have, seeing as she was his future Beta.
Palmer started that group chat later that afternoon, and it was just the three of them chatting. Ori hadn’t even opened it, that took her an hour to do so. He knew why, because she actually understood what his and her father were trying to do, seating Hayden right there in her place.
She didn’t think she should be in that group chat or didn’t want to be, was cutting herself off from the inevitable in her eyes. He saw his new bed-buddy Audrey out, she kissed the hell out of him, rubbed herself all over him and murmured “till tomorrow” before leaving him.
It had taken an hour to get a response from Ori and all it was, was to tell him to shut-up, she was trying to study. He sent plenty of emojis for her to see and retaliate with her usual sarcasm about his being a drunk, he half expected to get a ‘you poor baby’. She didn’t even respond to it, only wanted to know how they knew what time she’d gotten in last night. Then just nothing, clearly either turned her phone off or was just ignoring it.
It couldn’t be good if she wouldn’t give it back to him, she did like annoying him. They all did enjoy that, thought it was fun teasing each other all the time. Her father was right, he supposed. She was not her normal self at all.
He got a separate text from Palmer and Yuri for a group chat with just the three of them without Ori ‘something’s off man.’
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