“I’m sure she’s fine, never drinks like we do. Holds her liquor.” He stated simply.
“I’ll be taking over for her anyway, Slade,” Hayden stated.
“Maybe,” Slade answered, “Till then, you’re the second, so let it go.”
“She’ll mate off easily, you should just…”
“Enough, Hayden. Ori might have a Mate here and if she does, you’ll still be the second. She’ll still be my Beta. I’ll be keeping her as my Beta, as is the pack lineage policy.”
“A female Beta.” Hayden shook his head.
“Is no different to a female Alpha. Watch your words, I like my Beta.” He shot at the boy “I also doubt she’ll Mate off out of this pack.” He stated as he stepped out of the elevator and walked his suitcase over to place it by the front door. Before heading off to breakfast in the dining hall.
His mother and father, Elise and Roman, were there with his little sister Dariah and his little brother, Clay, as were the current Alpha Unit and his own. He walked off to get food, and saw Ori’s eyes fall on her brother as they walked together. Her expression didn’t change, but he knew what she was thinking.
He left that boy by the buffet tables and walked back to the Alpha table. Ori kicked a chair out for him as she always did, and he sat across from her “You’re late.” She stated right to him.
“You didn’t wake me.” He commented as he looked at her, still found it more than odd that it was only her scent in his room, when he’d woken up, butt ass naked, and his clothes were in that state, someone had undressed him in a real rush to have him.
He had no actual memories of the girl, just that she was a brunette; as was Ori herself. He had no actual memories of doing anything he shouldn’t with his future Beta.
Though she was more than pretty, stunning to look at, with her long dark brown hair, though it was always pulled up in a ponytail or high plait. Her eyes were what attracted every wolf around to her. They were pale silver green, with a brilliant bottle-green around the outer edge, practically shined like neon even in natural light, and they were framed with long thick natural lashes. She also had nicely shaped and plump lips, a lovely complexion and a good athletic body from all their training.
He also knew that all the un-mated wolves here inside this pack ogled her, in training gear or after being shifted back from her wolf China; a large silver wolf with four black socks. One could tell she was a Beta wolf just by the size of China. Her wolf’s eyes were blue, not the usual green. She got them from her mother’s bloodline. Her mother’s wolf also had those blue eyes.
Some lucky wolf out there was going to be mated to that girl, and get to see those amazing eyes of hers, open every morning and look at him, watch that mouth of hers curve into a sleepy, but happy smile, and fall in love with her every damned morning all over again.
Slade sighed internally as he pulled his thoughts away from looking at his Beta, as though she was actually a girl and a stunning one at that. She was not a girl to him, Ori was his Beta, not something to play with, not something to bed.
Though the thought of her being mated off and out of this pack, that bothered him more than a little. He didn’t want that to happen and he knew it. He turned his eyes to his breakfast and away from the girl. No, she was 18 now, a woman, not a girl anymore, by wolfen law, she was an adult, a she-wolf of mating age even.
She was a good strong Beta, trained with him and his unit, just as hard as they all did. Put all the effort in, and he knew she wanted the position of his Beta as well.
“You should be responsible for yourself now. You have to be, for the next year. I won’t be there to wake your ass up when you sleep in.” she interrupted his thoughts.
He smiled at her. “Certainly didn’t this morning. You left me on the floor of my suite, now, didn’t you?”
She just shrugged “Your heavy ass, was too much for me, to haul into your bed.”
He heard both his and her father clear their throats, and he rolled his eyes. They didn’t like the way he and she spoke to each other sometimes. But his relationship with Ori was no different to that of his with Palmer and Yuri. “She put me to bed.” He turned and looked at them as he bit into his toasted croissant.
“He was drunk.” She shot right back. “Bloody heavy.”
He snorted as he looked at her, “Oh, too much for you to handle, huh.”
He watched those brilliant eyes of hers roll back in her head as she muttered “Well, if you didn’t drink so much, you could have walked yourself. You probably don’t even recall me dragging your ass to your room.”
He shook his head and shrugged it off, “I don’t, not really.”
He got hit up the back side of his head by his father. “Son, what’d I tell you?”
“I’m sober now, and I got me a six-hour drive to get over my hang over as well.”
Slade heard his father huff with annoyance. “At least your Beta is reliable, keeps you in line.”
“Mm.” he nodded as he looked at Ori, it still confused him more than a bit, his state upon waking up and just her scent in the room. Though looking at her now, nothing seemed amiss to him, she was the same as always; same attitude as normal.
If they’d had s*x, surely she’d have found this morning awkward, and she didn’t seem the slightest bit different to him at all. He’d ask her if there was no one around.
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