He saw Gretta wink right at him, and nodded her head ever so slightly. She had gotten her point across to him, it seemed, and she was happy.
Though he took it one step further when he heard Beta Anders’ reaction to his words and what he wanted, “I’ll accept and bed, only my Beta. As a chosen mate. I will take no other.”
He heard the yelling in that room from Anders about ‘the bloody hell he would’. Then he heard. wolves ripping out of each other back there in his father’s office. He sighed as Alpha Gretta disconnected the call. It was all wolfed out back there now.
“Well played Slade.” Alpha Gretta chuckled “I didn’t think you were going to win, at one point.”
“Did I really win?” He muttered he didn’t think so.
“Yes son,” Alpha Hailey stated, “you did, gave them an option that clearly is not something your current Beta will accept, his daughter in your bed or your Goddess Gifted, that was very well played indeed.” She held the door open for him to leave.
Oriana
They had all heard the fight break out downstairs, only because it spilled out into the actual foyer of the packhouse. And an all-alert had burst out of the pack’s Gamma for all wolves to get out of the packhouse’s ground floor.
She actually stepped out of the room and shot to the top of the staircase in time to see her father’s wolf and the Alphas wolf fighting it out in the foyer in wolf form. It was part of her job as the future Beta to get in there and stop it, but she couldn’t. Being pregnant, she could not risk her child.
She could see that the Luna and her own mother Bronnie were rushing to them. They had come from Luna’s office themselves. She bit her lip as she saw the two women actively get between the Alpha and the Beta’s wolves of the pack, shoving them apart even, they were not afraid of their mates’ wolves.
She stood and watched on as those wolves circled the two women who she knew were actively keeping themselves between the two. Watched as both Charlton and Dalton looked up at her. They didn’t look happy at all.
She’d not done anything wrong, to set off and Alpha on Beta fight, had been up in her room, holed up for weeks now. Hadn’t even had dinner with the family or the Alpha unit. She was actively avoiding all of them right now, out of sheer self-preservation.
Trying to keep her secret, so Slade only found out from her and no one else. She did know if the Alpha unit down there found out, they’d not only want to relieve her from her duty. They would insist on knowing who the pup’s father was, and she didn’t think Alpha Roman would hold off on telling Slade either, and her own father would be calling to yell at Slade himself.
She saw both wolves shift back to their human forms as Palmer, Yuri and Hayden all rushed in through the front doors. They had been out at the training grounds and come when the alert had been sent out, as was their duty. Her father’s eyes had moved right towards her, and he’d yelled, “Oriana, go to your bloody room and stay there.”
Before, Roman had snarled out “everyone in my office.”
She watched not only the Alpha Unit but both the Luna and her own mother go back into the Alpha’s office and the door was banged closed with a resounding crack like thunder ‘what the hell happened?’ Yuri shot at her via the mind-link.
‘I don’t know’ she answered right back, because she didn’t know, had no bloody idea what was going on down there between the Alpha and Beta, what they were fighting about was their business.
‘They were all looking at you.’ He stated, ‘your dad’s pissed.’
‘I haven’t done anything. I’ve been in my room all week long.’ She told him and turned to go right back to her room, where her dad ordered her to go.
‘Sulking up there.’ Yuri shot at her; he sounded a bit annoyed.
‘Yes.’ She shot back, ‘go bond with your new Beta.’ She snapped and slammed her own door shut, her way of making sure they wouldn’t come up here to discuss whatever the heck was going on down there. Keep them away from her and from finding out her secret.
She wasn’t mad at them, just needed Palmer to stay away from her, that was all. He was a bloody Gamma and was going to pick it up at some point and then prod and poke until he knew it was Slade’s child as well. That damned Gamma would be feeling her out at every opportunity, trying to figure out what was going on with her, and then when he did, he’d be trying to sense out just whose pup it was. And one unguarded thought from her was all it would take, once he knew she was pregnant.
So, her room was the safest place for her, she was certain he’d picked something up the other night when they’d burst into her room to tell her about Slade, and that mating alliance crap.
But he’d let it go, he’d had more pressing concerns that night, than feeling out a cranky Beta. Who he knew would be upset and ticked off anyway with all that was going on. Likely he’d put whatever he’d felt down to her just being really ticked off.
Whatever it was that was going on downstairs right that minute, she’d likely find out at some point, especially if she was the actual issue; that had started the fight between the two of them. Not once in her entire lifetime had she ever seen Alpha Roman and her dad fight like that before.
Those two men were like closely bonded brothers. Hell, the four of them were like brothers. So, what the hell had happened to make them attack each other like that, just her dad and the Alpha? Both the Gamma and the Delta had stayed out of it completely, just stood there and watched on.
They had let the Luna and the Beta’s mate separate them, contain them, and walk them back into their office. Something must be really bad down there, she thought, but no longer was it her problem to deal with, or to find out what it was to try to resolve it. No, that would be Hayden’s job now.
They’d both had bloodied claw marks and bite marks on each other. It was a real fight that had crashed its way out of the Alpha’s office itself. Had to be contained by their own mates even.
Her family could well end up banished by the Alpha, before the day was over, if her father had started that fight.
No one got away with attacking the Alpha’s family, let alone the Alpha himself. Ori sighed heavily at that thought, it was not going to be a good thing if that happened.
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