Lots of fun, happy pictures as well, that obviously his new friends at Alpha College had taken. and sent to him. Audrey and Slade looked very happy, and in the last few days, the closer it got to the full moon, the more she realised just how truly happy he did look with that girl on his lap. She wondered if he loved her? If Audrey was going to turn out to be his Mate?
He might already know that’s what she was, scented her, and that’s why things in the photos had changed. Why the emotions she could see between them were coming across loud and clear, she thought. Things today might not go as she planned. Today might not be the day to tell him after all.
She had a long drive out to New Mexico and the Alpha College in Sandia Heights, plenty of time to think and figure out what she was going to do. Though she was going to arrive early, and she knew it, by lunchtime. A full 3 hours ahead of schedule.
Ori arrived just after 12pm and was let in through those gates. Pulled up in the pickup zone and was about to get out of her car to go inside and let the College Dean know she was there and wanted to collect Slade early.
When she saw him, well, them, Slade and Audrey, his hands were on her hips, and they were kissing as he walked her backwards across the front of the main building, towards the dorm to her right.
She could tell from the way they were both moving, quite hurriedly, he was taking her back to his dorm. She sighed a little as she watched them, he didn’t pick up her tether or smell that someone from his pack was here, and barely 200 feet from him at that. He was all consumed with Audrey.
It was clear to her that they were headed off to have sex. She caught some of their conversation. “I’m gonna have you all afternoon, till I have to leave, baby.” Slade told her.
“I’ll miss you so much.” She heard Audrey sigh “Can’t you beg to stay here for the full moon?”
She’d stopped listening at that point, and just stayed inside her car, she didn’t bother to get out, or call out to him, just left it alone. She was nearly three hours early, because she’d left the pack at 6 instead of 8, and she’d not made a single stop on the trip out here to talk to him. There wasn’t even a time limit on her drive today, she could cruise at will as long as she was here by 3pm to pick him up. It didn’t matter.
Her eyes followed them all the way to his dorm, watched him pick Audrey up right before they walked in those doors and the girl wrapped her legs around him, was grinding herself on him. already. He really did like the girl, and they were openly talking about the upcoming full moon. Wanting to be together on it; they, she realised, either knew they were Mate’s or were expecting it.
Could she ruin that? Their happiness? Right when they were to scent each other out for the first time. A baby with her when he clearly thought that he had found his Goddess Gifted. Hell, for all she knew he could have, he might have scented Audrey out and her him even, just couldn’t do anything about it until the full moon. They were both alpha-blooded, it was possible.
A baby to Slade, her future Alpha, right when he was finding his Goddess Gifted Mate, it might ruin the man’s bond, ruin his entire life. He’d likely hate her forever if that happened.
Ori sat there in her car, not knowing what to do anymore. She still wanted to tell him, but didn’t want to ruin his happiness at the same time. She sighed as she sat there and tried to think things through. He was only going to be home for a total of three days, today, tomorrow, and then back here the next day.
So, really, by the time they got back to the pack it would be like 9pm, so only one actual full day inside the pack, because he would leave the next morning at 8am, and she was damned certain Hayden would be taking him back to Alpha College.
He wasn’t going to be looking at her, in that one day, his attention would be on Audrey from what she’d just seen and heard, likely on the phone to her all night when he got back. Hell, he could be talking to her all the way back to the pack even.
Then tomorrow, with his family and prepping for his little sister’s shift, she was actually unlikely to see him at all bar this drive home. Maybe she should just wait? And leave well enough alone. Not tell him now, let him be happy here at Alpha College with Audrey, scent out the girl on the next full moon, claim her and be happy.
Leave it alone until the day she gave birth, and his mother, Luna Elise, came to see the pup for the Luna’s blessing and smelled it, recognise the pup as her own kin. Demand answers, inform Alpha Roman himself, and she knew that man would want to see the child himself.
Likely order answers out of her to get to the truth of why she’d not said anything. They’d all know she’d gotten pregnant before he went to Alpha College, so she knew about the pup before Slade, marked and mated Audrey, even.
That in itself was likely to cause an issue, because they would want to know why she hid it, from Slade, from her own family and her Alpha for that matter. Would rant about the ramifications. Likely still to cause trouble with Slade and Audrey’s bond even; something she was actually trying to avoid.
She closed her eyes as she sat there in the car, she didn’t exactly know what to do with herself right that very minute. Would she or would she not tell Slade, was now or later the better option? Or not at all.
She had plenty of time to sit and think, he was up there in his room with Audrey, likely mating the hell out of her. She sighed, there was nothing she could do but wait for him to come down here, and get in her car for her to take him home.
She would nap while she waited; that was actually easy for her to do nowadays, because she got tired due to just being pregnant.
Her eyes snapped open, and her head whipped up suddenly, and she saw a very happy Slade, drumming his hands up along the bonnet of her car, and then both his hands were on the windscreen and his face was pressed up against it, grinning through it at her. He looked all stupidly happy, she realised.
“Hey you.” he grinned down at her and then was just round the car and getting in, he turned and smiled right at her, so very happy and excited. “I’m pretty certain I got me a Mate.” He burst out.
That happy excitement was not at seeing her, it was all about Audrey, even away from the girl he was hopped up. He really did love Audrey, she realised.
Slade
He had expected calls from his unit about the fight that had broken out between his father, their Alpha, and Ori’s father, their Beta. Something he had caused himself, over his statement of taking Ori to his bed and making her his Luna. Anders had clearly not liked it at all.
There was nothing though, from any of them, nothing about the fight, not even hours later. It was odd, surely, they were there to hear it and see it, likely to have had to step in and help haul them apart even. It was never easy pulling two fighting wolves apart, especially ranked members and an Alpha and Beta: the two strongest of the pack. That would be a bloody nightmare.
No one called him, or texted him, not his mother, not his sister Dariah, not his Gamma or Delta, not even Ori had called him about it. That in itself bothered him greatly, for a long time, and then he realised no one had yet to tell her of what he’d said, put his option to her.
So, he’d text into their group chat, the one that had the four of them in it. ‘How’s your day going?’ just to see what he would get back.
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