Chapter 162


    Connections.


    It’s pretty early so I actually have the kitchen to myself, the pups are still in bed and I can hear James


    walking around in the room above me. Since getting the pups back I’ve been insisting that the Pack


    gets back to normal, I didn’t want Auroraing home to apletely different home. It is different


    though, I can’t help but remember the many mornings I stood in this exact spot waiting for the coffee


    machine to finish brewing. The big difference being that I never used to be alone, momma Beth was


    always either at the table waiting for her own coffee or pottering away in the kitchen sorting one thing or


    another. The beep of the machine pulls me out of my memories and I quickly pour two cups of dark


    Colombian roast. I doctor mine with creamer and sugar but I leave Fraction’s as is. He didn’te to


    bed against night so I know he will need it.


    Just as I turn to leave the kitchen with both cups in my hands the back door opens and a rather wet


    looking Bemyes walking in.


    “Oh.” He stops looking at me with wide eyes, I guess he didn’t expect to see anyone in here. “Morning,


    Luna.”


    “Bemy, if you live in this home you will call me Anna, none of this Luna stuff.” I tell him with a smile as


    I lift my cup up to my nose inhaling the smell, “there’s still a cup in the machine if you want it.” Bemy


    just nods at me as he wipes at his bare charts, judging by the jeans and no shoes I gather he just got


    back from shifting.


    “Was on patrol,” Bemy tells me, walking over to the coffee machine, his tone makes it sound like he


    has to justify himself to me. I put the coffee cups on the counter and wait until he’s finished making his


    coffee.


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    “Remind me to get more creamer if two of us use it.” I say with a smile as he doctor’s his coffee.


    “Oh, da mn it.” He quickly puts the creamer down and looks at me with a sad face, “I didn’t even think,


    please forgive me. I’ll rece it.”


    “Bemy.” I walk over to him and pick the creamer back up, pouring one into his coffee, “this is your


    home now. If you want creamer then use the creamer, I’m just used to being the only one who uses it.”


    I hold out the coffee to him once I’m done and try to give him a reassuring smile.


    “This is all new to me, the patrols, having a mate, living with Alpha and Luna.” Bemy takes the coffee


    from me before walking to sit at the kitchen table, “what if I mess this all up and he doesn’t want me


    anymore.” I walk over to the cups I left on the side and pick them back


    up.


    “You know the one thing I’ve learnt about The Swiftmaneds?” Bemy shakes his head, “they love


    fearlessly and sometimes to a fault. If you don’t want to patrol then don’t, we have enough warriors and


    I’m sure we can fill your spot.” Bemy just looks at me as I tell him he doesn’t have to do something


    he’s been asked to do. “That nice new mate mark on your neck shows that James knows exactly what


    he has done and you aren’t going anywhere, as for living with an Alpha and Luna? Well your going to


    have to figure that one out yourself.”


    “Little wolf, is that for me?” I look to the door and give Fraction a wide smile, he looks exhausted but his


    face still has a beaming smile on it. How the man can look good in yellow nnel pajama bottoms is


    beyond me. I hold out the coffee and he takes it after leaving a peck on my cheek, “she’s right you


    know. If you don’t want to patrol you don’t have to. It’s not for everyone.” Fraction tells Bemy while


    sipping at his coffee, “I need you in my office.” Fraction whispers in my ear before leaving the kitchen.


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    “If you figure out the; how to live with an Alpha thing. Give me a shout. I could use the pointers.”


    Bemy’sugh follows me out of the kitchen as I quickly hurry after Fraction.


    Entering the office I’m sort of disappointed to see Fraction sitting behind the desk, I sort of hoped he


    had something different in mind.


    “Take a look at this.” Fraction holds out a yellow piece of paper to me, I take it while popping my coffee


    on his desk.


    “What is this?” I ask him sitting in the chair and curling my legs beneath me.


    “It’s like a birth certificate, everyone gets one when they join a Pack. That one is Theo’s.” I look down


    the paper and see it dated the day he was born, it has everything from his designation to his eye


    colour.


    “I don’t know what I’m meant to be looking at.” I tell him truthfully, looking up at him I see him drinking


    his coffee with a smile. He closes his eyes for a second like he’s savoring the vor.


    “Look at the bottom of the page, the witnesses to his eptance to the Pack.” I do as Fraction says


    and see an Alpha and two witness signatures. “Is this your father?” I run my finger over the faded


    name, it’s almost unreadable it’s so smooshed together.


    “Yeah it is but look at the witness names,” Fraction leans across the desk like he’s desperate for me to


    understand it.


    “Elizabeth Jacobs.” I say reading the name next to the mother’s signature, “who is that?” I gasp when it


    ‘I know it is, think about it Anna. It all fits, someone who lost a granddaughter because of us, someone


    who would hate us because we destroyed her family.” Fraction counts the reasons off on his fingers,


    “the woman has countless reasons to hate us and want to see us ruined.”


    “You think that ga y hating olddy called The Shmayne on us?” I have to admit it fits, “how did we


    not know they were rted?”


    “I never had a reason to look, she’s been here longer than I have and so has Theo.” Fraction waves


    three more pieces of paper at me, “I’m on two of these which are Faye and Simon.”


    “So what do we do now?” I ask him while putting the certificate back on the table. “not like we can kill


    an olddy.” Fraction runs his hands through his hair.


    “What should we do then? She could keep calling them, we need to know how she’s connected to


    them. If she’s done this to us she could do it to any Pack so it’s not like I can banish her.” I nod my


    head at him, I agree but I also disagree. This woman has been pulling strings behind our backs for


    longer than we have realised.


    “We need to find out what she knows but we can’t banish her. For a woman of her age it would be as


    good as killing her,” Fraction looks grim as I tell him this.


    “Then what do you suggest?” I just shrug my shoulders as I lean back in my chair, staring at the wall. I


    try toe up with an alternative that doesn’t mean another person is dead because of The


    Shmayne.