Chapter 32


    Ch 32 Assistant


    Lizzy had to spend every day for a week after school in training to be Thea’s assistant.


    “It’s a bigger deal than I thought,” Lizzy said. “ Luna Ada’s assistant is super strict. I have to behave a


    certain way in public, private, and with you— depending on where we are and who we’re around.


    There’s a lot of stuff I’1] do for you that you won’t even know about, and once you be Luna, yeah.


    It’ll be intense. So I can start now, but there will be more training as you get closer to bing Luna.”


    “Do you still want to do it?” Thea said.


    “Of course! I’m not going to let someone else mess it up!”


    After that, Lizzy joined her every day after school in the library. Together they were making a


    substantial stack of Xeroxes about goddess gifts and gifted. She also went to a few bars and showed


    them to Thea on video chat.


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    When the rtionship books arrived, Thea put them in an unused corner in the library, and when she


    needed a break from goddess gift research, she read those or did school work. Since she was going


    through nearly every book in the library, she started a Xerox stack for any information she found on


    matebonds as well. If she was going to change the curriculum, she needed something to change it to,


    and she needed to be prepared to back up her arguments when she had the meeting about it.


    “Goddess, those triplets are lucky,” Lizzy said. “ With everything going on, you make the time to


    research how to have the perfect rtionship.”


    “I have zero experience! I don’t want to mess it up,” Thea said.


    “I have the best Luna in the world.”


    Thea rolled her eyes. “You were right, by the way.”


    “About what?” :


    “One wear, and they’re shredded.”


    Lizzyughed. “l get you more. I’ll keep a steady streaming in. I wonder if there’s a discount for


    buying in bulk.”


    “And more condoms,” she whispered so just Lizzy could hear.


    Lizzy gasped. “Has mydy be a woman?” Thea blushed. “Not quite.”


    “I need to hear the details.”


    “My guards hear the details, I’m sure. It’s so embarrassing. I know the pack house walls are all


    insted with soundproof materials, but I’m pretty sure it’s not enough. I can’t look them in the eye in


    the morning without turning beet red.” Lizzyughed.


    “That loud, huh?”


    “The things they do to me. I have no control over the sounds I make.”


    ‘Just think what it’Ll be like once you’ve shifted, marked, and mated.”


    “I can’t imagine how it can get any better.”


    Lizzy smiled at her. “I’m really happy for you.”


    “I’m surprised, but also not surprised how different they are in the bedroom. I had no experience going


    into this, I don’t know why I assumed it would all be the same, but it’s not. They each make me feel


    something thatpletes me in a way. I don’t know how to exin it.”


    “You have this extra glow about you. You look really happy.”


    “It’s crazy. Even with everything going on, being under house arrest, having guards shadow my every


    move, and not having any privacy, the stress of the investigation, knowing people have been on our


    lands, just, all of it. Even with all that, being with them has been amazing. We’re growing closer in so


    many ways. I’m seeing all these new sides of them.”


    Lizzy sighed in contentment.


    “I think I’m ready for some more risque lingerie.”


    “I got you, boo,” Lizzy said.


    At the end of the week, they had made it through a good portion of their pack library.


    “All these Xeroxes, and there’s not a lot of useful information,” Thea said.


    “It’s mostly the same story every time. Goddess- giftedes of age, gets kidnapped, never to be


    seen or heard from again.”


    “We need to see if the packs that kidnapped them in the past have records on them. Then maybe we


    could get real information.”


    “That sounds kind of dangerous,” Lizzy said.


    “They’re all long dead. These are histories. Bad Alphas from a long time ago.”


    “But if their packs were okay doing that before, it’s likely they’d be okay doing it now. Culture stays


    pretty consistent like that. Bad Alphas tend to raise bad Alphas as sons. If they figure out you’re gifted,


    they’ll invite you to see their library, then boom! You’ve checked into the Hotel California.” ‘


    “Because they won’t let me leave?”


    “Yeah!”


    “Then how do we look for more information discreetly?”


    “I don’t know if you can. You don’t exactly fly under the radar.”


    Thea sighed. “You have a good point about culture staying consistent. If we identify the packs that stole


    goddess-gifted, that could give Delta team a ce to start their investigation.” “Smarter and safer than


    trying to look in their libraries,” Lizzy said.


    “You know, the weaker packs may be looking for something to strengthen them. They could also be


    interested parties.”


    “Then there are rogues, vampires, witches.”


    Thea sighed. “Okay, let’s see if we can read between the lines with the information we’ve got. The gifts


    themselves vary. That seems to be where we have the most information.”


    “We’ve read about being able to control] an element like fire, water. There are the healers. Others who


    can raise the dead. Weather maniption. Nature gifts— making nts grow. Animal gifts—being able


    to talk to animals.”


    “Wait,” Thea said.


    “If this is moon magic, would witches be able to extract the magic from the gifted? Maybe they use their


    blood in spells or something.”


    “There are lots of reasons witches could want a goddess- gifted werewolf. Vampires too. Unfortunately,


    we don’t know what they could do with gifted wolves because they don’t share information.”


    “Why do I have the feeling that they would have better records and knowledge about this than us?”


    “Because they’re probably the ones who stole them,” Lizzy said.


    “Why can’t we all just get along? Why does there have to be such animosity? Everyone is trying to


    hoard power.” °


    “Is there anyone we know with diplomatic ties to them?”


    “I’ll ask around,” Thea said.


    “Okay, anyway, we know that the gifts start to show after they shift. It takes time to learn to control


    them. Often they’re taken before they do. So we don’t know if their powers were more than what’s


    written.”


    “But, there are also the ounts of war and the weird things that have happened in wars. Like forest


    fires pushing an army right into a trap. It sounds like someone with a gift for controlling fire was


    involved.”


    “Yeah. Strange ounts of weather phenomena. A nentire army fighting like Alphas. Alphas being


    resurrected, considered immortal. Those packs definitely stole a goddess-gifted.” |


    “Wait. What about the school library? They teach history, mythology, religion. They must have books on


    it.”


    “I check it out on Monday,” Lizzy said.


    “Maybe some of the teachers know something.”


    “l see what I can discreetly find out,” Lizzy said.