Grayson had disappeared almost for two days and I had taken over the duties of Alpha while he built
up our defense.
The area the wolf had gotten into had never been barricaded but now they were building a wall. I still
had no clue as to why this was so serious.
I now took over all rtions, trade details, the progress of exports and goods, warrior training oversight,
and transitioning wolf problems. My days were endless but I dly took on the job for my pack and my
mate.
I had to start by looking at the crops and making sure that we had enough for a profit. The small profit
we could make. I went over which ones were more expensive to raise and which ones needed could be
distributed elsewhere. I left notes on where these foods were popr and we could try and distribute
them there for higher profit.
We were growing a lot of potatoes, then there were the apples and Grapes. I was surprised athos
much we had but I felt we were missing an opportunity eventually I wanted to talk to Grayson about
brewing hard apple cider and barreling wine.
He had so many exports for the pack no wonder it felt like paradise here. Then I had to go to the
greenhouses.
The greenhouses were where the ramie was grown for the fabric. Since we were high in the mountains
there was enough sunlight for them and the greenhouses took care of the climate.
I wasn’t much for humidity so I got out of there as quickly as possible. The nts were not what I
expected. They were tall and looked more like grass than a fabric producing nt.
The women were the main people who wove the fabric. It was good for wolves because of its durability
so this is where most of our money was made.
I made sure that if the weavers had anything they wanted for production written down. If they needed
new looms, stools, threading hooks and needles. Their stools were just wooden logs.
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Greyson please tell me you can at least me sensible to agree to cushioned seats.
I shook my head at his senselessness. He ran the pack logically but sometimes having more empathy
could help increase production of goods.
It was towards the end of sses for the pups which meant they would have a break soon. This meant
that the ssrooms in the main building needed attention.
What I had thought was the clinic was more a mash up ofmunity jobs, medical, and school.
Grayson spent everyday here. It was called the keep.
I had to look at the ssrooms and school supplies.
Oh Grayson!
They were still using chalkboards! Grayson Adams, you are surprising.
I wrote down that we could get whiteboards in every ssroom. Then I went over the ssroom
supplies. Paper,
pencils, new chairs, markers, globes, the list was endless.
I turned my head to the teachers who exined that we should have more than one extra chair in each
ssroom. Packs only grow in size until they decide to split. We had more and more children every
year we needed more room.
“Luna I think we should focus less on defensive lessons and more on art, math, science,” one teacher
spoke up to me.
“Really? We’re a warrior race. If they aren’t taught how to handle their aggression in a healthy manner
they’ll be violent and fateful.”
I understand skills used outside of the pack but if physical strength and hormones arent addressed in
wolves. Those
wolves turn into killers.
“Luna I would be more than happy to oversee it all I would need is some more money from the school
budget–pennies
really if I co-
“I gave you an answer,” I did not look up from the papers Id been scribbling on fr days.
“Luna I think there’s more than enough money don’t you?” She kept pushing. I looked over at the other
teachers who
had distance written all over their faces.
You think I will buy this..
“Do you assume because it is not your Alpha I will give you whatever you want so you like me? I am
your Luna I think I should make the Alpha aware of your attempt at greed,” I sternly and Sicily turned to
the woman who shrunk
“Luna I only meant that I c–could help the school,” She looked around at the other teachers who gave
her no help.
“Only you? If this was truly important other teachers would support you,” I looked around none of them
spoke up. none of them looked upset she had been called out.
“I–I only want- I think-. You are very hostile Luna Ate I think. I. Think. I….Imayhave
totellthealphaboutthis,” she
floundered.
Oh so tell my mate I did not believe you in your attempt at a money grab?
“Tell him, you will exin it to him at the end of the week, in front of everyone why it is you’ve been
banned from dinner.” Imanded and nodded to Aarron who took her away from me.
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As we left the Keep i turned to Aarron.
“Do you think I was too harsh?” I gulped not looking at him scared I had stumbled in my actions.
“No! Luna, that woman is known to go for more power and money, it’s why she isn’t mated,” He
comforted me, giving
me a sense of confidence.
Wolves did not find greediness attractive if their pack didnt; if greed, power, and money was at the
center of a pack’s morals then that is what they wanted in a mate. In a ce like this, we valued
I then had to see to the training of newer warriors. These men and women wereing to the end of
their training year and had been taught actual deadly methods of fighting. I watched them as they
sparred Elizabeth,manding
the room.
Aarron watched her like a starved man. I couldn’t not make fun of him.
“If you want to take your wife for a…walk. I won’t tell Grayson,” I chuckled, tearing his gaze and desires
from his wife.
“I am so sorry.” He cleared his throat.
“Don’t be, you love and want her who am I to judge you,” I shrugged.
“I’m lucky I found her so young. He tried to keep the conversation polite.
“Oh she told me about you as a teen,” I tried to keep a straight face “Sounds like you were ten times
worse,”
“There was another male wolf’s scent on her,”
“And you couldn’t tell it was her cousins,” Iughed at him and his reasons for his crazy teen actions.
“You’re just lucky Grayson is a man of control I see the way he looks at you,” He teased me back but
we both knew he’d let something sl*p.
“How does Grayson look at me?” I gave him my full attention.
“Oh goddess, please don’t tell him I said that we’ve been giving him shit for weeks, since you got here
really. He’s like a hawk I swear can’t help but look at you. I think it’s cause that’s all he’ll allow himself,”
He rubbed his face and temples as he spoke, realizing he’d betrayed Grayson’s confidence.
“Hmmm…interesting.” I whispered to myself. “Don’t worry I won’t tell him a thing.” I patted Aarron on
the shoulder.
“Oh thank goddess he can punch really hard.” Aarron shuddered for effect.
We left and went back to the keep to go over all the paperwork for the day. I think I now understood
why Grayson was so grumpy all the time. If I had to sit and look at mind numbing reports and statistics
I’d be angry too. So now I was.
Progress of transitioning wolves, allies responses to our intruder, province legiture for wolf territories,
rmendation for students to colleges, ledgers, ie reports, revenu, rules. It was beyond mind
numbing.
I had finished with the ledgers and goddess be it was sundown. I stiff
anted a
drink and food.
I walked out of the office and into a hard chest.
“OW!” I grabbed my nose pouting.
“Ate,” he soothed me with my name, ushering me into his office and rubbing my back. “I swear I
was just about to
“It’s fine,” I sighed my nose really hurt but it was.. Oaky.
“Oh goddess your bleeding.” He grabbed tissues.
It was just a mist of a nose bleed didn’t need more than one tissue but he was actually embarrassed.
“F***ing goddess,” He swore as he looked at me.
“Grayson it’s okay I did this to my dad the day we met he’s just not as…muscr,” I raised an eyebrow.
“Well um thank you for handling everything, it’s a busy time of year and you have been so, really nice,”
he didn’t meet
my eyes.
“Wanna go to dinner?” I suggested..
es,” He shook his head. “Let’s go,”
We walked together with his hand on my back, my nose had stopped its small amount of bleeding. My
mind going through different versions of what to say and still lingering on his hard warm chest, that
wasn’t important not important.
“The new batch of fighters, do they look good?” He asked me.
“Yes they’ve been trained well I have no doubt they could pass their trial,” I responded to him hoping he
would give me a nce.
“Good. Elizabeth is good at teaching.” He kept moving his eyes forward.
“How is the defense wall?”
“It’s done,”
“How was building it?” I tried to continue our conversation.
“It went just fine,”
Goddess be, he’s so dense.
“Turkey for dinner, i think i should make you my turkey gravy soon, act save it for fall it’s a good meal
for cold
I’ll weather,” I spoke probably to myself.
“Anything you make is delicious. I’m sure I’d want it all year round,”
But then he says something sweet.
“Come on,” He finally looked over at me and pulled out my chair as we sat at he head table in the
pavilion. “You should eat you’ve had such a busy week,”
We ate and the conversation was nice but what was exhrating was he joked with me, talked to me,
was with me. I felt like I was floating, it was the string of our bond by the goddess growing I could see it
in my head.
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As we headed back I tentatively turned to him. “Grayson, please exin to me why that intruder was
such a big deal?”
He sucked in a rough breath. “At home, please.”
I nodded and we walked in silence. The anticipation and eagerness for answers ate at me. It had been
three days since the attack, two of which I wondered why he was so one edge, why E was so
shaken, why no one would answer my
question.
We walked into our home and he held the door for me a gesture much appreciated.
“One month ago before I met you there was a sigma that had found his way onto ournds,” He began
as we went to our massive couch that was much toorge for only us two.
“He was from a southern pack, of alpha blood arger wolf. He’d seen E on her round sof the
perimeter,” He gulped.
“He was taken with her.”
“He came to me and demanded that I give him E for mate, I told him that E had a right to choose
her mate and that she was not to be sold by me. This man began following her everywhere. For a week
he would appear to her at random ces and she was disgusted and ufortable with his behavior.
Brain fought him and we thought that it
was the end of it.” He shook his head and rubbed his face.
“That night, he went to E’s home, he snuck in and tried to take her forcefully,” his face darkened.
“E fought him off and came to me immediately. I knew what I had to do.”
“We had her stay in her home the following night, the day we were supposed to meet Ate that’s
why I wasn’t there,” He exined his absence those days ago. “I waited in the mud that night. The
sigma came again, he was much more aggressive. I stormed the room and I ripped my ws through
his throat,”
I felt the bile crawling its way up my throat at what E had endured. It’s no wonder she was so shaken
up.
“He had been so brazen with his advance no respect for her, or our pack. He was a weak man who
looked to take what he wanted in a unseemly manner, to be polite about it,” Grayson stood up his fists
clenching. “I wouldn’t let this happen again. I drove to his pack and dumped his b*dy on their grounds. I
stated who I was and what he’d done to my pack member I told them anyone who tried to do the same
thing would have the same fate,”
“So this intruder the other day was a member of his pack?” I was utterly confused. Sigmas were
outside of their pack society; they did not adhere to rules and structure. They weren’t part of their pack
technically so a pack membering for revenge made no sense.
“Their colors are simr. I don’t want them knowing about you,” He turned around that fire in his eyes
again and looked me dead in the eyes. “We should bind,”
Chapter Comments
Lynne Castro
oh lord… there he goes again…. men….
Susan Suire
And we wonder why statements like All Brawn and No Brains” isbeled on these type of guys…e
on use your brain muscle for these things, man!!!
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