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I place it in my pocket. “We can put it in a frame when we get home” I tell her and she lets out a breath.
My father pats the chair next to him and she walks around the table before sitting next to him. My father had been quietly observing and I knew he was burning to ask me questions. I could practically see the cogs turning in his head. I plate up the steaks and sausages before placing them on the table. Kat walks inside before returning with salad and plates and bread.
“I was actually wanting to speak to you about something” I tell my father looking over at him as I sit down beside Sage.
“What’s that?’ He asks, turning his attention to me.
“Wanted to see if you would come over home a for a bit, I need help with some Pack issues, and my new Beta could use some pointers on the shit he is supposed to do”
“Not Beta blood?” he asks .
“No, Gamma. But he struggles with the responsibilities, he is used to being their friends and not their boss, they run all over him forgetting he is now my Beta” I tell him and he nods.
“Sure, I can head over tomorrow if you want, how long should I pack for”
“However long you plan on staying, I need your help so if I can steal for a week or so would be good, if
Kat doesn’t need you” I tell him and he smiles like a kid on christmas.
“Sounds good ” He says, biting into his sausage sandwich.
“I’ m good, I have Mateo and Ezra to help with kids” Kat says looking just as excited as our father at the idea of him staying with me for a few days. Hopefully he will be able to help with the rogue issue, I could use a fresh set of eyes on the situation, preferably one that won’t cause issues with Sage, she didn’t understand the danger we were in of losing everything, and I won’t let anyone walk in and take my Pack so I am willing to do anything to keep them Safe even if she doesn’t agree with my ways.
Sage POV
Lunch was nice with Kat and her family and I found myself not wanting to leave, liking having another female around, someone I can kind of relate to. Derrick Andrei’s father said he would be over tomorrow sometime to help Andrei with whatever Andrei asked of him and eventually we left.
Walking back to the car I climb in the passenger seat and Andrei gets in the driver’s seat and starts up the car.
“Seat belt” Andrei growls, making me realize I hadn’t put it on. I roll my eyes but clip it place and he reverses before turning the car around and driving down the long driveway. When we reach the end instead of turning toward the highway he turns heading into town and I look at him questionably wondering where we are going now. As much as I didn’t want to leave Kat’s, I kind of missed home. The town was small as we drove through it and I could tell it consisted of only werewolves.
A few people on the streets nodded to Andrei as he drove past despite him not being their Alpha and I knew it was out of respect for Kat. Andrei drove towards the edge of town before pulling up at what I first thought was a park with its picnic areas and bench seats and giant trees creating shade along the edges of the white fence that surrounded the place. The lawns were well maintained and I realized we were at a cemetery. Andrei parks the car under a tree and stares out at the gravestones letting out a shaky breath.
“You ok?” I ask him before reaching over and grabbing his hand.
“Yeah, I just haven’t been here since her funeral” He says, staring out at the cemetery. I could see a man in the distance tending to some of the graves and cleaning them and figured he must be the graveyard keeper.
Andrei squeezes my fingers before opening his door and getting out. He walks around the back of the car to the trunk and pops it open and I climb out of the car to see what he is doing. He places a cardboard box on the ground before shutting the trunk. He picks it up with one hand before reaching in his pocket and pulling out a piece of paper and opens it and reads it.
I noticed each row of graves was marked with a number and Andrei grabbed my hand and tugs me along the rows, careful not to step on anyone’s grave before stopping next to a black headstone with silver writing on it. I looked down at it and read the name expecting it to be his mate Angie but instead it read. Lyle Wesson and his date of birth along with the picture I had in the car.
“He is younger than I thought, ” Andrei says, looking at the headstone.
“Yeah he is three days younger than me” I tell him and he nods before kneeling. He rummages in the box before handing me a cloth to clean the dust from the headstone and I wipe it over while he continues pulling things out. I wipe the headstone over which was pretty clean before sitting next to
Andrei on the grass and he hands me a small plastic pot with colourful pansies in it. I stare at the flowers and Andrei digs a small hole in front of his headstone with his claws and hands.
“Want some help?” Says a voice behind us and I look over my shoulder to see the keeper. He was in his mid forties and was wearing overalls and a wide brimmed hat.
“No, but can you take that box to Angie’s grave please, I will be over there in a second” Andrei tells him and I could tell they knew each other. The man nods and bends down, picking it up.
“I will make sure they both stay well watered Andrei” The man tells him and he nods. I turned back to
Andrei whose hands were now covered in dirt.
“There now you can plant it, I wasn’t sure what flowers you like but they looked pretty” He said and I nodded before carefully removing them from the pot and dropping them in the small hole. I push the dirt back over it before patting the dirt around it. Andrei then opens up a water bottle and pours some on the soil watering it. We sat there staring at the grave. Andrei was a man of few words yet I didn’t feel uncomfortable and he didn’t seem mad that he was visiting my mates grave. After a few minutes I got up. I missed my mate yet I barely knew him.
“You want to go already?” Andrei asks and I nod.
“Yeah, let’s go visit Angie’s now” I tell him, looking for the man with the box but I couldn’t see him. I offer Andrei my hand and he takes it letting me help pull him up before tucks me under his arm leading me to yet another grave.
This one was all white marble and covered in flowers and pictures, teddies and even a necklace hung on top of the grave. I find his mate was only 18 when she passed away but she was pretty and in the picture she looked lively and happy. Her grave also had beloved daughter, sister and Mate written on it. Looking at Andrei his eyes darken and I sit next to her grave before opening the box and rummaging around it while he was frozen in place staring at it.
I pull a small pot of lavender out and place it beside me. Looking up at Andrei he was no longer looking at the grave but watching me with a strange look on his face before his eyes lost focus and he growled, making me jump. Yet he didn’t seem angry but like he wasn’t exactly present either and was reliving some memory he didn’t like. I reach up tugging his hand and his eyes refocus and he shakes his head. Through the bond I felt fear which I thought was odd.
“Are you going to plant her flowers?” I ask him, ignoring the feeling I was getting through the bond.
When he doesn’t answer I start digging a small hole next to her grave. I didn’t want to disturb the other things on her grave that were placed and there wasn’t much room.
“Here I will do it, you will get dirty” He says kneeling beside me and pulling a bit more dirt out. I hand him the pot of lavender and he takes it, pushing it in the hole.
“Angie liked lavender” He said and I nod seeing another one on the other side of the grave that someone planted. I unscrewed the lid of the water bottle and hand it to him before carefully wiping her headstone with the cloth which looked like it was regularly cleaned and maintained by her family.
“Her family was all from this pack” I ask Andrei.
“Yeah she had five brothers and her parents here and I think an aunt but I never met her” Andrei says and I nod sitting beside him.
“Argh Angie hated those flowers always made her sneeze, ” He says pointing to some gardenia’s on the grave next to hers.
“Lavender was her favourite and pink roses” he says,patting the soil down and watering the lavender.
¡®What’s your favourite flower?” Andrei asks me while sitting back and rearranging some of the things on her grave that had fallen over.
“Some would call it a weed” I chuckle and he raises an eyebrow at me.
“What is it then?” He chuckles.
“Dandelions” I tell him and he shakes his head. “That is because it is a weed” He chuckles and I shove his shoulder.
“Why dandelions?” he asks.
“Because they are a rogue unwanted plant and grow freely” I tell him and his smile slips slightly yet I didn’t mean it to upset him. I just liked that you couldn’t control where they popped up.”
“My father hated them when I was kid and was always pulling them out of the lawn and said it ruined his grass” I tell him with a chuckle.
“So you did live in a community before being rogue” Andrei asks and I nod.
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