Filed to story: Divorce Tears From The Alpha (Ella & Holden)
Holden was staring at the actual invite now itself. He could smell a female scent on it, the sending packs Luna he presumed. “They don’t normally need to be signed for, right?”
“Correct.” Jeremy nodded, but that stupid grin was back on his face again.
“What now, Jeremy?”
“Holden, I didn’t see anywhere on that invite for you to indicate your reply.”
“No they wouldn’t.” he snapped, reading the invite for himself, looking for the RSVP section, there wasn’t one.
“Yes, I think they would.” Kevin smiled from across the room, joining in on the conversation. “I read it several times. Signing for it is an agreement that you’ll attend the ball.”
“Are they so desperate to mate off their wolves, that they have to use this archaic tradition?” he muttered, his hand had now been forced. His Beta’s signature was as good as his on a matter like this.
Jeremy’s game had started the minute that bloody courier had shown him the blasted envelope. He thought it would be fun to make his Alpha go to a mating ball. Well, he would be punished, that was for sure. His mind was clearly twisted.
Turning to look at the date and then, when the next full moon was, just 9 days away. He frowned, short notice, and he knew that he would be expected the day before. He might not do these things, but the former Alpha had and so had his father. He knew how they worked. You had to arrive the day before to give all the arriving packs time to settle in and mingle first.
“Braidy, you will be in charge of selecting the 20 wolves for this bloody thing.”
“What no, that’s a nightmare of a job, they will all want to go.”
” Yes, for your part in this little joke, you get to deal with all the wolves begging and crying to go, then angry they didn’t get selected.”
He watched very satisfied as Braidy glared at Jeremy, who’s actual fault it was, but if you want to play you might just get burned.
“Jeremy, you will be going with me to this stupid thing. And as punishment for actually having the hide to sign for it, you get to do Creche duties for the next 5 days.”
“What?” his Beta practically yelled in outrage.
Holden was very satisfied with Jeremy’s response, he wouldn’t be so bored now, the next five days was going to be keeping his Beta very busy. The pack creche house just over 40 rambunctious toddlers and screaming pups, it would be so very loud and annoying, just the thing to remind him not to do it again.
Rip snorted at him, he had actually enjoyed the hunt around the pack, it wasn’t often they just let loose like that. Holden now could see the fun of it too. But punishment was fun to dish out, he was going to enjoy strolling by the creche on a daily basis and watching Jeremy suffer for his foolish game. He could also play, just didn’t do it often. Was the Alpha and had to be seen as the authority not a joker. To be in control at all times, he had to command respect and wield it.
Ella POV
Arriving back onto pack territory was a good feeling, the retrieval team had been away nearly a week, tracking and retrieving a wayward runaway, and Alpha’s daughter no less, rebellious thing at just 13, already as defiant as a fully grown alpha she-wolf would be, and didn’t even have her wolf yet.
She had been a handful to say the least, sneaky little thing was clearly used to slipping past her fathers warriors. Had managed to slip her team twice once in custody. Run away over a boy of all things, typical teenager thought she would be safe in the human world, masking her scent but had run out of it and they had been on her quite quickly then. Safely returned to her family and her father agree she could date the boy to placate her and keep her home.
It was almost 5pm, the evening setting in. She already knew there was a mating ball tomorrow night, thankfully she would be on border patrol like always. Ella was still kitted out in her retrieval gear, even her bow was still on her back, its case’s lock busted that little brat, had broken it, Thomas had taken it to his friend Manny who was the packs weapons specialist, he’d fix it and drop it off at some point tomorrow for her..
Ella could see that just past her house her twin sisters were playing, in the playground that sat between her house and the pack house. Those two girls knew better, than to be out without Gabby when there were other packs visiting. She frowned and walked right past her house to the play ground, hopped over the fence, one hand on it for leverage.
“What are you two doing?” she growled at them playfully.
They both turned and looked at her, squealed in delight and run right over to her, they were small for 8, maybe looked 6 if they were lucky. Luna Lindy said it was because they had been born prematurely. Ella snagged an arm around each ones waist and tipped them upside down, then spun them around till they were laughing so hard they were crying out they were going to pee themselves. She put them down.
“Come on you two, you know better than to be out here on your own…yes?’
“Yes,” they both pouted up at her with their big blue eyes. Batted their very long lashes at her, like they would for Gabby or James to get away with naughty things
“Oh that doesn’t work on me.” Ella said “lets go home.” and then she chased them out of the playground and down the side of the pack house. In through the omegas door and up the stairs to the first floor, right to the Luna’s office. She followed them with Ky’ra making little playful growls and snorts at them, making them laugh and scream all the way there.
Ella followed them right into Luna Lindy’s office saw Gabby and Lindy both there. “Did you loose a couple of things?” she asked referring to the twins now climbing into Gabby’s lap for protection from their big sister.
“They were with the nanny.” Gabby frowned at them.
Both girls giggled and battered their lashes up at their mummy, she melted. Ella could not have asked for a better mother to them. Gabby loved them as if she had birthed them herself, they owned the woman’s heart that was for certain.
“They were out in the playground unattended.” she frowned at them “not something they should do with other packs here, hmm.”
“No Ella.” they answered all sad like, but were faking it completely.
Ella smiled behind her mask and shook her head only they would call her that, no one else did, it had started when they were little and unable to say her full name, and it had stuck, she didn’t mind at all, her mum and dad had used to call her Ella all the time.
“I’ll s***k you next time,” she told them firmly.
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