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“So, Benny, do you want to come live with a bunch of wolves in the woods and help a young girl start her own business in a diner?” Eli asks him.
He shrugs. “I packed everything I own, knowing that there isn’t anything for me back the way I came. Only thing for me is to go forward with you folks. If you’ll have me, I’m happy to come along. But I don’t change into anything. What ya see, is what ya get with me.”
I drove home with Benny. We caught up on the last few months and I gave him the full story of my battle with my father. “Alpha wolf, huh? That’s like, top dog, right?”
“Something like that.” I said.
“It’s good to know the boss.” He said.
He settled into pack life easier than I would have believed. He moved into the packhouse not showing any concern that he was living amongst hundreds of wolf shifters. After making sure that he didn’t need to worry about some wolves being the real thing and attacking him, he settled right in.
Over the next couple of weeks, he made friends with almost everyone. No one seemed bothered. that we had a human living in our pack. He met with Cammy and talked to her about her ideas, and he gave some of his own as well. He worked with her to make sure that the diner would be built in a way that made it conducive to seating large groups of people and still had enough room for a kitchen, a prep station and a checkout counter. He took her under his wing, just like he had with me.
Sometimes, he goes hunting with the wolves that bring in meat for the pack. I’ve heard him. arguing that he is the better hunter because he doesn’t have teeth and claws, he has to use a gun and his own old eyes and ears.
He even gets along with the sprites. After Fanella left with Alpha Christopher, Funichio didn’t really have anyone to spend time with. He and Benny have become good friends. I frequently find them sitting together in the late afternoon, relaxing under a tree or walking through the forest, just talking.
He’s chosen a spot where he wants to build a house, and once the diner is built, I doubt I’ll see much of him as I’m sure he’ll do what he’s always done. He’ll sit in the diner and keep and eye on everything.
He did mention to me once that while we may not live in a ‘nudie camp’, people sure al are ‘nekkid’ a lot. I just laughed and told him it was too expensive to constantly buy clothes if you shift with them on and destroy them. And then, you don’t have any to put on when you shift back. He’s learned to adjust.
All in all, it’s been a much easier transition than I would have expected, and I couldn’t be happier.
It’s been a couple of months since Benny joined our pack. It’s is really coming along now. Most of our pack members have homes that are either complete or in the final stages of completion. Main street stores are complete, and we’ve started building another set of stores in the expansion portion of the pack, making it easier for those members that chose to live farther away from the packhouse to get supplies when needed.
Grace and I started having monthly pack meetings, keeping everyone up to date, providing any announcements and using that time to add new members to the pack, whether they are wolves coming of age, or people who have come to our pack looking for a safe place to live.
Ailduin comes for training every two weeks. He brings Anastasia so she can see her father. Alpha Christopher spoke to his Beta when he returned with Fanella. He set up an Alpha challenge and his Beta’s son won, as expected. He took a month to help transition the duties to the new Alpha and then he and Fanella officially moved to our pack. They have built a house near the forest, in at community where Alexander and Thomas also built homes. It puts the sprites closer to their friends and families and it also puts warriors near our borders which helps protect our territory.
The hunters have started moving again. The sprites have found several in our forest and we’ve been able to scare them off or eliminate them. Alpha Anders and the team of elders that have been looking for hunter compounds have only been able to track down one. I wasn’t there, but from what I heard, they found all sorts of supernatural beings. They were being tortured and experimented on, just like Amber had been. We know there must be others, but they haven’t been able to find them. We’ve started hearing rumors again that something big is coming. We’ve increased our patrols and thankfully, we now have two sides of our pack lands that border Liam and Rik’s packs, which provides extra security for all of us.
Grace is getting stronger. Her ability to pull power has now extended past Cara to Rik. Somehow, once they were able to connect the mind link, it made it possible for Grace to also pull from Rik’s power. Ailduin has been testing her ability to pull it separately from Rik or through Cara. At our last training session, Grace was able to not only pull from Cara and Rik, but she also touched on Rik’s pack members. Liam still refuses to allow Angel to participate, and I don’t blame him. Grace is exhausted after every training session. However, after she tapped into Rik’s power through the mind link, Ailduin started having Liam sit in. Now Grace can pull from Cara and Rik as well as
Liam and me all at the same time. She was powerful before, but now, when she pulls our power. her strength is amplified even more.
It’s late and I’m at my desk, getting ready to be away for another weekend of training with Ailduin. This time, we’re scheduled to be at Rik and Cara’s pack. My phone rings and when I pick it up, I’m on a conference call with Rik and Liam.
“Eli, Rik. We have a problem.” Liam starts the conversation. “I’ve just returned from my office in the city. A panther shifter that I met nearly a year ago came in. She looked awful. She said she had been kept in a hunter’s compound for nearly six months. During that time, she overheard them talking about the Guardians. She escaped and came to warn me. The hunters are planning to come for our mates.”
Both Rik and I snarl at this news. We all take a moment to get ourselves under control. “So, you think this is the big thing that we’ve been hearing about?”
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“I think it must be. Audra said she overheard them speaking about what happened at the tournament. The ones that escaped that day did get the news back to their leaders. They have. also been experimenting on wolves. Audra thinks they are rogues, which is why we haven’t been alerted to missing wolves from any of the packs.”
“I’ll send my father to speak to her, if that’s okay. I’m sure he’d like to find that compound.” Rik says.
“Send him over. I’ve got her set up here at the pack. She’s not happy about it, but she’s safe.” “Does she know what kind of experiments they were doing on the wolves?” I ask.
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“No. I’m not sure she could tell me even if she did know. She’s pretty traumatized.” Liam says.
“Let my dad speak to her. He’s been interviewing the supernaturals that were rescued from the compound they found. He knows how to ask the questions slowly and carefully.”
“Good idea. If he wants to come tonight, I’ll set him up here, but I’d prefer that he wait to speak to her until tomorrow. She needs food and rest. How do you both feel about moving our training session to my pack this weekend. I’d like to keep Angel close to home, but it’s possible that we may be able to speak to Audra. She might be more willing to speak to our mates, knowing that is who the hunters are after.”
“That’s fine with me.” I say and Rik agrees.
“You know we have to tell them.” I say to Rik and Liam.
I hear them both sigh. “Yeah, I know.” They both say.
“They are Guardians. They are strong, but they need to be prepared. They need to be warned to be on alert. And Grace, at least, will want to know why I’m tripling our patrols.” I tell them.
“Cara will too. She won’t let it go until I tell her.” Rik said. “And I’ll feel better knowing that she’s being extra careful if she’s out with Lily.”
“Agreed. So, we all tell them tonight since we’ll be together tomorrow?” Liam asks.
We all agree.
I finish the call and head to our room, following my mate’s scent. I find her in the shower and lean against the door, watching her.
“Why are you watching me like a creeper?” She leans her head out to look at me..
“Just enjoying the view.” I tell her.
She crooks her finger at me. “Come join me.”
I strip down, walking into the shower behind her, wrapping my arms around her. She turns in my arms, looking at me with a mischievous look on her face, her hands slowly sliding down my chest to my stomach and lower.
“Do you know how much I love you?” I say, meaning it with every fiber of my being. No one and nothing will take my mate from me. I will die before I let those hunters or anyone else hurt her.
‘I will tear anyone to shreds if they even think of hurting our mate.’ Louis says.
Grace’s hands stop their descent and instead, her brow furrows and she slides her arms around. me, leaning into me.
“What is it? What’s wrong?”
I look at her, my throat getting tight at the thought of someone coming after my mate. I swallow a couple of times, trying to get the lump out of my throat so I can answer her. I lean down and kiss. her nose.
“We found out that the hunters are coming after the Guardians specifically. They are coming for you.”