Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“That Alpha from Canada, I don’t like him, and the fact that he’s here in our home is making me uneasy.”
“Tink, I told you I would get Lorenzo on it, so I need you to trust me.” She let out a deep sigh and just nodded her head. “Try not to think about it too much and remember to keep your powers under control. Not everyone knows about you and we can’t freak them out.” She nodded again and slowly began to eat.
“So, Alpha Wyatt, Xavier tells me that you have an orphanage?” Archimedes said in the form of a question, breaking the comfortable silence everyone had fallen upon. I looked over at Rylee, and she was clearly taken aback by the question.
“Yes, we do. It was created by my late grandfather,” I answered cautiously. My dad gave me a look, indicating that he also didn’t feel comfortable with the fact that an unknown individual was asking about the orphanage. I was also a little irritated that Xavier of Black Moon would give away that kind of information to someone that I’ve never met.
“Tell me, do you make it a habit of taking in unwanted wolves off the streets?”
“Excuse me?” I replied. His tone was clearly one of mockery and everyone else at the table noticed it as well.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean any disrespect. I just find it somewhat distasteful and desperate. After all, you’re taking in rogues just to increase your numbers.”
“Alpha Marvin! I would watch what you say about my pack! I may do things differently compared to the other Alphas, but that by no means gives you or anyone here, the right to disrespect me!” I said slamming my fist on the table and making it shake. “Marvin, I invited you to this meeting as a courtesy, don’t make me regret that decision!” Alpha Xavier said to him, clearly offended on my behalf.
“Xavier, when I asked you where the next Alpha’s meeting was going to be held, you told me Blue Lake, and you spoke so highly of them. But you’re the one who told me that you didn’t agree with a pack having an orphanage, did you not?” Archimedes asked him with a smug and obnoxious look on his face. I looked over at Xavier.
“Do not take my words and twist them to make me the enemy here, Marvin. I told you that I didn’t agree with it because of my personal fear of the unknown! Don’t take my personal caution as a sign of me insulting Wyatt or his own tactics. All Alphas are different, but we never pass judgment on another unless it can prove harmful to everyone else,” Xavier explained. I didn’t need to read his mind to know that he was regretting he invited this guy.
“Gentlemen, let us not let our personal differences ruin this night. We are here to talk business and build new alliances or decide if we want to cut ties with another. Tonight is neutral, as are all first nights of the Alpha meeting’s weekend,” Richard said calmly yet sternly. “We have Elders in attendance, and they will not hesitate to get involved if they deem it necessary.”
“I find it strange that Elders are in attendance for a simple Alpha’s meeting,” Archimedes said. “Is there something that I should know?”
“The reason for the Elders being present is none of your concern,” my father said to him. “This is a private pack matter, and I would appreciate it if you kept your commentary to yourself until the meeting tomorrow.”
“I’m sorry, but I wasn’t aware that there were two Alphas of Blue Lake. What say your Luna, Alpha Wyatt? Does she not have a mouth of her own? Is she mute? She obviously doesn’t know respect even if slapped her in the…” I immediately slammed my fist into the table again, and Blade was threatening to take over.
“ALPHA MARVIN!!!” I roared. “YOU WILL KNOW YOUR PLACE AS A GUEST IN MY HOME! DO NOT DISRESPECT MY LUNA OR I WILL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF YOUR BODY!”
“Alpha Marvin, I don’t know how packs are run in Canada, but here in the United States insulting another Alpha’s Luna is punishable by death. So if I were you, I would shut that hole in your face and move away from the table. You have obviously crossed the line with Alpha Wyatt, and you are no longer welcome at this table,” Elder Jonah said calmly as he stood to his feet.
“Very well, it’s not like this dinner was all that great anyway. Come, Levi.” Archimedes stood up and exited the ballroom.
I looked down when I realized Rylee had finally said something. “Before you go,” Archimedes turned around to face her, “your blatant disrespect towards me, my Alpha, my pack, and towards the other guests at this table will not go unpunished.” “Excuse me?” he gritted his teeth.
“Kendrick!”
“Yes, Luna.”
“Kindly escort Alpha Marvin and his driver to their guestrooms to remove their belongings. They are no longer welcome in this castle, and as such, will be staying in one of the guest cottages. Find one that is vacant, and escort them there.” “Right away, Luna,” Kendrick replied with a smirk.
“Respect is not a given right, Alpha Marvin. Respect is earned,” Rylee said before finally dismissing him and his driver. Rylee’s rank was well known by all the other Alphas in the room, but it was obvious that Archimedes was taken aback by her boldness. If only he knew who and what she really was? .
***Levi’s P.O.V.***
After getting kicked out of the castle and placed into a cottage within the Blue Lake territory, I looked at the boss and couldn’t fathom what the f**k he was thinking. We needed to be inside the castle to figure out where Project Gemini was and to get them out of here before anyone noticed. By all intents and purposes, he just f****d up our chances of doing that.
“What are you looking at?” he asked me when he finally realized I was glaring at him.
“With all due respect boss, you do realize that you practically ruined our chances of finding Gemini, don’t you?”
“Wrong, I increased our chances of getting out of here without anyone noticing,” he responded. I c****d my head to the side and just looked at him like he was mad. “Levi, being inside of the castle meant that several hundred pairs of eyes would be on us at all times. But being out here in the open, within a territory as large as Blue Lake allows us to blend, and the potion you will be taking while here will help keep your human stench hidden while you locate the girls.”
“And what do you expect me to do when I find them? I can’t just abduct them; someone is going to see or hear. Plus, they know what I look like, they won’t come willingly.”
“They don’t know what I look like. While attending the meeting tomorrow, I will be keeping an eye out for the girls. The meeting is only in the morning for a couple of hours. Although this pack land stretches as far as the eyes can see, they are here somewhere, and I will find them. When I do, I will ask Alpha Wyatt for them.”
“What do you mean you’re just going to ask for them?”
“Of course you wouldn’t know how the world of werewolves works. Packs trade members all the time. I will simply suggest a trade.”
“What do you plan on trading for Gemini?”
“That part of my plan is currently in motion, so don’t you worry about that, Levi. Just be ready to take the girls when the trade goes down and deliver them to their respective buyers.” I nodded my head and just stared at him again. The boss was crazy, and he was obsessed with money. He could be doing so much better if he would just sell to anyone and everyone, but he didn’t, and our operation lost more money than it made. This was the main reason behind Bane and I wanting to get rid of the boss and take over. He may have two buyers for Gemini, but Bane and I found someone else who was willing to take them both for an even higher price than the two separate buyers combined. If we delivered them to this one buyer, he promised to take out Archimedes for us. I’d have to put up with his s**t for a little while longer while he located the girls, but after this job, I was determined to take over.
“Levi! Did you hear me!?”
“Huh? Sorry, boss, no I didn’t. I was thinking of how I was going to deliver the girls without anyone noticing them missing.”
“I told you to make sure that you make friends with the Beta and Gamma of this pack. Try to get some information out of them when it comes to the girls. If this pack is as ridiculous as I think they are, then they should easily spill the beans about anything new that has happened here recently.”
“Understood boss,” I replied. I grabbed my bag and went up to the guest room in the cottage, finally sprawling out on the bed. There was nothing for me to do until tomorrow and I honestly was too wiped out to even care about anything at this moment in time. But I did have one major concern now that I thought about it – who the f**k were the Beta and Gamma of this pack?
***Rylee’s P.O.V.***
“Rylee, I cannot believe you did that!”
“I know girl! That was f*****g awesome!”
“Dot! Don’t encourage her!”
We were all sitting in Wyatt’s office after dinner was finished, and Wyatt was not at all happy with the fact that I kicked out an Alpha into a guest cottage when all Alphas should be staying in the castle as part of the Alpha meeting taking place tomorrow morning. “Rylee, I get that he insulted us and our pack, but he is an Alpha, and he’s our guest,” Wyatt scolded me again.
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