Chapter 16: Counting down the minutes until reunited with Chasity Alex
I tumbled out of bed and rushed downstairs.f**k! I overslept. I could hardly sleep last night without my Luna’s scent and heartbeat to comfort me. I had finally fallen asleep around three or four in the morning. I should have set an alarm. It was after eight! Chasity was late for school. She wasn’t in the kitchen. Maybe she was still asleep. She probably overslept too. I ran to her room and flung open the door hoping I wasn’t walking in on her changing. My wolf hoped that we were walking in on her changing. I was surprised to find Felix sitting on her bed, looking forlorn,
“Where’s Chasity?” I asked, my eyes wide. “At school,” he said simply with a shrug. I breathed a sigh of relief. “You took her to school,” I surmised. “Yeah,” said Felix sadly. I sat next to him. “I overslept. I thought I had made her late,” I admitted. “She has three mates, Lex,” said Felix. “There’ll always be someone there for her! “Yeah,” I said, lying back on her bed. “What’re you doing moping around in here?” “I miss Chasity,” said Felix. “She’s at school! You’ll see her in a few hours,” I said with a laugh. “Maybe she can be home-schooled!” Suggested Felix, his face lighting up. “No!” I said sternly. Felix frowned. “School is important,” I said. “I knew you would say that,” grumbled Felix. “She would not learn anything in home-school with you sniffing around,” I joked. Felix grinned.
“Also, don’t you want her to socialise? School will be different for her now that she’s with us. Better. Easier. She can be a normal teenager now for a while. She won’t have a ton of housework to rush home and do. She can take extra-curricular activities even,” I added.
“Oh, hell no!” Said Felix. “Then I’d have to be away from her even longer!” He complained. I chuckled to myself.
“Come on! We have our territory lines to go over! We’re expanding further eastwards and giving the rogues in the wilderness there a chance to be adopted into the pack,” I reminded him.
“And what if they say no?!” Asked Felix. “They can shape up or ship out,” I said. “I like that,” said Felix with a grin.
“We’ll give them the choice of joining the pack or leaving the area but there are too many rogues eastwards for my liking. It’s time to clean up that area. It could be a problem later on if left unchecked,” I explained.
The land to the East of ours ran the length of our territory’s East border. The other northern packs
agreed that we had the most claim to it so we were going to absorb it before they changed their minds and tried to take it themselves.
“We can’t let the other Northern packs have that strip! It would be too much of an advantage if they had our eastern border blocked off like that. I know we’re peaceful with them but peaceful does not have to mean stupid!” Agreed Felix.
“We should give the rogue families a monetary incentive to join the pack,” said Calix, coming into the room.
“Baby boy Calix!” Exclaimed Felix.
Calix rolled his eyes. “We should offer them work and a property they can pay off over time on our pack lands,” said Calix.
“I’m willing to give them housing free if they have useful skills or any warrior training,” I reasoned.
Felix nodded eagerly. “You never know. Some of the rogues might find their mates here on our lands. We should be sure to mention that,” said Felix.
“Yeah, we’ll lay out all the pros for them,” I said. “We’ll make it worth their while to join the pack. They can also leave peacefully. The last resort will be to use force but that land can’t stay wild. It leads to the sea. There’s a lot of potential there for the whole pack. Let’s go over it my room,” I said, getting up.
Felix snatched one of Chasity’s pillows to carry with him so he could have her smell near him. Calix snatched another pillow for the same reason. I wanted a pillow too and she still had several on the bed but I refused to act as childishly as my younger brothers.
“You know you want a pillow,” teased Calix as we walked up the stairs. He was dangling Chasity’s pillow in my face. It was covered in her delicious scent. “No,” I said curtly. “We have work to do.” “Yay! Work!” Said Felix sarcastically. Calix laughed. Felix
I could scarcely stay awake listening to Alex drone on and on about territory lines. The part of being an Alpha that I liked was the physical side to it.
“We should practice sparring,” I suggested.
“Beta Keaton’s squad have already secured the first quadrant of the new East territory,” stated Alex triumphantly.
“Quadrant?” I asked.
“We decided to split the East territory into four from north to south. It’s a large strip of land,” explained Alex.
“I wanted to be there for the actual taking over of the territory,” i fumed. What the f**k! The one part I liked and I missed it!
“It didn’t get violent, Felix. Beta Keaton successfully negotiated with the families of rogues there, on my command. There was no need for intimidation,” explained Alex.
Oh. Intimidation was my specialty. “Intimidation is Felix’s specialty,” said Calix, grinning. Was I that transparent?
Call me a caveman but the only thing I liked more than fighting also began with an F. That reminded me. I needed to pick up my mate.
“What time is it?” I asked.
“It’s three o’clock,” said Alex, shuffling some papers.
“I need to go pick up Chasity,” I said, getting up. “Her school ends at four and it’s only like fifteen minutes away,” said Calix, laughing. “You want me to be late?” I said, rolling my eyes.
Chasity was sneaky. If she didn’t see me parked outside the moment she walked out of that school, she would try to take the bus or walk.
“I wanna come with,” said Calix. “Me too, actually,” admitted Alex. “Look at the two of you,” I said, shaking my head in mock dismay. “Whipped.”
“You’re the most whipped. You wanna wait outside Chasity’s school for practically an hour,” said Calix.
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