Chosen Just To Be Rejected by Jennifer Francis novel Chapter 41

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Parker

He got home to his pack to find his Luna not in it. She had apparently accepted a modelling job in New York and left to go and do that. And although it wasn’t unusual for her to go off and model in the human world. She wasn’t supposed to do it when he wasn’t home, when his unit wasn’t there to protect the pack. Carina had also not told him she was going to leave the pack; anything could bloody happen to it with none of the leadership there to help protect it and defend it. He was more than annoyed by this. Why was she so Goddess damned irresponsible at times? A part of him wanted to strangle her, and get rid of her even. She was still that entitled she–wolf at times from when he’d first met her, the one he’d not liked seeing.

Kane’s Mate Katie greeted them, and she was the one to inform him that Carina had gone to New York. He’d stared at her more than annoyed, and she’d apologised to him “I couldn’t talk her out of it, Alpha. I’m sorry, I did try.”

“Right” had been his only comment. Katie knew he wasn’t mad at her, he didn’t generally direct anger at those that didn’t warrant it. He’d motioned for Kane to bring the newly joined she–wolves of his pack to his office for initiation. Only a handful of them, four of those she wolves that had mated to his wolves, had wanted to stay with the Hollowed Moon and he’d allowed it.

Wolves would go where they wanted to. In this day and age, he believed an agreement should be made between a newly mated pair as to where they would stay. Not just expect the she–wolves to move to their mate’s pack, equality was the best thing for his wolves.

He did not make anyone move to Lustrous Moon, or leave it either. It was completely up to them, he had taken over many unhealthy packs around him, and had many packs to his name, five separate territories to Lustrous Moon, with elders he trusted residing and in–charge of them. Why there were none here in the mane pack, they were spread out to help lead the other territories. They were all only small about 300 to 500 each and not so far away. Unlike the main pack where he lived, which had 2000 wolves here now. He also allowed his wolves to move between the packs, and when attending mating balls, the wolves that he took with him were equally chosen numbers from each of his subsidiary packs, so some from each pack could go and find mates. None had to move to his main pack either they could situate themselves into one of the smaller packs around the main pack but all got initiated here and then moved off back to their packs.

His elders reported to him every afternoon, through a video conference. Sometimes it was held here and at other times from his head office in Oklahoma City, and he could drive to all of them easily; the furthest away was only a three–hour drive.

It was kind of like a big conglomerate with subsidiary companies. It ran nowadays like a well–oiled machine, and there were well–trained warriors in each of the packs to hold down the fort until others could

get there. If one was attacked, attacking Alpha was risking everything, because he had warriors from all

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his packs head there, and they were outnumbered quickly. He, on his own, could send 1000 warriors to any given pack in his territories. Pull a hundred from each subsidiary pack and send 600 from his central pack. It was a deadly game to attack him.

Parker and one of his unit headed off to those smaller parts of his pack, to see how they were actually doing, on a regular basis, spend a few hours there training them, themselves and checking the pack members were happy, making sure they were healthy, and everyone had what they needed.

It could be time–consuming and pulled him from his main pack. Every second day he spent time with one of those small packs, but as the Alpha, he needed to make sure they were all safe under his care. Carina had no interest in attending those smaller packs, to aid in helping him maintain them.

She had told him once, “Well, if they weren’t all spread out all over the place you wouldn’t have to. Just bring them all here and expand this place. That way you wouldn’t leave me alone so much now, would you?”

Parker sat at his desk and put a call to Carina. He might be busy running the pack and its companies and,

yes, he was away at times, but she only modelled, didn’t run any parts of the company, and she went away for days on end sometimes.

She picked up on the tenth ring and his temper crept up with every ring she ignored, and he knew she was standing there looking at her phone debating on answering it or not. He’d actually seen her do that himself once before, when he had been calling her when she was in the head office, and he was free to have lunch with her, so he had made his way to her and that phone had been in her hand when he’d come round the corner. He’d seen her for himself muttering “What does he want now?”

His Goddess–Gifted was actively ignoring him, still so very self–centered at times “Yes, Parker.” She finally answered the phone, sounding annoyed that he was bothering her.

“Why are you not inside the pack?” he asked outright.

“I’m on a modelling job.” She answered him as if that explained everything.

“And who is in charge while you’re not here? I’m not here!” he grated out.

“I have a life too, you know. You’re always out of the pack, which leaves me stuck inside it. I rarely get to travel anymore, you only approve of modelling locally nowadays. It’s frustrating, I need to be out here. showing what I can do, branching my career path out, and working interstate.”

Again, he counted to 10. She was really starting to test his patience. “As a Luna, one would normally spend 80 or 90 percent of their time in the pack. Carina, you know this, grew up in a pack, your actual job as my Mate and Luna is here inside this pack.”

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