Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 139

Ana

Ana sat with Ocean the next day after breakfast, it was just herself and Londyn sitting there with her. Both Maddie and Zara had gone to open up the café as if it was a normal day here in Greenville for them. When, in fact, they were all a little bit on edge from yesterday.

She’d gotten a text message at 0500 from Peirce that stated, ‘Mr Slade Southerland barged into his house, not only threatened me, but broke his arm as well. I’m in the hospital.’

Ana had just stared at that text message. What did he think she was going to do about it? Did he hold her responsible for that? Whatever reason Slade saw fit to harm that man, it was not her doing.

She’d not even seen that man yet, not spoken to him, and as for the threat. Well, she’d had no idea Slade would do any of that, didn’t even think he would, didn’t know what he was thinking or why he would go there and threaten him. She didn’t even know why he’d barged into that man’s home, or what the threat was. Peirce had not stated, given her bare minimum details. How was it her fault?

She’d stared at it and dismissed it. Pierce was no longer her concern, and what went on with him was his own problem to solve. He’d likely said something to tick Slade off was all. Wolves were aggressive creatures, and humans were weak to them. In their world, a broken bone would heal in a matter of hours.

She sat with Ocean on the couch and smiled at her a little. “We’ve got some news.” She told her simply,” Londyn has scented out her Mate.”

She saw Ocean’s eyes go wide, and then she turned and looked at Londyn. “Really?” she asked excitedly. ”

When?”

“On the last full moon,” Londyn smiled at her. “He was unconscious, and has yet to scent me back though.”

“How’d that happen?” Ocean asked with a frown.

“I knocked him unconscious,” Ana told her honestly. “I got a big shock at seeing him… I know him, he’s from the place I came from.”

That made Ocean lean forward. “Really?”

“Yes, his name is Yuri.” Ana nodded. “Though Londyn didn’t tell any of us until last night.” Ana sighed as she looked at Londyn.

“Why not?” Ocean asked, “Mates are a good thing, gifted by the Moon Goddess.”

That’s how they were raising her, with happy and supportive things about the wolfen world. They had decided to leave all the terrible things and not-so-nice stuff off the table, so to speak, until she was old enough to understand it properly.

“I was worried, Ocean, that it might be a problem for your mum,” Londyn answered.

“Is it?” Ocean turned back to look at Ana now.

“Londyn is allowed to accept her Mate, Ocean. That is not the problem,” Ana told her.

“What is then?” Ocean asked.

“Yuri, Londyn’s Mate… is a Delta-ranked wolf, and… the entire Alpha Unit is now here in town.” She stated and watched as Ocean sat back on the couch to think about that for several minutes.

“The Alpha, Beta and Gamma too,” she murmured softly.

“Yes.” Ana nodded. “The Alpha…” she hesitated, was hard to say this for the first time.

“Is my dad,” Ocean nodded. “Aunty Londyn’s Mate is part of my dad’s Unit.” She sighed, then turned and looked at Londyn. “You’re leaving us. Aren’t you?”

“Oh, um, I’d not thought about that to be honest, Ocean.” Londyn murmured, and then looked at Ana, for what appeared to be help. She’d not grown up inside a pack and didn’t get it, not really.

“If you accept him, then yes, you’ll go back to that pack. You are a rogue, and have no pack, so that will be what happens.” Ana nodded to her. “You’ll also have to go in just a few days of marking and mating, because that will trigger your body to get ready for your heat to come. And that will happen in about a week after marking and mating… So, it’s unavoidable.”

“I don’t want to leave you all.” Londyn frowned now.

“He’s an heir to that pack and I doubt Londyn, he’s going to give it up to live here with no pack as a rogue. Not many wolves will become a rogue on purpose.” Ana told her honestly, what she knew was going to be expected of her.

“Well, he should. I’m Alpha-blooded, he should go where I am.”

“If you had a pack and weren’t a rogue, you could argue that case, but rogues have no status Londyn, so…” she shrugged. “The only way you’ll get to stay here is if you reject him. Do you really want to do that?” Ana didn’t think so.

“I want to stay here with all of you, but I want my Mate too.” Londyn huffed.

“Maybe my dad can sort it out,” Ocean stated a little quietly.

“It is likely,” Ana nodded. “You should go into town; You might see Yuri. Seeing him will help with getting to know him.”

“Are you telling me to date him?” Londyn asked.

“I’m not telling you what to do, Londyn, that is completely up to you. Just remember, he does not scent you, doesn’t know what you are to him, so he’ll likely smile at other girls, and maybe flirt with them.”

Londyn’s eyes widened a little. “If he does that, touches another?”

Ana sighed. “You’ll feel it,” she muttered. “It won’t be pretty.”

“I don’t want that.” Londyn gasped.

“I don’t want that for you either,” and it was likely going to be her fault if that happened. She’d been the one to knock Yuri unconscious that night before he could scent Londyn out, even left him out there. Though if Londyn had told her, made mention of it at all when she’d gotten home, she’d likely have put Londyn in the truck and taken her right to his unconscious body and tried to wake him. So he could scent her back.

She might want to be away from that place, and the world of wolves, but Londyn had never experienced it. She might like it. She could well be accepted with open arms, because she was a Mate, not an heir. That was the difference between what she had been and a regular pack member.

Those people that had birthed her, should have just bled her to another line, and refused to acknowledge her at all. It would have been better for her. If she was just a regular pack member and not an heir.

She could have been a warrior’s child. Hell, an omegas daughter would have been fine with her, she’d have been treated better, even being an omega inside that pack. Her life would have been very different if they’d just given her up at birth. Maybe then she would have been loved by the ones raising her, not treated like a second-class citizen.

She pulled herself from her thoughts, she’d not had thoughts like that in a very long time. She didn’t need nor want a trip down memory lane, even though she knew it was coming. And it was. She was going back to work, and she knew in doing so, Slade was going to walk into that café at some point and so was his unit.

Why they’d hunted her? Who the hell knew, she’d understood she was worthless to that place, and she’d made it pretty clear she’d thought. That she wasn’t interested in being found or ever going to go back there.

She had severed herself from the pack, and her kin bond she’d obliterated, when blood bonding herself to Maddie. It hadn’t even hurt to do so, not on her end. She had no idea if the other end of it had been felt.

Her statement to the leadership of the pack, she thought, had been loud and clear. If they checked the footage, she’d not even run away, simply strolled on out of the pack at a casual pace, uncaring to being there.