Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 149

Slade

The restaurant was fully booked out until Monday night, they’d all forgotten it was a long weekend and the tourists would have pre-booked themselves into Edge for dinner on Saturday and Sunday nights.

It was quite frustrating, but at least they knew it wasn’t Ana or one of her sisters putting it off on purpose. But now they also had to wait for that dinner with Ana and her sisters, Ocean. The wait he was hoping, until Monday night, wasn’t going to drive him crazy.

But at least the dinner had been accepted and not rejected. They were all going to finally sit down at the same table and get the chance to meet officially for those that didn’t actually know each other. Let Ana’s sisters see that he and his unit weren’t at all bad.

When Vance had gone to get dinner from the café later that night, he’d gone by himself, seeing as Ana had been receptive to him earlier in the day. It seemed that was going to be the better option for getting her to not hide herself anymore.

Zara had been allowed to serve Vance, while Maddie had stood and watched the interaction, ever present and protective of her sister, but she’d not refused him talking to her, not called him ‘Not for Zara’ either. That was new; something had changed with them was all he could only think.

Zara had smiled right at Vance as she’d handed the order over and stated the dinner was acceptable, they would all attend it. This had made Vance very happy, and he’d smiled right at her, given her the date and time that Palmer had pre-booked in the hope they could all have dinner. He had come back to the bed and breakfast still smiling.

That man was now planning on sitting himself right next to Zara, and had told all of them they weren’t to get between him and her, pointing a finger at each one in turn. “I mean it, that cutie is mine. Keep your eyes and mitts off.”

It was the first time his Beta had ever warned them off of any she-wolf before, and they’d all just stared at him. Slade shook his head and, “I’m not interested.” Had come out of him easily, because he wasn’t interested.

Palmer had snorted and stated “you’ll have to watch Yurl, I have likely got a Mate, and Slade he won’t touch anyone without the Moon Goddess’ approval.”

“Hubba Hubba.” Yuri had grinned right at Vance and wiggled his eyebrows, then rubbed his hands together. “Let’s see who she likes best, it’s game on.”

Which had set the two of them off against each other in a full-on wrestling match right there on the floor of his room. He and Palmer had sat and ate and watched those two rolling around, Yuri tormenting Vance about how Zara would like him more, and Vance telling him to find his own damned woman.

He’d looked at Palmer and the man had snorted with amusement down the mind-link ‘Oh come on Slade, that is funny. Look at them, Yuri’s not interested in Zara, he’s a bit like you, wants his mate, but enjoys winding Vance up as much as he does us. Getting a little payback right now.

‘Considering what you think, do you really think it’s wise?’ Slade had sighed.

‘Hey, nothing’s set in stone, I could be wrong.’ Palmer shrugged, ‘Besides, since when has Yuri ever bedded anything that is sweet and wholesome-looking?

Slade thought about that and shook his head. ‘I don’t recall him ever doing that.’

‘Correct and that hubba hubba, what the hell was that?’ he snorted. ‘I’ve never heard him say that in his entire life. It’s all taunt.’

Vance finally pinned Yuri down. “Don’t you ruin my piece of heaven,” he was near on shaking the Delta, who was still laughing, thought it was very funny.

“Enough you two, just eat already.”

He watched them get up, and three times Yuri snickered, and dodged Vance’s hand, as it snapped out to hit him. It was Palmer that suddenly burst out, “Oh My Goddess, she’s a freaking Gamma, and not once, Vance, have you been put off or gotten angry with her… she must be for Yuri. Not your mate Vance.”

weird for her, and it was her first official duty as the interim Alpha to the pack. Then went on to tell him that the scroll he had written had now been read out to all the elders, by Alpha Gretta.

A lot of yelling had come from that meeting and the Alpha Council had in fact, now confined all the ranked members involved in the investigation of the scrolls accounts to their own suites. In an effort to stop the elders from literally tearing them apart. Shit was hitting the fan inside the pack.

Though the council was of the opinion there would be no heads coming off of bodies until a full and complete investigation was to be had. So the elders had been reprimanded just a little and enough to placate them into only putting their children or grandchildren on the shaming postings for all to see.

Ori’s own grandmother had pitched a furious fit about being allowed to punish her own kin, and she would not be denied, ‘she’d leave him alive’ had been her only words as she’d stalked from the war room. But even to Dariah she looked like she was about to be on the war path.

If the council wasn’t there it was likely Anders was losing his head to his own kin, because she and her beast had spoken together about him breaking his longtime promise to her.

None had really understood that, but she did now have all of the Council members’ undivided attention, there was more than anger rolling off that woman, and her beast. It was utter fury, one of the council members had stated, and they’d all looked from one to another.

Then Dariah had repeated words to him from the council itself. “Again, I feel more is going on inside this pack than just what Slade reported.” It had come from Alpha Gretta herself, and Darlah had seen them all nod in agreement as well.

“Have they gotten you to give them access to everything yet?” Slade asked after she finished reporting the goings-on of the morning.

“Yes, all the pack files. The punishment reports and, curiously enough, the pack’s banking and taxation records for the wolfen taxes. I don’t understand any of that. Not my thing, but I just gave them what they wanted.”

“Good, continue to just do that,” he stated. It was best if she just complied with everything they wanted. Though he was certain she knew that. She had excelled at Alpha College, he’d seen her marks from Alpha College; She’d gotten a high distinction like he had, only missed his own mark by two points.