Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 184

Slade

Hailey motioned for him to take a look at the new pack blade, that would belong to him shortly. It was a simple looking dagger with a tightly woven handle of fine grey thread.

“It’s clean and honest looking.” Hailey smiled at it. “I chose it myself,” she stated, looking at him, holding it up for him to see, she flipped it over and around in her hand, “It’s nicely weighted and easy to maneuver. It comes with a nice stand to sit on your desk as well.”

“When I get one,” he nodded, “I will be gutting this office, the Luna’s office as well.” he stated, neither of those places would remain intact.

“A wise decision.” Hailey nodded “Now, I’ve already bound the blade to the land we stand on, it is ready to bind itself to you. When this happens, the entire pack will be severed from Roman. The land has already been broken from Roman.

“When I bound the new blade to the land, he was cut from the pack, is now a rogue out there on that shaming post. When I bind the blade to you, everyone inside this pack will not only feel the pack dissolve, they will all become rogues themselves.”

Slade stared at her now, and she smiled at him.

“It is alright Slade.” She stated, “they’ve all been forewarned, bar Roman and those on the shaming posts; the others out there with him will lose their connection, like all pack members, and feel the land change to rogue status. But they do not need to be informed of this, they have no rights to any knowledge anymore of the goings-on with the council or the king’s wishes.

“We, the council, will be dealing with them from this moment onwards. They are our prisoners now. Do not concern yourself with them at all. It’s unlikely they’ll remain here in the human realm, likely Roman, Elise and Anders, possibly Bronnie will all lose their heads. The other four are still undetermined but likely to end up in the king’s mines as prisoners for the rest of their lives.”

“Okay.” He nodded “I have some questions to ask.”

“You can ask them, but let’s head outside, I need you to bleed for land, to recognise the new bloodline, finite amount of time for that to happen. So let’s not push it.”

She walked outside and he and his unit followed her, though he was a little confused, ‘new bloodline’ she’d stated, but his bloodline was the same as those that had been bound to the land via the last pack blade. It didn’t make sense to him.

Though he’d also never seen land be gifted to an Alpha before, “I don’t understand Alpha Hailey, about the new bloodline, my bloodline is…”

“Not considered the same.” She cut him off. “You may be birthed from that Alpha out there, but your blood, does not hold traitorous tendencies, is deemed to be clean and true to wolfen law. So not at all the same, because it’s not tainted like theirs is. None of your unit are considered to have the same bloodlines, because you were all true to wolfen law.”

“Okay.” He nodded slowly as he tried to absorb this news.

“You’re curious as to why this way? That it’s not the traditional method?” Hailey asked.

“Yes,” Slade admitted.

“That is easy, your father’s not the one binding you to the pack, it’s been revoked from him against his will, by the decree of the Wolfen Council, with the approval of the Wolfen King. So this is now a new pack being created. No kin older than yourself in your bloodline will hold a claim on the land.

“All pack elders of your bloodline, your units bloodlines, for that matter will never hold any standing. They are all now going to be relegated to regular pack members. You and your unit here,” she indicated to Vance, Palmer and Yuri. “Will be considered the first Alpha and his unit, none come before you.

“You’ll be allowed to change everything about the pack, from its name and pack symbol, to the laws and rules you want in place, over the course of the next few weeks, there will be a lot of paperwork for you and your unit to sit down and attend to.

“Dariah and Clay will have a claim to the land due to being younger than you, but you may choose to rescind that, if you wish to.” Hailey told him.

“No.” he shook his head “They are both as much victims as I am. I just found out Clay is playing the role that Roman gave him in order to hide from him, a son, he has with his intended. A woman he actually loves and wants to protect from Roman himself. He has been keeping Vanessa and her family from signing the mating alliance himself. Biding his time until I came home.” He sighed.

“Now that is interesting to me,” she stated thoughtfully. “We’ll get to that in due course.” She nodded “Now this is called a new pack inauguration, one doesn’t see it very often, most packs are inherited down the line. But your father.” She shook her head disappointingly. Then she smiled at him. “This will be a completely fresh start for the entire pack.”

“Alright.” He nodded “What do I need to do?”

He did like that he’d be able to rename the pack, create a new pack symbol, which also meant a new pack suit had to be designed. Hailey chuckled softly at him. “I think Slade, they’ve all seen nakedness before.” “Not my daughter, who is just seven.” He stated and accepted the blade from her to bleed his unit unto the land like he had been.

“All you need to do is make a cut like you got,” she stated. Then turned his hand over. The wound was still open though no longer bleeding just held open because the process wasn’t complete, he supposed. “Have them pledge loyalty to you and the land. You may use whatever words you like.”

Slade nodded, the blade was warm in his hand and he could feel his connection to it almost as much as the land beneath his feet.

“Rank order is the only requirement. If not, it will change their ranking system.”

He nodded, didn’t want that, looked at Vance, who smiled at him, stepped right over to him and held his hand out.

“There will be no shifting and being naked in front of my daughter.” He told them all and heard who could only be Londyn, yell out ‘spoil sport.’

Slade took Vance’s hand and cut it all the way across, turned it over as Hailey had done his and stated “Do you, Vance Patterson, accept I Alpha Slade Southerland as your Alpha? Pledge loyalty to myself and the land we stand upon. Willingly accept the position as my Beta?”

“Yes, I Vance Patterson, willingly accept becoming the Beta to the land we stand on, I pledge my loyalty to Alpha Slade Southerland.” Vance acknowledged his title and pledged his loyalty.

There was no need to mesh his blood with Vance’s palm to palm. He could feel it already through their blood being meshed with his on the land between them. He held Vance’s hand until that first crack of his bones, as Hailey had done to him, and then just let go as his wolf ripped out of him and howled up into the sky.

His wolf, Ames, stared up at him for a moment, after that howl and then inclined his head, Slade greeted him in the same manner and sent him off to go shift and put pants on.

Palmer and Yuri were brought to him and the land in the same manner and when they all stood before Hailey once more, she stated, “Now all we need to do, Slade. Is wait for the land’s borders to solidify. It takes anywhere from 4 to 10 hours depending on the bloodline it’s connected to, the strength of the Alpha bound to it. All four of you will howl in unison when it happens. After that we’ll call for the pack pledge. That’s all I need of you today.” She smiled at each of them and then walked away inside the packhouse.