Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 46

Ana

She and Maddie lay out on the jetty that full moon, looking up at the clear night sky, as the full moon rose, they were waiting for it to set. Had opted to be outside for it, there was a lovely breeze coming off the lake, she herself had not really wanted to be out there under the weight of it.

Maddie had convinced her it was a good thing, and she should get used to it. She was going to be feeling it from now on until the day she found a Mate. Had stated “Ana, you can’t actually hide from the full moon, you’ll feel it set wherever you are, I know. I’ve tried myself. Nothing will stop you from feeling it, believe you me. I’ve even tried to invent many things to stop that sensation.” She’d snorted a little, “Monitored myself, all my vitals, everything, I’ve yet to invent a full moon deterrent.”

“A full moon deterrent?” Ana had questioned her.

“Ah, I gotta dream big, right?” Maddie had grinned at her.

“More likely you’ll just tick Selena off, I imagine.” She’d smiled a little.

“Hehehe, maybe.” she’d laughed, fully amused now, “but come on, imagine it, if I could. All the wolves out there that would pay top dollar for it.”

“What?” she’d turned and looked at Maddie as they lay out there on that jetty, “Who in our world would buy that.”

“The mate-less of course. Those poor creatures would crave such a thing, so they don’t have to feel the setting of the moon every bloody month, for the rest of their lives and be reminded that they are mate-less.” She smiled. “And not just wolves either, all of the otherworldly creatures that feel the moon set.”

“I suppose you’ve got me on that one.” Ana nodded.

“Yep, and I think I’d be a billionaire overnight.” Maddie had chuckled “Then there are the others that would want it. The rejected might want it, and those that don’t want a Mate for whatever reason they have. Or some that have lost a Mate and don’t want another. There are many reasons I think that one might not want to feel the moon set.”

“You’ve really thought about this, I see.”

“I’m aiming for the stars.” Maddie chuckled softly and then looked right up at the moon as it set “Selena gave me my gift; I believe for a reason.” She pointed up at the moon. “Our

Goddess up there, she wants me to save her creatures from unnecessary pain… Don’t you, Selena?” she called out to the full moon “I hear you, and I will do it one day.”

Ana chuckled now herself, “Yeah or tick her off.”

“Hehehe, she can come and yell at me herself if I achieve it, I’ll give her one herself.”

“Why would she want one?” Ana asked curiously.

“Well, I imagine she’s lonely up there by herself. Maybe she makes us all suffer, because she too suffers, is in pain and feels the moon set as we do. Has no Mate, could be Mate-less herself.”

“You don’t know that.” Ana frowned, she doubted the moon goddess would be Mate-less.

“Ah, but you don’t know that I’m wrong, she did call me a clever one, smiled at me. She’s old, like ancient, could well have been the first she-wolf to suffer at the hands of a brute of a Mate, die from it. Have been reborn as the one to try and save us she-wolves from those horrible he-wolves.”

“Devout aren’t you?” Ana murmured.

“Hmm, I don’t know about that, maybe. Only Selena would know that.”

“You’re still working on it aren’t you?”

“Yep, I’ll never stop. It doesn’t stop one scenting a Mate, it just stops one from the feeling of the moon setting is all.”

“Maybe it’s not a tech thing, maybe Maddie, you need a witch or someone with some sort of magical ability.” She mused allowed after thinking about it.

Maddie sat up now and looked right at her. “Now there’s an idea girl. Man, why didn’t I think of that, though how do I get me one that wants to help?”

“Ah, I believe.” Ana chuckled and turned Maddie’s face up to the moon “You might want to pray to the Goddess for that kind of help.”

They were both laughing a minute later, trying to defy their Goddess, on the sensation of the moon setting and having Maddie actually pray to Selena herself, for the help with achieving her task.

They just lay out there laughing and talking for most of the night. She walked with Tawny after she shifted and went for a stroll in the woods, before coming back to the house. They were still smiling and talking, had no cares here in the small town away from the wolfen world. Though she’d now heard from Maddie, there were six packs spread out in the State of Maine.

They had found themselves a new place and a new way of life that suited them both. It would be nice if all she-wolves that went rogue could find the peace and happiness they had, a new quiet and safe life for them all.

She’d been in the café when Maddie had murmured excitedly down the mind-link ‘Here he comes, Alpha Austin. Don’t drool now, she’d chuckled, ‘and don’t worry, he’s never not once picked me for anything other than being human.

The man walked in the door and wow, Maddie wasn’t wrong at all, he was tall and muscled up, had them neatly pulled back dreadlocks, wore that Alpha council pin on the lapel of his royal blue suit as well.

He and his Beta sat quietly both were on their phones, though she had a feeling it was just a human world thing they did, to hide the mind-link from being noticed. It kind of made one look as though they were staring aimlessly off into space. Were zoned out, she’d heard a few humans comment.

She walked their coffee’s over to them and placed them on the table, “Enjoy, gentlemen.” She smiled, right at them, liked that neither of them actually could detect what she was, here was her very first proof of that. Not even a pure-blooded Alpha wolf could detect it. She truly was safe here from their own Kind.

She’d watch them leave, just walk off down the street; didn’t return to their car and wondered what they were doing. Mind-linked to Maddie, ‘Do you think he knows you used his pack to gain access to the intranet?’

‘What? I doubt it. I don’t think it’s monitored at all.’

‘But you don’t know either, do you?’

She watched Maddie think about it for a long time then just shake her head ‘No I guess not.’

‘Does he always turn up shortly after you access it?’ Ana asked now.

Maddie had stared right at her, ‘I don’t know, never thought about it to be honest.’

They served more customers as Ana really thought about it, then when they got home, she asked “How often do you access the intranet?”

“Hmm, not that often, a few times a year.” Maddie told her.

“And how often do you see that man?” Ana asked.

“A few times a year…” Maddie was quiet for almost half a minute. “Oh, well hey, maybe he has been told.”

“Mm, might want to keep an eye on it.” Ana nodded.

“Hmm, or set a trap to see if he turns up when I use it?” Maddie nodded. “That’s probably the best way to figure it out.”

“Yes, but don’t do it soon, wait a bit, so he goes back and settles back inside his pack.”

“Good thinking 99.” Maddie chuckled.