Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 53

Slade.

He sat in the privacy of his dorm room and thought about what he wanted to do. Did he really want to overthrow his own father in this manner. As the heir to the pack, he’d inherit it any way, at some point. As long as he kept his mouth shut and bided his time.

He had a Wolfen Scroll on the desk in front of him. It had been in his room when he’d come back in here, it was sitting on his desk along with a white wax stick, a small tealight candle and a lighter.

Alpha Gretta had likely strolled in here herself after their conversation last night and put everything in there for him. So he didn’t have to go and ask her for it if he opted to use it. As she’d told him he could.

There was a set of instructions to go with it sitting in front of the scroll. He read it:

1. Write in any form you like, roll it up, put the end caps back on and seal it with the wax after mixing a drop of your blood into it.
2. Give it to the one you entrust to open it later on. Do not hand it to someone else. The person you hand it directly to will be the only person that can then open it. If still unopened, read and acted on, upon recipients’ death, the scroll will be returned to the original owner of the seal.
3. There are no rules as to what you write in an official scroll, however – there are rules to befollowed once it has been opened by the Wolfen Council. These are as follows.

4. The contents within the scroll will be considered an official report, from the original author, and what is read must be acted upon by the Wolfen Council.
5. It cannot be rescinded once opened.
6. It will be at the sole discretion of the Wolfen Council to start an official investigation, which will then be conducted in a manner deemed appropriate, by the Wolfen Council. Who have at their disposal; many torture techniques and devices. Seers from the Wolfen Kingdom.

7. Anyone mentioned within the scroll will come under full investigation, no matter how small their part in the acts reported.

8. If the author of the scroll would prefer to give a set date for the scroll to be opened, this must be written on the outside of the scroll, after it is rolled up and capped, but before the wax seal is applied.

9. This date cannot be changed, be specific, or the scroll will open on the first day of the month of the year written there.

This gave Slade more to think about, considering it was to his knowledge, the entire Alpha Unit along with all of their Mates, that would come under fire. A Seer to be brought in, in all likelihood, to pry into all of their minds to get that information out of them.

He would have no say in how it was done once it was read by the council. Have no control over the fall-out and or punishment dealt out to any of them either. It was complicated, he now realised.

But if he didn’t date it, it would stay sealed forever within Alpha Gretta’s personal scrolls, until he himself requested it to be opened. He might not need it to be opened if he could get his father and all the rest of them to admit to their mistakes and accept full pack punishment. If they were willing to bow down in front of Ori, and ask her for forgiveness, their heads would be touching the ground in front of the entire pack, as far as he was concerned.

There were no excuses in his eyes for what they had done, their reasonings were based on pure speculation, no facts. Just on how they’d seen him and Ori having sex that night, the aggressiveness of it. That was the most stupid part of it. Wolves were aggressive creatures.

He was Alpha-blooded and Ori pure Beta-blooded, things would be aggressive when it came to them sorting out and trying to sate their needs. He wasn’t actually all that surprised about what he’d heard; how aggressive he’d taken her. He had wanted the girl for years. Just kept it a secret was all.

That in itself could have evoked an aggressive need to mate the hell out of her, considering just how long he’d been thinking about the things he’d do to her, that he was leaving the next day for an entire year, and she might have mated off while he was gone.

He sighed and pulled his thoughts from that, to wondering how Ori herself would feel, about the council coming and punishing her parents on her behalf? Wondered how Palmer and Yuri would feel for that matter. Their parents had played a part in it as well, though how big or small their roll had been he didn’t know. But they had been a part of it, so would come under investigation too.

Even if he had it opened in a decade or more, or only after he’d found Ori and told her the truth she didn’t know of. Would his Gamma and Delta be ticked off with him, and renounce themselves? at his having all of their parents punished for that day, that crime, and he did believe it was a crime.

That was now his dilemma, a pack crime only, not a full wolfen crime, something that could be dealt with in-house if he chose to, once he got home or once he took over. It was going to be at his full discretion as to when to do something about it.

Did he really need to bring it to the Wolfen Council? Or should he find a way to deal with it on his own? Was this the first time that his father and the Alpha Unit had intervened in something that they shouldn’t have? He didn’t know. Couldn’t know until he himself investigated his own thoughts, and that couldn’t be done from here. He needed to do that from inside the pack. He didn’t have remote access to pack files.

Likely not to have access to those files at all until he was the actual Alpha, they would be password protected by his own father. Slade sighed he had a lot to think about, couldn’t just concern himself with only how he felt. That would make him no better than his father, doing something he thought was the right thing to do, but without any evidence to back it up, or talking to those involved in the situation.

Slade looked at the time, it was nearly 7pm, Palmer and Yuri he knew he had to talk to them before he did anything at all. This could affect them as much as it did the Alpha and Luna Units, he suddenly realised. Simply because they’d been lined up there on the packhouse steps waiting for him and Ori to arrive home. That would have to be put in there as well.

He picked his phone up and dialled Palmer’s number, “Hey Slade, how are you doing?” he asked simply. That was how he answered every phone call now.

Slade could hear that Palmer was in the pack dining room, having a late dinner, he supposed, knew he’d be seated at the alpha table with all of their parents as well. “Get up and take Yuri with you, somewhere private and call me back.” He stated simply and clicked the line closed before his own father could yell at him or snatch that phone from Palmer.

It took a solid 30 minutes before he got a return call. He didn’t like that at all. “What took you so long?” he asked, trying to keep the annoyance out of his voice. Didn’t think it was either Palmer or Yuri’s doing.

“Your dad wanted to be in on the call. Try to convince us to let him be.”

“Right.” what he’d thought, “Is Yuri there and where are you?” Slade asked.

“Put that boy on a border patrol from 6am to 2pm, solve the problem of you going out without him and him whining about it.”

“I can do that.” Yuri nodded. “Been with Ethan myself this past month learning how to, and where to put certain wolves on border patrol.”

“Good.” Slade nodded.

“He doesn’t much like it, being on border patrol.” Palmer snorted, a little amused.

“He states it’s boring, he’s got no one to talk to,” Yuri commented.

“I’ll see you two on Saturday; pack a bag. I’ll book us into a local hotel for the night.”

“Are you allowed to stoout overnight?” Palmer asked.

“Yeah, Saturday afternoons and Sundays are free days, we’re allowed to go into town and hang out or do whatever we want as long as we don’t get into trouble and are back before the gates lock up, 10pm Sunday. Pick me up from the front gate, I’ll meet you there. Just text me when your like 20 minutes out.”

“Alright will do.” Palmer stated.

“See you Saturday, Slade.” Yuri stated and he disconnected the call.