Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 69

Slade

He stood in his father’s office, looking at him. He didn’t actually take after his father; looks wise, that was he was hoping, would go in his favour in the future. He had his mother’s platinum blonde hair and bright blue eyes. Though his facial features did resemble his father.

He could only hope that when he came across Ori, she wouldn’t really see his father in him. He shook off that thought, had come to it when he realised, he and his father, Roman, were dressed almost the same, blue slacks and a white dress shirt. Might have to change his style to help prevent that.

Slade pulled himself from his thoughts when his father asked him what he wanted. It had been five days since he’d handed that USB over to his father to further investigate the information on it; all the things he knew Hayden had done to his sister over the years.

Yet he’d heard nothing about it. He now stood in the office to ask why. Five days was enough, he thought, and he wanted answers. That boy, though he had taken all night to run two laps round the pack, hadn’t been able to handle it like others would. He’d come to a halt 4 times and walked many sections of it and only returned to the packhouse near dawn.

He’d turned up for training on time after that, though not once did he see Hayden come or go from that Beta Suite. The boy, it seemed, had finally realised that Slade meant those very words.

“We’re still investigating.” His father told him. “Most of this is Oriana’s words to you over Hayden’s behaviour.”

“So, Alpha Order him to tell the truth about each one of my accusations. The truth will come out.”

Slade had stated right back.

Something he knew that his father would do, if it was a normal everyday pack member, which meant that his father was stalling. It was likely that everything on the USB was correct, and they didn’t want their choice of Beta. To be seen as having traitorous tendencies, even before they’d seated him as the future Beta. Something they all now knew some of the pack members did actually see him as. From that fight with Derby.

“Slade, there are many ways to investigate without ordering someone. That is what we are currently doing. Unfortunately, it’s been sometime since some of those things happened and finding actual evidence of them is difficult.”

“You’ll know if you order the truth out of him.” He reiterated simply.

“Son, you don’t just go, Alpha ordering future heirs to the pack. It could break the bond of trust between us and them, you and them as well. It has to be done carefully, with thought to the consequences.”

Slade didn’t much care for that statement, where was the care and thought of consequences when they’d enacted their own plan to have Ori stepped down. There wasn’t any as far as he was concerned. And not just for her, but for him as well. They’d lied to him and deceived him at every turn to get what it was they wanted.

They had not considered the option that she might be pregnant, and would hate him, run away from the pack and turn herself rogue. Why they’d not considered that? When they’d seen the two of them having sex, he didn’t know. Even if it was a tiny thought, it should have been considered.

His father and the Alpha Unit did not care for him and what he wanted even now. They all knew he didn’t want Hayden standing there next to him, yet that boy was right there. They were in fact more concerned about the future Beta keeping his position than the actual future heir to the pack’s happiness. Were he now knew even protecting that boy.

He was curious about that himself. Was the future Beta worth more to them than the future Alpha?

Perhaps they were already making plans once again, likely if that was the case. It would be to step him down and have Dariah or Clay step up into his position.

That was not going to happen. If they stepped him down, he knew Palmer and Yuri would step down as well. He thought about that, if all the heirs to the pack were stepped down, that would in fact have Hayden and his friends step up into the roll of the Alpha Unit, alongside Daria or Clay.

Maybe that was their new plan, seeing as he wasn’t falling into line, and doing what his father

expected of him, was in fact rebelling against him and the Alpha Unit. He was no longer the good son his father expected him to be.

Didn’t do as he was told, talked back or didn’t talk to them at all, because he wasn’t going to let this

Alpha before him and his unit dictate everything in his life, anymore. They could no longer control him or Palmer and Yuri, and had realised it; something they did not like.

“Where is Ori’s car?” he asked, changing the subject, he’d not been able to find it anywhere inside the pack. Not even Lindal or her father knew where it was.

“I had it removed from the pack. To help the pack stop talking about what happened, when they saw it.” His father told him.

“Right,” he murmured, “Is anything of hers still here or did you just remove all traces of her completely? Like she never existed?” he bit out.

“Her belongings are in her room,” Anders told him. “I want them here for when she comes home.

As does Bronnie.”

Slade’s eyes moved to him. “Really, you think she’s going to come home and just move back into the packhouse… the Beta’s family suite, her old room, do you? You’re delusional, as is your Mate if she thinks that as well.” he told Anders, uncaring of the insult or how it made the man feel.

“Hmm, I heard about that and the reason why; for injuring omegas un-caringly and rolling his aura at the school teachers, an elder I believe. Not because of what he said about Ori,” Slade stated, and he knew it to be true.

“It was for both, son.” His father sighed now.

“Was it? Show me the report you wrote on it then, and the punishment listed for the crimes he committed that day.” Slade held his hand out right then and there, for it, he got stared at by his father, who was now beginning to get real annoyed.

“I’ll bring it to you later.” Was the reply.

“Why not print it now? And let me read it…are you going to alter it, before giving it to me?” He challenged his father instantly.

He watched his father stand up and snarl at him “Are you calling me a liar?”

“Yes,” Slade stated honestly, uncaring of the ramifications, “Because father, you are a liar.”

His father shot towards him and Anders was suddenly between them holding his father off.

“I can prove that, that you lied to me… Just to get me to agree to step Oriana down, you know that right.” he stated uncaring of the fact that his own father wanted a piece of him, he’d let him, show this entire pack how cruel his father was. Out him as the liar he was.

“So yes, father, go on and attack me for not believing you’re honest. For believing you would doctor

that report before I get to see it. Because why not just give it to me now, if on there it stated

Hayden was punished for those very words he said.

“Words he’s using to sew doubt about Ori’s intentions growing up. Words that will see them look at her like that, as a seductress, who plotted and planned against him, because when she comes home, and has my heir with her. The words he will be able to state, are ‘see I was telling the truth.’

And it will bring shame to her for having my heir. The pack will see his words as the truth. Or did you all just miss that; his actual intent of those words he used that day?”