The Big Sky Alpha novel Chapter 125

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COLT POV

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I wasn’t too happy Freya invited them for dinner so last minute. I guess it really wasn’t that it was the last minute that bothered me, it was more that we hadn’t spoken about that at all. We’re still trying to figure out how to handle the vampire situation with them, and how would we conduct ourselves with this agreement if one of our men mentioned it without realizing it.

I can’t say that I’ve ever heard of a woman running the show. Then suddenly we are faced with a group of vamps and a group of bears, or a sloth as Sky called it, run by women.

“Freya, can I ask you something?” I asked her, knowing full well she would be honest with me about this.

She turned to me from her closet and gave me a suspicious look. “Of course you can.”

“Are we fair to women in Big Sky?” I had to just throw it out there, the question is a hard one for me to ask. I’m questioning the way our pack has run for centuries. The way our pack began.

She stood there and really thought about this for a few minutes. I wanted to say something, but I could tell she was really considering the question and how we treat women. After I convinced myself that it was a horribly stupid question, she finally answered.

“Yes.” She walked over to me and sat down. “Honestly, at first I thought it was weird. In Hope, both the man and the woman in the relationships work. Nannys or daycares raise the kids most of the time. You’re expected to succeed to a certain extent. It’s nothing like here. Here, the man does the hard work with building, hunting, fighting, defending. Then the woman does the house keeping work, cooking, cleaning, gardening, having and raising the kids.”

Suddenly she burst out laughing. I eyed her, not understanding the sudden outburst of howling.

“Are you going to fill me in on the joke?” I asked her

She laughed her way through her explanation, “It’s called sexism pretty much anywhere else. People hate it.”

Damn, we must really be a horrible sight to other packs. When she calmed he laughing down she

looked over at me and I think she could tell how insecure I am about all of this.

“Colt, the women here are aware of life outside of this pack. They don’t want it. It’s not the way for

these people. It’s not the way for me. It’s the way for people who know nothing different.” She said.

She put her hand on my leg and just kept watching me.

“Are you worried about going to Damon’s pack?” She asked me. I looked over at her.

I wanted so much to say no. I really wanted to say no. But she knows me. I can’t lie to her. I had to

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“What happens if we get there, and you’re reminded of how great the city life is that you left behind

and you want to leave me? What if I can’t make you happy after that?” I hated asking this. I hated feeling this insecure. I hated feeling like a wimpy little kid that was afraid of not being liked. Granted, I’m not afraid of not being liked in this case, I’m just afraid my mate is going to realize that she wants the city more than me.

“It’s not going to happen Colt.” She answered.

I sighed, I know that’s what she thinks now.

“When was the last time you were in a city for more than a day or so?” She asked.

“Other than when we had to go to Belladonna’s?” I thought about it for a moment, “Not since I was

a kid.” I answered.

“So you never went to the alpha games in any other place?” She asked.

“No, I never really cared for the alpha games. It was Levi’s idea to have it here I usually send him

and a few others that want to do the fighting and stay with my pack.” I said. I also just don’t enjoy people much more than those of my pack.

She looked at me like I was lying.

“Honestly. I battled city packs, but we never stayed in the city. We didn’t fight in the city parts, so

when I was a new wolf and wanted to see what it was like in town is probably the closest, I ever

got.” I told her, hoping she understood that I was telling the truth.

She kissed me on the cheek then said, “Well then Colt, you don’t understand like I do.” She stood

and walked back to her closet and started putting her dress on for dinner with the bears. “I’m happy here.”

I sat there and watched her dress. I loved watching her dress. I can’t tell you why taking her to

Damon’s pack is eating at me but it is. She doesn’t understand why I feel bad about this either, but

she knows that it is a problem we’re going to have to face together.

She turned from her closet and looked at me, hand on her hip and brow raised, “So, you going to

escort me to dinner or am I going alone?”

I stood and chuckled a bit, “May I, my fine lady?” I said in the most sarcastic tone that I could.

She laughed and looped her arm around mine and walked joyfully down to dinner. When we got down there everyone was arriving. We sat down at the large gathering table that we rarely use.

Dinner was some of the moose that I killed not long before all this chaos happened.

We sat and talked about the differences and similarities in our cultures. We drank and enjoyed

ourselves. It didn’t take long before I fully understood the reason behind why Freya asked them

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here. We needed to bond as a team before we could expect to work together. We needed to understand each other and become more like friends than just allies.

By the end of the dinner everyone was laughing and singing songs, clanking half full cups together toasting to goofy crap they said, feeling great. Freya and Sky hit it off well. In fact there was a bit of time when they had taken off together for a good ten minutes and then they came back. I’m glad they did because I was about to crash their little party.

Koda and Bjorn are pretty good guys. Family men like I’ve become. They told me all about how they went from being lone soldiers raiding and hunting to provide for themselves to being a husband and father and providing for larger groups and struggling to find food and keep them warm during the long harsh winters.

They thanked us for coming up with this agreement, said that it takes some of the burden off their shoulders.

Freya came to me and kissed me. Successfully getting everyone else to leave us alone for a

moment.

She smiled at me, “I told her.”

I went to ask her what she told her, but then I realized Freya wasn’t drunk, she wasn’t drinking at all. Soberminded, Freya had the balls to do what I didn’t. She pulled Sky aside and told her about the vamps living in those caves before them. I smiled at Freya, took a drink myself and started

laughing.

My Freya, she planned this whole dinner to get them to like us and get them to relax with us, get them to enjoy the idea of life here with us and then she talked to Sky alone, after making sure they were friends first.

Clever girl.

“You’re a great Luna.” I told her, wrapping her in my arms and kissing her.

“Don’t you forget it baby.” She smiled then turned back to the gathering of people shouting, “Who

else is feeling a bonfire right now?” drawing a large cheer from the group.

Domina Sacarius

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