The Pack's Hacker (by Cooper) novel Chapter 264

Cyra

After getting our guests settled, I showered and washed my father’s blood off my body. I thought Yorick might join me, but instead, he and the others began mingling with the pack.

As I walk downstairs, I realize just how lucky I am to have this group of people here, these people who have become family to me. Every one of them is here to support me and they’re doing that by getting to know my pack members.

Yorick turns, smiling as he sees me. I finish making my way down the stairs and walk over to him. There’s an excited, nervous energy in the pack. The intensity of it has heightened since I went to shower.

“Hello beautiful,” he says, wrapping his arm around my waist.

“Hello Lucy, Hello Charles, Hey Charlie,” I say to the pack members that Yorick is talking to. I give a little wave to Charlie who is only three and being held by his mother. He tucks himself up against her, but he’s grinning at me.

“Hello Alpha. We were getting to know your mate and learning about his family,” Charles says.

I look around seeing that everyone seems to be getting along okay, so I can’t quite figure out what the buzzing is in the pack. “What’s going on?” I ask Yorick and the others.

“Word of Alpha Christer’s demise and how that came about reached the pack while you were showering,” Yorick tells me. I refocus on my mate. “It was that bad?”

“You don’t mess with our family, and you certainly don’t threaten one of them. Christer threatened Kennedy, and Quirin made a point of letting everyone know exactly what happens to someone who threatens his mate. He also apparently made sure to give his name and that the pack should spread the word,” Yorick says.

I look around the pack again. “That was fast, even by werewolf gossip standards.”

“Quirin is scary when he’s mad. Think feral animal that escaped from his cage and you’re getting close to what he’s like when someone threatens his family. Thankfully, Dad got him to agree to give the pack a choice and they didn’t fight, so Christer is the only casualty,” he says.

“Besides Stellan,” I say, still looking around.

“Stellan’s lucky to be alive,” he snarls.

My eyes snap back to Yorick and I lean into him. “I’m not sure he’ll think it’s lucky,” I tell him.

I refocus on Charles and Lucy. “How are you two feeling about everything?”

They look at each other and I can feel the unease inside them. “That was a lot of information to obtain this morning, Alpha. We’re still trying to process that and then to find out that Alpha Christer is also dead, Alpha Stellan is in custody, and you were in the middle of all of that and none of us knew? It’s a lot to take in. But I don’t think anyone will contest you as Alpha. You clearly defeated Alpha Arden,” Charles says.

“They would be foolish to contest my mate. Not only would she defeat them, but where would they go? My brother-in-law now leads the nearest pack and would not allow anyone into the pack who went against Cyra,” Yorick says.

“We are sorry for what happened to you, Alpha. We’re glad that you found your fated mate and that the two of you are now together,” Lucy says.

“Thank you. I’m very happy about it too,” I say.

Yorick and I walk around the pack together, helping the pack to feel settled and by lunch time, it feels like everyone is ready to accept Yorick and I as their co-Alphas and Alpha Warren as their interim Alpha.

After lunch, the pack goes outside for the Alpha ceremony. Other than setting up a stage and using the ceremonial knife and chalice, I didn’t want to make this into some big event. We’re their Alphas now. I don’t need a lot of pomp and circumstance for that. And since I have no idea what the pack’s financial situation is, I’m not going to do anything that might put the pack at risk right away.

So, Yorick and I stand in front of our pack, with Warren leading the ceremony. We each swear to love, honor, and protect the pack with our lives and then we both let our blood drip into the cup before we both sip from our combined blood. Then one by one, each pack member comes up, swearing their loyalty to us.

Once that is done, I switch places with Warren and I lead his ceremony making him interim Alpha of the pack. The pack goes through the same process again, accepting Warren as their interim Alpha.

I noticed that as more pack members accepted us, the stronger the pack began to feel. That strength only increased when they pledged themselves to Warren.

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