The alpha's defiant mate novel Chapter 2

My mom was in the kitchen getting things prepared for dinner while dad was making his way out to the backyard to get the grill ready for cooking. I sat at the table and asked my mom if there was anything that she would like me to do to help with getting dinner ready. She handed me a bowl full of green beans that needed to be snapped before they could be cooked for dinner. My mom had already made potato salad, biscuits, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, and had even started making desserts. She told me that I could make brownies and possibly make up some cookies if I would like to. So I had April help me get the rest of the desserts ready. Just as we were finishing with the last of the cookies there was a knock on the door. April's parents had just arrived here for dinner.

Usually when we had a group of families come to the house it meant that there would be some kind of meeting in the mix. I never realized this morning that when my parents said they needed to have a discussion with me later that there would be a meeting tonight. Now the growing pit in my stomach was getting a lot worse. Something big has got to be going on with everything that is going on tonight with everyone coming over. I even expressed my concern with April and she agreed with me about something bigger was happening than we thought about earlier today.

Rhonda, April's mom, went straight into the kitchen to see my mom. "Caroline is there anything that I can do to help you get ready for dinner?" asked Rhonda. She was wandering around the kitchen looking to see if anything else needed to be done or if there was something she could do to help her dear friend. "Well I already had Alexis and April help with a few things that pretty much finished what needed to be done on my part for dinner." Caroline responded. They were flittering around in the kitchen talking about everything they had been doing lately. April's dad came into the kitchen asking where my dad was and what he could do to help dad. My mom responded, "he's out in the back yard getting things ready to barbeque but, he should be back inside in a few minutes because he forgot to take out his homemade rib rub for the meat." Before April's dad went to the back yard he went into the kitchen and grabbed the bowl of rib rub my dad already had made up and continued to the back yard to meet up with my dad.

My dad asked, "when did you get here Roger and is that the rib rub that I left inside?". "Malcolm I came out to help you with whatever you might need help with.". As our dads were out preparing the barbeque for dinner my mom asked us to get plates, napkins, and silverware out for everyone before the rest of the guests showed up. We had barely gotten everything ready when there started to be knocking on the door. By the time everyone showed up the house was full. A lot of the men went out to the backyard to hang out with dad.

Malcolm stood up and continued to ask, "Is everyone ready for this meeting to start since we have finally gotten done eating?" Much to my dismay I was not excused from this meeting like usually am and I'm not to happy about it. "We have had small scouting troops scouting out the different packs around us and to see what laws they have in their different packs. We have found one that does not go by the old ways when it comes to pack laws."

"Axel, Richard, Nico, Roman, and Leo have just gotten back from one of their scouts just a few days ago and read me in on the laws of this pack." "Alexis this is one of the reasons we had you sit in on this meeting." I started to object, "But dad this really has nothing to do with me since I'm happy here and want to stay right where I am and don't want to go anywhere.".

"We saw that couples were being treated like they were actual couples, they didn't treat the other she-wolves different than we do," Axel said. "We observed the younger she-wolves being trained as we train our young and they were never pushed to go to the different men's places as we've seen in other packs. They do not treat the unmarked females as slaves or for breeding purposes for pups," Ricard said after we had a slight pause.

Roman, Nico, and Leo thought we should send out more men and perhaps a few women to see if they were right about the pack. Even my father agreed with them and thought that it should happen sooner than later. I don't think we should try to change things since we've been able to live here for a long period of time and live happily here too. My father had obviously made a decision and I knew I wouldn't like it. I know he had taken his time to think about what to do next and finally decided what to do.