The Stained Omega by Elle T Jefferson novel Chapter 93

The Grey Pack.
(Anna)>
The journey to Grey Pack is long and boring, Jefferson doesn’t wake up or even make a noise. Even when we hit a pothole ridden dirt road. he just bounced around in the back without so much as a whimper. From the way Darryl and Jefferson dress I thought the Grey Pack was in the city or close to it but it’s actually in the middle of the mountains. I’m surrounded by trees for as far as the eyes can see and just above the trees I can see the snowy mountain tops peaking out.
“It’s beautiful.” I say aloud as Darryl drives us forward.
“It’s not much but it’s home, Grey Pack is about double the size of Swiftmane. With such large numbers we have to stay hidden from the humans.” Darryl explains as he slows the car to go over a rather bumpy patch of road.
“Hence the mountains and the forest, honestly I thought Swiftmane has a big forest around it but that’s just a woodland area compared to this. I bet it’s amazing to run as a wolf around here,” Darryl just hums an affirmative noise as he slowly crawls the card through a wired fence.
He wasn’t wrong about the Pack being bigger than the one we just came from, we are only at the entrance and I can already tell there are more people here than back home. As we pass the entrance to the Pack people wave and shout hello’s to the Alpha, they all seem really happy to have him home. We don’t drive for much longer before Darryl stops. the car in front of a massive white wood panel house, it has a wrap- around porch and little flower boxes under the windows. I’m guessing this is the Pack house, not only is the front door wide open with people coming and going with case but it’s also the biggest house I have seen
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“Aren’t we taking Jefferson to a hospital or medical centre?” I ask Darryl as he pockets his keys and unbuckles his seat belt.
“He will heal better here,” he says looking over his shoulder. “There’s Mac, come on. Let me show you around while
settled.” I take one last look behind me. Mac gets Jefferson
Jefferson before following Darryl and climbing out of the car. Darryl and Mac seem to have at silent conversation before Darryl laughs and Mac just nods and heads to the back of the car we just left.
“Did I miss something?” I ask Darryl as he leads the way up the front steps.
“Just Fraction being a stubborn Alpha. Apparently he warned Mac not to touch you while you were here.” I gasp and stop walking.
“He threatened him?” I can’t believe Fraction would do that, I knew he could be jealous but to outright threaten another Pack’s Head Warrior can be very dangerous.
“I expected as much, he’s letting his mate come and stay in a Pack he’s only been to a handful of times. He knows my top team is made up of unmated wolves and he knows it’s possible for you to have more than one mate. He’s just worried Anna, come on, I have someone I know. will want to see you.” Darryl explains as he nudges my shoulder with his finger making me move forward.
I’ve barely entered the warm burnt orange hallway before I hear a female squeal and I’m being pulled into a hug. It’s been so long since l’ ve seen Momma Beth that I instantly wrap my arms around her and squeeze her as tight as I can.
“What are you doing here?” I ask her as we unwrap ourselves from
each other.
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“I’ve been here for a few weeks although don’t go telling that son of mine. I’m mad at Henry right now.” She must be pis sed to use this given name and not his middle name that everyone calls Fraction. “I didn’t want to go back to the Pack and see what the new so-called- Luna is doing to my Legacy.” I instantly feel guilty, I didn’t even think of it that way. Momma Beth has been a part of Swiftmane almost her whole life so of course she would see the Luna role being taken as an affront to her.
“I’m sorry Momma Beth.” It sounds fake. To my own cars, I can’t even say I did everything I could because I basically rolled over and let Faye take the role from me.
“It’s not your fault dear.” Momma Beth tells me at the same time as Darryl speaks.
“Why don’t we take this somewhere a little more private?” I’m not used to so many people being in a Pack house all at once but as I look around me I see we are blocking the doorway and there is a crowd of people wanting in and out.
“Sorry.” I say to them all in a small voice as I follow Momma Beth and Darryl past the people and down the hall.
The Pack house seems to have been decorated to be warm and inviting, the rooms leading off the hallway all seem to be some form of orange or yellow tone. We walk past three lounges, a kitchen and a dining room all with plenty of people inside. I can’t help but wonder if this is how Swiftmane would have ended up if the kids had kept coming round and the adults continued to come and go as they please. It’s
warming and inviting and more like a home than some random house warming and inviting and more li where the Alpha and Luna live. Darryl opens the door to his office and I’m instantly taken back to Fraction’s office, it looks exactly the same except the pictures around the room are not of our Pack and the place where Fraction keeps his whiskey is filled with soda cans and water.
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bottles. Once we are all inside the office Darryl waves his hand at one of the many chairs in the room and me and Momma Beth take a seat ast Darryl settles behind his desk.
“Sorry I couldn’t tell you that Beth was here, Anna. Fraction is not aware yet,” he looks pointedly at Momma Beth making me think he doesn’t completely agree with not telling him.
“He will understand when the time is right.” Momma Beth dismisses. the Alpha’s worry with a wave of her hand. “I’ve been with the Elders, Anna. It’s so beautiful up there, like a giant church, they have so many books and they know all about our history. So I read everything I could get my hands on hoping to find a loophole for you.”
“Let me guess…you found nothing?” I ask them, showing that I am not shocked at all with this turn of events.
“Not completely, on the night of the challenge I was given a book that explained where we came from. We as in shifters, wolves. I always thought we came from overseas and settled here in America and then just spread out but that’s not true.” I can feel my eyebrows crinkling together in confusion.
“What does where we come from have to do with me?” I ask Momma Beth while looking over at Darryl to see him listening intently.
“Well according to the book back then wolves governed themselves, the Alpha and the Luna would be the judge of all things that went wrong but they needed someone to ensure they were fair. So they had shamans or witchdoctors, they would use herbs, spells and all kinds of things to keep the wolves in line.” Apparently Momma Beth has changed as a person if she’s talking about magic, shifters is one thing but magic. It just isn’t a thing.
“So,” I have to take a moment to stop myself from out right laughing at
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her. “You think that Faye has used magical powers to bewitch my mate and claim the Luna spot? Do I have that right?” I look at Darryl as I say this and I can see the humour reflecting in his brown eyes.
“That’s not what she’s saying Anna, do you really think I would let her throw some hippie dippie free love sh it at you?” Darryl says as he points to Momma Beth, “get to the point Beth.”
“I think everyone thinks I’ve lost my marbles some days.” She rolls her eyes at the both of us, “the book goes on to catalogue all the families. that came over to America, the first wolves to ever settle here. The Greylone’s were a proud and strong family and were one of the first three families to settle here,” she hands me a leather bound book, it’s a red colour that seems to have faded with age. It’s only a small book but it’s thick with pages, there is an embossed world on the front. surrounded by seven stars and one crescent moon, it’s kind of pretty. “Open it to chapter two,” Momma Beth tells me. Flicking the pages until I see chapter two I see what looks like a family tree but it seems. to be more of a Pack tree. There are three names at the top, Greylone, Monroe and Creston.
“Monroe…like Fraction?” I ask her when I notice the name.
“Yeah,” she leans over to point at each name, “Greylone is Faye’s family line, Monroe is ours and Creston is Darryl’s. All three of the Packs can be followed back to the start of wolves in America. After the first Greylone Alpha they never had anymore so their Pack was absorbed, to ensure they get some kind of power in the future they made a deal. Their first female was to be wed to the next Alpha in the Monroe family.” I look over at Darryl whose face has turned all grim.
“So you’re telling me that Faye thinks she has some claim on Fraction because of this stu pid book?” I flick through the book trying to find. any other mention of them but as I do a folded piece of paper falls out of it. I watched the yellow aged paper slide to the floor, “what’s this?”
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“That is a contract signed by the then Alpha Monroe and Beta Greylone,” unfolding the paper I see the names at the bottom signed in a red pigment, it’s aged and crusty looking so I’m guessing it’s blood. “Faye is the first female born in the Greylone line since this was signed. They haven’t had one Alpha or one female until now, she turned twenty-one this year, her father has waited until she’s of age to let her loose.” Putting the book and contract on Darryl’s desk, sitting back I try to absorb everything I’ve been told.
“So because some Beta wanted power Goddess only knows how long ago I lost my mate?” I ask them both.
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“Anna, this is a good thing. we can fight this. It proves she’s no mate to Fraction and never will be, just need to find a way to dissolve the contract. It should be simple given the age of it. Back then I doubt the Alpha would have thought a contract like this would have lasted for so long.” Darryl tells me while picking up the book, “you should read this, towards the back it starts talking about Omegas but before you do I want to introduce you to Ocean.”
“Who’s Ocean?” I ask him.
“My grandmother.” I just look at him confused.
“She’s an Omega and very old and very wise. She knows a lot about Omegas. I hoped she could teach you some things before, well before she passes.” He tells me and I just nod at him, not sure how to respond to his mother’s possible passing, “no one knows she is here and I’d like to keep it that way. She’s a little unique and I don’t want word getting out that she’s here.”
“Ok I can do that.” I agree, to be honest it would be nice to meet. another Omega but I am also intrigued with what could make her so special that Darryl insists no one knows she’s here.