Chapter 70 Wolf Etiquette
The bigger man from the infirmary stood outside the pack house, waiting for them. Thea and the triplets stopped in front of him.
“Delta team is right behind you with Xavier,” the man said.
“Who is he?” Thea thought. She felt a strange kind of kinship with him.
“That’s our father, Ulric, the Alpha of our pack. The boss,” Kaiser thought to her.
“Don’t look him in the eyes too long, Thea,” Zoe said. Thea tore her eyes away from him.
“Why?”
“You know how you just stared down that wolf back there?” Zoe said. “It’s an Alpha thing. A challenge. We don’t want to challenge this one.”
“Should I bow or something?”
“Goddess,” Zoe said in her mind. “I can’t believe I have to teach you remedial wolf etiquette. We’re supposed to be working on our goddess gift by now!”
“Excuse me? If I remember correctly, you’re the reason I don’t remember anything!” Thea thought to her.
Zoe growled in her mind. Thea growled out loud.
“Thea? You have a problem?” the Alpha said.
“Sorry, Alpha, sir, I’m fighting with my wolf,” Thea said in mind link. “She’s kind of a bitch.”
The triplets heard Thea’s thoughts, and they looked at each other, afraid of their father’s reaction.
Alpha Ulric burst out laughing. He laughed for a good five minutes until tears were coming out of his eyes.
“Oh, it’s nice to have some levity after everything that’s happened,” he said.
The Delta team wolves came trotting up. One of them was dragging Xavier. Alpha Ulric opened the doors that led to the dungeon, and they all filed in.
The wolf tossed Xavier into a cell. Alpha Ulric chained him inside, then closed and locked the cell door.
“I have to call Alpha Knight,” Alpha Ulric said as he started walking out of the dungeon. “Liam, what are your thoughts on Thea’s condition? Should we keep it a secret?”
All the wolves shifted back to their human forms.
“I don’t think we should advertise it, but I don’t think we should lie about it either. It will eventually come out, one way or another. Plus, that pup has seen her. Unless you plan on using an Alpha command to silence him.”
“Maybe it’s better if people know she has her wolf now,” Alpha Ulric said. “That she beat an
Alpha in single combat, and he submitted to her Alpha command. It will give them something to focus on.”
“Or it paints a target on her back,” Conri said.
“Everyone will want to challenge her.”
“I don’t think she’ll have a problem facing any challenges,” Alpha Ulric said.
“She doesn’t remember anything,” Alaric said. “Including how to fight.”
“She beat Xavier, didn’t she?” Alpha Ulric said.
“As a wolf,” Alaric said.
“She’s a quick study. She’ll learn what she needs to know,” Alpha Ulric said. “Kai? What do you think?”
“She can take anyone that would challenge her, and we have her back,” Kaiser said.
Alpha Ulric looked at Kaiser, nodded, then did a double-take. “That’s quite a mark,” he said, smiling
Kaiser smiled. Thea felt pride swell in him.
“Prepare yourselves, sons,” Alpha Ulric said. “There’s going to be a lot of gossip tomorrow. Be alert.”
They reached the doors. There were basketball shorts stacked along the wall. All the males grabbed a pair and slid them on before they walked outside. Alpha Ulric walked off with his phone to his ear. Thea spotted a pile of shirts and grabbed one along with some shorts. When she joined them outside, a group was gathering out in a field.
“What’s going on there?” Thea said.
“Pack training,” Alaric said.
A blonde girl broke from the crowd and ran towards them. Thea growled, thinking she was coming for the triplets.
“What is going on with you?” the blonde girl said, eyebrow raised, hand on her hip. She completely ignored the triplets, only looking at Thea.
“Who is she?” Thea said in mind link.
“Lizzy, your best friend,” Kaiser said over mind link. “Were you just jealous?”
“Yes.” She didn’t bother hiding it. “I thought she was coming for you guys.”
Kaiser hugged her from behind. Conri and Alaric each grabbed a hand, smiling.
“Thea! Talk to me!” Lizzy said. “I’m woken in the middle of the night by an intense urge to call out for you. The entire pack is howling. A light explodes somewhere. Then we feel another mark! What the hell? What’s going on?”
“I don’t know where to start,” Thea said out loud.
“She got her wolf last night,” Alaric said. “But now she has amnesia and doesn’t remember anything or anyone.”
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