Rhea was about to climax when she heard the news. Or rather more appropriately, when she felt the vibrations down the pack link.
Her parents were completely severed from the pack link. Usually, when breaching long distances that communications couldn’t get through to, the link went dormant. It was still there but just difficult to get through.
Like a bad signal on a phone call.
This felt like someone had put up a metal barricade between her and her parents. They were still alive just inaccessible.
There was only one sect of people who had the tools for that. It was the Werewolf council. A decision had been made and it hadn’t been in their favour.
The Mountain Coast pack had won. Her dreams to head her pack would remain just that. Dreams.
Rhea climbed off the wolf whose name she had already forgotten.
“Get out.”
She reached for her robe and pulled it on.
“Alpha, did I do something wrong?” What’shisname asked with his erection slowly deflating.
She turned and slapped him hard across the face.
“I said get out!”
The wolf bowed and grabbed his pants before leaving her alone.
Goddess, what a mess!
How could they have convicted her parents when they were innocent? It wasn’t even a question. Her parents didn’t even have the brain capacity needed to carry out that sort of operation.
She mind-linked Felicity.
The door to her room was open in seconds.
“Goddess, this place reeks. What exactly were you doing th–”
Felicity stopped her tirade when she saw Rhea’s face.
“What happened?”
“Didn’t you feel it? The council blocked my parents’ access to our link.”
Felicity’s eyes widened in shock before she regained control of herself and looked at Rhea in panic.
“Then we don’t have much time. They will come for you soon. You must escape!”
“No way, Felicity. I didn’t stay behind so that I would scurry and hide like a rat. This is my pack. My birthright. I won’t let go of it so easily.”
“Be reasonable. The council will give the leadership of this pack to someone else whose first assignment will be to come for you. It was pure luck that your mother insisted you stay behind or you would have been taken alongside them. The council will no doubt want to correct that oversight. You can’t let her efforts go in vain.”
Rhea restrained herself. Before she called Felicity, she already knew the sort of advice that she would offer. She already knew what she was going to do but she still needed Felicity’s help to an extent.
She grabbed the woman by her shoulders to gain her attention and locked gazes with her.
“Felicity, I am the future leader of this pack. You swore your fealty to my family. Even though my succession has been bypassed, I ask for that loyalty now. Will you help me?”
Felicity hesitated and Rhea was almost certain that she would decline.
“What do you have in mind?”
Rhea smiled.
******
“I can’t believe it’s all over.”
“I can’t believe I have to follow y’all to visit Rita’s pack lands. It feels like trouble.” Calvin complained as he looked for a suitable road to pass to their location.
Ava rolled her eyes.
“Yes, that’s definitely what is troubling you. It can’t be the fact that you haven’t seen Cynthia in days, can it?”
Calvin’s cheeks and the tip of his ears turned pink. Adrian chuckled and leaned in nipping the lobe of her ear playfully.
“Be nice.” He chided.
Ava looked at him, a retort on her lips. Then she was drowning in his eyes, her eyes irresistibly drawn to his lips. His pupils dilated and she swallowed, her brain now moving so slowly that it felt like she was thinking a hundred times before doing anything.
Goddess, she missed him even though he was right next to her. Their stay at the council headquarters had been brief and uncomfortable for her. Now however that their business was concluded, she couldn’t wait for them to be alone in their room in the Mountain Coast pack. To climb into his arms and beg him to take her so that she forgot who she was and where she was.
“Ugh, get a room.” Ivy faked a barf, gagging as she winded down the window so that the scent of their pheromones dissipated.
Ava glared at her but her cheeks burned.
Adrian was her mate through and through but sometimes her need for him still embarrassed her.
Adrian smiled at her blush and pulled at her ear before giving her a look that all but promised her that they would get a room and more.
Great. That was exactly what she needed in her head before going off to meet her new pack members who could smell her arousal on her.
*******
The Silverwolf pack was beautiful. Ava’s lack would always be a beauty to her with the great mountains side view, the familiar sloppy hills and forest cover that she could get lost in but this wasn’t too bad either although, it was smaller than theirs.
It was sited on a hillside and had a deep dense forest with tall trees that reached to the sky. The area is surrounded by a large natural stone wall, which the werewolves have reinforced with logs and sharpened stakes, creating an imposing and well-defended fortress.
It was similar to what had been done at the Primo pack; it had probably been implemented after the rogue attack years back which beggared the question of what had changed that they could side with them now.
As they approached the security setup, Ava thought the answer to that question would be somewhere within these lands.
They were quickly flagged through. It would seem like the Werewolf Council had gotten through to them. They were assigned an escort to show them to the pack house.
Ava’s suspicion was that the escort was to find out more about their new Alpha but she couldn’t begrudge them that. She and Adrian didn’t intend to move bases here.
They just wanted to check in on the place and install a leader who would report back to them on any relevant issues so they could go home. The pack integration could come later after the pack members had come to terms with the loss of their Alpha.
Inside the walls, the land spread out over a vast expanse of undulating hills and valleys, all of which are covered in lush green vegetation. The hills are dotted with ancient oaks and pines, their trunks gnarled and twisted with age, providing plenty of cover for the wolves to hide and watch from.
And Ava felt watched all the way to the pack house which was an old mansion but the architectural designs were amazing.
When it was time for them to dismount, Ivy complained that she was tired and feeling a little under the weather. It was obvious she had very little inclination to meet her new pack mates. At this point, Ava expected nothing from her.
Before she could yell at her though, Calvin interfered and said he would escort her back home to their pack.
“Don’t worry, I’ve got this. That is if you don’t mind.”
Ava hid a smile as she waved him along, it was obvious he wanted to see Cynthia as soon as possible. Ava didn’t mind, after all, they had an entourage of guards with them to keep them safe and if Calvin could get rid of Ivy as well, the man deserved to be sainted.