“So I can stay now?”
“Yes, you were never leaving once we got you back,” I tell him.
“But I don’t have to drink dad’s blood anymore. He doesn’t taste very nice, and I don’t want to turn into a bat,” Jonah says while sipping more lemonade. Derrick snorts.
“Why would you turn into a bat?” I ask.
“Because Dracula did, he drank blood and turned into a bat, and not like batman, a real bat with wings,” Jonah exclaims.
“You won’t turn into a bat. One day, a werewolf but not a bat,” Andrei laughs, shaking his head.
“A big wolf-like Donnie?” Jonah asks.
“Yep, a wolf-like Donnie, and then when you are much older, I will make you an Alpha like me.”
“But I don’t want to be an Alpha. Alphas have their own packs, and I would have to leave. You said I could stay,” Jonah pouts.
“You can stay, Jonah, it just means when you are older, and I am old, I will make you Alpha, and you will run my pack, it will become yours, and you will be Alpha one day,” Andrei tells him.
“But my mother was an Omega, and my father was the um… he was like an Omega…. I think,” Jonah says, his brows pinch together. “So I can’t be an Alpha,” Jonah pouts.
“Pop is only a Beta. My mother was an Omega, and Sage was an Omega before she was Luna, you can be whoever you want to be, and if you want to be Alpha one day, I will make you one, as my dad did for me,” Andrei tells him.
“Other dad, not me,” Derrick tells him when Jonah looks at him.
“Like my new dad,” and Derrick nods.
“Yep, Anthony, Andrei’s other dad. He was a warrior and wasn’t Alpha, but titles can change when given, and they are found worthy of them. Anthony became Alpha and became strong like an Alpha because the pack pledged to him, which gave him his title and all the things that came with it. There is more to being Alpha than just blood. I believe that is why your dad is stronger than most Alphas because, with most Alphas, the title is handed down, whereas your dad had to earn his just like you will have to, and that sort of respect and loyalty strengthens him. That’s how packs used to be formed, by challenging the Alpha’s now they hand the titles down, but your dad had to do it the old way,” Derrick tells him.
“You had to fight your dad?” Jonah exclaims. Andrei nods his head.
“So I will have to fight you?”
“Not now, when you are older and trained.”
“Is that how your other dad died? Did you kill your dad?”
“No, but I had to make him submit,” Andrei explains.
“Ok,” Jonah says, turning back to his plate.
We all sit and eat dinner while Jonah tells us what he thinks being Alpha means and how he will make Andrei submit to him with a big fart that will knock him over before giving him a mega wedgie.
That boy’s imagination never ceases to amaze me. I listen and watch his excitement while anticipating what Tuesday will bring and what Andrei’s punishment will be when they discover Andrei initiated Jonah before the court’s approval.
Katya
I wait for Seline to show up. We have so much going on with the pack.
My stress levels are through the roof. I have hardly been sleeping with everything going on.
The twins are teething – something horrendous. All their teeth decide to come through at once. Sleep feels like a thing of the past. Dominic is going to Andrei’s on Tuesday, and I have been in a state of panic ever since finding out and knowing I will have to confront him. Why he would request for me to come has me on edge, making me wonder if this is going to be a cause for the vision.
I also lost my phone. I have no idea where I put it, but that is another issue for another day. I yawn, looking at the clock. It is a little after 5 pm. Is that all it is? My eyes are practically falling out of my head.
The room shudders and ripples, and I sigh. Finally, Seline is here. As I look over at her, she smiles brightly at me. Please, bring good news.
“Why are you smiling?” I ask her cautiously.
“Because today, I want to show you something, I found it fascinating when Celeste showed me before she died, and also I have fixed the second chance mate issue, but first come with me because you get to make not only a bond but a vessel bond,” she says, holding her hands out to me.
I can’t help it and smile at her enthusiasm. It is good to see her smile. It almost makes me forget she is dying. Walking over, I place my hands in hers. The room fizzles and warps and takes a few seconds, only for nothing to happen.
Seline lets my hands go and shakes hers before grabbing mine again. The same thing, we don’t move to her realm.
“This has been getting harder. How about you try? You will have to learn how to travel between realms anyway when you take over.” She suggests.
“How am I going to transport us? I don’t know how to do it,” I tell her.
“Just think of my office, picture both of us there, relax your mind, breathe in, and breathe out,” she says.
I close my eyes, trying to picture her golden light-filled office. At first, I feel nothing, and I inhale and exhale, trying to picture her room exactly how I saw it last time, and I feel a slight buzz under my skin before a suction feeling and pressure. When I open my eyes, we are standing next to her desk.
“Perfect, see you will get the hang of it. Once I die, it will get easier. The fact that I couldn’t do it with you present means you are getting stronger, and it requires you to do it.” I hate the casual way she talks about her death.
“So, what is the lesson for today?”
“Pairing mates,” she says, motioning to the strange mystical fountain.