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“She’s wearing the dress?” she asks with laughter in her voice. I really want to kill the damn beta wolf now. She did that on purpose.
“Is this okay? I figured it would be okay since I won’t be around the other alphas. I’ll go change.” Jara turns to leave but I shake my head.
“You look perfect. Angela go do what I asked.” I say hanging up the phone.
“Are you sure? I can change into something else.” She chews her lip and I stand moving toward her. I swipe her plump lip with my thumb and free it from her teeth.
“I’m sorry my reaction was wrong. You look so completely fuckable in that dress that I got hard the second I saw your long tanned legs. You look gorgeous and since you will be with the females today I won’t rip that dress off you and fuck you until you’re covered in my scent.” She groans at my words as I wrap my arms around her tiny waist.
“I mean I’m not opposed to that but they are expecting us, Archer,” she says as I lean down and kiss my mark on her neck and a little gasp escapes her throat.
“C’mon mate, let’s get you to the sun room so you devious females can formulate a plan to get all us big dumb alphas in line.” I chuckle as Jara rolls her eyes playfully and grabs her shoes putting them on before walking out the door in front of me.
21
JARA
Walking into the sun room I look back at Archer uncertainly. I don’t want to be away from him with the way things have been going but I caused this mess so I need to help fix it. Lynn must see my hesitation because she walks over and slips her arm through mine and leads me to the table.
“You all remember Jara from the peace talks? I don’t think any of us can express how sorry we are for how poorly you were treated by the alphas.” Bonnie says sadly.
“I don’t know why we even call some of them alphas anymore anyway. They were acting like children.” One of the other mates says pointedly.
“They are still alphas, Sibyl, even if they are immature little men who shouldn’t be allowed to breed. What they called you darling was uncalled for. You had no say in what happened to you and for him to publicly shame you like that for his choice was unacceptable to me and many of us women.”
“Thank you, Lynn,” I say a little shocked. I have never had women other than Angela and my family be so supportive though some of my cousins in the pack resented me for being fated to Grayson but they can have him.
“I came by earlier, Jara but you were still sleeping.” Bonnie stands from her seat looking a little unsure of herself. “I wanted to apologize for my mate.”
“I mean, you are forgiven but he isn’t. I understand you may not see things the same way but there is something bigger going on here that none of us know about and I fear that even these peace talks were meant to deteriorate. This was all by design and had Archer not mated with me they would have moved to take our pack from us which is one of the reasons they reacted so viscerally to my presence and then they adapted. If only they could adapt that well to the world around them.” I chuckle at the end. We wouldn’t be in this mess if they could just stop being so hardheaded.
“I can’t apologize enough, Jara. I don’t know what is happening a lot of what our mates plan they do not share. I think you are correct that they are planning something but lets see if we can come up with a plan to make sure the men stay in line.” Bonnie winks at me.
“I think that’s a great idea. Any ideas? Because I am coming up blank.” I shake my head.
“We might each have to work on our mates and their ideals about women and ourplacein these kinds of talks.” One woman says.
“That will take longer than we have for this summit,” I shrug with a grin.
“You’re not wrong, Jara. So, let’s work on the problem at hand and then tackle the misogyny over the next several months or years.” She laughs.
“How are we going to save the peace talks then?” I ask because I have no idea what this plan entails. I can’t see a solution to this mess in short term.
“We are going to show a united front. We are all in for the betterment of the packs so we all do dinner tonight. Just the alpha females and tell the males to kiss our asses.” Lynn chuckles.
“I don’t think Archer will let me. Our mating is new and he is super territorial.” I admit. I hate saying it like I’m a weak female who is ruled by her alpha mate, but the relationship is so volatile and there are threats everywhere that I am afraid to be alone outside of pack lands and in pack lands if I’m perfectly honest. Some of those females in the pack are obsessed to the point it is a little scary.
“I meant our alphas weren’t invited darling, Archer is more than welcome to join us,” Lynn says grinning.
“Won’t that stir more shit up?” I blurt out without thinking.
“He’s a mated male that anyone can see only has eyes for you, dear. Our mates can see it too even if it surprises them.” Lynn laughs. “I have no idea why they would be surprised after meeting you. Grayson was an idiot, darling. But, you did well for yourself anyway.”
“Yes I did. Archer is complicated but I know he cares deeply about his pack and their safety. It’s one of the reasons he is so willing to adapt to provide for them.” I nod looking at each woman.
“I wish all the alphas were that way,” another female says and I notice she is practically skin and bones. How can these alphas be like this?
“I’m sorry, I came from Grayson’s pack and they are the same way there. I am just learning how adaptive Archer’s pack is and its something I have always wanted to advocate for when I thought I would be Grayson’s mate it just worked out that I ended up in a pack that was so progressive.” I shrug. “Maybe we can talk our mates into trading some things so we all benefit.”
