I asked, “Is that what you’ve been so busy doing?” He answered, “Yes. I’m an Alpha Enforcer and I’ll take care of everyone. I’ve adjusted plans to keep everyone safe, and that doesn’t end at the boundaries of our border. Julianna getting taken was a wakeup call for our family. So was Everly, just in a different way. I’m adjusting.”
I sipped my drink again. I sighed, “It just feels wrong.” He shrugged, “It would be wrong not to have fun and enjoy every second of it. It’s an exciting time for you.” I added, “For the realm.” He shrugged, “I don’t give a damn about that really. I just want you to be happy and enjoy this time. Life will continue to go on. Bad things happened, and that’s indisputable. We rallied though. We are fine and we have someone watching out for us. We don’t have answers about going down, but everyone is working on it.”
I asked, “Are you ok about Melanie?” He answered, “No, I’m not. I hate everything about the entire situation. I hate being apart from her. I hate feeling like I know her through her dancing, but I don’t know her.” I snorted, “Her conversations too.”
He shrugged, “Those feel stifled and forced. I don’t feel like I know her from her conversations with Jase. She’s clearly still upset with them.” That didn’t make sense. Jason had told me that Melanie didn’t hold grudges because it took effort, and she didn’t like that. She said it wasn’t productive.
I had asked if that meant she was a doormat, and he’d laughed. He’d told me that she said moving on didn’t mean forgetting what happened. She just wasn’t going to waste energy on it. That girl had a massive personality change since leaving and I didn’t think it was for the best. My head began to pound, and I decided that was silly because she was living her dream.
I threw my arm around my brother’s shoulder. I whispered, “I’m sorry this hurts you.” He said, “I’ve grown used to it to be honest.” That annoyed me. I admitted, “I’m scared.” He replied, “I know. We all are, but denying that isn’t helping anyone. What happened was probably the most terrifying thing that’s happened to us as a whole. Werewolves all over the world went down and we don’t know why. No one has taken credit which tells me it wasn’t supposed to happen.”
I instantly asked, “What do you mean?” He answered, “If the Ring took us down intentionally, they’d be mocking us. They would’ve been there to swoop in on, probably us or one of our allies, and slaughter the whole pack. Maybe more than one. Not a single pack lost someone while we were down. Hell, even the rogues went down. Yet to this day, no one has taken credit.”
I snorted, “Someone should, even to brag.” He nodded, “Exactly. Even if they were lying someone should be bragging, but they aren’t. They want it to fade from memory because something happened that wasn’t supposed to.”
I muttered, “We can’t forget.” He replied, “Many will let this go in time. I will never stop searching for answers, and neither will our allies. The longer this goes without a whisper of who did it tells me it wasn’t intentional. Something horrible happened that day and went horribly wrong for whoever did it.”
I guessed, “Maybe they are dead.” He shrugged, “I doubt it. More like they are laying low. They either got what they wanted that night, with extra effects, or they are regrouping. I doubt anything like that will be attempted again though. Once is bad enough, but if you take all Werewolves down twice every single supernatural will look into it.” I figured they were all doing it now, but his logic made sense. Some people wouldn’t care and figure that someone else would figure it out.
We sat there in silence drinking our drinks until Cayden came and joined us. Alexander nodded to him, kissed me on the top of the head, then popped out. Cayden sat down. I put my head on his shoulder and just sat there enjoying being with him.
After several minutes he said, “Pop us to our pond.” I did as he asked, and we were in the place in this realm that had become our place. My place where I felt safe as a child was now ours. He said, “I wish I could help you.”
I told him, “You do. You’ve been there every day for me, but Alexander picked at me. I’m sure he did with all our siblings. He got me to admit everything that’s bothering me. He’s so sneaky that way. He did it by sharing his observations and his own sorrow.”
He pulled me into his chair with him, so I was in his lap. He looked deep into my eyes. He said, “If you want a bigger role in your pack, it’s ok.” I shook my head, “I’m doing what I’m meant to do in both places now. I just felt bad about what happened to Jase. I felt I should’ve stopped them. Alexander pointed out he argued against Jase going.” Cayden stiffened. I knew he didn’t like to talk about Jason, but he would for me.
I added, “Plus, I’ve been scared. I worry a lot about going down again. It’s why I haven’t gone out.” He cupped my face, “My Duchess, if you don’t want to go out on a mission you do not have to. I justdon’t want to see you letting fear win. You got hurt in the field and went back out sending me into a spiral, but I understood why you did it.”
I nodded, “I’ll go out again, it just really scared me. Rain and I aren’t on the same page we’ve always been. She’s been withdrawn and I let her stay that way. We feel out of sync.” He cupped my face and called, “Rain.” She pushed forward, “Mate.” He grinned, “Will you take me for a ride?” I felt my wolf’s joy. She loved Cayden riding on her back while she ran. She answered, “Yes.”
She backed away from him then shifted. Cayden climbed onto her back, and she took off running. I sat in the back of her mind enjoying the ride. I jolted when I realized this was our first run since we’d gone down. I closed my eyes, realizing I should’ve gotten her to run sooner. We were both so messed up from what happened I didn’t even realize she hadn’t asked to run.
After an hour, she brought us back to the pond. Cayden got down and she shifted back. She said, “Thank you, mate.” He leaned in and kissed her before she put me back in charge. I dropped to my knees and licked up his hard length.
He groaned, “Fuck, Cass.” Rain teased, “He knew it was you back in charge.” I teased, “Because he knows you’d just throw him down and mount him.” She chuckled, “I get the job done.” Just like that, we were back, and it felt so right.
I took Cayden into my mouth and looked up at him. He gripped my hair and let me see all his love and lust in one look. He tried to let me go at my own pace, but that wasn’t what I wanted. So, I teased him with little touches. I cupped his balls and played with them. When I knew he’d get close I’d let his dick slide out of my mouth to suck on his balls.
He was nearly growling after the fifth time. I linked, “Is there a problem, My Commander?” He told me, “You need to stop playing with me.” I gasped, “Me? What?” Rain snickered in my head. He still wouldn’t take over and fuck my mouth, so I decided to take a page out of my mom’s book. I stood and snapped myself in an outfit I’d been thinking about wearing for a long time.
Cayden’s eyes widened. He asked, “What the fuck? Are you…?” He trailed off. I answered, “Sexy Sailor Moon? Yes, I am.” I twirled around and shook my ass that hung out of the very short blue skirt I’d conjured. He whispered, “Even your hair is like hers.” I winked, “Maybe someone’s mom dropped off their old Manga books. I might have noticed you had every single Sailor Moon one. It gave me ideas.”
He snorted, “Ideas? Cass, she had a whole shirt on.” I grinned, “But doesn’t the red bow covering my boobs and a few white glittery straps connecting the bow to my skirt make it more fun?” He gulped and adjusted his pants. He answered, “Fun is a word.”
My phone rang and I answered. “Hi, mom.” He asked, “Are you for real right now?” My mom asked, “Is this a bad time?” I popped further away from my mate. He sent me his incredulity. I answered, “Nope. What’s up?” She said, “Well, I know you’ve been having trouble finding a dress.” I chuckled, “I know you can solve that if we can’t find it.” She’d just conjure exactly what I wanted.
She replied, “But you want to shop and find one. So, I found a place for us to have some mother daughter time. It’s long overfuckingdue.” I laughed, “Alright, that sounds fun.” She replied, “So does whatever you’re doing.”
I laughed, “I dressed up as Sailor Moon.” My mom asked, “Who the fuck is that?” I answered, “Look it up, you’ll like the outfits.” She squealed, “That sounds fun! Go get you some well deserved orgasms. Make him work for it.” I laughed, “I love you so much, mom.” She replied, “I love you too.” I hung up.
Cayden was stalking towards me. I winked and popped to his parents’ house. His dad choked on his drink. I waved, “Hi, Ashlyn. I just wanted to let you know my dress problems may soon be solved. My mom found a shop.” She sighed, “Thank goodness. I was about to delay my mission.”
I laughed, “There’s no reason to worry. My mom would’ve conjured what I wanted.” She grinned, “But you wanted to find a dress and fall in love, just like your mom did.” It was true. My mom had pictures of what she wanted though. I just wanted to fall in love with a dress the second I saw it or tried it on.
Aaron asked, “So, what’s with the outfit?” I grinned, “I’m messing with your son.” He snorted, “I figured that out.” His mom winked at me. I said, “Speaking of messing with people, a little birdie told meyou like Scooby Doo, Aaron.” He raised an eyebrow, “It was my favorite cartoon growing up and I made sure all my kids watched it. Why?”
Ashlyn teased, “Yet you didn’t crush on Daphne like everyone else.” He wiggled his eyebrows, “No, the smartie pants had all my attention. Just like my mate.” I snapped her into a red pleather skirt that was short enough it showed her ass, just like mine. I had her in orange thigh highs with red high heels with a strap. I matched it with a skin tight long-sleeved orange crop top. He hair was in a medium length bob already, but I snapped her fake glasses too.
