Page 165 of Game of Destiny
“I am. He may be an idiot and an exceptionally bad mate, but he is a good Alpha. And my brother is a brilliant Beta, it runs in the family. He will make sure James makes the right decision,” I told him and kissed his head again.
“This is why you are a good Luna. You let everyone solve the things they can and when you see something which needs to be solved but people struggle with it, you come in like a bulldozer. Making sure everyone knows they can get in line or end up flattened. I love it. Very sexy,” he chuckled.
“That sounds terrible,” I said.
“It’s not. It’s amazing. Come on, time to feed you,” he told me and got up. He took my hand, placed a kiss on its palm and then kissed me. “Thank you. I needed to get it off my chest, and I needed to find some peace.”
“Anytime, honey,” I told him and we headed to see if we could get an early dinner, all thoughts about cooking at home were gone. Matilda had two plates waiting for us.
“I had a feeling the two of you wouldn’t have time to eat with the pack today,” she said.
“Thank you,” I told her and we retreated back to our office to eat in peace and then asked the others to join us in the meeting room.
“Everyone I have talked to is willing to offer up space in their pack,” Sam told us. The others said the same.
“Everyone is horrified when we tell them what is happening in the Ocean Shore pack,” Medow said.
“No one wants to believe it,” Shelly agreed.
“The council will help us organise the work of giving people a safe place to go to. We have one more call to make and then we will talk to the pack,” Finlay said. When we were alone again I took out my phone and called my brother. I put it on speaker.
“Hi Amie, how are things?” Elder answered.
“Hi. You know me, always in the middle of something. I have Finn with me.”
“Hello,” Finlay said.
“Hi. I get the feeling this isn’t a social call,” Elder told us.
“No, you are right,” I confessed and told him what was happening. When I was done there was a long pause.
“Are you serious?” my brother asked.
“I am.”
“I will talk to James, but I can’t see us refusing to help. Not in a case like this,” he told me.
“Thank you,” Finlay said.
“Are we looking into some sort of preventive action?” Elder asked. Finlay chuckled.
“That was a nice way of asking if I intend to take over my brother’s pack. No, not at this moment.”
“Good to know. I will get back to you as soon as I talk to my Alpha, I’m heading over to meet him as we speak.”
“Thank you, Elder. Take care and say hi to everyone from us,” I said and we ended the call.
“I was looking forward to a dramafree winter,” Finlay told me.
“We will get there,” I promised him. It didn’t take my brother more than ten minutes to message me back saying they would accept anyone who needed a safe place to stay. I smiled at the message. Even if packs may have differences and be at odds with each other, when it really mattered, we put it to the side to make sure we took care of those who needed it.
“Time to tell the pack,” Finlay told me. I nodded. When we told the pack there were a lot of worried faces looking back at us.
“We and other packs are ready to shelter any wolves who need it. There is a list of packs who are willing to help that is being sent to everyone as we speak along with contact information for each of them. When you speak with your loved ones, please let them know they will have a place to go if they leave. The council will also help. Just remind them they are not alone,” I told the pack. We ended the meeting, but stayed to let members come up and talk to us.
“I will reach out to your mother,” Matilda told Finlay.
“Thank you. I would call, but I think she is more likely to answer your call than mine,” he said. Matilda gave him a sad smile, but didn’t object. I put my arm around him to make sure he didn’t feel alone.
