Sorry I was late! I needed to edit the chapter even though it was finished! Thank you all so much for supporting me and reading with me! <3 I'm excited to have Silas get kicked in the butt. Hehehe.
Amelia hummed, and Landon leaned over, whispering something. She nodded at first, then shook her head, and whispered back. The two of them were in deep conversation for about three minutes.“See Leah and Hailey.”My eyes widened. I felt the plate slip out of my fingers and fall into the sink. It clattered down, but I recovered quickly. Grabbing it, I finished scrubbing and set it aside.“I told you!” Amelia whisper-yelled at her brother.I realized they probably were discussing whether to bring it up. Taking a breath, I set the next plate in the dishwasher.“So you want to go to Uncle Finn and Uncle Noah’s? Instead of them coming here?”They looked at each other and nodded slowly.“You know, nothing is off limits in talking to me about. I’m not going to get mad or upset. It’s been a while since we have seen them.”Walking around the island, I picked the two of th
Alpha Jacob and I sat in the last meeting of the conference. We were flying out straight after it, headed back home. I glued my gaze to the floor as I took slow, calculated breaths.“You alright, Nathaniel?” Alpha Jacob’s voice broke my thoughts.“Yes, I’m fine. Missing home. Missing the kids.” I flashed him a smile, but I could tell he wasn’t buying it.He leaned in. “Did that Alpha of yours say something to you? Or his underlings? Need me to pummel them?”I chortled and shook my head. Looking up, the meeting hadn’t started yet and not all the Alphas were here. There was a glaring hole where Silas, Sam, and Charles were assigned to sit.“No, he didn’t. It’s nothing. Really. Let’s just get this meeting over with and go home.”He nodded and leaned back, dropping his inquiry. It had actually been nothing. I woke up this morning to nothing. An empty bed, a
***Nate’s POV***I was towel-drying my wet hair when I heard a knock on my door. My eyes narrowed, and I looked at the clock. It was already well past midnight. Alpha Jacob had a strict ten p.m. bedtime because he said he needed to get his beauty rest. That was his secret to living a long life, apparently. Smiling, I sighed and let the towel fall to my shoulders. Slipping on some sweats, I headed to the door when the knocking turned into a more incessant pounding.“Goddess, calm down. I’m coming.”Unlocking the door and opening it, the smell of alcohol immediately slapped me in the face. It was a mix of whiskey, vodka, and maybe even rum. It was so strong I stepped back to stop myself from covering my nose.Silas slumped against the door frame, looking like it was the only thing holding him up. When his eyes met mine, I realized it wasn’t Silas but Eros.
I sat in the meeting with my arms crossed over my chest. Charles was sitting next to me, playing the middleman between Silas and me. Despite warning us about not being hungover, we had to peel his ass off the floor of his hotel room bathroom. I’d kicked three bottles that were just left on the floor before I could even step in. He looked disheveled and hungover.My eyes lifted to see Nate on the other side of the large meeting room. He was sitting next to Alpha Jacob, smiling and talking to some of the surrounding Alphas. I’d seen him in action at work a few times. Seeing him like this, in all these meetings, just drove home how much he was meant to be leadership.When I first joined our leadership, I pegged Nate as an extrovert. He was always at the center of everything for the pack. It made sense when everyone called him the face of our leadership. Except over the course of a couple of years, I realized that was false.Nate himself was actually very introverted. He preferred the com
The rest of the dinner turned to lighter topics. Some of the more complicated situations within the pack. Or the gossip Nate had missed over the years. It was fun, getting to talk about the silly things with him. Especially, for the first time since I knew him, he wasn’t the first one to the gossip. Usually he was the one giving it to Mer and I.Nate also talked about the pack he was living with now. It was the White Sun pack, lead by Alpha Jacob. Hearing he’d moved all the way to an island off the mainland of Greece shocked me. He didn’t give specifics of where, and I could tell he was being deliberate about that, but I didn’t mind. All he was doing was protecting himself and his pups.Apparently, he was acting Beta for Alpha Jacob. He’d step in and do work when the Alpha requested it. It kept him busy, but it surprised me when he said he didn’t need to work. He explained Solaris had helped him, even after her death. Charles and I h
Nate chuckled, mostly to himself. “They are Alpha’s through and through. As you can see, I didn’t get a single drop of my DNA in there. Landon is older by a few minutes, and he takes charge most of the time. Amelia is quiet, but she is very observant. Sometimes scarily so.”Charles fell back against the seat. “Well…fuck me…twins. Isn’t that rare?”I answered my mate. “Extremely. For a regular she-wolf, it’s rare. For a male Omega, even more so. You aren’t even an Omega so I don’t really…”“Aelia messed with our bond when she died. In her letters, she said there were some repercussions to her weaving her own bond into ours. That might be it, but as she said, it’s all conjecture at this point.” Nate took a sip of his tea. “They are so wonderful. They make it so easy on me. I don’t know how I got so lucky with them.” His eyes wer