1 month later… This last month has been so full of shit, but so little has actually happened at the same time. If that makes any sense. I mean, we’ve made a lot of preparations for things. Finding a site for the orphaned pups from Slade, Chloe, and Kesha’s old pack to stay and stocking it with everything they would need. Continuing the search for the Riding Hoods and the traitor, both of which were turning out to be a long and arduous process. Preparing the governmental systems for when the whole thing is eventually over. Making room for the West Coast packs and the rogues that they were bringing in. All of this led to construction, moving people, and trying to keep everything quiet so that we weren’t drawing attention from the Riding Hoods. That’s something that I still don’t understand. The traitor hasn’t revealed any of our locations. They haven’t told the Riding Hoods about the West Coast packs moving to our compounds. Or the plan to gather up and bring as many rogue

One second I’m bent over the bed in Devin and my bedroom, pants soaked and Devin screaming that we have to go to the hospital. The next, I’m standing in the bedroom we share with Xander, Devin clutching my arm and Xander staring at me like he’s seen a ghost. “What’s going on?” Xander cries out, though he has to know. “She’s in labor. Her water just broke!” Devin’s voice is on the edge of panic knowing that we’ve just been taken away from all medical help. I’m surprised that he’s not full-blown panicking, but then I remember his gift. He’s gonna need to use it on Xander before this is over, I can just tell. “Get my mom!” I grit out between my teeth as a contraction hits me harder than before. “She’ll know what to do.” Ma used to help the midwives deliver the pups in our pack. She’ll grab whoever needs to come and make sure this comes out alright. Then when Lily gets here…Fuck! Lily’s not gonna be here to take away the pain! Well, that sucks. It’s only then that I notic

Two months later… Two months! Two full months and nothing. No leads on the traitor. No idea where Iris is. No signs of the Riding Hoods. Nothing. It’s not like we haven’t been actively looking. It’s that we have to interrogate every witch personally with Bella, Arthur, Liv, or Leo present to ensure that they’re telling the truth. The witches have a spell to act as human lie detectors, but it has to be done by a High Priestess or High Priest. It also tired them out as they were basically putting their consciousness into another person’s brain in order to sift through their memories to make sure everything matched. We could do a max of two interrogations per day, so it was taking forever to get through the several hundred witches we had in our territory. The fact that we were going so slowly through the witches was killing me a little more every day. So far, we’d made it through 90 of them. There were still 142 witches left to interrogate. This is the slowest investigat

Jamal and Gregory had mindlinked me to let me know that Nathan had experienced a huge wave of emotion from Citra. They were running a little late, but they would be coming. Naomi also wanted to warn me that Citra was having a really hard time with everything that was going on, not because of anything that we had done, but because of her past. Seems like we’ve got a lot to talk about. This also is going to change the focus of today’s lesson. Nathan is five years old and has obviously found his power as an empath, though I also feel that there are elements of psychometry, meaning that he can see into a person’s past, and seeing, meaning that he gets flashes of the future. The fact that his empath powers are so strong at such a young age shows that he is going to be an amazing witch, as well as a powerful alpha. All of these traits, when honed, could lead his pack to huge amounts of power, should he chose to go that route. But first, we need to teach him how to control his power

Two months later… Naomi had a presentation today with the new warriors in training, along with Jamal and Arya, to describe what the alphas expect of their warriors, along with mundane things, such as border patrol schedules, benefits, pay, and the like. Why the alpha had to do this particular presentation? I have no idea. But it helped Jamal and Naomi remain a presence in their warriors’ training and get information from the trainers. So, I was hanging with Nathan over at Hawk’s house with Hawk and Citra. Both had taken up the mantel of becoming High Priest and Priestess of the combined Mother coven just last month and had taken over Nathan’s training as well. Nathan’s grandmother had been a part of Citra and Celeste’s coven, mating with Julian’s father. So, that technically made him a part of the Mother coven and under the jurisdiction of Citra and Hawk. Though they still received help from Bella in training Nathan, they had taken over his education about his gifts.