Chapter 6

After training we make our way back to the pack house. Mom and the pack house Omegas have lunch ready for us. Sandwiches, fruit bowls, parfaits, and water bottles are all laid out on the long island in the kitchen. I grab one of everything and take my place next to Aiden at one of the small tables.

“You gotten a whole lot stronger Athena; I won’t be surprised if you take the Alpha title.” Atlas laughs and takes a bite out of his sandwich.

“Thought you were MY best friend dude.” Aiden pouts and takes a sip of water. “I am. I’m her friend too. But I’m serious dude, she’s going to kick your ass when it comes time for the ritual.” He and celeste laugh at my poor brother.

“Guys, don’t be mean to my brother.” I scold but laugh with them. “But yea I feel a lot stronger, and Blanche has so much confidence its almost tiring.”

“Yeah, Persephone is very cocky but that’s how our wolves are.” Celeste says while tearing a piece off her sandwich and eating it. Then some pack members sitting at a table next to us pipe up.

“A female shouldn’t be Alpha. The pack will appear weak to others. It mocks the centuries old tradition of males becoming alphas.” One pack member mumbles in disgust. He is an older man who lives with his wife in the pack house. However, he’s only a commander.

“Well, that tradition needs to change. My sister in completely capable of being Alpha. She deserves the rights of any man when it comes to the title.” Aiden states strongly. Then a mocking laugh from no other than Selene fills the room.

“She is not capable of becoming Alpha. She’s a pathetic little girl who can’t even stand up for herself. Just a simple hair change and a claim that she is the White wolf makes her worthy? The pack would be doomed if she assumed the title. It’s not like she can win against my delicious Aiden anyway.” She purrs disgustingly at Aiden. Blanche growls in my head. Its time I put her in her place once and for all. My wolf infuses me with her confidence, and I pipe up.

“You know what Selene. Shut the fuck up! You are only a commander’s daughter. Know your place! And Aiden is not yours. You’re not his mate. The pack would be known for STD’s if you become Luna.” I say meanly and growl. It’s about time. It’s like a fuse blew. Selene however gives me a deadly look and twitches out of the room with her group. I look around and saw everyone looking bug eyed at me.

“Well done you!” Celeste yells and puts an arm around my shoulders. “That was amazing! Did you see her face? It was priceless!” She laughs proudly with Atlas and Aiden.

Then Dad came in the room and makes his way to our table.

“You all did great in training today. I’m proud of all of you.” He smiles. “When you two are done eating, come see me in my office. I want to talk to you both.” He says and grabs a water bottle from the island.

“Sure, thing dad. We’ll be there in a few.” I say and he heads out of the room and up to his office. “Wonder what he wants to talk about.” I ponder.

“I’m guessing alpha stuff.” Aiden suggests. “Yea I bet you’re right. Let’s hurry up and get up there.” I say and start scarfing down the rest of my food.

We finish eating and Aiden and I go to the top floor where Fathers office is. We knock on the door, and he yells for us to come in. We walk in and he’s reading through a large stack of papers.

“Have a seat you two, I wanted to talk to guys about a few things.” He points to the two chairs that are on the other side of his desk. We take a seat and dad puts the papers he was looking at aside. “I hope you know how proud I am of you too. You are becoming everything your mother and I hoped you would. Strong, confident, open-minded individuals. However, I don’t want these new responsibilities and the upcoming trial to come between you two. I went through the Gemini ritual when I was 21 with my twin brother and it drove a wedge between us. I don’t want what happened to us to happen to you two. I doesn’t matter who wins in the future because I know the pack will be in either of your capable hands.” He smiles at us.

“We know dad, we made a promise to each other a few years ago to never let anything come between our bond.” I tell him and smile up at Aiden.

“That’s good. You know family always make mistakes. Really bad ones but learn to forgive no matter how bad the situation because nothing is stronger than the bond of family. And if you choose not to, don’t complain about being alone. Your mother and I will always be there for you, but I want you to promise me that you’ll always be there for each other. No matter what happens.” He says with a determined look. It’s strange, he’s acting like something is going to happen. Like he wants to give his final advice before something terrible hits the fan. I really hope I’m wrong.

“I promise dad.” I say and get up make my way around the desk and hug him.

“Me too, I promise.” Aiden mimics and follows me. Dad holds us both strongly and finally let’s go.

“Anyway, I also want to talk to about alpha business. I want both of you to attend a few pack and diplomatic meets. You need to learn what needs to happen and finally lead a few meetings. This way, you both can learn what the job of being an Alpha is all about. At pack meetings we discuss only pack related issues and affairs. At diplomatic meets every Alpha, Beta, and Gamma of neighboring packs will attend and treaties, pack wars, and rouge issues are discussed. Next few years I’ll be training you both until the time comes for the trial.” He says and pulls up a calendar on his computer and turns it towards us. “There is an upcoming pack meeting in 3 days. You’ll only observe and participate as a regular pack members. Are you two up for it?” He asks.

“Of course, Dad, we’ll be there.” Aiden says.

“Perfect, that’s all I really wanted to talk to you two about. I’ll see you at dinner.” He says and goes back to his stack of papers. We head out of the office and head back to the kitchen where Atlas and Celeste are finishing their lunch.

“Have a good talk with the Alpha?” Celeste asks while I take my seat.

“Oh yea, he wants to us observe pack and diplomatic meeting to begin our Alpha training.” I answer.

“They get boring. Atlas and I had to start attending a month ago since we acquired our wolves. Just a bunch of adults talking about pack issues. It hard not to fall asleep during them.” Celeste sighed.

“Well Ms. Future Beta. Better start getting interested in them. Since you’re going to be second in command you need to attend every. Single. One.” I roll my eyes at her. She never takes pack business seriously. She usually tries to find reasons to skip. She’s got a lot of growing up to do. “Well, how about we take a night off and watch some movies?” I ask.

“That’s an amazing idea. Nothing mushy or girly.” Aiden gagged.

“Well, nothing stupid and guyish.” Celeste gagged back at him. They roll their eyes at her, and we laugh.

“How about a marvel movie. I bet we can agree with one of those.” I suggest.

“I vote the new Black Widow movie.” Aiden says hastily.

“Mhmm. Scarlet Johannsson and Florence Pugh. I need my daily dose of hotness.” Atlas slaps Aiden’s back and they both smirk. We both glare at them with silent annoyance.

“Fine. I haven’t seen it yet so ill allow it. But I swear if I catch you two drooling, we’re putting on Bride Wars.” I threaten and smile evilly at them.

After a little more arguing we head to the recreation room where there is a huge projector screen and comfy couches to watch movies. Aiden and Atlas oversee putting the movie on while Celeste and I make popcorn. When the popcorn was finally done popping, we put it into two large bowls and go sit on the couches. We play the movie and the boys’ eyes are peeled on the screen when Scarlet came on. I look at Celeste and we both roll our eyes and we both throw a hand full of popcorn at their heads.

“Hey! What was that for?” Aiden says and they give us scolding looks.

“You got some drool.” Celeste says while rolling her eyes and point at their mouths.

“Well Aiden, they through popcorn at us. What ever shall we do?” Atlas says dramatically and laughs. “Well bud I think we should return the favor tenfold.” Aiden smirks evilly and they arm themselves with popcorn.

“Oh, shit.” Celeste laughs and we run away with our bowl to find cover. We hide behind the couch and arm ourselves with ammo. We peek over the couch and popcorn was fired at us. It hits as and we squeal and fire back.

We run around the rec hall for a while and popcorn got everywhere. It’s like a popcorn bomb was set off. Then mom came in.

“What a mess! Stop being children! For Goddess’s sake, the future of the pack is going to be in the hands of 10-year old’s.” Mom puts her hands on her hips and scolds. “Now clean this up. Don’t expect the Omega’s to clean it up.” She shakes her head and leaves the room.

“Well, we’re busted.” Celeste laughs and we start cleaning. “Yea, yea but I think we can agree we won this round.” Aiden flexes and Atlas joins him.

“You wish. We won by a land slide. Now let’s hurry and get this cleaned up so we can watch the rest of the movie.”

We get all the popcorn cleaned up and watch the boys drool over Florence and Scarlet the rest of the night.