Burning Desire

Chapter 4

Cara

I finished the rest the day at school and ran back to the pack house. I still had to do chores for the Luna before I could sit down and do my homework, plus I had to help with dinner.

“Cara!” Luna yelled as soon as she saw me.

“Yes Luna?” I said bowing my head.

“Jace is turning 18 next week, and I’m planning a huge celebration. A few of the alphas and families from our neighboring packs will also be coming. So we will be cleaning this place from top to bottom to make sure everything is perfect.” The Luna tells me.

“Yes Luna.” I said.

“Meet me in the kitchen, I need to talk to Mauve about the food we will have at the celebration.” Luna says walking away. I rush up to my tiny little room in the attic to put my school books in and rushed back down to the kitchen.

“So Mauve, the eggs you made today for breakfast were excellent. Then today at lunch the warriors were bragging that the chocolate cupcakes were mouthwatering. I would really love if you use this creativity you had and make more of these wonderful dishes for not only the pack meals but the celebration as well.” Luna tells Mauve.

Mauve bows to the Luna and says, “Thank you Luna. Honestly the creativity just comes to me suddenly. I would hate for it to not come and disappoint you, especially at the celebration.” Mauve responds.

“Well, I do have a thought why don’t you experiment with food you think would be good for the celebration at the pack meals and from that we will make up the menu on what is good.” The Luna tells Mauve.

“I think that is doable Luna.” Mauve responds.

“Excellent, well I can already tell you, I approve of doing the chocolate peanut butter cupcakes. They will be the perfect dessert, plus Jace loves chocolate.” Luna says.

“Of course.” Mauve tells her.

“Good, and Cara, you will be very busy with the cleaning plus helping Mauve here in the kitchen. So you won’t have time for any extras.” The Luna says turning away from Mauve.

“What about school?” I ask the Luna.

The Luna sighs and says “I will talk to the school, I know you need your education, but because I also need you here, I will get your assignments and get you excused for the the week.” The Luna tells me.

I knew there is nothing I could say to make the Luna change her mind.

“Yes Luna, thank you.” I say to her.

“Ok then, I need you to clean upstairs in the bedrooms, we work one area at a time this week ok.” The Luna says before she leaves.

“You ok child?” Mauve asks me.

“Yeah, I’m fine, just I don’t think the Luna really likes me.” I say to Mauve.

“Child, it not like she doesn’t like you. I think the status of our society. You were orphaned at a young age. You are an omega also, so she being a Luna had to help you plus raise you.

You are technically below her in status. So it is a bit different for her to raise someone that below them.” Mauve tried to explain.

“Mauve is right.” Star said suddenly.

“Star! You been so quiet lately! Are you ok? “ I asked my wolf in the mind link.

“Yes, I have just been feeling very off lately. Is there anyway we could go for a run soon.” Star asked.

“I know it has been awhile Star, I will try to do it soon.” I tells star.

I leave the kitchen to start cleaning the guest rooms, like the Luna asked. The guest rooms were the easiest to clean, mostly because they just need a dusting and the bed linens shaken out. Then making sure the guest bathroom were stocked with linens and toiletries, ready for use.

I finished the guest rooms much quicker then I realized. So I headed back down to the kitchen. Maybe tonight I will be able to let Star run a bit.

“Child, you done cleaning already?” Mauve asks as she sees me.

“Yeah, it was just guest rooms and they are the easiest to clean before people are in them. It is after guests leave that are more work.” I tells her.

“Well good, well since it is your food that the Packs is loving, help me with getting a dish ready for dinner.” Mauve laughs.

“What about if we make a simple roast beef for tonight?” I suggest.

“That sounds good. I will go get the meat, you gather up what you want to do with it so I can make note of it, so can make for the celebration.” Mauve says.

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Jace

Damn! This game is a tough game. Right now we are losing. We can’t lose. Losing is not an option here. We have to change up what we are doing.

“Tristan!” I call him over

“What’s up?” He asks.

“We need to try something, they are getting the best of us.” I tell him.

“Ok, what you thinking?” He asks.

“Switch position with Bryan.” I tell him.

“Got it!” He says and goes over to Bryan.

After I switched the guys, we came back and ended up winning the game 3-2. My father came up to me after the game.

“Very well done son, I saw you made some changes which helped in your victory.” He says to me.

“I just did what needed to be done dad.” I tell him.

“You did well, definitely a good decision. That a strong trait to have for an Alpha.” He tells me.

“Thank you.” I tell him.

“No need to thank me, that was all you. You proved yourself today. Now all you need is a Luna that string and capable like you and you will be a great Alpha.” My dad tell me.