Aurora’s Life of Dreams

Trouble

Jett’s POV

I mindlinked my father to let him know I need a meeting,

“Dad, do you have time today? I need to talk to you. You might get upset so it’s probably a good idea to see me when you don’t have to see anyone else after.”

“Son, with one email my afternoon is cleared come down and we’ll talk now.”

Rory was sleeping so peacefully so I decided to come to dad on my own, I knew that what we did exhausted her so I just let her rest. Besides only one of us needed to endure the wrath of dad, he’s going to be beyond pi**ed. I promised him and mom that I would come to them when Rory had made up her mind before we did anything that would cause immediate explanation to the pack. Us mating, well that was something that could have stayed between us, but the marks on our shoulders are something we couldn’t hide. I could have made up a story for a while about mine if she had just marked me, but mine being the mark of an alpha was huge people would know she was my mate. As I made it to his office door, I pulled my shirt to cover my mark and tapped on the door.

“Come in, please.” I walked in very quietly with my hands behind my back. “Hey dad,” I said as I took a seat I moved them to my lap and tapped my thumbs against each other.

“What did you do?”

“Huh?”

“You’re nervous thumb tapping is evident you did something I’m not going to like. So spill it.”

“So Rory made up her mind and accepted me as her mate.”

“That’s great son, congratulations!”

“Thanks Pop, but that’s not what I need to tell you.”

“Okay....?”

“Rory and I mated already—“

“Oh don’t say it, please don’t say it.”

“And we marked each other.”

My dad slammed his fists so hard I thought they’d go through his coffee table.

“Son, we told you, do not do anything that would make us have to alert the pack. Sure accepting, sure even mating but MARKING HER! YOU JUST HAD TO MARK HER!?”

“I couldn’t help it dad, she marked me. That partial tie would be torture. You know that! I had to mark her back and make us one.”

I saw his face start to calm. Not marking her wasn’t an option after she marked me. She would be tied to me and I wouldn’t be to her. As a wolf it can really mess with our psyche and cause issues with our shifts.

“Okay. Let’s think about this—“

“No dad,” I interrupted, “I did this, I have to address the pack. I can do it. They already know you took Rory in after having to kill her father for the murder of her mother, so they are very aware there is no biological relation. It may be an adjustment but she was already amongst the leadership as Alpha Daughter now she will be amongst us as our Luna.”

My dad looked at me in admiration, “that confidence my boy is why you are ready to lead this pack. Not just in yourself but in your people to be understanding and honor the Moon Goddess and your position as their upcoming Alpha. We’ve known since you discovered she was your mate that she will be an excellent Luna and the people know her, they will see that too. But please don’t be surprised if there is some gossip, you know the pack gossip likes to try and tear people apart. Don’t let that happen to you.”

“Father, all due respect I’m taking over this pack in two months and I know that you are the Alpha but as the future Alpha I will not tolerate any negativity spoken of her. You wouldn’t when it came to mom and I certainly won’t where it comes to Rory. They will respect her or they will suffer consequence. Period.”

“Then I think you’re ready to give your speech. Retrieve Rory from your chambers and remember this isn’t just you announcing you found your Luna, this is an announcement of the change within a family and leadership. Make it personable yet clear what you expect from them. I’ll gather the leadership and start the preparations for the ball. It will be at the end of the week. ”

“Yes dad.” I hugged him “I’m so proud of you and of Rory!” He said with so much pride and love.

After I left the office I went to go wake Rory while my dad was making all of the arrangements. “Ror-“ I stopped when I noticed she wasn’t in bed, “Rory?” Then I heard it, the bath tub. I walked towards the bathroom and propped myself against the entry way, “hello love,” I said as she lay there soaking in the bubbles.

“Hello, how did it go? I wish you hadn’t gone without me, he doesn’t get upset when I’m around.”

“Actually he was only mad for about two seconds before I explained you marked me first. It was good I went by myself, he needed to see me as a leader not as his son and he did. For the most part anyway. He’s working on setting up a meeting with the other leadership and then a ball at the end of the week to announce your change of title to the pack.”

“Well this will certainly be an interesting speech he’ll have to give:

Hello everyone, she who you know as Alpha Daughter will now be your Luna. Thank you.” I attempted to mimic my dad’s tone, nailed it!

“Well actually I’ll be the spokesman at the meeting and making the announcement at the ball. So we can’t be late. Finish up your bath and I’ll hop in the shower so we can go.”

“Or you can just join me in the bath?” Before I could even argue I made the mistake of tucking her hair behind her ear and she grabbed me pulling me in.

“Well I guess I don’t have a choice now,” I started kissing her neck and tickling her. She had filled the tub to the brim so pulling me in sent water flying all around the room and all over the floor. Each movement we made a little more water fell out. I stopped harassing her long enough to take my clothes off and pick her up to set her in front of me in my lap.

“I could get used to this.” I said as I kissed her neck. She turned to look at me and said the sweetest words,

“I already am.” She kissed me deep and passionately which instantly got me hard again, but before we could even get started I heard the door burst open,

“Alpha Son!?” One of the pack warriors shouted

“Yes?” I said with my hand over Rory’s mouth, keeping her from giggling. “What now?” I mindlinked with Rory

“Sir, it’s your mother-“ my eyes flashed to Rory’s and all I saw was worry, “she was attacked.” We both jumped out of the tub as I heard the door slam Rory took off to her side of the bed and started grabbing clothes from the dresser beside her. We both quickly got dressed and took off to the pack hospital right next to the pack house.

“DAD!!” Rory shouted. He didn’t move, he didn’t react, he stared horrified at the patient room door frozen. Rory ran to him, “daddy look at me please? Tell me what happened?” I was frozen at the sight of a nurse coming out covered in my mother’s blood.

“She’s not going to make it, I can feel it.” She took a step back and slapped him. The sound of her hand meeting his face forcing me from my stare and now looking to them. “Don’t you say that, she is the strongest woman I’ve ever known! She is going to make it.” She grabbed his face and forced him to look at her “she’s going to make it daddy.” I saw the tears start to fall from both of their eyes. I caught another nurse that was coming out of the room my father was glued in front of, “excuse me?”

“Alpha Son, what can I do for you?”

“What happened to her?”

“From what I gathered she was walking on the far side of the lake as she does most days, something came out of the woods and grabbed her before she could shift. They seem to be wolf bites that are all over her body. She’s lucky to be alive.” She said as they called her back into the room to work on my mom. “Excuse me,” she said as she rushed back.

“MOM!!” I heard Payton cry as he barreled through the hospital doors trying to get into her room. “MOM....MOM......THATS MY MOM LET ME IN” I grabbed him and pinned him against the wall. The anger that was boiling in me from my conversation with the nurse, but I needed to keep a level head for now. We need to find who did this to her.

“Pay you have to calm down right now. I need your head and your best warriors here now. One of our own attacked her and we have to find them.”

Payton had a determined pissed off look on his face as he nodded and bolted out of the hospital.

Aurora’s POV

I sat holding my father as he fell to his knees, I couldn’t move him so I simply shifted his weight to prop him against the wall right outside of her room. Dad needed me to be strong for him so I wiped my tears and just held him. As we were sitting there, I started to smell something familiar. When that nurse came out it hit me like a freight train but I couldn’t piece where I remembered it. I started thinking real hard until it hit me...Maverick. I grabbed my dad’s face,

“Daddy, you stay right here. Your bond will help her heal. Do not move, I’m serious. Jett and I will be back.” He didn’t respond he just blinked and nodded his head once to let me know he heard me. I got up and practically ran towards Jett, I grabbed his arm and pulled him into another patient room.

“I know who did this.”

“WHAT!? How?”

“The scent that’s coming out of the room, it’s moms and blood but I smell wolf, a wolf that I know.”

“WHO?!”

“I met this guy at a party, Kanaan, we hung out one time at the library and Harmony took control as did his wolf, Maverick. They blocked us out but Harmony told me to keep my distance that we couldn’t trust him. His scent is all in that room, J. It was him. I know it.”