Summer of…

Finding a Hideaway

DAVIN

“You can’t be serious?!”

My dad sighs “ These are the terms Davin take them”

I groan in frustration “ So not only am I taking over Blood River as a favor to them, who by the way have only ever caused problems for the entire pack over control of the river forever. But you expect me to marry their pack Princess?”

“ I don’t expect you to you will, if neither of you find your mate in the next 3 years you and the Princess will marry”

“ Dad I have never even met this girl what if I can’t stand her? I mean it is already bad enough she is a Blood River do you even know her name?”

“ Um Lizzy or Liza something to that effect, you will meet her at the combining at the end of the summer, also you will make it work they have numbers we don’t ever since the attack so figure it out!”

I groan walking off texting my friends

“ you’re not going to believe this!”

Luke:” At Big Bend now, how big of a d**k is your dad being?”

“Entire pound gone big did you guys find somewhere to go?”

“ Nah not really but what about the old Monroe place? The old man doesn’t use it anymore I’m sure he won’t mind as long as we don’t mess it up”

“ Ehh fine with me just means we gotta wear whisp”

“On it got some in the car we will pick you up in an hour”

“ move faster”

He sends me a laughing emoji and I groan going to my room.

My name is Davin Edwin Finley, I am soon to be Alpha of the combined Blood Forrest and River pack. I am 23 years old I didn’t take over at 18 like normal because my two best friends Luke, Mike, and I went to California for college now being back in our pack territory in Colorado has been quite an adjustment.

My friends pick me up and we head across the river to the small human town of lakeside. Old man Monroe runs a general store here he has an old lake house he raised his daughter in but hasn’t used it since his wife passed 5 years ago he lives in the apartment above his store.

When we graduated high school we got the bright idea to go there a party. He wasn’t mad we were there or even that we threw a party only that we didn’t pick up after ourselves “ The world is too small not to share our prosperity” he had said. A small sentence but I took it to heart when I went to college.

I was lucky to come from a family with prosperity and I didn’t know how big of an impact a small gesture could make until then. Maybe I just have to take old man Monroe’s words into consideration while I look at this merger of the two packs. The blood river pack prospers In people as we prosper in land.

By all accounts to the humans here in lakeside our packs are just “ country club communities on the river” however due to increase the past 6 years in hunters in this area we are not welcome there so we use whisp it disguises our sent and makes us seem human the only way to get it off is soap and water. In a sense that is a good thing since we will probably end up swimming at times it helps it doesn’t come off unless you use soap.

We pull up to the back of the house parking and grabbing our stuff heading inside he never locks the back door.

We sit in the living room and I start rolling before a high pitch screech has us all shrill in our spot.

I turn seeing a 5’5 brown haired human girl standing there two more running from the room

“ Mari what the…” the other girl stops as she sees us she’s about 5’6 with long legs shown off by her short shorts impressive tan skin long mahogany brown hair pulled back in a ponytail her body looks like she could be a fitness model. “ Who the f*ck are you?”

“ um friends of Mr. Monroe’s”

She looks at me dead panned “ Friends, so what you think it’s okay to break in my house?”

“ Your house?”

“ Um yeah my house my graduation gift from my grandfather”

I gulp “ Sorry we didn’t realize Mr. Monroe sold the place”

She raises her eyebrow like I’m an idi*ot “ He didn’t I just said it was a graduation gift. But that’s beside the point of you breaking in my house”

Luke laughs he can never be serious in these situations “ We didn’t break in we walked through the back door”

She slaps her other friends arm “ What the h*ll princess peaches you didn’t lock the door!”

“ I used the front door”

She turns looking at her like she is the imbicile now “ you pulled around to the front and brought all those bags to the back room”

“ I didn’t want to lug them up the stairs”

She pinches her nose exasperated and I chuckle she turns back to me “ Why the h*ll are you still in my house”

I sigh turning and we start gathering our stuff “ Wait where you rolling up?” The girl that shrilled spoke

“ Obviously”

They start arguing “ ugh fine!” The long legged model walks in front of us “ go roll for roll with us and I won’t call Kenneth and my grandfather”

I look up at her “ I mean we will leave”

She raises her eyebrow again “ And go where? Obviously you need a place to smoke I’m guessing you can’t do it at your family lake house so roll for roll or I call my grandfather”

“ great but I doubt you girls can keep up”

She laughs “ mhm I can’t wait to crush your ego there big man”