Her secret mate

Dissconected

The next couple of days were weird.

My body was so heavy and slugish that I could barely move. Most days I spent lying down in bed or somewhere in the house, mostly in Darcy's office. I spent all of my time with him, and he made it happen as much as he could. Every time I was not near him, my wolf would start panicking and I started losing control. According to Darcy, that was how most wolves become feral and turn into rogues. His theory on this is that without the security of pack bond, our wolves lack the support and stability that we need to stay in control. For now, my wolf can sustain itself by trusting Darcy to keep us safe, especially as my body recovers.

Right now, three days later, I was still feeling a bit slow, but my body was a lot better. Darcy was sure that by the end of the week I would be able to take pack bond without hurting myself... so everything was going quite good... well except of a few things, like the fact that my father was not responding neither to me nor to Darcy. Me losing the pack connection made the whole Darcy taking over for my father thing a lot more difficult. Darcy can no longer just become part of the pack once we mate, so to be part of the pack so he could take over he has to be initiated by my father, but that would also be quite difficult, because it would be very hard for me to become part of the pack once again, because I no longer trust the pack and the bond is impossible until I trust them again, so he either has to not mate with me or we will have to work on me trusting the pack again, because there is not a way for us to be together while not belonging to the same packs. So, in short, it was complicated.

And it was even more difficult, because we could not reach my father.

Another thing that was not going so well was the fact that the attempts at me had not stopped. There were constant attacks on Darcy's father's pack's borders, and it was putting quite a toll on Darcy and his border patrol. They had to double the numbers of patrols and fighters, whose job became that much more dangerous. To say that this did make the pack a big fan of me as a choice for their future Luna would be an understatement. I would not say that I was disliked, but there were very few people that approved of Darcy's choice anymore... well, there was one person who hated me, and he was staring at me now from across the room.

Oliver was sitting in his usual spot. He sat on one of the guest chairs across from Darcy, who was sitting at his table at the library s***h office. Oliver was chosen by Darcy's father to be his beta, and so they were both training right now... so this ment that we had to spend a lot of time together and that was probably the biggest torture of the last few days. I am not sure how, but he managed to hate me even more.

The hate stares turned into outright verbal attacks every time we were out of Darcy's hearing range. I tried to talk to Darcy about it, but he was sure that I was being too sensitive due to the whole pack bond thing. He assured me that everything was fine, but the truth was that he could not really do anything about it, at least not until he becomes the alpha. Darcy's father, the alpha made a choice and everyone has to live by it. He chooses Oliver to be the next beta and until he reverts that decision, that is how it's going to be.

"Maybe Valery should return to the bedroom to rest if she needs to. The meetings must be so exhausting for her and she would be so much more comfortable in bed than here... and the meeting will be strictly pack business... She is not yet pack, so the information that will be shared there should not be heard by an outsider."

I really wanted to throw a chair at him. How can one man be so infuriating?

He raised the same question every day, even though he knew that I could not be far from Darcy. At this point Darcy did not even lift his eyes as he answered.

"You know that she can't go, Oliver, so why bring this up again? How many times do I have to repeat it that she stays next to me, no matter where I am going and she will be part of the pack by the end of the week, so stop acting like a child and do your job, or do I have to talk with my father about the fact that you are not able to carry out the beta responsabilatys? There are a lot of pack members that would love to be in your place."

The dismissive tone in Darcy's voice made Oliver release a little sound of distress. He gave a quick apology to Darcy and went on to work on his laptop on the report for the upcoming meeting. Every now and then he would turn his eyes to me and shoot angry glares at me. I was sure that if he could, he would throw me out of the room and probably our of the pack territory the first chance he got.

A bad sort of shiver ran down my spine as our eyes met, but both of our attentions were pulled to Darcy as he pulled out his phone and answered the call. He talked briskly and it was very hard to make out wha the was talking about, so all I could do was wait.

He ended the call and closed his eyes for a moment, looking exhausted and defeated.

"Your father called, he is ending our deal and refusing me as the next alpha for his pack as well as ending all the agreements we made... He also would like me to tell you that you are no longer welcome in the Pheonix pack territory as well as their home... he no longer considers you his daughter."