Alpha Adiera

Plans

My father and brother both looked down at Alpha David's face and chuckled.

I turned to them "What do you two think? Should I kill him and save the revenge dramas that I know are going to happen later or use him as ransom for a better deal for my pack?"

"Deal?" my brother asked with confused frown "What sort of deal are you planning on Adeira?"

"Why compensation and damages owed for breaking the treaties between our packs, so I can rebuild and keep it safe for baby Gus Gus of course" I said while patting my abdomen.

Upon hearing about my pregnancy David's eyes went wide and he got even more pale.

My father scratched his chin in thought. "How about we toss this trash in the dungeon while I have a look at the treaty agreement up in Gus's office?"

"Sounds good..." then thinking out aloud I added "I'll go and see if we have any of our kitchen staff left alive to make us all some lunch"

Upon exiting the laundry and leaving the mess and bodies to the clean up crew we headed into our of the pack house with Stella shadowing me. I was interrupted from my thoughts by big strong arms gripping me in a tight hug.

"Luna! I'm so sorry I wasn't there"

I gripped a sobbing Beta tightly back.

"It's not your fault Ben! In fact you probably helped more so by bringing reinforcements! I'm alive thanks to you! You know I wouldn't let myself be taken alive" I added the last part under my breath so only he could hear.

Changing the subject I held him at arms length and added "Now where is your mate? I need to meet her!" giving his shoulders a firm shake and a crazy wide eyed smile.

"Here I am Luna!" a tall broad gorgeous woman came up from behind Ben to greet me. She was slightly shorter than me, I'd guess 5'10" with cute short black hair and gorgeous dark brown eyes. I embraced her with a smile then Ben quickly grabbed her back to his side grinning wide. "Luna Adiera this is Beta MeiLee Bai my mate"

"It's a pleasure to meet you MeiLee"

"This is Stella my personal guard." I smiled at them both while they embraced each other in greeting. "You 3 will be working closely together in the coming weeks," my face gew somber... "Ben, can you make a list of remaining pack members? We need some lunch brought and any ranked members are needed in the office to plan ahead for the future of the New Moon pack." I lowered my voice, "We also have need to tally the dead and organise cremations."

"On it Luna" Ben said and left with MeiLee in tow. I headed for the kitchen prepared for the worst. The kitchen staff were all omegas, and refused to go to the safe room when I asked them to. I pulled open the heavy walk-in freezer door to grab out some ingredients to make some sandwiches and was met with collective sounds of relief!

"Luna!"

I grabbed Chef Margo in a tight hug. I laughed "I didn't know you were going to hide in the fridge! You crazy lady!"

Margo laughed in my face along with the other kitchen hands who were shrugging out of their heavy coats.

"I thought it was a safe a place as any, at least we had snacks!" she laughed back at me with a wink.

"Go on. I'll make you lunch and bring it up to Gu ... I mean your office" she patted my back with a sad smile.

"Thanks Margo"

I headed upstairs with Stella in tow.

Opening the office door I was almost brought to my knees. It smelled so strongly of Gus' aniseed scent, tears sprung unbidden to my eyes. Stella reached out her hand to anchor me back to the present. Dad was sitting in Gus's chair and gave me Deja Vu of when I was a little girl bringing my play tea sets up to his office to have tea breaks with him. More tears stung my eyes at the happy memories before giving myself a mental shake.

Focus.

Breathe.

Game face on.

Ben brought MeiLee in to the office along with a heavily bandaged Gamma Mike. Mike is a man of few words, but pulled me into a hug as soon as he saw me.

"Good to see you Mike. Thank you for looking out for all of us." He grunted as if to protest and I gave him a hard look back. He nodded once then took a chair so we could get on with what we needed to do.

"Okay Ben, last chance, do you want the Alpha position? Just giving you a final choice since you've now found your mate."

"Nope. Not a chance Luna. I want you to shake things up. You've got my full support."

"Alright then, Let's do this."

3 pots of tea 7 cups of coffee and 32 sandwiches later we had a plan.

I won't be killing Alpha David just yet...

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After planning, it was late so I said my goodnights and headed up to my room.

I took a hot shower and tried to get some sleep. Of course I woke up too early, I tried unsuccessfully playing pretend with my brain that Gus was out training or something equally as boring with his pack boyfriends. I sighed and brushed away the pesky tears that wouldn't stay away. Today was not going to be a fun day.

I got up and dressed for battle. Donning my black bodysuit armour I added outer armour and finished off the look with high black boots, then added some knives into my hidden pockets. I was not taking any chances. I was going into enemy territory and had to be prepared. I carried my bow as well as my quiver of silver tipped arrows in a large black bag and made my way downstairs.

My mother is part elf and always encouraged me to use a bow which I am thankful for. I should have rung her to let her know personally about Gus' death but I couldn't bear to say it out loud just yet. I knew Dad and Zane would have told her already, but she would want to hear it from me. Soon. Maybe after I see the pack Dr. for my upcoming ultrasound. At least I'd have some good news to share to help balance out the bad.

Stella was already eating breakfast when I walked into the dining area, so I grabbed some oats from the pot in the kitchen and gave a nod of thanks to the staff for the coffee and joined her.

She lifted an eyebrow at me.

"If you're giving me that look because I'm having coffee save it."

She grunted and returned to focus on her breakfast which I was thankful for.

"You're drinking coffee still?" asked Zane as he plonked himself down next to me.

"Do you want to die today brother? If so, please keep asking if I should be drinking coffee."

"Nope. All good sis. Not my body. Not my choice."

"Smart lad."

He snorted and returned to focus on the mounds of bacon on his plate.

Before knowing I was pregnant I would drink a lot of coffee. Now, I limited myself to 1 and I refused to give it up!

Dad, Ben, MeiLee, Mike and various other warriors joined us at the table to eat.

"Dad, I'm going to have to ask for a boon of warriors for patrolling so we're not left unguarded" I said after I'd finished eating.

"Already sorted that out with Mike earlier sweetie" he nodded at Mike and gave me a small smile.

I headed to the kitchen to sort out my dirty dishes then returned and hugged him. "Thanks Dad." giving him a kiss him on the head.

He patted my arm and went back to his food.

Another hour and we were on the way to Alpha Emmeratte's pack.

My mind was churning. Donald has just turned 18 so is able to take over the Alpha position. We shall see how much Donald knows of his brothers botched hostile takeover of our pack, and see if our peace treaty agreement is salvageable.

Dad, Zane and Mike were in the car with our prisoner, ex Alpha David.

Beta Ben, MeiLee and Stella were riding in the front car with me.

Following behind our 2 vehicles was our pack Doctor, Dr. Jeff Burrows who was escorting the deceased members we were respectfully returning to the Blood Moon pack and their families.

The guards we met at their gates were cold and unwelcoming but it was not surprising given the circumstances of our visit.

Pulling up at the pack house we were greeted by Donald and his mother.

"Welcome Luna Adiera to our home. I'm so sorry to hear of the death of your husband Alpha Augustus. Your grief is our grief"

So this is what angle they are taking? Ignorance is bliss after all.

"Thank you Luna Justine and Alpha Donald"

"Alpha Donald?" Luna Justine tittered a fake small laugh, "I don't understand, didn't you bring our Alpha David back with you after him heroically rushing to your aid?"

I looked at Donald but his face was an unreadable mask.

"Oh we brought him back to you alright, but in silver chains I'm afraid" my poker face firmly in place.

I mind linked Dad to bring out the prisoner. Alpha David exited the car silver handcuffs on his wrists, jostled between my father and brother with Mike following up behind. He looked awful, still in his torn blood soaked clothing from the battle yesterday and smelt equally as bad as he looked after spending the night in our dungeons.

"Let's go inside to talk shall we?" giving my hosts a pleasant smile as they both looked at me in horror. "There is much to be discussed."