Chapter 29
Bishop
The meeting was good, after everyone left me and Cj divided her alpha task and took some of the “luna” duties from Nola. We decided that I would partly take over the handling of the business side of things. I was more extroverted than she was and had more patience dealing with the human males and their ego’s. while she would concentrate on the pack. This divide played to our strengths as individuals and as a couple. Since I loved cooking and food, I would prepare the packs weekly food choices and she would see to the orphanage. While we both would implement things we thought needed improvement in the school. We left party planning and social gatherings to Nola. Once we ironed everything out, I left to go work on the upgrades as usual. It seemed my presence was missed in the pack as she wolf after she wolf took it upon themselves to welcome me back sometimes a little too friendly for my liking. But they immediately backed off once they got a good whiff of me and noticed my neck wasn’t bare anymore. “HA! So many broken hearts” Thomas said as he walked up to me at Rosies dinner. I was upgrading her internet connection. “Well s.hit they had how many weeks to get used to the idea of me being not available. S.hit I moved into their alphas house what the f***k did they expect.” “They still had hope man.” “Then they were stupid, how are you doing?” “Good so we take the plunge in 2 weeks I was debating invited Josh and Gabrielle to the ceremony.” “Go for it. Especially now that Lola found her mate.” “I thought about broaching the subject to Cj about maybe an alliance with Blackwood.” “I don’t see why not; I plan to brooch the topic of one with Golden Mountain.” “Oh man you know the moment Deacon and Dion find out you are not a part of Snow Mountain anymore they are going to drop your brother like a bad habit you know that right.” “I hope not but yeah, I know they will. Especially after the s.hit I found out.” “Why what’s happening?” “Well Anna is Luna.” “Ok we seen that s.hit coming a mile away.” “True but she’s been mistreating the omegas beating anyone Ej decides to sleep with. You remember me telling you about old Mrs. B.” “The omega who took care of you and Aries.” “Yeah well, I thought all her family left when her daughter did apparently not. Her granddaughter stayed and well she been f.ucking Ej since she turned 18.” “Oh s.hit!” “Yeah, he got her pregnant but before she could tell him Anna beat her so bad, she lost the pup. She called while me and Cj was away asking for my help.” “Oh f***k, so that’s the reason for returning.” “Yeah, I need to get her out of the pack. f***k! are you bringing her here?” “I don’t know it depends on how she acts. She propositioned me or rather she suggested that she can be my mate.” “OH S.HIT!” “Yeah, I shut that s.hit down with the quickness. but if she is still hung up on that s.hit, I probably will drop her ass off at whatever pack her momma at.” “Damn well let me know what you need of me.” “S.hit I should be asking you that. I mean will be on the east coast anything you need me to pick up from Blackwood.” “Nah I should be good if Josh and Gabrielle come, they are going to drive my truck up with all of my s.hit in it then take a flight back.” “Gotcha.” “Alright see you tonight I have warrior training to get to with my father-in-law. I swear that man is a f.ucking beast. His bear Murphy and Duke have hit it off great and I swear they push the s.hit out of these guys just for s.hits and giggles.” Thomas walks off and I continue what I am doing until Cj reaches out to me about heading to the dining hall. I didn’t realize it was so late. But I packed everything up and met my mate right outside the packhouse. Our entrance was straight like some game of thrones s.hit. We all looked like how the Velaryons look like when they entered the throne room. Me and Cj were front and center while we were flanked by Thomas and Juliet to my right and Nola and Rainbow to her left. The hall quieted down as we took our seats. CJ started her announcements and Aries was already on edge. “Someone here is eye f.ucking my mate.” “Well, she is f.ucking delectable.” “That’s beside the point I feel f.ucking aggression rolling off in waves, you’re telling me you don’t feel that.” “I do but it could be anyone from the groupies to Juliet’s delusional brother.” “Urgh! I don’t like it I swear I will decimate any and everyone who f.ucks with our mate.” “I know but you need to calm down it is getting hard to keep our aura under wraps right now.” Aries growled lowly in my mind but retreated enough so I could concentrate on what was being said. It seems not everyone was happy about us being mated or the whole co alpha thing I was about to but in to assure everyone. But as usual my mate had everything handled as she gave no quarter when she told people they could leave if they didn’t like how we were going to run the pack. I swear her taking charge like that makes my d**k hard as f***k. Just as I started to think of all the things, I wanted to do to her when this was done. Romeo jumped up and started screaming at Cj and myself about how she is his and he is alpha. I saw f.ucking red and stopped him mid-sentence as he thought to challenge me for my f.ucking mate. MY MATE! I let out my aura full f.ucking force how dare he treat his alpha as a f.ucking commodity Aries was front and center egging me on to just kill the nitwit. How dare he try to take what the goddess has given us. Aries wanted them all to understand that he was the f.ucking Alpha! We stalked the boy and had him kneel to us. I could have killed him right then and there, but Aries wanted to play with his food wanted to teach him and his bear a lesson. So, we used our alpha command to order him outside to fight. I heard his mother scream No! and Juliet’s wail of pain to come. But I didn’t care this delusional thinking ends today even if I must f.ucking kill him. I march out to the training field ready for war. I know everyone is following us, but I don’t f.ucking give a damn audience or not. I look across the field and see Papa D holding his mate up as sobs rack her thin frame. She’s screaming at Cj to stop everything. But Cj is not paying her any attention. Her eyes are focused on me. It’s like the world faded away and it’s just us in the field as she walks over to me. “My Love” she mind links me. “I won’t kill him” I say no matter how much I want to. “I won’t kill him or let Aries kill him unless he makes it completely necessary. I hold his family too close to my heart to deal them a blow like that.” “Banishment then?” “No! not unless completely necessary, let’s let Aries get some of this rage out of him because he will drive me mad with it. Hopefully, I can beat some f.ucking sense into him if not I know somewhere we can send him.” “Where?” “Blackwood Sleuth.” “Thomas’s old sleuth?” “Yes, he wanted to make an alliance with them, and I believe sending Romeo there might just be what the cub needs.” “I will follow your lead on this then” she says as she hugs me and walks away. Beta Tony enters the training ring when Cj exits and announces the fight to begin. I do not wait till the cub is ready and just go over punching him straight in the face. The crunch of his nose was loud and audile as he hit the ground with a dud. I stand over him and start pounding into him laying haymaker after haymaker. I’m getting tired of his feeble attempts at blocking, “Get up!” I scream at him as he drops to the floor for the 5th or 6th time. “You call yourself an alpha you thought you were worthy of Cj. you’re barely worthy of being able to call yourself a warrior.” That must have hit a nerve cause baby boy staggered up and started connecting some of his punches. They hurt but nothing I couldn’t take Aries was getting agitated wanting to finish this quickly. I grunted as one of his punches grazed my temple and disorientated me momentarily. “Let me take over this f.ucking fool needs to learn his place and how to respect his f.ucking alpha” Aries growls into my mind I relent and let him take point. He was doing good just beating on the poor sap. Romeo was a bloody mess you could tell his arm was broken and his eye was swollen so bad it was closed I know I broke his nose with the first punch. I thought he was about to submit when he landed on his knees in front of Aries. But no, the f.ucker just had to shift. His bear was big but nothing impressive. Aries shifted just as the stupid f***k took a swipe at us. Connecting to Aries underside I seen fear in the bear’s eyes as he looked up at Aries. NO! the pained wails of his mother echoed across the silent field. “Submit” Aries growled out to the bear through the pack mind link. “I will kill you without any f.ucking problems, but I am giving you the option to control your fate. For the love I hold for your family submit to me. Have your stupid ass human submit to mine and stay the f***k away from our mate and you will live. Don’t and die.” The bear just nodded and receded back. There standing naked in his place was Romeo bloody, beaten and crying. He just looked at Aries, nodded and kneeled. “I Romeo Vonn Acknowledge Alpha Bishop Monroe and Aries as my Alpha.” I shifted back and looked at the crying man in front of me. “I Alpha Bishop Monroe accept your submission and allegiance.” I kneel down to Romeo and look him dead in the eyes, “your family is your saving grace but test my patience or go after Cj in any way I will kill you.” “Yes, alpha I understand.” With that I got up and walked toward Cj not caring who looked at me or why. From the corner of my eyes, I seen Romeo’s mother run onto the training field cradling her son in her arms after he collapsed onto the ground. Papa D just stood there with his arms crossed looking at his son, his face blank with emotion. The same way we entered the dining hall is the same way we exited the training field headed to Cj’s house a united front. My mate, my brother of the heart and my newly acquired sisters. I wish a motherf.ucker would think they could f***k with us.
Beta Tony
Yesterday was a f.ucking s.hit show. I couldn’t believe that Romeo thought he could challenge Bishop for Cj. Even if Bishop didn’t answer the challenge or even let him get the words out Cj would have killed him on sight. He is lucky that Bishop and Aries just beat him to a pulp. Opal would have killed him. Out of the two Bishop is the more amicable one. The boy is just plum f.ucking dumb. I make my way to the hospital to see how Derrick and Gwen are doing. I walk into the waiting meeting my friend as he sits staring out at the walls. “How is he?” “He’s in a coma, Max is dormant refusing to heal him. According to Murphy, Max is debating leaving Romeo for good.” “Holy s.hit can he do that? Like your wolf spirits our Bear spirits can go to the goddess and ask to be removed from the host whether the goddess agrees is another matter entirely. But even if he doesn’t leave completely Max can just refuse to come to the surface and effectively leave Romeo as a human.” “S.hit he really done f.ucked up.” “Yup I warned that f.ucking boy, I warned him to stay away to leave Cj the f***k alone and what does he do make an ass of himself nearly gets himself killed and now this.” Derrick says his head in his hands his shoulders shaking as sobs racks his body. I just look at my friend and shake my head I have no clue how to comfort this mountain of a man. I have no clue about the grief he is going through. So, I just shook my head and headed out the door. I wander aimlessly around the pack debating whether or not my next step would be wise or not. It felt right but I have no clue how tensions are right now with the kids. I walk up to Cj’s cottage and knock on the door. Cj answers in her signature tee shirt and sweats. I give her a hug and pull at her pony like I used to do when she was younger. “Hey bug, is your mate home.” I ask. “Sure, thing Uncle Tony but why do you need him everything ok.” “Everything is Fine Bug just something I should of did when I first found out he was your mate. I have been slipping but since y’all made it official I figure now is as good enough time as any.” “Hey papi” Nola screamed from the kitchen “hey mija what are you doing here so early?” “We all spent the night here after all that s.hit went down with Romeo. Juliet needed some comfort and we all just decided to hide out here from the rest of the pack.” “Ah I see,” “Beta Daye how are you doing” Bishop said as he headed down the stairs in the house. “Its just Tony Nola is the Beta here I am just Tony to you. Mind giving some of your time to this here old man.” “No problem, Tony. Hey baby I’ll see you later ok.” “Ok love, see you later.” At that Bishop and I left Cj’s house. “So, what’s up?” “I realize I never really took the time to talk to you. After everything went down last night, I needed to make sure you understood neither me nor Derrick held you accountable for that. That was all Romeo.” “Thank you I was worried about that.” “No need son.” “Son?” “I hope you don’t mind me calling you that. Since Cj’s parents passed away, I started to look at her more and more as a second daughter. Cj’s dad and I were best friends straight from birth. As long as there has been a Romero in this pack there has been a Daye. When my wife passed away it was Cj Father and Mother who helped me out at times raising Nola when my head got to far up my ass to see straight. Those girls are my life and since you are Cj’s mate that makes you my life as well.” “I am, I am I don’t know what I am.” “Just tell me you are not icked out by this.” “I am not I didn’t have a relationship with my parents I was a burden to them all their love went to my older brother Ej, so I was left without any real parental figures. There was an old Omega by the name of Mrs. B who filled in that motherly role I needed but yeah, I had no father figure. I just figured I just not grow up and be like him.” “Well, we are here.” “Where is here?” I point to 2 tombstones not too far ahead of us surrounded by a field of morning glories. “These are the tombstone me and Derrick had placed for Cj’s parents so she could visit and feel connected to them whenever she wanted. I don’t know if she has or not, but I tend to talk to my best friend whenever I get a chance. Hey Richard man I brought him, the young buck who won your daughter heart. He is a good man and alpha even spared that douche canoe Romeo from certain death when he tried to challenge for her. Bishop here lies former Alpha Richard Romero.” “Umm Bishop I think I can do a thing.” “What do you mean you think you can do a thing Aries.” “Well, I am a damn hellhound bishop that does come with certain perks.” “What are you talking about fool.” “Just let me have control for a few minutes and you will see.” “Urgh! Fine.” I looked at Bishop and his whole demeanor changed. “Hello Beta” “Aries?” I asked, “Yup the one and only I had Bishop take a back seat for a minute while I try something ok.” “Umm yeah sure ok” I say as I look at my new alpha. His aura comes out and I find it really hard not to submit to him but then I see red mist coming up from the tombstones. “What the f***k!” The mist solidifies and there is Richard standing tall and strong like the last time I seen him. “What how?” “I am a hellhound Beta Tony I can call forth spirits no matter where they are. I can only hold Alpha Richards spirit here for a short time, but I figured I could do this for you and Bishop.” “Umm Beta Tony?’ “Apparently, Aries did a damn thing.” “Hello son?” “Hello sir, good to meet you?” “I am glad to meet you as well. The moon goddess choose good when she choose you for my daughter. You have just the right amount of dominance and patience she needs.” “Thank you, sir I will love your daughter, till my last breath.” “I know you will if not I will be f.ucking haunting your ass till you go insane.” I just laugh at my friend “Hey Tony how you are doing?” “I am hanging in there our girls are so much more then we could have ever guessed.” “I know I keep tabs on you all from mount high.” Richard said. As I was exchanging pleasantries with Richard, we heard a shuffling of leaves and turned in the direction of the sound. “HOLY f***k! WHAT THE f***k IS THIS!” Papa D yells. Mist Richard laughs and says, “Hey there old friend” “Oh s.hit you are real.” “As real as being dead and called forth by your daughters hell hound mate as I can get.” Derrick just looks at Bishop with surprise and something else in his eyes. “Look Papa D I am” “Don’t say a word Bishop that was not on you that was on my son and whatever consequences he has to deal with is his and his alone.” “Ok what am I missing” Richard asked. So, I let him know everything that went down last night. I looked over at Bishop and if I didn’t know the power this young man had in him. I would laugh at the look of remorse on his face. “You protected your mate and my daughter there is nothing to be ashamed of Bishop. Hold your head up high. Derrick here doesn’t hold you accountable, I don’t hold you accountable and I know for damn sure tony doesn’t you have all the approval you need to know you was in the right so f.ucking act like it.” “Yes sir” “Stop with the f.ucking sir s.hit! I am dad, dead dad but dad nevertheless and if you need a real dad just look to your left Tony always wanted a son and I believe you fit the bill.” I look at Bishop and he looks at me a smile gracing his face. “Look Bishop I am in your corner as well” Papa D says. “Well boys it’s been a pleasure, but I can feel the magic your wolf pulled growing fainter, so my time is up. Remember I am always watching you give my girl my love. Thank you, Tony and Derrick for looking after her when I left.” Richard then disappeared. I turned to Bishop well son he just leaned into me and gave me a hug “Thank you for accepting me.” I was shocked at first but hugged him back “anytime son anytime.” The three of us walked back towards Cj house a lot lighter then when I walked Bishop out this way. We stopped in front of Cj door, and he hugged me again “I guess I’ll see you around old man.” He then turned to Derrick and bro hugged him “Sorry about Romeo” “No need Bishop seriously we’ll figure it out once he’s out of his coma and healed up.” I walked off a tear slipping from my eye, I have a son.