My Secret, My Bully, My Mates. Series

We spend the next several weeks helping everyone get settled and then making plans. Alpha Reggie and Luna Anne came out to help and I couldn't have been more excited to see anyone. He brought the same contractors that worked on the Castle improvements. We came up with plans and they toured the territory. We actually found out that Adrielle targeted the central part of the pack, knowing where the packhouse was located thanks to Kevin. There was definitely a path of destruction that we needed to fix, but not as much damage as we feared. The guys and I decided to divide the planning so more got done.

Lil, Sam, Sierra and I were in charge of the school and training grounds. We decided on a dorm like the one we had at Elite training attached to the training grounds. We want the trials to continue here and to be an outpost for training warriors. That is one thing that I thank the Goddess every day for. Our warriors have always been well trained and we have always required everyone to have basic defensive skills in their human form and when they get their wolves they train too. I have also been in close contact with Olympia, who happened to get lumped in with our warriors during the fight and managed to not get harmed. She is determined to do better than her father with her pack.

I think I had more fun redesigning the pups training grounds. I wanted them to have their own place after all of the traumatic events they went through with our last one. I may have added more obstacles for them to have to get past in our games. I also made plans to have a dorm for any of the pups of warriors who lost their parents in this fight or have parents out on a mission. Losing pack members is hard, but warriors put their lives on the line to keep the pack safe and their pups are sometimes left to their own devices. They were some of the most disadvantaged before. When Ava and Lucas were in charge there was a home for them if a family member wasn't available to take them in, but they had the bare minimum and I only found out recently it was Kevin who was in charge of taking care of their needs, meaning he gave them nothing and pocketed any other funds that were meant to help. That will never happen again on my watch. They will be loved by the pack their parents are protecting.

I am still waiting to hear the final list of warriors lost. Several took hard hits and bites that were magically enhanced and their healing time is much longer than it should have been. Elena and Gentry have been helping our healers while teaching me some basic healing skills. I hope I will have very little use for them in the future, but there is always some threat lurking so it's good to have. And let's be honest, my friends and I aren't exactly careful when we train. Just the thought of getting back to training after years of torment and the hijacking of lives gives me the chills.

Mateo and Oliver take the northern half of the territory. More homes are on this side of the land. The elevation in the center of the pack gives us an easy divide. It is cooler on the Northern side, so it's better for homes than crops. Dakota and Cam take the southern half, where our crops and farms are more plentiful. We work as a leadership group in the evenings designing the pack center on the plateau of the central elevation of the pack. I am hoping that we can bring back pack members by the end of the month. I have this need for everyone to be home and safe. Ava laughed at me when I asked her about that. Like having the pack divided up is making my skin crawl.

"Oh, Sweet Girl. You may be an alpha, but you are this pack's Luna too. You have a connection to them the boys never will. They have an innate need to protect everyone, but you, you will feel everyone. All their emotions, their happiness and sorrow. You are the light that holds the pack together. That is why the Luna is so important."

"How can she be both an Alpha and a Luna?" Lil asks across the table. We are having a rare girls' day. Our boys are working with Alpha Reggie, Osiston and Nickolas getting supplies in and organized. Sam and Mateo have figured out that their now showing mates won't stay out of anything unless all the girls are forced to sit on the sidelines too. So here we are. It is so cute to see the little bumps in their stomachs start to develop and no matter how many looks people give me when I get excited for my friends, I am still hoping to have some more time to be just me.

Ava pulls me from my thoughts.

"How has she been able to do anything in her life? She's special, that's how. She's both a wolf and a witch. She's a leader and a team player. She is an Alpha and she is a Luna. Speaking of which, I think we should do a Luna ceremony when everyone gets back. I know that your alpha aura is the strongest, but it will bond the pack after all of this. So much has happened since we sent everyone away. We lost Lucas and gained four Alphas in the process. They will be so excited you have joined the boys."

"Yes! I want you in a dress... FINALLY!" Sierra claps her hands.

"I have been in a dress. You missed out because I was on assignment." I point at her.

"Yeah, but those pictures and the guys' reactions were epic! I would like to see a live reaction."

"Wait! How do you know what their reactions were?" I have my hand halfway to my mouth, suspending a chip with salsa dangerously over my lap.

"I may have snuck into their camp. It was not new or an unusual thing actually. They all snuck around like any other large mass of teenagers would. We were just hanging out actually and a text came through to Mateo, because Xander is not su cidal. Now, the reactions make total sense. Then, it was,

because they were so extreme

towards someone they claimed was 'just a friend' or 'a beta, so you're close." All content © N/.ôvel/Dr/ama.Org.

"What did they do?" Jena leans forward eating this gossip up. "I've only known them since we got back and anyone with eyes could see all three of them were in love with her."

"Honestly, it was pretty much the same before, but everyone was so young and all of them were scared of the 'mate' word. Our little Sky here had all of them wrapped around her finger the minute she bested them on the training field." We all start laughing.