Magnus and Sapphire sat waiting for Hayden to arrive. He’d messaged him about the letter and they would speak to the pack. Get the information out there so that they would be aware and stay safe. The last thing he needed was some poor unsuspecting fool trusting a stranger. This was war that he was dragging them into and that alone wasn’t something he did lightly. But the red flags he’d seen weren’t imaginary now. His mate sat here worrying that it was all her fault and it wasn’t. Her uncle didn’t care about the why or how of it all. Magnus couldn’t let her go back to that. Mate or not, no one deserved that treatment. Now finding out that there were ulterior motives made it harder to ignore.
“I can’t believe my uncle would do this. No that’s not entirely true. I can believe that he’s capable of doing this. But I d
Hayden entered the bus depot’s restaurant and immediately knew where April sat. Right beside the pie case with a couple of coffees reading a novel. It was beginning to feel like a familiar thing between the two of them. Talking with a coffee in hand. He couldn’t help but wonder if it had a significance for them. He spotted a folder on the counter before her. Whatever she copied had quite a lot of weight to it. Hayden wasn’t sure what it could be but he moved toward her with a smile. “Hey, how are you this afternoon?”“Better now that I know Xavier didn’t mess with you.”“Xavier? That’s the jerk that wants you to go on a date with him?”“That would be
Ivory got away from her father successfully and prayed he listened enough to do what needed to be done. Sapphire was ruining everything by being so selfish. Next stop was to put a bug in her mother’s ear so she could work on her husband too. If things didn’t go back to the way, they were, others would start noticing there was something wrong here and then people would start asking questions. No, that wasn’t true. Some people realized Sapphire wasn’t here, and they were asking questions about where she was. Lizzie was telling them she was busy or out running errands. But some were getting upset with her excuses. What Ivory couldn’t understand was why these people were so concerned with talking with Sapphire. What did she have to say that was so important? She was a nobody. The only reason she was around
Hayden watched April step outside of the restaurant to phone her elder again if she didn’t have any messages from them. It took quite some time for her to return. It wasn’t looking good by her body language was. But he’d stay here and respect her semi privacy. Even though it killed him to see. April swung around and smiled at him. She gave him a thumbs up before she turned away. Then she was putting the phone away and returned to her seat. “It’s alright. It would appear as we have more than just consulting between us. Before you ask. I can’t say anything. But I’ve been given clear limits, so when I say I can’t say something, can you respect that?” “I will assume I don’t have a choice in th
Magnus couldn’t understand how this worked, but he wasn’t happy to let Sapphire out of his sight for this business. “Fine. In that case, April, Hayden, it will be the two of you discussing this between each other. I and Sapphire will take on setting up for the pack gathering to discuss the pending war. We expect you both to be there and we’ll leave the questions to the last so that Sapphire can be there to hear most of it. Hayden, you’ll take notes of the questions and leave them on my desk.” “Sounds like a plan. What are we discussing before the meeting? April and I, that is.” Hayden wasn’t sure what was happening, other than the letter was vague and full of threats that meant little to them. “
Hayden sat there and read the interpretation of the treaty. Why hadn’t they been able to break these treaties before? He kept looking from the documents to April, who was reading a different section of the legal translation. “Does this sound right to you? I’ve never seen a legal document with spell work written into it.” “It happens, but not normally to this extent. I don’t recognize it either and I’ve studied quite a lot of it, looking for a way to break this. But whoever interpreted this has a different take completely on it. I’m surprised I didn’t see it before this. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it was because I was too close to it.” April rambled on as she flipped pages, trying to take in as much as she could before this meeting. She knew it was complicated, but
Magnus needed to hear what was going on at the meeting. He couldn’t wait to hear it secondhand. But he didn’t want to abandon Sapphire to herself. He didn’t know if he could trust her not to run while he was gone, and he couldn’t bear for her to be locked away again. No, she needed to have a reason to stay and if he couldn’t mate with her, then there must be another reason beyond him to keep her here. Learning to be his Luna was not a one day crash course. She needed people she could trust to have her back and be there to guide her along the way. Sarah Ann appeared to adore her and had expressed an interest in befriending Sapphire. She knew the workings of the pack inside and out. He was pretty confident that she would assist with this.
“What do you mean, this is all you have? Why? What happened?” Lenny couldn’t believe it. He was stuck with six people and that included Cliff and himself. This is ridiculous. How was he to do anything decent like this? He was sure the Alpha himself had promised him more than this. “Alpha took them to protect stuff around here. He’s afraid the new pack will do more than move into the old Johannesson territory. He passionately believes they are out to take over everything and wipe us off the map.” Xavier tried to explain what he’d been told that morning when their alpha took most of his crew from him. “Why didn’t he say any of this to me?” Lenny couldn’t understand any of this. What was thei
It surprised Hayden to see Magnus back without Sapphire, but he was here, and it would make everything easier to explain in the long run. April stood before the pack and tried to compose what she would say. “I guess should first say that I’m sorry your leaders can’t make their relationship permanent yet. But it’s a good thing currently because technically Sapphire is still a member of her pack and not yours. If she were to mate with Magnus, then he would effectively side with her pack and becoming an offshoot. He’d effectively be giving your pack away to Kilburn. Now to fix this, she must tell her uncle that she rejects him and the Vagas Moon publicly to leave it. I know it’s not normally how things are done, but it’s how the treaties were written. So, I’m hoping that some of you may g