By My Side

In my bedroom, I change clothes and jump straight into bed.

Sleep is not long in coming and I am fully rested when I wake up the next day. 'Jace, don't forget. The meeting tomorrow morning. Be early, I won't tolerate you being late this time,' I warn my Beta in the mind link. Obviously, he's still asleep.

After a bath, I get dressed in a shirt and jacket.

As I go down the stairs, I run into Clark. “Hey man, good to have you here. Because of Jace, clearly nothing will come of him today”, I sigh. Together we walk to the conference room where a delegation of two packs is waiting for me. These business meetings are crucial for the region. They are more evaluations of bilateral alliance agreements between packs and pack politics. If they are held in Midnight Moon, I personally lead them but outside the pack Jace takes care of them.

“Alpha King, you know Jace is out for now. He has yet to recover from the rejection, it is a heavy blow for him”, Clark whispers to me. “Remarkable, actually. H