Sapphire listened to Hayden speak from Magnus’ phone. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. This was completely unknown to her. She remembered no one telling her about this. They weren’t just messing with the pack, but the town to feel the ramifications of his orders. She knew her uncle and grandfather had both pushed packs out of the region over the years. But she thought it wasn’t fair, but something that happened. So packs could grow and such. Now it was clearly something that was very wrong. Magnus and Hayden seemed so angry about it.              The discovery outraged them, but she couldn’t get over her, not knowing of her involvement in this. She’d predicted nothing about the goddess or from the goddess. Sapphire wasn’t even sure about how she was supposed to achieve that.  &

Sapphire heard Magnus’ steps on the stairs leading from the second floor. So she left her cold coffee on the table and walked out into the lobby to ask him more about what was happening with the meeting. What she didn’t expect was to look up the stairs and not recognize the man walking toward her. His eyes were pinned on her and she could see the amusement in them. She thought he’d go upstairs to take off his dusty clothes from riding his bike most of the morning. Now she felt dirty, but there wasn’t time to change. However, Sapphire didn’t think anyone would look at her if he was in the room with her. His hair was slicked back from his shower, and he wore a three-piece grey suit with a blue-grey coloured tie. He’d exchanged his boots for a pair of leather shoes. She didn’t see a single wrinkle anywhere on him. He was so impeccably dressed. Magnus fiddled with what she was sure was a gold cuff link that matched the gold watch on his wrist. Magnus claimed he was out

             April waited for Lynn to finish up in the library before she locked up for the night. Thank heavens Xavier and his buddies didn’t return to harass her and Lynn further. But she still worried whether Hayden returned to his territory with no problems. With no way to contact him to check in with him, April walked over to the custom bike shop. She’d stop in there to see if she could get his number or have her number passed on to him. April couldn’t get the tarot reading out of her head. If he was her lifetime companion and elders forbid the joining April wasn’t sure what she would do. Thirty years ago, it would have been no problem. But when the Alpha of the Vagas Moon Pack mated with a witch, it was a disaster. She’d used some sort of magic to attract him to her, and that was the problem in a nutshell. Any trust went out the window.       &nb

             Ivory couldn’t take this anymore. The dishwasher overflowed again, and no one would tell her why or help her fix it. Now she was ruining her nails, washing everything by hand. She wanted to scream more, but Den Mother, Liz, threatened to hit her if she didn’t stop making so much noise. Then she told Ivory exactly what she thought of the jobs Ivory did, and she didn’t have a nice thing to say about any of it. None of this was fair. She was the daughter of the Alpha, and she shouldn’t have to do these things. She was ruining her beauty by doing all this.             They needed to get Sapphire back here to do this or find someone that could replace her other than Ivory herself. She’d never recover from all this work. There was far too much for one person alone to do it. She needed a rest from Liz’s constant com

             Sapphire couldn’t believe how late it was. The meeting just ended, and she wasn’t sure what would happen next. Hayden recounted what he discovered to the Council of Alphas. Magnus later spoke with Hayden about several things. She wasn’t sure what exactly they were talking about beyond the fact that she was somehow involved, and the colour of her fur had something to do with documents that were written long before she’d been born.             Magnus and his father agreed on one fact. If she left their territory and tried to strike out on her own, she would become a target of several unnamed hunters. That scared her. She’d never thought about hunters wanting her for her fur. In this day and age, who hunted for pelts in the wild? Sapphire knew there was a large anti-fur movement. But she was now distracted, reassessin