The Secrets of The Reverence Pack

Chapter 17: Free Labor

"You completely missed the part where the lights went down," Alex smiled. "That was, by far, best part of the night."

"And then he disappeared again?" Blake asked. They were taking a walk around the downtown right then just so that they could all collect their thoughts. Manny didn't have to open the bar that day, and all his kids were with their mother at the moment. Alex would have thought that Bree wouldn't have been able to come with all her baby duties, but she was walking with them too.

"Into thin air," he told him. At least Jett looked like he was enjoying this story. Blake just rolled his eyes.

"You're fallin' too hard for someone you're not going to get," he said.

"I'm not falling for him," Alex told him.

"Never would've thought that he would be the one to tame you," Blake shook his head. Jett and Manny laughed as he said that.

"Will you shut up," Alex said. "I don't need to be tamed."

"Oh please," Manny chuckled. "You need to be tamed more than Blake needs to stop spending so much on his daughters."

"Hey," Blake pointed at him. "There's no point in money if you can't spend it on the ones you love."

"So, he was headed over to the garden?" Jett asked.

"Yup," Alex said. "The only way I found him was because I had a hunch on where he was going."

He still couldn't get over that. Geo had somehow managed to find a way to disappear three times on him. He wasn't even sure how he found him the first time. He just had this way about him that Alex caught onto quickly, even in a crowd. He enjoyed the little game all the way until they got to the edge of that garden.

"I wonder why all the secrets," Manny said. "I mean, that's always been the Reverence Pack for as long as I can remember, but I just don't get it."

"What I want to know," Alex said. "Is why they wanted to wait on marking. You think that pack has a problem with not accepting mates or something?"

"They better not," Jett frowned. "Sakdah knows the punishments for that. If he cares about his life, I doubt that he'd want to jeopardize people's mates."

Alex got a bad feeling when it came to that. There was something in Geo's tone when he was questioning him about it that didn't settle well with him. Alex knew that his father, Beta Kenji, was an asshole, but it was still strange that Geo seemed to hide his sexuality from everyone.

"Then why does Shiro want to wait?" Bree asked. It was the first time she had said anything that morning. She had a long night of dealing with crying babies. The first place they hit up when they came into the city was a coffee shop for her.

"He said he didn't want to deal with any political issues right before he became Alpha of his pack," Jett sighed.

"I mean, that makes sense," Manny said. "Knowing Sakdah, he would probably just try and say that he belonged to our pack."

"As much as I would love to have him in our pack house," Jett said. "That would also mean that Sakdah would probably stay Alpha until he died."

Everyone groaned at hearing that.

"He does seem like a great leader," Bree said. "Him and Hiroko make a great team if they were the ones who got the party all set up and organized. And I'm pretty sure they greeted all the guests that were there that night."

"His Betas great at hiding things," Alex said. "That's not a good sign."

"What do you mean?" Jett looked at him curiously. "What did you find out?"