Myths & Rejections

Chapter 25 - No Excuses

Word Count: 4720

"What do you mean they attacked the boat?" Reese demanded the second he stormed into the house. "You said they only come out at night, you said they only hunt at night!"

Luna Sophia had called Reese and filled him in on the attack as soon as they were in cell phone range and he, Adam, and Callum had rushed to the house.

"We don't fucking know what's going on, ok Reese!" Harper snapped. "Do you think we would have gone out on the damn boat if we knew they would attack us out there?"

"You could have been killed! You could have been lost at sea!" Reese shouted.

"Lost at sea? Really?" Celie responded, rolling her eyes. "More likely eaten at sea."

"Not helping!" Adam said to Celie when Reese's eyes bugged out and he took a deep breath to start yelling again.

"Just calm down, everyone." Luna Sophia interrupted.

"No!" Reese shouted, and then rounded on Matt. "This situation is out of control; you need to get your damn people in here and deal with this."

"What the hell do you think we're trying to do?" Matt snapped back. "It takes time to get sirens here, traveling through water takes time, we've called our people, and they will come but they can't just snap their fucking fingers and appear here."

"It's not safe here," Reese turned to Harper and Celie. "You two need to get your bags, you're coming back to the pack where you'll be safe until him and his....kind...get this sorted out."

Harper stared at him like he lost his mind for a second.

"Let me think...Um...Fuck no." Harper said, her eyes narrowed at him, her hand on her hip.

"It's not safe here, you need to go home." Reese shouted.

"I am home!" Harper shouted back. "You think I'm just going to leave because there's a threat? Because you say so? Is that what you do Alpha Reese? Do you tuck your tail and run every time a rogue attacks? Every time there might be a fucking fight? Do you pack your shit and leave your home, or do you defend it?"

"Goddamn it, Harper, you need to listen!" Reese said.

"I don't need to listen to anything you say!" Harper snapped back.

"I am your alpha!" Reese roared.

"You are not shit to me!" Harper screamed.

"Me either!" Celie shouted, moving to Harper's side, glaring at Reese. "You don't get to tell us what to do! We don't report to your ass anymore!"

Everyone started talking at once.

Reese opened his mouth but was interrupted by a thunderous voice.

"STOP!" Matt roared, his siren power hit the wolves like a sonic boom, immediately shutting everyone down. "You have no say in what goes on here, wolf!"

"Be calm," Eden said soothingly in his siren voice, and all the wolves immediately relaxed. But that just prompted Adam and Reese to glare harder at Eden.

"Did you just use your power on us?" Adam demanded.

"Be calm," Eden said again, and again they all relaxed. "Arguing and shouting solves nothing."

"These beings are so uncivilized," Ara remarked to Sagan, prompting glares all around.

"How dare you..." Reese snapped.

"That's enough!" Alpha Lucas said. "That's enough. They're right, shouting solves nothing, and we have no right to try and force them to do anything. This situation is obviously beyond anyone's expectation or experience so we just have to do the best we can and figure it out."