Beatha (completed book 7 of the blood moon saga)

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"Of Course we do"

They say going to their side where they keep their hidden knife in case they get kidnapped.

Sounds ridiculous but you would be surprised at how many times that has happened. They look at me and I roll my eyes and get up and find my bag then pull out my tiny knife that looks like a pin. I pin it to my skirt then return to my seat.

"Good now we got you these"

They hand us little boxes with our names on it, they give one to Luca so he takes it looking amused. He has no idea how protective our parents are and that now applies to him too.

Inside my box was a simple rope choker with a little wooden plaque in the middle that said on its pine ridge. I smile looking them over.

"This is really cool"

The girls have the same in there box and we all put it on, luca has a manlier looking necklace with a wooden dog tag with the same writing. Mum and dad show us there's then mum pulls a laptop out and pulls up a Program for us all to see.

"They are all trackers, in case anyone is taken this is how we can find you, they are waterproof and will work in the air and underground. Don't take them off ok?"

"Ok"

We all answer, this is cool, really cool. Some emotion passes over Luca, I watch him. I can feel that he's shocked that they care that much. I look to mum and nudge my head in his direction and I watch as her face lights up.

"I know you know this but we do love you all like our own, and we mean all of you"

Luca blushes and smiles at them both then gets up and hugs mum, dad pulls him in for a quick man hug then dad hands him a buckle.

"What's this?"

He looks at it spinning it around slightly, dad shows him his then takes his buckle if his belt and flips it and it turns into a knife

"Just incase"

Luca chuckles but takes it, I think he would take anything of them now that he realises that they love him too. I'm surprised he never realised it sooner, especially the way him, dad and grandad act like bum buddies when they are all together.

"Ok let's get going"

Ailm says standing up, we all pause and look at her then laughs out loud and push her

"Aaah you like him! Ailms got a crush Ailms got a crush"

She goes bright red and starts to punch him, he laughs harder

"Shut up you asshole"

"Ohh I'm so going to tell him"

He runs off and she growls chasing him

"I swear I will make your life a living hell if you tell him that"

We chuckle as they fight like siblings, Isla smirks crossing her arms over her chest.

"You know your reaction is proving him right"

Ailm stops and gasps

"Isla your meant to be on my side"

"I am, but it does look like you have a crush"

"It's not a crush he's my mate"

She snaps back and Luca laughs again

"So you do admit he is your mate?"

She goes beetroot red again and flips him the bird

"You know what, go eat shit"

She storms out of the house and I actually feel bad for her. I follow after her and link my arm with her.

"Don't worry about them"

She rests her head on my shoulder as she walks

"I'm just confused, I feel something and he's really nice to me and he seems to see something in me that nobody else does"

"You should have heard him defend you to your parents"

She snaps her head in my direction with a grin on her face

"Really?"

I nod

"Yep, told them how dedicated you are and how smart and amazing you are and they are crazy if they don't see that. He said he would wait as long as you need and even if you choose to reject him he will always be there for you and always help you, but he definitely doesn't want you to reject him"

Her face lights up like this is the best news she's ever heard.

"I don't think I could reject him"

"Oh really? Why's that?"

"He's nice to look at"

She chirps not looking at me, I chuckle

"And that's all? There's nothing else that's good about him?"

"Maybe one or 2 things. I do like that he wants to help me with the farm. Only you and Luca ever believed in us before, it's nice to have someone else have my back"

I smile to myself for her.

"Yeah I'm really happy you have him, he's definitely got faith in you"

We walk in silence the rest of the way, luca and isla catch up to us, they both pull their pinkies out

"We pinky promise not to say anything to him"

She smiles at them, taking her pinky. After that's done Luca hands me a jar so I open it and take a drink and shake my head when it hits my throat, I hands it to Ailm who does the same

"Damn that's strong"

"It's from me and Arthur's private selection, when we tried to make it even stronger there were only a few left but I thought it would only be right if we 4 drink one tonight. He already designated the others for other times"

He replies to Ailm, I look at him

"What's the other times?"

"The day they have their ceremony to become alpha and beta and one each for the days they get married and a few others for occasions of our choosing. He even has them labelled"

He turns the jar around and it reads Arthur's pub opening. I can feel my eyes glaze over and I shake my head. As we enter the packhouse going straight to the kitchen. He pulls 4 glasses down and fills each up with the poitín deacons eyes light up when he sees Ailm and she mirrors the look on her own face. She turns back slightly looking at Luca

"Give a little to deacon"

He smiles and pulls out another glass and puts some in it she hands it to deacon who takes it willingly.

"You look beautiful"

He says to her and her face goes bright red, she's freaking adorable.

"Thank you, you look good to"

"Awwwwwww your both so cute"

Isla says loudly, Ailm growls and punches her in the arm she giggles and runs behind Luca, Ailm tries to get at her and I shake my head as Luca tries to keep them separated

"Chill, your meant to be on your best behaviour. Beat her later"

Ailm stops and crosses her arms, deacon comes to her side and pulls her in under his arm

"Don't worry about them, ok?"

Her eyes are wide as she looks at his arm but she visibly starts to relax with a flush to her cheeks and nods

"Ok"

"Awww so cut-"

"Isla I'll kick your ass myself stop tormenting her"

Deacon snaps at her, all our jaws go slack and Ailm laughs

"Hahahaha you just got told"

"Yeah by your boyfriend"

She teases

"Would you both stop, we have alphas visiting, fight tomorrow, tonight be polite. Ok?"

"Ok"
"Ok"

We take our drinks and sit at the top of the table, the girls sit to the left, deacon sits beside Ailm and my parents sit to the right with our other family members. Luca stands up and places his hand on my shoulder and whistles

"I just want to say thank you all for coming, Arthur had this night planned for a long time and we are so happy we can make one of his final wishes come true. So on behalf of me and my Luna, welcome to our part of the world and I hope you enjoy Arthur's night. So I think it's only appropriate to raise a glass to the man himself. To Arthur"

"To Arthur"

We all answered and took a drink. Luca kisses me softly sitting down beside me

"My Luna"

He whispers, I grin at him and whisper back

"My alpha"
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"Have you got your speech baby?"

I internally groan, I hate public speaking but this was important. I tap my brain with my finger and wink at him

"All in here"

He smiles and jumps out of the car, I open my door and he drops his hand out for me to take it. He looks absolutely delicious tonight, he's got a tight black T-shirt on and dark jeans and a pair of black boots.

I climb out of the car and look behind him, the place looks amazing and there is already a long line of people waiting to get in. We walk straight up and into the place.

We enter into the warm pub and it's packed full of people, we grab a few jars of the table and head to the back of the club part of the place and take our seats in the Vip area. The DJ is busy at work and the sound bounces off the walls. I was genuinely surprised at the magnitude of people who were already here.

The girls and deacon join us and I see mum and dad come in our direction too. We all drink from our jars of poitín with straws, with stronger shots lining the table. Me and the girls and mum do a few then they pull me out to dance.

We let loose swinging our hips to the music, it had been so long since I have been able to get out and dance. We continue to dance even when the music changes and suddenly everyone's sexy dance changes to everyone jumping on the spot. The floor vibrated as the crowd jumped to jumping all over the world then it changed to stamp on the ground and the crowd went wild. It's an oldie but a goodie.

After a long while we head back to the table for more drinks, deacon looks incredibly uncomfortable

"What's up?"

I ask him handing him a shot, he takes it and swallows it in one go then looks at me

"It's just hard to watch her and not be able to touch her or dance with her"

I frown

"You can dance with her, I'm sure she would like that"

"Maybe, but I'm not sure I could stop myself.."

I smirk up at him

"Listen she is 17, she is old enough to make her own decisions. If she chooses to kiss you I don't see the problem with that. Just let her make the first moves ok?"

"So you're not going to be pissed?"

I wag him off and give him another shot. We take them together then I turn to him

"No I won't be pissed unless you hurt her then I'll set your ass on fire, but no if she wants to be with you that's her choice, one she's old enough to make and I'll be sure everyone feels the same. They just want her to be happy so go and dance with her and have some fun. When you give in you will realise how much fun she really is"

He takes another shot and shivers slightly and I can see the determination in his face as he stalks off to the dance floor to Ailm and isla, I feel arms grab my waist and Luca pulls me back and places me on his knee.

"What did you do?"

He asks suspiciously

"What had to be done, the boy was drooling all over our new pub floor"

He laughs and kisses my cheek. I smile taking some photos of us then of the dance floor and of all the people who came to enjoy it.

"I can't believe how amazing it is"

I shout at him, his grin is wide

"I know. Are you ready?"

I blow out a breath and stand up, he gets up and takes my hand and we leave through the door beside the stage and head past the private VIP bathrooms and up the back. When we get there the DJ pauses the music and hands me a mic, I pull Luca on stage beside me. Nerves ate at my stomach as I looked out over the enormous crowd.

"Hey everyone, I just wanted to take a minute and thank you all for coming, this place was dreamed up by our late alpha, Arthur my mate. He helped design the place, he created the drinks and named them. This place is all in his memory and he has something to say to you all."

I step to the side and I look at the projector screen. Arthur's face popped up and tears instantly pooled at the side of my eyes as he waved at the camera.

"Hey everyone, if you're watching this it means I'm gone, it means my amazing mates came through and pulled my pub together so you can all have a place to go and have some fun. Hopefully by now the packs have merged and you're looking at your new Luna and alpha on stage. I bet they look great. I wanted to say thank you to them both, you have changed my life and now I'm hoping by bringing this place to life you will all have somewhere to go and have fun when life gets tough. To have a drink with your friends and dance your heart out. At least there isn't any human police around for my wife and her cousins to torture"

The video cuts off and it's my hen do, mum was standing in the human bar telling them to submit. Then we ran like fuck and it switched back to Arthur

"Or human men for that matter. Poor boys didn't have a chance"

He laughs and the screen moves to all the girls in the pack beating the crap out of the human boys and telling them to strip off. Then it goes back to his face

"And thankfully I was smart enough not to add stripper poles because not one of the females in our pack have any kind of decorum or rhythm"

The screen moves to us chasing the male strippers of the stage, then the girls get up and start pulling moves. It moves through some of the funniest bloopers and ends with me and mum swinging around and her climbing up the pole only to fall and land on top of me on the floor where we lay giggling our hearts out.

"Seriously you would think someone so beautiful could at least swing their hips to the tune without looking like a bird with a stick stuck up it's butt"

He shakes his head chuckling.

"Anyways I just wanted to say thank you for coming and now that we have a place to go and party make sure and keep the females from the human towns. I love you all and baby, never forget that I loved you despite your 2
Left feet. Now raise your glass and have a drink for me because I definitely am"

We all lift our drink and take a sip and he waves and the screen turns off. The place is full of crying blubbering messes including myself. I lift the mic up to my lips

"I knew it was a good idea to wear waterproof mascara. Listen folks I'm going to go and have a good cry and a stiff drink but I want you all to enjoy the night"

I give the mic back to the DJ and Luca pulls me into his chest and we sob together. I'm not sure how long we stand there for but Luca pulls my chin up to look at him.

"You really were telling the truth when you said you chased the strippers away?"

I howl and laugh at the memory

"Yeah, I forgot there was video evidence"

"Those poor men had no idea what they were getting themselves into"

He chuckles shaking his head and pulling me back the way we came,
We head back to our seats and I take a few shots and enjoy the burn. Then I head to the vip smoking area and light up a smoke, luca does the same and soon deacon joins us with a huge grin on his face.