Lacking Humanity|Half Crescent

Chapter Twenty-One

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A miracle came, but not in the way Sage had expected. She had been just sitting at the breakfast table reading her book as Andy was discussing pack functions to the right of her, course Grey made it difficult to properly focus, but the nudge set her off outright.

"Easy, did you hear what I said?"
"I can do two things at once, meanie...And females can do patrol too, Alpha. Females run faster." The scoff she received was followed up by a conjoined pair of all the women in the room to send their scowl in his direction.

"Rest case."
"It's 'I rest my case,' but yeah. I'm fucked." Grey said, sliding his back down the chair as Andy shook his head into the coffee. Though he caught Sage's smirk behind her book, which earned her a slight squeeze to her thigh—One she pouted at.

They hadn't mated since her heat, but it was hard to be far away from her. Both his mind and wolf were determined to be a good father, and in order to do that and prove it—He needed to protect her.

"What can the she-wolves do?"
"Anything and everything," Sage mumbled in return and Grey groaned. "I didn't mean it like that, I meant where would they want to go? Did you like patrolling in your old pack?" It stilled her reading as she turned to him and she shrugged.

"I do lots of jobs because I can't find one, but I'm in school with tutor and then I train—And then bear training. No time for patrol."
"So you didn't get a job yet?" She shook her head again and motioned to her book. "Not graduated yet. Evie said few more classes." Now that name certainly caught Andy's attention, Sage rarely gave away names and he jumped at the opportunity.

"Who's Evie?"
"Ms.Evelyn is my tutor. She's very nice." She smiled in delight, bringing her own mug of tea to her lips.

"Are you training with us today, Luna?" It was a sore topic, it'd been almost a week since her heat but Andy was adamant to let her do much of anything. So she shrugged. "I can help, but maybe not sparring...I don't want unlucky male getting attacked by moody Alpha." And she giggled at the hand now creeping further up her leg in torment, though the males beside her just laughed along.

They thought it was a blessing to have this type of energy, but the way Chase had run in caused them to raise their eyes.

"Alpha—No link." He breathed, causing the Alpha to frown. He was in a meeting and separated himself from the pack but damnit when it was important surely they could've managed to slip through?

"What's up, Chase?" Grey greeted with a smile, but the look of panic caused him to look directly at his Luna.
"Alpha Noah is here." It instantly caused the plates to clatter with Andy at fault, Sage couldn't help but jump—Granted it was Grey who managed to calm the Luna down before she blew a fuse from the light fixtures above them.

"What the hell do you mean—"
"It's the first of the month, Alpha." That had called fault directly towards either of his Beta and Delta, he'd been so distracted by Sage and the chance of pup he completely forgot about the meeting.

"Fuck!" He roared, taking hold of his coffee and chugging it down. He was prepared in the document sense, but not mentally no. And Grey's voice soon pulled him out of his panic.

"Alpha I don't...Well, what do you plan on telling him about Sage?" The in-place Luna's eyes started to calm down slightly, but not entirely. Not when the looming threat of a strange Alpha male could be dangerous.

"She's my Luna, simple as that."
"And the witches?" Severin interjected, and that truly caused her to shake. "Hide witches, Elena can do that." Sev nodded at the order and Andy smiled lightly, helping her to her feet and ultimately into his hold.