The Mate

Chapter Thirty Three

"Yes, we have about two hundred and fifty workers that we can pull off other jobs and get it done then." Alex agreed with what Ethan said.

"We could push it to three hundred if need be." Alex crunched the numbers in his head.

"We need to talk to you about the plans for this house anyway. We need to know how many will be staying in the new pack house. We can turn this pack house into another hospital wing. We could build more houses if anyone from the other pack areas." Ethan continued.

"Wait a second." melody threw her hands up. "Let's take a couple of seconds real quick." She looked at her parents. "What is it that you need?"

"Honestly we've been having problems with our gardens. That's our main source of food and we just- it's not been going very well because we don't have enough workers in that area. Our gardeners are the elderly and we've had- uh- a lot of them got sick and passed." Trey informed them.

"What else?"

"Hospital supplies. We don't have the correct or enough supplies." Lily let them know.

"Food and hospital supplies." Melody repeated. "What would you like for my two packs to help this pack?"

"What- wait?" Lily raised her hands. "You're not staying?"

"Oh yes. But I have two other territories that will have to be checked on at times. I mean didn't you just say that I have to be the Queen? I'll be the Queen but I have other's to deal with as well. We will all be one giant pack but I have to check on it every so often. We span over a total of thirty thousand square miles. So, it's a lot to be checked and balanced throughout."

"Is there anything that we could do to help you with this?" an omega asked.

"Oh, Melody, this is Alli. She is my omega."

"I will be bringing other omegas and their families here from both packs. At first it was a little difficult to deal with both packs; but now it's so much smoother. I try to go out to everyone at least three times a week. It gets tiring. Very tiring having to split myself between the two packs and now I will be having to deal with the third pack. Which will be okay. We will-" she looked at Alex and Ethan. "Figure it out."

"You don't have to do everything Mel." Alex told her.

"I have to."

"No you don't." Ethan told her.

"But I'm going to be the Queen."

"And we will be yours Kings standing right by you with each decision you will make. You don't and you aren't doing this by yourself my love."

"Ugh, I know."

"Melody," her mother reached out to her. "I am so proud of who you are. I am so proud of how far you have come and I am so sorry for what we had to have you go through. I would love to be able to go back in time and keep you. But we had to do whatever it was to keep you safe."

"Honey," Trey slid to the edge of his chair. "We've been keeping an eye on you and-" he cleared his throat. "It took everything in me not to kill that bastard that hurt you."

Melody's eyes began to tear up. "So, you were there?"

"We've been there every step of the way. We watched you grow up and we watched you from afar which was so hard to do. I wanted to take you away every chance I got. But then we lost you. You moved so quickly and we thought we lost you."

"Do you remember seeing random giant dogs?" Ethan asked.

She nodded her head. "They were members of this pack tracking you." Lily told her. "We found out that you had been sleeping in your car for a little bit and we didn't like that at all. So we sent some people out there to keep watch for you."