FAT - Fabulous and Thick

CH # 04

Chapter 04:

I got up plenty last night, but the getting up was gonna take a toll, so I thought about changing my daily routine a little to accommodate a nap-time. I woke up the next morning sitting propped up by my pillows. Little One laying asleep on my chest. I put the sling over my neck and got up out of bed, my mate was making breakfast again. I was just about to eat we Little One got hungry again.

After she was done, I had my breakfast. I settled Little One in her bed, he cloth between her and her bed. I set her and her bed on the bench close to me.

The kids pat her, when I finished breakfast they had their breakfast and went right back to patting her. They left for their seperate schools and stuff.

I took Little One with me as I did what I needed to do. I got my things together, that included Little One's things. I set out to work.

By the time I got home and finished the pack's dinner, I was knackered. My gorgeous mate took me out to dinner. We went to a rather posh restaurant but they nabbed their noses at Little One. When my mate said, "I don't want my fiancé here anyways." Then he proceeded to tell then who he was. It's safe to assume, after that, they didn't care if Little One ate with us. My mate just took my hand and led me out the door.

This is when I heard something that sent my wolf into hyper-alertness. A woman. I looked at my mate as he stopped. "What do you want Katherine?" He growled.

"I wanted to take you to dinner." She totally ignored me.

"I have other plans." He said as he kissed the back of my hand.

She looked at me. "What? With this whale?" I was close to snapping.

But my mate's temper blew before mine did. "She is my mate! She is my everything! And you had best remember that if you wish to keep your immortality!" He growled. I wrapped my arms around his waist, and buried my head into his neck. I kissed the same stop over and over until his temper cooled. "I will be telling your father that he must bargain with me to keep you alive. If you insult her again, if I hear you or not, your immortality is gone!"

He walked away, with me still in this awkward position. But I walked until he had completely cooled and we got to where he wanted to get to. He sat me down in a small cafe that was almost literally a hole in the wall. The place only had a few people, but the atmosphere was so ... calm, so laid back you know?

We ate when I had finished, my eyelids grew heavy. He fed Little One all that night.

By the next week, I had gotten used to my new routine. I would wake up five minutes before Little One would start to stir. It was getting very easy now. Little One is beginning to wake up for a little bit at a time. Yet every time she would awake, her eyes were the colour of amethysts. A soft lilac, with deep purple flecks.

Yet even though life was getting easier in some aspects, it became harder in other aspects.

Things that were easier was my daily routine. Little One was growing up fast, but she still needed milk until a certain age, but I was told that every Pandoran sheep began to wean at different ages, as each one was different. The relationship between my parents and I was much better, but the pack still hated me, though I don't know why. Though I could kinda tell why the pack whores hated me. The others, no idea!

Little One was starting to walk around a little bit, the children of the pack absolutely love that. They sweet talk me into making a whole pile of cookies, that only last a couple hours tops. So it seems like I am perpetually baking cookies. But it was a good thing for me. My work hours were cut back, but I still cooked a fresh breakfast for the mate's employees, Nex Darkus' employees. That along with my pack mates.

In my shorter hours, I was still able to not only make there lunches and dinner's but also many snacks in between. I had learnt a few days after I learnt of my step-daughters, that the men I cook for are not only my Nex's employees, but also they are his sons, so yeah, they are my step-sons. But the ones I fed were the ones that were still unattached, unmated. I did get to cook for my other step-children and their children. To be honest though, I freak out on occasion.

Yes I freak out, but the pack whores chat about me having an older mate who already has older children, almost all of which are much older than myself, it was as if they were deliberately trying to get me to rip them a new one, which I almost did on more than one occasion. What shocked me was dad. He came roaring out of his corner protecting me, which just about gave me a heart attack.

"I ain't all that surprised that you had your asses handed to you! You all slept with HUMAN men that has children as old as you are, and you don't care that you might have destroyed a loving marriage or a loyal commitment of some sort! So don't attack my daughter because your jealous she found herself a mate that far outranks a lot of people, myself included." He ranted for ages and chewed them the fuck out! As in, BIG TIME!

Even my mother chewed them out. But it was as I was about to walk away, mum and dad told me something, they had had quite a few wolves, strong ones, asking about me. About me guiding them. In essence, being their alpha.

This seemed to have led nicely into broaching the subject I was trying to think on how I was going to do it. "I been thinking. I know I was going to be an alpha, but I never felt the need to protect this pack." I said. Dad nodded. He knew how it was to feel such a need. "It is a good thing your having another child, because I was planning on renouncing my claim to be alpha of this pack. I want to make my own pack, with my mate's children and the other wolves that come looking for me. This leads to my next question."

I paused. "Dad, would it be alright, if my pack, the one that is still to be put together stays on your land? I love cooking for all these people and I would love to see if we could pay off this old house and have this as my pack's home base, at least until my real one is done, completed. You see, I have a massive block of land, I had a village commissioned to be built. It's in the middle stages. I had an interior designer I know through my mate, design each home, similar in the respect of modern technology, but with a classic beauty."

I sighed again, rubbing my face. "So all I am asking is if this pack house could be our home base for the duration that it would be needed. I have my contractors on a deadline. They know I have also accounted for any minor disasters that might happen as my pack's village is put together. I just wanted to cover all the bases. Well, as many as I could cover considering that I don't see into the future. So, what do you say dad?" I asked.

"Umm, I actually have a few questions first." I nodded, gesturing for him to go on. "First, how did you get so much money?"

"I did work since I was rather young. Nex offered me a job. His old chef took on the youngest apprentice that I know of. I was a kitchen hand for about ten year's so I was about, so I was just turned 16 when I became her apprentice, around school hours of course. It didn't leave much time to myself, but I did save up the money Nex paid me through my teacher. And I was paid about $100 a week, that was for my weekdays. My weekends were the same amount, so I was paid $200 on a weekly basis. That was when I six."

I smiled wanly, I knew how they must be feeling somewhat guilty on how I was treated for all those years. "I worked every single day. So, if you do the math correctly, I saved about, $104,400. A whole heap of money for a 16 year old girl, but I had the bare essentials so I didn't need to get anything. After I turned 16, I was paid $800 during the week, $400 on the weekend. That was for about 3 years, which I saved about $249,600. So all together I saved $354,000. After I turned 22, after my apprenticeship, I was paid twice that. So, you add $249,600 to my savings total and you get $603,600. Add to that the interest of a fixed rate, and it was enough to buy the land last year. I barely had enough to commission the build of the homes."

I chuckled softly. "And when Nex found out about my account, he added the exact same amount times ten, into my account." I looked at him as he sat next to me.

"Well, I couldn't leave my mate going broke now, could I?" He asked.

I smiled and looked at dad expectantly. And that was when the questions went on until my dad was satisfied with my answers, which were all honest. Later that night I was exhausted. I was carried to bed with a tired Little One asleep on my stomach. When I was laid on my bed, I fell asleep as soon as my back hit the linen covered mattress.