Sister Wolf

Story Ch 7 Finding the Beta Mate

I did this chapter then realized it would make more sense if they had marked each other first! So I wrote the previous chapter after this one, then moved the chapters around. Having a story in your head is one thing, getting it down in the right sequence is another!

Then I had to rework this chapter to include the special connection with the mark! I figured a Lycan mark might work a little differently than a werewolf mark.

Sometimes I wish I could rearrange the sequence of events in my life as easy as moving chapters around in my story. I would move tons of fun stuff to before I got sick! But then where would you choose to put the bad events? Too bad life doesn't have a delete button 😓. At least in stories you can change things to make them better!

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The two lovestruck wolves sheepishly got out of the vehicle. Jayden's beta came around and stared google-eyed at the new marks. Suddenly he dropped to his knees before his Alpha and Luna. His shoulder burned! But only for a second as he felt his Alpha's protectiveness for his pack, his love for his pack members... or was it his Luna's? He could feel them both. He knew it wasn't their personal bond he was feeling, it was as if the pack bond had just gained new dimensions.

The beta looked up at his pair of leaders. His Luna's eyes shined with delight. He suddenly felt his own commitment to his pack bouncing back at him. His Alpha, his friend, looked confused for a moment. The two leaders grasped hands and his Alpha's expression cleared. The beta felt the bonds of friendship between him and his Alpha reverberated through the newly extended link.

The beta couldn't help but smile as he bowed his head to his ruling pair. It was as if  they weren't surrounded by another pack. It was such an intimate moment, but not embarrassing. He could bask in their love and care all day. Suddenly he heard his Alpha speak though the mind link.

I feel the same my friend, but, um, we are kinda surrounded by another pack with an impatient alpha tapping his toe at us!

The beta stood up startled. He couldn't help the silly grin on his face. He cleared his throat and strove for the stern expression he usually wore. He moved to take up a position slightly behind his Luna on the other side of his Alpha.

His protective stance had her snort in amusement. If any fighting broke out she would probably be protecting him!

"Lead the way," Jayden said to the other alpha.

The other Alpha led them into his pack house and into the kitchen.

"Help yourselves to some refreshments while my people come out of the safe houses," he said with a glare. His fiercest warriors lined up outside the front door and the kitchen door.

The beta (I suppose I should really give him a name but I can't decide on one! 🤔 Feel free to make suggestions😘) pulled two sodas from the fridge and got his Luna a bowl of water with a few ice cubes in it.

Jayden reached out and touched the swirled patterned tattoo on his beta's shoulder. The man looked down in surprise.

"Is that why my shoulder burned for a moment?"

"I would guess so," said Jayden. "I wonder if the whole pack felt it."

Jayden stretched his awareness out through the pack link. Being an Alpha was more than just leading, it was having abilities like this too, being able to actually connect the pack into one.

He smiled as he felt them, their temporary confusion and awe over the new depth to the pack bond.

My mate and I have marked each other, he told them, that is what you are feeling. This is part of what having a Lycan for your Luna provides for us. I know some of you were unsure about our being paired up by the moon goddess. Take this deepened pack connection as proof that this mating between us is blessed indeed!

Jayden was surprised at how easily he reached them all, even at this distance. He felt acceptance and even gratitude from most. He felt resentment from a few and knew they would be his first order of business when he got back!

His mate, his Luna, he thought fondly, was getting impatient with the wait. She finally got up and prowled through the empty pack house. She was all wolf as she went up the stairs, the two men following silently. She had to shift back to a more human form to open one of the doors.

They followed her in. She made a beeline for one of the two closets in the room. She opened the closet door. Sticking her nose in, she sniffed from the very top, shifting to wolf again as she got to the bottom.

Jayden pushed aside the long dresses that were hanging there and looked down in surprise at the ragged man holding two sleeping children in his lap.

Samantha nosed the man, then started licking...

Bathing! She corrected Jayden.

...bathing the children. They woke, stretched, and hugged her neck.

Jayden looked down with sudden understanding at the man his mate desired to be her beta mate.