Possessive Alpha Kaden ✔️

Chapter 26

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"Have you eaten today, or this week for that matter?"

I look over the top of the rims of my glasses to see Jasper stood in the doorway to my office, a concerned look adorning his usually impassive features.

He's wearing a suit, which is uncommon, a slim fitting grey three piece over a navy blue shirt. The top few buttons are undone, like the casualty of the man wearing it has leaked through into his outfit, and you can see the tattoos of his chest peaking out like the tentacles of an octopus.

I can see his eyes dragging around the room, halting briefly on the empty take out boxes on the floor, and I raise an eyebrow when he realises they answer his question.

I've been holed up here the past week, completing all the business side of the pack merging from this half of the pack, Kaden helping me out with the other half. It's been exhausting, but giving myself something to do has aided in me moving on from losing Sophia. I spent a few days in our house, and I was slowly going mad. Kaden eventually suggested I help him with the merging, and gave me a long list of tasks he knew I was capable of completing. I've spoken to him constantly throughout the days I've been away, and we've visited each other a few times.

But, he knows how much I need space right now, not someone coddling me, so we haven't spoken at all today seen as though he's coming to visit towards the end of the day.

"Jasper why are you here?" I sigh, rubbing my eyes underneath my lenses. "I know that Kaden didn't send you, because he promised he'd let me do this on my own, especially after he suggested it."

"The pack is worried about you." He admits, stepping into the room and taking a seat across from me. "I've had Olivia and a few more wolves breathing down my neck about you."

"Technically I'm still in pack territory." I remind him, pointing outside of the window. "I just happen to be on the CrescentMoon side of the lake."

Jasper rolls his eyes, resting his leg across the other and giving me a wry look. "Lola, you know what I mean. You've used the joining ceremony as an excuse to spend time in your old pack and..."

I hold my hand up to stop him as I quickly scribble something down on a note from an email that has just entered my inbox. It's from an old retired wolf that lives on the edge of the lake with his mate. He owns a giant warehouse that I'm very interested in purchasing as joint pack training grounds. Not only is the inside space perfect for gym equipment and boxing rings and stuff, but the four acres surrounding the building are perfect for one on one training. It's far bigger than either pack training ground, and is a way of the packs coming together even more.

So far he has amused my offers, but I'm starting to get frustrated with him as he keeps dodging my wanting of an asking price. I'm letting him choose it because that way I can offer him exactly what he wants, which won't even dent my pocket.

"Firstly Jasper," I begin, stretching my arms high above my head until I hear them crack satisfyingly. "The amount of work that needs to be done to join a pack together doesn't just stop after the ceremony, and I know you're not naive enough to believe that."

He opens his mouth to retaliate, but I send him a glare, and I catch sight of my lilac eyes burning in the reflection of the photograph on my desk, and cut him off. "Secondly, I am staying in CrescentMoon for a few days, just so I can feel closer to Sophia and Mark. My best friends died Jasper, am I not allowed to mourn them in my own way?"

Jasper looks down at the floor like a scolded child, and I know this is because he's realised I'm right. I sigh, rubbing my tired eyes with my overworked fingers. "Besides, I'm not abandoning DawnStar, because you're my home, but some things needed to be done on this side, and I volunteered. Plus, Kaden is coming here tonight, because I'm not just cutting him out, and I will be coming home the second I get this deal done, but I can't get this stubborn wolf to sell."