After Damien's Aunt Bea asked me a few more questions she gave me a brief history of the Ten Oaks Pack. Touching only on the high points like how her father brought his whole pack to Washington back in 1863 at the young age 25. Settling along the Hood canal to start up a logging company and the struggles they faced with out all the modern technology that Damien uses now to work from home and connect with the business world.
And how after her father retired from being Alpha he built this Manison in 1905 among the elite of Seattle. Solely to help her brother to connect with professional leaders of the influential people in Seattle at the time. And to help their new businesses, such as their sawmill and lumber yard to expand in the rapidly growing economy.
She also informed me that unlike a pure blooded Alpha like Alpha Riker. The Alpha's in their family only serve a forty year term as Alpha of their pack. Opposed to the fifty year term like in Zack's family. That's unless the oldest son is ready to take over the pack before that time. Which in Damien's case his dad could have served as Alpha for at least three more years before actually handing his Alpha position over to Damien.
The reason being is because of the natural aging process just like anyone else werewolves because weaker in their older years. And a young man in their twenties is better able to protect his pack in an Alpha challenge than an old man in his seventies or eighties.
That's when I found out that this isn't where Aunt Bea lives. She explained to me that she was only here packing up her mom and Dad's stuff to move them back onto pack land and closer to family because of their aging condition.
But the best part of our conversation was listening to her reminisce about her teenage years spent enjoying lavish parties in the garden behind the Mansion. All of them given in the name of making business connections for her brother .
And how after she turned eighteen her mother insisted that they stay in Seattle for the whole summer. Increasing the frequency of the parties hoping that Bea would find her mate among the young business men who attend.
Only to find out that her mate was a man twelve years older then her. That she had known all her life and how he was back at their pack serving as her brother's Beta all that summer.
After my little chat with Aunt Bea we headed up stairs to big luxury suite on the second floor where the opulence continued with a big canopy bed draped in ivory color vintage floral brocade and silk. The sculpted plaster ceilings and crystal chandeliers also continued into the bedroom.
Everything looked vintage and prestigious well almost everything except the little race car bed setting in a recessed reading nook next to the window.
Which Xavier jumped right in and started turning on lights and zooming sounds.Damien frowned "Lay down and go to sleep or I'll turn your car lights off." He scolded, pointing a his finger at Xavier.
"K," Xavier huffed,laying back in his race car bed with the same frown on his little face as Damien had on his a minute ago.
Damien pulling Xavier's shoes and pants off and covered him in a small blue comforter. Kissed his little puffy cheek said " Good night
I love you." leaving only the dim lighting around the bottom of the race car bed on.
Then sauntered over to where our suitcase was setting which I had already opened and started getting my pajamas out of. Luckily I had thought ahead and packed something besides sexy lingerie our shared suitcase. I did this because I really thought that we would be staying in a nice motel room tonight with Xavier sleeping between us.
Not in an old stately Mansion filled with priceless antiques and a little race car bed with an original Claude Monet painting hanging above it.
It's truly a hilarious sight, but I tried my hardest not to laugh and grabbed my silk camisole pajama set that my mom gave for Christmas and took off towards the bathroom. Not
realizing that Damien was right behind me . Until I grabbed the door knob and felt his arm slip around my waist and felt his warm breath fan my neck.
"Let's take a shower together." He whispered, suggestively prompting me to peek over my shoulder towards the little race car bed.
Which made Damien laugh." He's asleep already, we just need to be quiet." He whispered, making it seem a little bit hotter or perhaps a tad bit erotic.
Like forbidden sex with a secret lover. I bit my lip just to keep from moaning and nodded cracking the door open slowly for us to slip inside.
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ZACK
After returning to the pack house Andie and I went to my office where I tried contacting Mr. and Mrs. Louis through the pack link but got no response. Then I tried their cell phone and Mr. Louis picked up on the first ring.
" Alpha, is this really you." Mr. Louis answered clearly surprised that I was calling. But I wasn't surprised that he knew it was me. Every pack member has my personal phone number in case of emergencies.
" Yes, sir it's really me." I replied with a little chuckle.
" Well how can I help you today." Mr. Louis said cheerfully.
" I have a need for a skilled carpenter and a talented artist if you and Mrs. Louis have time to pick up an extra job before school starts back up." I explained.
"That might be possible if it's not a big project. Why don't you tell me a little bit about it and we can go from there." He replied sounding a bit curious but also cautious.
" I can do better than that. I can send a picture to your phone and let you see what I need done." I said, sending the image as I spoke.
" Did you get the picture, Mr. Louis?" I ask just as my phone said sent.
"Yeah, yeah, let me take a look here and see what you got in mind." He murmured,then the line was silent for a second." Alpha, you still there?" He ask a few seconds later.
" Yesh, I'm here Mr. Louis, what do you think?" I ask.absentmindedly running my hand up and down Andie's side.
"I don't see any problem I believe we can finish this in about three or four days. Where's the job at and when do you want us to start?" He said sounding confident.
" You can start in the morning if that's okay with you. Just come to the Pack house at eight tomorrow morning and I'll show you where the job is." I responded, pulling the huge stack of mail on my desk towards me readying myself to sort through it before Andie and I go upstairs to eat dinner with mom and dad tonight.
" Sounds good, Alpha.We'll see you in morning. You have a good evening now." Mr. Louis said ending the call.
I then pushed my phone aside and started sorting my mail into piles. The RSVP's were coming in left and right for Andie's Luna Ceremony .
So I started a pile for those and pushed them towards Andie." We need to drop these off at Mrs. Benson's office on our way upstairs.She's the event coordinator for the pack house. After your Luna Ceremony you'll be meeting with her for all the future events that take place here at the pack house as part of your duties."I explained as I continued to sort through my mail.
Pausing when I ran across a big yellow envelope from Alpha Lucius.Curious to what my father in law sent I ripped it open pulling out a blister pack of pills with eighty four little pink capsules in it.
Andie gasped and snatched them from my hand so fast it made my head spin. Well naturally I had to ask " Sweetheart, what are those for." picking up the hand written note that accompanied the pills. That only said give these to Andie.
" It's thoes heat system pills Chloe was telling you about. I'll text my dad and tell him that they came." She replied,laying them off to the side and pulled her phone out of her purse .
" You have to take that many?"I ask horrified pointing at the big card of pills laying beside her.
Which made Andie giggle. " No,this is a year supply. I only take one a day for the seven days of my heat cycle." She explained, as she started to texting her dad.
"Sweetheart,if I called an assembly of all the teenage girls and their mothers. Can you explain to them how these pills work and get enough from your dad to supply the girls at our high school with them." I ask, hoping to make this one of our goals to improve the lives of our pack members.
"Sure, that's no problem, but we need to wait until I officially become your Luna to reduce the suspension that could be associated with me being from another pack. Remember that's why my dad has never put them out on the market.But if the parents in the pack see that their Luna and their Beta's wife have both taken them with no side effects to their reproductive system. Then I think we will be more productive in introducing them into our pack." She pointed out, reminding me of how brilliant and level headed my girl is and how lucky I am to have her.
"You're right sweetheart,that might be the best thing to do." I agreed.
"But you know" she said thoughtfully " it's not just the teenage girls that need them. It's every unmated shewolf in the pack.We could actually do what my dad did. We can make them available at the pack hospital and at the community center and through the pack healers."
" At the community center?" I ask, only to hear my girl laugh at my question.
" Well yeah, actually you can get them anywhere in my dad's pack. My mom usually drops a box of them off at the gas station and all the little shops and businesses that ladies frequent around our town every month." My girl explained what seemed to be a really good idea and something that we could do also.
" That's really a good idea and something that we should do also. How long do you think it would take for your dad to make enough of those pills to supply our pack with them?" I ask, not having a clue about how a large pharmaceutical company works.
My girl waved her hand dismissively. " About an hour from start to finish including packing in blister packages like the one my dad sent to me. That's how they're given out at our school a years supply at the start of the school year. It ensures that the girls never needs to miss school because of their heat cycle and there's no side effects even in half werewolves like Chloe or the girls that are half human. They're made from a tropical flower and a few herbs that is grown in the pharmaceutical green house. So the cost is almost nothing to make them and definitely worth the benefit they provide for the pack. They reduce the number of missed work days for unmated shewolves and allow our female warriors the freedom to be around their fellow comrades during their cycle. They also help the girls that's not mated keep their jobs that work in the human city. Like the girl who waited on us at the restaurant the other night. If she doesn't have a mate how long do you think a human employer will believe that she's sick every month and can't come to work." Andie explaned, with such professionalism that it left me awestruck and excited to get this in mention as soon as possible.
"We'll send your dad an email tomorrow and set up a payment from the pack fund for him. I'm excited to get this program going in our pack too. Damien may also want to get this set up in his pack."I said, not hiding my excitement to not only about being able to help my pack members. But to let them know how resourceful and amazing their new Luna is.
" Uh.. Damien already dose this in his pack. Dad helped him set up the program after doing a test study on him, Chloe, and Abby. He was concerned that maybe the pills wasn't strong enough for their Alpha DNA. Contributing to the reason Chloe got pregnant with Xavier. But after both Abby and Chloe were around Damien all day during their heat cycle without Damien even knowing. Dad concluded that their Alpha DNA wasn't an issue and helped Damien to introduce the program in his pack."