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Chapter 85 – Time Away
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Ebony looked at the care package from her sister. She’d snuck it past Benedict while he napped in the afternoon sun, and she now stood in the bathroom staring at it. Her nervous hands pulled the tape off the package and Ebony unpacked the various items her sister packed in the package. At the bottom of the box Ebony found three pregnancy tests and she sighed. She had them now and Ebeny would find out for sure if she was pregnant. What would Benedict think of this? It was the worst time possible. They didn’t have a healer or medical facilities yet. No place or staff to care for pups. No schools or teachers. Now, Ebony’s heart pounded in her chest as her mind raced over the lists and timelines that they’d meticulously created. She realized that it would all have to change, and their priorities would have to change as well. Benedict would hate this, there’d been so much change already. Too much change and he might not be able to accept it.
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Ebony called him for dinner, and he’d sauntered in. Relaxed and hungry Benedict entered the dining room. “You didn’t come out did you find a problem? If you did, why didn’t you come out and get me? I could have helped you with it.” “Well, it might be a problem at times. But it’s not a problem per say right now. At least, I’m not sure how you’ll see it right now. It took some time for me to confirm my suspicion and then verify that its confirmation wasn’t a false confirmation. After that, I needed to wrap my head around it all. Now, well, it’s your turn to decide if this is a good thing or a problem.” Ebony looked at Benedict and she appeared almost apologetic. Benedict frowned and looked at the table. “What are you talking about love? What are you talking about exactly?” Ebony used her chin to point toward the table “Just take a look and try not to freak out too much.” “Okay …” Benedict wasn’t sure what had Ebony so anxious.
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“You want to wait and see which one of our pups would have the best skills and the interest to lead. But what do we do if we have more than one who wish to lead?” “That’s the thing Benedict. I’ve been thinking about this. We need three alpha pups at the very least. We have the Pack that will need an Alpha. The school will need another Alpha. Then there’s the Rescue Teams. It will need one Alpha to manage it. I’m not sure if we’ll use an Alpha per team or a Beta to head per team. I think a Beta per team would make more sense. But think about that. That’s three Alphas. Three pups minimum needed.” “Will we have enough territory for that many Alphas? Can we keep three full grown adult Alphas in close quarters all the time without them ready to kill each other?” “That’s what we must figure out a solution for that right now. We need to figure out how much territory we need and raise our pups to accept each other within their terri
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“I don’t know what to do with you. Any of you. Why is this so difficult for you? Can you explain to me why you want a male who doesn’t want you and not the one that wants you? It doesn’t make sense. He doesn’t want you now and it won’t change. If he feels anything kind toward you it will change to something horrible. It will sour and turn dark, nasty. Hateful, even. That’s not something anyone wants to live with. No one wants that within their Pack, I can only do so much before I am forced to push everyone involved out of the Pack. Is that what you want? All four of you without a Pack?” Ebony hated saying this. She knew that she must get her to understand that her actions hurt more than herself. She didn’t just embarrass herself. She risked her position here and theirs. Something that none of them expected by the look of their pale faces. “All of us? But she’s the one who’s trying to break us up Luna. Why would we be punished?”
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Benedict was teasing Ebony with names over dinner when the call came through. The first real call. They’d been watching a storm for the last three days. It’s winds were pushing thirty-five miles an hour and lightning was flashing randomly throughout the mountains. The problems they were having was the area the storm was in had been a dry zone for the last eight months. They were waiting for the lightning to start multiple fires, flash floods, landslides, and car accidents. Humans would need help it’s how these things worked. Extreme weather was becoming worse not better. Humans could handle a lot but it was adding up.“Go on, this is what we made this place for. Show them why we’re here and what we can offer.” Ebony all but pushed Benedict out the door. “I have enough people here to help me. I’ll be fine here missing you. Now go.”“Right. Don’t do anything crazy while I’m gone okay?” Benedict begged. He wasn’t sure what she would do. But she was pushing him out the door when he w
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“Marian, I know in a perfect world we could plan this between the two of us and we’d have pups and children learning together without a problem.” Ebony went to a meeting luncheon with Marian to speak about Marian’s idea of the pups going to school in the town with the town’s human children.“Right. It would never happen that way, would it? Alright, so how will we do this?” Marian said a little chagrinned. Ebony shook her head and shrugged. She cocked her head to the side as she got a sudden thought.“We’ll start with talking to the children’s parents. We don’t have to talk to them. A questionnaire or a phone call. A town hall meeting or a PTA meeting. You can choose what would make the community feel more comfortable. I would hate to hear someone a year from now say that they felt they were left out of the decision and didn’t feel like a member of the community.” Ebony gave a vague idea. A blush crossed her cheeks when she realized how random and unworkable it was. But Marian did
