Malcolm finally got away from the meeting. It hadn’t been that long, but it covered a lot. Cal, the alpha of the Crimson Nights, found out information about his little cheating wolf. Malcolm wasn’t familiar with the alpha’s of all the lone packs. These alphas were struggling with little to no territory, often they only had a handful of pack members usually. They were the wolves that lived paycheck to paycheck and Malcolm believed that the system failed these people. They lost their dreams in that struggle to survive. Which is how he hoped this recent development could help change things. They would have to have checks and balances for the services, though. What Cal had said about this Alpha Elmwood and what Alpha Norman had confirmed, Malcolm didn’t believe the man deserved to have a pack. Add in the fact that Cal sounded different when he spoke about this female who tried to cheat the house. Malcolm thought it was his just deserts for all the times
“I can’t believe this. You’re saying the Ruling Council’s Enforcer teams have left the city. Why? They’re supposed to be searching for the Fae hiding in and around the city.” The Toronto Council of Alphas convened that following afternoon and the Ruling Council’s contact stood before them, explaining the Ruling Council’s position for them. “Information has come to the NARC Council that the Fae have moved on from the city in search of wild magic. The council has a plan in action that will pull these creatures toward a location within an isolated area of Northern British Columbia.” The representative was a mage from the office of the mage ambassador, Stephan Fine. He was just a talking mouthpiece, and everyone knew this. That knowledge made this meeting rather strained. “How certain are we that all the Fae have left the city and surround region?” Alpha Wolversen asked for further clarification on these sudden changes. “Between a combination of scrying
Sure enough, the few Fae attacks within the area ended and weeks when by. Malcolm felt a little disappointed because he wouldn’t be able to fight against the Fae. But the Ruling Council enforcers were correct, and the attacks kept cropping up farther away from during the coming weeks. Sadly, as the weeks became months, the sabotage and attacks on shifter interests didn’t stop. They slowed, but they didn’t stop. However, the events became more focused on regions where shifters were known to be building a foothold, as the press called it. The press wasn’t all against the new supernatural population. After all, the Vampire faction actually held stakes, ironically, in many of the media outlets along with the mage faction. How else were they able to control the dissemination of details about the existence of the supernatural community’s existence worldwide? Now they used that influence to provide the world with the facts about various people’s lives
Melody felt a sense of déjà vu as she entered the Muskoka Cottage again. This was Ellie’s first time here, and she’d been teasing Melody all the way up there. Ellie was now a few weeks away from giving birth. Here within the pack’s territory she could be close to everything she’d need when the time comes. Her pregnancy was too far along for her to shift safely, and with the question of safety in the city, Malcolm and Jordan believed this was the safest place for both women. They were remodelling the Penthouse Floor right now, changing the rooms and making the entire floor one large home. This was so that they could have the best care for the pups as they grew and the maximum safety as well. They turned an outbuilding into a studio for Ellie and Melody’s live streams and work. The men would use it to communicate with the pack back in the city and travel into the city once or twice a week. They’d been told they’d have more responsibilities wi
It took several days of filming to record their stories in a way that Edith believed would be effective. Aireka assured Ellie and Melody several times that Edith may be far too blunt and honest for her own good, but she had a brilliant mind that could see and plan amazing things. Allan, her mate and Alpha Gregory’s father, were with the other men in Gregory’s study, working on several things of their own. The redevelopment project had become several projects with multiple stages crossing multiple cities and countries. They needed to expand and keep a finger on the pulse of all the places and different stages. Design training for a staff Malcolm hadn’t planned for. But with the help from NARC and the Black River Pack, they would have enough people to work through the serious growing pains. It wasn’t just manpower, resources, transportation, and security were all needed. Gregory had a connection with the Bear Shifter Faction in the area. Thes
“Malcolm? We need to talk about the pack.”Return to cottage and discuss how he sees things workingNext chapter has melody show him what is really going on.Malcolm comes up with a way to confront the inconsistency They’d returned to the cottage within their territory and Malcolm stopped first at the packhouse with Melody in tow. One thing Melody felt keenly was that no one approached her to speak with her. All greeting was directly to Malcolm. Most of the pack didn’t know Melody or Ellie. It didn’t surprise Melody that they didn’t trust her. Also, this part of the pack was the older and more staid set. They weren’t sure if they could trust a fox in the top two female leadership positions. “What do you want to talk about?” Malcolm lit the fireplace and sat down on the sofa to watch it and relax. He patted the back of the sofa beside him. Ellie and Jordan had gone to their room for the evening. It was only the two of them. “Did you notice
It took Malcolm nearly a week to figure out how to work Melody into pack life so she would find acceptable. It surprised him how difficult it was. Not because he’d been called away in the middle of that week for three days. When he’d spoken to several of his pack members, he got an eye opening. Someone spoke to these people and spread the rumours about Melody having blackmailed him into taking her in and taking her as his mate.No one would explain who told them, but he had a suspicion. His mother loved to create drama and spread lies. Many of the elders stayed in touch with her, their loyalty to her somehow stronger than to him. After what happened at the condo, he wouldn’t put it past her to have said something horrid.He’d set up a meeting between the Elders and Melody. Of course, he couldn’t be there for the meeting. He’d fully intended to go with her to oversee what they said, but he’d been called away the night before.Melody had to go to the meeting and face the Elders alone. H
Melody got the elders talking after her condemnation of Malcolm to them. She clarified they were working out their issues and those issues were no longer the Elder’s business. She would take her place as Luna and they either worked with her or they would find their position within the pack changing. Malcolm had already made his support of Melody as his Luna clear, and that wouldn’t change. Taking their complaints about what she said here or trying to cause grief between them wouldn’t be tolerated. She wasn’t sure how much these wolves were accepting or just silently tolerating until they could attempt to create some kind of drama. “Now since we’ve had such an influence on the reveal of the supernatural people’s the world. We’ve been asked to find it in our hearts and homes to help find space for refugees within our territory. It could be permanently or until the new developments within what people are calling sanctuary, cities can be completed and