32. Remy

Chapter thirty-two

Remy

"Ithought Alpha life was exciting. Why is it so boring?" Remy whined as she scanned the large stack of papers on her new desk. Chase chuckled, and her mother sniggered. "At least Mom is trying to hold in her laugh. What’s your excuse?" she retorted at her mate.

Chase was on the other side of the desk, going through his own pile of papers. Things were busy throughout the week after the ceremonies. Remy stayed put, but Chase had to transfer some things in his territory over to Kodi, who was now moving his pack. All the merging and transferring of everything took a lot of paperwork and time. Tala was training Remy to cover the business and teaching her some final things about being an Alpha while her mate and brother settled their ends of things. It was the most boring week of Remy’s life. She was barely outside due to having to learn the laundry list of things needed for the business and pack, then checking on the pack members when she could in between. The amount of coffee she had been tweaking on occasion only caused her mother to laugh at her. Remy resorted to using her finger to express herself since attacking the former Luna of a pack was quite frowned upon.

Her mate had been enjoying the past two days back home. Mostly because Remy’s smart-ass attitude really showed to anyone who talked to her. For some reason, Chase enjoyed that attitude of hers.

"You won’t hurt me; I am your mate. It is magically impossible for you to hurt me."

Remy narrowed her eyes at him. "Wrong, Buster. It would be magically impossible for me to want to kill you. I can still smack you upside the head."

Chase peered up at her, smirking. "Then jump over this desk and lay it on me."

"No sex while your mother is present," Tala called out as she thumbed through some files in a cabinet.

Remy dry heaved. "Gross, Mom. I doubt Chase would be able to keep it up anyway."

Chase growled. "Wanna bet?"

Tala closed the cabinet and stalked out of the room. "I’ll go check on the pack. I don’t want to be here since you two can’t stop flirting."

"This is not flirting, Ma!"

"More like foreplay," Chase teased.

Remy growled at her mate, low and threatening. Chase winked at her and blew her a kiss before going back to his reading. Remy grumbled under her breath about having ungrateful people in her life and continued her own work. A few hours passed, and the pile slowly disappeared as Remy signed what she needed and filed them. When the last paper was dropped in the right file, Remy sighed and leaned back in her chair.

"Finally. Now I can relax. I swear to the Goddess, if that pile ever gets that big again, I am renouncing my title and hiding in the woods."

Chase laughed and got to his feet. He walked over to her, grasped the arms of the chair, leaned down, and put his lips on hers. It was gentle but still sparked their bond to life and made her want more. Chase deepened the kiss, making Remy moan and put her hands on his face. When he broke the kiss, Remy whined at him.

"I wasn’t done."

"Your mother is approaching. She would tear my hide if she actually caught us doing anything in here."

Remy groaned as her mother opened the door. Stress lines appeared on her young-looking face, and Remy jumped to her feet to run to her mother. Tala’s hand was shaking as she held an envelope. The handwriting looked as if a toddler had written it, but it was addressed to Remy. The scent of cedar hit her nose, causing Remy to snarl. She knew who that letter was from.

"It was on Chris’s body. I didn’t feel anything through the bonds. He was on patrol, and Bryan found him. I don’t understand. I didn’t feel anything through the pack bonds. I may not be Luna, but I should have felt something!"

Remy’s stomach was in knots. She didn’t feel a damn thing, either. She searched through the bonds to find Chris’s thread. It felt like he was still there, but the black goo that had been on Kodi’s before she healed him was on the end. Remy focused a little more, and she could see the bond had been severed. She called on her Lycan and thought of the power she called on to heal Kodi. The light lit up the bond, and the goo burned away. There were choking sounds that called Remy back to the office. Chase and her mother were baring their necks to her and doing their best to breathe. Remy let go of the power the Goddess blessed her with, and then she was hit with a wave of death that hit the pack bonds. Remy howled, hearing everyone in her pack joining in. She growled at the end of the howl and snatched the letter from her mother. Tala looked at her with pride on her face after the magic she wielded dissipated. Remy ignored it and read the letter.

My Dearest Luna,

I’m sure you are aware of what my plan was for you by now. It is true. I was going to conquer the kingdom while you were on that island. It was going to be my offering for you during our ceremony. I was going to give you the world. I still plan to do this for you because I intend to have you as my mate. We will rule this kingdom together and restore it to its former glory.

If you choose to remain tied to that oaf and rule that pack, you are choosing to stand against me. I will give you one week to break your bond and renounce your position before I come to that territory and claim it for myself. I will amass the power that is needed to conquer this kingdom and claim what is mine.

Until then, love,

Levi.

Chase was reading over Remy’s shoulder, and she felt his hot breath on her neck. His rage flooded their bond, nearly knocking the wind out of her lungs. Remy’s rage joined him as she read the letter again. She couldn’t believe Levi had the audacity to send her a letter like this.

"He can go fuck a cactus. I won’t allow him to do anything to this pack."

"Remy, he could cloak himself, kill one of our own, and mask it. How do you expect to go up against him if he can do things like that? How can we face an enemy that has a Witch at his disposal and can commit such crimes against his fellow man?"

"Simple, Mom. We will not just lie down and accept this. I’ll promise you this. I will ask my own witch friend for assistance. Then I will wipe the floor with that monster and rid our kingdom of his evil."

I’ll do whatever it takes to keep my people and my home safe.

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