Cree looked at us like he wanted to laugh. “Right. You must be scared that you might lose her to her ex that she wants to go see.”
“Fuck you. We could never be scared to lose Bellamy to anyone. She belongs to us,” we growled at Cree. He was about to get fucked up. There wasn’t another shifter alive who could takeBellamy from us. They’d be dead before they could lay a paw on Bellamy.
“Then what’s the issue? It seems like she just wants to check on this shifter. Nothing more. I don’t see the harm in taking her to go see if he’s alive and well.”
“You would take Halo to go see her ex?”
The sinister smile on Cree’s face spoke volumes. “Halo doesn’t have any exes. However, if someone looked out for her in a time when I wasn’t able to, I wouldn’t mind taking her to check on them. I mean, you’ll be there. If dude tries anything, you can just kill him, and there won’t be any other threats for you to be worried about.” Cree sat back in the bar chair smirking at us.
“There is no fucking threat when it comes to Bellamy,” we replied while cutting our eyes at Cree.
“Should be no issue then.” Cree shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. “But if not, I don’t mind letting Bellamy tag along with Halo and me. Halo thinks her father might be in the Sanctuary of Life too. She wants to find out. I’ll try to keep an eye on her and dude,” Cree continued to tease us. We wanted nothing more than to wipe that eat-ass smirk off his face.
“Bellamy isn’t going anywhere.” I meant that too. If we weren’t going, neither was she. I didn’t understand why she needed to see if that shifter was still alive. If she didn’t love him or want to be with him like she claimed, she shouldn’t have wanted to see him this fucking bad. It didn’t make any sense to me.
Because you are allowing your fears to lead us,my bear grunted lowly. He didn’t like the idea of our mate wanting to see another shifter; however, he was far more understanding than I was.
“If I know my mate, she’s going to invite Bellamy, and I guarantee if you try to tell her she can’t come, she’s going toresent you. You think she’s difficult to deal with now. Just wait until she’s pissed at you.”
“She’ll just have to deal with it.”
“She won’t, though. It’s going to affect the strength of your mating bond, even more so because it hasn’t been completed yet. Trust me. You don’t want to go through that. Just come with us and stop being difficult,” Cree tried to reason with me, and I heard him, but I still wasn’t sold.
He’s right. We are going to go with our mate. It is our duty to support her in all things.
I shook my head at my bear trying to lay down laws. Of course he wanted to act like he was the rational one when in reality, he usually was the one who acted an ass.
“I guess,” I mumbled, feeling myself getting annoyed because I knew it was going to be a matter of time before we relented to go with Bellamy to the Sanctuary of Life.
“You know it is a shame when Creeland is the one making sense.” Tiny’s voice came from my left side. Creeland and I looked over at her as she casually sat next to me. Tilting her head forward, she looked past me at Cree. “I’m happy that you learned from your actions. Maybe there’s hope for you after all.” The sarcasm in Tiny’s voice couldn’t be missed.
“‘Preciate it,” Cree responded back to Tiny with the same sarcasm.
“I never thought I’d live to see the day when I said this,” Tiny said with her face balled up like she had eaten something nasty. “Creeland is correct. You are going to push your mate away before you have her. Pride and ego can be very dangerous.”
“I hear you,” was my only reply. I didn’t have much else to say when I knew they were both right.
“Don’t just hear me. Listen as well, or you’ll be like that one over there twiddling his thumbs like a little pup,” Tiny said in a joking tone.
“I can tell how much you missed me over the last year. Gotta come back and see me more often,” Cree responded smugly.
“Missing you sounds scary, and luckily, I’m not here for you… this time. Kenzo. It’s a long road ahead of you. There are many things that are coming your way. Be warned: when they come to you, they aren’t coming to fight fair. You have to watch them for they do not come alone. Corruption has many ways of seeping in. They know it’s time for you to be the Alpha of your kind. No more running. Fate has blessed you. Go take your throne from the ones who conspire against you.”
I’d always known that at some point, one of the shifters in my family would have to step up to become the True Alpha of the Bears. It was always in the Atallah bloodline for us to be the leaders of the bears. Fate had told my great-great-grandfather the council would only last for so long. I only hoped that it would skip me and my bear. Being an Alpha seemed like too much work. We liked our peace. After becoming the Alpha, there would be no such thing as peace. No matter how we were feeling about the situation, we knew it was our duty to be prepared, which was one of the main reasons we started to go to the Kismet Packland to watch how the brothers ran their pack. My bear and I weren’t all the way sold on being the True Alpha, but we knew we needed to be prepared just in case.
“You’re speaking about the council?” we asked as a million things ran through our mind. Tiny was speaking as if the council had been corrupted, but we couldn’t tell. All five of them seemed like their normal egotistical selves.
“All cannot handle power, which is why Fate gave the ones who are pure of heart the title of Alpha,” Tiny replied in an omnificent tone with her eyes glowing white. “All it takes is the smallest bit of darkness in their hearts to become corrupted.”
“It’s hard to see any of the council members being smart enough to do anything outside of fucking or giving commands,”we chuckled lightly. Not to be overconfident, but none of the council members were of any threat to us. My bear easily dwarfed theirs in size and power, which was why they usually left us alone. If anything, they were all feeling themselves and needed to be reminded of who the fuck we were.
“Don’t sleep on others because you think you know them. Our own uncle betrayed our entire family because he was jealous that his sons weren’t next to become the Alphas of our pack. Uncle Augustus sat back for years plotting and waiting for the right time to try to kill us,” Cree spoke up as a brief look of sadness flashed in his eyes.
“We just can’t see them doing anything crazy. Guess you can’t put nothing past anyone in this world. We will be on the lookout for them doing anything suspicious. Ti—” I turned to ask Tiny a question, but the chair she just occupied was empty.
“Her and Minnie always appear and disappear when they feel like it. Get used to it,” Cree responded nonchalantly.
“That shi?—”
