Oden laughed, “If you haven’t noticed already the answer is we have gotten faster. We can catch up to mate. She might not run at full steam, but we can catch her.” I urged, “Then catch her,because I had not noticed we were fast enough to do that. I heard the part of your statement where she has to want us to catch her though. I heard the subtext.” Oden chuckled.
Oden took off. He and Freya ended up playing and taking a swim. When they were done playing, we shifted back. Melanie smiled commenting happily, “You’re up early.” I kissed her then whispered, “I wanted to get up when you did.” I groaned when I smelled someone coming up behind us.
Melanie asked me, “Who is that?” I snorted, “Dylan freaking Frost.” I turned grumbling “What do you want, Dylan?” Dylan answered, “I want so much. Just so you know, I am everywhere all the time to make sure my meetings happen on time. ESPECIALLY this one.” Of course he was.
Dylan demanded, “So, off to the house you two go. None of this frolicking in the woods that will lead to sex. I know this was your plan mini moody SGAP as someone who knows your father. I know exactly where your little frolic was heading for.”
I asked, “Why are you even awake?” Dylan replied, “One has to keep track of all the people in the meeting to know things. MelAshley wakes up early and remains the wild card. I had to keep tabs on her.” Melanie asked, “Have you even gone to bed yet, Dylan?”
I looked over and observed Dylan’s hands were slightly shaking. Dylan snorted, “I took my Thanksgiving nap. I am determined to have this meeting and get answers to my powers of manifesting.” I groaned, “You know about that and that’s not what it’s called.”
Melanie told Dylan, “I always planned to be at the meeting.” Dylan said, “I would believe that if you didn’t have on that watch that calls you away. That now Mini Moody SGAP has. That is a nice watch and Mini Moody SGAP’s looks different.”
Melanie blushed, “I mean… the alerts go off when they do… but I’m planning to be at the meeting… so… wearing the watchis not precursor to that not happening. I wear it all the time.” I laughed, “It matches my wolf, Dylan.”
Dylan snorted, “It’s adorable you think that’s the only difference, Mini Moody SGAP.” I asked Melanie, “What’s he talking about?” Dylan said, “PICK ME MMSGAP!” I raised an eyebrow at him because he was now abbreviating the whole name.
Dylan asked, “What? Mini Moody takes so long to say with your title now. Give us mere mortals a break. MMSGAP is already a mouthful.” Melanie snickered. I sighed, “What am I picking you for?” Dylan smiled, “I just bet your watch has a lot of bells and whistles that others don’t.”
I snorted, “Please tell my mother that.” Dylan grinned, “My goddess probably already figured it out. She just wouldn’t call them bells and whistles.” I turned to Melanie noting that based on our bond Dylan was right. Oden purred, “Ours is clearly more special than we knew.”
I asked, “My watch does things the others don’t do?” Melanie kicked the ground saying, “Well… ummm… that….” Dylan coughed, “That means yes, just so you know. Take it from a guy who has been around women longer than you.” I rolled my eyes at him.
Dylan’s timer beeped. He urged, “Come along now pups. It’s time to eat an early breakfast and get to my meeting.” I sighed. Dylan commented, “Yes, I see that look. You think you could’ve gotten in a quickie, but I know you Conners boys. It’s never enough time for you lot.”
“THEN we lose you in a treehouse I cannot find. The people who can find them would not come get you. It would upset my apple cart and that’s just not happening today of all days. I SHAN’T ALLOW IT!” I rolled my eyes and grabbed his wrist since I already had Melanie’s hand.
I popped to the living room where everyone else was already waiting. Dylan walked over and kissed Buttercup on the cheek saying, “My lovely and beautiful daughter. Thank you for getting everyone here on time. We can’t forget to thank the lovely Danver who I smuggled in from Blue Moon territory to make sure this happened.”
Mrs. Blanch came in with food and we all ate in silence. Melanie’s dread was growing, and the McAlister’s looked more concerned the longer my mate was silent. Dylan stood in dramatic fashion, rolled his neck around, then cracked his knuckles.
Dylan declared, “Now, it’s time to share what we learned from the Werebengals. Wonderful people really.” Elise snorted, “Yeah, they seemed great.” Dylan waved his hands insisting, “A few bad eggs don’t make them all bad.”
Dylan cooed, “Plus, they are the guardians of your sister in law. You know, minus the ones who wanted to lock up Mini Moody SGAP over there to mate with MelAshley and use their pups to RULE THE WORLD!”
Dylan paused then said, “But ya know, those are the outliers. Every group has them. We had Claudzilla.” Lacy snickered into her hand. Dad growled, “For the love of god, will you stop bringing her up?”
Dylan smiled, “Sure. We could talk about Tara, Amy, or….” Dad growled again. Dylan smirked, “I digress. There was also Chrisassty but they are not the topic of the day. Nay, the fact that MelAshley is actually a goddess who will unite the shifters of all shapes and sizes, before her and MMSGAP ascend to actual goddess and god status is today’s focus. No dying for them, just simply ascending.”
Drake interrupted, “Excuse me?” I guess they didn’t get past his wolf being a former god’s. Dylan said, “Tip of the iceberg,Drake my boy. Though it will probably just blow your mind that your daughter is the new Moon Goddess.”
Dylan declared, “Move over Selene, MelAshley has come to save the day! No one likes Selene anyway. Her time to shine is over. To be fair, she didn’t shine much. She’s kind of the worst. Freya is her little sister, and can I just say that family needs some serious therapy for their obvious sibling rivalry.”
Freya took over Melanie’s body and growled. Dylan said, “No offense little sis goddess, but big sis sucks at her job. Plus ya know, there’s the fact that she seriously screwed you over.” Dylan held up his hands, “I’m just saying. Selene is obviously none too happy about being replaced. Maybe she doesn’t even realize it, but you two should have a therapy session. Not with my goddess because she’s no fan of Selene’s. Speaking of my goddess.”
Dylan whirled around and pointed at my dad shouting, “YOU!” Dad sighed, “What?” Dylan shouted, “You dirty rat. You fiend, you insert all the words that mean an unfair, obnoxious person who just happens to be my friend.” Dad sighed, “You know. How do you know?”
Dylan shouted, “AH HA! It’s true! Oh, sweet mother of God it’s true. I have to sit down.” Dylan quickly sat down, and Danver put a glass of whiskey in his hand. Dylan said, “Thank you, Danver.” He slammed the glass and a second replaced the first.
Dylan sighed, “I blame myself. This is all my fault. I’ve been calling you a God for twenty plus years. What was I expecting? Maybe I can use this talent for evil. Can I damn someone to a bad place? Have I already done that? I DIDN’T KNOW I COULD DO THAT! EVERYONE REMAIN CALM!”
So, Dylan clearly thought his power had expanded. Dylan hummed, “Though I only wish bad things on bad people. So, they deserve their eternal damnation. I just forgot my powers and now you’re a god too. Oh, cruel unknowing universe. Withthis power comes such a responsibility I didn’t know sat upon my shoulders.”
Julian asked, “What are you talking about, Dylan?” Dylan urged, “Go on LSGAP, tell your pups about your god-like status.” Dad looked at mom who nodded. Dad explained, “We found out recently that in a few centuries your mom, her family, Lucas and I by extension, along with our family, will ascend to form a new type of god and goddess council.”
“That way one person is not solely responsible for the whole race, as it once was before they got all ‘I can do it by myself.’ Which they clearly cannot, I’m just saying. Aiden is the full blooded Fairy god and Lucinda the goddess.”
“Haley will be the partial Fairy goddess and so on and so forth. It’s part of being the promised family. We were told there is one who can find the book that’s hidden, but we don’t know who it is. Or where it is.” Oden said, “Mate sees through charms, maybe it’s her.” That had merit.
