Night slipped off of Terri, pushing me aside slightly. "Make room, puppy.." she said with a smirk. "I want
double snuggles.." I rolled away just enough to let her wedge in between us as my senses reeled from just the
barest contact of her against me. She smelled almost as good as Terri to me, though Terri still had the slight
"scent edge" as bizarre as that probably sounds. Lord knows it sure sounds weird to me as I type it.
"You know, Darren isn't going to be too happy about you biting him," she said to Terri.
"I know...but it really wasn't his choice to make," she replied.
"He asked where you were. I told him you were out of town; but then we heard you howling last night. I'm not
sure what he's going to say about that," Night said, sounding slightly unhappy.
"It's not like he's your boss," I suggested, feeling a bit irked.
"Actually, that's really what he is," Night corrected. "No, it's not that he can tell her or any of us what we
can or can't do with our lives...but in any matter concerning the pack, he does have final say. Yes..he has a
wife, but she just sides with him." Night sighed, looking less than pleased.
Terri spoke up. "Bringing in a new pack member is something that the whole pack is supposed to vote on, with
him getting final say, love. We'd..discussed it a bit last month, and he wasn't too keen on it."
Night looked irritated. "He flat-out told you not to."
I couldn't help but be a bit concerned. "So..am I gonna have problems with the pack now, since I wasn't
officially sanctioned?"
"No love, it'll be fine," Terri said, but it had a sad and hesitant tone, and hinted that she wasn't telling
the whole truth.
"Look, you deserve to know the truth," Night said, rolling over to face me. "Devon...the pack alpha
male...he..well..he's gotten a bit...aggressive about keeping males out of the pack."
I felt a bit of a dominance surge, and I growled under my breath. "Really?"
"Honey.." Terri said quietly.
"He doesn't want males around. It's patently obvious," Night protested.
"It's not like that.." Terri said weakly.
"Hon..stop deluding yourself. He's using our pack as a personal harem. He knows that if any of us brought in a
boyfriend or a guy we liked..he wouldn't have all of us at his beck and call during the moonrise," she said.
"We can't help ourselves during the full moon," Terri argued.
"Yeah, well..when was the last full moon that he didn't fuck you either during or after the change...or in the
morning?"
Terri blushed and didn't really say much for a moment, before mumbling out a "Well, we ALL did.."
"That's what I'm saying!" Night snapped. "We only do HIM because he's the only male. If there was another
male, he'd be getting LESS, and that's what his issue is!"
"So I'm in for an ass-whipping when I finally meet this guy, huh?" I said, both a bit worried and angry.
Someone else had been with MY woman, and without my permission. Someone who had both more power and experience
than I did.
"No, she's overreacting.." Terri said, again sounding unsure.
"The hell I am," Night said. "That's why I came over...I want to break off from his pack. And..I want you two
to join me."
"Won't that cause a bigger issue?" I asked.
"It depends. Packs split all the time," Night said. "Ours never has, but other packs have. Technically
speaking, it's not considered that big of a deal, assuming you don't take the alpha male or female out of the
pack you're leaving. I'm well within my rights."
"Oh, so this could all be solved by telling him you're leaving?" I asked.
"Well..Devon's got a temper. He might think of it as an insult, because it kind of is. I mean really, I'm
telling him that I can lead a pack better than he can, and that I don't want his authority ruling over me, or
his protection."
"So..this is kind of a crapshoot, huh?"
"Pretty much," Night said. Then she reached out and stroked my arm, sending shivers up my spine. "You know
me..you don't know him, not like I do...come on...do this for me?"
She rolled over, repeating her plea to Terri. "Come on guys.."