Roo woke up feeling like shit and it had nothing to do with the challenge he'd won last night.
She'd been around their territory.
And if Roo's assumptions were right, she'd been visiting Stonehill too. The way Alpha Jeremiah spoke to her about the pack was as if she visited often enough, and she had to.
She was still his Heir.
She was still going to be the Alpha of Stonehill pack.
He let her go last night. Right after, she told him that he was the reason she'd been avoiding Blackmoon all these years.
He wanted to ask why. He needed to know why.
Once, long ago, he thought she would be his mate, his Luna. He thought he'd wake up on the Blood Moon after his eighteenth birthday and scent her, his mate.
But things turned out differently. He woke up that morning, rushing to get to her, only to find her room empty, with Rae in tears.
She'd left.
She left him and she left his sister, her best friend.
They were told that Helena was sent to boarding school for the sake of their packs. A place where she could go and train to be the best.
This confused him at the ti because he'd recently been enrolled in Alpha camp, a place where all Alphas went to train.
Roo sat up.
He had to talk to her. He needed to clear the air between them, especially with Blood Moon only a week away.
He knew they were mates, he was sure they were mates.
Roo quickly threw on a shirt and a pair of sweats.
Normally, he'd be up much earlier than this to train, but after last night, his father told him to rest.
He had a lot to do, considering they were rging two packs now, and if Helena was his mate, it might as well be three.
Crossing the hall to her room, Roo knocked on the door.
"Helena, are you up?" Roo called out.
There was no answer.
He tried the door knob, but it was locked.
"Helena, please," Roo pleaded as he banged on the door again.
'What if they aren't there?' his wolf Ryder told him. 'They trained yesterday, they might be at training again today.'
'Good idea,' Roo told his wolf. 'But first let check.'
Roo pressed his ear against the door and closed his eyes.
The rooms in the pack house were soundproofed against wolf hearing. No one wanted to hear their Alpha and Luna going at it, especially not their kids.
When he heard no sound, he agreed with Ryder that they were probably at training.
He quickly made his way down, where he found Rebecca sitting by the table.
"Hey, squirt," Roo said as he ssed her hair.
"This is why I like Helena more than you," Rebecca said, sticking her tongue out.
"You and both, kid, you and both," Roo chuckled before walking out of the door.
He could always count on Rebecca to brighten his day without her even trying.
On the way to the training grounds, he bumped into Neil and Kade, who seed closer than they used to be.
It seed that last night had made Kade stand out, and Neil paid attention.
"Hey, have you seen Helena?" Roo asked the two n.
"Already chasing your Luna, Alpha?" Neil teased, making Kade laugh.
"Hey, don't sha the Alpha," Kade said, elbowing his new friend in the gut. "I'd look at her as if she hung the moon if she weren't taken."
"The thing is, she isn't," Neil teased.
"I liked it better when you couldn't stand each other," Roo grumbled.
"We haven't seen her, Alpha," Kade sighed. "She wasn't at training today."
Roo nodded, wondering where Helena could have gone.
There were so many places he was now thinking of looking.
Her favorite tree where she would rest and read, or maybe in the Pack Hospital, he rembered her spending so much ti there to help.
"Alpha, a word before you go searching for Helena," Neil said as he gestured toward the side.
Roo nodded as they walked away.
No one aside from his father and Helena knew he could now communicate directly mind to mind with their packmates.
"Kade has proven loyal and a good fighter," Neil told Roo as soon as they were out of earshot.
"You want him to be one of my ranked wolves?" Roo asked, surprised that Neil would recomnd the man so soon.
"Gamma, if possible," Neil said with a slight grimace.
Their other friend, Erik, was lined up for the role, but if Neil felt soone else would do a better job then Roo was willing to make changes.
"Nothing is fixed till my Rite," Roo inford Neil. "We can make the change. I trust you with this one."
"But you need to trust him too," Neil said. "Or have you forgotten that it's a Gamma's role to first protect the Luna and second protect the pack."
"And Kade will protect her because he respects her," Roo said with a lot more determination in his voice.
"Aren't you worried he'll make a move on her?" Neil asked with a raised eyebrow. "I've never seen you this jealous or protective of anyone or anything, not even of the pack."
"Kade respects Helena, he admires her, and that just makes proud of her," Roo said. "Now, if that's all, I have to go find her."
"That's it," Neil said as he let his Alpha leave.
Roo searched the territory for Helena for hours, but he couldn't find her.
Eventually, he found his way back to the pack house, where Rebecca greeted him with a smile.
"Have you by any chance seen Helena?" Roo asked.
"Nope," Rebecca said, smiling up at him.
"Do you know where she is?" he asked. He doubted she knew, but you never knew with Rebecca.
"She left," Rebecca said, frowning.
"What do you an she left?!" he asked, raising his voice just a little bit.
"She left this morning, I heard Mom tell Dad," Rebecca shrugged.
"And do you know where she is?" Roo questioned.
"I do, but if I tell you will you bring along?" Rebecca asked as she put her foot down.
"Fine," Roo said with a sigh as he pulled his sister along with him.
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