"Roo," Helena groaned as Roo kissed her neck. "We can’t not right now."
"Why not?" Roo groaned as he held Helena close to him. "We know we’re mates."
"Because we have a pack to take care of," Helena hissed.
As much as she wanted to be in his arms and for them to be fully mated, they still had the matter of their recently attacked pack.
"I need you," Roo groaned.
"You have ," Helena sighed as she rested her head against his. "But our pack needs us."
Roo sighed and shook his head.
"I just want to be fully mated to you," Roo groaned.
"And we will be," Helena said as she kissed his lips. "But Ro, you have a job to do, a pack to lead."
Roo nodded as he kissed her again.
"I was so worried I’d lose you this ti," Roo confessed as he let out a breath. "When I sensed them coming, I just had to protect you."
"Roo, I can protect myself," Helena sighed. "I heal faster than the normal wolf, and you know, magic."
She hadn’t practiced magic in a long ti. It was part of her father’s legacy, and he was the one guiding her.
"You haven’t used magic since your Dad died," Roo sighed.
"Doesn’t an I can’t use it," Helena shrugged. "If I have to, I will. You have to trust that I can take care of myself, Roo."
Roo kissed her, and it wasn’t like any other kiss they’d shared in the past.
This one felt desperate, as if he was trying to rember the feel of her lips on his.
"I will never stop worrying about you, Helena," Roo whispered against her lips. "You will always be my priority."
Helena sighed and shook her head.
It was the fact that Roo would put her ahead of the pack that made her worry.
"Call your Beta and Gamma to the office," Helena told Roo. "We need to know the damage, and we need to know where those wolves ca from."
Roo nodded as he closed his eyes and sent out orders.
While he sent out the commands, Helena took the ti to speak to her wolf.
’How much worse will he get when he finds out?’ Helena asked Hera.
’A lot worse,’ Hera said as she faded back into Helena’s mind to rest.
Despite Roo having her dragged away from the fighting, she and Hera were exhausted. It was a good thing Roo hadn’t insisted on the mating, at least this reprive would give Hera ti to rest.
"They’ll et us in the office," Roo said with a nod. "I’ve asked Dad and the forr leadership to join us as well as your uncle."
"Let’s go," Helena said as she unwrapped herself from Roo’s hold. "The sooner we get to the bottom of this the sooner we can get back to what we were doing."
"I can get behind that," Roo purred as he gave her ass a squeeze, making Helena yelp. "Our new room is set up."
"The Alpha suite?" Helena asked as they walked down the stairs, their fingers interlocked.
"Yep, I already knew you’d be my mate," Roo shrugged. "There was never going to be anyone else, Helena."
Roo smiled and gave his hand a squeeze.
When they arrived in the Alpha’s office everyone was already waiting for them.
Roo stood by the door, staring at the empty Alpha’s seat.
It stood like a throne at the head of the long conference table.
"Alpha," his father greeted him with a slight bow.
Roo blinked as he continued to hold onto Helena’s hand.
"Have you forgotten that you just had your Alpha Rite?" Helena teased as she pulled her mate into the room, shutting the door behind them.
She led Roo to the head of the table and gestured for him to sit.
Roo shook his head and looked at the people in the room.
Among those he had summoned were several Alphas and their high-ranking wolves. Helena smiled at the sight of more won in the room.
"Can we get this over with?" Kade groaned. "I have a new mate that I need to get to."
Roo glared at Kade, making Helena laugh.
They both knew who Kade was mated to and Roo did not want to think of his sister being newly mated.
"Has she moved into your rooms?" Helena giggled.
"Okay, enough talk of my sister and her mate," Roo grumbled.
"You do know that your sister is now mated to your Gamma. You’re never going to hear the end of it," Helena chuckled.
Raul cleared his throat, making Helena laugh.
She knew they were going off-topic, and it might have been odd for all their guests to hear their banter, but it was fun.
"Right," Roo said as he straightened himself and gestured for everyone to sit.
To Helena’s surprise, instead of sitting her to his left, he made her sit to his right, a spot traditionally reserved for the Beta.
"As you all know, we were attacked today," Roo announced. "It wasn’t the first, but it was probably the largest attack we’d had since the threat began. Gamma Kade, what do we know?"
Kade stood up and took out a notebook.
"During the Alpha Rite run, we were attacked by fifty wolves from an unknown pack. They targeted the Luna first, hoping to incapacitate the Alpha," Kade said, making Helena flinch. "Of the fifty that attacked, thirty are dead, five are in our custody, while the remainder seed to have escaped."
"How many casualties on our side?" Helena asked, closing her eyes.
"Five dead, Luna," Kade said with a grim tone.
"How?" Helena asked. "How did they die?"
Kade hesitated. He looked at Roo as if asking him for permission to speak.
"I asked you a question, Gamma," Helena said, adding a bit more force to her tone. "How did they die?"
Kade tried to resist the order, but he could do nothing.
"They died during the initial wave, from the wolves that managed to slip through after attacking you and the Alpha," Kade said as he bowed his head.
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