"Have you seen these?" Kade groaned as he handed Roo his phone from the front seat making Roo groan.
He was starting to regret inviting Kade to ride with him, but as the hours passed all Kade would do was grumble about not being around Rae.
"What am I supposed to be looking at?" Roo asked without even looking at the phone.
"You’re not even looking," Kade grumbled as he reached back and snatched his phone from Roo. "It’s a photo of your sister with a baby."
Roo suddenly shot up in his seat.
"A baby?" he asked Kade.
"Yeah," Kade said as he leaned back and pinched the space between his eyes. "She wasn’t pregnant when she left."
"She would have been," Roo told Kade in an attempt to make his Gamma feel better. "It only takes once."
"And I’d know if I had a child," Kade growled. "I should have felt a connection to the child when I saw the photo, but there was none."
"Maybe it was soone else’s," Roo told his friend.
"Impossible, the child looked just like you Blackmoons," Kade said in a defeated tone.
"A lot of people look like us," Roo said.
"Trust , this child could be yours," Kade said as he tossed his phone to the side.
Roo let out a sigh as he looked out his window.
"I’m sure Rae has an explanation," Roo said. He wasn’t sure if he was telling Kade or himself.
"I’m sure," Kade grumbled.
"My sister wouldn’t cheat on her mate," Roo said, practically growling at the Gamma. "You would have felt it if she did."
Roo knew that his words were partially for himself as well.
Despite being apart for months, Roo knew Helena had remained faithful. Mates knew, mates felt it when the other one wasn’t.
"Have you felt a new mber of the pack?" Kade asked Roo.
"Yes," Roo admitted. "But I don’t think it was Rae’s child. The energy coming from it was too powerful, or maybe it could have been since it’s the child of a Gamma and an Alpha’s daughter."
"It told you, Roo, I’m certain it’s not mine," Kade grumbled.
Roo decided not to push the issue.
If the child wasn’t Kade’s and Rae’s then it had to be from one of his Betas.
When he first felt that blip of power a few weeks ago, he asked Neil if he had a secret child sowhere and Neil laughed at him.
He knew Daniel was mated, but the young man hadn’t ntioned his wife being pregnant, then again Roo had never asked. So it was still a possibility that the newest mber of their pack belonged to Daniel.
As for the child, it could have been one of the Sunfire Alphas’s. Rae could have been taking care of the child for one of them or for one of their new friends’s.
They had a few more hours to drive till they reached Sunfire City. They’d arrive a little after the ball started and Roo hoped that Helena would be there.
Taking the opportunity to rest, Roo quickly fell asleep and only woke when they arrived in the city.
It was already dark out and the Blood Moon had already risen.
The warrior that was driving them inford the guards at the gate of who they were and they were let in without any issue.
"At least the Sunfire Alpha’s are agreeing to that part of the treaty," Kade said from the front seat as they drove through the gates and past the wall that protects the city from would-be invaders.
"Let’s go straight to the packhouse," Roo inford the warrior who simply grunted in response.
Roo watched as they passed towering skyscrapers and people rushing on the sidewalks to get to their destinations.
Roo had been here a few tis over the years, both when he was young and later on when he was training to be Alpha.
He’d gone to Alpha Training with one of the Sunfire Alphas and was shocked to hear that the other had chosen the Warrior Academy instead. Very few Alpha’s chose that route since it lacked so of the lessons they would need as Alpha to a pack.
"This place is amazing!" Kade gasped as they passed through the streets.
"Never been?" the warrior driving them teased.
He was a transplant from Sunfire city, one of those who’d moved after Helena negotiated a treaty between the two packs.
"No," Kade admitted. "Why can’t Blackmoon or Stonehill be like this?"
"I’m sure Helena has her plans," Roo said as he thought of his mate, the sa mate that he would be seeing soon.
"The Luna is a visionary," the warrior said. "I worked with her on the treaty and she’s quite the visionary, and through all that, all she would ntion was how the packs would grow with you at the helm."
Roo smiled at the thought of Helena talking about him to people he didn’t know.
"She truly is amazing," Roo whispered to himself as they pulled up in front of the Sunfire Packhouse.
"You ready?" Kade asked as they watched people streaming in and out.
So were couples who clearly just found each other, while so seed to have been mated already, probably just enjoying the night out.
The Blood Moon Ball wasn’t just for the unmated, it was a chance for everyone to enjoy as well.
"Let’s go get our mates," Roo announced as he opened his door.
They climbed the stairs and entered through the twenty-foot doors of the pack house, passing wolved who bowed to greet him.
"Would you like to be announced?" Kade asked as they reached the formal entrance to the ballroom where the main gathering was happening.
Roo shook his head.
"I don’t want to give her the chance to run," he said with a grin as they silently entered the ballroom.
Roo scanned the room, searching it for his mate and that’s when it landed on her and he felt his heart drop.
She was on the dancefloor with another man and he was holding her tight as if he was afraid to lose her.
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