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KESKA: I come downstairs after my shower and changing, I hear some pretty hard crashes of the pool balls coming from the game room, so I head in that direction just to make sure that whatever is happening in there stays friendly. I find Lima alone and taking his anger out on the balls. “Father will skin you if those balls break.” I say to him. He stops in mid-shot, turns to look at me, then drops the stick and runs straight for me. “Don’t you ever disappear on me again!” He wraps his arms around me and buries his face in my neck. “Hey, it’s ok, Liam, I am not hurt.” I tell him as I wrap my arms around him and rock him gently. “I also am not waiting until I am 18, when this stupid ball is over, I want you to blood oath me.” He says with anger in his voice. “Liam, we talked about that. There is really no way to undo that.” “I don’t care, you were gone and none of them cared, not one of them.” He said to me. “Hey, Sshh, they cared, they had people in place watching, the worst thing that happened this time was that they put silver cuffs on me.” I tell him in a soothing voice, I whisper to him, “Silver doesn’t bother me much, I think it has to do with Corla being an elemental. But we will keep that secret to ourselves, ok?” I ask him. He nods his head. “Ok, I have to get back to work now, are you going to be ok? And not beat the crap out of the pool balls?” “I want to come with you.” “I guess, Sarah can always use another pair of hands.” I say to him, and he nods. And we head to the kitchen. When I step in, Mackie rushes to hug me, she engulfs me in a bear hug. “I was so worried, you didn’t come back, and the prince was asking for us to join them for dinner. I didn’t know what to do. I told Nana, and she helped.” She rushed her words out at me. “Hey, sshh I am ok.” I tell her as I hug her back. “We have work to do.” I say to her. “How on earth can you think of work after everything?” she says to me. “Because if I don’t focus on that, I will break and I will not let Jessie win.” I say to her. She nods. She heads through the door with a dish in her hand and phone in her pocket, wearing the biggest smile I have ever seen on her face. I look to Liam, and he, too, is picking up a dish and waiting on me. I walk over to Sarah to let her know that I am back and working. I then go and pick up the next dish in line and head towards the door.
WYATT: There is a subtle shift in the energy. I felt it as my sister walked through the door of the marquee, and I also felt it in the prince and the gamma sitting with us as they saw the smile on Mackie's face. Keska must be back. I watch as Kenz puts the dish down and turns to look around. She spots Jessie, moves to a different location, and takes out her phone. I link James. *“Something is about to happen, Kenz is smiling, and she has her phone out, pay attention.”*
DRAKE: I got the link that Keska was back and that she was going to change. I also got a link from the guards that I had on the cells; they overheard the girls talking, saying that they weren’t going to take the fall for Jessie, that if they were going down, so was Jessie. That was enough for me. I headed into the marquee just in time to see Keska walk through the other door carrying a hot plate to replace an empty one on the buffet right behind Liam. Jessie saw her, and I thought she was going to tackle her right then and there. I noticed Mackenzie standing in a position to catch the expression on Jessie's face when Keska walked in. I almost laughed, but I had to get to Jessie before she started anything in here where her possible mate might see, and then possibly reject her. Nobody wanted that to happen at least not yet anyway, if she pulled shit after they were mated then it was on her. I moved in to stand in front of her. *“You will come with me to my office, you will not cause a scene. If you cause a scene, there is a good chance that everything that you have done will come out, and you could end up being rejected. Do you want that?”* I linked her. She just looked up at me and blinked as if she had no clue what I was talking about, but she did come with me quietly.
JAMES: I watched as the whole thing with dad and Jessie played out, Liam looked as if he were going to bust out laughing at any minute, at Jessie’s expression, and the picture Mackie took, I linked her, *“I want to see that picture.”* She just looked in my direction and then looked back at her phone. Then my phone pinged, I took it out, she had sent it to me. I opened it and then showed it to Wyatt and the prince, and his friend. We had been talking and I told them that I knew who they were to my sister, and I also assured them that I would keep it to myself, as would Wyatt. “I think I need to go with them.” I nodded in the direction of my twin and my dad. “Sometimes I can keep her from causing havoc.” I tell them. I follow my father and my sister out of the marquee and up to his office.
DRAKE: I noticed James get up and follow us, good, he is starting to learn. We get to my office, and I motion to a chair in front of my desk for her to sit in. “Why am I here? I didn’t do anything.” “Wrong. You did a lot and because of it you will spend the rest of the weeknights in the cells with the rest of your friends, you will clean them, and you will sleep in them. You will be let out for the activities that have been planed for the week, you will be allowed to shift on Wednesday, and if your mate is here, you will accept him, but you will tell him that you are helping with an investigation and that you can’t spend nights with him but you will leave with him at the end of the week. Do I make myself clear to you?” “What did I do, Daddy?” She whined at me. I took my phone out and showed her the text screenshot that I got from Janica. Then I let her listen to the recording that Alpha Lucas sent as well. “So, are you still going to say you did nothing?” I asked her. “But the cells? I can’t! Daddy, I am an alpha born. How could you?” “Oh, so now you don’t think it’s funny when you have to spend a week in the cells. You thought it was hilarious when you found out that your sister had to do it, because you didn’t take responsibility for the things that you did, you thought that you had a built-in scapegoat, and things weren’t going to catch up with you?” “What kind of Luna would that make you?” “What kind of person, period, does that make you?” “One that I would not trust, and right now I am trying to make sure you learn a lesson before you end up getting rejected by your mate if he or she is here right now.” “Because if any of this gets out to everyone that is here, there is that possibility, and truly nobody wants that.” I say to her. I watch as she hangs her head; she knows she has been caught. “What will happen to Dedi and Marla?” she asked “They will be sharing in your punishment, and spending the nights in the cells if their mates are here then they will leave with them at the end of the week, but if they go unmated they will be put on probation and watched if they can stay out of trouble then I will consider sending them to as many mating balls as possible to get them out of my pack.” I tell her. She just nods.