Chapter 37
Maximus pov
“hurry, hurry we don’t have time to play now do we?” Ambrose huffs out as he pushes things around on the counter. “awe ha here it is these cabins are lacking in well everything. But I knew they would have salt for the steps. But nothing iron in this whole cabin. How to save that well maybe glass with salt then the jar. Yes, that could work. Do a little dance doo doo. Swing her around doe sea is that what does water and females have to do with dancing? Well maybe hmmmm I wonder well maybe I can go into that human city they have clubs maybe watching a human dance will make the song.” “dude what is wrong with you?” I ask this man that's I mean is he sane?
“oh, young beta I didn’t see you there. Have you and the gamma added your blood to the jar?” he looks at me with huge wide eyes. How old is he? like I can't really he looks my age but acts like the pups and talks like those stupid history movies. Having just put the cap back on I hand it to him. He takes a candle melts it over the lid then puts it in a pickle jar half full of salt. Dumping more salt over it. Ends by melting more wax over that lid. Well, nothing is getting in there I guess. Ducking his head to look out the window he starts counting. Or well I think it's counting he keeps mouthing something, ticking his finger in the air.
“I need some cloth but it needs to be natural earth fibers,” he says in a cold tone as he watches outside. Rolling my eyes I head into the empty bedroom pulling my bag on the bed pulling out several cotton shirts and bringing them to him. “this work?” he holds his hand out and I drop it in it. Pinching he rubs it together. “something you have not worn would be too much am I right?” biting my tongue I nod. Taking them from me he goes to the sink and turns it on filling the sink with hot water then dumping the rest of the salt bag in the water. Reaching in his pocket he takes a silver something out and drops it in then adds the shirts on top. “at moon rise your essence will be stripped and the cloth will work. Have you noticed are you hungry?” tilting my head looking him over confused. Then I start to think when did I eat last? “on the walk through the snow back here from the van I ate a chocolate bar but since I don’t think I have eaten anything. Jas you?” she shakes her head.
“do you deal with the books like your sire?” Ambrose asks. Looking at Jas I point to her then me in question and she shrugs. “sir what books?” “oh you know young lady the ones that deal with the coming and going of the paper you seem fond of these days. You know back in my day a good cow was all you needed.” he absently says as he tinkers with the shirts. Back in his day? “you mean like our business dealings?” he waves his hand in a sure whatever manner. “I have gone over them from time to time yes what do you need?” he looks at me tilts his head and smiles. Getting an odd feeling right before he grabs my hand. Blackness is all I see. “show me the last dealing with the snowpack you saw.” I hear in my head “what how we are not anywhere near the pack?” “Just think of the time your mind will go where it needs to go relax.” taking a deep breath I think back to the last time I reviewed the snowpack contracts. “that's it hold that almost okay stop” I hear him talking in my head as I see the contract. Then I see the words on the paperwork. Looking at the names and dates things are not adding up. “master black what is the alpha and alpha heir named on this?” “It says alpha Joel snow. The heir is Jackson Snow's eldest son to the alpha and Luna of the snowpack. Wait I remember alpha Joel snow had three sons. The oldest Jackson set to be heir and head of the fishing company up here once he finds his mate and produces an heir. The middle captains one of the ships. And the youngest a surprise late addition making him if I remember right my age.” tilting my head or well I felt like I tilted my head
Ren and wren where did they come from. “master black do you know of a pack called crimson river?” Ambrose asks in my head. The name sparks something but no nothing comes to mind then he goes “how about the rising river?” I remember Eris was annoyed they called and canceled their RSVP. The heir to the alpha was stripped of his title and banished from the pack. Why? Good question no one knows. “we don’t have business dealings with that pack but Eris invited them to her birthday. They first accepted then canceled. Why?” “do you know the names of the alpha, Luna, future ones anything?” feeling like I am closing my eyes to think over the questions he has asked a passing conversation I heard Enoy and my father had come to mind. “they propose a pairing they have a daughter twin to the heir. The problem is they want an alpha-born or beta-born match.” delta hunter says. “they know that is not an option. Tell the alpha to ask his Luna about mates here. We do not have a male in the right birthing for that demand. Not that I would consider such a demand from a pack that turned on my father once? Does this contract he proposed to us affect me in one way or the other?” alpha Philip asks “not even a little man. The only one it's gonna effect is their Luna and the heir.” my father laughs out “okay send a note back to Reena to alter the proposal to state no mate. They get ten percent less than they propose add if we find one error on their end we can break the contract. But they can not break it without major pen…….” “there you are mister its” nope no more of that no one wants or needs to see my mother dragging me home for a bath.
“well do you happen to have caught the name of the alpha they had been talking about?”
