Chapter 16
It took a few weeks but Daniel and a group of elementals made it back and started on the pack house. They had to go away down to find the perfect temperature-controlled level but once they did it didn’t that long to cut away the rooms needed.
They had been amazed that without a connection to the land like they had Danial's father build the house just above a couple of gas pockets a heat camber from the deep core of the earth. They tunneled the vent to run around and along the pools and small underground stream that was found. This gave us unlimited hot water at the ready. No more cold baths in the winter. Or waiting for the right time of day to wash Gregory.
I was just glad they got it done before I went into labor with the girls Elizabeth and Joanna. Paul found his mate on the journey to find the elementals. She had been orphaned at the age of twelve by a pack of rogues. This family of elementals found her taking her in. They had planned to find a pack of wolves to take her in but she begged and begged not to go back. Her father the gamma had planned to sell her off. The highest bidders would fight for the rights to her. They all agreed that the alpha of her pack and the winner's pack would get to test her before giving her to the winning wolf. If an heir is produced the alpha gets the pup at birth.
It was horrible. I couldn’t believe the amount of money men were willing to pay for a young girl. They kept her and raised her vowing never to let anyone touch her. That was until she ran through a field of dead vegetation throwing herself at Paul. Daniel said it was the best thing he had ever seen. No one smelled her coming because her family had her so well hidden. A small ball of golden hair flew through the field okay so she was running but she was fast.
Paul has not left her side since and with luck we will be friends and she will have a son soon. I hope he is as level-headed as Paul cause Gregory is gonna need someone to get him out of trouble. The small cattle herd Daniel's father started has grown bringing the pack more funds for the things we can’t grow or make here.
A few of us have started going into the small human settlement close by to take sewing lessons from a few of the older women. Having grown up in a pack I had a basic knowledge of these things but it wasn’t until I had Gregory that I actually wanted to learn. A lot of the other she-wolves here we’re rogues so not a lot of learning these things out there. Luckily for us, we had a good relationship with the settlement. We sell them beef at a good price. The mercantile we do a credit system that is paid with beef cuts.
A few of the men in town spoke with Daniel about if he was going to reed and train cow horses. This brought us a new money-making plan that was not too different than what we do now. So Daniel and the pack took that idea and ran with it. So in a few years, we will have the first batch of foals ready to start training.
The day Daniel came to me with a proposal that would and could change everything the shock at what he was telling me. He wanted to…..
BEEP ..BEEP ..BEEEP. .. startles me awake. Throwing the clock trying to go back to sleep to find out what it was that had her feeling like she was losing everything. And nothing so I grab the journal opening it to find all the entries fading away as I watch in shock. Flipping through every page to find them all blank. What the hell? What was the proposal? Let’s see maybe there is a record in the files somewhere when the black rose was established and when they started the cattle ranch. I mean if they sent us money how far back does that go?
With a new plan, I jump out of bed. I will find out what happened and why everything is so messed up.
In the shower, I stop at the realization. If the pack house is built down how big is it and how do they see there would be no windows? I wonder if anyone here has been there before I’ll have to as around.
Walking down the hall I get this odd feeling to go down a hall I’ve not been down before. Father said something horrible happened down there and grandfather closed down this hall. Coming to a door at the end of the hall. The door is locked the iron knob, hinges and lock are red-brown with some white-green. The locks are so rusted and iodized that there is no way to open them. Placing my hand on the cold wood I feel pain and sorrow full me. Whatever happened was so bad it left an echo behind. I have to know what is behind this door and what happened here.
I link for my father and a couple of guys that do a lot of repairs around the pack. Pacing the hall as I wait I feel anxious and I can’t figure out why. My wolf is pacing in my head. Even she feels the unsettling feelings coming from this room.
It took maybe ten minutes before they arrived. “Athena, what are you doing here? It’s forbidden.” “by who? I do believe I am the alpha and I not?” I ask him as he stops in his tracks looking at me. He nods “alpha?” one of the guys asks breaking the staring I was doing at my father. “open the door!” I order glaring at my father. Why does he not want me to open the door?
The door swings open and I step into the room that smelled of dust and mold. The. I heard a voice say
“Finally it’s about damn time someone came to release me.”
