112. Cade
Cade
A long silence fell once Charlie had left my office. I looked at Kaya, who still had her legs down. I mind-linked her. "Put your feet back up." She didn't argue and did as I told her to. I couldn't help but wonder what the stress of all this was doing to her body. She was already struggling, and now she had more to worry about. I should have had her sit out of the meeting. But she was the Luna of Shadow Pack and deserved to be here. No matter the fact, I wanted her to remain stress-free for the remainder of her pregnancy.
Mark broke the uncomfortable silence. "That was bad." He signed as he talked. Kaya nodded at his comment. "Well, at least we now know Howi has taken over Jack's Pack," Mark said. "Well, we now know he has the numbers to overrun us. But many things we need to know are still up in the air. Like how did he make it so border patrol could not link." Kaya signed. "It had to be silver. There is no other explanation. They would have alerted someone over the mind link if they fought." Mark agreed with her. "Great, so now we have to figure when he comes, he will be using silver."
Mark went on. "Why would he burn everyone, though. Why would he not take them over, become their alpha and subjugate them? I mean, as we know, killing a whole pack is out of hatred. That is what happened to our pack. The other packs hated us so much that they tried to kill all of us. It was hatred; if he just didn't like them, he would have taken them over, not kill everyone." I stood there thinking before I finally spoke and signed. "What has changed and made them want to kill Charlie's Pack." Kaya just shrugged her shoulders.
Then she signed, "Look, I don't think we will figure this out. This changes nothing. We still know nothing about his plans other than that he is going after Southern packs now. We should keep doing what we are doing. Only now, we need an exit strategy in case something like that happens to us. I suggest we work on a backup plan if we need to flee. We can go to the north; Nieva is our ally. When you talk to her, Cade. Because I know you will ensure it is okay if worse comes to worse. Other than that, there is nothing we can do. Now, if you two don't mind, I am going to have some tea and then I am going to bed. I am fucking tired."
I moved to help her up. I mind-linked her. "Go get in bed, please, and rest. I will send Becky up with some tea." I could see she wanted to argue on her face, but she nodded. Robert was outside the door waiting. I shot him a look to make sure she went straight to our den. Kaya needed to rest as much as she could. When the door shut, I came over and flopped down on the seat my mate had been sitting in. Mark spoke. "She is really swollen." "I know, this dam preeclampsia." He offered me a half smile. "So do you think Kaya is right, and we should have a backup plan?" I asked.
"Honestly, yeah. If Howi is like our last attack, we should have a place to go if we are significantly outnumbered. We can strategize from far away, and it would be better than a massacre. It does not matter how well we fight if he has too great a number. I mean, that is why we had an alliance with Jack. If he had attacked us, we think we would have won. And we may have, but the loss of life would have been insurmountable. Howi now has two packs, which puts us at a major disadvantage. Better to have a plan if we know we can't win. Then, if we were in the north, we could regroup, plan how to win, and even get some northerners to fight with us."
He made sense, and so did Kaya. I just hated the idea of fleeing. I wanted to fight to the death if I had to. It was my nature as an alpha. But more lives were on the line than my own.
I could not and would not allow what happened to Charlie's Pack to happen to mine. I would not allow my pack to suffer another massacre. "I guess I need to call Nieva, and we need to formulate a plan of escape." Mark nodded. I felt like we were already accepting defeat before it even happened. I leaned my head back. I was stressed about Howi's whole situation and Kaya's pregnancy. What if we had to flee before she gave birth. She could not trek back to the north in her condition.
We could not fly the whole pack like it was just Mark, Helen, and I flying to the north. We would have to travel as wolves as it would be faster than humans. But Kaya couldn't stay as a wolf the whole way. Not to mention, what if she needed a c-section that could only be done with medical equipment that was not in the north. I snarled. This all was shit. We had yet to determine when this would happen or what would happen.
I would feel better with answers once we talked to Charlie about everything. But, no, it was, in fact, the opposite. I felt more angry and confused about what to do. I was beyond angry. Mark must have sensed it. He always could. "Cade, I am just going to pour you a drink and let you think. Let me know when you want to talk." I shot him a glance. He went to the bar and filled a glass of whisky. Then he left, shutting the door behind him. I chugged the drink and then through the glass against the wall. I needed to get out of here. I needed to clear my head.
I stormed out of the packhouse and dropped my clothes at the forest's edge. I shifted and took off running. I would let the anger out the only way I knew how: running. But even after hours, I was still mad. I returned home in an even worse mood. I barged into my den to find Kaya sleeping restfully in the bed. She looked like she did not have a care in the world as she slept. I needed her safe, and that was the most important thing. I needed her and our child to be safe, and if that meant she had to be someplace else, then that is what I would have to do. I knew then she could not be here when everything enviably happened.
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