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“Also forged!”
I shrug. He would have to find some way to prove that.
“I am still Alpha.”
“Just not on the paperwork,” I add with a laugh.
Derrick huffs like a raging bull at my words. “I am ALPHA!” he snaps, his face turning red in anger, and he thumps the table with his fist.
“Yes, unless Elena comes back and asks them to submit,” Eli tells them.
Derrick growls, and his hands fist at his sides. “They will never! I will fucking kill anyone who dares try,” he snarls, storming out.
Eli shrugs and folds his arm across his chest beside me, finding all this amusing. “I guess Elena got her wish then.”
Yep, Elena seems to be the first female Alpha, at least on paperwork anyway, and I would love to see the look on her face when her mother tells her she owns her father’s pack. But for now, I need to figure out who this new Alpha is and convince them to sell their land to me while also figuring out this vampire situation.
Chapter
Sixty-Eight
Elena
The next day
The relief I feel upon getting home is immense today. The women are all waiting out front of the house when I return from the registry after filling out the paperwork for each pack member last night. They've already set up preparing for dinner. Tables are set up and chairs placed out already. As I walk up the steps, Sondra is sitting in her rocking chair.
“Nope.” She points back to the women waiting. She refuses to let me enter the house until I let them submit to me, and I have fed them my blood.
They wanted to do it last night when I returned home, but I only cared about getting home to the boys.
When I am done, I am about to put the goblet down on the table when I turn to find my mother. She grabs my hands in hers, and Luke comes to stand beside her.
“Mom?”
“You were always born to lead, Elena. And I would be honored to stand by your side to watch you go further than I ever could have imagined for myself, further than I imagined for you. You earned this. This is your birthright. Now take it,” she tells me.
“But Dad, he is your mate…”
“He stopped being my mate the day he kicked you out of the pack. Mates don’t hurt mates. And he hurt me when he took you from me. Never again. For everything I have done in the past, know it was for you kids. Even when I chose wrong, it was all for you. Just like this is. You deserve this, Elena. You are not just an Alpha by blood, but by your persistence to not give up when everything around you is trying to break you.”
My mother lets go of my hands and drops to her knees alongside Luke.
“I, Luna Louise Bardot, submit to you, Elena Bardot of the Elysian Fortuna Moonlight Pack,” she murmurs, baring her neck to me.
Luke does the same, and my eyes burn with tears as I look at Sondra, who nods once. My eyes lift to the sky as my aura slips out.
“Submit!” I choke on the words as I force my mother and brother into the dirt under my aura.
They drop to the ground, and I hold it over them as they both fight the instinct to submit to me before baring their necks and answering the call. “Yes, Alpha.”
My hands shake as I give them both the goblet, and I know my father would have felt his links to my mother and Luke sever. They are my pack members now. He no longer has that control over them, nor will he ever again.
They didn’t have to submit. I’ve never expected that from my mother. Especially knowing my father is her mate. It would have nearly been impossible to break that tie to him and officially reject her position as his Luna.
Once the pack and my mother and brother get to their feet, I am about to check on the boys, who went down for their nap before I left. But apparently, having the woman submit and make everything official is not enough for Sondra.
“Come on, let’s make this official,” Sondra tells me, standing up from her chair, and I raise an eyebrow at her. She laughs, motioning for me to follow her.
