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It couldn’t be any worse than what shealready endured as a non-shifting wolf in the pack.
Maybe Bella was right and her truematewas in Allen.
Or maybe her wolf would feel safe andcome out.
But at least she’d get out of Rhonefor a while and get to hang out with her friend.
“I can’t wait.”
Chapter Three
Kash tugged off his shirtand tossed it near the woodpile in the full moon meeting place andwiped the sweat from his brow. As the April afternoon sunshine beatdown on him, his thoughts strayed to his plans for the remainder ofthe day. He brought the ax up and neatly split the log in twopieces. Holding the ax with one hand, he picked up the pieces ofthe split log and tossed them to the pile for the younger wolves tohaul.
Around him, the packmembers who’d been assigned to clean up the area where the pack metbefore shifting each full moon were working hard, clearing the firepit of last month’s wood and ash, sweeping the large, circular areafree of debris, and cutting wood for the bonfire.
He’d drawn the short straw for woodcutting.
But at least he wasn’t waist-deep inthe pit up to his ankles in ash like Luke.
“I hate the full moon,”Luke said.
Kash looked at him curiously as he setanother log up to be cut. “What?”
“I mean I hate full moonduty. I’m mated, I shouldn’t have to do this.”
Luke had mated a fairynamed Rena several months earlier. She was a sirenfae, a powerfulfae who could pull other fae power into herself to use for a shorttime, and also send her own power to others. Her people were smallin number and stayed to themselves. He’d fought by Luke’s side inthe fae realm when she’d been abducted.
“If you took all the matedmales off duty there would be hardly anyone left to help,” Kashpointed out.
“What about all the youngpups? Jason could lower the age when the males help to liketen.”
Kash snorted. “You want abunch of ten-year-olds running around with axes? I think we’d haveto clean up more than just debris and wood.”
“True. I just missRena.”
Kash rolled his eyes and turned hisattention back to the wood. “I’m sure she misses you too, but youcan’t give up all your duties.”
“What’ll be nice is once wetake over the high ranks from our parents, we’ll be able to assignthe duties to others.”
While it was true that thehigh-ranked rarely helped out with full moon clean up, heremembered his dad watching over the young males as they workedfrom time to time. His dad was sixth-ranked. All the males wereranked, and the ones closest to the alpha were good friends. Hecouldn’t remember a birthday or anniversary party that his familydidn’t attend for the high-ranked males. He considered thehigh-ranked males as family members, cherished uncles and mentors,their mates like aunts. Which made Luke and the others he’d grownup with like siblings.
There were two femalesworking that afternoon, Kash’s sister London, and another femalenamed Kinley. The females were talking in hushed tones as they usedrakes to sweep dead leaves away from the cleared space.
“What are you two gigglingabout?” he called, swinging the ax down.
“Full moon, what else?”London asked.
“Is Lyric coming tonight?”he asked. His sister’s best friend Lyric, daughter of Jason andCadence, was mated to twin mountain lions and living in Ashland,Indiana. She occasionally spent full moons in Allen, hanging outwith London.
“Not this month, they’recelebrating the full moon in Ashland. Next month is her wedding,and I’m going there for the week-of to help out. You can come tothe wedding and be my date if you want.”
He genuinely hoped that he’d find histruemate before then, and maybe he’d even be having a weddingceremony in May. How fucking cool would that be?
“We’ll see.”
“Ah,” she said, whisperingsomething to Kinley, both giggling.
“What?” he asked,annoyed.
