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Chapter 27 – Kristin
Iwas personally gettingtired of everyone telling me what I should be doing. The other masters wanted to know how I was going to get Portage under control, saying that my blasé attitude about him did not look good. Jacques Berger had defended me saying that I had taken a positive step. A few others believe that too, but all of them still wanted to know what I was going to do next.
Well, I was going to wait to see what happened next. They didn’t like that idea, but what were the choices? If I pushed, more humans would get killed. I’d already gotten several calls from Tom Singer from ICE saying that he needed to speak with me. That was a call that I was avoiding.
My own elders were up in arms about what had happened and harping on the fact that I should take a mate. Four more elders had been brought in to meet me, and I wanted to strangle them all. I wasn’t sure why they all wanted me to mate with a stuffy elder. Yes, they were powerful with their age, but they lived in the past. They weren’t able to see the future and what our society could be. Two of them had even felt that I was wrong in not wanting to control the humans, and those two made me somewhat nervous. What if they were working for Portage?
My own people here were antsy. I could barely walk from my apartment to my office without someone asking how I was, and when we would go out again. Maybe I needed to go back to the club and let them have some fun. Or perhaps they all needed to grow the fuck up and do their jobs.
Josh was the worst. He was moody, and quiet. I could easily read his mind, but I forced myself not to because it was the same old crap. I wasn’t sure what I could tell him to get it through his thick head that we would never be more together. I needed to start working on finding him a mate of his own, it was time.
The latest two to get on my case were my sons. Rex was pushing for me to take a more direct course of action and go after some of Portages men. I refused to kill any of them if I didn’t have to—well except for Adam. I would gladly kill Adam just for fun of it.
Garrett on the other hand remained neutral, like he normally did. He was still so young, only twenty now, and it would be at least another twelve to fourteen years before he transitioned.
My two boys were as different as night and day. Both of them so much like their fathers. Rex jumped to conclusions and wanted to rush into things, Garrett was calm, reserved, and mentally calculated every step that he should take. There was no doubt that Garrett would make a better leader than his brother.
The problem was, this had come up in conversation with them the other night, and Rex had lost his shit. Again, like his father, he became moody and disgruntled. He immediately claimed that if something happened to me, Garrett would not be in any position to preside over the breed. He did not like the fact that I said Clayton would oversee the breed until Garrett became of age.
Part of me felt as if I were playing favorites, but I wasn’t. I loved both of my sons for different reasons. I knew without a doubt that Garrett would be able to oversee our society much better than his brother.
When Angelina joined me in my apartment, she told me that she’d spoken with Hugh. That was another thing that had weighed heavily on my mind. I wanted to know what he was doing, what he was thinking, and perhaps it was a good thing that he was coming over. We did need to talk. Over the last week I had respected his privacy and stayed out of his head. I wanted him to come to me—okay, maybe I needed him to come to me.
I took her advice, and showered, dressed in something nice, but comfortable, and was pouring myself a drink when Ryker stepped into my apartment to announce that Hugh was here.
When he entered, the two of stared at one another, neither of us all too sure of what to do next.
“Would you like a drink?” I finally asked.
“Sure.”
I poured him what I was having and brought it around to him, “Have a seat. How are you doing?”
“I’m okay, I guess. How are you?”
The laugh that left my throat sounded a little strangled, “I’m not sure how to answer that. It’s been a rough week.”
“Care to tell me about it?”
“Is this a personal interest, or professional?”
“Right now, this is personal. I have been thinking about all of this, and maybe I need to understand a little more of what to expect, or what you are expecting of me.”
“I don’t expect anything of you, Hugh. Our world—is your world. You belong in it.” I paused, “But I can understand your hesitation. I remember learning about our world, when Alex told me what I was, and who I was. It seemed surreal, but it made sense deep inside of me. I never doubted what I wanted once I embraced that feeling.”
“How soon after you learned did you transition?”
“I don’t recall the exact time, but it was only days before I knew that I wanted the life. It did take me much longer to go through the final transition.”
