"Who decided on three days? Does he need three days?!"
"You decided in the end and we didn't know it would be him."
Amber spun on Adonis so fast that he actually took a quick step back. Her eyes were rimmed red and her jaw was set as if she were ready to take on the world.
Adonis knew his Alpha and he knew his sister. None of that mattered when it came to werewolf instincts and the engrained pack rules. His eyes were already lowered and his posture was unthreatening. Best of all he knew not to speak again, unless Alpha Amber said he could speak. He heard her let out a long sigh as if she were trying to relax her nerves then he felt her walk away.
Adonis did not move even when he felt her getting further and further away.
'Where are you! I am talking to you and you're not even beside me! Get. here. now!'
He was by her side in an instant.
"Sorry about that I took that out on you twice. I owe you something good.
"We will wait the three days. I will go into meditation. I think the heat came early too me."
Adonis said nothing. He only nodded to let her that he heard her. He knew it was not her heat but the fact that she was falling in love. Cris brought it up last night and he actually snorted with laughter. He could not imagine Amber in love but then Cris began making her points and in the end he was sitting slack jawed and staring blankly at a random wall.
Cris was right, his baby sister was seriously liking someone. Stefan being so close and them still unmated caused her body to have a reaction and she was diagnosing it as her heat.
He watched her enter her meditation room and then he made sure the right guard was on duty. Normally he would have been one of those guards but he need to have a conversation right now.
Dale's pack was so good Stefan believed he knew Adonis would be coming to see him before Adonis knew. He smirked at the thought of her suffering. They both deserved that and more. Did they worry for his Alisa? What did Amber try to do for her. He felt Tris' eyes on him as he began to rant in his mind.
This is probably the only thing that could calm him down. By the time Adonis was before him his smirk was an inner thing and nothing showed on his face. He nodded in acknowledgement.
"And how can we help you today Beta Adonis?"
Adonis felt the exact same need to be submissive as he did toward his sister. He actually paused and stood staring for a long moment. It was only when he heard Tiffany's voice that he woke up.
"Beta Adonis? My Lord is waiting."
As if snapping out of a dream Adonis looked in the direction of Stefan but not at him. For the briefest of moments he was mad at himself but then he felt the authority rolling off of Stefan as if he sensed defiance.
"Alpha Stefan I would just like to speak to you about my sister. Do you feel you could ever love her? And if not would you please tell her so. Please do not allow her to think a lie is a truth within her heart."
Stefan scoffed for a few reasons. "Is Alpha Amber so weak of mind? I thought you were coming here to dishonor me instead you are here to dishonor your Alpha and sister."
Adonis' heart stilled. Stefan was right. It was not his intention but this action was disrespectful. He was thinking to be a big brother to a shewolf who hadn't needed a big brother since she was eleven.
Stefan sighed. "I will make sure she is fine. She has already calmed her state a great deal."
Adonis bowed respectfully but he was trembling on the inside. They could already sense each other before their actually union and the strengthening of the soul tie!
"Forgive me for overstepping." Adonis moved to leave when Stefan told him to wait. He froze in his tracks and waited.
"You are a good big brother. You protect her from the world, the external sources, and I will protect her from herself.'
Adonis paused, bowed deeply, and then left quickly.
The room was silent for a long while. Suddenly Stefan sighed.
"Don't look at me like that Tiffany."
"Yes My Lord."
Her smirk as she answered made him smirk. He was too soft on his little sister.
"Come. We still have a bit to do before I face my soulmate in two days."
The Waters of Mists was a large placid lake with a thin layer of mist directly above the water. There was a natural shelf of limestone suspended above the layer of mist, but the limestone was not a solid piece and was actually quite fragile in some places. It also tended to grow as it pleased so it may heal places or it may even grow where there had never been limestone before.
Amber and Stefan stood at the center of this limestone, staring at each other across a large gaping hole within the limestone. They each wore a smirk on their lips as the three grand judges descended. The center judge came forward and looked down at the spectators.
"Today we will have a bout to determine if The Silver Moon Pack will have a second Alpha. Today Lady Amber of the Silver Moon Pack will fight Stefan. If Stefan succeeds in defeating Lady Amber he will be welcomed into Silver Moon as its second Alpha. The rules are that there are no rules opponents merely fight until the end."
Stefan raised an eyebrow as the judge returned to his position and the three rose back to their observation positions. Amber smiled.
"What more needs to be said?" She crouched into a fighting position. Her long wavy dark green hair cascading loosely down her back and over her shoulders. Her emerald eyes sparkled with golden flecks that threatened to mesmerize him.
He slowly moved into a fighting stance, his eyes never leaving hers. His heart oddly drumming within his chest. He was excited but he did not know exactly why.
Amber made the first move, and Stefan never even saw it coming. In spite of this they both came away from the exchange with their own blood staining their bodies.
First blood had been drawn and they each drew in equal measure. Both their smirks grew more intense and then it began in earnest. They flew at each other over and over again, moving too quickly for pretty much all of the spectators to see. And more often than not the pulled back with more wounds on their bodies.
Adonis looked on in morbid fascination. Cros beside him gasping, trembling, shuddering and even covering her mouth a few times. He felt she was showing every emotion that he was currently suppressing.
They were going to have two very powerful Alphas.