CH 17

Hector He looked at Steph when she sat down on the couch; finally settled enough to sit. Though she looked disheartened still, she accessed her phone when it chimed, then sighed softly. “It’s Eve,” she told them. “Jessica is at her job, in her office working, so that’s good. She didn’t just run away and leave, told the truth went to work.” She looked a little bit relieved to speak those words, and he knew why she now had concerns about Jessica and had a right to be. Thankfully, he and Graham had insisted on her having warriors work where she did, it meant they could keep eyes on her. “Should we send others to watch Jessica?” he asked. “I only saw Eve go into the human world today. Both other girls are here in the pack, not on shift. Something about the new boss changed things up, so they don’t all work the same days as Jessica anymore.” He’d already asked about that. Why didn’t they all go when Jessica did? The place was under new management and had been for three months now. If not for that, they might not even know right now, how things were between their sons and their mate. It was only out because Jessica had been given a new uniform. It suited her as well. She looked every bit like the future Luna to this pack. It was a shame that was no longer going to be the case. His boys had just lost the right to have their Mate and Luna. Steph had said it would be up to Jessica at the beginning of all this, but now they simply didn’t deserve her and so a rejection was being issued whether the boys liked it or not. He, Steph and Graham would set that girl free and bow down and apologize themselves for not knowing what was going on within their own pack. Steph thought about it for several minutes, and then she shook her head, “No, I don’t think so. She stated we could sit down and talk when she comes back tonight.” She sighed heavily. “Unfortunately, she has no family anymore, so she isn’t likely to just drive away. Even if she does, we’ve got that tracker on her phone. So, we can track her down and go talk to her,” Steph sighed. “Though she’s still bound to the twins so I don’t see her walking away without issuing a rejection. It’s clear to her that Gregory will just go and f**k around and cause her the full extent of the pains of betrayal, if she does that. Likely why she never left in the first place,” Steph murmured. “Probably told her exactly that.” Graham muttered. “Likely so.” she nodded and leaned her head back on the couch and stared up at the ceiling. It would take some time to get the twins' social circle here and all together, some of them would have been on their way to uni, or at uni by now, and they weren’t going to do this one at a time and constantly have to repeat themselves, or those horrid words. Quinton and Gerald came back into his office, “I’ve sent out a message for all of Marcus and Gregory’s friends to return to the pack, some are here and some are not. A meeting is to be had at 10:30am, that gives them time to return to the pack and meet in the foyer,” Gerald stated. “They are going to see those boys on the shaming post and likely understand exactly what is going on,” Quinton commented, “Some of them were there standing around for that conversation this morning.” “Yes, they are.” Hector nodded. “But that’s what you get when you disrespect those you shouldn’t, you’re boys?” he asked. “Both left the pack to attend class. I dare say they understood what was about to go down and are trying to avoid being here for the first instance of anger,” Quinton stated. “I put a call in to my boy and told him if he’s not home within the hour, he’ll be on the shaming post taking 5 lashes for every minute he’s late, if he opts not to come home I’ll have him turned rogue, and he’ll be nothing to anyone, I’ll cut his pack card off, and he’s on his own. Told him to pass that onto Gerald's boy. They’ll be together.” “Could see them go rogue.” Steph murmured. “It could," Robert nodded, "but I called the pack accountant and had their cards frozen. I did that while Quinton placed the call. So, they have nothing right now, can’t go to an ATM and pull money to flee, will have no choice but to return. We’ll wait and see. Our allies will call if they go to one of them for sanctuary. Want to know why and well…” Robert shook his head. “Anyone granting it to them after hearing why, isn’t worthy of being an alley.” “Agreed, but they’ll lie.” Graham muttered. “That won’t stop the Alpha or Luna putting in a call to us, wanting to know why the Gamma and Delta heirs are looking for sanctuary or a change of pack. If they go rogue, they’ll be asked why as well. Again, eliciting a call to this pack,” Robert commented. Hector could only agree with that assessment. The two omegas assigned to cleaning Jessica and the twins' suite knocked and walked a few minutes later. He watched them both frown slightly at the disheveled state of the room, it was obvious that a fight had broken out inside this office. He could also pick up on both his boy’s blood in here, which meant that so could they. Steph sat up and looked at them. “I am so disappointed in the pair of you,” she stated flatly, and both girls frowned at her as if they didn’t understand what they’d done. Hector waved them further into the room and Quinton closed the door so it was just them. He stood looking down at them. “Have you cleaned Jessica and the twins' room yet?” he asked curiously. They’d start simply because he knew his Gamma was switched on. “We were doing that when we were asked to come down,” Casey stated. He saw Quinton shake his head. “I get amusement from both of them right now,” he voiced out loud. Hector watched both omegas frown at the fact that the pack Gamma was feeling them out. “What’s so funny about cleaning Jessica and the twins' suite?” he asked. “N… Nothing Alpha. Just a joke we heard was all.” Zoe, Jessica’s assigned omega, answered him. “Care to share it for us to hear?” Steph asked from her place on the couch. He watched both those girls' eyes drop to the floor, and they shook their heads, ‘No’ “They no longer think it’s funny, kind of half panicked,” Quinton stated. “Why, I wonder?” Hector muttered. “Not a joke that’s funny to anyone but themselves, I see, which means it can only be derogatory in nature. I’m wondering now who it’s aimed at, and what punishment they’ll be looking at taking for it.” He smelled it, the astringent scent of fear rolling off them now as they understood it was likely the leadership already knew what it was. “Seems to me, you two have something to hide, and your heads are coming off. For the seriousness of it. Otherwise, why would you fear me right now?” he asked directly. He watched them both look at Steph “I’m not going to save you, just beat the hell out of my own son. Neither of them can have children right now, might not even be able to ever have s*x again. So where does that leave you?” she grated out. The smell of fear increased rapidly inside this room. “Explain yourselves, and I’ll consider just banishing you, if you can explain sufficiently enough for me to understand what it was you think is funny, and exactly why it is that makes you think it’s worthy of laughing about. “Because if it’s what I got from my sons today, it’s certainly not a laughable matter. Is in fact,” Steph stated and walked over to Zoe and grabbed her chin. “Reportable to me, as Jessica’s personal omega, you should be doing everything you can to help protect her even from her own Mates. Which… I now know you did not do. I personally chose you, ranked you up and told you to report anything out of the ordinary to me. Yet… I don’t think you did.” She shoved Zoe’s face away from her. “I’m sorry Luna…” Zoe rushed out. “Sorry about what exactly. Tell me what you did or said and who did or might have heard your words?” she snapped. Both Zoe and Casey dropped on to their knees and bowed down before their Luna, but Hector knew that wasn’t going to save them, nothing could at this point. “We’ll apologize for our mistake.” “Hmm, with your lives, if I have to pull the words from you myself,” Steph stated. “I’m not going to ask again. You have 10 seconds to tell me, or I’ll just assume the worst and rip your heads off right here and right now for being traitors to the pack’s Future Luna.” She laid it out for them to know exactly what it was she wanted to hear. He saw Casey crumble and start sobbing it all out. “We heard Gregory say it right in front of us, both he and Marcus laughed and it kind of went from there…” she rushed out. “We…” Zoe bit her lip and then bowed her head all the way to the floor, which told him they knew it was wrong, but did it anyway. “W… We overflowed our c*m bucket, clean it up, girls. Gregory told us and laughed. I’ve said… it myself, as has Casey and we both laughed about it afterwards ‘Guess they overflowed their c*m bucket. It’s a mess in here.’… Jessica has heard us stated it herself.” Zoe murmured. “I’m sorry,” she stated. He saw Steph close her eyes and shake her head, “Right, so I ranked you both up to that of a Luna’s Personal Omega and this is the kindness you repay to me. The kindness you show to Jessica herself.” “I’m sorry.” Zoe sobbed. “I’m sure you really are… because until right this minute you walked in here and still thought it was funny. Didn’t you. So, you’re not sorry at all. Just sorry you got found out.” She grated out and then struck each of them. “Put them on the shaming post for their lashes to come. Lashes with silver barbs, one lash for each despicable word spoken.” She snarled out. “Those shaming posts are going to be full very soon,” Graham stated. “Then build me some more, another dozen of them if need be,” Steph rapped out. “All will be lashed regardless of rank, all will be publicly shamed and made to bow down and apologize. Those that actively spoke those words will all be de-ranked to omegas. These two,” she glared at Zoe and Casey, "will likely be banished if Jessica doesn’t want their heads coming off.”