Alpha Adryan
thirty four

Fuck’ Adryan thought as he remembered that he had never told Jadeabout the next day's events for which he had preparing for the past twodays.

"Good luck with that, Alpha” with that said, Violet takes her departure.Jade had been hauled up in Adryan’s house for the past two days, shehadn't gotten around to going out yet because she was skittish goingout and facing the pack members alone, all on her own, Violet seemedbusy with her beta female duties but visited once a day to check in. Shehad resorted to cleaning the house, baking and taking care of a veryfussy Adonis. She hadn't seen much of Adryan too after their pack tourher first day, when she asked Violet about it, who gave her a sly smile inreply but said that he was busy preparing for something which wassupposed to happen soon.

Jade has found solitude in the outdoor balcony Adryan's house had.The balcony was made up of wood, like the rest of the house. This partof the balcony had a feminine touch to it, with small plant pots hereand there, with flower. She wondered if it was Adryan's idea or maybesomeone else's. like Adeena?, Jade immediately shakes her head, no,she wasn't going to go there yet now that the thought had entered hermind, she was curious.

The wooden railings out looked the forest, there were lamp shapedlights strung up, with wooden chairs with a tiny wooden table in themiddle giving it a cozy touch. Jade would sometimes spot wolvesrunning through the forest below at night, but she mostly loved thefeeling of cold air against her skin, caressing her with its gentleness.Sometimes she would even bring Adonis outside.

Today she sat on one of the wooden chairs reading Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen which had caught her attention when she entered intoAdryan's own personal library, growing up Jade had heard many peopletalk about the book, but being blind she didn't ever get the chance toread it until now. Adonis was sitting on the blanket Jade had spread outfor him, his toys seemingly more interesting than anything.

Adryan closed the door to his office, he inhaled and tried to catch thescent of strawberries, and he was successful when he found thelingering scent of strawberries coming from his right, following thescent he came across the outdoor balcony, his favorite spot in theentire house.

Through the glass door, he could see Jade's complete attention fixedon the book she held in her hands, her hair danced around in the air asthe wind blew, causing her to tuck a few stray pieces of hair behind herear. Adryan's eyes moved towards the tiny figure, who seemed to beenjoying himself as he played with his car and airplanes.

Knowing that he didn't have much time to rely on the message, hetakes careful strides towards the balcony, being careful not to alert Jadeor startle her.

It seemed like she was lost in a world of her own as she read the book,since she hadn't noticed his presence, but someone else had. Adonisstared up at Adryan, his toys long forgotten, his next actions shockingAdryan immediately.

Adonis crawls on all his fours towards Adryan's direction, his tiny fistsholding onto Adryan's legs as his blue-green eyes stare up at Adryan'socean blue ones.

"Up" he says demanding Adryan to pick him up, startling Adryanfurther with his actions. Adryan just stares at him, dumbfounded.

"Are you going to stare at him all day long or are you going to pickup?" A voice interrupts his internal battle, Adryan turns his head to seeJade standing beside the wooden chair she was sitting in, she mighthave heard Adonis’ voice, causing her to discard off her book.

When Adryan still doesn't do anything, Jade herself walks up to wherehe and Adonis were, she picks up Adonis herself, who immediatelysqueals at her actions.

"You know, I don't know why you dragged me back here, to your packwhen you were going to do was leave us in the house, you never triedto get to know your son, and now when he’s asking you to hold him,you stare at him like he's an alien of some sort." Jade says at Adryan,who now seems to come out of the trance he was earlier in.

"I-" he stutters causing Jade to raise her eyebrows, clearing his throathe speaks again, "I have never held uhh, a child" Adryan says and looksaway immediately, Jade's eyes widen in realization at his words, now hisearlier actions making sense to her.

"Oh" Jade says dumbfounded not knowing how to reply, after a fewseconds of thinking she speaks up again, "I could show you?!" Jadeoffers.

"Yeah, that would be great!” Adryan says immediately, causing Jade tolightly smile at his enthusiasm.

"Here" she says, turning Adonis in her arms so that his front was facingtowards Adryan, "outstretch your arms a bit" Jade guides him, as hefollows her directions, "now place both of your hands under his arms,so that you are holding his sides. Do it gently, you don't have to holdhim too tightly where you squeeze him". Adryan finally holds Adonis inhis hands, who stares up at him in wonder.

"There" she backs up.

Adryan stares at Adonis who leans his head on Adryan's shoulder, theactions caused a warm feeling inside him, Jade smiled as she watchedthe pair. Backing away, she turns to walk back to her earlier position onthe wooden chair, only to be stopped by Adryan.

"Wait" Adryan says.

"Yeah?" Jade asks questioningly

"There is an event being held tomorrow" Jade tilts her head to the side,not knowing where this was going "I wanted to introduce you both tothe pack members officially, so there would be a pack initiation heldtomorrow at eleven at the training grounds..." Adryan trails off, wantingto know her answer.

Jade stares at him for a few moments, she knows that this was tohappen some day, since Adonis was supposed to be the future Alpha,he would have to be initiated into the pack officially since he wasn'ttechnically born within the pack grounds, all members born outside thepack house to be officially initiated to the pack, be accepted by theAlpha of the pack. Since she wasn't born in The Blood Moon Pack, Jadewould to have to get initiated. She wanted to be where her son was,even if it meant being an official part of the pack.

"We will be there at eleven” she says, her response shocking Adryan, hewas prepared for her to argue back but her compliance shocked him."Is that it?" she asks him, "yeah" he answers back.

"Jade" she looks back at him over her shoulder.

"Wear something white.” she smiles back at him in reply, causing hisheart to skip a beat.