The Summer Moon
Chapter 88 -

Tyrese

The next morning, I dropped Malia off at home so she could pack up her room. I'd offered to help but she was adamant that she could pack up her car herself and promised she would leave all the heavy stuff for me when I came over later. Which probably was for the best, considering so much had happened in the pack over the last week that I had a ton to catch up on.

Today I finally had to confront Alpha Winston, and without a doubt I was sure my father was probably going to be making an appearance at our meeting today. I was grateful that Liam had told me everything that happened in their conversation while I was gone, knowing that Winston had threatened Liam was definitely going to give me the upper hand. It's not like there was anything to win though, I was just going to make it very clear that our alliance was over with. Really this hurt their pack more than mine, considering they're pack is quite a bit small than ours and if they were ever to be in trouble they could really use our warriors. And truly, with all the rogue attacks their pack never seemed to show up to help and was only causing drama between my mate and I.

"Winston," I nodded my head to him as he suddenly walked into my office, arriving for our meeting, and of course my father was close behind him. I stood to shake his hand and nodded to my father as well who was already scowling at me. I leaned back in my chair casually, folding my arms across my chest and crossing my ankles. "What can I do for you?" I asked as if I didn't already know why he had called this meeting.

"Don't play dumb, you know why I'm here. You rejected my daughter after agreeing to mate with her," Winston scowled at me and I couldn't help but smirk. I had assumed he had come because of Liam's attitude, but Chloe was a big issue between us too. Although he only had my father to blame for that one.

"I'm sorry Winston but there must have been some miscommunication between my father and you. I suggest you stop discussing pack matters with him and instead bring them to me, I am the alpha after all now. As for Chloe, I will say this one last time and I suggest you listen this time. Malia is my true mate, she is the luna of my pack, and she will be the mother to my children, I will never have another. Please give Chloe by deepest apologies for any confusion my father may have caused," I said, keeping my voice as calm as I could, although internally I was still feeling pretty riled up. For anyone to even suggest I would take any other mate was ridiculous, and making my wolf angry.

To my surprise Winston's eyes shot accusingly at my father, who glared at me like I had just broken his biggest rule. And I had, I finally decided I wasn't going to do everything my father said, not that I ever have but when training us to be alpha I think my father always just wanted us to be puppets. And I wasn't going to be his puppet any longer, this was my pack now and I was going to do what was best for them.

"And while we're on that note Winston, I would like to terminate our alliance for the time being. The terms we agreed upon I do not feel are being met by your pack. I understand your pack may be under other stresses, and so I wish no ill will. In the future, should your pack be more willing to participate in an alliance, I would be open to negotiation of a new, more reasonable alliance," I made my voice clearly heard in the room, unwavering, strong.

Alpha Winston's eyes widened at what I said, his entire body tensed and I knew this was the last thing he had been expecting. That was understandable though, it was very atypical of an alpha to decline any opportunity for an alliance while they were currently facing rogue attacks, but I wasn't going to waste my resources helping his pack if they weren't actually helping us in these attacks. We would be fine without them and I was confident in that.

"We are in the middle of a war Tyrese you can't be terminating any alliances!" My father's voice boomed obviously not sharing the same confidence, but I was unfazed. I slowly turned to face him, narrowing my eyes. He had jumped up from his chair, his fists coming down to hit my desk and I was sure they had probably left some dents in the wood below them.

"I can if they're not beneficial to my pack. I am the alpha now, stop questioning my decisions or I will have you escorted out," I stood from my own chair, meeting his eyes but keeping myself calm. This wasn't a time to get riled up or emotional, this was strictly pack matters.

My father stormed from the room, but I was sure this conversation was far from over. He would try to bring it up again, probably for the next few weeks, but I had already made up my mind and he would have to learn to accept it.

I pulled the original paperwork for the alliance and handed it to Winston to sign, which to my surprise he actually did. Adding my signature as well, the alliance was officially terminated and I smiled to myself. My first confident move as alpha that I hadn't just blindly followed in my father's footsteps, and man did it feel good.

"You will regret this," Winston waved his finger at me then turned to leave and I just rolled my eyes. I'm sure I wouldn't.

The rest of the work day passed quickly and I was so eager to get to Malia's house as soon as 4 o'clock hit. I cleaned up the mess of papers I had made in my office, drawing attack plans, reorganizing the border defence schedules and patterns, and scheduling more training for the warriors. I was actually starting to get a lot more comfortable being alpha, maybe even enjoying it. Without my father hovering over me, it was nice to be in charge and now that I had the confidence everything seemed to be working out better in my favour.

On the way over to Malia's I stopped to pick up take out from Al's for dinner. Today had been our longest time period apart in a while, and we really needed a date night but it would have to be stay-at-home style because I wanted to get her stuff moved over to my house as soon as possible.

I took the patio steps up to her door 2 at a time and before I could even knock the door swung open. She ran out jumping into my arms and I scooped her up with ease, her legs wrapping around my waist. My entire body relaxed, as she wrapped her arms around me and help me tightly.

"I missed you," I whispered in her ear, wrapping my fingers through her hair and cupping the back of her head. She looked up at me, her green eyes sparkling in the sunlight.

"I missed you more," she giggled then added, "I think we're getting too clingy, it feels painful to even spend a day away from you." And I couldn't agree with her more, today was painful without having her just a few feet away from me. I followed her into her room, looking around to see a couple boxes packed on the floor and her single suitcase. All the pictures that once hung on the walls were taken down, the dresser drawers empty, everything packed away I started to feel sentimental looking around the room, but I also couldn't be happier to have her coming to live with me.

"Is this from Al's?" Malia's hand closed around the paper bag in my hand bringing me back to the moment. I looked down at her with a grin and she practically jumped up and down excited. "I totally love you," she said leaning up to kiss me again, and goddess I totally loved her. She took the bag from my hand and headed towards the kitchen, I eagerly following.

"Oh you'll never guess what happened today!" Malia suddenly jerked her head back around to me as she took the food out of the bag and set it out on the kitchen table. In her mind I suddenly felt images of Chloe appear and I raised my eyebrows at her. Why would she have seen Chloe?

"Alana and I went for a walk on the beach and ran into Chloe! I figured she was here because of your meeting with Winston or whatever but then you'll never guess what she told me," she said, pausing for only a moment before she continued. “I tried to remind her again, nicely this time, to stay the hell away from you and she told me she actually apologized then told me she found her mate,"

"Who?" I asked, raising my eye brow. I pitied whoever was mated to her, but also pitied anyone who wasn't mated to Malia because she was fucking perfect and no one could compare. Goddess how did I get so lucky? My eyes traced over her, admiring every inch of her body as she moved, the smile on her lips brought a smile to my own.

"Ty focus," she laughed at me throwing a plastic fork in my direction. I jumped back, catching the fork just in time and shook my head. Giving her a sheepish grin she continued, "I don't know who, she didn't say. Guess they're keeping it private or something."

"Strange," I shrugged then sat down at the table beside her. I guess we would replace out who it was eventually, considering they would become the next alpha of Winston's pack since he didn't have any sons and Chloe is the eldest daughter. "Isn't that kind of sexist? How come Chloe can't become alpha?" Malia asked me as she opened up her food and started eating.

"I don't see a problem with it, but Winston is old fashioned and traditionally only sons become alpha's," I explained to her, and the scowl that formed on her face made me laugh.

After dinner Malia and I packed all of her belongings into our cars then stopped to take one last look at the room. Her fingers interlaced with mine as she leaned into my side. "This is it," she whispered and I knew exactly how she felt. We started here, and it was amazing to think about how far we'd come from that first day.

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