Alpha Markus and Celeste
Chapter 61
Chapter 61 – Markus
Markus P.O.V.
It took Dash and Atlas a few deer and black bear kills to get their rage under control. A few times, I had to steer Danny and Dash from turning around towards the Packhouse. I knew it hit him harder. As bad as the pictures had been of Celeste, l’d actually seen her before she was healthy. Danny met Maya when she had already been cleared to shift. He never saw her before that. It took a lot of talking down before I managed to calm him. We bathed in the river’s cold water before coming back to the Packhouse. He gently picked up Maya from Celeste’s arms and headed back to their floor.
I woke up early the next morning to someone banging on the door. “Alpha, Luna. You both need to get up. We are having breakfast on time for once because the hair stylist is coming in promptly at 1pm. We have a packed schedule and everything has to go right. You have 2mins to open this door, before I break it down,” she yelled through the closed door.
“Can we just banish her?” Celeste mumbled and I laughed.
“Gillian would probably hurt us if we tried,” I said, leaning over and kissing her on the lips. Her arms instantly wrapped around my neck and she deepened the kiss. I growled, feeling my c**k twitch. I started to move on top of her when I heard another knock on the
door.
“1 min! Unless you’re not very gifted, Alpha, you don’t have time to do what I heard you growling to do!” “Maybe we just banish both of them,” I said as I pressed my forehead to hers before moving off the bed and going to open the
door.
“Good Morning Kelly.” I said.
“Good Morning Alpha, we need to go have breakfast with the guests. Mom has put me in charge of shoving both of you along so
you’re both ready in time. She’s handling Maya and Danny, then we will switch at 3 so Maya, Luna and I can get ready and you and Danny and Gillian will get ready under mom’s watchful eye,” She said as she went into the walk-in closet and grabbed some clothes for us to wear for the day. She had already picked for us. I rolled my eyes as I took them and headed to the bathroom to change.
“Wait! I have to pee,” Celeste yelled, and tried to beat me to the bathroom. I laughed and went into the walk in to change. Once !
changed, I came out of the closet, waiting until she came out to brush my teeth and make sure I was presentable. I heard a weird noise in
the bathroom before it opened.
“Are you OK?” I asked.
“Yes, it’s just nerves,” She smiled as she went to sit on the bed to wait for me.
“Three minutes, Alpha. The cook just linked me. Your food is ready.” Kelly said and I rolled my eyes. Again. Today was going to be a long day if Kelly took her duties so seriously, which it seemed like she did. I loved this girl like a sister, but I just wanted to make Celeste my Luna, get Alpha Geoff arrested, go rescue the girls and then forget about the world in this room with Celeste. That wasn’t too much to
ask of a morning, was it?
Maybe we can take her on a trip after? – Atlas said, wagging his tail. -Don’t humans call it a honeymoon?
Yes, I like that idea. We’ll talk to Gillian later about arranging it. –
We headed back down to breakfast. Celeste was wearing a turquoise silk shell top with a light, black cardigan, blue trousers and some low-heeled black pumps. She looked stunning as always. Her curls cascading down her back in a pony tail. We welcomed the
arriving Alphas and Lunas and went in for breakfast. Some remembered her from when we were at Blood Moon and commented on how
beautiful and healthy she looked now.
We ate breakfast and I noticed Sandra kept glaring daggers at her and Maya. It seemed she finally realized that they had both been mated to ranked members while she was not only still mateless, but more than likely mated to someone without rank. I saw her keep eyeing Gillian and Kelly sitting together. She was trying to figure out if they were together.
‘Sandra is eye f*****g you,’ i mind linked him.
me, I might just throw up my breakfast all over her hair,
he said and I almost choked on my toast laughing. My face heated as a tew
amused heads turned my way as I tried to clear the blockage with coughs.
We spent the rest of the morning welcoming and settling in the Alphas and their people as they arrived. Celeste and Maya were
getting pulled one way and another. Kelly kept flitting in and out the back yard to ask questions or dealing with something or other relating to the Ceremony. Each was always discreetly followed by one of their guards. They were smart enough to keep rotating between
the 4 of them so that it went unnoticed by the guests.
I was a little concerned over the fact that Beta Trevor and Sandra couldn’t take their eyes off Celeste and Maya. Every time they came into view of the sitting room, they zeroed in on the girls. I was talking with one of the Alphas halfway through the morning when Maya came in through the sitting room and towards the kitchen, seemingly alone, when I saw Beta Trevor get up and follow her out.
“Maya, kitchen. Go now,’ I mind linked Danny, who quickly excused himself and dashed to the kitchen. I heard a few raised voices and then Beta Trevor came back to the area they had occupied, his jaw tight.
‘Good looking out. Now I’m going to go figure out where the damn guards are. Check on Celeste and Kelly,”
he said.
‘Tuli, are you ok?” I asked, nervous and angry that Maya was not with a guard when I specifically told them they were not to be alone.
Ever.
‘Yes. Is everything OK? I’m with Luna Kiara. She seems to be avoiding the other Alphas,”
she said.
‘Is one of the guards near you?”
‘Yes, Gabrielis. I think Luna Kiara might benefit from having one. It seems when she became Luna, it was not pleasantly received and
she’s still afraid of them,’s he said.
‘I will make sure one is assigned to her so she feels safer. Make sure you’re always followed by one. I don’t trust your old Beta. I love
you. Come sit with me when you have a chance.’
“I love you more,’ she said, and we ended the mind link.
‘Kelly, are you OK? Do you have a guard near you?’ Tasked.
‘Yes Alpha, he’s currently helping me hang some decorations that fell with the wind last night. Is everything OK?’
‘Yes, just checking in,’ I said and cut off the mind link.
Celeste and Kelly are both with guards. Did you figure out what happened?’
I asked Danny.
“Yes,’he growled, ‘Maya sent him away to get more wine from the cellar. She is a little shaken up that Beta Trevor would try to get her
alone. The asshole had promised to take her once she turned of age and now I’m just trying to get her to calm down and me before I go
in there and beat the s**t out of the man.’
Just a few more hours, brother,’
I’m counting the minutes,’ he half laughed.