Redefining Home
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Mom A shook her head. “This is—”
“I’m not telling you because you’re my moms. I’m telling you because you’re the Alpha pair of the pack, okay?”
That got their attention. As Jack repeated everything he’d heard last night, he watched Mom A go from irritated to pissed off. He was glad it wasn’t directed at him.
“I will show this—”
“Calm down,” Mom B cut her off, grabbing her hand and squeezing it. “We need a plan. We can’t just go there with our claws out without talking to Connor.”
Mom A shook her head. “And he won’t come to us.”
“He may not have a choice.”
“I’m not waiting for that.”
Jack’s eyes widened as the realization hit him. “He didn’t come to you, did he? After he’d come back?”
Mom A hesitated before she shook her head.
“He didn’t. I assumed he might be waiting for the Full Moon Run. We could’ve had the Joining Ceremony on the fly. It’s not like we need preparations for a baby. She’s already a part of the pack by proxy, since he is.” She rattled her fingers over her cup, making Mom B grimace. “We’ve been patient, but now I have to do something.”
Jack couldn’t believe this. One of the first things Connor should have done after arriving in town was to ask for a meeting with the Alpha, especially since he’d been arriving with a baby.
“I thought you’d met with him and just…didn’t tell me about it.”
He’d been both disappointed and relieved not to see Connor and the baby last night, but he’d figured it had been discussed with the Alpha. A baby of a pack member didn’t necessarily have to go through the Joining Ceremony right after the first full moon, but to not even contact the head of the pack for so long…
“Wow, he really doesn’t want to deal with anything related to me,” Jack blurted out before he could stop himself, then grimaced. He hadn’t meant to say it out loud.
Mom B leaned closer to him and caught his gaze. “It’s not on you, you hear me?”
“Your mom is right.” Mom A nodded. “He should have come to me, and if he was too afraid to look you in the eye, he could have arranged the meeting somewhere else. I’ve been patient, but that’s not going to fly any longer.”
Jack sat up. “What are you going to do?”
“I’m going to go talk to him, of course.” Mom A shrugged with that quirked-up smirk that meant trouble.
Jack leaned toward her. “Mom, don’t be too harsh on him just because he”—broke my heart—“messed up in the past. I know he did, but if his father is serious, Connor’s in trouble and we have to help him.”
“We.” Mom A pointed at herself and Mom B. “We have to help him, and we will. You need to stay out of it.”
“You just told me it’s not on me,” Jack protested.
“And fixing it isn’t on you, either. And Jack, honey”—Mom A’s tone turned gentle—“I don’t want you to get mixed up in this. I don’t want you to get hurt again, okay? And seeing you hurting won’t endear Connor to me, to be honest.”
Obviously. “You’ll still help him, though.” Jack didn’t turn it into a question, but he still needed to hear her say it.
“Of course, I will. I’m the Alpha to the entire pack, not only to those I like. But I can help him then teach him a lesson or two about—”
“Jolene,” Mom B cut in.
“Fine.” Mom A raised her hands and sat back. “I’m going to help him. Jack stays out of it. Period.”
He was fine with it. It wasn’t like he wanted to get involved in all this.
No, really, I don’t.
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