Chapter 16: Chapter Sixteen
**Jaxson**
This is going to be a long weekend. As I sit here in my office finishing up last-minute paperwork before me and my Beta John head out to the Blue Moon pack for the Ball this weekend. I have so many things to finish. There have been a few rogue wolves roaming around the border of my pack lands but what pack doesn’t have a rogue problem occasionally, and there are a few issues with the hotel businesses that I own that need to constantly be taken care of.
I have my hotel business that is in the human part of town, we are in a fairly large city but nothing too big, but my pack is on the outskirts of town with a lot of room to run around and along one side of my pack territory there is forest beyond the eye can see, all the pack members love it here, my pack isn’t the biggest in the state but I have a little over 200 pack members, we are a tight-knit community and we all stick together, we all work together and help each other out when anyone needs help.
So, I don’t have to worry with my dad taking control of the pack while John and I are gone at the blue Moon pack this weekend. I know that my pack will be in good hands, mainly because my father will handle everything while I’m gone. The only good thing I’m hoping for this weekend is to find my true mate. I have been searching for so long, but I have yet to find her, I just hope Selene will show some mercy and bring my true mate to me at this Ball.
As I’m sitting here signing off the last of my paperwork, I hear a knock on the door.
“Enter!”
Before the door is fully open, I already know who is about to enter my office and roll my eyes because it’s the only person I don’t want to see.
“What do you want Ashley?”
“I just wanted to come by and see if you had a date to go with you to the Blue Moon Ball this weekend?”
She says this with lust in her voice and a sway to her hips that she seems to think will entice me to take her to my bed. But she is sorely mistaken.
“Not that it’s any of your business, but no I don’t, and I don’t want one.”
I’m not even going to mention the fact that I hope to find my mate while I’m there. I have a feeling I’m going to have to take drastic measures here soon if she doesn’t learn her place in this pack, Ashley isn’t my mate, and she never will be.
“What if I attend the ball with you this weekend? I hate to see you ago alone.”
“I don’t need a date this weekend, I already told you this and I don’t know what more I can tell you to make you understand that you have no place by my side, and you have no need to concern yourself that has anything to do with me.”
“Alpha, I was just trying to-“
I manage to cut her off before she can finish that statement.
“Ashley, how many times do I need to tell you, you are not my mate, and you will never be my mate, with that little stunt you pulled last week being in my bed, you’re lucky I only kicked you out of my room. If you tend to keep this shit up, you will feel the wrath of my full anger.”
“Jaxson, baby you know I didn’t mean anything by it, I was only trying to show you a good- “
I don’t even let her finish that statement either, she will never learn.
“ENOUGH Ashley! First, you WILL address me as Alpha! I am your Alpha, NOT your ‘baby’ so you need to learn your place! You are not my mate! Do I make myself clear? And, if you feel the need to pull this shit again, I will not hesitate to take drastic measures to make sure you know your place! You know what, on second thought I think you do need to be taught a lesson, starting this evening you will have two weeks of kitchen duties. If I find out you have been skipping out on them, you will have a much more severe punishment to deal with.”
I am sitting here highly agitated with this shit she seems to think is fun to pull but I am so far beyond tired of it that I will have to drag her to the cages downstairs and show her what I mean by putting her in her place. I am so sick of her shit.
“Do I make myself clear?”
She just stands there like she wasn’t expecting me to give her such a harsh punishment.
“Ashley! I asked you a question.”
She is about to fall to her knees while bearing her neck to me in respect.
“Yes Alpha, I understand.”
“Good, your dismissed.”
She turns to leave as John makes his way into my office. He turns to watch Ashley leave and turns back to me rolling his eyes and chuckling at her scared demeanor
“Hey Jax, I guess you had to rip into her again huh? I guess she will never learn, makes me wonder what will happen when you find your mate and she try to pull that shit.”
This is why he is my Beta and my best friend; he understands my frustration and he knows what is going on without me even having to say anything.
“Yea, we’ll see she is this close to being put in the cages and having a lesson in staying in her place,” I say as I hold up my hand with my finger and thumb to show about an inch space between them.
“Yea, I wouldn’t blame you if you did man, she thinks she is going to be your Luna, she needs to be taught a lesson. Anyway, I came to see how much work you had left before we could get out of here and start our drive to Blue Moon Pack.”
I guess he is anxious to get on the road, I’m not going to admit to him that I am too because I want to find out if my mate is going to be at this Ball and I will never hear the end of it from him if we don’t leave soon. So, I reach for the last stack of papers I need to sign off and tell John that I am ready to get out of here too.
“I’m about ready I just need to sign these last few docs for the hotel in town and run upstairs to grab my bag and we can head out.”
It’s not going to take us too long to get to Blue Moon Pack we are only a four-hour drive or a three-hour run but I’m ready to dip out.
“Let me just call my dad and let him know we are heading out, give me about an hour and we can go.”
“Alright man, I’ll meet you out front in an hour.”
“Sounds good.”
I sign my last few documents and make the call to my dad to let him know I’m leaving pack lands and he says he will be here to see us off in an hour, I make my way up to my room to take a quick shower and grab my bag, once I’m dressed in my most comfortable jeans with my black t-shirt, and a pullover hoodie I make my way downstairs to my SUV, when I make it out to the front my dad is there to see us off.
“Thanks, dad, for holding everything together while we’re gone, we should be back Sunday night.”
“No problem son, just go find your mate and try to have a good time.”
He gives me a slap on the back, and I climb inside, and low and behold John is already strapped into his seat and ready to go.
“Finally, Jax, let’s get out of here.”
“Yea, yea man I know, I’m here so we can go now. Fuck man don’t get your panties in a twist.”
“I don’t wear panties man, half the time dude I don’t wear anything, it’s easier for the ladies.” This dude I swear has no filter.
“Gross dude, I didn’t need to know that. Would you just drive already?”
And then we are off to the Blue Moon Pack for the ball. And I sit there looking out the window watching the trees fly by wondering what my mate could be like and what she would look like or if I even get the chance to find her at this Ball. I really hope the Goddess blesses me with my true mate, I’m about to lose all hope at ever finding her.