Chapter 21: Simon
The meeting ended, and it was the shortest one on the records. If all meetings were like this, I wouldn’t dread them so much. Not to mention that no one made any severe digs at my not having a mate. I felt good.
“I would like to bring this meeting to a close. Are we in agreement?” I said to the others.
I looked around the table and all the Alphas said, “Yes.”
“Great. Let’s go grab some food.”
Everyone stood and started to file out of the room.
“Hey, Alpha Simon can I have a moment?” I turned to see Tristan stood off to the side with Tiffany behind him.
“Of course.”
Tristan watched as all the other Alphas and Lunas walked out. Jared came and stood behind me. “Um.” He looked nervous, very unlike Tristan. “It has been brought to my attention that I’ve been a little insensitive.” Tiffany poked him in the back. He cleared his throat. “I’ve been a little insensitive about you not having a mate. And I wanted to apologize.”
I looked over my shoulder at Jared and shrugged. “Ok?” I have never heard Tristan apologize for anything. And this was the Alpha that got so drunk at last year’s Yule ball he shifted on the dance floor and ran through the dining hall’s wall to get outside.
“I wanted to say that you have Tiffany and my support while you continue to look for your mate.” He looked back at Tiffany and whispered. “Ok?” She nodded with a smile. Satisfied with what Tristan said.
“Um, thank you Alpha Tristan and Luna Tiffany.” I leaned over a little to look at Tiffany and winked. I knew he wouldn’t have apologized on his own without the threats of his Luna.
“Great! Can we go eat now?” He said more to his wife than to me.
“Sure, let’s go.”
Tristan and Tiffany walked out of the room hand in hand. She whispered something to him that I couldn’t hear.
As soon as they were far enough away Jared leaned against the table. “That was probably the strangest thing I have seen in a while. And Greta makes me watch some pretty bizarre movies.” He laughed.
“I have to agree. I thought it would be a cold day in hell before I heard Tristan apologize to anyone.” I laughed. “I want to know how Tiffany got Tristan to apologize.”
“It had to be something big.”
“I wonder how long she withheld sex from him?”
“I’d say a month.”
“I say a week. Do you really think he would last a whole month without sex? I think if he went past a week, he would have crawled here to apologize just to get his dick wet.”
“True.”
We laughed as we made our way to the dining hall. It felt good to leave a meeting that didn’t degrade me. I should have offered jobs to the other packs earlier. If I only knew. Now to the rest of my boring, work filled day.