The Not So Sad Rejection

Old Ghosts

"How could you?" Justin repeated. "How could you do this to me? Of all the people I did not expect this to come from you?"

I sighed. "How many times must I apologize for something this stupid Justin?"

I heard his breath rush out over the phone and cringed. Here it comes. "Stupid!" he screeched and I jerked the phone away from my ear. "Stupid? How dare you!"

I rolled my eyes. "Could you stop being a drama queen for five minutes and be oh, let's say, the Theta of the Fire Light pack?"

He scoffed. "Drama queen. You're one to talk. How could you stir up drama without me there to watch? You got into a fight with Trina! And I missed it!"

"Justin, seriously? Focus." I wedged to phone between my ear and shoulder so I could forward an email. "Hey, I'm forwarding an email to you right now. It's from some over in West Sun. It's a little weird."

"Yeah hang on a second," he said with a sigh. Drama queen. I could hear the faint clicking of keys as he typed. A minute later he spoke, "Ok I've got it. Who it this from?"

"The writer claims to be the head of the Lupᾰtor," I answered. "But it isn't the same name as the person I met when we went there last year. And it's odd."

"Odd how?" he asked. "All it says is that they've had a surge of Rogues and could use a couple extra skilled fighters to help them handle it."

"A request like this should be coming from the Alpha and going directly to Jason." I said as I starred the email. "It's strange that it would come from someone else. And it just reads odd. Why would a surge happen so soon after the last failed? Why send it to me?"

"Are we going to help them?" Justin asked.

I bit my lower lip for a moment as I weighed our options. "I'm not sure. Do we really have the resources? Most of our trainers will be here, and we can't just send a group of fighters without someone high up to head them. I also don't like how little is detailed here."

"But if they do need help we can't just leave them hanging, it could kill our alliance with them," he pointed out.

"I know," I sighed. "Let me talk to Jase about this, we'll see what he says."

"Try not to get into any more fights while you're at it!" he quipped.

I couldn't stop my major eye roll. "Good Lord! Let it go, Justin!"

"Hey! You can't take the Lord's name in vain if you don't believe in him," he cried. I ended the call and cut off his rant.

I sat my phone down and stood up. I was currently working in the bedroom I'd been put in. I could work in Tyler's office, hell I could even work in Grant's or Greg's. But I preferred to handle pack business without people from other packs looking over my shoulder. Maybe that makes me a little paranoid but I'm okay with that. I snapped shut my laptop after doing a quick forward of the email to Jason and set off the find him.

I found him with Lily down in the foyer. "Where are you two going?" I questioned. "And where in Colin? Please tell me you didn't ditch another guard, Lily."

She sniffed, "That was one time."

"We were going to go look at some of the shops," Jason said answering my first question.

I raised an eyebrow, "Are you telling me that there's something your mate hasn't already gotten from here? Better yet have you forgotten that there are Rogues after her?"

"Are you questioning my concern for her safety?" Jason said with a slight edge to his voice.

I was among the few who Jason could not intimidate so he'd have to try a lot harder. "Yes. It's my job. It's one of the things you actually pay me for. That and to back talk you."