The Tripartite Mate Bond Chapter 61: CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE

I had not seen Kane in a while and I was missing him. Each time I caught a glimpse of him, he was rushing somewhere or busy with something. I was tired of it.

If he couldn't make time for me, well, I believe I have two other mates and they wouldn't treat me this way.

“What's got your face squeezed up like that?” Cora asked me. She was helping me organize tonight’s cookout. Apparently it happened every month end and sometimes people from other packs even came so this was going to be my first big impression on the pack and I was terrified of fucking up. It didn't help that Kane was acting like I didn't exist.

“It's nothing. What will it take to get the head cook to accept help from an event planner so we can have a better chance of success with this? She looks tired and I just don't want all that workload on her but I fear she'll feel I'm undermining her”

“Well, for one, I know it's not nothing and if you ask Kane, he'll tell you I'm quite good at making him talk,”

“That'll happen when he agrees to talk to me” I grumbled but she continues

“And two, Trish won't mind extra help. Besides, you are the Luna. Stop trying to please every damn person, you'll get exhausted. You tell them to sit, they'll fucking sit,”

“I won't be having such a tough time getting close to them if he didn't just bring me here and abandon me. I haven't even had a full conversation with him in a week. It's always, “how was your training today” and that is it. I'm exhausted and honestly, this cookout is driving me nuts.”

“I think he's going through something. I can't place my hand on it but don't worry, he'll come back to his senses very soon. I know my brother” she assured me but it doesn't permeate my drowning feelings.

“How have you managed to handle it all these while?” I ask instead.

“Well, Jayden's mate all but abandoned it to me since she fucked up the first time so I've had to keep it going by myself. But I'm the Alpha's sister. Their judgment dies in their throats” she gloats

“So if I fuck this up, I'll become a bigger laughing stock. Great!”

She laughed but I was too miserable to share in her great sense of humor. I'd gotten close to Cora but I still had my walls high up. I didn't go anywhere without my guards and I always told my mates where I was in the group chat Axel created for us.

He gave it the weirdest name in the world. “A³Kane love group” – our initials and Kane's name.

Very mature, I know.

I didn't tell them about Kane ignoring me because, first I didn't want to sound like a whining bitch and I also didn't want to distract them from whatever they had going on which was a lot.

From what they discussed in the group chat, there were a lot more traitors than they imagined possible that they had to call a pack meeting to figure out what created that feeling of hatred in the pack. It turned out that they had been tired of the constant battles for a long time and many of the traitors had lost a close kin.

I had told them to find a way to forgive them since the problem had been solved. They agreed but insisted on making them do a lot of hard labor which wasn't met with so much excitement.

At the end of the day, some wolves had to be banished, forever condemned to the life of being a rogue.

I turned back my wandering mind to the list I had drawn up and began amending it. If I was going to make the impression that I needed, I would need first hand opinions from people who were bound to be honest with me.

The Omegas.

They had nothing to gain or lose apart from their life as they were on the bottom of the food chain. With all that pent up anger, it was a normal thing to expect them to never sugarcoat anything. It was difficult getting familiar with them at first but gradually, we began to bond. I heard Crystal and Maya cackling about me relating with them because I was just like them or worse and I couldn't agree more

Just like me, they'd been forced to a life they didn't want because they could vividly see others living a better one for no reason other than who gave birth to them.

“You look like you've discovered the cure for AIDS” Cora said as she looked up from her own book where she was drawing out ideas as well.

“We need to talk to the Omegas. No offense but I don't want people to feel like you did all of this and if the party has your handprints all over it, it'll be difficult to prove otherwise so I thought to ask them what they think a great cookout would consist of” I gushed to her.

She looked at me weirdly for a second before nodding.

“It's a wild shot but there's no harm in trying”

So we went downstairs to their side of the pack house.

I have never been here before but as I walked in with Cora in tow, I realized how wrong I was. They weren't miserable at all. They gave off that vibe when they were with us.

Down here, they were loud, happy and living like a happy family.

“Luna, what a pleasure. What can we do for you? You should have just called” Tiana, one of the girls I'd bonded with on the running trail, rushed to me, attempting to lead me back but I stood my ground.

“I didn't want that. I wanted to see this part of the pack. I hope you are okay with that?” I asked the small crowd that had gathered in the hallway.

“Of course, it's no trouble. Please come sit” am older woman replied.

As I walked into the room, I realized there was a lot of division in the pack that needed to be repaired. Maybe that was my destiny here. It would be so great if they brought this happiness up to the rest of the pack and I decided to make that happen, starting with this cookout.