Chapter 460
“You didn’t say how you were going to keep the Cunningham’s in the dark about this.” I say.
“This is where you and I come in.” Lil claps her hands. “He already is banned from the construction site, but has regular contact with the contractors. I have talked to the current contractors and they are going to basically move all communication to email, so we can have control over it without him knowing. That will cover that side of it. We will give him the plans and move forward, he will get what he is supposed to, we won’t lie to or deceive him, but we will just word everything in a way to keep him placated.”
“So how do we keep him from checking the sight?”
“We are scrutinizing all of the school’s safety protocols as the Alpha King’s first line of security. They, most likely, already know about the plans to move non-warrior pack members, but until we actually start the move, the safety of the pups is our,” She points between herself and me, “Main priority and assignment from the Alpha King. Alpha Lucas has already sent him instructions to do as we say, which means he’s going to be on our asses. We need to get really specific and have daily early morning meetings with him and of course since it has to do with taking care of the pack’s safety, the ‘future Luna’ should be involved.” Lil rolls her eyes. “I have already sent them both emails, we are starting right after training first thing tomorrow.”
“That keeps us out of helping to build though.” I exclaim. I really don’t want to deal with Kaley for a month, even if Lil is there to be my back up.
“But you have such willing and strapping young men to do your bidding.” Lil winks. “It’s perfect. Kaley is going to be so focused on you that she won’t pay attention to what is going on around her. She’s also going to see this as a benefit since she will see you nowhere near any of your guys all day everyday for a month. And they can’t claim you did anything wrong because you will be with them the whole time.” I can’t really argue any other points. We spent the rest of the day planning out our security detail for the school. Both plans were a go. We were able to get a hold of the contractors in charge of the Cunningham’s house and they agreed that the constant changes were unnecessary and would only come back if we could guarantee that Kevin would not be involved at all. Alpha Lucas agreed to Jena’s term and even offered to pay a bonus to the laborers if they could have it done before the new year. He seems to be more willing to go against Kevin recently as opposed to just letting him have his way. I would love to ask him about it…when we both have time.
Following training the next morning, Lil and I had a meeting with Kevin and Kaley highlighting all of the necessary changes for the school and several that were not required, but would take time and of course needs their input. Lil and I made a point to make fun over mindlink of the fact that Kaley was allowed to skip classes for this when Kevin tried to give me and my friends a hard time about setting good examples to younger students.
The more that Lil stroked her ego the more Kaley pushed for the extensive changes to her father, wanting to use it as her Luna project for the pack. He couldn’t say no to her. She was on board with everything that Lil suggested and said I shouldn’t f*ck anything up and make her look bad.
We were able to fill the guys in on what we were up to over the mindlink daily, but we didn’t see much of each other until a few weeks later when they needed help hauling lumber to the Cunningham’s property overnight for an early start the next day.
The whole crew was buzzing with excitement and anticipation of being done with this massive irritation. We were able to organize the entire site with all the tools and supplies and the general contractor was
confident that with this many
people, the second floor frami net
would be completed and the roof started by the end of the day tomorrow. All of the other
contractors have just been working quickly around adding pipes, ductwork and electrical as they can. It’s been really impressive to see the camaraderie and teamwork. I know they are hoping to put the drywall up in the next couple days, then flooring, paint and appliances.
Kaley did throw a fit about Lil and Jena moving up into my room and repeatedly made comments at dinner each night, until last night Luna Ava told her to deal with it and she would run her pack house as she sees fit. And she doesn’t even allow the future Alphas to act the way that she has been since our arrival. And with the expectation of warriors coming to the pack for the impending war, we need to make preparations. One of those is making room in the packhouse for those warriors to have a place to sleep and eat.
When Luna Ava told her ‘that is what a responsible Luna does’ Kaley went pale and didn’t say anything the rest of the night. Alpha Lucas had a smile on his face the rest of the night.
I also heard from Elena this morning, she said that the coven was preparing to come and do a barrier spell around the Blue Crescent Pack borders and she wanted me to be a part of it. She had instructions that would be coming with Nathaniel and Wyatt for my part in the spell.
Alpha Reggie checked in with Alpha Lucas and I, saying they were ready for us to start moving any non warriors to the Royal pack grounds for safety. The plan is to move them in waves so no one suspects what we are doing and we will be placing warriors in the homes on the outskirts of the pack so it still looks like everyday life is going on.
Wyatt and Nathaniel were fully immersed into finding Gentry for Nickolas, but said that they could do that from anywhere so they were planning on joining us in the next week and they could help with our construction labor team.
By Christmas the Cunningham’s home was complete and we even made time to pull all of their furniture from storage and place it all exactly as it was before the attack happened.
The air in the packhouse was light and giddy as we celebrated. Sierra was even able to join us which was a loud and girl-scream filled reunion. Although, I think the mistletoe got to her and Sam and they disappeared early in the night.
For the first time in a very long time I felt happy and light. All of my friends are here and safe.