Chapter 7 Permission

• Deimos
• Zalia is right, I have more responsibilities than a normal Gamma and I haven’t even taken over from my Father yet.
• “Okay, but what is the solution?” I ask her, because I don’t see what it has to do with the attention I get from females and I doubt there is anything that could make it worse.
• Eryx and Ammon have a smug look on their faces and I doubt I am going to like what Zalia will answer, Goliath is laughing his ass off makes me regret asking the question. Even though I really would like to know what I can do to be able to stay awake during the day after night patrol.
• “Okay, let me ask you a question. I know your Father is Alwin’s Gamma and you help him out in any way you can, but does your Father need an entire day to recover from a night patrol?” Zalia asks me and I answer her that I never paid much attention to it, but Dad answers her that it also takes him an entire day to recover.
• Zalia turns to her Father and asks, “Dad, did you always have trouble running night patrol?” He seems confused for a minute, but then I see his eyes widen as he shakes his head.
• “Can you explain to Deimos when it changed for you, Dad?” She asks and the look in her eyes tells me that a part of the answer won’t be easy for them.
• “It changed after your Mother died, until that day I had no trouble running night patrol or with getting called out of bed in the middle of the night. Your Mom would always take care of a part of my responsibilities and it gave us time to spend together and with the two of you, but it also allowed me to sleep a few more hours.
• We would make the schedules for training and border patrol together, it was a way for us to spend time together and it made our bond stronger. No one doubted her if she gave an order, they knew she was very capable of doing the job and they all respected her.
• Losing your Mom didn’t just mean losing my Mate, our Pack lost a very capable Gamma female and the two of you lost your Mom.” He says and I can tell it wasn’t easy for him to remember what his Mate had meant for him.
• What is has to do with me I am so sure about it.
• Until I remember she mentioned more attention from the females that would like a Mate with status.
• If I had a Mate we would share the responsibilities and that would allow me to sleep a few more hours without me neglecting my duties. My Mate would be able to take care of anything that needs to be done or that would need immediate attention.
• “Okay, you better not repeat that outside this room. That would be disastrous, especially if Mavka were to get wind of this. No, this stays within this room. No one is to repeat this ever again.” I say as I keep shaking my head, Goliath is laughing even louder in my head as I speak and I hear Ammon laughing his ass off too.
• Zalia has a smirk on her face as I keep shaking my head. Axelle just looks at me and I know what is going to come. “Looks like you will have to attend a few more Mating Balls, Deimos. Maybe one of these days you will get lucky enough to find your fated Mate.” Axelle says and Zalia bursts out in laughter as I start shaking my head again.
• We talk about the upcoming Mating Balls and I can tell that Zalia is not looking forward to them either. She tells Axelle that most males treat her like she is made of porcelain, that is until she mentions that she runs border patrol herself.
• “I have met a lot of these unmated males that attend those Balls, they are full of themselves and they think that they are the Goddess send gift to women.
• They don’t care who they sleep with, whether it is with a Pack-member or a visitor and their Mates will have to face those females on a daily basis. So I am not that interested in any of them.
• But there might be another problem that can have more consequences. That is with me being a first born. It means that my Mate will have to move and I doubt anyone of those males can handle that.” Zalia says.
• I watch Donovan and Gibson closely, but neither one of them moves a muscle or blinks as she speaks. I would have expected them to back her up, but they have been pretty quiet ever since we sat down and I think they are a bit intimidated by being in the presence of King Alwin and Queen Axelle.
• Eryx and Slater are discussing the meeting we have in the morning and I see Zalia looking rather bored, but when Alwin asks her about, it her answer surprises me.
• “Alwin, I am forced to sit through those meetings every year and every year the same thing happens. No one listens to us when we speak, if we get the chance to speak that is.”
• In a matter of minutes Alwin and Zalia are in a heavy discussion about why they have to attend these meetings and the rest of us sit back as we listen to Alwin explain that this is a learning process for them.
• “What the fuck am I supposed to learn from this? How to parade around like a whore?” Zalia yells at him.
• This is one of the few times I have seen Alwin speechless and Axelle just watches as Zalia continues her speech, “I have no intention of taking a chosen Mate, I will wait for my fated Mate as long as it takes and with these meetings, you practically approve of them taking a chosen Mate.
• You can’t tell me that none of you have smelled the sex scent in the room or that it isn’t with their Mate. Nor can you deny that their Pups are acting the same way as their parents, they just follow their parents example and you never correct their behavior during these meeting.
• If the purpose of these meetings is that we learn how to play nice with one another, I can tell you the visits we pay to other Packs are more than enough practice for me. I have never killed anyone during those visits, no matter how justified it would have been.”
• “Damn, you better make sure you never piss her off. She will bury you.” Goliath mumbles in my head and I know that she will bury me if I do anything to upset her. It takes Alwin a few seconds to gather his thoughts and asks her to clarify her statement on Pack visits.
• She tells us about their last Pack visit and how everyone reacts to her eating habits or her requests to go for a run, how she isn’t allowed to train to blow off steam. It makes me understand why she said she wanted to go for a run if she had the time and I really hope that she will find the time to go for that run.