Page 124 of My Little Doe
We stood like that for a few more minutes, both of us breathing heavily, him holding me up, and my legs shaking. He finally pulled himself out of me, turned me around, and gently kissed me.
We both pulled our pants up. He put on his shirt and shoes, and then we walked out of the woods, like he hadn’t fucked me wildly. We went back to the room. I cleaned myself up, and then we grabbed all of our stuff. Thankfully, everything we’d brought back from Louisiana was in the hotel room. Quinn had been worried someone would steal it out of the truck bed. We put as much aswe could in the Civic, and then we put the rest in Hyder’s car. I offered to drive Hyder’s car back to the pack house.
It was a little over thirty minutes back to the house. As we pulled into the driveway, my eyes darted to the porch. Ravik’s body had already been moved. On the porch sat an older female. I’d seen her at the window a couple of times. Her eyes looked hollow, and a heavy frown sat on her face. Quinn rushed over and opened my door for me.
“Thank you,” I said. I nodded toward the porch. “Who’s that?”
“Iva, Benji, and Daxyn’s mom. The Nova,” he said.
“Oh,” I said, my eyes dropping to the ground.
“Don’t worry about her. She’s sad because she lost her mate, but she didn’t fight us. She actually knew what was going on and went back to her bedroom and allowed it,” he said.
I clenched my jaw, and my eyes were wide. “Wow.” That’s all I could muster out.
Benji, Daxyn, Callie, and Raphael came outside and stood on the porch waiting for us to join them. Iva remained in her chair, staring off into the woods. It was like she was there presently, but her mind was in another world.
We walked onto the porch and stood in awkward silence for far too long.
“Benji, you should take the Novo position,” Quinn said.
“What?” Benji shot out.
“You’re the oldest of the two of you. You should take over,” Quinn said.
“You’re also reasonable,” Raphael added.
“I’m not married,” Benji replied.
“In circumstances like this, the Zenith will set expectations for you to take over temporarily, with you getting married within a certain time,” Quinn said.
“And what, just marry some female?” Benji shot out.
“I’m sure you have someone who has caught your eye,” Raphael said.
“I did, but they are off limits,” Benji replied, dropping his head.
“You’ll have time to find the right person,” Quinn said.
“Yeah…” Benji muttered.
“Is everyone standing on this porch in agreement with Benji moving into Novo?” Quinn asked.
“Why can’t one of the Zenith couples move up?” Benji asked.
“You know damn well why,” Iva shot out. Everyone’s head turned toward her, as if we’d forgotten she sat there.
Quinn cleared his throat. “They could, but that doesn’t mean they should. It’s the birthright of everyone standing on this porch except Zay, Annabelle, and Hyder. It’s our bloodline. If you can’t do this, Benji, I’ll do it.”
“I can… I can… It’s just a lot to take in,” Benji said.
“We’ll all be here to help you,” Callie said.
All of them nodded their heads in agreement with that.
“I’ve already called them all. They will be here in thirty minutes,” Iva muttered.
“The Zenith?” Raphael clarified.
