Chapter 59 – part 2
“You do deserve him, and none of that will happen again; I am here now,” Valen says.
“Yes, you are, but what happens once you mark me? You make me give up the hotel? Take it from me, from them. Before Valarian, I was oblivious to how this city was run, like any other Alpha. Shunned the rogue whores until I found myself one of them. Zoe, Macey, and I, we built that place. I won’t allow you to take it from us, from those that work there. I won’t just quit because you want a Luna. And I know you expect that. You expect that because it is what is taught to us. Luna’s abide by their Alpha. The Alpha has control. No one should have that sort of power over someone else.”
“You think I will make you give it up?” Valen asks.
“Yes, but I am also worried about what they will think when I become one of those that suppressed them in the first place. You marking me doesn’t just affect me; it affects them when I become what society wants, what you want,” I tell him.
“What do you want then?”
“What I want is for my son not to be ashamed because he is rogue, I want the stereotypes gone. I want everything I have worked for to mean something so our son can say that I tried. That I had nothing but made something, something that
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made a difference, and that is why I don’t want you marking me. It will be like throwing everything we worked hard for away if you make me give it up, to toss what I was trying to change away, and all of them will go back to being just another rogue whore, and I will just be another selfish Alpha,” I tell him.
“I just want my mate Everly, that is all.”
“You say that now until everyone starts putting pressure on you to force me to conform to their ways, you think I will remain quiet in Alpha meetings? When they speak garbage against the way they treat rogue whores or when the packs bring in another law that restricts them more, like the stupid schooling cuts they made last year? It will cause an uproar, one that will reflect poorly on you because you can’t keep your Luna in line. You pull rank over me, Valen. You will have control, and when they kick up a stink that I am speaking against the way they have lived for decades, I know you will use it against me,” I tell him clutching my head.
Everything was so fucked up, and the stress was beginning to get to me, the stress of the mate bond, the hotel, people going missing, my father, and this stupid Alpha meeting. Tears burned my eyes, I was so sick and tired of the responsibility but at the same time, I needed to keep going.
“No, you think you know, Everly. I am not trying to take anything from you; use your title how you want. Fuck, abolish the laws for all I care, I’ll even help you.”
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I scoff and drop my hands and look over at him. That would go down well, the media would tear shreds off him, and his pack would become a laughingstock. I shake my head. He seems to think it is so easy. That I should just accept him because his title could help, but it could also destroy everything. Valen sighs sits up on his elbow and looks down
at me.
“I mean it, Everly, you want to help the rogues. What better position than one of power? Change the laws, change their views but do it with me by your side and in your corner, you think you have to solve all their problems yourself; you don’t.”
“You backing me would start a war, Valen. Wars never solved anything just got innocent people killed.”
“Yes, you’re right. But then those wars ended up in history books and became everyone’s turning point; a reflection of how we messed up and a place to see the error of their ways. You’re worried about war? The packs are always at war, but why not go to war for something that will hold value, and give a future to someone who otherwise had none? You have my pack. They will fight for you if you are my Luna, they will fight for the rogues.”
My brows crease as I think over his words, yet him saying it and allowing it after he marked me are two different things.
“One thing I have realized since meeting you is that the
rogues hold just as much value, and are capable of more than they realize, because not one of your people have ever talked
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down to me, treated me differently or those that enter your doors, they treat everyone with kindness even though they are shown none, you want to change the laws, change things for the rogues then let me help you.”
“You could go back on your word, though, Valen,” I whisper. He could ruin everything because me taking that title gives him everything I own, what the rogues own.
“I won’t, I swear I won’t, and I will prove it,” Valen sighs, dropping his head on my shoulder and groans. He felt defeated, yet I could also tell he understood because his anger was gone.
“How?” I ask.
“Because tomorrow I will open up my packs schools for the rogue children, and I am shutting down that terrible place you call a school.” he lifts his head back up and presses his forehead against mine.
“Besides, when I spoke to Valarian about changing schools, he refused unless Casey and Taylor could come to his new school, so the more, the merrier.”
“But what of the rogues that work there? They will lose their jobs.”
“And I hear Mountainview Hotel is looking for extra
employees. We can help find them jobs. We can work it out,”
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“In a city where rogues can’t go past the two streets on either side of the main street unless it is for the reserve, there are no jobs, Valen, no one will hire them.”
Valen sighs, appearing to think for a second before pushing his knee between my legs and shoving them apart.
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