Page 130 of A Second Chance for the Beta
The three of them look at each other nervously before Annie clears her throat. “You need to tell us everything,” she says with a warm smile. “We don’t hold it against you. What we want at this point is to reassure that the pack is safe.”
“The… the pack is great,” Ty mutters nervously, looking at her now. “It’s just… out there is an abandoned skating and parkour area.”
“You go out there to do sports?” Liam asks, surprised.
We exchange a gaze. He probably thought the same as I did… that they went out to party and drink secretly, but they are sneaking out to skate? That’s just unexpected. On the faces of their parents, I can see a hint of relief.
“What’s wrong with the parkour area on pack grounds?” Annie asks. “We have one.”
“It’s… beautiful, Luna,” Ty stutters.
“But?”
“You can’t skate without getting hurt,” he admits.
“I admit I don’t know much about this type of sport,” Annie says.
“If I may, Luna?” Levi asks. When she nods at him, he continues. “Ty is right. It’s like learning self-defense and expecting someone to never get bruised.”
“Okay, these are valid points,” Liam says. “We will make sure there is an area for those of you kids who like to skate or bike, but I want you to take first aid classes and learn how to fall. Furthermore, I want you to understand that you can’t just sneak off pack grounds. It’s dangerous and unsafe. I don’t mind listening to the concerns of the pack youth, but to do that, I need to hear it.”
“They could vote for a representative,” I point out.
“Not a bad idea,” Liam says. “We will think about this later. I have one more question. How did you know how and when to sneak off the pack grounds?”
Gisela and Austen remain eerily quiet, while Ty looks nervous and downright scared. Very unlike him. Liam has noticed too. “Please give me and Beta Dante a moment with Ty alone,” he says.
There is not really an option to defy his order. Ty’s father knows it too, but he still looks worried. Annie approaches him, reassuring him that we won’t hurt his son, just talk with him. Once we are on our own, Liam turns back to Ty.
“Ty, I understand that you are scared,” Liam says. “But you need to tell us what you know.”
“Dad will be mad,” he admits, looking both terrified and guilty. It takes me back to the time when I was a teen and thought the world would end if I fucked up. “Charlie got taken because of me.”
“I understand how you feel,” Liam says. “And I can’t tell your father not to be angry. But although what you did was questionable, this here… Charlie being abducted, is not your fault. It’s the fault of some evil men. Not yours. You are older than Charlie, and she looks up to you. Now, I need you to be responsible and brave and tell us what you know.”
Ty swallows thickly but then nods. He tells Liam and me when and how they snuck off the pack grounds, the routes and the times, also the place of the old parkour area, and he admits that he got the information from his father’s notebook.
Liam and I stay quiet at his last words. Ty looks down at his feet. “That was stupid, wasn’t it?”
“Yes,” Liam says. “Pretty stupid and reckless, but I think you know that already.”
“Are you going to tell Dad?” he asks nervously.
“I will leave it up to you if you tell him or not. Your father is a great warrior, Ty, and does a fantastic job. Keep in mind that what you did could have fallen upon him. In another pack he might have lost his rank for it. Depending on the alpha it could have ended with him imprisoned or even cost him his life.”
Ty pales at his words. “It’s not his fault.”
“I know,” Liam says. “But you are his son, a minor, and you messed with his work.” He sighs. “Beta Dante will work on proper password protection on the files from now on. So at least we learned something from it.”
Ty looks seriously miserable. “I’m so sorry,” he says quietly.
“I know,” Liam says. “However, Beta Dante and I appreciate your honesty.”
“I agree,” I say. “I’m sure you will make better choices next time.”
Ty nods, looking a tad bit relieved. “I, I promise.”
“Good,” Liam nods. “You can go, Ty.”
