Theseus Hearing Anthea tell me from which Pack she came and how she was treated has Linus roaring in my head and I know anger is radiating from my body. Linus and I calm down a lot the moment Amarah crawls onto my lap and I bury my noise in her neck to inhale her scent. When she explains what Rain was going through, it reminded me of Linus over the past few hours and I thought I had heard the worst of the story. How wrong was I in that assumption as I hear her say my Father tore up the alliance because of that. Linus roars the moment it clicks in my head, “My Father was the other Alpha.” It is not a question, just stating a fact and the look on her face tells me that I had figured it out correctly. He tore up the alliance because Atlas found his fated Mate in a female he had wanted for himself. “Anthea, I am sorry for what my Father tried to do and I think I already know the rest of the story, your former Alpha’s Daughter is my Mother.” I say and she nods her head. “What I don’t understand is your remark on Rogues.” I continue, because I really don’t understand it. Amarah places her hand on my cheek to make me look at her, “Our Warriors have always kept an eye on that border even though your Father tore up the alliance, but it wasn’t until after the Rogues got onto your territory and killed your first Mate that we found out it could have been prevented. They run our eastern border from north to south, but over the years they had gotten lazy and cut a corner from our eastern border to our southern border. That is were the Rogues where able to cross your border and attack your Mate and her friend. Dad has blamed himself for years that our Warriors didn’t see it, that they cut that corner during patrol and even though I understand him I think a part of the blame lies in your own border patrols. I have watched your western border for years and I have never been able to get a clear reading on it.” She says. I think about what she told me and I know I blamed Atlas for years, but I know now that it is my Father I should blame for it. If he hadn’t tore up the alliance we would have been in contact with White Crescent Pack and we would have coordinated our patrols together. “Amarah, if there is someone to blame it is my Father or maybe even me. I never changed anything about our patrol on the western border, not even after I lost Chrissy and it should have opened my eyes.” I say to her as I pull her a little closer to my chest. “Theseus, after that unfortunate accident we changed our border patrols and we have taken down a lot of Rogues that tried to cross your borders.” Atlas states and I am surprised when he tells me how they found out where it went wrong. “Dad already scolded me back then for going out at night.” Amarah says the moment I want to open my mouth. “Good, because if he hadn’t I would have.” I whisper in her ear, soft enough for only her to hear it. Amarah At first I thought this was going to be very awkward with Damien being my first Mate and Theseus as my second chance Mate, but I feel comfortable with his arms wrapped around me. Minerva is laying in the back of my head, feeling content for the first time in years. For a while we sit in a comfortable silence as each of us is sipping their coffee and I know Theseus didn’t like it when I got off from his lap, but for the next topic we have to discuss I also want to see how his men react. I will wait until everyone has finished their coffee before I will bring up Asteria and Inti. Ione is the last one to place her cup on the table and I turn to face Theseus to tell him about Asteria. “What is it, Amarah?” He asks and I smile at the fact that he understands immediately that I have something important to tell him. “There is something you need to know, but I need your word it won’t leave this room.” I say.Theseus and his men all swear that whatever it is I need to tell them will never be repeated outside this room and I nod my head before I start talking, “As you might understand Minerva and I didn’t handle Damien’s rejection very well, not at all I might add. I spent my days locked in my room and at night Minerva would run outside our borders to hunt down Rogues. Their bodies would be found in the morning by our Warriors, but none of them ever saw Minerva at night. On our second night Minerva caught a blood scent, but it didn’t belong to a Rogue.” Theseus buries his nose in my neck. I tell them what I found in the clearing and when I tell them what Asteria went through they all roar, “Amarah, we will keep her safe. We will not reveal her whereabouts to anyone, especially not my Father or Khonsu.” Ajax responds and I know her secret will be safe with them. “What are you doing, Gorgeous?” I hear Xanthos ask and I see Eos typing away on her tablet, she looks up at him with a smile on her face. “Nothing much, just making sure that Asteria can finally come out of hiding.” She says and all of us stare at her, hoping for answers. “Ever since we found Asteria I made sure we had an option to buy the clearing, just in case we ever had to and I just received confirmation from the Council that we are now the owners of the clearing between our Packs. It kills two birds with one stone.” She says with a smirk on her face. Apollo looks at Eos with a smile on his face and I assume he figured out what she had meant with her words, “Xanthos, you have one smart Mate. Buying the clearing for White Crescent Pack would mean that you can keep Asteria and Inti safe.” Apollo says as he looks at me. “With all of us mated to one another it makes combining our Packs a lot easier, because we don’t have to go through the process of buying the clearing anymore.” He concludes as he looks at Eos and she is nodding her head enthusiastically. I am stunned I didn’t think of buying the clearing, Asteria could have lived a normal life if I had and I tell Eos as much. “Amarah, only if we could give them a very good reason they would have considered letting us buy it and telling them it was because of Asteria wasn’t an option. Telling them you and Theseus are mated and will need the clearing to combine our Packs is an option, which won’t raise any questions. I did ask them to keep it quiet for the time being as Theseus hasn’t been able to inform his family yet.” She answers.