Twisting Her Fate
Chapter 73

Jameson stands out the front of the alpha house knocking twice. He has already informed ex-alpha Lance that he was on his way. After arriving back at the half moon pack in the night, hearing about an unconscious alpha, he started doing some digging. The things he heard made him nauseous, the whole pack was so flippant when talking about Leilani, like she deserved to be treated like a slave, like she didn't deserve a bed because of her unknown origin, that she deserved the neglect and hatred she received. Even his own parents had such dismissive words. But the thing that sealed it all was replaceing out that Gabriel orchestrated her being sent to elite training to die after his eighteenth birthday. Jameson actually threw up. This is the man that he is meant to support, this is the man he is meant to be loyal to? The thought makes him want to leave the pack instantly, but he is not so su*cidal, he needs a new pack to enter before leaving this pack. Just like searching for a job, it is always easier to replace a new one when you already have a job.

All Jameson knows is that he refuses to follow Gabriel, he will be so nauseous the whole time people might start suspecting that he is pregnant.

An omega house keeper opens the door and leads Jameson into the house and towards Lance's office. Jameson once again knocks on the door. It is answered by Lance, who looks like he is about to head out.

Lance stands at the door awkwardly. He forgot that Jameson had only informed him fifteen minutes earlier that he was coming, but the whole pack has changed in that fifteen minutes, filtered in details of Gabriel being so inebriated that he had to be carried to his room the night before is only the tip of the iceberg.

"Is it anything important Beta? I have just heard that Gabriel has given the order for Maggie to be tied to the punishment pole"

Of course, Jameson knows that, it doesn't worry him at all. Gabriel and Maggie are as bad a match as possible, both of them selfish id*ots that seem to enable each other to be even worse, like having a constant bad influence that they have no escape from, they are turning into a whirlpool of bad choices threatening to pull the whole pack down into it.

"Ex-alpha Lance, it is about the ball"

Lance's eyes flash, he hasn't had a chance to debrief with his son at all and now the Maggie thing, he forgot that Jameson had attended the ball too. Lance forgets about trying to sort things out between the quarreling lovers and returns to his seat behind his desk motioning at the seat in front of him. Jameson moves forward and sits down. Lance laces his fingers over the top of the closed laptop lid.

Giving Jameson his full attention, Lance likes the boy that was away from the pack for a long time, he has a good head on his shoulders and he hopes that he can help steer Gabriel in the right direction.

"So tell me what happened"

"This is only from my observations......."

Jameson, explains what he witnessed at the ball. The more Jameson speaks, the more shocked Lance becomes.

"And everyone saw this?"

"Yes"

"Everyone reached the same conclusion?"

Jameson frowns slightly, he didn't ask what anyone else thought, they would all draw their own conclusions and he can't speculate.

"I am not sure about that"

Jameson feels like Lance is missing the whole point. But maybe that is the point, like father like son. Jameson starts to think that he has made the wrong decision in coming to Lance with this. Wasn't Lance complicit in sending Leilani away in the first place? Wasn't

he complicit in treating Leilani like that in the first place? Gabriel was too young when Leilani was first made to do all the work, to be treated like a slave, so wasn't that Lance? It wouldn't have been Gabriel's call, he was only eight at the time, too young to have such viciousness. Even if he did, Gabriel should have been steered in the right direction. Isn't Gabriel just following his own father's example?

Lance gazes at Jameson with a complicated look in his eyes. The boy hasn't really grown up in the pack, while he likes him. Lance is not exactly sure how deep his loyalty is. Lance doesn't know whether to appreciate that Jameson is telling him about what happened which he actually needed to know from an outsiders point, considering Gabriel doesn't seem to think it prudent for him to know or whether he should be worried that Jameson's loyalty does not lie with Gabriel and Jameson is technically going behind Gabriel's back to tell him.

"I trust that you will keep this a secret. I want this to go no further than this room. Thank you for telling me about it, but no one else is to know. Just forget what happened and I will speak to Gabriel about the matter"

Jameson just stares at the ex-Alpha, Gabriel has been taken over since he came back, so Jameson has not had a chance to see the worth of this man and, so far from what he has heard and what he has just seen, maybe there isn't much. Maybe there isn't much worth to either of them? And if that's true, is there much worth to the pack? The pack is the leadership. Is this something he really wants to work under? If he cannot believe in the leadership, how is he meant to be part of it? Jameson may not believe in the leadership, but he also knows that he does not have the strength to overthrow it. Gabriel may be a lot of things, but he is strong and Jameson would have no chance.

Jameson has never strived to be Alpha or even wanted to be. He just has his own ideals and doesn't want to follow someone so wrong in his own eyes. If Gabriel can so flagrantly disregard all rules and all moral conduct how corrupt is his soul? And then the fact that Lance seems more interested in what the others think than the wrong his own son committed? If no one can hold Gabriel to account at all, what does that mean? Gabriel cannot go unpunished. Jameson stands bowing slightly to Lance.

"Of course, ex alpha Lance, I will not say a word"

Jameson knows that Lance's so-called word to Gabriel is going to be crisis talks on how to cover up the whole thing. He is not sure that the whole fiasco is at the point where it can be covered up anymore nor should it be covered up.

Justice has to be upheld. If others did that sort of wrong, they would be punished. Why is it any different for a leader? Shouldn't they be held to higher standards? Shouldn't their misdoings be worse as they are in a position of power? If they can make such a bad decision, then what does it say for all future decisions?

Jameson walks out of the room staring at the ground with his hands in his pockets. He has a lot of soul-searching to do. Not sure whether to stick it out with the half moon pack in the hopes of being able to help get it to a place where it needs to be or try and replace another pack. He is really on the fence, as while it is his birth pack he has spent so little time within the pack that he doesn't have really deep roots.

In the study, Lance drags his hands down his face, sighing heavily. What type of mess has his son got him into now? Thinking back to the day that Gabriel came to him with the odd request of sending Leilani away, at the time he never put two and two together. He never thought that would be a possible reason. Never thinking too much about it at all. Lance doesn't blame Gabriel for what he did. The whole reason that Lance didn't think of it is that he can't believe someone as weak and subservient as Leilani would possibly be meant to be the future luna of the half moon pack.

Lance doesn't really care about what Gabriel did. The thing he cares about is what happens in the aftermath of the truth being revealed. What Gabriel did will not be considered right by anyone's standards. The fact that the weak Leilani is now somehow strong. Lance still can't quite believe that part of the story. But the fact that Gabriel knowingly sent away his mate to a place like that will reflect badly on the pack and on his leadership. It may even reflect badly on Lance as a father, as technically he was still the alpha when Leilani was sent away.

It would have just been a lot easier if Gabriel had to come to him and told him the truth right at the start, sending her away to somewhere she might die. It would have been better just to stage an accident if that is the way he really wanted to go. Make it clean with no possible chance of it coming back to Gabriel at all.