15 - Chapter Fifteen - Leno's Point Of View.
Standing in the office door I was shocked by the amount of paperwork
and the tone of Diego's voice to whoever was on the other line. He was
being so nasty to the person on the other end and i didnt want to know
why. Looking over the stacks of papers he really hadn't been lying
about the amount of work he had to do. The look he gave me was one
of an apology, probably for all the yelling he was doing. Grabbing a
bunch of the papers I read them over before grabbing a pen and filling
in the missing information and details. Most of them really only needed
to be signed by Diego; he just hadn't done it.
When he finally got off the phone he looked tired. He sighed deeply,
grabbing a few sheets and signing them
âHere, you only need to sign these ones, I've filled them all in.â
âHand them here, Let em have a quick look.â
He skimmed over all the pages humming and he praised me for my
knowledge of the sheets. This was one of the only times I had taken
over and helped myself to helping him and hadnt managed to fuck up
any of the sheets. I was happy that he praised my work. Not because he
praised me but because he knew I could do the work now.
âYou are like a saving grace right now.â
âThat's a first.â
âSurely not the last time however. I'm going to be here for days doing
all this shit.â
âNot if i can help it, we will get you caught up.â
âSounds good.â
Grabbing a giant stack of paper I watched the look of Diego's face go
from grateful to one of disapproval when I picked up the massive stack,
honestly it weighed next to nothing but it was enough to make him not
let me move anymore stacks.
Grabbing the first paper off the stack it was about the location of the
pack/ kingdom and it was for the Alpha summit in the next year. It
seemed our pack was going to be hosting it next year. That was super
amusing to me, more so that the paper ended up in Diego's paperwork
and not Dakota's, But I found a lot more papers that seemed they
should have been in Dakota's pile. But then I figured it out, Dakota had
just signed all the papers and tossed them down for Diego to finish and
sign as well. I didn't make a comment on it because I didn't want to
make Diego flip out. Instead I just set all the special papers aside and
continued to fill a bunch of them in. Felix stopped by a little later to see
us and sign a few papers that were missing his signature. He stayed
longer because he helped us fill out papers.
âHow was your appointment today?â
âGood, she's in no way worried about us not being good parents and
she is very proud of us for getting along and coming along together.
She has the next appointment booked for after our pup is born to see if
there's anything she can help with then, she worried the new pup
could be a little stressful and she only wants to make sure we are well,
by we she means us both, but mostly me. She wanted to make sure I
don't end up with the baby blues.â
âShe had called earlier and to be honest she was really happy with
everything and she said there's nothing for us to be worried about, she
said you weren't anything to worry about. That was good enough for
Dakota and I. I don't want you to think we did this because of what you
did.. Honestly, that is both of your guys' business. We were only
concerned about the stress of adding a child to the already volatile
situation and after the broken arm we heard about we worried
something had happened that wasn't what the doctor had listed, no
offense Diego. You were really pissed for a few days. *
âNo, that's fair, I did hurt him. I threw a few things at him and left him
outside in the cold. I shouldn't have let my anger get the best of me
and I didnt know how guilty he felt for the whole ordeal and I should
have been more for him then what I was. I called him immature but I
think that was me. If I'm being honest.â
âWait! Back track, you hit him with what! And you left him outside!â
"Yes. I was wrong, and if you tell Dakota about it all you will find i
confessed to him first and he had already dealt with it all.â
âWhat did you hit him with and Why the hell did you leave him
outside!â
âThis was all before I knew about our pup. This was even before he
broke his arm. Dakota is aware of it all, me throwing mugs at him, me
locking him outside, all of it.â
âSo, that's why you said you guys were worried about the stress and
how it was already a volatile situation, you told Dakota about you
hurting me and leaving me outside like a mutt.â
âI did. For that I received a very heavy set of work, all the training, the
paper work, late night border duty, along with a large stack of books on
anger management that he might, I just added whipped at me.â
âMaybe you should lend him some of your books, he might be able to
use them.â Felix said smugly.
That made Diego bust out laughing, Dakota also had a temper that was
well known, even towards his mate who didn't take his shit in the
slightest. It was amusing the fact that Felix would throw Dakota under
the bus like he wasn't his mate. Finding a strange tinted paper it was
for the delivery of a bunch of new toys and clothing for the children. I
read it over a few times before I slipped it right on the desk. It said it
was urgant and needed to be signed. The rest of the pile I was working
on was fucking boring and I couldn't even find an inch of me that
enjoyed this shit.
âHow the hell do you both do this all day, shit it's so boring. I'm so glad
this is not my job, I would rather get my ass kicked by my own warrior
mates then this shit.â
âI said no Leno, you can't and I won't allow it.â
âLeno, you do know you can't because you are Diego's beta mate
right?â
âYes he told me, he also told me even if he did allow it he wouldn't let
me train with the warriors because the first one who touched me
wouldn't live to walk away.â
"That sounds about right, Dakota says that all the time when i start
training the vampire guards, he always whines about how he would
have to kill them and it would make a mess."
Felix watched me pass off the almost complete papers off to Diego to
get signed and he started to cackle about how I was making more work
for us.
âHow do you figure that?â
âYou do know as the beta mate you're allowed to sign the documents
for him right?â
âUh, no I didn't know that.â
Felix grabbed a paper and showed me where it said for Diego to sign
and he pointed to where the small letters underneath said Beta/Mate. I
had never even noticed it before. Even Diego looked a little annoyed.
He probably didn't know about it either with the way he looked. Felix
couldn't stop laughing about the whole ordeal. We were able to clean
up all the papers and I handed him the special pile to go through. Once
he was done with them he pulled me from the office and shut the light
off and closed the door, Felix had gone home only a moment before.
Now we were alone.
âAny ideas for dinner because i never took anything out like you had
asked, but there's fresh rabbit in the fridge, it only has to be cut smaller
to be fried or boiled. Just let me know if you want that.â
âRabbit actually sounds really good. We could totally make rabbit stew,
it's not super late there's definitely time.â
âThat sounds really good. I'm down for that, just tell me what I need to
do to help Leno.â
Getting down to the kitchen I found all the vegetables and spices for
the stew. Diego sliced the rabbit into stew side cubes. Grabbing out
one of the large pots I tossed some of the fat from something we had
before into the pot to make oil for browning the meat. Placing the pot
on the stove I turned it to high heat and waited for the fat to melt
before I tossed the meat in the pot along with all the spices to brown
and make good flavors. In the meantime I gave Diego all the vegetables
and told him to cut them all in one inch pieces.
âHere mate, I've cut them all the way you wanted.â
âThank you, I'll grab you a bowl to put all that in.â
âI'll grab one its all good.â
I watched to make sure he would get a big enough bowl and he did.
Diego was really good at cooking as well, but we took turns because we
each had our strong points when it came to cooking.
âDo you have anything that needs to get washed Leno? I have all my
clothing in the laundry room, and sheets on the bed are changed and
the new blanket is on as well.â
âThere are probably a few towels on the floor in the bathroom or my
bedroom.â
âAlright, i'm going to check because i'm going to do laundry.â
âSounds good, watch my room it's a mild mess.â
âThat's normal with your room, I've learned to look past it, as long as
you shut the door.â
I laughed as he ran up the stairs. I was happy he was helping with the
chores around the house but i felt bad that I lied to the man about the
state of my room. It was such a mess and he was in for such a darn
shock. He might also find some of his own clothing in my room that I
had stolen over the last few weeks. I knew right off the bat he would
find three of his hoodies that I used to sleep in at night because they
smelt like him and were comfortable. When he came down the stairs he
had my basket and a look on his face.
âI would like to know what you think a massive mess is, if you classify
that hurricane zone upstairs a mild mess.â
âI knew it was really bad, i just didn't want to tell you that.â
"Oh yeah? Does that also fall along the lines of you having a ton of my
clothing, more so my hoodies and shirts?â
âYeah pretty much.â
I added water to the pot because the meat had browned perfectly and
moved on to adding all the rest of the stuff and turning the stove down
to cook the stew without overcooking or burning it all. I heard Diego
put the laundry in and then he returned. He had a bunch of little things
he no doubt found in my pockets. There were coins, paperclips, my
headphones and even a fork.
âYou always have so many small treasures in your stuff.â
âYeah, i'm bad for that. I'll admit that.â
âIt's all good, I find things in my pockets all the time.â
When I did his laundry I had to watch his pockets for all kinds of weird
things, He picked up rocks, bugs, bones and so much more. He was
saving it all in a collection of a bunch of items he found out on patrols, I
was pretty sure he didn't know I had even known.