slowly.
“Why?” Jo snapped.
“Jo, I am telling you this as your friend, shut up and calm down. Let us figure this out before we all start freaking. Because as it is, we are all figuring, you’re related somehow. I think we just need to know how,” Cami stated and then looked back at the chef. “Frederica, why don’t you just sit down, I feel like we are grilling you. Have a drink and spill it. None of us are gonna leave here until we have an explanation.”
The smaller woman sighed, and then grabbed an extra glass, sat down, and held it out to Bama, who was waiting. Cami could see the hesitation in the wolf. “Marshall, clear the room. We are locked in with one way in and one way out, I think we need some privacy for a while.”
“I really don’t think that would be wise,” Marshall said, wondering if he was going to have to disobey his Alpha female. He only found his mate, and she was telling him to leave her alone, just not going to happen.
“Marshall, I believe it would be best for now to call the men and ask for their guidance in this situation. For now, Frederica is going to call down and make her excuses, turn the restaurant over to someone else,” Cami announced and then grabbed a bottle of wine and sat down.
“Alpha, I respectfully decline,” Marshall said formally. Cami could see his cat trying to push itself out. It had found its mate, asking him to leave was hard for him accept.
“Well, you don’t get to decline thankfully. Get your ass outside that door right now. We have an issue to talk about before we deal with your mating thing.” Cloe stood up, followed by Skye, and Bama. Apparently, the man overruled the cat because he rolled his eyes and then motioned with his head for the men to leave.
Chapter Three
“I’m sorry. Would you like to repeat that again?” Jaden said into the phone as the other men watched him. The phone rang a few moments ago, and after speaking to a few of the in-laws, they had a plan. One that would shock the women. They were taking a vacation.
The twenty-three men set about making a schedule for each of them to take a vacation sometime in the following year. It was all working out nicely, since there were twelve couples and twelve months, the men thought proudly of the fact they were planning their individual vacations to places they knew their women had talked about some time or another.
They thought of everything, the children, the Council, and even the Pack. Making sure, they checked the schedule against all the others. Of course, it took a while. A few bottles of Jack Daniels, and cases of beer, they finally had all of them booked.
Now they were relaxing and patting each other on the back for their gifts. The women would be surprised and excited, no way were they going to be able to say this year's Christmas was not an amazing one. Reggie even had the idea to arrange for the ladies to get a new wardrobe for their trips, so shopping sessions for each had been arranged.
Then the phone rang, just when they figured they had things under control. Quin was resting his head on the back of the chair he sat in. “I knew it was too good to be true, all the notifications we put into place, and none of them worked, the girls were probably wasted and in jail.” Lev was holding his phone, ready to call the local police in whatever town they were in and arrange for bail.
“Okay, now just a little slower, and with not so much cussing, I think I have it figured out, but man, you are like not making any sense,” Jaden said.
“Just turn the damn thing on speaker, better to hear it all at once than to wait,” Devon ordered.
Jaden rolled his eyes and set the phone down on the table and pressed the speaker key, “Okay Marshall, we have you on speaker, go ahead and tell us it, but SLOWER!”
They could all hear the cat take a deep impatient breath and blow it out. “The women are locked in a room at the top of the restaurant, with six cases of wine, and