Chapter 36: Alliance

{Flashback}

“You cannot seriously make her the pack Luna,” Bass asked, incredulous.

“Of course I’m going to make her Luna,” James answered, laughing. “What else am I supposed to do, give up being the Alpha? Don’t be silly, she’s my mate, I’m Alpha, that’s how this works.”

“A she-wolf you found rabid in the woods,” Bass continued. “With no pack and no lineage to prove she’s someone reliable or even safe, and you’re just going to make her Luna? She brings no value to the pack and that would have been bad enough, but she might even be a possible threat and danger.”

“Bass,” James said, his humor gone. “She isn’t rabid.”

“You don’t deny everything else?” Bass questioned.

“I don’t,” James allowed. “But she is my mate. Her life is tied to mine. If she harms me or the pack, she harms herself. I have thought this through, Bass. I’m not an idiot.”

There was enough of rebuke in there for Bass to swallow his tongue slightly.