Derek POV
That meeting was about as useless as I thought it would be. My father and Mitch drank through most of it, agreed to the same terms as their previous allyship and then sat around getting more and more drunk regaling each other with stories of their s****l exploits, that have occurred both before and after they were mated. Thankfully after one drink they both seemed to think I had stayed long enough to not offend them if I left. I made up the excuse of wanting to see my mother, which they both laughed at, but f.uck them. I was wandering around the pack house looking for her, when it became apparent I wasn't going to find her inside, so I went outside to look around the grounds. The first place I went was the huge garden out back. There were rows of shrubs and trees, it was almost
