19 Secrets

Alic's POV

"Alpha King." A man says as I answer my phone.

"Yes, who is this?" I ask.

"Hi, yea, this is Stan. I'm the pack's finance manager." He says.

"Oh. Hello Stan, to what do I owe this call? I thought we were doing well." I ask concerned.

"We are! No need to worry my king. All our business endeavors are profitable. The stocks are thriving. We're in the black all the way around." He tells me.

"Then why are you calling, Stan?" I ask slightly irritated. Get to the point man!

"Yes, sorry Alpha. You see, sir, I have a system that flags large money transfers so we know if anything weird happens. It's funny because nothing ever comes up. I mean for an Alpha you don't take advantage of pack funds and Beta Malakai never uses his account. Beta Ruby has I minor shopping addiction but shes been curbing that recently. Then you know that Gamma..."

"Yout point, Stan!" I growl through the phone. Geeze! And people say I ramble.

"Yes, the point... you see Alpha King, sir, your account has had a major increase in outgoing transactions. I just wanted to make sure it was authorized due to the amount and the fact that you've never used pack funds to this extent." Stan stammers.

I guess my little mate really did go all out for the nursery. I chuckle before responding.

"It's all good, Stan. I gave the Luna the account info so she could pay for the nursery to be renovated for our pup." I tell him.

"Ummm... yes sir, and congratulations by the way! A pup is truly a blessing and the entire pack is eagerly awaiting the little Alpha. I remember when my mate had our first. She was..." he begins but I cut him off.

"Is that all Stan? I really need to get back to work."

"No sir, well sir, you see... you said the money was for the nursery?" He asks.

"Yes?" I respond dragging out the word confused as to why he would ask.

"Well... I mean no disrespect to you or the Luna, My King, but you see... there is no way this transaction was for a remodel. It was one major lump sum transferred to an off shore account and it's a lot of money, sir." He says.

"How much was the transfer?" I ask suddenly concerned.

"Well sir... it was 1.5 million. Transferred last night." He tells me and my jaw drops. What is my little mate up to?

"Can you track it? Find out who it was sent to?" I ask.

"I don't think the Luna would do this on purpose sir. Maybe she was scammed. That happens alot now a days. My own mother, God rest her soul, was taken for two thousand before she passed. She was truly embarrassed by the whole ordeal. I'm sure..."

"Can you track it?" I growl out. This man can be rather tiresome.

"I'll do what I can." He answers and I sigh.

"Thank you, Stan. Keep me posted." I tell him.

"Will do, sir. And if you ever need me I'm only a phone call away. I'll pick up first ring, sir. Always do.  You can count on me..."

"Good bye, Stan." I cut him off a final time before hanging up.

Why would she do this? Is she planning on leaving me? I mean why else transfer so much money? She doesn't know anyone outside the pack so what other explanation is there?

"You could just ask mate." My wolf breaks my thoughts.  "It will do more good than obsessing over something that could have a logical explanation."

"You know sometimes you are pretty smart." I tell him with a laugh.

Bella's POV

Along with paying off that jerk I did buy some things for the pup's room. I decided to be as cost efficient as possible to offset the transfer. I decided to do a blue grey with a mural of a howling wolf for the walls. I figure we can be more gender specific with the decorations once we know for sure if it's a boy or girl. After an hour of painting I am stopped by the most amazing scent flooding the room. Turning toward the door I find my handsome mate.

"How's it coming, little wolf?" He asks me with a smirk as he grabs a cloth and walked over to me.

"Still not little." I argue but am unable to keep my mad face as he chuckles wiping paint off of my face. I sigh. "It's going well. I'm almost finished with the walls... do you like the wolf or is it a little too on the nose?" I ask poking his nose with my paint covered hand leaving behind the beautiful light blue grey right on the top. I giggle at him as he crosses his eyes to look at the paint. "Looks good on you!"

"It better." He says rubbing his nose on my face to remove the paint. "I mean this is a million dollar paint job."

I feel my heart rate jump. Does he know or us he just joking? How do I respond? I chuckle a little but the look on his face tells me he knows.

"Why did you transfer one and a half million dollars to an overseas account?" He asks straight out. Isn't he supposed to try to trick me into telling him or get mad and make accusations? What kind of person just asks what's going on?

"Our smart and amazing, mate... tell him!" My wolf answers.

"Ummm... I did it for the baby." I tell him trying not to give him all the information. Alic sighs running a hand through his hair.

"Look, Bella, I'm trying really hard not to go off the deep end here but I need answers. I know that money has nothing to do with the nursery. You don't know anyone outside this pack so I can't imagine you have anyone to send it to. You lived as a wolf most your life and therefore don't have any enemies so I don't see you being in any trouble. Honestly I'm struggling to find an explanation other than you leaving me. Be honest with me, little wolf. Do you want to leave? You don't have to run like this. If you want to leave say the word and I'll set you up somewhere safe. Don't do it like this. You can keep the money but don't do this! I mean humans do the joint custody thing. I'm sure we can make that work with our pup. Please don't just run." He begs. I am stunned. I wanted to cut off his ramblings but my voice won't work. "Say something, please."

"Look at me, Alic." I say grabbing his face and forcing his eyes to meet mine. "If I wanted to leave do you really think I'd be putting this muck effort into this room? I love you, mate. I'm not leaving. Why would you even think that?"

"I'm not good enough for you for him" he starts putting a hand on my stomach. "For this pack, this people... And Malak said I was gonna push you away and then the money... what am I ment to think? You still haven't told me what it was for."

"I love Malakai but he's an idiot. He was trying to get a rise out of you and you know it. Why would you take what he says to heart? You know better Alaric. Seriously, how many time do I need to tell you I love you? How many times do I need to kiss you? How many people do you see every day that look up to you as their King? You are more then you think you are. I'm carrying your pup! How else can I prove how amazing and important you are?" I rant. He gives a boyish smile with his head slightly bowed.

"A kiss couldn't hurt." He says with an innocent face that makes me want to laugh. I grab his hair and pull him into a kiss.

"I love you Alaric Grayson." I say as we break the kiss.

"I love you too." He responds with a smile and I sigh.

"Let's go to your office. I think we need to talk." I tell him as I take his hand and lead him out of the room.