Alpha's healing power and herbs both worked, Cody's hand was now in not that bad condition. It's still burning but the color was back to red from blue. And wounds don't look that serious, he can make excuses for these wounds, he doesn't need to hide them. He can go out, he decided to eat first, he feels weak.
It was Sunday, Cody ate a heavy breakfast and came back to his room. He decided to stay in the room the whole day and not to go anywhere.
The whole pack was concerned about future alpha but excited for the ceremony. All guests are arriving for ceremonies who are close to the pack.
Alpha's first born was here with healer, Alpha specially asked for healer and the healer belongs to the pack so he wants to be the witness of this day. Cody is his Alpha too.
Other members of the pack those who live away for business or for other reasons all were arriving. Every pack member has to attend this ceremony and give good wishes to Alpha.
Few other packs members also generally attend the ceremony to show gratitude. If they have unmated childrens then they bring them along, everyone wants to be an alpha mate, it gives the power and title "Luna".
All was going good, tomorrow was the ceremony day so the whole pack was at the pack house to prepare. Today Practice was skipped and all children were decorating the hall for the ceremony and making the ground ready for the Game. There will be a football match in the morning for guest entertainment. The ceremony also will start at the same time but rituals are boring and private and only a few people are permitted to enter the pack's holy cave. Football match is between two groups, John has divided packs players in two groups, Ruth loves Football and she is the captain of one team. And Obvious enemy Chris(F4) is the other team's captain. Chris and Ruth are blood enemies, if they are opposite to each other then they will match like real war for sure that's why John chose them. if they share the same ring any day there will be injury for sure, they will get injured or make another ring-mate. They just can't stand each other from the start, Noone knows what's the matter between them. Micheal always makes sure that they don't share the same ring.
In the Morning all prepared guest rooms and halls for tomorrow's evening dinner. In the evening session they prepared ground. After preparation they all will go for dinner in the pack pantry, Ruth, Dale and the gang were together, from the last incident Ruth is with Dale like shadow everywhere.
Cody's Entry was unexpected at dinner, everyone knows he is weak and rests only in medicine working for him. But Cody is not fine at all with rest, he tried everything to hold together, but his body, mind and Wolf are out of control, He can't control anyone of them. He is here to observe his pray. He want Dale alone and this is the only time tomorrow he will not be alone for 1 minutes, ceremony will start very early, and Alpha is very tense because of Cody's health, so he will start the ceremony as early as possible so this night is the only night he can pray or control. Control option is not available for Cody, his body, mind and wolf have already, They all just want their "Mate".
After dinner Ruth, Cody and the party take goodbyes. From pantry Ruth's house is first then Dale's house, Ruth wanted to make some excuse to walk with Dale till his house but before that Dale, "I can take care of myself don't worry, and I'm prepared, So don't worry". Ruth went to her house and Dale started to walk alone towards his house. He was really prepared and it's just one day, tomorrow is the ceremony day after that Cody will be normal and everything will be back to normal. Rituals will give strength to future alpha for transitions.
Cody was just 5 minutes away and there was too much crowd on the road. Everyone from the pack was walking home after dinner and Noone was in the hurry.
Cody has the plan. When Dale left the main road and turned towards his gate, he heard the same voice again, "Follow me." Voice has Alpha authority Dale can't refuse it. Dale knows his house is 300m away from here, if he runs now he will reach the house before Cody can catch him, but his wolf will never disobey his Alpha's order and Dale never has overpowered his Wolf. Dale wolf and Dale with him started to follow Cody. and the plan worked.
Dale has his plan also.