Chapter 5

Elder Dominic spoke again, “Because at breakfast tomorrow morning, it would have to be announced that you will be the first mate and future Alpha of our pack. Then the real work begins, but know this is where the real competition starts. You are above all of her other mates, but it will be your job to get along with all of them. After all, you will be raising any pups that they father as your own. Also, you would help your mate choose the top three below you.”

“I understand what being the main mate means, Elder, as for being the official father to all the pups, I think that their biological ones should have more to do with their pups’ lives, even if it isn’t as full on as my role would be their father over all having them more involved it would allow Sabrina in the future if in heat and I’m not around the pups could be with their other fathers’ while others got their chance to become one, even spending time around their birthdays, Easter, Christmas, New Years this would allow them to know their full heritage not just parts of it.”

Elder Marcus' face turned to stone. This was unheard of, a main advocate for those he should see below him.

“Elder Marcus, shouldn’t this make you happier since your grandson Titian is going to end up in my Harem? One would assume you would want him to know his pups and you, your great-grandpups.” Sabrina stated rather than asked.

The Elder’s eyes widened, but he said nothing. His eyes flicked around the room. He hadn’t thought that his grandson might be one of the very males that would be entering the Harem, and now that he had no choice but to be main, the best he could take was second. However unlikely Titian was, a bit older at 22, he would be one of the older males entering, even though with his grandfather on the council.

The Harem was the Luna’s land and pack politics beyond the basic traditions it was hers to rule, and there was nothing he could do beyond help with offerings such as gifts and money to help get one of the top spots, but now that the truth is out, the main was Riley, and all the males' families would move.

Alpha Jason spoke next, “Riley, what do you make of the sperm bank idea of your mate? As a main, I think you should get to have a say after all, you would pick the males that would take care of her heat while you're away on pack business if needed.”

“Alpha, Elders, I think this is important, the sperm bank, I mean, it would allow for pups to be born in ways we haven’t considered before and even allow us to reintroduce bloodlines decades from now in their original forms to keep diversity for generations to come. We could try this with the Harem and me to start with, and later on, allow males outside the Harem who wish to bank in the future the option in case the worst should happen.”

The last Elder in the room, Zach, spoke; he had been watching and listening up until now. “So, just a question you might not have thought of, would if the males that said sperm you are storing aren’t just disgraced but had to be exiled, what would you do with it?”

For a moment, Sabrina hadn’t thought about that, but then would that really matter? They would never know their biological father, so the chances of him finding out would be slim, and to expect that they would live long without a pack. “Although I hadn’t thought about that possibility, I guess it would depend on the crime itself; however, with what I would like to see from my Harem, one would hope that exile wouldn’t be needed.”

Riley jumped in, “So what would you have us do with the pups born to said father if he were exiled? Are you suggesting that my mate kick her own children out of the pack, their family and home because of what their biological father had done as a member of the Harem? All males going in would have been taught to end up in the Luna’s Harem, which meant that they didn’t have full rights as a mate compared to a main mate, so how would they have rights to their sperm banked during their time in the Harem?”

“Young Riley is right,” Alpha Jason, “To say that potential offspring to an exiled Harem is a risk to the pack, you could argue that any born to him is as well. Are you suggesting, Elder, that we either exile pups that have nothing to do with their father’s crimes based on their DNA? If so, why are we going to follow this tradition at all after three generations of no female Alpha Heirs born?”

All four Elders faces paled they hadn’t thought about it that way they had just assumed that the male in question may not have fathered a pup or pups so there would be not reason to keep his sperm in the system however there was still a chance that he might have how do you punish pups born to the true Alpha line if they were still just children just because they were born with the wrong DNA.

“From the texts that you gave me Elders it was to save bloodlines and ensure that our pack stays strong but to say even a male that had never had a pup to me at the time I shouldn’t be able to still carry one that he would have no knowledge of is wrong its basically saying that even my potential pups should pay for crimes that they had no part in before they could be born. One would hope that these new measures would weed this out. But based on Elder Zach’s comment, the male in question had a son through me, and he had an older brother, but something happened to the son of mine, who couldn’t claim his birthright because his father did something wrong, which doesn’t seem fair now.” Sabrina stated matter-of-factly.