Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 8

Slade

He smiled at her words ‘don’t be a grub’ as he put his suitcase in the corner of the room. She didn’t come into the room, just stood in the doorway and talked from there, “Your first class will be tomorrow morning, all meals will be held in the main building, where you registered just now. Step through the front door and take the hall on the left of the staircase, something I don’t think you did; take a look at the main building.”

“A bit distracted,” he admitted.

“Mm, I saw.” She nodded “Got yourself a handful of a girlfriend.” She raised an eyebrow at him.

“Not my girlfriend, my Beta.”

“Could have fooled me, you fought like a couple.” She shrugged it off, “go down that hall to the left of the stairs there is a grand dining room, there’s a sign. Breakfast, lunch and dinner all have set times, we do not provide an all-day buffet browsing like inside your pack. Turn up and eat your fill at the correct times or go hungry. Mealtimes are displayed outside the dining hall, and we close up on the dot.

“Everything else you need to know is in your welcome package there on your bed. I suggest taking a stroll around for the rest of the afternoon, meeting some of the new arrivals. Anyone that arrives today will be in your class group. Classes are allocated due to day of arrival, so you all come together and leave together.

“Though do not interrupt any classes you see in progress, even if you see others you know, that is a fine, day one against your name, and one I will personally issue, and report to your father and mother.” She smiled at him. “Please don’t do that, as much as I enjoy it, you won’t, I assure you.” she even chuckled softly. “I’ll bid you farewell for now, I hope you and your…Beta, ate on the way, the dining room is closed now.” Then she just walked away.

She seemed pretty friendly, he thought, though he had a feeling she could be all Alpha when it was needed, and he got the distinct feeling she actually enjoyed punishing them all and dishing out those fines she had mentioned.

Slade turned his attention to his room. It was pretty simple, there was a large bed over under the window. He liked that, he needed a large bed, seeing he himself was six-three. There was a built-in study desk, and he could see a small safe there on the bottom shelf, and wondered what that was for. Shrugging it off could be there for any number of reasons.

Though there was a robot vacuum between the door and his desk, ‘Ah.’ He thought, why no omegas, and the ‘keep your room clean’. It wasn’t just for the room searches, it was so the robot could clean the floor daily. It had a little sign on it ‘I run at 10am sharp, every day. Empty me every Friday.’ And it had a tiny red arrow that pointed to a ‘lift here’ sticker and in there a dust collection bag. Handy, he thought.

There was a bar fridge and some shelving on the last wall of his room as he looked around, with the words ‘No Alcohol permitted’ in big bold lettering. They liked their signage, it seemed.

There were two pocket doors on the far side of the room. He stepped over and slid them open one at a time, a small walk in with draws, shelving, a shoe rack and hanging space. The other was an ensuite, with an open shower, and a wall-hung vanity with folded linen on the bottom shelf, a small sign that stated, ‘Not for s*x, you break it, your mother and father pay for it.’ He snorted, fully amused at that one, he could only guess many had been broken over the years from that very reason. And there was a wall-hung toilet and three towel hooks. That was it.

He sank down on his bed and opened that welcome package. It had a map of not only the campus but the building layouts as well, all classrooms shown and the various out-of-bounds areas around the campus.

It also contained his first month’s class schedule, which was handy. He looked it over. His first class was tomorrow at 9am, though he frowned at the six-days a week schedule, when was he supposed to have free time? Though he did know his father usually worked five and half days and only took Sundays off completely.

Had told him once “You’d be surprised, son, at how much work it actually is to maintain a healthy pack, run or monitor all the business. Keep up with the pack laws and Wolfen laws. There is more than you think to running a pack. Plenty of stuff you don’t see until after Alpha College and your actual training begins.”

He only had five one-hour classes Monday through Friday and only three on Saturday. Three each morning and two after lunch. He was free by 3pm each day. That was good.

Slade got up and closed his door, looked at the rules on the back of it:

1. No wolfing out without permission – $5000 fine

2. No, means no. Male or female – 100 lashes with a silver barbed Cat of 5 tails, to be dealt out by parents, 50 from the offenders’ mother and 50 from offenders’ father, (so the parents are also punished and can see where they went wrong in raising you.) Punishment will be in front of the entire school. All 12 members of Wolfen Council, and one of the Kings representative. Expulsion from Alpha College and imprisonment for 5 to 10 years inside the Wolfen Kingdom, where one will be bound by silver the entire time. Any cases reported of this crime will be investigated by one of the king’s own Royal Seers within 24 hours of complaint. You will be caught and punished. Those making false claims against another will be expelled immediately after 20 lashes given by the offended party themselves and 20 each from the offender’s parents as per above.

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