<span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">He was overreacting. He needed to calm down. But the wolf clawing just beneath the surface refused to make that easy. Why did Jaymus have to bring Ben into this? But that all it took was for the mention of the older man to threaten to unravel him was unsettling in itself. Victoria speaking up cut through the worst of the red that clouded Cyrus' better judgment, even settling his wolf somewhat as he focused on his mate. Forced himself to listen without taking everything as a slight aimed at the pack.<br/>
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The pack wasn't weak, sure. But were they prepared for an attack from the outside? No. Given the lack of danger and wars on the horizon, the Blue Moon pack had lived in peace for years now. And they'd all grown complacent. Nothing would kill them faster than that. As far as Cyrus was concerned, technology couldn't make them any more lax than they already were.<br/>
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He kept quiet as the others spoke, shoving the broken pen in his pocket before he was reaching for another, and flipping over a new page. The anger slowly leaking out of him as he drew up a detailed outline of what needed to be focused on if they were going to make the necessary changes. And while the anger eventually calmed to a low simmer, the tension still remained. <br/>
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And then they were all looking at him, waiting. "Going forward, we'll keep the tests under wraps for now until we come to final consensus. Only the four of us need to know right now." He can’t stop the glance thrown in Jay's direction when he says this. Not all that keen on the other man rushing off to tell daddy dearest everything. Ben would find out eventually, but not until Cyrus was good and ready to tell him.<br/>
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"There's going to need to be a whole restructuring of the current training regime, regardless of if we’re keeping the tech or not. I trust you've got that covered," His gaze once again lingering on Jaymus, before he looks to his mate, "I want the both of you working on this.”<br/>
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What else? "The previous Beta, Deluca has been MIA for the past few weeks as I’m sure you’re all aware, and I want some of our people out looking for him,” while not a security risk, it’d never sat right with Cy that the man had just up and disappeared one day. He couldn’t quite put his finger on what about it bothered him so much, but it just did. It wasn’t common for pack members to just up and vanish without a word to anyone. </span><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><b>~~~</b></span>​</div><br/><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">With the talk of pack security out of the way for the time being, the remainder of the meeting went without a hitch. And by the end, as it finally drew to a close, Cyrus started to feel some semblance of calm. Mostly just glad that it was finally over, and he hadn't completely lost his head on his first day. Even though he’d come dangerously close. "I think we've covered everything," he glanced around the table, "If there are no questions or suggestions, I think we can call this meeting concluded."<br/>
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He didn't immediately get up to leave once the meeting came to a close. Instead he slid down in his seat, head falling back against his chair as he stared up at the ceiling, "I fucked up today, didn't I?" The question directed towards Vicky, because he can still feel her there. And knows she's going to want to know what had caused him to lose his composure. <br/>
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But where to start with that can of worms? "I should probably apologize to Jaymus," he says suddenly, but even saying it leaves a bad taste in his mouth and he'd rather stab a pen in his eye than do what he suggested. A bit melodramatic. Yes, definitely. But he needs to suck it up and apologize. The man was only trying to do his job. In his own disconcerting, Ben-is-always-right kind of way. If he intended to be any kind of leader worth following, Cy couldn't continue to allow personal strife to get in the way of running the pack as efficiently as he could. And that could only be done when the four of them weren't at odds with each other all the time. It was bad enough with the Gamma and Beta dancing around each other, and all of them wondering<i> ‘will-they-won’t-they’</i>. </span>