Chapter:-6

Rose POV:-

The omega had been in their pack house for two days now and his scent was slowing morphing back to normal. At first, it was muddled with so much fear and anxiety that she couldn’t get a good read on it.

The more the wolf healed, the more familiar the scent was becoming. It was a scent that made her stomach drop, she used to know it so well and was heartbroken when she learned she would never smell it again. 

“Rose… are you okay?” Sebestian asked with a deep frown. She knew she’d been more quiet than usual the past few days, but she was not ready to reveal her suspicions to anyone just yet.

In one way, keeping the secret was like self-preservation. Bring up old memories would be painful and if she was wrong, it would be even more painful that she ever had hope that someone she thought was forever lost was suddenly back in her life.

“I…um… I want to explain to you why I’ve been so preoccupied, but there is one more thing I need to see about before I can be sure,” she explained cryptically.

Rose walked up the stairs and down the hall to her brother’s room, “Jace? Jace? Can you come out here please, I need to show you something.”

The group had decided to keep Jace away from the living room while the omega was healing. It was not a pretty site and Rose had discussed it with Sebestian and decided that he didn’t need to be exposed to something like that.

But she knew that the circumstances were now changed, Rose needed to see if she was right, she had to know.

Jace came out curiously, “Am I finally going to get to see what you guys are all keeping secret from me. I’m not a little kid anymore you know.”

“Don’t try and grow up to quickly Jace, you’ll regret it in the end. Now come downstairs, your sister apparently needs you for something important,” Sebestian asked.

Rose could barely breath when they got to the end of the stairs. The second Jace eyes spotted the wolf in the corner, she knew it was true.

Jace lurched forward and onto his knees in front of the wolf. “It’s Allen! Rose, look its Allen!” He shouted.

Rose instantly lost her footing and ended up landing on the bottom step trying her best to stop herself from hyperventilating.

And at the same time, Jace had finally realised the state that his older brother was in. “Wait…wait… what happened to him? Did this happen to him during the fight? Did we do this?” he asked softly reaching out to touch his brother’s paw.

Rose looked up to see Sebestian crouched in front of her, “Rose, who is he?” is all he could muster to ask.

“He’s…he’s our brother. Our parents told us he died, they said he was attacked by a rogue wolf during a pack dispute.”

Sam stepped forward out of the kitchen after hearing the commotion, “Wait a minute, your brother who died before your family adopted me?” he asked.

Rose hadn’t meant for Sam to find out this way. When her parents adopted Sam, they had told Rose and Jace it was to honor their brother’s life. They said it would help to fill the void from Allen passing, but now she didn’t know what to believe.

“I think I’m going to be sick,” Sam exclaimed as he stumbled over to the couch to sit down.

“You know what this means right… Jia and Jones probably abandoned him when he presented as an omega and replaced him with me. It’s all been a lie… I feel like…like I stole his life, I was all too happy to take on the role of big brother.”

Rose knew it wasn’t fair for either of them, it wasn’t fair for Sam to have to feel guilty about something he didn’t even realise he was a part of.

“Sam, you are family to us all. We don’t know what happened yet so we shouldn’t jump to conclusions,” Seth tried to reason with him.

Rose felt lost, she didn’t know what to feel. On one hand, she was overjoyed to be reunited with a brother and on the other, she was wrought with anger over the treatment of him and the circumstances of why he was with the feral pack in the first place.

Sebestian eyes changed to their dark-alpha red without him probably even knowing it. Rose watched as he began to pace back and forth in the living as to alleviate some of his anger.

“Well, we’re damn well going to find out the truth. Rose, I want your father and mother here by the end of the week, if they disagree then I will go to them… If those bastards actually abandoned their son…I’m going to fucking…” Sebestian was now shouting.

“Quiet!” Kelly interrupted suddenly. “He is waking up.”