Chapter 82: Elephant tusks

Ari's POV

The inside of the house of bamboo was exactly as I remembered because before it became granduncle Chad's home, it was my grandfather's and their father's too.

It was more like an ancestral home than a habitable house but Chad was as stubborn as they come and I don't think he ever forgive his late brother, my grandpa - Alpha Abbott Nocturnal Black for letting the pack catch up with the rest of the world and that hatred might have been transferred to Abbott's son Ryan, who not only brought in more technologies but agreed to share it with other neighboring packs like our powerplant and clean water Dam.

To Chad, my father was a disease. A disease that was beginning to infect other packs and the hostility between them has since grown. There was the occasional family reunion whichever happened once a year where all the members of the Black family came together and pretended to stand each other like they weren't secretly planning and plotting each other's death - Ryan and uncle Cha