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Chapter 54
Cursing, I slammed my fists down onto the desk. To hurt your own children. Trap them and then try and destroy them. It was unheard of in a family, even human. But a wolf? We were pack animals. Our pack was our family but then our blood? That was a sacred bond. That being broken could break a wolf.
“It’s a wonder she didn’t run away sooner.” Sam mumbled, just about as disturbed as I was.
“According to my friend, her and her brother planned on leaving next year, when their eldest brother took over. The treaty they signed forced their hand in moving quicker to get her free. Otherwise…” Mom’s words trailed off. Her eyes were haunted by her past and tears welled up again.
Sighing, I ran my hands through my hair. “So, what now? What’s the plan?”
“I’d…I’d like to formally request authorization for them to come over for dinner.” My mom swallowed her tears and looked
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Panic seized me, as she stared at me. There was no way she knew I was here. The dream where she was caught up in the fire, she never saw me before. Even the times I tried to help.“Hush, little wolf. It’s only a dream. You’ve made it through this already.” I kept my voice soft, starting back up my petting.The entire forest started to waver, the understanding that this was only a dream started to weave its way into her mind. It rippled around me, the trees, the wolf, and her brother starting to disappear as her consciousness rejected the nightmare.“Who are you?” The voice was more mature this time but still that of a child’s.Her eyes searched mine, but they were grey and dull. Eyes of someone who had been through too much and seen too much. I could only shake my head and brush her cheek with the back of my hand.“One day it will make sense.”Her mouth thinned and her hands clenched. &ld
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Slamming my truck door shut, I waved at a couple of the guys who were working on the remodel of the meeting house. With how far the pack house was from the main city, it was hard for people to take the trip. It was even longer from the smaller towns on the outside edges of my territory. The city was more central to the area and everyone could at least manage that trip. Originally, the building had been an old auditorium for the school but we long since converted the school into apartments and built an entirely brand new school a little further outside. We’d been doing a bit of updating since the city itself dated back to the 1800’s. “Salvador! Lovely to see you.” I held out my hand to one the man behind all the construction. Salvador used to be part of the warriors who guarded during my father’s time as Alpha. His size alone was enough to usually deter anyway from picking a fight with him, but the scar that ran down his face made him look more menacing than he was. In his so-called r
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Jean’s place was further into the city and I drove down the street into the main square. There wasn’t too much foot traffic out this early and even the cars were half of what they normally were. I didn’t need to worry about the new kids recently getting their drivers license and wanting to show off before school. Not this early at least.Our pack was spilt. A lot of the wolves worked on territory. The majority of them got jobs or I found jobs for them. If they didn’t or their requests were too specific I would allow them to take jobs or go to school in the next major city over. It was a hell of a drive and I didn’t envy anyone who had to make that drive daily but I heard nothing but good things. I wasn’t going to dash someone’s dream just because I didn’t have their dream job on territory.Still, I made sure we had the best schools and even a community college on territory. Just in case any of the younger wolves wanted to start their education closer to home before deciding to move on
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Sighing, I was opening my truck door to head out when August caught me.“Alpha! Wait!”I stopped and leaned up against the bed of my truck. “What’s up?”“I just…I wanted to thank you. Mom was kind of freaking out there for a second and I’m pretty sure she was going to go down swinging. They were talking like they would shut down the restaurant and…”“Auggie, it’s not a big deal. Sometimes you can talk things though. Otherwise, if you can’t, it doesn’t always need to end in a fist fight.” I looked him directly in the eyes. “Like Chase and the other guys.”His face went beat red. “You know…”“Auggie, I’m Alpha. There is very little that goes on in this pack that I don’t know about.”“They are bullies.”“I know.”“I just wanted to be able to help out
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Sure enough, my mom was making some sort of cake while my dad probably was in the living room reading.“Oh! Sweetheart! There you are. Everything okay?”I smiled. We hadn’t exactly left on the best terms yesterday but I was glad that she seemed to not have held onto it. It was really hard when we didn’t get along. I’d gone through my rebellious phase in high school but having them around when I became Alpha was invaluable.“Yeah. Just was doing some sketching.”She smiled. “May I?”I nodded and opened up my sketchbook to the last page I’d been working on. Mom was always supportive of the things I wanted to do. She’d go to bat for me sometimes with Dad when his focus was too hard on me being Alpha. I spun the book around to show her. At first, she smiled at the pages but then her smile started to slowly drop. My dad walked in from the living room and I looked at him but he was focused
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*** Skylar’s POV *** ‘You don’t have to do it. You could just let them be.’ ‘I could, but then I would never know, or never be able to help if I could.’ Raine scoffed. ‘You’re a fugitive. You think you’re in any position to be helping someone?’ ‘She’s also a fugitive. From the same pack too. Chill. We’ll just ask. It’s not a big deal.’ I shoved her back, not happy about a lecture this early in the morning. I’d put the top up the night before because it was drizzling a little but now the sun was out and it felt good to have the top off again. I was cycling through CDs and I was at CD number 16 when I got off the highway near the Red River pack. They weren’t small by any means but they also weren’t as large as Silver Mountain. Silver Mountain pack was more of a defensible position with the mountains and those were actually part of the territory. Pulling out my map that was in my bag, I flipped it open to show where the road was verses the territory line. I didn’t want to have them
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Opening my eyes, I saw a very large grey wolf headed towards us. He shifted as pulled on pants and a shirt. As he got closer I was able to make out his features. He was older than my father but I didn’t know by how much. His hair was fully grey but there weren’t enough lines in his face to call him an old man. I bet he referred to himself as one. He was still in shape and as he came closer to the two, I realized he towered over them. Trying to swallow the lump in my throat, I jumped out of the seat and shut the door to my car. I tried to look nonchalant as I leaned against the front of Thing and crossed my arms over my chest. He patted the one guy in human form on the shoulder before coming closer to me.‘He’s just an Alpha. Not even as strong as you, even with his age. You got this.’ Raine tried to give me a pep talk and this one actually worked a little.“I am Alan Williams, previous Alpha to the Red River pack. The boys s
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“Why now? You obviously managed to get away from the pack. Why come here?” I locked my jaw, looking from Luna Katerina to Alpha Alan. The two of them were close, his hand was holding her tight and I swallowed. “I…um…I…some things happened. Requiring me to leave. Red River was on my way. I thought, I could…um…try and t-t-track…” My voice was shaking. Who was I kidding? This woman absolutely was our mother. She looked like all of us. I could see Rin in her eyes. I could see Cal in her face. I could see Emmett in the way she was forcing her smile, and how she held herself. I saw myself in her build and really, most of her features. What was I supposed to do now? I’d found her. I’d found her and she had no idea who I was, what I had gone through. ‘You’re starting to waver, Sky. Focus. He’s right. Why? Why did you want to do all this?’ Raine was filling me and starting to help hold myself up. ‘I…I wanted to maybe save her? I wanted to…fuck! I don’t know, Raine. I don’t know! I’m so fuc
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