97: Playing Catch

LUCIAN

Watching Blair speak to her mother made a feeling of melancholy hit me. A sudden sadness I would say I haven’t felt in a very long time.

It has been years since I lost my parents. I never really got the time to mourn them as I had to step up and become alpha. I had my siblings to look out for.

Their relationship had been like a dream. It was one of those love stories you read in books. My dad had gone years without finding his mate, then he met my mum in a pub and they got along really well.

They were both drunk and hadn’t realized their connection till the next morning. (I liked to pretend this part of the story didn’t happen). Long story short, she saw him gain, months later, when he visited their pack to speak to their alpha, her father.

They recognised the bond instantly. He’d gone there to talk about them becoming allies, and he came back with a bride.

I was born nine months later. And they were elated. She always made sure to tell me how proud she was of me. Since I was a