"WEST," I called out, spotting him in the garden, sitting among the long blades of grass. He turned to see me, at once and smiled gently. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRBJIM7l8t
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"Weslyn," he stretched out his arm, calling me over to him. "Over here."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡKWsh5iwgOH
"How are you doing?" I asked, as I crossed my legs and sat on the ground next to him.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBz2T0yTRA
"I feel... Light," he murmured.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡrSbqYEYW0Z
"That's good, isn't it?"copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLWD31WziK
"Yeah, I guess." For a few minutes, we both sat silently, breathing in time with the stillness of the garden.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPmQRgRq9I
"I'm going to meet a Brown Wolf today," I announced, carefully waiting for his reaction.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BBb1AQZxR
"Lucian?" He asked, staring at me. "You're meeting with Lucian Bronze?"copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIDVmHWihf
"No..." I hesitated. The way West spoke of him; it sounded as if they were friends. "Alpha Bronze has fallen ill. I am meeting his Beta."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3y4qoWGfmP
"I..." he trailed off, a lost experience on his face. "He was a friend..." I sighed deeply.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnrzzsapsH
"West, I need you to tell me about it," I told him. "About this agreement you had with him."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsqUnMCk5T
"Why, so you can hate me even more?"copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8rEzPBf5X
"I don't hate you."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53lwDUZNks
"Well, you should."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCUVxhI9CN
"For the love of Luna, just tell me," I urged. "I have to know what it is, West. It's for the safety of the pack. I am the Alpha; you know? Now, it's my responsibility to protect them all."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cWuQvjsLo
"Our father made peace with the Alpha before Lucian. It was basically a peace treaty to keep to ourselves. The Gray Wolves weren't to associate with the Brown Wolves; and they weren't allowed to either. When father..." he took a sharp intake of breath.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQsLn5GmT0
By Luna... It would be hard for him. Hard to speak of our father. My chest tightened, as I placed my hand over his.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoDJka12jD
"West, you don't have to say it."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmQNQHja94
"But it's true," he muttered. "I killed our father."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzV1ki71F0
"It wasn't your fault. You may have gone too far, but you had every right to be angry. As the oldest child, you should've been named future Alpha at birth. But when I was born, I was much younger than you. It wasn't right. Not when you were... Wait, how old are you?"copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uoFdJPfL9
"I'm 24."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCvJqmqKwz
"What?" He looked much older; at least 28 or 29 years old. "I mean; you don't look like it."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡP68K7t3fuI
"Gray Wolves grow fast, early on in our lives," he explained. "But we barely age later on. We still have a human life span, though."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwcDcqn1F8
"So, Twilight got that part right?" I asked, smiling slightly.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyLHhc3HWA
"You could say that."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLHpvOTy3o
"But..." I realised after a minute. "That would mean you were only 16, back then."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjVtX7Uk9z
"It was long after the first time I shifted," he replied, staring at the overgrown grass.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡtk8e1pr57n
"You were a teenager," I muttered. "You were younger than me, you know?" He nodded gently. "I think they would've forgiven you for all the wrong-doings you've done, West."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡGo8nOEcHcg
"Who?"copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uz1Yw8SQh
"Mother and father. If they'd known how hurt you were, they would've understood. But they didn't. They didn't know you well enough to sense how you felt. Our parents weren't the best people, were they?"copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡskCAyE0ZK7
"No one is perfect," West whispered.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqvvNk901m
"I couldn't agree more... But what was your agreement with the Bronze Pack, West?"copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8QP9OmiHd
"Three years after I became Alpha, I found Bryan and Bryanna. They were only 12 at the time, but their life was so painful; they chose to be turned. I brought them to the Grayson home and commanded William to bite them... The Brown Wolf pack, which was named McLean Pack hack then, had laid low for a while. I was the teenage boy, who had slaughtered his own father. Obviously, they were too scared to act out against me. But eventually, they confronted me for breaking my father's treaty by keeping Bryan and Bryanna in the Luna Pack... The fact that they had a new Alpha may have had something to do with their sudden courage."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9xcK6RK6B
"Lucian."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡRt1nZPH8PJ
"That's right, Weslyn. He wasn't like most Brown Wolves. The way he didn't back down; his confidence; how he carried himself... I took an instant liking for him. It was as if he was born to be a leader."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6RmW1bijS
"Did he ever tell you how was he turned?" Someone that powerful... He couldn't have been turned easily.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡwT236MaYwg
"He never told me that," West admitted. "But together, we made an agreement so the peace could remain; even with Bryan and Bryanna on our side..."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoKBLJqsSg
"What did you have to do in return?" I asked him, for what seemed like the tenth time, that day.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡbom2Ki3VBn
"I looked up to him, actually. I thought he would treat me better than our father... But Lucian was much worse, of course. I agreed to his terms, thinking he had my best intentions in mind... But I was such an idiot," he stated. "In return for keeping the two of them..." West went on in a low voice. "I had to turn one human..."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7hQbnDlma
My whole world spun out of control. No. Forcing that much pain onto a human? It was something I wouldn't and couldn't do.copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVymwj5XMY
"I had to turn one human," he repeated, his face grim. "Every single full moon."copyright protection142ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXmA06T42u
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