"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. 457Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuy16ph91A
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"Weslyn," he stretched out his arm, calling me over to him. "Over here."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡGj08Y3VEJv 維尼
"How are you doing?" I asked, as I crossed my legs and sat on the ground next to him.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnlrSxjdzZ 維尼
"I feel... Light," he murmured.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6qjcsL6j0 維尼
"That's good, isn't it?"8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2JBxg9Ri4 維尼
"Yeah, I guess." For a few minutes, we both sat silently, breathing in time with the stillness of the garden.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBDU4PAlQ0 維尼
"I'm going to meet a Brown Wolf today," I announced, carefully waiting for his reaction.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtYulgTsDn 維尼
"Lucian?" He asked, staring at me. "You're meeting with Lucian Bronze?"8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOXoneA3vd 維尼
"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."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJD3etxntK 維尼
"I..." he trailed off, a lost experience on his face. "He was a friend..." I sighed deeply.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTpksLE4zO 維尼
"West, I need you to tell me about it," I told him. "About this agreement you had with him."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡMan7G0OgOz 維尼
"Why, so you can hate me even more?"8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0UzZIiYOP 維尼
"I don't hate you."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TFnfVjALb 維尼
"Well, you should."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tjB64KPL1 維尼
"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."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡUy7EjyfFWC 維尼
"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.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5UtS3IDoM 維尼
By Luna... It would be hard for him. Hard to speak of our father. My chest tightened, as I placed my hand over his.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡfq8J34WFEk 維尼
"West, you don't have to say it."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡidz2YYNrsP 維尼
"But it's true," he muttered. "I killed our father."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1o7Jz3MW2Y 維尼
"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?"8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡNI2iZ1GUTv 維尼
"I'm 24."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3f0BCMX3m 維尼
"What?" He looked much older; at least 28 or 29 years old. "I mean; you don't look like it."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8qzrI11BA 維尼
"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."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOAC03C12Q 維尼
"So, Twilight got that part right?" I asked, smiling slightly.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxuNChEOYV 維尼
"You could say that."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBJFSUFuiD 維尼
"But..." I realised after a minute. "That would mean you were only 16, back then."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPPl45rMdb 維尼
"It was long after the first time I shifted," he replied, staring at the overgrown grass.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09lO5PGSb8 維尼
"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."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZE5WNlI3K 維尼
"Who?"8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BZxBAZr1E 維尼
"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?"8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoSqDlfHGP 維尼
"No one is perfect," West whispered.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7G34uzXg3 維尼
"I couldn't agree more... But what was your agreement with the Bronze Pack, West?"8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡUe61P7Gr9o 維尼
"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."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhUyToufas 維尼
"Lucian."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkUFNCfMio 維尼
"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."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbhHky16z6 維尼
"Did he ever tell you how was he turned?" Someone that powerful... He couldn't have been turned easily.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡWK62F3Yv9u 維尼
"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..."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9N7sSe1lo 維尼
"What did you have to do in return?" I asked him, for what seemed like the tenth time, that day.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4QCC3S79G 維尼
"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..."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡTdZzUSuthd 維尼
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.8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87sRXzWhyt 維尼
"I had to turn one human," he repeated, his face grim. "Every single full moon."8964 copyright protection453ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0AUD9Rizs3 維尼
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