"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. 78Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodWQbqYs4g
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"Weslyn," he stretched out his arm, calling me over to him. "Over here."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjUGI2WVPB
"How are you doing?" I asked, as I crossed my legs and sat on the ground next to him.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyfCeAu4Eb
"I feel... Light," he murmured.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcyU7yexg0
"That's good, isn't it?"copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9kGP2JMYy
"Yeah, I guess." For a few minutes, we both sat silently, breathing in time with the stillness of the garden.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡnv6D7kdCpR
"I'm going to meet a Brown Wolf today," I announced, carefully waiting for his reaction.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZ4mTbV8Jc
"Lucian?" He asked, staring at me. "You're meeting with Lucian Bronze?"copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ultbbwUXu
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlZzY7UcKk
"I..." he trailed off, a lost experience on his face. "He was a friend..." I sighed deeply.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zj8WckSl3
"West, I need you to tell me about it," I told him. "About this agreement you had with him."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uypXJBtEz
"Why, so you can hate me even more?"copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7UYHS6C4Q
"I don't hate you."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8qfhmrBeN
"Well, you should."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiheIeYjIC
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGJNFqGL3L
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZT2eboGMD
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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsVKGEZEYH
"West, you don't have to say it."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRo0E3rkPu
"But it's true," he muttered. "I killed our father."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ruZtIaRpX
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSqqD75CL3
"I'm 24."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3UJ4yNwTC
"What?" He looked much older; at least 28 or 29 years old. "I mean; you don't look like it."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Z3uYxd9pC
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Uvxl8EqLq
"So, Twilight got that part right?" I asked, smiling slightly.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6uoPyXD4R
"You could say that."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5QkAPRNZg
"But..." I realised after a minute. "That would mean you were only 16, back then."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6bVEw3jXP
"It was long after the first time I shifted," he replied, staring at the overgrown grass.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrVeQLMNoR
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEWvZwlQkk
"Who?"copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KriF5PJpM
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9euo4gbSE
"No one is perfect," West whispered.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xjZ2jvo9Q
"I couldn't agree more... But what was your agreement with the Bronze Pack, West?"copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhA9Agfp0F
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡcAOq5dulom
"Lucian."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qTkpWDVkN
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡL24mcEDs3E
"Did he ever tell you how was he turned?" Someone that powerful... He couldn't have been turned easily.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7feWGj9aEy
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEYqYomCjH
"What did you have to do in return?" I asked him, for what seemed like the tenth time, that day.copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5KtrW85pb
"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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxrXt7hDiV
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 protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPAafzyCbR
"I had to turn one human," he repeated, his face grim. "Every single full moon."copyright protection74ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBX34p0cup
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