"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. 302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2VJ916Ngr
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"Weslyn," he stretched out his arm, calling me over to him. "Over here."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡOaVjbwNwYT
"How are you doing?" I asked, as I crossed my legs and sat on the ground next to him.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡfT7OuLwfqG
"I feel... Light," he murmured.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMN0AJDpx0
"That's good, isn't it?"copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3mA6idpkJ
"Yeah, I guess." For a few minutes, we both sat silently, breathing in time with the stillness of the garden.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hmxNpYERO
"I'm going to meet a Brown Wolf today," I announced, carefully waiting for his reaction.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡHucdb2InVF
"Lucian?" He asked, staring at me. "You're meeting with Lucian Bronze?"copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEqv3282MY
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkyzBqaHNt
"I..." he trailed off, a lost experience on his face. "He was a friend..." I sighed deeply.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxkvVt4MMh
"West, I need you to tell me about it," I told him. "About this agreement you had with him."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAXzTqpZDC
"Why, so you can hate me even more?"copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdsVRuPXNE
"I don't hate you."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡO64zLr4Fhc
"Well, you should."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5QzGlpMo2
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZif7htdf1
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡThqFZpbMUt
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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RsS3vGUiD
"West, you don't have to say it."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡPzl66K7rJ7
"But it's true," he muttered. "I killed our father."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡoo2Mg2DhgP
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5xDlsCtis
"I'm 24."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00f5PlJwHN
"What?" He looked much older; at least 28 or 29 years old. "I mean; you don't look like it."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBmc0CQfcc
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfq9qQghDe
"So, Twilight got that part right?" I asked, smiling slightly.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGrbNvnV3b
"You could say that."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡkq5GKMXn57
"But..." I realised after a minute. "That would mean you were only 16, back then."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZF8TST3Tz
"It was long after the first time I shifted," he replied, staring at the overgrown grass.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡdc9B9pKZIo
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡhD4OkGGJ4F
"Who?"copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvP9CLSEhC
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIimTdc4IE
"No one is perfect," West whispered.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gLMYa1VBA
"I couldn't agree more... But what was your agreement with the Bronze Pack, West?"copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9I3gFfje9H
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8a16ybvkK
"Lucian."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNbrIslzXd
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4y6wkkKnE2
"Did he ever tell you how was he turned?" Someone that powerful... He couldn't have been turned easily.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfb1mJx32J
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡehL1SELlE7
"What did you have to do in return?" I asked him, for what seemed like the tenth time, that day.copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RV6bduCeX
"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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLqrnq7TUy
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 protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGF2aKw9Fs
"I had to turn one human," he repeated, his face grim. "Every single full moon."copyright protection298ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbvxfV6L8z
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