"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. 84Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEOKDz4vsS
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"Weslyn," he stretched out his arm, calling me over to him. "Over here."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVuqk3bv5D
"How are you doing?" I asked, as I crossed my legs and sat on the ground next to him.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsmSsH072J
"I feel... Light," he murmured.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡexUOy9x9cL
"That's good, isn't it?"copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MHCd2FoxL
"Yeah, I guess." For a few minutes, we both sat silently, breathing in time with the stillness of the garden.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1neogG5hN8
"I'm going to meet a Brown Wolf today," I announced, carefully waiting for his reaction.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01GVQe4ooh
"Lucian?" He asked, staring at me. "You're meeting with Lucian Bronze?"copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9w4R8hTOFq
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHOO55vbmi
"I..." he trailed off, a lost experience on his face. "He was a friend..." I sighed deeply.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡknk0ibfnzE
"West, I need you to tell me about it," I told him. "About this agreement you had with him."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJaJAj0t8G
"Why, so you can hate me even more?"copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡUInJxtO2Fa
"I don't hate you."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0yF1QRger
"Well, you should."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSa5CKoCex
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9fGSNaGPP
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbPpRRgI7u
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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92nj8Z4wCj
"West, you don't have to say it."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VsjCk6M1W
"But it's true," he muttered. "I killed our father."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡBT7riYizHq
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QtraBrf83
"I'm 24."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡycZ0wBlDnm
"What?" He looked much older; at least 28 or 29 years old. "I mean; you don't look like it."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZfHryGK7o
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡabfEDpf4Fo
"So, Twilight got that part right?" I asked, smiling slightly.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dB6e7HzK5
"You could say that."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡWk4c2vLJfT
"But..." I realised after a minute. "That would mean you were only 16, back then."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8q4n5HNlMs
"It was long after the first time I shifted," he replied, staring at the overgrown grass.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTFk0TsItd
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡNqyRCAnnkD
"Who?"copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡhs4lQ93DuP
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dJLyJF1r9
"No one is perfect," West whispered.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡefzM7bnuzI
"I couldn't agree more... But what was your agreement with the Bronze Pack, West?"copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Qbcc1lgEQ
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6K4PwCzbE1
"Lucian."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSgTFn52SF
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1wVdJXzZC
"Did he ever tell you how was he turned?" Someone that powerful... He couldn't have been turned easily.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5nuVT7u4L
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpDMjiaol2
"What did you have to do in return?" I asked him, for what seemed like the tenth time, that day.copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡ464A1hjZRj
"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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhoYLjSSOW
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 protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjmh5FAg4V
"I had to turn one human," he repeated, his face grim. "Every single full moon."copyright protection80ＰＥＮＡＮＡi81mJ3E22w
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