"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. 156Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1YAKbdefz
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"Weslyn," he stretched out his arm, calling me over to him. "Over here."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcHcKKascf
"How are you doing?" I asked, as I crossed my legs and sat on the ground next to him.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡCl926tsC9x
"I feel... Light," he murmured.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMK6PtGS39
"That's good, isn't it?"copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡZymGL7rVzE
"Yeah, I guess." For a few minutes, we both sat silently, breathing in time with the stillness of the garden.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡabZkd5OGHX
"I'm going to meet a Brown Wolf today," I announced, carefully waiting for his reaction.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjKYpzr6ru
"Lucian?" He asked, staring at me. "You're meeting with Lucian Bronze?"copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡgr3C8OJAKi
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVtdfHj3o1
"I..." he trailed off, a lost experience on his face. "He was a friend..." I sighed deeply.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CkLAKk1QM
"West, I need you to tell me about it," I told him. "About this agreement you had with him."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7eAJmpsW9
"Why, so you can hate me even more?"copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡLb4epjWImk
"I don't hate you."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnW49xOtzF
"Well, you should."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6MuGvR5YO
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJ0jYpDV70
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRodVxKK1j
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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡphpcM6IEcG
"West, you don't have to say it."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrqsKpSokZ
"But it's true," he muttered. "I killed our father."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡoARMOMkyxl
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWDi9qoR4A
"I'm 24."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡyx1Z0MoSbJ
"What?" He looked much older; at least 28 or 29 years old. "I mean; you don't look like it."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzkJm8wGG3
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2z0GR96f1b
"So, Twilight got that part right?" I asked, smiling slightly.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzISyJFXBQ
"You could say that."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡGuq0eM8LtP
"But..." I realised after a minute. "That would mean you were only 16, back then."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡPwoPcgZiw0
"It was long after the first time I shifted," he replied, staring at the overgrown grass.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡumAce8VU5x
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡKM2aMhXV2q
"Who?"copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRXaH9qHsW
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡIWii9xr5rw
"No one is perfect," West whispered.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡDciFm5Xj0Z
"I couldn't agree more... But what was your agreement with the Bronze Pack, West?"copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMRIWzRmgk
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZhAhr8IwA
"Lucian."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9MxP8DMsD
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdpDVldNIt
"Did he ever tell you how was he turned?" Someone that powerful... He couldn't have been turned easily.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80spBKQJsn
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHx6fmfS9I
"What did you have to do in return?" I asked him, for what seemed like the tenth time, that day.copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVVWzRiME0
"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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡgM1JcCt3mW
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 protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGEYMUk2Nu
"I had to turn one human," he repeated, his face grim. "Every single full moon."copyright protection152ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjpFgYxzLb
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