015 - Moving Forward

SEVEN MONTHS LATER.

BLADE.

The season changed, as did everything in my life.

I looked at the vast land before me and thought of my territory.

The Silver Crest — the territory that had been witness to all the lows in my life. I left it so I could move on from the death of Soledad, only to return upon another death.

My brother’s death.

When I abandoned my pack, Fabian, my younger brother, took over as the Alpha of the Silver Crest. He had no aspiration to be one — no training, no preparation — and yet my irresponsible self left without any warning, turning over the Alpha post to him without his approval.

Despite that, he stepped up to the challenge. But there was never an instance where he didn’t ask me to take it back from him whenever we would meet.

I kept refusing.

For five years, Fabian struggled to survive this pack.

He did his best, but it kept getting weaker. And then an Alpha asshole saw that as an opportunity and attacked, seizing the territory and killing him an