CHAPTER 4: What’s Coming

CHAPTER 4: What’s Coming

GREY’S POV

I don’t know how it happened, but it was like coach priest disappeared. And the two other ladies that claimed to be witches flew. I also didn’t read meaning to them saying I was a witch.

Well I don’t know how this thing works, so I can’t explain it well. But in summary, they ran away because Karl was about to kill them. And I think I now believe werewolves exists.

Karl shifted back slowly and I stood there and watched it happen and didn’t say anything because I didn’t have words yet.

By the time he was fully himself again he was on his knees in the dirt breathing hard. I stayed close but didn’t touch him. I didn’t know if touching was the right thing right now.

Then he stood up, fix his torn clothes on himself. We started walking back.

“Was that your wolf form?” I asked.

“Yes.” He said.

“That was actually your wolf form?” I repeated, as I star Keely at his side face.

“Grey.” He shunned.

“I’m just.” I exhaled. “Okay. That was your wolf form.”

He almost smiled. I could feel it through the bond before it reached his face.

“How did you do that.” I said. “The switching. Does it hurt?”

“It’s uncomfortable.” He said. “First shift of the season always is.”

“First shift of the…” I looked at him. “You’ve been walking around next to me for two years and you have a wolf inside you.”

“Yes.”

“And you just never mentioned it.”

“When was I supposed to mention it Grey.”

I opened my mouth but closed it. He had a point and I didn’t want to give him the point so I kept walking.

“The size of it.” I said after a second. “You were massive.”

“Alpha bloodline.” He said.

“Right.” I nodded slowly. “Alpha bloodline.” I was still processing. I was going to be processing this for a long time. “And the hunters. They just ran.”

“Because I almost took three of them down in under two minutes.” He said. “Hunters are brave until they’re not.”

“And the witches.” I said. Something moved up my arm when I said it. That electricity feeling again. “What happened when I touched the tree.”

Karl was quiet for a second.

“Karl.” I called questionly.

“I don’t know.” He said. He said it too quickly.

“You do know.” I repeated. “I can feel that you know. Whatever this bond thing does I can feel when you’re not being straight with me.”

He looked at me sideways. Something complicated moved across his face. “Later.” He said. “I’ll explain later.”

“You keep saying later.”

“Because we keep almost dying before I get to it.” He said. I kept shut. As I didn’t have an answer for that either.

We got back to his floor and he pushed open the door to his room and stopped. I also stopped behind him.

There was a woman sitting on his bed. She has dark hair, and a bag like hers was on the floor beside her feet. 

She looked up when we came in and her eyes went straight to Karl and stayed there like I wasn’t in the room. I looked at Karl. His jaw had gone tight.

“Your father felt the shift.” She said. She didn’t even greet. “That full shift outside pack territory is making him come. He’s already on his way. He’ll be here by morning.”

Karl said nothing. She looked at me then. Properly, for the first time, the way the witches in the woods had looked at me. 

That slow reading thing that made my skin feel like it was being measured.

“Who are you?” I asked. She didn’t answer me. She kept looking at me like she was confirming something. Then she looked back at Karl. “He doesn’t know?” She asked.

“I know he doesn’t know.” Karl said.

“You need to tell him before his brother does.”

I looked at Karl. “Tell me what?”

“Grey…”

“Tell me what Karl.” He looked at the woman and then at me and opened his mouth and my phone rang. It was save as MY BROTHER — Viktor.

I looked at the screen and something in my chest did a thing I didn’t understand. Karl said I should answered it and put it on speaker. So I did.

“Grey.” Viktor’s voice came through immediately. The way my brother always sounded, like he had rehearsed every conversation before it happened. “I heard you had an interesting night.”

“What do you want?” I asked.

“Come home. Alone.” He said. “And come tonight if you can, tomorrow morning at the latest. There are things that need to be said and we should be the ones saying them.”

“Things like what?” My voice filled with confusion and suspicion.

“Like what you are.” He said. “Like what was done to you and why. Like what the binding has been hiding all these years.” A pause. “You felt something tonight didn’t you. In the woods. Something you couldn’t explain.”

I didn’t answer. And now I was starting to repay all the actions that happened in the wolf.

“Come home Grey.” His voice didn’t change. “We’ll explain everything. You deserve to know and it’s better coming from family.”

“And if I don’t come alone.” I said.

Silence for two seconds. “Then I send the covens instead.” He said. “And that conversation tends to go differently.”

The call ended. I stood there with my phone in my hand and the room was very quiet.

I looked at Karl. He was looking at me and his jaw was tight and his eyes were doing that focused thing and I could feel through the bond that what was moving through him right now was not calm at all.

“He’s been watching you.” Karl said quietly. “Your own brother has been tracking you this whole time.”

The woman on the bed said nothing. I looked at my phone. Then at Karl. Then at my phone again.

“So.” I said. “I’m truly a witch, and if I don’t go. The coven— meaning the witches right? — will come looking for me.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​