HELP THE TWINS NOW, TALK LATER

  Grace

Otto and Faith were asleep as the plane took its landing.

The morning had been very emotional for them when they realized that Rakkel would not be coming with us.

I wanted her to come with I really did bu tour pack did not do well with humans, the last thing I want was for her to get ripped at the borders and even still she had her entire life to live… it was unfair of me to insist she come with.

But in tropical Rakkel manner, she did not let me go without making me to literally swear an oath to keep in touch with her.

I would, even if she didn’t ask. She was the one person that I trusted in the entire world.

I softly tapped my two kids “Otto, Faith wake up darlings, we are here” I said.

Faith was the first to open her eyes “Otto said we will see Daddy here, is that true?” she asked.

I nodded “yes darling, here there is no way we will be able to escape your father”

I felt that pang of guilt.

It was the same one that I had been carrying with me for five years, I hid the twins from their father, and I put them true so much. Maybe if I had never left-

No.

If I did not, Declan was going to reject me and have me exiled either ways and I could not have that… A wolf in exile was seen as cursed by the moon goddess to an eternity of loneliness.

Most wolves eventually lose their minds, and they go rogue. If I was rogue I would never have been able to care for my children.

“Come on let’s go down”

The memories, of this place, ones that I had thought I had long forgotten came rushing back to me. I looked around.

I was finally back at the Silverclaw Pack.

 Everything was almost the same, the eucalyptus trees, the faint scent of gum blossoms, the cicadas humming in the distance—this was home. And yet, it didn’t feel like it anymore.

“Come on darlings be careful” I said as I led them towards the taxi… they were bouncing with energy.

They felt it too, the connection to our home.

“It’s been a long time since we had new wolves come in here”

I glared at the taxi driver thought he mirror and that was enough for him to shut up. “Mummy he said wolves, what is he talking about?” Otto asked.

He was always the more inquisitive one, feeling like it was his own duty to grow quickly to take care of his sister. And no matter how much I tried to tell him that he was only a child too and I could take care of the both of them, he always insisted.

The cheeky thing said that he would be the one to protect me instead.

I smiled at him and placed a hand on his cheek “when we arrive, I am going to come clean about some things that I have been hiding.  I promise”

The moment we arrived in front of the pack house, Otto and Faith tumbled out after me, their energy, it was high and I knew I needed them to rest soon else they would regret it later.

I looked up at the pack house, this place had raised me… I was who I am today because of the pack, but it had also broken me.

I turned back suddenly, my instincts alert… the hairs on my back was standing high.

It feel like someone was watching me. But when I turned, there was none there, maybe I was just being paranoid again.

Years of being hurt by a mad man would do that to you.

Faith squeezed my hands sensing my unease “are you alright mummy?”

I nodded “I’m fine…. I just can’t wait to show you around that’s all”

I stood in front of my children protectively the moment I heard those growling sounds. I looked around, we were surrounded.

“Stay behind me” I said to my children still not looking back…. Wolves came out from every corner, five of them… we were surrounded.

But how?-

That darned taxi driver, he must have alerted the pack.

“Mummy I’m scared what is happening?” I heard the shaky voice of Faith.

“Remember when I said that I have a lot of things to tell you both and hat you were special?” I asked.

“Yes Mummy, but-”

“Trust me”

My heart hammered in my chest, after this moment…. Nothing was going to be the same again.

Faith whimpered and Otto held her hand tightly.

I had no other choice.

And For the first time in years, I let my wolf free.               

The shift ripped through me. Violent, searing, almost foreign. My bones cracked, skin stretched, fur erupted from my body in a blaze of heat

The sound that tore from my lips was loud, shaking the very ground which we all stood on I hated shifting, I vowed I would not anymore because like right now,  when I landed on all fours, panting, I didn’t recognize myself.

Half my fur shimmered pure white, the other half ink-black. My eyes they were glowing bright red, like embers… And I hated that strength I felt, that disgusting power that reminded me always of what done to me.

The wolves paused. I growled, low and deadly, and lunged at the first one that dared move.

I didn’t see him coming.

A massive black wolf crashed into me from the side. We rolled, teeth snapping, claws slashing. His weight pinned me, but it wasn’t just strength that froze me.

I whined loudly in my wolf from.

It was the spark that spark.

Every nerve in my body lit up.

My wolf stiffened, breath caught, and then—

Shift.

No one was speaking, I mean hoe

The voice wasn’t his. I mean how could he since he was also in his wolf form which means the voice was in my head, in my mind.

This only happens when…

“Shift!!!!”

The sheer power from his voice forced me back into my human form. My chest was beating hard against my chest.

He shifted back right on top of me, Rhys, my best friend. He still looked the same, incredibly handsome, with those electric blue eyes, and perfectly pink lips.

But that glare, it was not the same.

He had never looked at me like this before, with such hate.

It hurt.

“Rhys I can explain-”

“You should not have fucking come here!”

And with that he stood up and stormed off.

I stared after him with a lost look in my eyes, how could? Why?-

I had always wished for this to be a reality all my life but now it was staring me in the face, I just I could not believe it….

This was impossible.

Rhys, he was my mate?