The Beautiful Garden

Carter

"Why did you guys come back so early" I asked dad. We ended up in the bar lounge of our home while mom dragged Ember off, most likely to the gardens, which were always her favorite part of the house.

"We crossed paths with Jordan and Damien and decided to visit home before Franklin, your mother and I went back to the Bahamas, " Dad said, and we nodded. They were always working on new designs. Damien was Seth's younger brother and Jordan was my younger brother, both by a year. Coincidently, they were born around the same time as the red moon, which was a rare moon that came to pass every hundred years. The red moon had no real significance for Seth and I, but it had the strangest effect on Jordan and Damien, turning them from birth into half vampire, half wolf shifters. Hybrids are rare but not unheard of. They were still considered special and part of the pack, as some of their powers allowed us to still speak in the pack link. They, like Seth and I, became best friends as we