บททั้งหมดของ Tethered: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 6

Jedediah paced the floor, my mother sat in her chair. She traced his pace with a calculated eye. Sure that he had greater worry than she, but unsure as to his reaction. The Alpha leader’s daughter; both a secondary gender of benefit and hindrance. And alpha son would have been preferable; but an alpha daughter would do. One that could lead hunts, hold her own in debates. But an omega daughter…A nightmare for the tribe. The only hope for survival would be to marry her off; to pray that she could breed the next generation and create a stronger Idlewyld pack. But my mother wouldn’t have it. “Freya, I’d rather not beg,” the beta Jedidiah stated, “But we both know that this is the only option.” My mother stared blankly to the horizon, finding that dawn faded so quickly in the arrival of fall. Long gone were long endured sunsets of pink and orange.A deep blue beckoned after the fleeting sun, soon black would fall over the commune. Darkened, singed leaves left by the c

My lip dropped in surprised awe. That was… unexpected. Watching as she walked away without a glance, no hesitation in her step. I had lied to her—it wasn’t an accident. Truthfully I can’t recall a time that I’d acted that way. Stepping out of the car, eyeing the familiar campus—I had let myself get enveloped by the sense of normalcy. In a fleeting instance I craved variety; then I’d seen something new to me. Her. Other students I’d recognized from my own pack or alliance meetings, mating celebrations and receptions, the elitist world we lived in didn’t leave many families to be strangers to mine. But she was unfamiliar. Standing alone in front of the gates, as if one of the most magnificent things she’d ever seen. The autumn wind pulling back at her burgundy locks—reminding me of a rich glass of wine. She mumbled to herself softly, a plump bottom lip that rose and fell as she reassured herself… or what I could only assume as self reassurance. She was new in a pl