All Chapters of Raised with Love, Except They Never Loved Me: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

This year's pack-wide coming-of-age ceremony notice came unusually late. I didn't find out until that morning.The notice said that every wolf who had just reached adulthood had to be escorted into the ceremony hall by a family member. There would also be a blessing ceremony where a family member would offer the newly adult wolves their good wishes.I forwarded the notice to Mother.She replied nonchalantly, "Go find your brother. There are too many things going on at the council today, so I probably won't be able to make it."I forwarded the notice to Rhys as well.He replied dismissively, "Do you really have to come to me about something this trivial? When are you going to grow up?"I read both messages several times.I replied to each of them with the same word. "Okay."I went to the pack's town hall and found my teacher, Mira Carlton. Aside from Sienna, she was the only wolf in the entire pack who had ever treated me kindly.When the rogue wolf injured me and I couldn't wa

I watched from outside the window as Mother locked my pack ID inside a cabinet.It wasn't even dawn yet. I stood there silently, watching her put my papers away with her back turned to me, as if she were afraid I'd try to take them back. She secured the cabinet with three separate locks.I returned to my room and started packing. That was when I realized just how little of this house actually belonged to me.I packed two changes of clothes, a dagger I kept for self-defense, the bag of herbs from Mira, and the moonstone. The smell of smoke wafted in from the yard, so I went downstairs to check. Rhys was crouched beside the wall, feeding sheets of paper into a fire one by one. They were the backup documents I'd kept in my room.Even when he saw me, his hands never stopped moving.He said, "I went into your room and took these. Don't read too much into it. Just stay here in the pack. When you're a little older, I'll arrange a position for you. Wouldn't a quiet, stable life be bette

When I arrived, a thick layer of snow had settled upon Northland.Someone was standing at the station holding a sign. He was waiting for me.The sign had my name on it, and it read, "Welcome to Northland, Wren Ashford."The man holding it looked elderly. When he noticed me staring at the sign, he quickly lowered it and hurried over to take my luggage. He carried my suitcase and handed me a heavy coat."It's much colder here than in your old pack," he said. "Put this on, or you'll freeze.""How did you know I was Wren?" I asked."We made sure to learn about you beforehand. Otherwise, we might accidentally offend you once we start living together."He shoved the coat into my arms and, before I could say anything else, led me toward the car.The car moved slowly through the snow. Everything on both sides of the road was white. I could barely see anything.After we'd driven for a while, I asked, "Which dorm did the Northland Academy assign me?"The man answered, "You weren't assi

By the time I went downstairs, the snow had already piled up to my ankles. Cerys and Rhys were still standing at the door without umbrellas, their shoulders covered in white snow.When Cerys saw me, she took a step forward. "Wren, come home with me."I countered, "What? So I can go back to being the daughter you never loved? So I can get my leg torn apart by a rogue wolf and be left to die alone in the forest?" I gave her a bitter smile and said, "You clearly know how to be a good mother and a good brother. Why don't you go be one big happy family with Sienna? Why did you come looking for me?"Cerys clenched her hand inside her sleeve and said, "I didn't know how to cherish you before. I was wrong to do that. Please come home with me, okay?""Then tell me. What exactly did you do wrong?"She froze, unable to come up with an answer."I've said everything I needed to say about how you hurt me. So, we're even now."I reached up and straightened the brim of her hat. I added, "I'