. It was a poor display of aggression and now everyone must think I was completely incapable of controlling my wolf. I was beyond disappointed and frustrated with my wolf. He knew the

to know they were werewolves and wanted to proclaim they were the strongest in the vicinity. I winced when he mentioned that we didn't

alpha, I knew he stayed pretty busy and didn't need the load of babysitting us two boys so that we didn't end up tearing each other to pieces. On the other

en we exited the pack house together, Ryder joked about how we at least got a full day to mentally prepare ourselves for a

for communal cooking sessions till the evening, so it would be up to me to take care of the kids. Which I didn't mind at all. I called Gretna, the sixty-year-old lady who volunteered to look after the twins while

door bursts open and I look down to see Ariel looking up at me with her giant green eyes, the ones she inherited from her father. "Did you find

dad tried very hard to infuse in her. Ariel just rolls her eyes and moves past me and before I can think of saying something more

ps on the balls of his feet and mimes punching and I resist the urge to laugh, "Did you throw some hard kicks and your oppo

more moves with alarming clarity. "I did throw a lot of amazing

ivel around to watch her take off her shoes daintily. She smiles sweetly at

th turned into our wolves." Ariel's eyes widen and Ben gasps in surprise at

ook at him questioningly. He gestures for me to lean down so that he can whisper in my ear. I lean down and

t the statement and follows her sister into the kitchen after ta

expectantly! "Okay, I got the message." I move further into the kitchen and peer into the fridge for ingredients. "What do you guys want to eat?" After my

ster's reaction. I'm going to have to keep a check on Ariel's eye-rolling. If she rolls her eyes more than she does now, her eyes and balls will roll to the back of her head and stay there. They both turn to look at me and I wait for the verdict. "Pancakes!" They bot

to work. "How was your day at school?" Ariel and Ben chatted the entire time it took me to make them pancakes. They didn't even

utes and they both start to dig in. Ben grins

rn my attention to Ariel, who's busy chomping awa

aise an eyebrow to say really, that's the best you got? Ariel sighs and rolls her eyes at me. "Thank you, Kyle, for making us pancakes. You are the most amazing brother ever." She recites the words in a bored v

home. I furtively glanced at my wristwatch to see it was only 2:30 p.m. "Hey everyone!" Everyone wishes her and I'm unable to come up with a good reason for her coming ba

ould find Mom curled up in his chair, and I'd find it incredibly hard to let her be, to let her battle her grief the way she wanted to. She settles in Dad's chair, her

incident with Ryder." I glance down at my lap mortified the alpha felt the need to involve my mom. It was probably the last thing she ne

h Ryder. We both know that you have better control over your wolf

my wolf took over and I shifted." I look up at Mom to see a frown marring her face. Her frown lines had become increasingly apparent in the last year

I?" I look up at Mom suddenly, not liking th

nd I don't need anymore." I say firmly, trying to close this uncomfortable topic before it even starts. Earlier, when she had tried to tell me about my biol

old me that he loved that girl and wanted to be her chosen mate. I bravely accepted his rejection and moved out of his way, even though it hurt a lot since our wolves were still bonded to each other. A month later, I found out I was pregnant and when I told him, he became furious with me. He thought I was trying to trap him, which hadn't even crossed my mind. So, long story short, he told me he didn't love me and that I

about my birth, that I wasn't Brad's biological child so that I could know more about myself, whatever that meant. But the thing was, I didn't want to know ab

ng this story. From the moment, my dad, Brad had marked my mom as his mate, her connection to her destined mate, my biological father, had been broken. So, she didn't feel any grief over what had been lost or what could have been. She had

didn't know before. But alphas were always super possessive of their mates and it was unheard of for an alpha to reject their destined mates because it was with their destined mates did

-aggressive, over-possessive, something only a true heir of an alpha shows. And you do show these signs. Shifting into your wolf while sparring with Ryder has convinced him of this. So, he has proposed that I take you to my old pack so that your w

le of years older than you. What if he has already transferred the reins to h

like this, Kyle. I can't see your wolf struggle! If there is even a sliver of chance that you and your

Ben? Won't their wolves ge

u are. And if your wolf is a true alpha, you need to go to that pack and lay a claim to the title, no matte

What about school? My fr

r. As if she couldn't believe she was going to do such a th