Rhydian's POV

Bryn wakes me up at the crack of dawn. "Mum says get out of bed." His impressive persuasion skills aren't what gets me up, surprisingly. It's the smell of bacon. I sluggishly stand up and traipse out to the landing. Carys is walking exactly the same as me, Bryn must have got her up too.

"You too eh?" She yawns and nods.

Mum has acquired some pretty decent cooking skills since she's been tame, she only works 4 days a week so I'm guessing this is what she does on her days off. She's laid out a feast of a breakfast; bacon, sausages, beans, tomatoes, hash browns, black pudding and all the different types of eggs possible.

"Wow, mum, there's going to be meat for us in the wild, no need to fill us up." Carys says as the rest of us dig in.

"Oh I guess you're not hungry then." She jokingly takes Carys' plate away, but bacon is no joke to a Wolfblood.

"I mean, uh, thank you, I'm starving." She pulls the plate back, breathing in the incredible aroma's surrounding us plate.

"I could get used to this everyday." Bryn says. We finish the entire feast in about 5 minutes flat. I love that Carys has gotten used to calling them mum and dad, it really makes this house feel like a home.

The door bell rings. "Oh, that'll be Maddy and Jana." I get up wiping the grease from my mouth.

"Maddy?" Mum says.

"Yeah, she's coming with us." I say as I head towards the front door.

"Why?" Dad says.

"Uh, because she's my girlfriend." I laugh it off.

"Are you sure it's wise she comes Rhydian? I don't know how the pack will react to a tame." Mum says.

"We're all tame mum, and anyway, you're letting Carys bring Jana."

"That's different, Alric is Jana's dad." Carys chimes in.

"Well Maddy's my girlfriend and she's coming." I can't be bothered getting into a fight with Carys, even though I kind of like fighting with her. I don't know why, I guess it's a big brother thing. I walk out of the kitchen to let Maddy and Jana in. Jana awkwardly says hey and continues on into the kitchen. Maddy looks at me. She knows right away something's up.

"Why don't they want me to come?" Sometimes I forget that it's not hard for a Wolfblood to hear through a piece of wood and a hallway.

"I don't know, but it doesn't matter, you're coming." I kiss her, I have my arms around her back and realise she's got a massive bag with her. I laugh out of our kiss.

"What?" She gently pushes me.

"You don't know much about living wild do you?" I shut the door behind her and we go up to my room.

She starts to put some of my clothes into a bag.

"Mads, I wanted you to come so you can get the experience of living wild. None of us are bringing anything. Carys is bring her pills and her phone incase she needs to call her therapist but that's it. Well, Jana wants to bring toilet roll. If it was up to her she'd bring the whole bathroom. But you don't need all of that junk."

"Well I don't want to be all dirty and stuff."

"Everyone out there stinks. I wouldn't worry about a little bit of BO." I kiss her again. "Besides you're already in need of shower, Smelly Girl."

"Shut up." We continue to kiss for a while, and we begin to move to my bed, realising that this is the last time we'll be alone for a week. And then Bryn decides it's the perfect time to walk in. We both look up at him in shock.

"Why are you fighting?" To be fair, if I was a kid and saw two people in this position, I'd think the same thing. Maddy quickly gets off of me and sits up.

"We're just practising, you know, in case anyone challenges us to a Broider when we're out in the wild." I'm still good at lying.

"So Bryn, are you excited to go and visit the wild pack?" Maddy asks, changing the subject.

"Are you joking?" He says sarcastically and walks out of the room. As soon as the door shuts, Maddy and I burst into fits of laughter.

Once we're all ready to go, and I've convinced Maddy to leave her gigantic bag behind, we head off for the wild. It's not a long walk because the pack are closer to us at the moment, so we get there in about an hour.

Immediately the pack start to get excited that their Alpha's are back, along with three heirs and a former Alpha. Some of them begin crowding around mum and dad.

"Back." I hear a familiar voice thundering. The pack makes way for a path. Alric emerges from the crowd, he approaches Jana.

"You've made the right decision to return Jana, now you can be my heir again." He hugs her.

"Dad, I'm not staying. I'm only here to see take your rightful place as Alpha." He shoots a look at me, and then at Carys.

"Which one is it this time? Which one is forcing you to be tame?" He walks right up to Carys, they had made amends but everyone knows she's still afraid of him. I step in front of her, it's clear that Jana's too oblivious to see that her dad wants to hurt us.

"It's Jana's choice, you can't start this again." I say in his face. Jana pulls Carys to her, mum and dad growl at Alric.

"I am to be Alpha again, yes?" He asks them.

"Not if you continue this way Alric. Jana is tame now, she is not a part of this pack any more and she will not be your heir." Dad steps in front of me, they both try to protect us all.

"I knew something was up." Jana says to Carys.

"She is my daughter." He growls back. He pushes past my parents and past me. "Jana, you belong in the wild as long as you are an Alpha or an heir."

"I am neither." She says taking Carys' hand. "At least not for this pack." Alric is clearly resisting the urge to lash out, he turns away in anger and goes to the den. Everyone is instantly relaxed now that he's gone.

"You can't let him become Alpha when he's still acting like that." I say to my parents. I take Maddy's hand.

"He's right. I know he's my father, and by blood I'm going to be his heir again, but there's nothing he can say or do that will bring me back to the wild. I know where I belong." Jana says.

"Let us discuss it." Mum says. "Carys, don't forget your pills." They walk away and sit on the far side of camp.

Bryn runs off to hang out with Gwyn an Cadwr it's been a long time since he's seen them. So the rest us sit by the river. As badly as Alric treated me when I lived wild, he does make a good Alpha. I just don't think it's a good idea if he's going to be driven mad again. Mending his relationship with Jana is what got him granted Enouwian. Now that he's messing it up again, he's just asking to be exiled.

It's pretty clear that Carys and Jana want to be alone to talk, so I decide to take Maddy for a walk to show her around this part of the woods.