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Chapter 4

Addison was grateful her parents were yet again absent at home. She was so angry.

"How dare they!" Addison threw a seafoam green couch pillow across the hall. She stopped her way upstairs, pulling out her cheer routine binder.

Sitting on the bed she flipped thru the binder front to end, before going back again. "Argh! Not even cheer routines are helping!" She threw the book across the floor. Grabbing her phone she started to text Eliza. Eliza had some book she was consulting so hopefully she would have the answers

"'Do I really have to fight Zed AND Wyatt?' And send. And now wait... ugh!" Addison tossed her phone after a second to the floor with her binder. She stood up and started pacing. Her insides felt wild, she couldn't get ahold of her thoughts or emotions they were all running wild. She jumped onto her bed, slammed a pastel pink pillow into her face and screamed.

"Sometimes it helps to howl." A voice called from her window.

Addison turned and saw Wyatt, gripping the window frame, the screen already off.

"You don't get to even step foot in my room right now. I'm so angry with you!" Addison hissed out her words. "I'm enraged!"

Wyatt shrugged but stayed in the window, respecting her anger. He waited a minute, the sound of Addison breathing deeply the only sound.

"I deserve that." Wyatt admitted, sitting down on the frame, his feet dangling inside.

"Did you ever need help with classes or was that just a ruse to try and pull this stunt?" Addison walked forward, pulling her phone and cheer binder off the floor, throwing them onto her desk. "Answer me wolf." Addison couldn't even look at him without knowing the answer.

"I did really need help, but it did not have to specifically be your help. That part was just because I enjoy being around you Addison. So much so I want to do it for the rest of my life." Wyatt leaned in slightly as Addison looked up into his eyes.

"I talk about history and chemistry a few times a week and that makes me your soul mate?" Addison asked, sitting on her bed. Her anger sizzling out a little bit at a time.

"Addison, this way of communication is new for me. I'm making a ton of mistakes- what I'm asking to give you is so much deeper than a soul mate. I want to be your wolf, your protector, your lover, your supporter. My wolf and I are in complete agreement." Wyatt tested a foot down but Addison immediately pointed her finger at it so he lifted it.

"Right, I'll buy that right after this town says it'll accept zombies." Addison scoffed, upset all over again. All their progress, all their victories, erased in less than a minute.

"I'm a wolf Addison. I look like a boy, but I'm an animal. I knew the minute I smelled your scent in the forest, lemon and daphne flowers, my destiny was yours." Wyatt put a foot down silently, and when Addison didn't lift her head he put the other down quickly. "I could smell your leadership, your bravery. I could smell your fearlessness, your faults. I can smell your fear now, your regret. And I don't need to smell the fact your confused because I didn't explain this all properly but I was too excited to wait." Wyatt rested a hand on her hair, mimicking the same comfort that was given to him by his pack.

Addison accepted the comfort, her mind still wrapped in calling herself a failure. If she never would have said she saw werewolves, none of this would have happened.

"That's not true. By finding us, I was able to find you, and you helped us save the moonstone. You and Zed." Wyatt lightly scratched her scalp, massaging her head.

"You can read my mind now?" Addison leveled.

"You and Zed are easy to read." Wyatt responded.

"Don't you want to kill Zed in some horrible pack thing? Isn't that what I signed up for too? As if senior year wasn't hard enough already." Addison reached up and removed Wyatt's hand, pushing him away. Wyatt moved away next to the window, sitting on the floor, giving her space.

"He tried but because it wasn't in wolf or English it just became more of a standard 'make me' response to my claim." Wyatt grinned, his fangs showing. "Thank the moon." Wyatt whispered.

"Don't you want to kill Zed?" Addison repeated, afraid to breath as Wyatt answered

Since he avoided it the first time.

"I want to claim you both." Wyatt admitted in a rush. "Everything I smelled on you was complimented by Zed. Once you get past the dead smell. His radiance, his hope, his positivity." Wyatt began, his smile creeping up to his fangs.

"I'm positive he wants to kill you and I'm positive I'm confused. How can you claim both of us? Especially in Seabrook." Addison asked.

"Well when a werewolf cares about someone very much-" Wyatt begun, teasing her. Addison threw her pillow at him, laughing softly. "The 'Forbidden' part of the Forbidden forest kind of means Seabrooks normalcy issues don't plague us there. And I'm wolf enough to claim both of you." Wyatt let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding and let Addison time to think.

"So you're not trying to steal me from Zed." Addison didn't even form it as a question after 3 minutes of silence.

"Not in 400 lifetimes. I want to be with you and Zed. I want us to protect you together, to love you- you'd never be hurt. His zombie and my wolf together? We'd be unstoppable." Wyatt crawled on all fours over to Addisons bed, waiting for her permission to crawl over her body. She put her hand up to stop him, and ran it over his muscular stomach.

"You smell like the earth after the rain." Addison trembled slightly. Wyatt sat back, respecting her. "I don't even know how this would work? I'm not a wolf."

"We think that because you have been so long without moonstone your wolf may be hibernating. Willa and I thought if we tried to recharge your pendant, maybe that would wake her." Wyatt was excited, infectiously so.

"Wyatt, I touched the moonstone in its raw form when we helped carry it out of the ruble." Addison reminded him. "No fangs, no howling, no pack, I'm not a wolf. Which is going to throw some major wrench's in your claim Addison goal."

"You touched the cage not the stone." Wyatt said. "We think if you were given permission to charge your necklace at the stone and put it on, that may wake your wolf."

"And if it doesn't?" Addison wanted to be very clear, Wyatt seemed to have trouble answering more than one question directly at a time.

"Then I still lay at your feet, begging you to be mine. Delicious human lifespan and all." Wyatt shrugged. "I fully intend to claim you Addison, with your permission. But whether your a wolf or not makes no different to me. My wolf and I just agree, it's you- and you're it for us."

"Wyatt, I'm not even sure how to address what is happening between us. Or even to me alone. I feel so different." Addison admitted. She was so scared to admit if she was feeling anything for Wyatt besides friendship. The swirl of emotions was too much.

"The fact you feel anything is a beautiful step to me." Wyatt said. "Can I assume you rescind your challenge to me for your claiming?" Wyatt asked, his hand open, asking for Addisons.

"I think I need to meet with Willa and get very direct and clear cut understanding of what you're asking me. Because Zed is my first serious boyfriend and now your asking both of us to essentially marry you?" Addison asked. Wyatt shrugged again, no corrections needed. "And we both need to meet Zed as soon as possible." Addison stood up, picking up the pillows she had throw around. Wyatt went to the window, sniffing the whole time before looking down.

"Oh, he must have heard you. Hi Zed, were up in Addisons room!" Wyatt called down to Zed before Addison could tackle him and cover his mouth. Addison heard the zombie growl become a roar and felt the front door shake under Zeds intention.

"Really Wyatt? That was the best idea?" Addison asked.

Wyatt was laughing to himself. "I love riling him up, life is going to be so good like this, can't you feel it Addison?" Wyatt made some fake moaning noises causing Zed to double his attentions to breaking down the door. The words Addison did catch from Zed were certainly worse than whatever she accidentally howled in wolf.

"Hey, you, stop. I never agreed to your claiming so I would take 5 giant steps back before I open the door and let Zed in here." Addison folded her arms.

Wyatt's color dropped out of his face.

"Aw come on, that's no fair."

"No fair is you deciding to mate me without truly asking me. And then deciding how and when to apologize. Now you're firing up Zed? His zombie terrifies him, he's always so afraid he's going to hurt someone." Addison started running down the stairs, watching the frame and the door shake with each punch.

"I'm sorry." Wyatt offered. "Two steps forward one step back." Wyatt leaned his head against the wall, watching Addison run down the stair. Wyatt felt his moonstone charge him from the perceived threat of zombified Zed. Now it was time to talk to him. But unlike Addison, Wyatt knew they'd have to talk more physically. After all, they were both monsters. Wyatt let out a howls as his eyes began to glow.