Chapter 2: Strange Pack

Natalie's POV

I was reading a book while my daughter slept peacefully in her crib a few feet away from me. I heard my phone buzz. I looked at the text that I had just received.

Whore it read.

It was enough to make me start shaking in anger. Why couldn't these people just let it go already? Why did they have to continuously make fun of me for what happened a year ago? What happened was an extremely embarrassing event but why do they have to keep on reminding me of what I did?

What mattered to me more then anything now was the baby girl that resulted from that night. I loved her and I tried my hardest to be a good mother to her.

I kept on reading my book until I heard Nicole start to cry. I picked her up and just held her. She may be a unique baby but she was still a baby. Out of all of us she is the one that has the most control of her transformations into a wolf and back. Ever since birth she has shown absolute control over her transformations. While, on the other hand, the rest of us had to learn how to control it. For me control came the easiest out of everyone with the one exception being my daughter here. She preferred being a wolf to because it meant that she could communicate with us and move around more. But she also enjoyed being a human baby to.

My phone rang but I ignored it when I saw that it was my older brother Joshua. We used to be really close when we were younger but we sort of grew apart as we got older. Then he went away to college last year. Last time we spoke he got so angry that he started yelling at me and he even insulted me a few times. It hurt a lot. He pays zero attention to me until I screw up one time. Then suddenly he won't let me forget it. Just like everyone else.

Everyone in the pack knew about what happened to of course. Information that I shared with them unwillingly. Stupid wolf telepathy. Annoying as hell. All of our secrets laid out there for everyone to see. At least it's not only my secrets that gets shared though.

As strange as it is I enjoyed being part of a pack. At least we had something that we could bond over.

I fed my daughter again and while I was feeding her I heard a wolf howling in the distance. That was strange because all of my friends had plans for tonight and none of them should have been in their wolf forms.

I went outside and changed into my wolf self to see if I could 'hear' whoever it was but I heard nothing. The wolf, or wolves I should say because it sounded like more then one, howled a few more times.

Suddenly I could hear my friends jointing me as well. They were all asking each other if any of them had howled but everyone answered with a resounding no.

"We better go check it out" Jaden said. "It could be dangerous"

Dangerous? I didn't like the idea of that but oh well. If this was some kind of threat to us we should know about it. What if our 'kind' had enemies and we didn't even know about it?

Everyone agreed that we should go check it out.

I had started running in the direction of the howling when something, well a very small wolf pup, flew right past me. Did I mention that my daughter was also the fastest runner out of all of us? How something so tiny could be so fast was beyond me.

Pretty quickly I was able to make out some of my pack mates as we liked to call each other. My daughter had slowed down considerably and I took advantage and caught up to her. I picked her up and held her firmly in my mouth. Something that she wasn't too fond of. Scott, Amber, Ashely and I caught up to each other.

We skidded to a sudden halt when we saw the strange wolves. There were a lot of them but the ones that stood out the most were the reddish brown one and the jet black one as they were clearly the largest wolves.

I was the smallest wolf in my pack besides my daughter anyway. All of these strange wolves were bigger then me to. The wolves kept staring at us as if they were as surprised by our presence as we were by theirs. They gave my daughter even weirder looks which I tried my best to ignore but failed miserably. I put my daughter down and stood over her protectively.

We were quickly joined by Sarah, and Mitchell. As soon as Jaden arrived he took his place at the front of the pack. We all looked to him for direction as we were not sure what we should do.

"So you think they are a threat or not?" Amber asked worriedly.

"I have no idea" Jaden said. "We can't hear them which is weird. I wonder if they can hear us"

"I doubt it" Scott said. "I think the communication has to be two ways not one way"

"I'm not so sure. They could still be a threat. Their presence worries me" Jaden said.

"So what do you suggest that we do?" Ashely asked

Then the wolves started walking toward us and I got really scared. There was way more of them then there was of us.

"Run! Now!" Jaden ordered in a voice that we could not disobey. There was something about the alpha's orders that we just could not ignore no matter how much we wanted to.

I quickly grabbed my daughter and started running as did the rest of us.

I glanced back only to realize in horror that the other wolves had started to chase us. I had never been so scared before.

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