A few weeks later

"Hey! Pass the-" Mayzie was cut off when one of her pack brothers, Jake to be exact, shouted over her. "JACOB BLACK PASS THE MUFFINS!" she yelled over the chatter at the Sunday brunch.

"Sorry, jeeze!" Jake almost threw the muffin pan at Mayzie, to which Emily smacked him on the back side of his head.

"Be nice to your sister!" Mayzie giggled. The door opened and the newest pack members, Seth Clearwater and his sister, Leah Clearwater, walked in.

"Mom sent eggs." Seth handed Emily a carton of a dozen eggs. Emily smiles at her younger cousin as he sits at the table next to Jake and Mayzie. Since Mayzie shifted, the pack had filled with Jake, Quil, Seth, and Leah too.

"Do you think people smell different due to who their parents are?" Embry asked suddenly. Everyone shut up suddenly, which is rare. Mayzie froze, knowing that the only ones who knew Sam was her brother were Embry, Quil, Jake, and herself.

"What do you mean?" Emily asked from the kitchen.

"Like I don't know who my father is, but obviously he's not from the Makah." There was a sharp intake of breath that made Embry scoff. "Come on, I know we've all thought about it." Mayzie was silent suddenly, wondering if Embry was related to her.

"Embry, I've been meaning to talk to you…" Sam says quietly. "We found out that Joshua Uley had cheated on my mom…and we know that you are a product of that." Sam's voice sounded ashamed, embarrassed even, but Embry just leaned over the table and high-fived Mayzie, excitedly.

"Sweet, I've got siblings!" Embry hollered. Everyone laughed.

"You already have the pack, man. Plus, it's just one sibling, and you won't even see him any different."

"Nah man. Mayzie and Em-" Quil started. Suddenly Mayzie started coughing loudly, trying to get Quil to stop talking.

"Ow!" Embry kicked Quil under the table.

"Great guys, way to look unsuspicious…" Jake mumbled. Suddenly Leah yelled.

"What the FUCK is going on?!" everyone froze, including Mayzie, who was trying to reach over the table to strangle Quil and Embry who was trying to get Jake in a headlock.

"Somebody better explain this right now." Sam ordered. Mayzie felt dizzy suddenly and bolted, phasing only after stripping. She took off running, not aware where she was going until she sat next to her mother's gravestone. She let a tear slip, feeling bad that she gave up her mother's secret.

"I'm sorry." She tried to say, forgetting she was in her wolf form. It came out instead like a soft whine, but Mayzie just fell apart inside again.

"Time to come back." Sam alpha ordered her. Despite the fact that she just wanted to nap, Mayzie stood and ran back to Sam's house at a slow trot.

"Let's go, phase back." Sam said impatiently when she got back to the house. She whined and put her head down, scared and wanting to just run away again. Mayzie obeyed however and phased back in the woods, dressing quickly before she hung her head and walked into the house.

Everyone was still at the table except for Jared and Leah who were on patrol.

"My mom didn't want you to know." Mayzie said in a quiet voice. "And since she's gone, I tried to do everything I could to keep that promise." Sam just looked at Mayzie silently before stepping forward. Mayzie tried to flinch out of the way, but instead Sam just took her in his arms and hugged her. Mayzie relaxed against his body and then Embry suddenly joined. Everyone laughed and Mayzie looked up, suddenly famished. Her stomach grumbled right as Emily lent down to take a tray of mozzarella sticks from the oven.

"Oh my god." Mayzie said, her mouth watering and her stomach twisting in hunger. "We used to get these all the time when I was little, in this one pub." Mayzie trailed off as she stuffed her face. Emily laughed.

"Oh wait, that one in London?" Quil asked, knowing the place from a visit.

"Yea! Ugh, so good."

"You've been to London?" Emily's eyes widened. Mayzie smiled.

"I was born here and then lived there until my Mom passed away." She told Emily.

"No way!"

"I thought you knew that?" Mayzie looked confused at Em.

"Okay, okay, we get it. Oooh, London, so cool. Don't care." Paul's voice called from the couch. Mayzie looked at him.

"Oh shut up Paul, you think you're so fucking cool, you don't like it when anyone steels your thunder. What, you've been to Canada?" Mayzie knew she was pushing him but wasn't expecting for him to look up. When their eyes connected, she felt her whole world shift entirely. Everything she's ever thought about Paul suddenly changed and she let out a shaky breath.

"Oh for Christ's sake, Paul did you just imprint on my sister?" Sam's voice bellowed. Mayzie and Paul both nodded silently before Paul was up and out of the door, taking off for a well needed run and conversation with Jared.