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Chapter 1: Wolf Pack
Lisa
I could feel my pups snuggled up right next to me. With my eyes closed I couldn't see them. Their thoughts were impossible to ignore though. They were hungry. Very hungry.
I opened my eyes and nuzzled my pups gently all seven of them. Four boys and three girls. I'd given birth to them less than a week ago but they were already growing by leaps and bounds.
Keeping a watchful eye on us was Greyson. Our protector, my mate, my equal, and the father of my pups. The evidence of his parentage was present in some our pups fur coats. One of our daughters and two of our sons had inherited his gray fur coat. Two of our daughters and two our sons had inherited my reddish brown fur coat.
Greyson and I had been best friends since we were babies. Our parents had told us that when they adopted us we both cried when we were separated.
We'd been friends since we were infants basically. Our adoptive families decided to remain in close contact and we remained friends throughout our childhood and into our teen years.
Until the wolf thing happened. It happened to Greyson first. He told me that when it happened he'd thought he'd gone crazy.
I remembered those weeks very clearly. My best friend had disappeared without a single trace. He stopped going to school. He wouldn't answer my phone calls or text messages. His parents were frantic. The police had no leads.
Then one day his parents called to tell me that he'd come home. He was okay but he refused to talk to them. I tried calling him but he refused to answer my calls and my text messages went ignored. Even when I went to talk to him he refused to come out and see me. His mother would turn me away at the door.
It wasn't until a few weeks later that I found exactly what happened to him and that was because it happened to me also. I got into a huge argument with one of my teachers and stormed out of the classroom and ditched school. Something I never did before. My body shook with anger. My body temperature rising.
I'd been having mood swings for several weeks already. There were other changes in my body that I'd noticed to. I was growing taller faster than I'd ever had before. I was gaining muscle although I never exercised out of P.E class, my body temperature was steadily rising as if I had a fever that was getting worse by the day. Then there were the fits of anger.
It all had reached a boiling point that day. Then I exploded and landed on all fours. I looked down and freaked out when I saw that I had reddish brown paws. Then I heard Greyson's voice inside of my head.
That was the day that I learned werewolves existed and somehow Greyson and I were wolves. That was also the day that our relationship changed drastically and completely turned upside down.
I hadn't seen him since before he disappeared. When we locked eyes everything changed. Everything that had made me who I was completely unraveled in that moment. Everything that tied me to the Earth became undone in that moment. Everything that was important to me became secondary. It was as if all the strings that tied me down were snipped away. Snip. Snip. Snip. But I was not left floating. No. On the contrary it felt as though a million steel cables were tying me to one thing and one thing only. Greyson.
I quickly learned that whatever phenomenon had just happened to me also happened to him as well. Only he said it was me tying him to the planet rather than the other way around.
Before long the pack grew. In the weeks that would come we were joined by Delilah, Edgar, Jeremy, Diego, and Henry. Literally the only thing that we had in common is that we'd all been adopted. We'd crossed paths with them over the years but never really interacted with one another until now.
We've figured out a few things on our own. Our pack was like a real pack of normal wolves. Greyson and I were the alpha couple. Co-alphas. We both held absolute control of our pack. We discovered pretty early on that a direct order from either one of us could not be ignored. Greyson and I also learned that we could not order each other around in the same way. Perhaps it was because we were equals. Co-alphas. Mates.
We didn't even give much thought to what we were doing the night we mated. Apparently being a female wolf meant going into season like a normal female wolf. Greyson and I didn't fight our instincts that propelled us to breed that night and for the next several nights thereafter.
A few weeks later we discovered that I was pregnant. My parents were so disappointed in me that they kicked me out the second I told them the truth.
Greyson didn't think twice about leaving his family behind when they voiced their disapproval of the entire situation. We stayed close to home in our wolf forms. The rest of the pack were more than happy to spend most of their time with us. Oddly enough they loved being wolves.
We just wished that we knew why we were, what was it? Werewolves I guess? How did we become werewolves? Were we bitten at some point in our lives? None of this made any sense.
We didn't even know where we would begin to search for answers. I shoved those thoughts out of my head for now though. Right now what mattered most was caring for my babies. I watched them happily as they drank my milk.