"Take a walk with me, please?" I say to Taylor and hold my hand out to her, she takes it and we walk toward the nature trail together.
I Know these woods inside out, wolf boys have a lot of energy that need to be expelled from their bodies. When women weren't enough to purge the energy, we run, and these woods became our playground. Besides finding their mates the next best things to a wolf are hunting, and never-ending, uninterrupted running.
The river that runs through our pack lands in Walnut Creek and flows into the great Snake River, our elders believe its hold's mystical powers of healings. The younger folks like myself do not believe in all these oldwives tales and fables, its all just mumble jumble to me.
According to my grandfather the river mysteriously originated on our pack's land centuries ago. Our people gave it the moniker 'the riverhead" and so our pack name was derived from the ancient mystery.
"Did I scare you, earlier?" I say breaking the silence between us.
"In a weird way, no I wasn't. It was frightening but I wasn't scared of you" she says but doesn't look
"Good, because I would never hurt you, do you understand?" I say to her.
I stopped walking, held her face between my palms, and I look into her eyes. She holds my stare but doesn't respond.
"Taylor, do you trust me?" she closes her eyes, briefly then she looks at me, her eyes full of uncertainty.
"I don't know, Noah, I don't know who I can trust to be honest, but I do feel unexplainably safe around you and I don't know if its trust or stupidity. I feel things inside that I can't explain because I have never felt them for before and I can't make sense of any of it. It's like you have cracked the code to another level of emotions that I didn't even know was there. It' different and its good but it's scares me because I don't understand what is going on" Her eyes are watery I don't want her to cry.
"You will understand soon, I promise" I say then pull her into my arms and kiss her forehead.
I understand why she feels the way she does, this must all feel like being swept up into a whirlwind. Being born a wolf, this is life, this is what normal is, now I must bring her into my world gradually. This is going to take time for her to conceptualize all of this and make sense of it all. Slow and steady, I am never going to rush anything with her, I will give her the time that she needs.
"It's the bond that we share" I say, she takes her eyes off the trail and look over at me with a puzzled look on her face.
"What bond we met a couple days ago, normal people do not form bonds so quickly. Plus, the first time I met you I didn't even think you liked me. You just kind of handed me my bag and walked away like you couldn't stand the sight of me."
When the words left her mouth, I turned to look at her, I literally couldn't believe that was what she thought. I paused walking again, held her hand and turn her around to look at me.
"The first time I met you I thought you, where the most beautiful woman I ever laid eyes on, I still do. You were so tempting and I knew that I had to take things a little slower than is traditional in my situation. My wol..."
I paused, then continue speaking, I didn't want to say the wrong thing.
"My inner self wanted to hold you and never let you go from the moment I saw you, but I couldn't".
She regards me carefully then say,
"Your inner self? do you have split personalities, are you like a psycho."?
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The Luna Legacy - Genesis
WerewolfHarvard Law student McKenzie Rosinsky ran away from home taking her little sister and their nephew. In a desperate attempt to save her nephew from growing up with his abusive drug dealing Father Giorgio, they take on new identities and move to the s...
