Claws Against Petals✓

19•|Sprint

Grayson's POV:

"You...knew my mother? A pack...you once told me when we first met that I should go back to my pack. Silver Crest, is that a pack where you and my mother belonged? How? I thought you hated them- you even tried to kill me!"

She began to raise her voice, clenching my teeth, I restarted the car and began to drive off. Though Orchid wasn't acting as calm as I would've hoped, how could she when she's been left in the dark?

"I know what I almost did...I've already apologized for my actions. From the very start, when I first met you, I hated your scent...I still do-"

"You hate the way I smell....yet you are no better-"

"Tell me...what has your father told you about your mother?"

"Huh? Not much...only that...she passed away after giving birth to me. And that she was a little older than him-"

"He knows how to drag out the truth...so basically, he hasn't told you anything. Do you know where your mother was born, and where she grew up? Have you ever even met your grandparents-"

"Yes, I have, though they both passed away when I was in middle school-"

I'm not talking about your father's parents, I mean your mother's."

After asking that, she stayed quiet as I looked over at her to see that she had gone back to looking at the photo. She has no clue about who her mother was. But what I still don't understand, is why Natalie chose to be with a human. She knows the consequences... unless the head alpha chooses to let her go? No, that makes no sense...not even her father would break the rules for his own family. It makes sense if Orchid's mother died giving birth, but Orchid should have died as well- wait!

"That scar on your chest, when did you get your heart transplant?"

"Why do you wanna know?"

She coldly asked before putting the picture back in her pocket.

"Because I'm trying to understand-"

"Understand? What are you trying to understand!? Is there a point in even knowing? You keep asking me questions about my family and me. But I know nothing about you...you said you knew my mother. How could you when this picture was taken twenty-four years ago? Just how old were you- hang on, Marissa mentioned before that you guys can live longer than humans. So just how old are you-"

"That's none of your business-"

"Fuck you, it's none of my business? All you've been doing this whole car ride is getting into my personal life! No, you're gonna tell me what you know about my mother and how old you are!"

She demanded this was a first for me where a woman was telling me what to do. I couldn't help but laugh at the audacity of this little girl. But my reaction only set her off more as she became angrier! It was irritating to me, but I am the one that brought up her mother. However...

"You're asking a stranger to tell you about your mother. Yet you can't ask the one person who truly knew about her, your father-"

"I can no longer trust my father...he refuses to tell me anything. And I don't know why. And you aren't some stranger...you've told me more about her than my father has. Despite what we've gone through, you saved my life not once, but twice already. Grayson, I know nothing about you other than you being a wolf. You always look like you want to be left alone, and after Joanna brought me back to her home...you seem as though you keep yourself isolated from the others. Do any of them even know you once belonged to Silver Crest-"

"My life is of no one's concern, my father....who took me into his pack. Is the only one who truly knows about me...and I ask that you keep that secret from the others. I chose to leave Silver Crest..."