The Wolf, Tiger, and Wolf pup

Prologue

Antony had been waiting an hour and a half in the sitting room with his two-year-old son, waiting for Dr. Mark to finish examining his wife. Lula had been sick for a few months; she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago, and it had spread so far that it was almost incurable.

The grey wolf put his paws to his eyes and tried as much as he could hold his tears back, not letting his wife see him in that state; she always loved him the most when he was happy and accepted him for who he was.

Antony was a grey wolf born in a country named Esperanza, and he had grown up on a farm with his older brother Adam and two parents. His father was a native of Ezperanza and had spent most of his life there. His mother, however, was from another country named Thames, and since English was her first language, she taught her boys to speak it as their second language.

Lula was from a mild, weathered country called Wexel, and her mother primarily raised her in a small town in the middle of the countryside. The blonde-colored wolf loved to draw; she loved drawing the trees and flowers when outside.

The two wolves met a few years ago on a train where Antony was sitting next to her in one of the coaches; he had gotten into a fistfight earlier that day and had a couple of bruises on his arms and a black eye.

The young female wolf is in her usual odd self, saying to the grey wolf, "I like your patch; you look so adorable!."

Antony was surprised she was talking to him, as most people and animals would try so desperately hard not to interact with him.

He looked terrifying to most people even though he attempted to act polite and kind around them. "Um... thank you?" he replied awkwardly.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was thinking out loud... God, I'm such an idiot," she muttered.

"It's okay. I appreciate the compliment; I only wish I had a patch like this".

Oh, were you in a fight just now? Dam it, sorry, I was thinking aloud again; it's a habit of mine where I say what I think, embarrassing, I know".

"I've seen weirder people, so you're not the only one, Senora," said Antony.

The female wolf blushed bashfully, and the two kept talking about what they did and wanted out of life.

When the train stopped at the station, Antony wanted to chat with her a lot more since she seemed like a fascinating mammal to talk to, "Hey, um, this may seem like a weird thing to ask, but could we meet again sometime maybe around the park if you'd like?".

To his surprise, she agreed, and the two took the plane to meet in the city park each day around 5:30, where they sat down and talked about their day and what they did in their lives.

As the days went by, they began to know a lot about each other; Antony found that Lula worked as a receptionist in a hospital and liked to draw, and Lula found that Antony worked as a waiter in a food bar and had to deal with a lot of rowdy customers on nights hence the black eye he had that day.

He also liked to write in his spare time, and he loved writing adventure stories about people and animals overcoming their struggles and defeating the evil that disguised itself.

Days soon turned to weeks, and weeks turned into months as the two wolves began to date a lot more often and were at the point where they were considered a couple.

Antony looked back and remembered how he proposed to her with the two of them lying together near a river on a cloudy day, and the grey wolf had to take on multiple jobs to buy two rings that looked fit for the both of them and wanted to find the right time to do so.