Untamed (Editing)

Chapter Two

A brother? Me? An older brother? Or younger? I'm guessing older. I stared at ground trying to process that I had another family member out there that was blood related to me, and he was here.

"After all this explaining how my life came to be, you forgot to mention that I had a brother?!" I accused my mom as I jumped down from the bed I was on and paced around the room.

I stumbled a little but caught myself with the bed before my mom could place her hands on my me. I guess I was so used to being on all fours that, I forgot what walking felt like. It was strange.

"I'm sorry, you just found out about your dad, I didn't know if it was a good time to mention your brother." My mom said as she watched me biting her nails nervously.

I groaned in frustration. What has my life become? All these secrets..I felt like I was going to cry again. I just felt so..lost? Even if I was back as a human and with my mom, this was all new to me. Half of my life has been hidden from me.

"Is there more you wanna tell me?" I said giving my mom a pointed look.

"Uh..your brother is part of this pack..?" She whispered quietly.

That made me stop pacing. "What?" I asked my mom looking right at her. I knew he was here, my mom even said it. But I was not expecting him being apart of Mason's pack.

"Maya, I can sense your anxiety across the room you need to calm down. Strong emotions are one way to trigger your wolf." My mom frowned as she watched me.

I tried to breathe in and out through my nose. I really did not want to go back to being my wolf right now. But my heart was still beating quickly.

"My brother is apart of this pack?" I asked quietly. The word brother was strange on my tongue. I'm so used to being the only child.

"Yes...he left with your dad when we separated. He was born with the werewolf gene. So, he had to go with your dad because it was better for him. He was only four years old." My mom looked down at the ground with a sad smile. "Broke my heart."

I couldn't watch my mom because I felt so angry at her for not telling me all this before. But also felt bad because she sacrificed the love of her life, and a son to protect me. Even though my mom never said it, I knew that whoever my dad was, that was it for her. Because she never dated anyone or even tried to get remarried as I was growing up.

"Wolf gene, how did you know he had it and I didn't?" I said with a loud sigh hearing this again.

"When children are born within a pack, they take small amounts of blood to test because like I said there are rare occasions where kids are born without the wolf gene." She said as she sighed. "That's what happened to you."

"And what happens to them? Those kids who aren't lucky enough to be born with that gene." I said suddenly afraid. I should of asked this earlier.

Even though my mom said I was taken away from my dad to protect me, what about the kids who had no threat to be protected from? They were just unlucky.

My mom frowned, "I don't know. I've heard different things from different packs. Some of them stay...some of them don't."

I gulped, not fully understanding what that meant but I knew the possibility of what that could of meant. I decided to go back to the main topic, I did not want to think of the poor kids who were born like me and got a much deadlier fate than I had.

"If my brother left with my- our father. So why is he here in this pack?" I asked another question.

"He told me that he wanted to leave when he became 18. In a pack, once you turn 18 you are able to choose to stay in the pack you were born in or find a new one. It's not common, but some do still do it. So he left and found Mason's pack. His mate is here." She whispered with a small smile on her face.