☽ Howl ☾ [ SOLBY AU ] ✔

☽ 21 ☾

Author's Note:

Little filler chapter, but necessary plot development for the Trap House pack! MORE SLOW BURN!!! Muahahahahha!

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After returning back to Luna's cottage and shifting back to their human forms, Colby discovered, to his horror, that the Change did not return their clothes, but thankfully Luna gave them all extra sweatpants and shirts. Colby shoved the question of why she had the male clothes to the side and why she didn't tell them about this discovery, as Colby didn't really care or want to know the answer to them.

It was an awkward moment in the basement of the cottage with six male werewolves sitting down with their legs and arms tightly held to the lower sections of the bodies, freezing their asses off, while they waited for Luna and a chortling Axelle to return with some clothes. Colby tried to ignore the fact that everyone around him was naked (especially Sam) and the fact that Corey and Elton seemed to be eyeing each other and moving closer. Thankfully, Luna and Axelle came back with an armful of clothes quickly before anything escalated between the Omega and the Beta.

The Change back to their human forms was surprisingly a lot less painful than the first turn. Bones still snapped and realigned themselves, but for Colby there was no running through the darkness in his mind. Luna said that was to be expected and that, with time and practice, the Change would seem like nothing; that Colby and his pack would soon find themselves morphing into their wolf forms with ease any time they could.

After a few more awkward moments of the pack getting changed and a few of them seeing pieces of their naked asses that they didn't particularly want to see (Colby mainly blamed Jake for that), the Alpha motioned for his pack to leave, to return to his car, but he stayed behind for a second with Axelle to talk with Luna. He had to tell of the events that happened in the woods. Anger was still coursing through his veins at Axelle, a confused anger that he wanted resolved.

"I'm sorry, Alpha Colby-," Axelle tried to speak, her glassy eyes pleading him.

Luna's eyebrows furrowed together in confusion behind her and glanced at the tall brunette Alpha in front of her, raising an eyebrow.

Colby sighed and ignored the small blonde girl. He had no idea what her mission was with Lucian, but he was losing trust in her now. He turned to look at Luna, "We had an incident in the woods, Luna."

"What happened?" she spoke with genuine worry.

"Lucian found us," Colby continued, "And he invited my pack to the Blood Moon Festival next month. But, your sister here," Colby motioned toward her and the small blonde girl crawled into herself a bit, "Spoke to him."

Luna turned to Axelle, "What did he say, my sister?"

Axelle kept her head down as she spoke, "He wanted to know who they were, my sister. I only said that he was an Alpha and this was his pack. That was all, I swear."

Luna placed a hand on her sister's shoulder, "I believe you, my sister-."

"Woah, woah, woah," Colby interrupted them, "We just fucking met Lucian and you're sister fucking spoke to him, which means she's part of his pack? And you're all like this?"

Luna gave him a slight pointed glare, not quite appreciating his angry Kansas tone, "You knew you were going to meet him eventually. You're time has come. Go to the Blood Moon Feast. Find out what he wants from you. Lucian always has another motive."

"No!" Colby yelled, "No! I'm not doing that! I need to protect my pack. I can't just walk us all in there! And you didn't explain why Axelle is part of Lucian's pack!"