A Wolf's Tale

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Hey guys, I am soooo sorry for the absence!! Anatomy is killing me and I've been studying nonstop 🙄 I also apologize for the short chapter, I've also been working on a concept for another book so stay tuned for that 😉! Happy reading!!!

"Wait so, let me get this straight... you hunted Keith down, killed him, and took his abilities?" Kooper asks.

"Exactly, now I can heal faster, possess people, resurrect werewolves, hear thoughts, and even use mind control- to a point of course."

"Sounds really cool and all but wasn't that power was supposed to go to you?" He asks, pointing to Kyle.

"It was my decision, in the event that something happen to me, Jake can lead the pack, I trust him and so should you."

"I have a hard time trusting a person who knocks up my sister while they were both drunk and then nearly kills himself after her death... while he is in a new relationship!"

"Maybe this isn't the time to do this, we should be celebrating." Kooper pipes sheepishly.

Kylie and Kyle look at Kooper and rise from the couch. Kylie eyes me on her way into the other room, she flips me off before completely leaving the room.

"Love you too Kylie."

She spins on the balls of her heels and looks at me with her golden eyes exposed. Kyle brushes her arm to keep walking into another room. I allow a low growl to vibrate off of my lips. Their voices quickly bounce off of the walls as their conversation resumes abruptly.

"Call this water under the bridge considering you have done worse and get over it, what is done is done. I trust he will find these new abilities a gift."

"A gift? Kyle, this is one of the dumbest things you could've possibly done! He is a grenade, he is not cut out for this."

"Who are you to decide who is and is not cut out for this? I am the Alpha werewolf, you run your pack and I will run mine- do you understand me? I have faith in him and so should you, I mean seriously Ky, you haven't even given him a chance."

"Why should I? He's nothing but a fuckboy and you should've let him kill himself. He will be a deadbeat father if Kendall even keeps the kid and he doesn't even listen to you! I don't understand how you can have stand here and tell me to have faith in him! He's a toxic asshole and I won't watch him drag you down."

"Get out of my fucking house and don't come back until you trust me!" Kyle screams.

Kylie slams the door behind herself, leaving Kooper and I in silence. Kyle begins to throw a fit in the entryway. I walk into the room to see Kyle throwing bills and throwing a lamp across the room. I stand in the doorway to wait for him to stop.

"She's right, you know. After everything I've done, I don't know how you have so much faith in me."

"You saved my life, I mean, if Keith would have killed you... Keith would have killed me without a second thought. He almost has before."

"He wouldn't have killed you, it was me he wanted." I reply.

Kyle pauses and grits his teeth. He runs his hands through his hair and takes a sharp breath.

"My scar everyone says looks like a mushroom- that's from a wolvesbane bullet to the lung made by Keith. The scar on Kylie's throat was from Keith's claws. All of this happened within the time you first pissed him off to now." He pauses once more and picks up a few bills he had tossed to the floor. "Letting you kill him was my idea and for that you have saved my life. That's why I trust you, you have always been there for me through all of Keith's bullshit."

"You'd better find Kylie."

I walk up the stairs and down the hallway. I can't believe this happened. Thank God Keith is dead but man, I can only imagine what Kyle is going through.

"Jake, just the guy I want to see, can we talk in your room for a sec?" Megan asks as she walks out of her room across the hall from mine.

She opens her bedroom door and motion me to walk in. I cautiously do so and sit on the edge of her bed.

"What's up, Meg?"

"First of all, I know it wasn't your fault that this happened. But I'm stuck Jake, the urge to kill is getting stronger this way but if I changed back to human, I'm nothing."  She explains.

I sit down next to her and sigh.

"You were never nothing, I promise you that. Honestly changing back is up to you. If you want to stay this way, that's fine. If not, there are cures."

She sighs back and slightly nods. Her best bet at a cure is Sabrina the Teenage Wiccan Vampire. She'd probably help her for the low price of my heart on a platter.

If she stays this way and kills something during her first full moon, she's stuck this way. Of course, she knows all of this because she was there when it happened to Sierra.

She needs to decide soon or the animal will make her feed.

"I don't know how you deal with this gut wrenching hunger but oh my God!" Meg exclaims.

"Hold that thought." I walk to my room, lean forward, into my mini fridge and finally found a blood bag I stashed, and take it to Meg's room.

"You need to choose, werewolf or human. Your inner wolf is hungry. The hunger will get stronger and more painful until you decide. If you decide to change back, talk to Sabrina."

"Thanks Jake, I appreciate it."

I walk out of Megan's room and nod. I walk to my room and slump onto my bed. I lay on my back and stare at the ceiling.