My boyfriend's brother

My boyfriend

The whole clan lives in the compound. Single wolves with no other family live in the main house with the alpha and their family. This is usually wolves who have sought refuge after being thrown out by other clans. My father always accepted them and never turned them away.  They can move out when they turn 18 and their wolves have awakened. They also move out when they find their mates and want to start a family. You have to ask the alpha to bless the pairing and ask permission to build a house on the land. The couple lives and grows there and they are happy and prosperous. There are only a couple of ways to leave the pack. one way is when the more dominant mate is in another pack. This can either be a male or a female. Another way is when you are thrown out of the pack but only a rare number of people survive this as it is rumoured to hurt like hell as you feel all the bond in the pack breaking away from you. It alters the person utterly and completely. We have a maximum of 2 strays even though the number accepted were much higher. It is also hard to be separated from your pack and prolonged time without will drive a person crazy. 

I know of one person who has survived being far away. 4 years and counting. He is fine from what he heard eavesdropping when my dad was talking to my mum about him. It was an accident and I don't really care about the news. oh sure, you don't a  voice in my head said. I ignored the voice and the relief I felt on hearing the news. If I thought about the feeling I felt and why I would hate myself.

I pull myself out of my thoughts and walk through the hallway to my bedroom for a shower. While I go upstairs, Michael follows while chewing on the toast. My steps in rhythm with the crunch and chewing. I am near my bedroom when I realise that the crunching behind has stopped. I turn around in concern but am surprised. My brother is there in a towel and Michael has a weird look on his face with his toast halfway to his mouth. They are both looking at each other.

“Michael” I called out, which brought him out of his stupor. He stumbles. Yes stumbles, it's like he is reluctantly coming towards me but keeps looking over his shoulder like he can’t help it. I don’t think he even realizes he is doing it. My brother was standing still while Michael walked away from him. His only reaction was that his eyes were glowing due. It was flashing amber which signalled that his wolf is closer to the surface. Before I could say anything, he walked into his room with a resounding thud of the door. 

It was like a spell had been released from Michael. He shakes his head and began to chew on his toast as nothing had happened, but I could see his hand shaking when he brings it to his mouth. He then enters my room and sits on my bed as nothing has happened. He grabs my book which was on my bedside table and began reading, daring me to ask him about it.

I take the quickest shower and wrap a towel around me and stand in front of a mirror. I liked my caramel skin which was blemish-free, a blessing to my wolfy genes as Hayden calls it. My hair was wavy like my mum.

“Are you done?” Michael complained impatiently, pulling me out, analyzing my appearance.

“Yeah” I shout back 

“Are you sure or do I need to grab you out of there”

I quickly apply some mascara and lip gloss and leave the bathroom before Michael can carry out his threat. You never knew with Michael. When I walked out of the bathroom, he was lying right in the same position where I left him.

I grabbed my towel and snapped at him. He didn't move but retaliated by throwing a pillow at me.

“Come on let's go,” I said 

“Oh impatient are we, its because prince charming is waiting for you ” Michael teased

He was talking about my boyfriend Kyle. Kyle was a wolf and is one of the betas of our pack. I knew him since we were kids. I don't know him very well. But on his 18th birthday, I went to his party and he came up to me and told me we were mates. I was confused, shocked and a little disappointed at first. I thought someone else would be my mate. I left the party telling him that I need some time to think and to not tell anyone yet.

But of course, by the time I came back to the house, everyone knew that he declared himself as my mate. My mum and dad were very happy as they like Kyle and he would be a good Second to Kyle. I think they were also happy that I would stay in the Pack and not move out like the rest. I was still uncertain and asked my mum about how she knew that dad was her mate. She said that when they met, she couldn't look away and her whole life arranged itself with my dad being the centre of it. 

I wanted that so much and I wanted to be needed like that by somebody. Maybe Kyle could be that person. He is very nice. So with the encouragement of him, my mum and dad, they said to give him a chance. So we started dating. I like him but I didn't feel the strong feeling that you're supposed to feel for your mate. Maybe I will when I'm 18, I reassured myself. Kyle has been a good boyfriend and there are worse people who can end up with me defending kyle to myself. He was a year older than me and had already graduated high school. He took a break from college as I was about to turn 18 soon and he wanted to be close to me. 

‘No shut up” I said 

“Oh so you don't want to meet him” Michael replied 

Michael didn't like him and I asked him about it once and he said that Kyle is a nice person but that he knew that I didn't love him and that he was not the one for me. He went on saying that there was one period of my life where I was shining and glowing and someone made me smile like the sun. He said that Kyle doesn't, make me smile like that and he wasn't my person. The person who made me smile was and that was who should be with. I was quiet and he left it at that.

“Come on stop overthink, let's go” I just rolled my eyes.

When we were ready, I meant kyle at the pack’s coffee shop. His eyes lit up when he saw me and gave me a kiss. I kissed him back. Just a quick peck on his lips. Michael rolled his eyes behind me. Kyle who was unaware of Michael behaviour smiled at me and asked me 

“How are you”

“Good” I replied

“He got closer to me and asked me “what are your plans after school”

I shrugged non-committedly.

“Okay let's meet up”

I said yes and I and Michael left after that.