All The Pretty Wolves book one / The Truth Within Me Series

That was fun why it lasted

Chapter three

Nikki

So I am having so much fun. I can't believe It's two years already. The mansion we got is so f*****g big it's a two-story old Victorian. The outside is white with tan trimming. The interior has wooden floors, and the walls are all silver, but my suite, I made it black and crimson; mom had fit about it in the being, but she ended up letting me, anyhow. We all so have a cinema room and a game room full of everything you could ever need. Outside has a big ass swimming pool and a hot tub, but I love the fact that the most magnificent woods surround us; there is so much wildlife here, and it's just so quiet to top it off. Also, there is a wild pack wolf of the animal kind I think any always and believe so because they follow me everywhere; it is kind of cute. But a pain in the ass when I struggle to practice my stealth and invisibility because they give me away because they're out in the open, pointing an arrow right at me.

The alpha has taken a liking to me as well; he is my current best buddy. I still have not told mom about them. Yet, I don't want to leave here and not come back, but there is something about him I can't explain the connection between us; it's like he's here with me. I call him Foster; why I call him that I really don't have any idea; it just came to me one day out of nowhere, just like how I know that it means forest guardian in Latin. He responds to it every time I call out for him, so I just work with it.

Mom has been excellent except the one time we got into an argument over Muay Thai classes we started two months ago. I still felt like was going to die; everything hurts, even in places I did not even know existed, so two weeks after we started the classes, I asked mom why I can't I heal and not have to do this s**t; she got pissed at me and yelled at me for the first year and said you well get used to. It would be best if you learned how to endurance pain. But At that moment, my vision went black, and the pounding in my ears got so deafening I could not hear her anymore. The next thing I recognized is that I accidentally shifted into my wolf. M was pissed that mom frightened me, so she took over, which provoked her and mom to fight that turn into a bloodbath from hell I had no control over. But the experience on her face when M attacked her was hilarious; her eyes went big and had an ow s**t look on her face as her instincts kicked, and as the realization of what happened and the situation at hand hit. Still, by then, it was too late M was already on her. There wasn't a dame thing we could do about it. Once everything was said and done, me and mom both sported some cuts and bruises, but everything worked out; mom apologized, and we talked it out.

She is even teaching me to drive my new car. I got a black G T E mustang with chrome rims and badass sound systems, and dark tinted windows. What makes it so f*****g cool is that mom put some magic voodoo on it to be the safest car in the world. On top of that, I can outrun anything; there is also a shield on it so that I could even get shot by a tank. Again, it won't do a dame thing to the car or me as long as I am in the car, anyway; she also got me a custom Harley, but I still have to learn to ride it. Mom, as so set up my bank account. So I have a shitload of money and don't have to be worried about anything; mom also helped me get my G.E.D. so I can go to college as well, which we are currently talking about outside by the pool.

I need to tell you something, Nikki. What mom, you are acting like the worlds going to end or something. I have to leave for a while, and I don't know when I'll be back; it's not safe for us to be together right now; some people still remember and want to use you to hurt our family and me. You're leaving already. I just got you back, mom; why are you doing this? Did I do something wrong or what? No, Nikki, It's not that at all, and if I could, I'd stay with you. I told you it's not safe, and I can't let them know you're alive yet, my sweet girl. Please don't leave me, mom. I'll do anything you want.

Nikki, your perfect just the way you are; never change on the inside. Do you hear me? All you need to do is remember what I told you about staying home on the full moon and don't let anyone know where you live, OK. Promise me you will keep going to your class and keep practicing muay Thai OK, love. I promise mom; I love you, and I really want you to stay, but I understand.

As I watch her get up and walk to me, it feels like someone is ripping my heart out. I can feel my breathing getting Hafer and the being on unshaded tears in my eyes even as she hugs me. I know I am all alone, and nothing is going to change that. Mom whisper in my ear I love you, Nikki, and I will be back. I smile as I fight to keep my s**t together long enough for her to leave. Then she was gone just like that. She has once again walked out of my life as if it nothing to her at all. Then I fall apart, the tears fall, and my lungs stop working as my version leaves me in the dark, and my body shakes so hard I feel like my teeth will break. I don't really know how long I laid there before I finally can get up, but once I did, I decide never to open my heart up to anyone else again. I know that nothing in me is worth loving, so why open myself up again just to be broken all over.

One year later.

I have my first job interview in a few minutes, and I am so nervous it unreal; I can feel the little quivers running through my body as I try to talk myself into going through with this. I mean, it's not like I have to have it, but I am bored at home all the time and want something to do because school was not for me.

I dropped out six months ago when some weird guy started following me; after that, I had to move to a new town and got a new life. This guy was ever where I would go. I did not feel safe even in my own home; it got so bad I was so scared even to sleep. I even find a beautiful little place in the woods so Foster and his pack could come and see me, so anyway, now I am standing outside of a bar called the hole in the wall waiting for the owner to let me in.

I hope they hire me; I think to myself when a little man comes to the door. It's hard not to laugh. I know it's wrong, but what the f**k? He is like 3 feet tall and has pointy ears with a shitload of earrings on each ear and a rainbow mohawk. To top it all off, he is wearing some medieval-looking s**t that I don't even know where to start with. The tiny man smiles at me and says, will at less, you're a pretty wolf. What? How do you know what I am? I ask him? I think, Oh s**t, what the f**k I am going to do when he says. Child, I can smell you, and don't get in a tizzy. You're still a kid to someone like me.

OK, but you don't look much older than me, and I thought humans could not smell wolves. I say on a heavy sigh. Uh, so are you stupid, or are you a lone wolf, and nobody ever told you about the sup world? I look at this man like he f*****g crazy and ask. What's a sup world? Well, that answers that come on Little wolf you got the job, but I will tell you this: if you can't keep up, your out, he finally says. Thank you so much. I'll do my best not to disappoint you. What's your name? I am Nikki. You can call me Mac now come on so I can show you around.

The first month goes by fast as I try to learn all the mixed drinks and not break every bottle I touch, and why I am still I don't know being a bartender is not easy, and I think I owe more money to Mac than anything, for the life of me, I don't know why he keeps me around.

I know more about sups and the world I live in scenes I have been working like Mac is a leprechaun, and Lee is a vampire. The only kind of customs that come in are sup's, so I learned a lot from them and Lee. It took me a while to start to trust them, and I still have my moments where I doubt them. Still, they have a way of reminding me of who there are, like the way Mac reminds me of my dad, always making me laugh or coming to save the day as to where Lee is the big brother I never had but always wanted, or how May has helped me with the whole wolf thing; she is all so like a sister to me. I don't think there's anything they would not do for me or me for them. Honesty, I fit in perfectly here as a 6 "2 purple-hair blue-eyed girl with magic trial tattoos that just showed up last week for no reason at all. Lee is no better; he's 6," 11 and covered in tattoos and has piercings ever where you could think of with long black hair. May is the other bartender; she is little but dynamite at 5 "2 with blond hair and blue-green eyes and an alpha wolf.