Orphaned Twin

13 Years Later - Lexi POV

Tomorrow is my birthday I turn eighteen and get my wolf. I’m ready to meet my wolf, I’m hoping getting my wolf will fill the void I’ve had for such a long time, I miss my parents I do, I don’t overly remember what happened that day but I remember the pain I felt, I remember that feeling of loss, loneliness and confusion. Most of all I remember the hurt of losing my twin, my Arlo, the explosion of pain from my heart that ripped through my body is not a pain that is easily forgotten. To make it worse since turning sixteen I have a dreams of Arlo as if he is here as if he is suffering and he is in pain I try to reach for him but I can never get to him in time before I wake. My therapist tells me it’s my body coping with the trauma but it feels so real.

After the attack and the meetings with the other alphas it was agreed to search for Arlo as his body was never found, they wanted to believe he was still alive, a few years went by there were attacks made on vampire colonies that had rouge wolves living amongst them, as the day my parents and brother died there was a mixture of vampire and werewolves and they were working together. Vampires and wolves do not socialise together, let alone share pack and colonies together, vampires keep to themselves and the werewolves do the same, vampires and werewolves do not attack each other we just simply stay out of each others way. Only the rouges and rouge vampires seem to have started to pair up, some colonies they went to attack have not tried fighting back they are just rouges trying to live their lives and survive, some fought back and lost but Arlo was never found. I would often be asked if I could feel Arlo which I couldn’t but I always had the pain of what I felt the dreadful day in my veins although as time went on it’s was less of pain but more just a dull ache. The Alphas called off the searches for Arlo as there was no more colonies to attack and the fact I could not feel him meant he was no longer with us.

Uncle Damien and Aunt Elaine have always been so kind, they took me in and have loved me as their own ever since the accident with no hesitation. Tyler is only six months younger than me and we are really close, he’s strong like his father and will be a great beta one day. Logan being the youngest does like to push the boundaries he’s a-bit of a trickster and although gets into a lot of trouble he does lighten the mood. We live in the pack house, it’s a six storey building the sixth floor being the alphas penthouse, that’s where I lived with my parents, you walk through the front door into the living room which is open planned to a kitchen and dining area, to the left there is a hallway with three rooms, a guest room Arlo’s room and my room, on the other side of the room is the alphas bedroom, the biggest bedroom. The fifth floor is the Betas apartment, I lived here with them since the day of the accident until I turned seventeen, when I turned seventeen I moved up to the alphas penthouse after a lot of begging on my part to uncle Damien, the fifth floor being the same lay out as the alphas penthouse.

The fourth floor again the same layout but the Gammer Stephen lives here with his mate, they never had children although they desperately wanted children for them it unfortunately was just not to be, Stephens mate Anita had complications when she was younger and had to have a hysterectomy at the age of twenty six due to cancer, if it was not removed she would have lost her life, at the time her and Stephen had not met, so did not know they were fated mates. They met when Stephen was travelling around my dads hotels doing checks, Anita had gone on a girls holiday and they have not left each other side since. Anita came from the Luna eclipse pack which is about a seven hour drive from here. They met when Stephen was thirty and Anita was twenty nine. Anita told Stephen straight away about not being able to have children but Stephen was happy to have finally found his fated mate nothing could stop the love he had for her. They looked after boys and myself a lot though as beta Damien and Gammer Stephen took over pack duties and dads hotel business after my father passed, we were just one big family really. The third and second floor are smaller rooms for single or newly mated pack members one bedroom apartments with kitchen and living areas each floor has five apartments. The ground floor has a main dining room where all pack can come to eat, however being such a large pack we don’t all eat here, there are seven other apartment blocks similar to ours but four storeys high which all have dining areas and can seat up to five hundred people. Also on the ground floor is a living area, which has pool tables, large TVs and basically a shared living area.

Suddenly I feel a hand grab my shoulder “alright Lex, where you been hiding?” a cheerful hyperactive tone “not hiding, just getting some peace” I say rolling my eyes “don’t be like that Lexi, I know you love me” Logan pulls up a chair next to me and places his plate full of shepherds pie with the gravy running over sides on the table “hungry” I say looking at him with my eyebrows raised “got to fill up, big day tomorrow it’s my favourite persons eighteenth birthday” with his words I feel my heart drop to the pit of my stomach.