Tyler
I followed Annabelle’s scent all f*****g night, I was relieved to not find anyone else’s scent along with hers as I continued to follow her. I was so pissed off as I paced through the woods looking for her, she wasn’t far in front of me now, she may be the more powerful one but I was by far faster. I tried to shift into my wolf and I was unable too.
Bryce spent the entire night trying to calm me down, it didn’t work. I spent my entire life protecting my sister and now she just takes off on me. I felt like I failed her, I couldn’t help but imagine what my father would think of me right now. I had one f*****g job, “Protect your sister” and I failed.
I was thinking back on our last day at the city, we woke up early as mom was preparing breakfast and dad was gone on patrol. We got the mind link,
“Everyone there has been a breach at the border. There is a large army coming in, we are outnumbered, all children and woman flee the area immediately. All men to the border, we are at war. It was my pleasure to be your king, my son Curtis will be taking over my thrown. To my family I love you, I am who I am cause of you, to my mate be strong love. Get our pups out of here, Tyler protect your sister by all means. Goodbye.”
Mom’s face dropped as she looked at me with pain, “Take Annabelle and go NOW!” She looked over at Curtis as I could see his aura change, he was already being fit for the king position, that only meant dad was dead. Mom was out the door faster then I could even notice. As she made her way to were my father was she mind linked us,
“I love you my pups, take care of each other. You heard your father now go NOW.”
I didn’t hesitate as me and Annabelle immediately ran to the tunnels along with my brothers, we ran as fast as we could without looking back. Once we reached the end, me and Annabelle didn’t stop we continued to run as fast as we could. My father had always planned an escape like this for us, he always knew this would happen someday. We ran all night and all day as I tried to remember where the cabin was, we came here once just me and him.
I remember when we walked in, he looked at me with tears in his eyes. I never saw my father cry before this day.
“Tyler this is yours and Annabelles safe house. Someday they will come for the both of you, your strong son, your sister may be powerful physically but mentally she’s not. She is so much like your mother, she will get what she wants if you let her, keep your stance son.”
As I reached the city wall, I felt my anger get worse. Even though I was excited to see my home, I had to push that at the back of my mind, as I seen Frank his smile immediately turned into fear as he noticed I was not happy to be here. I heard him radio in,
“My King and Betas, I have Tyler at the gate. He’s not as happy to be here as Annabelle is.”
He didn’t even wait for their approval as he opened the gate immediately,
“Good to see you Tyler, I believe they were making their way to the throne.”
I nodded as I made my way in without looking around, I had one thing on my mind and that was to get to Annabelle. As I walked up the stairs to the throne I smelt her scent as I continued to follow it, when I saw her I felt my wolf come to the surface,
“ANNABELLE!” I roared out so loudly I’m sure everyone in the city heard me.
I saw her jump back with so much fear in her eyes I thought she would break right there. I looked her over she was tiny little person I was always scared to break her when I got angry. I saw my three brothers back away against the wall as I made my way to her.
Annabelle was looking at me like I was the most terrifying monster she’s ever seen,
“Ty.. Ty… Tyler… your… eyes…” She whimpered out.
I couldn’t calm myself down, “MY EYES? What does that mean?”
She was shaking so much I don’t think she was able to speak as Curtis spoke up,
“Dude your eyes are blood red. You look like your turning into the f*****g devil man. You need to calm down.”
I walked over to the mirror as I looked at myself, my eyes were red like blood, I could see veins on my forehead swelling up. I looked terrifying, I heard Bryce whimper in my head,
“What the f**k man, I’ve never seen anyone do that.”
I shrugged, “My dad used to do it all the time when he would get really mad. But it barely happened since he had mom.”
I looked back at my siblings who were all eyeing me curiously, Timothy looked at me carefully as he walked over and gave me a hug,
“Its nice to see you brother, guess you got dad’s temper too.”
Everyone began to laugh as we all said hi and tried to catch up. As I looked over at Annabelle I noticed how happy and free she looked. She was laughing and chatting with everyone she looked much happier today then I’ve seen her in years.
I tried to let her have a bit of her moment before I went to ruin it for her. We all caught up, me and Annabelle didn’t have much to say since we’ve been isolated from literally everyone. Timothy found his mate, he traveled to several packs and didn’t come back home until he found her. Curtis laughed hysterically as he told stories of Timothy’s calls when he was gone.
They all thought he was nuts but he looked the happiest of them all. Curtis was busy running the city which came with several challenges from the sounds of it. And Franklin was Curtis’s right hand man, he worked more then anything, he was training warriors constantly.
Once everyone caught up, I gave Annabelle a dark look,
“This visit has been nice and all but you know we have to leave Annabelle you can’t stay here.”
She giggled and gave me an innocent smile, “I’m not going anywhere Tyler, I’m staying at home.”
I looked between my brothers who all looked quite uncomfortable at the moment. We all knew she couldn't stay here, she was trouble waiting to happen.
I got up and reached for her arm as I went to grab her I felt my body get extremely hot as I heard her cry out in pain. We must be shifting for the first time when I heard Bryce cry out,
"Don't let me shift! f**k don't let me Tyler."
I tried to calm myself down as I began to back away, I could see Annabelles body beginning to shape into a very large wolf, she was crying out so loudly I had to block my ears.
"What's going on? Why don't you want me to shift?"
I could feel Bryce was full of anxiety,
"When you touched her, her wolf spoke to me. Her wolf is Arthur!"