Chapter19
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An hour later we were all back at the B&B. Lena was wearing some scrubs, that were stored at the clinic, and we were all sitting at the kitchen table drinking tea. That is, off course, the most normal thing you do after finding out that werewolf’s exist and you are the only human in the entire town. I let out a loud and deep breath, then turn to Lena.
“Ok, I get the part that werewolf’s exist. As crazy as it sounds to me, I kinda believe you…“, I say rubbing my temples. “But explain to me one thing, please. I literally operated on you a couple of hours ago, you shouldn’t be walking, standing, laughing and all. How are you ok?!“, with every word that flies out of my mouth, my voice becomes more shaky and my eyes widen.
Lena throws me a wicked side glance and continues sipping her tea. It’s Jonathan that speaks up, his hand squeezes my shoulder reassuringly.
“You see, kiddo, since we are like supernatural creatures, we have different abilities, like fast healing. You were too consumed with the stitching and cutting to notice, that the moment we took that stick out of Lena, she already began healing. But if you didn’t do what you did with all the patching up, she would heal slower and could even die of blood loss.” His voice was soft, he was trying to keep me calm, and don’t get me wrong, I’m eternally grateful for this, because my sanity was under a big question mark. The next one to speak was Shirley.
“You know, dear, since you already know about the whole wolf thing, you can ask questions to understand everything better. Do you want to ask anything?“, she was gently stroking my knee while she spoke. It was a pleasant feeling, but at the same time this attention made me feel slightly uncomfortable, as if they thought, that I would set my head on fire and start running around the kitchen screaming bloody murder. I took another deep breath and tried to pull my brains together. “Ok…“, I said far from being sure of what to ask. I took another minute to think about what to ask, but I had so many uncertainties, that I didn’t know where to start. And having three werewolf’s burning holes in you doesn’t really help. “Ugh!” I exclaimed exhausted and put my head in my hands. “I feel stupid, I don’t know what to ask…“, I mumbled, still hiding my face in my hands.
“Maybe we should just start talking, and if you have questions, you can interrupt and ask, does this work for you, kiddo?“, asked Jonathan.
“I guess…“, I said slowly raising my eyes to him.
“Ok, here goes nothing…“, he sighed and began spilling all the beans.
During the next two hours or so they were telling me everything, and I mean – EVERYTHING. I found out that werewolf’s, just like ordinary wolf’s live in packs, they have Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Lunas, mates, everything as in the movies. The name of this pack was The Ember pack. I found out,
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that Jonathan used to be the Alpha and Shirley the Luna, but they retired and now Jonathan is one of the elders, that are basically like the mediators, that help to resolve different situations, where Alpha is uncertain or anything. Shirley on the other side dedicated her free time to kids – she runs the day care. Now their oldest son, Nathan, is the Alpha, his mate is the Luna. Lena is one of the warriors and she is also their niece, that’s why they are so close. I also found out about rogues, which were the reason Lena got hurt in the first place. As they told me, rogues were wolfs that didn’t belong to any pack due to different reasons, they can be good or bad, some even crazy. This time a couple of the crazy rogues have wondered into the pack territory and Lena with her partner Max had to fight them off. Max was another warrior.
The thing about the town that I found out was pretty interesting. Apparently Pine Hills was not on the map and it was a wonder how I ended up here. We figured that I must have taken a wrong turn
somewhere along the way, that’s why everyone was so surprised, that I showed up. If I were a wolf, I would have to go to an Alpha to ask for permission to stay, but since I am human and everyone could smell it, no one said a word, hoping I would soon leave. The moment Doc Evans gave me the job, he called Jonathan and Jonathan than talked to his son and warned about my staying. Eventually I would have to meet the Alpha, since now I am informed about the existence of
werewolf’s and get acquainted with the pack, it would be safer for me and made everyone get used
to my presence. We decided to meet the Alpha soon.
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