Turning The Tides by Bugz Rox (macos ebook reader TXT) 📕

Take back control, He thought quietly. I looked at him, realising what I was doing and ran out the door, into the forest where I continued to run and run.

Liam

No one calls us a slut! Certainly not our father! We will not stand for it! Pluto threatened, her wolf was taking over. She was talking as two.

Take back control, William told her quietly. Pluto stopped suddenly and just bolted into the woods. By now I had stripped and shifted. William ran out, but before he could follow I blocked his path, two sandy wolves, a bright red one and a black one by my sides. Move!

No, she needs alone time, in ten minutes Brandon will go after her and help, I told him firmly, using the voice of a Beta. William grumbled but shifted back, running upstairs to grab yet another pair of my pants. I was going to be out of clothes by next week if this continues. Our ragtag wall split up and shifted, getting back into our pants.

"See? This is why she has those clothes and we dress like this, incase of something like that," I said as I walked over to my shaking father.

"What was wrong with her?" He asked in a whisper.

"You made her mad, mad enough for her to need time to herself. She knows what she would have done if it wasn't for William," I said gruffly, putting a hand on Brandon's shoulder to stop his pacing.

"What would she have done?" He asked, still whispering.

"What do you think her wolf wanted to do? He wanted to kill you, even if Pluto herself didn't. Her wolf took control, when she got it back she was just as mad at herself as at you," Brandon said from beside me.

"Why? What did I do?" He asked, back to his snarky self.

"You called her a slut! She hates the sluts more than you do! And you just compared her to them!" William yelled as he walked out of the house in trousers, nursing a long gash on his chest that was pouring blood. As he approached he uttered a curse loud enough for dad to hear.

"Well what do you think would come into my mind seeing her dressed like that on this teenage boy's lap, boys only have one thing on their mind," He said as William reached us.

"I don't agree with you there, mates have more than one thing on their mind, and I don't see you calling me or Liam a slut," He said, not even looking up from his chest. Calla rushed over, seeing the blood on her mate's chest, and started fussing over him.

"Mates?" He asked stupidly.

"Yeah, you know wolves have mates, they mate for life, a werewolf is always a man so they turn their mates. Brandon got the one female wolf as his mate, well the one we've heard of anyway. Charlie is mine, Lizzie is Sammy's, Calla is Will's, and Brandon is Pluto's," I said so they didn't end up killing each other, but now I was worked up and on a roll, "Pluto hasn't had a boyfriend since forever, literally. Brandon is her first boyfriend, her first kiss, and to be honest, the first time she met him, she asked if he was glaring at her because her balls were bigger than his. They were both ready to kill each other and now he's worried sick about her. Me personally, yes I am a player, but I'm also a virgin, as far as Pluto everyone of your children are virgins, except maybe Will. So don't be rude and dissing my sister or you'll get another angry wolf or like six angry wolves that want your blood spilled. My wolf doesn't like you yet I keep him from killing you, Pluto's wolf doesn't like you either, and he almost succeeded in killing you, lucky you, Will stopped him from doing so. He won't be able to stop that many wolves if his included wants you dead. Got it? Don't dis Pluto," I said.

"Has it been ten minutes? Can I go no?" Brandon asked, wiggling.

"Yeah, go find my sister and calm her down," I turned away and embraced Charlie, holding her close to calm my wolf.

"You okay?" She asked softly.

"I am now, I've been wanting to get that off my chest for a while, he's always so mean to her," I murmured into her hair.

"See? One of you is dissed the others come to the rescue," She said, I laughed, my chest shaking as I held her to me.

"I figured Pluto needed a rescue, her wolf did try to kill him," I said.

"You always say 'her wolf' or 'my wolf', do your wolves have names?" She asked me quietly.

"Yeah, but they're more animal so they like being called 'my wolf' or 'my friend'," I told her, my face burried in her hair.

"What's your wolf's name?" She asked looking up into my eyes.

"Heath," I said quietly, feeling the power of the name roll of my tongue, "They don't like it when we call them by their names because the name they're given at our birth has so much power over them, William doesn't know any of our pack's wolves' names because he left before Pluto made the pack."

"What's Pluto's?" She asked. I shook my head.

"Not my place to tell you, sorry. I would but I would get my ass kicked because he's not my wolf to tell. Actually he's no one's wolf. Just like Pluto's no one's ward or responsibility. Must come with the Alpha title," I said to her hair.

"Maybe."

 Pluto

He shouldn't have stopped me, my wolf grumbled sulkingly.

He's our father, of course we shouldn't have killed him! I told him.

Yeah, cuz he acts so much like a father should, he mumbled darkly in my thoughts.

I would bet that Liam and William want to kill him just as much, but he is our blood and if his wolf awakens, he will be a brother. It is wrong to kill a brother of the pack, I growled.

You're really getting into the Alpha rule, I is so proud, he said.

'I is' and 'cuz'? Wow, teenage girl much, I told him teasingly.

Pluto! Pluto! I see you! I heard Brandon's voice in my head, right before I felt him pounce on me and begin licking my face. I had gotten caught up enough in the conversation with my wolf that I hadn't heard Brandon. He let me up, I licked his face. We goin' back? Or do you need more time?

Lets go back, we'll have to sometime, I answered. We walked in silence, still as wolves. We emerged at my house, everyone was outside. I munstered as much dignity that I could and strode toward the front of the house as a majestic white Alpha wolf with a paw mark changing colors around my eye.

I could feel my father's eyes on Brandon and me as we rounded the corner of the house, out of their sight. We must have been a sight; the deepest black and the lightest white on two wolves. I squeezed through the doorway, an uncomfortable thing for an animal my size, and climbed the stairs slowly.

I shifted back as soon as I got in my room and closed the door, changing into my trademark clothes. I ran down the stairs, landing on the back lawn lightly on the balls of my feet. I walked to Will, placing my hand on his chest, I handed the driver's wheel to the Healer.

Almost everyone around me gasped in surprise as they watched Will's skin knit before their eyes. I hugged him ferociously, "I am so sorry, that looked like it had to hurt," I smile ruefully, "Never thought I could cut that deep in a scuffle and come out without a scratch."

"I guess I should stop being surprised by you, but I just can't," Will said, hugging me back, "I missed my baby sister." Someone cleared their throat behind us. I turned around to see Alpha Kris shuffling uncomfortably.

"I hate to interupt, but it really sucks not being able to take you to my pack. Sorry, but can you please come with?" He sounded so unsure that I grabbed his hand.

"Sure," I smiled, then turned to my pack, who were gathered around us. "Liam, you're with me, Twins, Sammy, you guys should go check up on Lizzy. Will, I suggest you come with us because Alpha Kris's pack is your pack."

"Nope, I'm part of your pack now," Will said right as his tattoos began to change. They morphed into the fleeing werewolves of the Shadowwood Pack.

I glared, grabbing Alpha Kris's wrist and started to walk away when Brandon wrapped his arms around my waiste. "Shouldn't I be the one that gets to hold your hand?" He asked, making me shiver.

I elbowed him in the ribs, "Not if you keep acting like that." I let go of Alpha Kris's wrist when we hit the treeline, starting off into the trees alone so I could shift.

"Where you going?" Brandon asked, stopping my progress.

"To shift?" I said, but it came out more as a question.

"Not without supervision," He smiled, sure he had me there. I smiled sweetly at him, getting up on my tippy-toes to give him a kiss. Right before my lips hit his I stopped, ramming his solar plexis with my elbow and flipping him over. He landed on his back, I smiled down at him, then turned back towards the house.

"Charlie! Can you come supervise me while I shift?" I called.

"Sure thing!" She called back. She came running, stopping infront of me. "Lets go!" We walked into the trees, leaving a winded Brandon on his back behind us. "What'd you do to Brandon and why do you need supervision?"

"Some stupid thing about protecting the Alpha's Alpha, Brandon brought it up and tried to tell me that I needed supervision. He landed on his ass, I got supervision, and we're all happy right?" I replied merrily.

"You put a werewolf on his ass?" She asked.

"Can't say he didn't deserve it, pushy! And I don't appreciate pushy," I told her, beginning to strip out of my clothes.

"Well, you're right, he did deserve it. Why do you fight your wolf's power all the time?" She asked, turning away so I could have a little privacy.

"What doya mean?" I replied wearily.

"I can see it with you, and Brandon, and Liam. You guys are fighting your wolves on something, but what's so bad that you have to fight it if it'd your wolves' instinct?" She asked.

"When you find your mate as a kid, you don't have any urges except to be their friend, when you find them as an older teen or adult, you have the urge to mate fully. We can hold it off for a while by being close, but sooner or later your wolf is going to come out and make you mate fully. The only time you don't have the urge is when you reject your mate or they reject you," I explained, now fully naked.

"I'm guessing it's harder for you and Brandon because there are two of you that want to mate?" She said.

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