Wolves of a different Pelt by Aurora Kryan (interesting books to read txt) 📖

Spirit brushed my hair back from my face when I peeked at him from the corner of my hidden eye.

I closed them again taking in the warmth, strength, and gentleness that his firm embarrass held. Finally after I felt like I had made sure he was real, that my childhood friend wasn’t a ghost, I released him. Looking to the ground I felt the tears at the brim of my eyes tip over and flow down my face again.

Dang can’t I quite crying today?

He raised my chin whipping them away with his fingers then pressed his forehead to mine. The look of love was back.

“Now that you remember who I am is the question still up for grabs?” He said quietly.

“What do you mean? Is that what the whole mirror deal was?”

“Kinda, I wanted you to see how you reacted. I could tell you didn’t remember anything from your past.”

“From before I got these scars I don’t. It’s the only thing of my past I have or remember. The rest is just not there at all.” The subject was depressing me and it came out in my voice.

‘That’s obvious you’re not yelling at me about the

thing’

. He whispered so low I didn’t think I was meant to hear it but I had. I squinted at him,

what is he talking about?

He saw my questioning look and sighed pulling away. He took my hand by the wrist pulling me along to the far side of the clearing. He moved aside some vines then pulled out a chunk of bark from the old gnarled tree.

To my surprise a little room was inside lit up by moonlight filtering down through the hollowed tree. I pulled my wrist free curiosity getting the best of me I walked into the room. A bed of leaves covered by some blankets and a set of carved stairs were the only things in the small space barley big enough for the two of us. Spirit climbed the stairs with me in toe leading me up four flights.

The stairs curved around following the trees natural structure, landings covered half of the space so moonlight or sunlight could reach all the way down to the floor. We passed another bed on the first landing, the second had just food in bins, the third had a bunch of cardboard boxes with odds and ends hanging out, and then finally the fourth landing was bare. I looked at him rising one eye brow he just smiled then pulled on a rope I hadn’t noticed. A set of stairs like you’d find leading to an attic swung down.

I followed him again to the outside and gasped. The tree we were in was the tallest one in the forest, standing just about dead center of it too. The weirdness of gnarled trees let it curve around close enough that it made a natural platform and the spooky mute colored leaves hid us from view but allowed us to see the entire forest and the moon and stars like a one way mirror.

Ok best tree house ever I want it!

I turned to Spirit smiling like a crazy person till I saw his face then it fell.

“What?” I asked.

“Um you don’t remember about us do you?”

“Were friends,”

that kiss each other

, “why?”

“You don’t remember.” He put his face in his hand.
“What are you talking about? I just said I didn’t member anything before my mom getting killed.”

I was kind of getting angry at him because he kept saying I don’t remember or know anything when I just told him that,

tell me what I don’t know for crying out loud!

I pulled his hand away gently forcing him to look at me. He understood what I wanted.

“I’ve been promise to you since birth because my bloodline goes all the way back to Kraus and you’re a descendent of Sheiesh.”

“Say what?!”

Promised to me?!

Legacy

I looked at him like he was an alien.

Promise to me?? What the heck why would he be promised to me?

For a second I thought he might be lying to me.

“No.” I said bluntly.

“What?”

“No your lying you’re not promise to me you’re my friend.”

“Right lesson time. And I am promised to you my mother said at birth I was and Rima agree with her.”

I was looking out at the moon when he said her name, Rima, mom’s name. Then memories flashed through my head, just two. One of my mom telling me who he was and he’s my promised husband to be and the other where I told him I liked him under the moon light. My head jerked back to him eyes wide.

He’s telling the truth! Omg!

I cocked my head to the side confused again.

“Why thou it’s not like I’m a princess.”

“You are.”

I laughed at him clutching my sides. “Far from it!”
“Like I said lesson time.”

He sat down on the tree leaning his back against the main branch. I took a spot next to him sitting Indian style. Reaching in his jeans he pulled out a piece of crumpled paper. I had to lean in close to even make out the names and marks on it. A key in the corner showed that an X meant a boy, black for no legacy, and red for legacy.

I was totally confused by what the legacy thing meant but I knew enough to read the rest and figure out it was a family tree, my family tree in fact, at the bottom my name was scrawled in the same fancy print. At the top was that name he had mentioned before, Sheiesh.

“What does all this mean?”

“That you are a direct descendent of Sheiesh,” He saw my what-the-fuck-is-that look, “She was a dire wolf that lived 10,000 years ago. She lived in the mountains by a tribe of humans. To stay alive she fought the tribe leader, Kraus, but she was ill and her bite infected him. When he had a daughter she was a hybrid.”

“The first werewolf?”

“You’d think but no she was a shape shifter. The first of our kind really but we say descendents of Sheiesh.”

I was interested in this crazy story. Somehow it seemed like I knew what he was talking about like I heard it before and my soul responded to the name Sheiesh. I slipped the paper from his hands tracing my way back to her then back down the tree. My hand stopped at her daughter’s name.

“Tell me what happened to Halo? If she was a wolf wouldn’t other tribes hunt her?”

“Sheiesh could sense her wolf soul when Halo turned five. She took her before her father knew what she was. Sheiesh might have kidnapped the girl but she was her daughter, by soul, and if she stayed with humans she would have died.”

That’s sad her own father would have killed her for being a wolf.

I skipped the other thirteen descendents and went to my mother’s name. Spirit kept talking about some of them like Nala, Halo’s daughter. When Nala took over the pack it had been 1500 years since Sheiesh came to power (Royal wolves live for 500 years at least) she decided it was time to leave the mountain and mingle with the humans since they were half human themselves.

Around the middle of Bristol’s rain that’s when werewolves were born, if a Royal wolf and human got together tada. But the birth rate was low and the ones that lived past five years of age were at zero, if they even survived birth.

“That’s part of the reason why I said the fact that you’re alive at all is a gift within its self.”

“Oh”

I responded when he laced his fingers through mine. I hesitated leaving my hand slack but then I tightened it to hold his.

He is promised to me after all and he kissed me so what the hell

, I thought. Then I leaned my head against his shoulder resting it so I could see the page resting on my legs that I had drawn up to me. He stiffened for a second like I had scared the shit out of him but then rest his cheek on my hair. His tanned hand came into view as he pointed at the name Kikio.

“The seventh alpha Kikio decided after 1500 years of pointless births of werewolves it should be forbidden to mingle with humans in such a way, others agreed so the law was passed. Her daughters on the other hand disagreed because Chessla was in love with a human man. Chessla, Izel, and Denali are the only known sisters to rain all at once. There attempt to throw out Kikio’s law failed.”

Something accrued to me then making me shake.

“Is that why I was attacked? Cuse I’m a werewolf that was born after the law.”

Spirit leaned away from me making me fall from the sudden absence of my pillow. I looked at him wondering what he was doing. His face looked sad and he avoided my eyes as best he could looking only at my forehead. I glared at him,

come on I know that’s why don’t act like this

. I waved my hand trying to get his attention but he wouldn’t look at my eyes even after I did the I’m-watching-you/ right-here motion. I stood up looming over him but he just looked at my stomach. Finally I grabbed his chin pulling his face up and squatted down so we were at the same level and he had to look at me. His eyes met mine and he nodded.

“About that whole promised thing. I know we just found each other again but I remember being little and liking you then.” I said nervously.

“I know you told me.”

He said confidently then pulled my face down to his for another kiss. I felt him murmur the word ‘yes’ against my lips.

Woho boyfriend! Hehe.

(This chapter is for angel92296 for loving Spirit so much. Even thou its so short I have a feeling this will be your favorite chapter of the book.)

Bliss

Shifting in my sleep I rolled over to curl up on my side but I hit something warm and solid. My eyes flew open to find Spirit looking at me adoringly. I shot upright,

scare the shit out of me much!

He smiled at my reaction then pulled me back down to rest in his arms. I yawned still half asleep and snuggled into them. When I closed my eyes I inhaled his scent of roses and pine wood, it was intoxicating.

The night’s events played out in my head from when he said yes to me. We kissed a little longer then he took me down to the main floor when the night became cold. I was going to take the second floor bed but he shook his head no saying it would be too cold tonight. So he brought me down to his bed adding leaves to it so it