The Double Moon by Amber Riel (books to read for teens .TXT) 📖

dead sibling.


“That man has no heart,” Millie told Demon. She was just so ticked off.
“Do you know why he wasn't at the funeral?” Demon asked.
“No, and frankly, I don't care. He could go die for all I care.”
“Don't say that. He's your uncle. You don't mean that.”
“Yes I do.”
“No you don't,” Demon whispered. He was everything but a demon. He was kind to people whether he knew them or not. He was wise and gave advice to others, when they asked for it. He was gentle and helpful. Everyone, who seen him, were afraid because they thought that he would eat them, but once they talked to him, they realized that he was sweet and that he had a welcoming personality.
Kyle walked into the room. “Millie, we need to go back to the cottage.”
“Why?”
Kyle had to think fast. “Stina burnt down the cottage again.”
“WHAT?!”
“Yea and we have to go back.”
“Well, I guess that we have to go tell James then.”


James stood up and looked at the door. He turned to face the window. He looked out and seen wolves outside walking back and forth and some were working.
Someone knocked on the door.
“COME IN!”
Millie and Kyle walked into his office. Millie stood with confidence. She wanted to go home because she didn't want to deal with James. “We have to get back to our pack,” she told James.
James turned to face them. He raised an eyebrow because Millie was given strict orders not to leave until the day that she was suppose to leave. She wasn't aloud to leave no matter what until then. “Why?”
“Because our....” Millie started to say but was cut off by Kyle.
“Millie, why don't you start packing?”
Millie left the room and Kyle waited till he thought that she was out of ear shot.
“Look, there's this dog-witch and she's looking for revenge on our pack and we have to get back to help them....”


Millie was almost to her room, when she heard Kyle tell James that Christina was back. That made her furious. She made her way back to the house. “Is that why we have to go back?” she asked.
Kyle didn't turn to face her. He knew she was mad and that she would attack if he turned to face her for not telling her the truth. “Well yea.... But Shawn didn't want me to tell you. We agreed that you already had too much pressure from being in the same building as him.” He pointed to James.
“Well then, you two can go....” James paused.
Millie knew that he wasn't finished so she waited to see what he was going to say.
“But I'm going with you two.”
Millie didn't like those words. She hated them because they came from the one wolf who she hated. “NO!” she protested.
“Either I go.... Or you'll be stuck here.”
“Don't listen to her. She likes to joke around.” Kyle was pretending to laugh as he shook his words. He was afraid of Millie, but James really had him shaking in his shoes. “Right, Millie?”
Millie ignored Kyle. She was too ticked off at James to even care about what Kyle was talking about. “No.... Why do you have to come? Huh?” She paused. “Why can't Demon come? Why can't Colla come? Why can't Leada come? You know because of you, Leada hasn't been home to see her own daughter. She might want to visit Stina.... But you want to know why she can't see her daughter....” She paused again. “You want to come instead....”
“Because you need to be watched as a pack leader.”
“I'm a bad leader because I changed the lycan code without telling you.... That code is old.... It's older than you.... I'll be a good leader when you're a good uncle.” Millie paused. “Kyle, how much do you want to bet that James hasn't been to the graves of his brother and sister-in-law?”
Kyle's eyes grew wide. He didn't want to answer that question. “I don't want to answer that.” He felt like he was in an awkward place and that he shouldn't have been there.
“I bet that you haven't been to the graves of my mother and father,” Millie told James. She left the room.
Kyle started to laugh because he needed to get out of the awkward phase. “You don't have to listen to Millie.... You can come.” He left the room. Returning Home with a "Dead" Guy

Millie and Kyle were walking ahead of James. Millie was frustrated because James was going with them to the house. She didn't want want to deal with him. She would of rather dealt with Kat than James and she hated Kat. She didn't like the fact that James had to be her babysitter. She didn't change that code for herself, she changed it for her pack. “Why did you have to tell him that he could come?” she whispered to Kyle.
“He scares me,” Kyle admitted.
“He scares you?”
“Yea.... I think it's the fact that I'm dating you.... You know you are his niece and that scares me.... Because he has a right to kill me if something happens to you.”
“The only one that you have to worry about is Shawn. My uncle died a long time ago.”
James heard what Millie had said and it had hurt. It cut his heart like a knife to hear his niece say those words. She had no clue how much it hurt him to know that he couldn't see his brother again. He was good at hiding his real feelings though. He realized that Millie acted as cold hearted as he did, but he knew that she didn't like people to know the pain that was there. Heck, that was what he did.


Shawn was sitting on the stair case. He was bored stiff and didn't feel like watching TV. He didn't want to read. He just sat there. Lacy walked over to the stair case, carrying a basket filled with clean clothes. “What are you doing here?” she asked.
“Hanging out.... Bored. I called Kyle and told him that Christina's back and he said that he wasn't going to tell Millie, but they're on their way back.”
“Okay. Good.” Lacy walked up the stairs. “Millie's going to explode, when she finds out.”
“Yep.”


Christina walked around the town. She was looking for someone who could help her get revenge on the wolves. She figured that Kat would turn on her again so she wasn't even going to bother with the cat shape-shifter. She had to wait 'til the next full moon, which was at the end of the month. She didn't want to wait, she was ready to control the wolves. She liked being the center of attention and she loved controlling the pack, who had tricked her, and she could torture Millie as well. “Her and her pack will pay for what they have done to me,” she told herself.
Christina was evil and she would do what she could to destroy the lives of others. She would love to get the vampires and wolves to attack each other, but there weren't any vampires who actually lived in the town.

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Millie, Kyle, and James were almost to the cottage. Millie walked two feet a head of the two guys. She wanted to stay as far away from James as possible. It bothered her that he had to keep an eye on her. She didn't need a baby sitter.
“Millie's really ticked off because of you,” Kyle told James.
“I know. I didn't think that she was even old enough to remember about the funeral.”
“Why weren't you there anyways?”
“I'd rather not talk about it.”
“Oh.”
Millie thought of James as a bad guy. He wasn't nothing but a traitor, but she didn't know the real reason why he wasn't there.

Dinner of Awkwardness

Kyle, Millie, and James finally arrived at the cottage. Kyle opened the door to find Lacy standing behind the door. “Oh, you two are back.” She didn't notice James standing there.
“Hello, Lacy,” James said.
“Oh hi, Jam-” She suddenly felt embarrassed. “Can you hold on for a second? Don't come in yet.” She closed the door after Millie and Kyle walked in. “Why didn't you tell me that James was coming?” she asked Millie.
Millie squinted her eyes. “Do you like James, Lacy?”
Lacy was grossed out by Millie's question. “Ewe.... No.... First of all he's too old for me and second of all he's your uncle.”
“Then why are you worried?”
“Because he's the head of the wolf council and.... That picture is tilted, the house is a mess, and....” She had to swallowed. “I'm making beef stew....”
Millie rolled her eyes. “Lacy, that picture looks fine, no one notices it, who cares if the house is a mess, and who cares if we're having beef stew....”
“But he could send us to different packs or worst....” Lacy had to pause. She always freaked out that something bad would happen. “He has the right to disown us.”
Millie raised an eye brow. “Lacy, he's not going to send us to different packs because the house is a mess and of a picture.... And he's not going to disown us because you're cooking beef stew.... He's not here to be a food critic so don't worry....”
“Then why is he here?”
“He's here to make sure that I'm a good leader....”
“Oh.” Lacy opened the door. “You can....”
“He's not staying in this house.... He's going to be staying outside in the snow.”
James stood out on the porch. He didn't want to upset his angry niece. She was too much like him. He'd rather stand out in the cold than to tick Millie off anymore.
“But, Millie.... He's the head of the council and your uncle....” Lacy couldn't understand how Millie could be so cold hearted toward her own uncle.
“So.... He could live out there for all I care.”
Lacy was speechless. She didn't know how to react to Millie's rudeness. She knew that it was a bad idea to tell Millie about Christina. She waited 'til Millie was out of ear