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

are to me.... And you, Millie, why would you let a wolf from your pack date another creature.... Especially a cat shape-shifter.”
“He's in love with her.... Something that you'll never understand.... And besides, you're staying out in the cold anyways, so why don't you mind your own business.” Millie hated having someone to answer to. She didn't like having to ask for permission to do things. The only person who she answered to was herself.
“What did you just tell me?” James asked.
“Come on, Kyle and Champ.” Millie walked away from James and the two young wolf men followed behind her. James was ticked off by Millie's behavior. She went way to far this time.


Kat was almost home when she ran into Christina. They glared at each other. “I'm not going to betray the wolves again.”
“I figured that, but I've got someone else to help me instead.”
“Who did you trick this time?”
“Just an old enemy of theirs. Someone who I can destroy after I'm done using her.” Christina looked at her watch. “I'm ready to go.... It's getting late and I don't like talking to cat shape-shifters. It's bad luck.” She left Kat just standing there.
“I have to warn the wolves,” Kat told herself.


Lacy had placed the flowers which Lee had given her into a vase with water. She walked into the living room and sat down next to her boyfriend. Lee placed his arm around her and they waited for Stina to put in the movie.


Millie, Champ, Kyle and James had walked into the house. “Kyle, Champ, you two can go to your rooms,” Millie told them.
“Okay,” they said. They both left the room.
Millie headed to the kitchen. James followed her. He needed to fix the broken relationship that he had with his niece whether she wanted to or not.
“Millie, look I know that you hate me, but there's....”
“I don't care.” Millie opened the refrigerator and grabbed a water bottle. “You don't care about us, so I don't care about you. I care about my pack and what's best for my pack.” She looked at James. “I don't care what you do to me.... I don't care if you let me stay as the leader of my pack.... I don't care if you remove me from being the leader and exchange me for someone else.” She closed the door. “Just don't do anything until you talk to my pack. Let them tell you if I should stay a leader or not....”


Lacy had walked into the dinning room and heard everything that Millie was saying. She hid behind the wall so that way James and Millie didn't know that she was listening.


“Talk to Lacy, talk to Kyle, talk to Champ and listen to them, especially Champ because I know that you don't approve of him dating a cat shape-shifter.... I don't approve of him dating her either, but I deal with it.... I despise her, but he loves her and as much as I don't like to say it or believe it, but she loves him too. Now, if you excuse me, I have a human to yell at.” Millie left the room.
James bent over the counter. Lacy walked into the room. She walked over and placed a bag of popcorn into the microwave.
“Lacy?” James asked.
The young wolf froze. She was afraid to move. She thought that she was in trouble for something. She started to freak out. “Look.... Yes, I'm dating a human, but he's sweet and kind.... And.... And don't be mad.” Lacy actually broke down into tears.
James looked at the young wolf. He never had any children and to see Lacy brake down into tears really bothered him. “No.... It's not that and you're aloud to date a human....”
Lacy calmed down, while she wiped the tears.
“It's about Millie.”
“Oh. I heard you two talking and you might think that she's a bad leader, but she's not. She does what's best for us, not her. She didn't change the lycan code because she wanted to.... She actually changed the code because we figured that it needed to be changed. It was older than us and I believe that because it was two centuries old. The code needed to be changed to fit this century.” Lacy had to take a breath. “I think that it was a good idea to change the code.... You know.... I didn't agree with Champ dating Kat, but now I think that they make a good couple and they really care about each other....” She looked over at James. “You shouldn't judge them. Looks can be deceiving. Remember, you were in love with a human, who betrayed you, so you should be the last to judge.”


Millie walked into the living room, ticked off. Her eyes glared at Lee. “What are you doing here?”
Lee swallowed. “Lacy invited me over to watch a movie.... She knows how my parents will disapprove of me dating a wolf if they found out, so we decided to watch a movie here.” Millie scared him out of the whole pack. He knew that Millie could kill him if she had a chance. He knew that Millie and Lacy were like sisters, and if something happened to one, the other was there for back up.
Millie went to grab Lee's collar, when Lacy walked in. “No, Millie. He didn't do anything to you, so leave him alone.”
“Fine. I'm going to my room then.” Millie backed away from Lee and left the room. Doing a Human's Job

Millie's claws started to form. She was finally at the earliest stage of the transformation which meant that for now on after every new moon, she was going to start transforming no matter how old she was. “That wolf thinks that he can control me,” she said as she sat up on her bed. “No one can control me.... He can't tell me what to do....” She stood up and walked over to her dresser. She looked into the mirror which was now in her room. She didn't know who had put it in there but she wasn't worried about it. She looked at her reflection and thought about what her mother had said. “There's two sides to one story....” she told herself. “There's two sides to everyone.”


Christina walked into a dark brown, brand new looking house. “I'M HERE!” she called.
Vickey walked into the room. She had walked out from the kitchen. “Good. Come with me into the living room. We can talk about what we're going to do with the wolf pack.”
“Of course.”


“Champ,” James said as he walked out onto the porch.
Champ looked over at him. He was amazed that James was actually talking to him.
James took a deep breath. “Forgive me.... You can.... Date Kat. I don't approve of it, but if you care about her that much to be willing to be kicked out of the pack, then you should be able to keep dating her. I was acting like a jerk to the both of you. I was judging you two when I shouldn't have. I'm sorry.”
Champ was still amazed. He smiled. “Thanks, man,” he said, with forgiveness in his voice.
“I'll try to be nicer to Kat.... I didn't say I will.... I just said I'll try.”
“That's good enough for me.”
“What kind of leader do you think Millie is?”
Champ was surprised by James's question. He didn't know what that had to deal with anything, but he figured that it was probably something that was important. “Well,” he said, “whether you think so or not.... Millie's a good leader.... She does what she believes is good for the pack. She won't do something if it's good for her.... She'll do something if it's good for the pack.... You might not of noticed, but she's a lot like you.... She's headstrong and knows what she wants. She knows when she makes mistakes and she'll fix them. Millie is a good, strong leader whether you believe it or not.”
Millie walked out of the house and walked off of the porch. She ignored James and Champ.
“And where are you going?” James asked.
Millie stopped. “I don't have to answer to you.”
“Actually, until I leave, you do.”
“No, I don't.”
“Yes, you do.”
“No, I don't.”
“Yes, you do.”
Millie rolled her eyes. “Whatever.” She started to walk away.
James was mad. He ran in front of Millie. “I'm going with you.”
“Fine.”
“Now, where are we going?”
“I'm going to visit Tom and Jane.” Millie really didn't want James to go with her. She wanted to go alone. She just wanted to be alone.


When Millie and James were in the town, James was talking to Millie, but she just ignored him. She didn't want to be anywhere near him. A man ran into them. Millie recognized him from the night before. She may not of been able to see what he had looked like in the dark woods, but she remembered his scent.
“YOU AGAIN?!” Millie was mad. She wasn't expecting to see this man at all. “I told you to go to jail. Why haven't you gone? Do I have to do everything myself?”
“I did....” the man replied. He was actually afraid of the girl. He didn't want her to do anything to him. “I was there and I told them the story and they just laughed at me.... PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!” the man cried.
Millie's lip curled. She had to tell those dumb cops to lock that man up. They knew Millie and her pack. They knew that they were really werewolves. So, why were they laughing at this stupid man?
James was confused. Millie or Kyle hadn't told him about the man and what he had planned to do. “What's going on?”
Millie grabbed the human's shirt collar and dragged him. “I'm going to talk to those cops.... No wonder why the economy is so bad.... The law enforcers aren't doing their jobs.... They let kidnappers, bank-robbers, and other trouble makers go so they can roam free and take the money from the ones who deserve it. Cops are so dumb. Now, I have to go and tell them how to do their jobs.” She was ticked off. “I wasn't planning on going to the police station today.”


Millie dragged the man to the local police station. James wasn't far behind. He had followed them to the police station. He noticed that there were a lot of cop cars lined up in the parking lot in front of the police station. There were only two cop cars missing.


They walked into the police station, although Millie stomped. She dragged the guy to a cop, who was sitting behind the front desk. She dropped the guy on the ground and slammed her claws on top of the desk to get the cop's attention. The cop looked up from his desk, into the eyes of the angry wolf. “This man,” Millie said,