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Our three dads are watching us, and he snarls at them for intruding on our moment. Edward smirks, whereas George and Charles both look away like the little cowards they are.
“I can’t wait until the day we can feel her as strongly as our brothers can,” Kane says. I nod my head, agreeing.
“We’re waiting, Mother,” Topher says, clicking his tongue in frustration.
My mum bursts into tears, hiding her head in her hands, but I can smell her tears and her emotions. There’s no sadness, no unhappiness, just pure frustration. They’re crocodile tears, and it’s just embarrassing to sit here and watch.
“She’s an idiot, thinking we’re fooled by her tears,” Kane agrees. “I love her, but I’ll happily allow you to slit her throat if it’ll give our mate some peace.”
“I don’t love her.”
Kane rolls his eyes. “You need help, human.”
Charles reaches over to cuddle my mum into his chest, his wolf, Umber, pushing forward as they both work to soothe their unsettled mate. I wonder if she’s able to manipulate their bond to let them think she’s sad, because this is ridiculous.
Edward offers some comfort from his own seat, although his wolf doesn’t make an appearance.
My parents have always been affectionate, and my mother truly is the light of my father’s eyes, and they’ve never once downplayed or hidden their love. It would be nice to see, if I cared.
But, whilst their individual relationships are strong, and my father’s truly are devoted to my mum, the relationship between each of them is clearly shit. They don’t know how to function as a team, as shown by all the things they’ve been doing alone, and their bonds are tense because of it.
Even worse than that is that our pack is in a state of disarray because of their continued fuck-ups.
“It’s our time now, and we’re going to fix the mistakes of the past,” Kane says. We squeeze Maia’s thigh and lean back to continue watching the dynamics.
People are so simple. So stupid.
The amount of personal information they give off in their scent, the amount of lies they tell that their body betrays them for.
“You’re so humble,” Kane says.
According to Edward, the reason they’ve been clinging to the pack for so long is they wanted to fix things before handing it to us, and whilst he believed his words, it doesn’t make it any better.
Our pack finances are a lot lower than expected, our birth rates are very low—so low, in fact, that before Phoebe, the last wolf born on our lands was five years ago—and we’ve got no pregnant women to keep the pack going. Our numbers are dropping due to people leaving and not growing by new births or new members, and that’s not a stable place for a pack to be.
People don’t want to be in our pack, and it’s not hard to figure out why.
My father’s have made a huge mess of our pack over the last few decades.
“I’d be interested in knowing exactly when the decline started,” Kane mentions.
“We’ll be able to look into that properly now that we’re in charge.”
But being able to fix the damage doesn’t change my fury over the matter. I have a mate now, a daughter. A woman to love, to provide for, to support and provide a safe haven to. A wolf daughter, who needs the stability of a strong pack. She’s so young, so little, and needs her people around her.
And what do I offer her? A pack that’s barely hanging on, that has had at least two imposter wolves in our lands, and who knows how many rogues—because we’re still pretty sure that the rogues are Ethan—have been sniffing around.
There’s no young cousins or baby wolves for her to interact with.
She’s got nothing because we’ve not given her the right kind of system.
“We’ve failed her.”
Kane disagrees. “We’ve not failed our pup. We’re in the position now to do something about it. We’re going to give her the home and pack she deserves.”
Without Phoebe and Maia, my life would be nothing. And what do I give them in return for completing my soul and giving me the biggest blessing to exist? Nothing.
“The leadership was stale, and our pack wolves can feel the instability of that. The strongest were not at the top, and their wolves knew that and sought to find somewhere that could give them that protection,” Kane says, and I nod. “Trust in our brother. Topher will have known how dire things were, and he’ll have a plan. We’ll rally the troops, and we will provide our mate with the safety she and our pup need to thrive.”
