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I wait around for Snake to be done with the body, because he seems to be enjoying himself.
He hisses nastily at the dead guy before he moves over to me, giving me a big hug from behind.
“Okay, okay,” I tell him. “I’m glad we’re alive, too, but it you don’t watch it you’ll squeeze the life right out of me.”
He lets go and darts after Scratch. I doubt he’ll try to hug our moody wolf brothers, but I catch up to find out anyway.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Scar
Idon’tknowwhatit means exactly that my father was a chimera, but I know it means something.
My father had two distinct forms and he could shift between them. My mother has two forms.
Yet, I cannot change forms. When I was a child, I spent many hours trying and failing.
All I’d wanted was to be like the other shifters.
I didn’t know why that wasn’t possible.
I still do not know.
Something about that troubles me.
I do not know if my mother will have answers, but there is nowhere else we can go to try and figure this out. She was always well read, and knowledgeable about many things. I enjoyed asking her questions and listening intently to her answers.
She is the only person who might be able to shed some light on this unexpected surprise.
I do not know what she will make of my brothers, but we are together in this now.
Fox’s smart thinking saved our lives tonight. Snake helped me keep the chimera distracted while he worked with Scratch to poison him.
I can see clearly now that it would have been foolish to challenge the Alpha on my own.
He controlled the weather, made a storm overhead and tried to strike me with a lightning bolt. Twice. Or maybe it was three times. It’s hard to remember now that the fight is over.
All I know is that without the help of my brothers, I would have died tonight.
We work better as a team. I have always known that, yet I’ve spent so long trying to keep them safe, that it is hard to see them as the equals I know they are.
“Something is bothering you,” Scratch murmurs next to me. “What is it?”
He is keeping his voice low, so our brothers do not hear.
Snake and Fox are a few feet behind us.
Our reptilian brother keeps stopping under lights, and Fox has been hurrying him along with the promise of more cookies at the end of our walk.
Scratch was with me for longer, and because we both think like wolves, and he is older than the others I have shared more with him at times. I can see now that excluding our younger brothers has been unfair. They may have unpredictable natures and issues that make them a handful at times, but their differences make us better as a whole.
I stop walking and turn, making sure we’re all included in my answer to Scratch’s quiet question.
Snake and Fox stop in front of us. Snake hisses and moves back a step to be under the nearest streetlamp. Fox shakes his head at him, before he turns his bright green eyes on us.
“What is wrong?”
“We are almost there. I am going to ask my mother what she knows about chimeras. I do not think it would be smart to take over this town without figuring out what is going on here.”
