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KESKA: “Is there anything that you need?” I ask her. “Just something to help keep Joey occupied.” She says. “I will bring stuff to help with that, the next time I come.” I tell her. Again, she nods to me. I wait inside the cabin for about 10 minutes before I take Trever outside and walk a little way away from the cabin. I don’t want Ailea to hear us. “I know you have questions, go ahead and ask.” “How is it that you have your wolf? What is she? How is it that she can speak, I mean in wolf form?” I chuckle at how he strung all the questions together in one. “Do you know what Nana’s mate was?” I ask him. He shakes his head no. “Papa was a Phase Elemental; Corla is an Elemental Phase wolf. She uses my vocal cords to speak, and as to why I have her, as my mate, you need to stay calm, as I tell you, I can’t have you going off the deep end.” I tell him. “I know that some bad stuff happened, Lilly hinted as much.” He tells me. I nod my head to him. “My family couldn't care less about me, except for Nana and Liam. After he and Lissa were born and turned 7, I was pretty much on my own to take care of myself. James and Jessie would blame me for all the crap that they would pull, and I would get punished for it. Then at Aidrian’s swearing-in ceremony and Kina’s Luna ceremony, the Elder Mrs. Sutter slapped me, and rejected me, then the next week in school Jessie rejected me, I accepted it, then at James and Jessie’s graduation I accepted Mrs. Sutter's rejection.” I had a smile on my face as I recalled that memory. “What are you smiling about?” “Nana, she just about shifted into Cinder, right there in the pack house.” “Oh wow!” I nod my head. “What happened to cause that?” “The elder Mrs. Sutter grabbed my arm and wouldn’t let go. She extended her wolf’s claws. I pulled up my sleeve to show him my upper arm and the scars I had from her. He let out a low growl. I just stepped closer to him and let my scent calm him. “What else happened?” “Jessie set it up so that I got stabbed.” That got another growl from him, only this time it was loud. “Hey, I’m ok, and Corla killed the two that did the deed.” I tell him. I rub circles on his back. But his growl did alert the pack run. And I caught sight of a few of the pack members, and some others, coming close. “No harm, keep to the run.” I called out. “Everything is fine, just a bit of frustration getting the windows unstuck.” I call out again to ease the run. I can see them, then just turn, and keep going. “Now we really do need to try to get these windows open; they were nailed shut by Jessie’s crew.” I say to him softly. He nodded to me, and we got to work on getting the nails out so that the windows could open. We stayed working on the windows and whatever else we could to make sure that the place was weatherproof for Ailea and her son. And the run had gone back to the pack house. “You should be in the clear for a couple of days, Wednesday is my brother, and sister’s birthday, and they will probably have another run then to celebrate them turning 18.” I told her. She nods her understanding. “I will come tomorrow with some more food, and some things to help keep Joey occupied and maybe even help teach him.” I say to her. “Thank you.” She says softly. I nod at her. We walk out of the cabin and head into the woods, strip down, fold our clothes, put them in the backpack, shift, and head back to the pack house. Again, Trever stays behind me on our way back. When we get close to the tree line, we shift back and get dressed. “What’s your Lycan’s name?” I ask him. “Havoc.” He says. “Hello, Havoc.” I say to him. “Hello, beautiful.” He answers me. “Are you ok?” I ask him. “No, but I will have to get over it. I can see now why your little brother was the way he was the other night. Is she getting punished this time for having you kidnapped?” “Father says he is punishing her, but I don’t quite know that it will make a difference, help change her. Make her a better person, I mean.”
TREVER: After hearing Keska’s story, I just want to tear this f*cking pack to shreds. I definitely don’t want to have anything to do with her sister, and I can barely keep it together, about her father. Her brother had better prove himself a better person, or I will make sure that we don’t do business with them in the future. I don’t know how Lilly could stand to be here, especially if she knew. Which apparently she did. I know now that I won’t be able to stay away from her. I will wait until she is 18 before I mark and mate her, but I am not staying away from her. I link Dutch when we get back. “I know her story, and it’s not pretty or nice, I am barely keeping it together, from shredding this whole damn pack apart.” “Need to let off some steam?” “Yes, or I will explode.” “Will I do the trick, or do you need Trent or Barett?” “I think I am going to need Trent for this.” “Ouch, ok, I will track him down, you head to the training grounds.” I just closed the link and headed down to the training field.
DUTCH: After getting Trever’s link, I open a link to both Barett and Trent. “Trever is in a bad way, and he needs to let off some steam, he says to send Trent, but I think we all need to go, he said that Keska’s story isn’t nice or pretty, and he is barely holding it together from destroying this entire pack, so whatever she told him has him furious.” “Did he share?” “No.” “Alright, we will head down to the training area.” I close the link. “Mackinzie, babe, tell me some of Keska’s story. You don’t have to tell me everything, but I need to know what happened to her. Trever is going off the deep end.” I say to her. “Short version, she was rejected twice, and stabbed, and every time the older twins screwed up they blamed Kes, and she took the punishment for them, she has scars from one of the rejections, as it was her father’s mother that did it, and she used her wolf’s claws to dig into Kes’s arm. Anything else will have to come from her.” That was a lot to take in. “What about you, what’s your story?” I ask her. “Me? I just get ignored, I don’t exist as far as my family is concerned, Wyatt is the golden boy, and Demi is the princess, Kes is my only friend in this pack, well, now her brother Liam.” She says, like it’s an everyday occurrence. “Come with me.” I say as I hold out my hand to her. “Where are we going?” "To the training grounds, Trever needs to let off some steam, and the only way for him to do that without tearing this pack apart is to train with his brothers and me.” “Ok.” We head down to the training area.
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