Chapter 27

I felt a warm cloth on my head. My brain tried to make seance of what happened, and somebody kept running their fingers through my hair.

I distinctly remember putting it up in a bun before Bailey picked me up.

Wait I was at a funeral, Ryan's funeral. What the hell happened and why am I taking a nap while at a funeral?

My eyes opened slowly, I found both my sister and my dad hovering over me. Lookimg around a bit more, I seen that the pews were empty - except for my family.

I looked back at my sister for some answers. "What happened?" I asked her and looked at my dad.

He put a hand on my shoulder and helped me up to a sitting position. My head was killing me but I could deal with a damn headache.

"I have a theory about what happened, what do you remember before you fainted?" Bailey asked me and my brows pinched together.

I sat there, dumbfounded as I tried to recall what had happened and what my sister just said. "I was..." I scrunched up my nose. "I was feeling sad, really sad. But what was weird was that they didn't feel like my emotions." I explained as I remembered what I said before those emotions hit me.

"And what do you feel right now?" She asked me.

I shook my head slowly. "Nothing, I'm just really confused." I admitted.

"I think you tapped into my empath power, Brooke. That just means you have another power that nobody should have." She smiled at me sweetly and I looked away from her. "You feel nothing now because no one is in here."

I huffed, I never wanted powers. I never envied my siblings and cousins for having powers, I just always accepted that I'd never get them and was alright with that.

I don't want these gifts.

I heard a low chuckle come from a very familiar lycan. I didn't even look over at him as he chickled once more before he spoke.

Amoureux, you cannot help that you got them." Scott said only confusing me more, he hasn't been reading my thoughts alot here lately, so him doing it now was a little....unlike him.

He gave me a single nod, his face void of emotions. "I think your wolf finally figured out how to unblock me from hearing what you are thinking." I didn't know he couldn't hear them, I assumed he listened to who he wanted.

"Traitor..." I mumbled to my wolf and she yipped in my head, obviously she was really excited for what she did. I was just curious how long it's been like that.

Probably around the time he stopped smirking at me for all of my stupid thoughts.

I looked over at Zachary who was biting on his thumb nail, he only did that when he was worried about something. "Bubba what's wrong?" I asked him.

"I thought I gave you something bad...that maybe it was mixed with something that Bailey didn't notice." I gave him a soft smile, he ate a peice of what I was eating. He is fine, so why would he be worried about that?

I chuckled a little. "Zach, I am alright. Just too many feelings hit me..." Then I remembered I told everybody here what Ryan did to me, his entire family was here.

I didn't mean to tell them that, I wasn't in my own head when I said it. That I certainly can blame Zachary for.

"How bad did they react?" I asked nobody and looked down at my hands.

My brothers began laughing profusely, even my mother started laughing. I looked up to see everybody's face red with humor. I would have laughed with them but I wasn't in on the joke.

"Amoureux," Scott chuckled too. "About a minute or so after you fainted, your mother here grabbed my hand and asked me to sit with you. Your brother Jordan was already by your side, but when I got to you your eyes shot open."

He smiled and I found myself just staring at his curled up lips as he grinned. Then his eyes met mine. "Apparently the Dale family was cursed, them being unfaithful to their significant other is a curse on the men. I have no clue how you did it but you broke it by telling everybody about your relationship with Ryan." He shook his head.

"But I'm still not following.." I whispered, what on earth was so funny about them all being cursed? It was sad really.

I glanced over at where Ryan's coffin was at, but it was gone. Where did they take him?

"When you fainted, you awoke a shortly after but spoke in a smooth voice, a voice only our Wolves are familiar with. The Moon Goddess spoke through you, making all of us drop to our knees and submit to our Goddess." Jordan told me, I looked at him with a look of shock on my face.

He chuckled lowly and placed his hand on my cheek, his warmth made me calm down a little. "Sissy she said that Ryan's wolf was in the Spirit Realm but his soul never crossed."

"What?" I whispered, I felt him die. I know I did. "That's impossible, you all watched him die after.." I didn't want to think about that night again so I stopped talking.

Zena purred in my head and I zoned out breifly. "Selene said when the time is right, you'll know what this means!" Her head was bowed as she spoke. Was my own wolf submitting to me?

She was me, she was the better parts of me. "Zena don't bow to me. You are my family, I don't want that."

"But the Goddess spoke through you to deliver this message. She's never done that. So she sees you as her Superior because of it." Scott said, his voice was like honey, smooth and sweet as he spoke to me.

"Where is he?" I nodded towards the spot he sat in durring the service. "His father wanted him buried in his home pack, next to his mom. So we asked a driver to take him home." My dad answered. I understood that, I would have preferred him to be lain with his family, than in a Cemetery where nobody knew you.

My brother grabbed my hands and smiled at me. "It's time for the baby's funeral sissy."

I looked up at him and shook my head. I suddenly didn't want to be here anymore. I could pretend when it came to wanting to be at Ryan's funeral, but my daughter's? I just couldn't pretend..

"Zena stop it." She was picking up on somebody's emotions again. And to be honest I wasn't sure if it was mine she felt or one of theirs.

Jordan let go of my hands and went to place his hand on my face, but then he blurred and was no longer in front of me.

I looked around the dark area I was at with complete shock. Did I teleport here? I don't have that power.

I walked a little further and seen some light. The air smelled fresh and clean. I could hear water flowing and that's when I realized I was in the woods, in a cave actually.

"How did I get here?" I asked my self, where even is here?

My wolf then purred in delight when she picked up on her mate. Well if he was here I still had to be in the pack.

The moment he came into view he stopped, his hackles rose and began growling.

He shifted back to his human form and crossed his arms, not even caring that he was stark naked. "Why are you in my home?" He snarled

I'm sure my face was of pure confusion, and the longer I looked at him without answering he seemed to be getting more angry.

I turned and looked back at the cave I came out of then back to him. "How is this your home? You live with my parents, and me!" I stated.

His harsh gaze faltered some. "I haven't been there since my wife died. Now who are you? You aren't her, so whatever witchcraft you came up with to look and smell like her, tell me and I'll let you live."