Chapter 32

Danny’s POV
“I have the crow bar” Rick calls, pulling the first board off the front of the doorway. “Do you know what you want to get?” Cynthia asks as Rick removes the rest of the boards and tries to turn the door knob. “Naturally it’s locked” he laughs. “Yes, I do, Cyndy and I’ve got the key” I tell him; going to the dead plant in a flower pot near the front step.
“Don’t you think underneath the flower pot is bit cliché” Tim chuckles. “It’s not under the flower pot, it’s in the key holder” I snarl at him, pulling a little frog figurine out of the pot and grabbing the key out of it. “Grandma Nelly never locked the door. She always kept the key in the figurine, just in case” I explain to them, unlocking the door and walking inside.
“Holy Shit!” I gasp; looking around the place. “James has gone through here” Claudia snarls coming into the house behind me. “The house wasn’t boarded up like this. Him or Todd must have come back to do this” Simon says, looking at Rick and Timothy. “We never came here with him” Tim exclaims innocently.
Dad sniffs the air; “No; Rogues have been here. You can smell them in the air” he explains. “How did they get in?” I ask; looking in my old room. “Through the back door” Cyndy calls out from the back of the house. “The scent is old. It’s been a while since they have been here” she includes; as we both come back into the living area.
“That’s the picture, Mum was talking about” I tell them pointing at the painting of Grandma Nelly and Grandpa Leo. “I’ll get it” Jason says, going to the picture and placing his hands on either side of the painting. “It won’t budge” he grumbles; trying to get it off the wall. “What do you mean?” Claudia asks him, walking over to the painting. “I mean, I can’t move it” Jason huffs with exasperation in his voice.
“Danny; you need to get it” Dad says to me. “Why me?” “Because you are the direct descendant” he smiles at me. I walk over to the painting and place my hands on either side of the frame, lifting the picture off the wall. “There’s no safe” I tell them, looking surprised there is nothing behind it, as Dad comes over to me. “The picture is the safe, Danny” he smiles at me; looking down at the picture. I look down and see the back of the picture frame opening; showing the book Mum was telling us about.
“We can’t do anything here” Simon says, coming over to us. “Agreed” Dad adds to the conversation.
“Ok, we will take this picture” I tell everyone, closing the back of the frame again. “I want these too, and hang on” I inform them, giving Jason a few undamaged pictures of Grandma Nelly with myself and walking back into my old room and looking under my bed. “It’s still here” I exclaim.
“What do you have?” Claudia asks, following me in. “My old suitcase. There isn’t much in it. I have a few pictures of mum; Grandma Nelly gave me. And a stuffed mouse, I carried around with me until I was 4, my favourite marble because every 10-year-old boy had one and other bits and pieces” I chuckle, opening up the suitcase. “This is what I wanted to get for Sophia” I smile; holding the stuffed mouse in my hand. “It needs a wash” she laughs at me; “yeah it does.”
“We need to go” Dad says, coming into the room. “Shall we?” I ask Claudia, “Let’s go home” she smiles at me as we all head outside to the van. I put the key back into the key holder as Simon locks the door and I place all the items in the trunk, before climbing into the back seat. “James is watching us” Jason informs us; looking out of the rear passenger window. “We knew he was going to come over to the house. He wanted to know what we are searching for; that’s why I suggested we go now” Claudia answers him with an I told you so tone.
Simon pulls out and heads back to the Cedar Pack territory. Without fail, Dad’s phone goes off. “Hello” Dad answers calmly. “Yes, we found the pictures Danny was telling us about. He will be very surprised” he tells James. “We weren’t busy now. I suggested to Claudia, there was no time like the present to go get them” “Thanks again for letting us do this, James” he finishes, hanging up the phone. “He’s not happy” Dad chuckles, placing his phone back in his pocket.
“What did he say?” I ask him. “He was hoping to see Claudia and noticed we were at the house. He was coming over to say hi as we left” Dad explains. “Bull Shit” Rick coughs into his hand. “Considering it’s nowhere near the packhouse for him to see the house; I agree with Rick” Tim chuckles.
“We have what we need; let’s get it to my office and Danny and I will be able have a look at it” Dad announces. “And I will have this washed, before we give it to Sophia” Claudia giggles, picking up my old stuffed mouse with two fingers.
“What? I loved Jerry growing up” I frown at her. “Jerry?” Tim smirks “Grandma Nelly said I loved watching Tom and Jerry as a toddler. She got it for me and called it Jerry; any objections?” I growl at him. “No” Jason, Tim and Rick answer in unison; backing down as I release my Alpha Aura at them.
“That’s better” I say; grinning at Dad and Claudia. “That’s how you use your Aura” Dad chuckles as Simon pulls in front of the Cedar Moon packhouse. “Let’s get these things up to the office” I call out, grabbing the painting from the trunk.
“Danny, Claudia and myself will go over the book. We will meet in my office, in the morning” Dad tells everyone as the three of us head up the stairs, to his office.
“Let’s have a look at this book” I tell Claudia and Dad, picking the frame up and opening the back of it. I place the book on Dad’s desk in front of us. “It’s sealed” I tell them as words appear on the front cover. “Only the reincarnation of Teancum and Elsie Dayfield may open this book” Claudia says, reading the front cover as a handprint appears. “Danny; I think we found out why you are special” Dad announces, looking at me.
I place my hand over the hand print on the front cover and the seal breaks open. I open up to the first page and look at the picture; then back at Claudia; “Holy Shit” I whisper. “What is it? I can only see a blank page” Dad tells me as Claudia comes over to the book.
She looks at the picture and then looks at me; “You have got to be kidding me?” she laughs at me. **“Jesse; what does this mean?”** I ask him. **“Teancum and Elsie; you have risen”** he chuckles. **“Stop fucking around. What does this mean?” “You and Claudia are the reincarnations of Teancum and Elsie Dayfield”** he answers me.
“Dad, Amanda just said Danny and I are the reincarnation of Teancum and Elsie. You seriously can’t see the picture?” Claudia asks him. “No; every page is blank” he says scrolling through the book. “It looks like I will be reading it aloud then” she giggles at him, turning the page over. “Fucking hell” she exclaims.
“What?” I ask her, looking at the next page. “Shit; that’s Cynthia, Jason, Tim and Rick” I proclaim. “No, it’s Deirdre, Ezra, Levi and Micha” Claudia says, reading the names on the page. “Goddess Selene has given Teancum, Elsie, Deirdre, Ezra, Levi and Micha the ability to protect werewolves for all eternity. All six will be reincarnated at the same time, to stop all who oppose werewolf shifters to be in existence” Claudia reads the caption aloud. “Teancum and Elsie agreed as long as they can be mated together, for all eternity” I read a few paragraphs down from the picture.
“You’ve been stuck with me for more than one life” I chuckle at Claudia. “Beats some other assholes, like Todd” she giggles.
**“Jesse, here’s something for you”** I tell him and read another paragraph. “Nesbeth; the self-proclaimed queen of witches and warlocks, has been enslaving humans for all matters of evil and needs to be stopped. Goddess Selene appointed the first wolves and humans; Jessibah, a brown wolf and Amandee a white wolf, given to the first Alpha and Luna; Teancum and Elsie Dayfield.”
“Both Jessibah and Amandee were given additional abilities to defeat Nesbeth. Amandee and Elsie was captured and killed for this power, on the belief the white wolf was the only one with extra abilities” Claudia gasps, reading on from the paragraph I just read. “Does that mean Jesse has additional abilities also?” Dad asks. **“I may do; I’m not sure. I may have been the one to push Dad away, the mate bond made it more accessible to me.”**
“He’s not sure. He thinks he may have been the one to have accidently thrown you during our sparring match that day and the mate bond made it more accessible for him to do it” I tell him. “Mandy says, they are learning about them; just as much as we are. Goddess Selene has told us bits and pieces but she likes us to learn for ourselves.” “She did explain they work on emotions and told me I needed to learn how to control them” I add to what Claudia was saying.
“What does it say about Tim, Rick, Cyndy and Jason?” Dad asks me. “They were our warriors. They were given wolves to protect us. This is interesting?” Claudia answers him and points to something a few pages over. “What is it?” I ask her trying to scan the page. “It looks as though there is one here for the six of us” she says to me. “I am guessing they will be able to see the pages too” I answer her, placing my hand on the page. “What are you talking about?” Dad laughs at us. “Dad, we need Tim, Rick, Cyndy and Jason here” I tell him.
“Why?” “Not entirely sure; it says we all need to place our hands on a page. There is a space for all of us” I answer him as Claudia and I place our hands on the page together.
“Sophia needs to be fed and it’s getting late. We will meet them first thing in the morning” Claudia tells us, getting up from Dad’s desk. “We’ll see you in the morning” Dad says to us. “Good night” I tell him, placing the book back in it’s safe and head out the door behind Claudia.