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The first week in the Crescent Pack was like walking on glass, every step had to be careful, measured. I held my head high, shoulders straight, but inside, my nerves were a tangled mess.
The wolves here bowed their heads when I passed, their eyes flickering with respect, but also something else, curiosity, maybe even wariness. To them, I was the Alpha who came out of
nowhere.
I was a stranger and I had to build a bridge between us and it was very difficult.
I moved through the days like a shadow, my presence acknowledged but not truly welcomed.
Every smile I gave was welcomed with a fake and robotic one, every word I spoke was taken
seriously but I didn’t want to be a dictator. I wanted to be taken seriously and to be able to work
with them so that we can make our pack very successful and make everybody happy. I had spent
my whole life invisible and here, I was just… tolerated.
Only Chase broke the pattern.
I expected hostility. I was honestly looking forward to being his worst nightmare because he only
knows weak me but the new me does not tolerate nonsense but it turns out he was loyal to
Kimberly.
I’m not sure why he keeps on hoping that she’ll forgive him and maybe she will but the way she
looks at him is an indicator that they just so much heard and anger hidden underneath the end I’m
afraid he might never be able to get rid of it.
And to be honest I love this Kimberly because she reminds me of me and maybe we share the same fate of going back to the same man who will always make that one mistake that will tear everything apart.
But Astor recently was my
anchor.
Every evening, without fail, his voice would come through the phone, deep and steady. We talked about everything, the kids, the pack, the little things that made the distance between us feel smaller. Hearing him laugh made my chest tighten in the best way.
We were sharing Memories over the phone and it just felt like we were next to each other.
Two Months In
Slowly, the Crescent Pack stopped feeling like a cage. The children played in the halls, their laughter chasing away the lingering coldness.
I think they’re mostly the reason why everybody has just accepted me because the kids refused to
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be sidelined by anybody. They made their presence failed and everybody has just started to refer
to Isabella has be a future alpha because it’s quite clear that she will be the alpha of this pack
because Marco is destined to be the alpha of the Eternal pack.
And I’m not sure if they’ll want to separate in the future but I know my daughter can do it and who says girls can’t.
They missed their father, of course, asking about him every day. Liam took them to visit the Eternal
Pack, and they returned full of stories about how Astor had taken them running under the full
moon, how he had let them help train the younger wolves.
For the first time in a long time, I felt hope. Maybe this could work. Maybe we could rebuild, not
just our packs, but us.
Four Months In
Then, the silence came.
Astor’s calls became shorter. More rushed. Then, they stopped altogether.
I tried reaching him through the mind link, only to hit an unseen wall, blocked. His texts were short,
cold. Only about the kids. Never about me.
I thought I could handle it at some point but it was just becoming too much.
“Is everything okay?” I’d ask.
“Fine,” he’d reply.
Nothing more.
This is not how I imagined the distance going and my wolf was just going crazy because we need
that connection with our mate.
Five Months In
The kids were gone again, visiting the Eternal Pack. The halls of the Crescent mansion were too big, too empty. At night, I curled into myself, pressing my face into the pillow just to muffle the sound of my own breathing.
I wanted to go back. More than anything, I wanted to run to him, to demand answers, to scream, to cry but something held me in place. Fear? Pride? I didn’t know.
All I knew was the gnawing ache in my chest, growing larger with every passing day.
This time he actually demanded that he kept the kids longer which is the whole month and he sent that message through Liam like I was some sort of stranger that he couldn’t even talk to properly.
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I wanted to say no but I can’t keep my kids from their father and I promised him that our distance should never come between our relationship with our children so I had no right but I was hurting and I was angry.
Six Months In
Now, standing here, I finally understand.
The Crescent Pack gave me shelter. It gave me time. But it also forced me to see the truth, my place wasn’t here. It was never here.
It was with him.
I made a lot of memories in this place I made friends and I need family and to be honest it’s actually the first pack that accepted me wholeheartedly.
when I walk around here I feel loved I feel respected and it is the best kind of feeling in the world which is something I never got anyway.
But this place didn’t give me the love that I desperately craved the most which is his. I tried to ask
Liam who was constantly back and forth between the packs what was going on and he didn’t have
the answers that I needed.
Liam and I have actually become friends in the short while and because of that I really believe that
he wouldn’t lie to me or hide something bad could potentially harm me but I’m not oblivious to the
change and neither is he.
Something is going on and I need to find out what it is.
And I wouldn’t wait any longer.
