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The moon and the sun alternated in the sky. The days went by as the horizon witnessed it.The quiet of the forest was suddenly broken. Deep in the cliff the branches were breaking under the paws of pierced the bushes and trampled the dry leaves.A small group of wolves were walking around looking for prey to eat. The most adult male was ahead of the younger ones and a female was leading the group. They were skirting the bottom of the cliff where it was common to find the bodies of prey that had fallen from above. Suddenly he stopped when he smelled a scent that brought back memories mixed with blood. He raised his ears in alarm.He shook his head and motioned to the she-wolf who had also detected and recognized him. It hadn't been for long, but wolves had the ability to remember the scents of another member of the same breed very well.Perhaps...They both ran the few meters that separated them from that smell and when they looked through the foliage they detected, in the middle of a
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Three months later she had given birth to her cub within that group of savages and she had promised herself to take care of him as soon as he was at her breast. She didn't care who the father of her cub was. What she knew was that he was hers.She had hoped that at some point they would come for her. If they had done so by their means, perhaps they might give up their cub and accept it, something the males didn't normally do, least of all when their little one was also a male. However, in all that time there was no news of them.He thought maybe because he was next to the savages and away from the herd, but no. There were times when he would go near the cliff and leave his scent. Nothing.And after a year and when her puppy was already running next to her in the grounds around where she lived, there was still no trace of her dunks.Resentment?Pain?Betrayal?No, Clara did not allow herself to feel any of it. She carried the emptiness inside her with the love and care for her son and
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Will looked for so long at Clara that the wolf between them that had previously cut him off growled at him, tensing its body and bristling the fur on its back. Will bared his fangs at it, but it did not flinch. Only when Clara put a hand on the wolf's head as a way to calm him did he relax his body a little, although his red orbs never stopped looking at the other wolf.And Will felt humiliated since this one had barely backed down. He was an alpha. Everyone in his pack respected him. So...-Clara's voice was straight as she bowed her head. Her silver hair was a sight to behold, shimmering as the light rays of sunlight washed over it. The wolf still couldn't imagine that this she-wolf was the same one he had seen five years before. Neither he nor the wolves at his back.Clara didn't say anything else to him, she gave directions to her group to move away.-Will called out to her, already they were beginning to attract more attention than usual.She looked over her shoulder at him.-Res
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They were supposed to touch now on the subject of hunters, but given the tense atmosphere the wolf who was leading the whole meeting focused on the subject of how to manage the packs and that wolves could not be easily expelled, as well as the maintenance of these, in derivation to what she had exposed.In this case Clara did not speak or intervene, she and her pack had their way of doing things. However, all the time, Will's attention was on her and it began to bother her. She remembered how in the past it was a wolf that used to be around her constantly, especially when her mates were around and this was something that upset them and a lot really.His intentions were now clear. Anyone would think he was surprised to have seen her alive again, but Clara wasn't stupid, that gleam in her eyes gave him away. That gleam in her eyes gave him away. He was interested in her and certainly much more so now that he had found her to be the alpha of a pack, and not the submissive wolf of the pas
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Was going back to the herd where she experienced the rawest moments of her life a good idea? Of course not, it was the place Clara least wanted to be. A lot of things both the other Clara and herself had had to go through. Even the memory of her mates that she hadn't known about for a long time and now she was following her instinct to go after Will to at least hear from one of them.She stopped dead in her tracks causing the wolves with her to stop as well. And what happened when she ran into them again? She had a puppy, one that didn't belong to either of the twins and she knew his life could be in danger.-Clara- the other alpha's voice brought her out of her thoughts, -Is something wrong, or did you regret going to the pack?The she-wolf looked at him with a serious face. Her chest was throbbing inside her. Now that she was there she could not back out. Destiny was something that could not be changed so easily. If both Dixon and Ethan had disappeared for a reason. And the doubt ha
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As excited as Clara was at that moment to finally learn what had happened to one of her mates, she could not act recklessly. If she did, she would not only cause a war between packs, she would endanger the savages under her protection. So he quickly thought of a plan and after a few long seconds he smiled.-Wait here. When I tell you, you take them.- Clara stood up and turned to the whole group.-I'll be in charge of entertaining alpha- he waved his hands giving directions. He then pointed to three of his group -You will run to the edge of the herd and pose as savages who want to attack. First bathe in mud so they don't recognize your scent and run as soon as they sense you. You will only be a distraction to lure the attackers- the three wolves nodded without replying -except you two who will stay here as if pretending the house is inhabited, the rest go with her to where Dixon is to get him out of there- and he gave other more detailed instructions.She knew the strength and skill th
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If there was something that Clara could do very, very well was to run fast, so sneaking out of Will's study without him noticing was quite easy. Now she only had to meet up with her group and in turn, if they had done their job well, with Dixon and maybe she would know Ethan's whereabouts, because she hadn't heard anything from him and that worried her. But at least one of her mates knew he was safe.And she knew the other hadn't died-she would have felt it.She heard sounds near her, but deftly moved away so fast that her paws ached, but soon she was leaving the once herd where she lived. She lifted her head looking for the scent of its members and found them far away, with them a soft and very familiar scent that made her tail wag. He couldn't help it. It was his mate even for all they had been through.He crossed the forest with the objective of meeting them. His plan had worked to perfection and he soon met up with them a few miles away from his herd, but far from any danger.The
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After dismissing her son a she-wolf brought her some hot water and some cloths so she could clean his body, and an ointment they had made from herbs that helped to heal faster and lessen the pain. The she-wolf asked if she needed help but Clara's possessive feeling came to the surface and she denied in the most subtle way possible.She didn't want anyone else to touch her wolf.He walked over with the things to where Dixon was lying and knelt down beside him. He stroked with his hand the fur on his neck that was hard from the blood. It would be difficult to heal him well that way. His fur was not only dark but also dense. So he resorted to the best method for that moment.He let out his pheromones gently in the direction of the wolf to force him to turn since he was unconscious. It took quite a while for Dixon to show any reaction, but after a few long minutes the wolf's fur began to retract and the bones under his skin rattled.Slowly the body of the former alpha was transforming lea