Shadow Wolf (Shadow Pack, #1)
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“We could run away,” I suggest, lowering my legs so that they’re in front of me.
Jsalt80
So… you want to run away with him, but not…🤔
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“I think if she is, it doesn’t really matter.”
Jsalt80
Why though? You ain’t even giving the poor girl a chance.
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Don’t kiss me. But don’t blame me when everyone finds out you’re a bad kisser on our wedding day.”
Jsalt80
How old are they? That bluff was horrendous! 🤣🤣🤣 And I bet she falls for it. It’s like saying, “just let me put the tip in”. 🤣🤣🤣
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The last thing I want on my wedding day is to be dubbed a bad kisser.
Jsalt80
Who would know other than him? You’re not kissing the pack. 🙄🙄
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We’re thirteen,
Jsalt80
Oh! Okay. Makes a lot of sense now.
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And I definitely act like an alpha sometimes, which confuses both my wolf and Zade’s.
Jsalt80
Oooh! Foreshadowing! 😏
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“I promise to be on my best behavior, Zadeos.”
Jsalt80
Oh that’s cute!
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was an omega, but my human was just stubborn as hell. That was it.
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Sure… sure…
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In our pack, training is outlawed for females unless they’re alphas.
Jsalt80
So… there you go.
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We’ve never been close.
Jsalt80
Adopted? Stolen as a baby?
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When the Crawfords took over the Willow Creek pack in the 1800s, the alpha of the Shadow Pack had declared war, and the two alphas fought to the death.
Jsalt80
So it sounds like the alpha of the Shadow pack had something specifically against the Crawfords since he only declared war when they took over and not before… 🤔
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If I’m to be his wife later this year, shouldn’t we present a united front?
Jsalt80
But the current alpha’s wife is nearly at the end with you though…
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“Alpha Phoenix,” Godric says, his voice lilted with amusement.
Jsalt80
So Alpha Phoenix is the same age as Goodrich, roughly? Because when she was thirteen she said Alpha Phoenix was already the alpha so the Shadow pack.
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Wiping my hands on the shag carpet beneath me,
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Carpet in the restroom? Yuck!
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I don’t even know when I started feeling like this, like I didn’t belong in my family, in Willow Creek, as Zade’s betrothed…
Jsalt80
Clearly for a very long time since you just said that voice from your childhood…
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All the times someone would comment how different Deirdre and I looked. How much taller and thinner she was, a spitting image of my mother. And then when my wolf showed herself, she wasn’t blonde like all the other Willow Creek wolves.
Jsalt80
Yep. She was stolen.
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His skin is pale yet golden-toned, like he’s naturally very tan, but lives in a place that isn’t too sunny.
Jsalt80
Didn’t her sister say her skin was also pale?
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His brown boots have dirt caked to them, and I notice the trail of dirt behind him, smashed into the dining room carpet.
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🤣🤣🤣 I like him!
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I’d heard stories about Godric and his fated mate. She was dead now–his wife, Emma, came after–but he’d experienced this same exact thing once.
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What!!!
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“What the fuck is going on?” Godric asks, hissing the words out.
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Oh buddy you know…
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I realize then from the way her mother’s face has gone white, her fists curling and uncurling at her side as her eyes dart from her husband to me that there’s some sort of dynamic between them that I’m not quite sure I understand.
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Secrets?
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That same wave of protectiveness washes through me as Adrienne’s father—George Pierce, Godric’s beta—shakes his head once, as if to tell me to keep quiet.
Jsalt80
Definitely secrets…
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But that Adrienne is a Shadow Pack wolf. I can’t help the horror that roils through me. Her parents have kept this secret from her. I tamp down the fury that burns through me, instead turning back to face my mate.
Jsalt80
Wow… I knew it though. But why would he keep their secret? She’s one of his own AND has fated mate.
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But mating with a wolf outside of your pack? I’d never heard of that happening.
Jsalt80
Which is likely why it’s so rare because your mates are likely in other packs…
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I glance at Zade, and his brows are furrowed as he looks between Phoenix and I.
Jsalt80
Surely he scents her arousal…along with everyone else in the room.
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I can’t betray my family. I could never mate a Shadow wolf.
Jsalt80
After you’ve thought a thousand times that you don’t belong there since childhood… 🙄🙄 You don’t even know anything about Phoenix really, just rumors.
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Fated mates are two halves of the same soul, and being rejected like this is akin to not being able to breathe.
Jsalt80
You rejected him first.
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Except she’s not really a Willow Creek wolf, is she?
Jsalt80
Exactly! He should have told her that through their link.
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Still, I can’t help but feel like I made a mistake.
Jsalt80
Really? 🙄🙄
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And I had no desire to mate with a wolf who would cook me dinners and kneel at my feet, which is exactly what all of them think they need to do.
Jsalt80
Well too bad you didn’t stick around long enough to realize that’s not in her job description. 🤣🤣
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What had he meant by that and why had he sounded so… melancholic when he said the words.
Jsalt80
Um, duh… FATED mate. 🙄🙄 Please don’t make her be stupid and unawares, author. I just left a book like that cuz it was just so incredulous how dumb the author make her.
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“Of course they left. Have you seen any black wolves roaming around?”
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Yeah her! And I hope she catches that clue as to her wolf being black while no other wolves there are black…
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Zade looks out over the river. “Yeah. Shadow wolves have black fur.”
Jsalt80
Oops Zade! Messed up there, dincha…😏
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“I only know what I overheard my parents talking about a few years ago,” he concedes, brows furrowed.
Jsalt80
Years!
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Alphas never drop their gaze unless they’re challenged by another alpha. So why the hell is he dropping his eyes on me now?
Jsalt80
Because duh, you just said the only reason one would drop their gaze… omega my ass.
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And I came from the brutes up north. I was second best.
Jsalt80
If they were actually brutes, why would your parents adopt from that pack when there are other packs? 🤔
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How did I never realize this before? Did I miss the signs? If Zade knew, who else knew?
Jsalt80
That’s what I’m saying…
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Has he looked at me differently in that time? Has he wondered exactly how feral I actually am?
Jsalt80
Well, he took your virginity a year ago so…
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and I had to grab the last of my backup outfits in my trunk, which just so happened to be a skimpy dress that barely covers my ass.
Jsalt80
So why was it in the back up clothes at all? Your “parents” are rich…
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Gods, what if Zade and I had pups, and their hair was black, like mine?
Jsalt80
Ok, we get it. Enough of this inner monologue. Let’s move on. Didn’t she just say she knows what she needs to do? I don’t think it was go to her room and cry while thinking of what the future could have been…
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How did she do all of this without them noticing? I have a feeling that Deirdre houses a lot of secrets—secrets that none of us know about.
Jsalt80
Because she was probably plotting since last night to get you to leave but you helped her out. She probably wanted Zade all along. 😏
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I just have to walk. I’ll figure out where I’m going once I cool down. I just need to keep walking, keep putting distance between me and this place. And the longer I walk, the further away from Willow Creek I’ll be.
Jsalt80
Um, you have a car for that and it could achieve that goal faster…
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I oscillate between my human and wolf forms, erring on the side of caution and keeping to my wolf form the first two days.
Jsalt80
So what, exactly, was the point of her taking the car, clothes and food?
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I spend my days trotting through the woods, eating the food from the bag Dee packed for me, and just basking in the rays of golden sun.
Jsalt80
So she’s just trotting across state with a bag between her jaws? For days? 🤔
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Then logic kicks in, too, and I transfer some money from my savings—which my parents control—to my personal checking account.
Jsalt80
Should have done that as soon as you decided to leave. 🙄🙄
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And the more I think about it, the more I realize… I deserve better. Yes, I should’ve had a better plan.
Jsalt80
Yeah, like drive your damn car… 🙄🙄
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I can’t go forward anymore. What do I do now?
Jsalt80
So shifters don’t heal quickly in this universe?
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I’m naked and over a stranger’s shoulder.
Jsalt80
And your ass and jujube is up in the air on display.
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I’ll bide my time until they go to sleep, and then I’ll leave. Simple as that.
Jsalt80
Is she serious? What makes her think they are going to go to bed without doing what they promised they were going to do to her?
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we didn’t tell anyone what happened with Adrienne—only my inner circle knows.
Jsalt80
So, that means you did tell someone, no?
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