Helanie:
"Can I see it again?" I asked for the fifth time after watching the same clip with a huge smile on my lips. Kaye nodded and handed Emmet’s phone to me.
I held it in my hands and smiled once more. Watching my beautiful wolf run was the confidence I needed.
The fact that it had two powerful eye colors — pink and blue — and had dual-toned fur... I was seeing what others had been telling me.
"Why is her wolf so different from the others?" Maximus asked, shifting in the bed. The two had come after Norman informed them about my transition.
We had ordered so much food to celebrate my wolf.
Although everyone was here, all four of them, Emmet remained slightly distant. He barely spoke, only answered with small head nods.
The spark he used to show before was fading, and I was getting worried for him.
"Because she isn’t like the others. There is definitely some story behind her two-toned colors. We have different wolves, but they are nothing like hers," Norman explained, holding a book in his hand.
Emmet sat on the chair far away from the bed, his foot tapping on the ground anxiously, and his eyes fixated on the wall ahead.
"And why didn’t you two call us when she started transitioning? We would have loved to run beside her," Maximus complained.
Since it wasn’t a full moon, Maximus’ wolf would have been just a normal one — powerful but not a lycan.
"We didn’t think about you two, sorry," Norman complained as he continued to check my wolf’s condition.
"Well, Emmet, was it crazy? Did you at any point want to shift and run beside her?" Maximus, who had been keeping one eye on his big brother, finally said his name to involve him in the conversation.
Even Kaye seemed worried about Emmet too.
"Ah?" Emmet shook himself back from whatever thoughts he was lost in and turned his attention to us.
"You know Emmet was a big help. If he hadn’t seen her on the stairs—" As Norman started to praise him, Emmet cleared his throat, which cut the sentence short.
"Then Norman would have. I’m sure when she hadn’t returned to the room, Norman would have gone out to look for her," Emmet intervened, refusing to take the credit.
"Anyway kids, I’ll be heading back to my room now," he got up and, without sparing me a glance, started walking out of the room.
"Brother, stay a little longer, can you?" Maximus’ voice was filled with so much worry as he requested his brother to stay.
Silence lingered for a few seconds before Emmet turned around and his gaze finally fell on me.
"It is late," he said while looking straight into my eyes, and then walked away.
"Umm, he’s not wrong though. Helanie hadn’t rested the whole night. How about we let her rest and then later we can try the combat classes?" Kaye got out of the bed as well, fixing his pants.
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