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Silas simply stared. “What makes you think I am going to tell you anything? Because your wolf is the same color as mine?” he scoffed and turned to leave. He had spent enough time talking and getting the run around. He would go below and join the search.
“Yes. That and you know we are kin. Or have you walked so long amongst humans your wolf no longer recognizes pack. Blood pack?”
“My pack has been with me for the past two hundred years, my wolf recognizes them just fine.” He kept walking.
“So you do not want to know who you are? Where you came from? Your heritage that you will past to your pups one day? You are not interested in anything I have to say?”
Silas stopped and looked over his shoulder as a thought occurred to him. “Did you rape a twelve year old girl in Virginia when the colonies were new?”
“What?”
Silas turned and crossed his arms. “I do not remember the name of the town or the girl’s name, but her friend saw a black wolf with green eyes. She said he raped her best friend. It was not me. I was not on the eastern shore during that time. Were you here?”
“I have never raped a child. If I had sex with her, she was mature.” He sounded offended.
“Meaning she was old enough to have a child. I think the young girl was pregnant and died,” Silas said trying to remember the particulars.
“During the formation of this country we roamed more frequently until our Alpha was murdered. Understand this; Alpha was an unbeatable fighter who had destroyed every challenger during his one hundred years as our leader. He was respected and feared everywhere. We enjoyed a time of peace with no threats against our border. So when he was murdered no one could explain his death. It was a mystery that set things in a motion that is still spinning.” The cautious manner in which he spoke arrested Silas’ attention. An icy chill raced down his spine.
“We can share information,” Angus said raising his large head from his paws as he stared at Silas. “Everything I tell you will be the truth as I know it. I expect the same from you.”
“There are many theories why our Alpha went into the small village that night. Some say he was obsessed with a young girl there. Others say a witch bespelled him. The speculation goes on and on. The truth of his motives died with him that night. The next day two women saw him lying on the side of the road and thought he was a mere human. They took him home to nurse him to health.”
Silas’ head snapped up. “Nurse a dead man?”
“Yes. Supposedly they did not know he was dead. Remember this was during a time where they believed a body could still be raised within three days.”
Silas nodded. The first settlers had been religious zealots. He could see them telling the dead Alpha to take his bed and walk.
“They worked on him for two days and the third day his body was missing.”
“Missing?” He asked to be sure he heard correctly.
“Yes. And one of the women gave birth nine months later to a son. Supposedly she had been a virgin. Sound familiar?” Angus asked.
“Oh hell.” Silas chuckled.
Jasmine laughed.
“Chances are she had a lover and used our Alpha as an excuse to cover her condition. The story goes she told everyone Alpha had married her and the other woman served as a witness. That way she was not stoned or made an outcast for fornication. For the next three years she gave birth to a son almost to the birth date of the first son.”
Silas frowned at the added complication. “That changes things, takes it from a prank to reality. Someone had to make her pregnant.”
“Yes, that’s true. After the first son the town’s people were leery. But when she was pregnant with the second child they accused her of immoral behavior and threatened to run her out of town. When the second son was born, he looked exactly the same as the first. Since the hypocrites had already accepted the first son, they would not refuse his twin.”
Silas remembered those dark times with little affection. It had been hard for him and anyone with a dual nature. Even though the early settlers came to the new world to escape religious persecution, they were intolerant of anything different.
“When her second son was one month, they made her move in a cottage that was in the middle of the square so they could watch her closely. Each day someone from the village stayed in her home under the guise of assisting with the babes. One night the woman from the village woke and met a handsome man inside the home sitting on the floor playing with the babes. The mother was asleep. Nine months later, both women gave birth to sons and were ran out of town.”
“Alpha impregnated human women.”
Silas stilled as the ramifications slammed into him.
“Okay, okay, I get it. But to believe that you have to believe the Alpha rose from the dead.”
“Says the man who is a walking, talking wolf. Talk about weird stuff.” She chuckled.
Silas was not amused.
“Hey, you believe in spiritual things like the Goddess, how much of a jump is this? Then again, maybe he wasn’t fully dead,” she said.
“Then why did he appear once a year?” He countered.
“Menopausal? Weird? Polygamist? I don’t know. But the time is about right, according to Griggs anyway.”
“What happened to his sons?” Silas asked instead of talking to his mate. He did not appreciate her humor of a possible connection to his origins and human breeders. That was not something he wanted to think about right now.
“As far as I know they never acknowledged their dual nature until the cycle was broken.”
Silas frowned. “What cycle?”
“One of the women had a daughter, twins I think. After the girls were born, Alpha did not appear for three years. By then he had a large clan of mixed breeds. His sons followed in his footsteps, traveling all over the country, planting their seeds. Most of them were hanged for crimes and did not live past a hundred.”
“The daughters?”
“One died as a young child. We are still tracking the other’s lineage. But she was the cream of his litter. Even mixed, her pups were closer to our pack than any of the sons litters.”
“She could be. So could your bitch. She is very strong and it is not all from you.”
“If Asia is a descendant of the Alpha, you think that is the reason she has been targeted?”
“No. We believe that is the reason she has been successful. There is a difference. Recently we discovered an ongoing intensive background study on her. Someone even came to the continent poking their noses where it did not belong. It caused quite a stir, we had no idea.”
“No one will believe a dead Alpha impregnated those women,” Silas scoffed.
“Unless they are the same ones who know wolves and men can be one. It goes back to what I asked before. Why her? Why does her body have the ability to be altered and not others? They are seeking more of our kind.”
“Are there many others?”
“Pure black wolves? No. Less than a hundred around the world. But most are strong and have large packs. Not as large as yours…”
Silas waved down the comment, it was irrelevant at the moment. “Are there many from his son’s line still living?”
“We have someone tracking that information as well. It is more difficult because there were many sons who mated with many women who birthed a lot of children. We may never know all of the offspring because of the time period and poor record keeping.”
“That’s true,” Silas said thinking how most people could not read or write let alone record a birth in those times. “So it is easier to track the daughter’s line. She was his only living female child, right?”
“As far as we know. Alpha rarely appears any more. I have heard stories that he visits his seed, grandchildren in dreams and speak of their heritage. But I cannot confirm if that is true or not.”
“So where do we or Asia play in all of this?” Silas asked glad his mate had stopped with the teasing.
“We are not exactly sure… but suspect Asia will be a solid leader in this war. A force of nature as she comes into her own. Do you know if she is mated? Or has had a mate?”
Silas shrugged, refusing to share anything personal regarding Asia. She would share whatever she wanted Angus to know. “You will need to ask her.”
“Of course.” Angus paused. “There are others, your sons, for example. We have researched their line. Bennetts have been known far and wide as a fierce fighting clan for generations. But the twins are better, faster and meaner than their relatives. Their ability to adapt quickly to change has been noted. It’s possible that they are descendants as well. They exhibit the mental and physical agility of the black wolf as well an innate loyalty to pack. Those are core traits of our clan.”
Silas had always thought there was something different, special about how quickly Tyrone and Tyrese learned new skills. When he met Tyrone in the hospital, he picked up a different scent, but could not identify it at the time. With everything happening so quickly, moving from the hospital, Jasmine going into heat, his wolf fighting the attraction and their mating, he had forgotten the small difference, until now. They certainly carried the traits Angus mentioned and more. Before he trained them, they fought on the same level as his Alphas. Now they were an unbeatable tag team. He trusted the twins not only with his life, but the lives of his mate and pups. There was no one else on the planet that he trusted to that degree.
“What do you mean?” he asked wanting Jasmine to hear the pronouncement clearly.
“We believe your mate is a descendant of the daughter of our Alpha.”
“Yes. That and you know we are kin. Or have you walked so long amongst humans your wolf no longer recognizes pack. Blood pack?”
“My pack has been with me for the past two hundred years, my wolf recognizes them just fine.” He kept walking.
“So you do not want to know who you are? Where you came from? Your heritage that you will past to your pups one day? You are not interested in anything I have to say?”
Silas stopped and looked over his shoulder as a thought occurred to him. “Did you rape a twelve year old girl in Virginia when the colonies were new?”
“What?”
Silas turned and crossed his arms. “I do not remember the name of the town or the girl’s name, but her friend saw a black wolf with green eyes. She said he raped her best friend. It was not me. I was not on the eastern shore during that time. Were you here?”
“I have never raped a child. If I had sex with her, she was mature.” He sounded offended.
“Meaning she was old enough to have a child. I think the young girl was pregnant and died,” Silas said trying to remember the particulars.
“During the formation of this country we roamed more frequently until our Alpha was murdered. Understand this; Alpha was an unbeatable fighter who had destroyed every challenger during his one hundred years as our leader. He was respected and feared everywhere. We enjoyed a time of peace with no threats against our border. So when he was murdered no one could explain his death. It was a mystery that set things in a motion that is still spinning.” The cautious manner in which he spoke arrested Silas’ attention. An icy chill raced down his spine.
“Ask him about the breeders
,” Jasmine said.
“We can share information,” Angus said raising his large head from his paws as he stared at Silas. “Everything I tell you will be the truth as I know it. I expect the same from you.”
“Silas we need to know more about your past. It might have something to do with what is going on now
,” his mate urged when he hesitated.
“There are many theories why our Alpha went into the small village that night. Some say he was obsessed with a young girl there. Others say a witch bespelled him. The speculation goes on and on. The truth of his motives died with him that night. The next day two women saw him lying on the side of the road and thought he was a mere human. They took him home to nurse him to health.”
Silas’ head snapped up. “Nurse a dead man?”
“Yes. Supposedly they did not know he was dead. Remember this was during a time where they believed a body could still be raised within three days.”
Silas nodded. The first settlers had been religious zealots. He could see them telling the dead Alpha to take his bed and walk.
“They worked on him for two days and the third day his body was missing.”
“Missing?” He asked to be sure he heard correctly.
“Yes. And one of the women gave birth nine months later to a son. Supposedly she had been a virgin. Sound familiar?” Angus asked.
“Oh hell.” Silas chuckled.
Jasmine laughed.
“Chances are she had a lover and used our Alpha as an excuse to cover her condition. The story goes she told everyone Alpha had married her and the other woman served as a witness. That way she was not stoned or made an outcast for fornication. For the next three years she gave birth to a son almost to the birth date of the first son.”
Silas frowned at the added complication. “That changes things, takes it from a prank to reality. Someone had to make her pregnant.”
“Yes, that’s true. After the first son the town’s people were leery. But when she was pregnant with the second child they accused her of immoral behavior and threatened to run her out of town. When the second son was born, he looked exactly the same as the first. Since the hypocrites had already accepted the first son, they would not refuse his twin.”
Silas remembered those dark times with little affection. It had been hard for him and anyone with a dual nature. Even though the early settlers came to the new world to escape religious persecution, they were intolerant of anything different.
“When her second son was one month, they made her move in a cottage that was in the middle of the square so they could watch her closely. Each day someone from the village stayed in her home under the guise of assisting with the babes. One night the woman from the village woke and met a handsome man inside the home sitting on the floor playing with the babes. The mother was asleep. Nine months later, both women gave birth to sons and were ran out of town.”
“That sounds like a fairy tale
,” Jasmine said.
“Alpha impregnated human women.”
Silas stilled as the ramifications slammed into him.
“Oh shit,”
Jasmine whispered.
“That’s terrible and twisted,”
Jasmine said.
“It’s a possible explanation how this got started. What surprises me is that it was going on during the same time period I have Jacques researching.
”
“What?
” he did not want to think of the ramifications of that.
“Okay, okay, I get it. But to believe that you have to believe the Alpha rose from the dead.”
“Says the man who is a walking, talking wolf. Talk about weird stuff.” She chuckled.
Silas was not amused.
“Hey, you believe in spiritual things like the Goddess, how much of a jump is this? Then again, maybe he wasn’t fully dead,” she said.
“Then why did he appear once a year?” He countered.
“Menopausal? Weird? Polygamist? I don’t know. But the time is about right, according to Griggs anyway.”
“What happened to his sons?” Silas asked instead of talking to his mate. He did not appreciate her humor of a possible connection to his origins and human breeders. That was not something he wanted to think about right now.
“As far as I know they never acknowledged their dual nature until the cycle was broken.”
Silas frowned. “What cycle?”
“I bet you’re thinking of all the mean things you said about breeders right now knowing we could all be related
…” Jasmine said laughing.
“One of the women had a daughter, twins I think. After the girls were born, Alpha did not appear for three years. By then he had a large clan of mixed breeds. His sons followed in his footsteps, traveling all over the country, planting their seeds. Most of them were hanged for crimes and did not live past a hundred.”
“The daughters?”
“One died as a young child. We are still tracking the other’s lineage. But she was the cream of his litter. Even mixed, her pups were closer to our pack than any of the sons litters.”
“We could be cousins or something, huh?”
Jasmine asked with a chuckle in her voice.
“She could be. So could your bitch. She is very strong and it is not all from you.”
“Really? Damn you Black Wolves sure have made serious inroads on the half-breeds of the world.
” Jasmine said.
“If Asia is a descendant of the Alpha, you think that is the reason she has been targeted?”
“No. We believe that is the reason she has been successful. There is a difference. Recently we discovered an ongoing intensive background study on her. Someone even came to the continent poking their noses where it did not belong. It caused quite a stir, we had no idea.”
“No one will believe a dead Alpha impregnated those women,” Silas scoffed.
“Unless they are the same ones who know wolves and men can be one. It goes back to what I asked before. Why her? Why does her body have the ability to be altered and not others? They are seeking more of our kind.”
“Are there many others?”
“Pure black wolves? No. Less than a hundred around the world. But most are strong and have large packs. Not as large as yours…”
Silas waved down the comment, it was irrelevant at the moment. “Are there many from his son’s line still living?”
“We have someone tracking that information as well. It is more difficult because there were many sons who mated with many women who birthed a lot of children. We may never know all of the offspring because of the time period and poor record keeping.”
“That’s true,” Silas said thinking how most people could not read or write let alone record a birth in those times. “So it is easier to track the daughter’s line. She was his only living female child, right?”
“As far as we know. Alpha rarely appears any more. I have heard stories that he visits his seed, grandchildren in dreams and speak of their heritage. But I cannot confirm if that is true or not.”
“So where do we or Asia play in all of this?” Silas asked glad his mate had stopped with the teasing.
“We are not exactly sure… but suspect Asia will be a solid leader in this war. A force of nature as she comes into her own. Do you know if she is mated? Or has had a mate?”
Silas shrugged, refusing to share anything personal regarding Asia. She would share whatever she wanted Angus to know. “You will need to ask her.”
“Of course.” Angus paused. “There are others, your sons, for example. We have researched their line. Bennetts have been known far and wide as a fierce fighting clan for generations. But the twins are better, faster and meaner than their relatives. Their ability to adapt quickly to change has been noted. It’s possible that they are descendants as well. They exhibit the mental and physical agility of the black wolf as well an innate loyalty to pack. Those are core traits of our clan.”
Silas had always thought there was something different, special about how quickly Tyrone and Tyrese learned new skills. When he met Tyrone in the hospital, he picked up a different scent, but could not identify it at the time. With everything happening so quickly, moving from the hospital, Jasmine going into heat, his wolf fighting the attraction and their mating, he had forgotten the small difference, until now. They certainly carried the traits Angus mentioned and more. Before he trained them, they fought on the same level as his Alphas. Now they were an unbeatable tag team. He trusted the twins not only with his life, but the lives of his mate and pups. There was no one else on the planet that he trusted to that degree.
“What do you mean?” he asked wanting Jasmine to hear the pronouncement clearly.
“We believe your mate is a descendant of the daughter of our Alpha.”
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