A Girl Adopted by Wolves
Chapter 4- Amara

Ryder did come to pick me up that day and as usual dad and Elenadidn't pay attention to what I was doing. Ryder took me back to thecabin near the river. Papa answered every question of mine.

"Wolf spirits are the wolf part of the shifter's soul. They are like jig sawpuzzle. When the human part and the wolf part comes together, theshifters soul becomes complete.” He had started in his deep andcommanding voice “Our natural enemies are vampires. The spiritsmerge with their humans when the potential enemy is living on ourland to protect humans and our mates from getting harmed. Twogeneration before me that is my great grandfather's generation was thefirst generation of the wolf shifters. My father was the first born and thealpha of the spirit wolves. The second born son of my grandfatherbecame the Alpha of the shifters. But when we merge with our humans,our memories in the spirit form are lost. We become an entirely newperson and wolf. The first born is never the shifter alpha, he becomesthe alpha of the spirit wolves. The first born produces the nextgeneration. The generations of the wolf spirits are related to theshifters. As many heir the human shifters has, as many will be the wolfspirits. There are six shifter families in our pack. The female born inthese families are never a shifter, which is why there are no female wolfspirit. Every shifter has a mate. Mate is like his other half, a soul mate.The wolf spirit completes the soul of the shifter but his mate completesthe existence of the shifters. Their mates are everything to them. Theshifters are always possessive of their mates.

Every wolf spirit does not merge with their humans. Only the numbersneeded to defend their people and mate from the enemy or to defeatthe enemy merges. The spirit alpha decides the number. The spiritalpha also looks over the shifters. My generation of shifters and thegeneration before me that is my father's generation, did not need toshift as the vampire family that lived on our land moved somewhereelse. The new spirit wolf is born by splitting from its parent in mygeneration's case or from splitting from the alpha like the othergenerations when the shifter is born. The other spirits of my generationdied when the new generation was born. The first born spirit wolf thatis the spirit wolf alpha remains to give birth to next generation. Thereare total of seven in the pack for now, excluding Ryder. If the vampiresmoves here then, the spirits will start merging with their human. Whenthe process starts, the human starts growing in size to make space forthe wolf spirits. His strength, senses and body temperature advancesand the transformation takes place. It's painful at first but afterwards itbecomes easier.” He had explained that day.

After that year, I came every summer to Greycoast to meet my wolffamily. I named every one of them. The second born or the humanalpha is honey brown in colour just like Ryder. I gave him the nameTyler. The beta is pitch black in colour, so I named him Raven. Third incommand's fur is dirty blonde. I named him Hunter. The other four area combination of grey, black and white with varied patterns. They areLogan, Max, Jack and Eric. This is my wolf family. Last year my mommarried a guy named David. Few months ago, he got transferred to anew place due to his job. So Elena suggested on moving in with dad. Iwas going to move in with uncle and aunt for two years. I practicallylived there anyways. I never lived with Mom and Elena. Mom and dadwould pay my school fees, with bitter feelings may I add, but they stillpaid for it. Mom and Dad said they would pay for my school only if Imoved to Greycoast. Uncle and aunt were ready to pay my school feesbut that would be too much to ask from them. They already did somuch for me, it would feel wrong to ask them for money as well. Alecwas mad at me for moving out of the house. But I had to leave. I don'twant to be a burden on anyone. They already did a lot for me.

So I moved to Greycoast but not with my father and sister. I moved inthe cabin. Dad had no say in this one and for safe keeping I didnt tellanybody where I am living. I took a part time job as a waitress in a cafe.I work from Monday to Saturday. Sunday is the training day. Papa istraining me in fighting and some sort of healing thing since thesummer I was eleven. I am doing well in fighting but in healing, I amstill on point zero. Papa said I have to keep practicing. He told me thatthe vampire family moved back here this year. So the wolf spirits aregoing to merge with their humans. Raven was the first. He merged withthe oldest boy of this generation named Stanley Smith. He is from thebeta family. We don't know yet who is going to be next. But I am goingto miss them all.

I moved here yesterday and have been cleaning this place since then.The cabin is finally clean. School starts day after tomorrow. I am goingto rest for now. Elena and I are going to go to the same school. Weeven have few classes together. We never talked in the old school.Elena is not a bitch or anything like earlier. She is a really nice girl, shy,smart, helpful and all that. She never did anything bad to me everaccept when we were kids. It was like I was invisible to her after fourthgrade. She never considered me a part of her family or life. It is betterthat, than getting bullied. Let's see what happens in this school. I hopeeverything goes fine tomorrow.