Their Secret Obsession by Pippa Moon

Knox POV

"If people found out you didn't have a wolf, they would have picked you off. Knox, you have to see that. You would have been considered feeble... People would have believed you to be your father's weakness." My mother tried to explain.

"Seriously she is making no sense, there was no way to know if my wolf wouldn't have just come later. I could have just been a late bloomer." I muttered to Kane through mindlink, who grunted in reply, lifting my eyes to my brothers. I saw rage wash over him and knew he was thinking the same thing as me.

"Laura." I started to say, deciding mother wasn't a title she deserved right now. Seeing discomfort wash over her face I felt a tiny bit of satisfaction creep into my mind. I didn't like hurting her, I didn't want to hurt anyone but the pain eating at my heart had my whole chest tight and she needed to feel an ounce of that misery. I opened my mouth to tell her how stupid she sounded but she held her hand up to pause my reply so she could continue.

"We NEVER saw you as weak! You were always a fighter, determined to thrive in this harsh world you had been born into. Plus, Kane was always at your side, ready to protect you." She finished, I wish I could have believed her but seriously it all felt too much like bullshit for me.

"It's just a wolf." I laughed, trying hard not to roll my eyes. I had heard of wolfless wolves beating the odds and making something of themselves.

"No. It's not." Charlotte cut me off. "Do you both remember Odette?" She asked looking over her shoulder at Kane and then back to me, her eyes shining with a story.

"Short girl, red hair?" I asked, gaining a nod from my mother.

"No." Kane barked. "Why is it important now?"

"She never got her wolf." Lottie explained,

I would know about it. Kane, did you know?" I asked, looking over at my brother with accusing eyes. My brother shook his head his features hard as he watched Lottie

all the time, was never in school and when she was she looked ill!" Lottie began to say, sitting back in my seat, my hands slid up my girl's thighs to pull her closer but she remained firmly planted on the edge of my knees

away. She looked anorexic." She recalled sadness filling her eyes. "And as much as I love this pack, they were not kind to her, they shunned her. Had her do all the crappy jobs that not even the Omegas would do. Her life was rough, and so was anyone else's who may have tried to intervene." This was insane. We were a pack, we stuck

sighed and looked at Kane whose eyes were firmly locked on My father's. "Why didn't you do something to protect her?" I asked our father

knew how that felt.. Not only for Odette but for her parents..." Kane seethed. "And yet you condemned her to suffer as

answer. "So when you were born we had no choice, we knew what your life would be...

my head,

misery

I do care for

have to

for either of

wolf's

my head in reply asbe sulked off and hid

frustration. "When the time came for Kane

our father off, but my father simply shook

have been respected by his pack..

to shun me like you all disregarded Odette." I asked his eyes, glossing over with the