Filed to story: Werewolfs Heartsong by Dizzy Izzy
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Nathen was with us again. “What town are we stopping in tonight?” he asked me, as we buckles our seat belts. Making me freeze just as I was about to put the Jeep in drive.
Thinking about it, I cringe slightly. Where we were going to go to, was a crossover town operated by a neighboring Pack. The two wolves who had pulled Xander and I over, the night I claimed Alora, both had Clan’s in this Pack.
I wanted the two wolves to meet Alora and Beatrice, so they would know our anger at them that night was not personal. We also wanted to offer an apology in person, Xander and I had already paid the rightfully given fines, and apologized through the
Alpha’s, but it didn’t feel like enough.
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“We’ll be staying in another Pack’s territory tonight.” I tell him, Alora is giving me a suspicious look. She could feel my emotions, so there was no point in hiding my main reasons for stopping in this Pack’s territory.
“The two wolves who pulled Xander and I over, the night I was speeding to get back to you, belong to the Pack we’ll be staying with.” I tell her.
She smiles, understanding now why she was feeling, what she was through, our bond. “You want to apologize in person.” she asks me, her voice soft and loving. Somehow, her smile and her voice wrap around me, bringing comfort.
Smiling, feeling at ease thanks to my mate, I say “Yes.” to her statement.
Her smile still in place, she looks at me. “Well we better get going then my darling mate.” She says, love in her tone.
I put the jeep in gear and off we go. Alora connected her phone to the jeeps deck and started one of her many playlists. She was in the mood for metal apparently, not my favorite, but she tolerated a few of my country songs before she had put in her head phones earlier, so I could listen to her choice in music. Besides, I didn’t mind what she was playing.
Remembering her actions earlier, I chuckle a little bit. She was okay through a Big and Ritch, a few Carrie Underwood’s, some
Miranda Lambert and Faith Hill, even singing along to “This Kiss,’ but it didn’t last.
She broke when one of Tobey Keith’s newer songs came on. She sat up and grabbed her bag, digging frantically through it a moment before coming out with a pair of JLab ear buds. “This is the best invention ever, noise cancelling ear buds.” she said brightly. “So you can politely drown out your mates terrible taste in music.” these last words had almost been sung. O
I had laughed loudly at her antics and told her “Okay my darling Starlight, go to your happy place.” Smiling, she had put her ear buds in and listened to her own music, for the rest of the time I had control over the deck.
“What are you laughing about?” she asks me.
“I was thinking about your reaction to the music I played earlier.” I tell her, amusement in my tone.
She cringes and looks at me “While I love you more than life itself….I truly hate country music.” she said like she was sorry she didn’t like it. 2
I laugh again. “I don’t mind, It’s not something I absolutely have to listen to, but it is my most listened to genre.” I tell her. A few lyrics of the song we were listening to caught my attention. “Isn’t ‘Royals’ a pop song?” I asked her.
“Yeah, but I like Otep’s version too. It makes me want to hear them do a Billie Eilish song.” I tell him.
I laugh again “You definitely have interesting taste in music.” I tease.
She points a finger at me “Don’t make fun of my music.”
“I wouldn’t dare, I know better. I’m not about to put myself in the dog house.” I tell her.
Nathen and Asher burst out laughing from the back seat, it takes them a few moments and a glare from Alora before they sober up. “Your mate sis.” Nathen breaks off and chuckles. “Is proving to be intelligent.” he says.
“Of course my mate is intelligent…he claimed me after all.” she says, adopting a haughty air when she says this. I could feel her amusement when her brothers burst out laughing again.
I wait for them to settle down before looking in the rearview at Asher, Asher, sensing my gaze meets it in the mirror, “Ask your questions.” I tell him, before directing my gaze back to the road.
He’s quiet a moment, and a song comes on, one I could feel was a favorite of Alora’s. It was called ‘The Call of the Mountains’ by
Eluveitie, that it was a favorite made me happy. I had heard it from a fellow students phone one day at the University, and had sent it to her in a link thinking she would like it. She told me she loved it, now I could feel how much she did.
Asher asks in a serious tone. “Why would Alora refer to Sunny as a Fae.”
“Because your mate is not fully human, she has Fae blood in her, and carries the scent of a Sidhe General of the Seelie Court, one Zane remembers fighting next to in the first War against the Black Magic Coven.” I tell him. “After the first War, both the
Seelie and Unseelie courts ordered all of their people from this plain and into theirs. When they all went into Underhill, the Kings and Queens of both courts ordered all the doors sealed, no Fae was allowed out, and no one without the blood of a Fae was allowed in.”
I glance at him, in the rearview mirror, taking in his shocked expression. “If all their people were ordered back to Underhill, why is it someone like Sunny exists?” he asked me.
I glance at Alora just as she glanced at me, we share a grim look. Looking back at the road I tell Asher honestly. “I really don’t know, all Alora and I have, are theories.”