Calm. Only the spring breeze moved the tree's leaf. It felt nice. I moved towards a house where over-shrill cries were heard. A true contrast with the song of the birds and the animal's noises which were in the forest surrounding me. I was disappointed to have to leave so quickly the peaceful nature, to go towards this hubbub where I was still going to have to use my voice and my muscles.

In spite of the tumult inside the building, I heard a light cracking behind me thanks to my werewolf hearing coupled with my genes of an angel. I took a deep breath, then continued to walk like I heard nothing. This time, rubbings of step on grass got into my hears.

Wanting to turn over to see who did these steps, I found myself with a pain on the level of my belly. With my eyes wide opened by surprise, I saw that the pain came from a fist. Fallen on my knees, I saw the smiling face of my attacker. My hands held my abdomen like my life depended on it. My body on the ground, I let some moanings of pain escape from my mouth and twisted me on the ground such an animal in torture.

"Ha! Ha! I got you again. I am the strongest! " claimed my attacker with joy.

My eyes closed, I couldn't see it but I imagined very well his blond hair which flew to the wind and his round face smiling with his fist raised towards the sky like a hero.

"Mom! Mom! Come quickly! I got her by surprise again, " he shouted towards his mother which I heard the steps approaching.

Opening my green eyes I, first of all, saw her surprised blue eyes, then the smiling face of Alpha Jake's wife. Elisa collected his long golden hair to attach them in a ponytail, then knelt close to his son, and kissed him on the forehead to congratulate him for getting me by surprise. She then turned towards me and put her talent of an actress at execution.

"But now Lucy is hurt, she will not be able to train you to fight, " she said, making a sad face.

The little Nathan opened his large blue eyes and took suddenly a frightened face. He adored to fight, and he was rather gifted. Alpha's blood running through his veins made him fiercer and faster than the other children of his age.

That made a little less than six months that I was authorized to give him practices of defense and fight. One month ago, I told him how to be close to his prey without making noises for then, attacking them. After that, he tried to take me by surprise. But it was without counting on my werewolf's hearing which had taught me that small steps came discreetly close to me. Moreover, by smell, I could feel that Alpha Jake's son was the owner of these small steps.

"No, look, mom, she is well. I didn't hurt her very very badly, " he exclaimed rapidly to his mother. "You will continue to fight me, right? " he continued while turning his small head full of concern towards me.

I get up and made a smile. Nathan's face instantly illuminated. I sighed gently, then we set out again towards the house full of children overflowing with energy.

***

Exhausted by the various games which the children forced me to play, my muscles were painful. I hoped that Alpha Jake wouldn't give me other tasks to make, like the household or the meal or even the many turns of duty which I asked unceasingly before, to be able to move away from the pack's member.

"Alpha Jake, I have just finished taking care of the children. Do you need me for anything? " I asked him with a monotonous voice followed by a point of tiredness.

"No, it's good. I don't have anything to entrust to you. You are free," he answered me like he apprehended that the raising of his voice would frighten me. A reaction which was justified considering our first meeting wasn't the best.

I still remembered Elisa's horrified face when she had discovered me on the ground in the room of the hospital, shaken by tears. It's not like Jake had done something awful, he had just raised his voice because I hadn't answered the questions that he had asked me. This moment was right after discovering me close to the hunter's bodies. Considering I didn't answer any questions of the pack doctor and Elisa, they told me how they had found me.

Several werewolves who had disappeared a few months earlier resurfaced. Many had wounds with silver knives," the doctor had told the pack.

These werewolves were tortured like me. The silver was the weak point of werewolves, in spite of our capacity to be cured quickly, the silver knives and bullets made in silver hurt atrociously, and could leave us scars irreversible and impossible to be healed. If it weren't withdrawn from our body, we would die.

"The young werewolves who were prisoners had acknowledged that hunters had captured and tortured them. They didn't say what happened in details, but their bruised skins were enough to their misfortune. Many Alphas were unhappy to know that. Several packs have joined and sent werewolves where these young people were kept, prisoners. Everyone was hungry for blood. It must have been the most collaborative organization between Alphas we've ever had," the doctor explained, leaving a laughing pass his lips.

"And it was there, which Beta Sam found you, in the middle of the hunter's bodies in decomposition. I suppose that it was you who killed them," Elisa said gently and I nodded in response.

"Why your Alpha accepted me?" I had asked.

"Your wounds were serious, we had to act fast. Since it's Sam who has found you, it was normal that we take care of you until now," Elisa had spoken.

For me, at this moment, it was rather bad luck.

I had nothing more to gain, neither to lose, no one expects me at home, there was nothing anymore. I was literally like a zombie. I woke up, then washed, ate and get to sleep again. So on, during a whole month. I had remained dumb during the first months, then they had started to speak to the Alpha, to his wife and their son, and Beta Sam too. But it was all the interaction that I had. The others, in general, were unaware of me, since I spoke to them only by monosyllables or sometimes not at all.

That didn't prevent me from helping them. I observed them, then offered my assistance in all the fields: kitchen, household, babysitting, training, turns of guards.... Afterall, they had saved my life, it was the last things I could have done. Alpha Jake, Luna Elisa, and Beta Sam had accepted me like who I was. Completly broken. I hadn't succeeded in making me a place in the pack because most of these people didn't accept me or care about me.

I scurried into the main house which I opened the door. Then threaded me in my room on the high floor. I took a hot bath which slackened my muscles. By the window, I could see that the sun was going to lie down soon to leave the place for the night.

I went down for dinner. Spaghettis... again. "Too bad," I said to myself, then get down quietly at the table to devour my plate like it was my last dinner. I was too hungry.

"Lucy, could you come to my office? " asked Alpha Jake by telepathy. I didn't really have the choice considering an alpha had required it of me.

I sighed and went up on the last floor of the building. After I knock on the door, I heard a "yes" at the other side which allowed me to enter. Once inside, I saw that Elisa and Sam were there too.

At the center, the small and usually empty wooden table was now filled with paper just like his office table which was at the bottom of the room. Two large dark green settees were on the two sides of the wooden table. On the left settees, Sam's muscular body was spread out in a tired manner. His brown eyes looked at me, then he made a small smile that I returned to him. I saw the blue eyes of Alpha Jake rivetted on me, he invited me to sit with them.

I took the place on the sofa beside Sam. "Do you know Adam Stone?"

I agreed with my head, curious to know why he asked such a question to me. Everyone knew him. At eighteen years old, he had defied his father and taken his place as an Alpha. He was to be that which had the greatest pack with the best defense system and attack system with according to what I could hear, warriors very well trained.

Also, he protected what was his and made pay all the people who put themselves across his way. Moreover, the girls didn't stop speaking about his superb physics and to evoke how handsome and sexy he was. In short, he was strong, smart, handsome and would do everything for his pack. A crowned Alpha.

"This Alpha, who have a more rad big pack, would like to make an alliance with us, " stated Jake.

It wasn't surprising. After nearly a year, our warriors had become more powerful. Thanks to the training that I gave to them, they had become nimbler and faster. The techniques of defense and attack were thus better. Now, rogues thought of twice before crossing our territory.

"Yes, and what that has to do with me?" I asked him.

"I would like that you come with us to see their auras," he said with hesitation.

"Anyway, that I see their auras or not, he has a very powerful pack. If the alliance isn't accepted, they will eliminate us quite simply," I said with a calm and cold voice.

"It's true, but at least, we will be able to know if they are good or malicious," put Sam by miming quotation marks when he said the words good and malicious.

"Let's go. Except for going in the close territories, we didn't see the bigger share. It can give us a change of landscape and we could see other people too," told my wolf which I had named Lulu. It's pretty childish, but that didn't disturb her, on the contrary, I think she was delighted that I give her a name.

The wolves which were inside our human's bodies didn't have names. They were called Wolf or She-wolf. In general, they were animals thirsty of blood which were to be controlled by their human half, or they spoke a little and were thus found almost non-existent in the human half spirit.

I and Lulu were different from the other werewolves. With my genes of an angel, my she-wolf had become more present. I think that the angel's blood that was transfused to me, had also touched my wolf. And it wasn't the only change. I heard further and was faster, like an Alpha. I healed more quickly and better than any normal werewolf.

But it wasn't all, because of this blood, I could see the aura by looking at the people. I had to concentrate a little then I saw colors which represented the emotions and feelings as well as the true nature of a person. It was still hard to interpret certain colors and nuances of colors but thanks to that, I had been able to detect the traitors in the pack. It was a power which I didn't use a lot because simply with the behavior of people and the way they moved, I could understand the person's intention.

I was in total confidence with Lulu. She was another part of myself much wiser and with very good bits of advice which had drawn me more than once from bad situations. Instinct. An extraordinary feeling which could either kill you or save your life. While my instinct often got me in inextricable situations. The instinct of my she-wolf made us leave the kneader in which I get myself. Since then, I learned to trust Lulu in all circumstances.

"Alright," I answered, surprising everyone in the office room. "When and where does the meeting occur? "

"In two days, in the forest bordering their territory. You will be the only female warrior among the male ones."

"Ok... I will tell you by the pack's link if we can trust them or if, on the contrary, we need to be careful around them. " I said by making a small smile. "Do you come with us?" I asked by looking at Sam then Elisa.

"Elisa will be staying here but Sam will come with me, he specified to take along our Beta."

"And if it were a trap to attack while we aren't here?" I questioned by furrowing my eyebrows.

"I thought of it. But they want an alliance, it would be stupid to attack us. I, nevertheless, will tell the families to look after their children and to avoid walking close to the limits of the territory. I will post all the warriors in defense if other territories would like to try something during our absence."

I nodded then get out of his room. "Don't you believe that we would be more useful here?" I asked my she-wolf while I joined my room.

"The warriors are very well trained. Anyway, I'm sure that nothing will happen." My she-wolf answered while yawning. We said goodnight to each other then I went to lie down while thinking of this Alpha.

Adam. I liked that name.