Serenity woke up at dawn the next morning. She wondered quietly around the strange pack house. The house was so different from her own. It seemed to be more warm.

Pictures lined every hallway. She scanned the unfamiliar faces on the walls. They all seem to be happy. Not a grey cloud in sight. Along with the human pictures werewolf pictures. She stopped to admire a wolf like her own.

Caramel fur she new all to well, but the green emerald eyes. She knew those eyes from somewhere. They're oddly familiar. Looking around the hall she carefully took the photo down and removed it from its place in the picture frame. After having the picture securely in her pocket she ventured downstairs.

The whole pack was still asleep so she sat in the kitchen. Pulling the picture out of her pocket she admired the wolf. Who was she? Where did she come from? Did serenity know her?

These questions raced around her mind at a 100 miles per hour.

"You're up also," Alpha Liam walked into the kitchen.

Serenity looked up, "yah. Couldn't sleep."

He walks towards the fridge and opens it. With just a glance inside he shuts it and goes towards the coffee pot, "still old fashioned I see." He begins making a pot.

"You're quite familiar with this pack?"

He nods his head, "yup. If I'm not at my pack, or out in the woods I'm here. Oliver and I traveled the world together when I was a boy. He was looking for his mate, and I was just along for the ride."

"Alpha Oliver and Alpha Jonathan are quite close then?" Serenity didn't know why she was asking him all these questions. She just wanted to know everything about him. How he grew up, what were his favorite things as a boy, everything.

Liam played along and answered the girls questions, "not at all. Alpha Oliver had visited our back when I was 13 if I believe. He was originally going to meet all the unmated females. The time that he spent at our pack he became quite fond of me. Him being 20 at the time." Liam leaned against the counter, "he found his first mate in our pack Emily. She was a wonderful person. With a kind, sweet, heart. We held them a wedding and everything. It was a great time, full of joy. Oliver invited me back to his pack to attend their wedding there. I remember begging to go along. My two favorite people were getting married and I just had to be there."

Liam smiles looking up, as if the memories were being projected on the ceiling like a movie.

Serenity had never seen his smile before. His genuine smile. She didn't know how but she wanted to keep that smile on his face.

"Anyway," Liam shook his head, "Emily died a few months later. A tragedy only few speak about. Oliver was devastated, and stayed held up in his room for weeks. I was sent back to my pack, but knew what was to come of him if he didn't have a second chance mate. He bounced back after two months. That's whenever he asked me if I would like to join him, travel the world. By then I was 14. My parents had been busy with the pack at this time, so they had allowed me to go."

"So you've been all over?" Serenity asked studying his features.

Liam is still looking up when she asks another question. He turns towards the coffee pot. Reaching up into a cabinet he pulls out a coffee cup, "I guess you could say that."

"I've traveled more this year then I ever have in all my 17 years."

He had finished pouring himself a cup when he turned to look at her. A feeling over came him. Started at the very tip top of his head and reached all the way down to the tallest toe. He wanted to take her to all the places she read about in books. If she read books, but she seemed like the type of girl that enjoyed reading in her spare time.

"I-I'm sorry," she said after a second of the two just starring at each other, "I tend to over step."

"Don't be," he grabbed his cup, "come on, everyone won't be up for another hour or two. I'll show you my favorite spot in the pack."

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How Liam manges to hike holding a glass cup of coffee was beyond Serenity's mind. She would've already ditched the cup, but he didn't.

"There," he finally spoke.

Serenity looked towards where he was looking. The trees cleared and there was nothing but grass and rock. She made her way out of the trees to see the clearing revealed a cliff. The Clift overlooks Alpha Oliver's town.

Liam smiled at her expression. He loved whenever her honey brown eye twinkled in excitement or awe. In all honesty he loved h- he stopped himself. No he doesn't. It wasn't true. How could he? He barley knew her.

Shaking his head free of these thoughts he sipped his coffee and walked forward. Towards the very edge of the Clift.

"You're not going to jump are you?" Serenity asked him.

He chuckled, "not a chance darling." Taking a seat at the edge of the Clift he looked out and watched the sun. It's also completely risen.

Meanwhile Serenity's heart had skipped a beat. Darling? She had only ever been called that by elderly woman. Never a guy. Much less her alpha.

She wet her dry lips and went to cautiously look over the edge. Whenever she deemed it safe she took a seat. Not to close to Liam though. As to not ruin the dream.

He looked at her, "you were holding something in the kitchen. Kind of admiring it, what was it?"

Serenity's eyes widened a bit. She thought she had put it away fast enough, but apparently she didn't and he saw the picture she had stolen. Sighing she pulled the picture out of her pocket.

Liam took the picture from her. He looked at the front then flipped it around, "Phoebe, I remember her."

He knew her? She though. Maybe he could tell her who she was.

"You do?"

"Yup, everyone does. She and her daughter disappeared, what, 18, 17, years ago." He looked up thinking hard about it.

"How do you know it's her? There's no name on the back of the picture."

Liam shrugged, "it's werewolf history, shes up there right next to my father, also the emerald green eyes. Any one who has ever came across a picture of her will always remember those haunting eyes. They are magical."

Liam looked back at sun. He wondered why she had a picture of Phoebe, but didn't want to press the matter. Just simply wanted to sit in the comfortable silence of the morning.

              By the time Liam and Serenity got back to the pack everyone was beginning to wake up. The two parted ways, Serenity found herself going in the direction of the kitchen while Liam walked up stairs to find Oliver's office.

Before entering Oliver's office Liam knocked twice. Upon hearing a come in he pushed the double door open.

Realizing who it was Oliver smiled, "thought you'd left early this morning."

Liam shook his head, "no your pack just rises later than mine. I went on a hike."

"By yourself?" His eyebrows rose.

"No, Serenity joined me."

"You do seem to be quite fond of the girl. Is that why couldn't allow yourself to marry my daughter?"

Liam shook his head, "you know that's not why Zoey, and I will just never work. Leave it at that."

Holding up his hand he said, "I get it, I don't want to know the details myself, but if you will not be leaving today, when will you be leaving?"

"Trying to kick me out already?" Liams head turned slightly to the right.

"Of course not."

Liam chuckled, "tomorrow. We will head back tomorrow."

"Don't go so soon on my account? I can't convince you to stay until let's say Sunday?"

"First you kick me out then try and get me to stay longer," a lob sided grin laid on Liams face.

Oliver shook his head, "I'm just saying."

"I get it. I do, but I can't leave my pack alone for that long. It dissatisfies me to leave it alone this long."

"Hmmm okay."

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