Page 79 of His Sunshine Baby

“… Then, what about me?”

I remember a bit of her conversation with Clark that Levi recorded and try to piece it all together with what she said so far. That would mean… Reagan looks at me and seems to hesitate a bit. What is it that she can’t tell me? She turns her eyes away, staring straight ahead as if she couldn’t face me.

“I found you in the middle of the massacre. Alone.”

So, what I heard was true…

“What about my parents?”

Reagan suddenly frowns and shakes her head, upset.

“Dead. Both of them.”

Why is that old hag lying to me again?

Chapter 12

That can’t be true. On Levi’s recording, Reagan clearly mentioned my mother, and how she was alive when she took me! So why is she lying, saying my parents had already died? I stare at her for a while, wondering how to go about this. I can’t let her know that we heard her conversation with Clark.

“Both my parents were dead? Are you sure?” I ask again.

“I just told you so,” groans Reagan, impatient. “You were the only living being I could find, so I took you with me and fled the place.”

“Wait… Didn’t you try to figure out what had happened? Who had done this to our clan?”

But Reagan shakes her head.

“I couldn’t, Elena. I had a two-year-old brat in my paws, and something bad was there.”

“What do you mean, something bad?”

She sniffles, a disgusted expression on her face like she saw something repulsive.

“I don’t know. My inner wolf couldn’t calm down, my spine was constantly tingling. I could tell something filthy was there, something dangerous. Whatever had attacked was still there, and lurking, waiting around for more. I ran away with you and headed south.”

“All the way to the White Moon territory,” I say, putting the pieces together.

“That’s right. That was as far as I could go with a two-year-old. Since I was a renegade from another pack, they had no obligation to accept me. But you were there. No werewolf can ignore a defenseless pup, let alone a little orphan alpha, like you.”

She’s right. Our wolf instincts are always pushing us to protect the younger ones of our kind, even if they don’t belong to our pack. Any cub is a werewolf’s responsibility, that’s something we cannot ignore. No wonder the White Moon didn’t reject her when she brought me with her.

“You still haven’t told me why I’m different.”

She sighs.

“Our whole pack was different, Elena. Our Luna made it so. I told you, she was very powerful and blessed by the Moon Goddess. Everyone in our pack was stronger than common werewolves.”

I’m not sure I believe that. Once again, Reagan is not looking at me while speaking, and I feel like there is still a lot she isn’t telling me. I’m a bit disappointed. I was hoping she would tell me more about my parents.

“I tried to go back several times after that,” sighs Reagan.

“That’s why you left for so long each time?”

She nods.

“It takes a while to go so far to the north, but I could never reach our homeland anyway.”

“What do you mean?” I ask, perplexed.

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