“ Blood or not he’s still 𝐌𝐘 brother. ” Thumbs hooked in the edge of his dark jeans, a single finger tapping on his thigh as he waited impatiently for her to talk. Vlad’s eyebrows were raised while looked 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 at her. He wasn’t very tall, but just like his father Vlad was stuck in a perpetual cycle of arrogance. It didn’t matter how tall he was, he’d still look down on people when a challenge was flaunted in his face.
He knew Wolfie belonged to another world, his little brother was half 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐎𝐋𝐅 … just like Vlad had once been half human. Their Mother ━ no, Magda, had always been so quick to leave him behind when he became a nuisance. Patrick sure didn’t seem to notice if he was missing or not. Wolfie had just become an 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓.
He was an accident that people only cared about when it became beneficial to them. And now? hearing that a pack wanted to take him in. Well, Vlad couldn’t help but stand in the way. “ He belongs here with us as much as, you think, he does with you ” stern, the young vampire stood straight “ he’s not goin’ anywhere. ”
𝚃𝙷𝚁𝙴𝙰𝚃𝚂 𝙵𝙰𝙸𝙻𝙴𝙳 𝚃𝙾 𝙸𝙼𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚂𝚂 𝙷𝙴𝚁 -actually it was something akin to admiration that appeared on the woman’s features. Who was she to tell anyone where they belonged ? She, too, had fled her former pack because she felt unwelcome, unappreciated. For decades she had roamed the streets as a rogue, a homeless girl surviving with whatever she could find out on the streets. Dire situations had forced her to join another but she had found family there, even a father figure in the Alpha, while her own father had been brutally murdered by her former.
❝ I am not here to take him from you, boy. On the contrary. ❞ Would she give up on her own daughter ? Born from a werewolf & mortal with vampiric blood mixing with his own. Her little girl, Ylva, had been a rare case, and although she took after her mother, she belonged to neither a pack, nor vampiric coven. ❝ We merely want to help him, like many of us have been helped once. ❞ It was not easy to live without guidance Iona could tell from experience. ❝ No one will force him to join anything, but for a young cub like him none of this must be easy. We are all brothers and sisters, no matter if blood connects us. That is what a pack is about. ❞