Until Forever Comes by Cardeno C

Author:Cardeno C.
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2013-05-10T22:21:11+00:00

Chapter 13

“WELL,” Miguel said, drawing the word out like he was trying to formulate his response. “The owner of the land can sell it at any time. If the pack set up house someplace, they shouldn’t be—”

“Shouldn’t be?” I shouted, interrupting him. “How can the humans say the pack shouldn’t be there? How can they just take it over? Make it part of Kfarkattan? Miancarem’s been our pack lands for generations!” I slammed my finger on the map as I spoke.

Miguel pursed his lips and sighed deeply. “Now, you see? That’s the problem with shifters. Always thinking they’re better than everyone else, that their way is the only way. Well, there are rules about where people can build houses. Shifters can’t just go around taking what they want if it already belongs to someone else. But that’s exactly what they do because they think humans are so inferior that they can be ignored. But humans greatly outnumber shifters, they outnumber vampires. And it’s that kind of superior, arrogant—”

My jaw dropped and whatever appetite I had left deserted me. “You’re saying I’m superior and arrogant and… and… and I think I’m better than everyone else?” The hurt was clear from my tone.

“No, not you,” Miguel said in a rush. He leaned toward me and took my hand in his, kissing my palm. “Of course I didn’t mean you.”

I took a deep breath to calm myself and waited until our eyes met before speaking again. “I am a shifter, Miguel. I’m a mite different from the others, I suppose. And I’m your mate, so I’m leaving my pack. But that don’t change who I am. No matter how far away you take me, I will always be a shifter, hear? And I’m right proud of that. I’m not saying my kind’s perfect; nobody is. But there ain’t nothing wrong with valuing family and community, with setting down roots. Taking care of our own don’t make us arrogant or… or superior.”

He scoffed. “You’re saying shifters consider humans to be equal? Half-souls. That’s what shifters call them. Because only shifters have complete souls.” His final words were dripping with sarcasm. “That belief in their superiority is arrogance, pure and simple. And it’s been the death knell for many a pack.”

Miguel had answered his own question, and I couldn’t dispute it. But neither was I willing to agree with him. It didn’t sit right, bad-mouthing my own, my pack.

“And I suppose you’re saying your kind are different?” I snapped. “At least we leave the humans in peace. We’re not out attacking them during the night.”

“No, you’re just out attacking us!” He shoved his chair back and it tumbled to the ground. “Isn’t that right, Ethan? I mean, we met when you and your little friends decided to seek us out. We didn’t come to your precious pack lands. No, just like all the shifters, you sought us out. And why? Because shifters have decided that vampires aren’t worthy of being alive.”

He was right and I knew it, but my blood was boiling and the need to defend my kind was all I could feel.

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