Wild Is the Wolf by Sasha Silsbury

Author:Sasha Silsbury [Silsbury, Sasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

GRAY

brothers and motivation

“What does Ash want?” Adam asks the question, but he’s not the only one looking for an answer.

There are six pairs of human eyes looking into Gray’s own, making him feel dizzy.

Ash. His brother has a label too. It’s catching.

What does the ash-scented wolf want? Gray isn’t sure. He thought Ash wanted to be leader of the pack, but that doesn’t explain why he followed Gray down the mountain.

“I don’t know.” He’s become more familiar with human words in his short time with Jax, but having so many people looking at him is flushing everything he knows about humans out of his brain.

He answers slowly, sounding out the sentence in his head before he says it out loud.

Gray is confused, and he hates that he’s confused. A fog of confusion descended the day he came down the mountain and it’s hardly lifted since.

Jax squeezes his hand. It’s another human custom: taking someone’s hand in yours and just holding it. Gray likes it. The warmth of Jax’s smaller hand in his tethers his conscious mind to the part of him that believes that everything is going to be alright.

“Okay,” Adam says. By the scent of it, he’s sitting in the same place he usually does. Gray is opposite him, with Jax sitting on the arm of the chair so he’s close by. Gray likes that too.

Jax’s other two brothers stand on either side of Adam, like sentries. Gray is wary of the big bearded one. He was the one who held Gray down on that first day in the clinic.

The only thing Gray knows about the other is his name.

Luke. The man looks him up and down as if appraising Gray’s ability to fight back. He probably is.

Jax called Luke the pack’s enforcer which Gray understands something like the wolf who has to fight on behalf of the pack leader.

He fits the part. Luke is tall, like the other Winterstoke brothers, and on the surface, he seems more relaxed. His top half is covered in clothing made of soft wool and his hair is longer and curls at the nape of his neck.

He gives Gray a casual, friendly smile but Gray is not fooled. He can see the muscles coiled underneath the soft clothes and the sharpness behind the eyes. This is not a wolf to be crossed.

Always be wary of a strange wolf. That was his father’s voice again.

The wild pack didn’t get many strangers joining them from the outside world, and it always took a while for the strangers to get used to the pack’s ways and for the pack to trust them.

Gray thinks the Winterstoke pack is going to be like that too. He’s the strange wolf here, and Luke and Gregor Winterstoke are watching him in the exact same way that Gray and the ash-scented wolf used to watch strangers in their midst.

He is beginning to understand the magic of words. There is something about pinning them down in your head, then sending them out in the world that makes sense of everything in your own head.

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