Chapter Three

How do I know this? Well, simply because my hearing is a thousand times better than my family and I perceive every change in the atmosphere. That's how I could feel Samuel fall.

Everyone sensed it a few seconds after me but I had already reacted. They all tried to catch him first, so he wouldn't break his neck, but I was faster and caught the boy in my arms gently so he wouldn't get hurt. I did a backward somersault to land safely on my legs with my brother in my arms. When I hit the ground, the others were still on the stairs. Samuel was looking at me with his eyes shining with a something that made me uncomfortable. Everyone was looking at me with round eyes even Shadow and my mother. I put the little one back on the floor in front of his mother who was still looking at me strangely and I went towards the stairs as if nothing was wrong and said to them.

"It's ok, you don't have to show me my room, I'll find it by myself. Sky, are you coming?" I said to my beloved hybrid who tried to follow me but being still small he had difficulty climbing the stairs.

I smiled and went to find my little one. When I finally reached the top of the stairs, I heard my mother say thank you to whom I replied with a shrug. My father-in-law informed me that the next night there would be a reception in my honor and that I was expected to be there. I responded him with a ferocious grunt and continued my way without barely stopping to greet my little sister Nathalia. This house is a real labyrinth. It took me about 15 minutes to find my room and when I opened it, the first thing I did was to undress, take a long hot shower and retrieve a pair of pajamas from my suitcases that must have been taken when I was in the bathroom and lay down for a night of sleep.

Next to me, Sky was already sleeping but as soon as I caressed him to wish him a good night, he got up and moved closer to my body to warm up and we fell asleep stuck together.

When I woke up, it was just 7 am. I could have lazed around a bit more since my classes didn't start until 9 am but I didn't feel like it either. I also had to say that I didn't sleep very well...

While trying to get out of my sheets, I only succeeded in falling out of bed like a sack of potato. Sky was looking at me with her tongue hanging out and her tail wagging from my bed. I genuinely felt like she was laughing at me, that little rascal.

I got up and stuck my tongue out at her and tried to seize her to cuddle her but she ran away and started to run around the room. After that she stopped, looked at me as excited as ever and yelped. At least that was the closest thing to her faint cry. It was mostly a kind of barking mixed with a yelp, it was a unusual but very beautiful sound.

She looked at me intensely, "yelped" again, tilted her head to the side in an invitation to play and then unrolled her little pink tongue. Not being able to resist any longer to this little fur ball just too cute, I transformed myself and started to run after her. This game lasted for almost 30 minutes. One time it was me who was chasing her, the other time it was her. Then we stopped and lay down on the floor. We had just laid down when suddenly without warning, the door opened on the fly. Without thinking, I placed myself in front of Sky and began to growl at the person who had come to disturb us. I was surprised to find my younger brother standing in front of my door with a lunch tray. Without ceasing to growl, I observed him hold the huge tray without the help of anyone and take it right to my bed. Seeing that Sky and I were on our way, I took my protégé in my mouth and took her to a corner of the room where I could defend her more easily if someone wanted to take her or even slaughter her who knows. Sky remained frozen except when Sam made a sudden movement.

After placing the tray down, my younger brother turned and looked me straight in the eye and sat down on the floor. I was still growling but not as loud as before. I wanted him to leave my room, to leave me alone. I wanted him to stop reminding me that I was unwanted. I wanted... I wanted so much that I couldn't control the sadness that had been weighing me down since I got home. I couldn't let the box of my memories close anymore, the box that I had just locked so that I wouldn't suffer from Their absence...

I was so concentrated on my suffering, that I did not see that Sky had escaped my surveillance to plant himself while growling in front of Sam. I had forgotten this sweaty could feel my emotions.

My little brother had stopped looking at me and turned his attention to Sky. He was looking at her with his eyebrows furrowed as if he didn't grasp what my dear angel was attempting to do. The scene was so comical that my sadness fled as quickly as it had arrived.

I continued to growl at Sam as our mother came into my room without me hearing or feeling her arrive since I was focused on the boy in my room. She didn't take three steps, that I had already stood up to greet her with a menacing growl. Nev and I were having a hard time dealing with her so when we saw her, we charged in her direction and forced her out of our "territory".

She didn't take three steps, and I had already stood up to greet her with an angry growl. When I finally managed to "connect" to the link that would allow me to talk with Sam, I noticed or at least felt like I was dead or sick or something. I couldn't quite figure out what it was. But one thing was for sure, this feeling was unnormal. I hadn't communicated like this for a long time, but I don't recall it being abnormal. When I felt this unpleasant sensation, I stopped grunting, tilted my head slightly to the side and moved closer to Sam. We were so close that I could see his pupils perfectly. I could feel my...Leyla's gaze staring at us without understanding what was going on. I overlooked her presence and concentrated on the link that I had barely opened with the help of Nev. This last one by the way did not understand what was happening and kept turning in circles in my mind. When the link was big enough to let us pass, we rushed in to the part dedicated to Sam's wolf to understand what was going on and what we saw...what we saw left us speechless...