Mute from birth, Aiden Monroe, a young hybrid, had learnt from a young age just how cruel the world could be.

Yet, as means to pay off an old debt, Aiden finds himself trapped in wolf territory. With the Alpha of the Blackwater pack still deciding his fate, he places Aiden's wellbeing in the hands of his emotionally distant nephew, Lincoln Briar. 

At first, Aiden finds himself thinking that Link was just a cold hearted beast, a monster that spoke with such venom that even snakes would bow their head in respect. Yet, the more time that they were forced to spend together, the more Aiden began to realize that there was a tenderness to the beast, a gentleness, though subtle, that he had almost overlooked.

But when the outside threat that had been hanging over the Blackwater pack crept closer, Aiden, with his own life potentially in danger, finds himself thinking that perhaps a beast is only a beast after all.

And his silence, for as loud as it could sometimes be, would never be enough to tame such a beast. Right?

Silence and the Beast

The werewolf way wasn't an easy custom to learn. During his residency among them, Aiden had managed to establish one key component about their veiws: They detested outsiders.

As soon as he ventured outside of the Alpha's house, unfriendly looks and the occasional sneer followed him like a bad smell. He liked to think Eric and Toby had climatisted him to it, but he still found himself flinching everytime a new pair of eyes would narrow on him.

Some of the people he bumped into, some of the things they muttered under their breath to him, had a way of making Link seem like the epitome of 'warm and welcoming'.

Shaker's Tavern merged with the edge of the wolf-run community, if Aiden had heard correctly. It wasn't, however, anything close to what he was expecting. Large in structure, a testament to the endurance of time, it was more of an eyesore than the glamorous commode he'd been anticipating when he'd found out it was owned by the Alpha.

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