"You have to come with us to our pack and you can't refuse," Harley said standing up. "Pack your things, but only the important ones, leave clothes out of it so no one would suspect you left."
"Your pack and my pack have been rivals forever, why are you helping me?"
"You were taken out of the pack, so you are no longer a member of the Laufey pack. Does that answer your question? If so, let's get going."
Marietta looked at Zack in shock but he didn't look surprised so she decided to do as Harley had instructed, he's the Alpha after all.
****
Three hours later, Marietta, Harley, and Zack arrived in front of the Montgomery pack.
Marietta sighed, " I'm back here. I didn't know your pack was this beautiful."
"That's because you never left your pack," Zack said smiling childishly at her and both Harley and Zack started walking towards the pack house.
"Hey, wait for me!" Marietta yelled, running after them.
Catching up to them and panting, "Goodness, I'm…I think I'm out of…of breath." Marietta said, breathing a high chunk of air out of her mouth while bending down before squatting.
"You only ran like twenty meters and you're already out of breath. Do you need oxygen for whenever you want to run and you're out of breath or just an airbag?" Zack teased her.
Early let out a chuckle and was about to go up the stairs to his office when a girl with pink long hair, dark brown eyes, snow-white skin, and small pink lips. She was wearing a black v-neck that goes down to her boobs, a body hug dress that barely covers anything.
" Alpha Harley, I didn't know you were coming today, I wish I would have prepared well." She said smiling from ear to ear and blushed.
Harley, who didn't seem moved by her dress, smile, or voice, looked at her with a cold gaze.
"It was an unexpected but urgent matter, so I had to come back. It's nothing worth preparing for Lexy."
Lexy was about to say something but was distracted by two having a heated discussion and yelling behind Harley.
"Ah, I almost forgot," Harley dragged Marietta and made her stand in between him and Lexy. He placed both on her shoulders and said, making his presence known. "This is Marietta, she'll be staying here for a while."
"Hi, nice to meet you."
Lexy merely stared at her for a couple of seconds. " Who the heck is she, and why is she staring at me like that!?"
"Hmm, I just told you, do I need to repeat myself?"
"Is she here to take my position in your heart?"
"Wait, what?" Marietta asked stepping aside to have a better view of the situation. She looked for Harley Lexy and then Zack.
"No, she's not, you will forever be in the same position in my heart, now stop worrying about that."
"Lex, can you just take her to the guest bedroom? Harley and I have something to discuss."
"But, my girlfriend and I are going out to the movies."
"With that on your body? I bet it took you 40 minutes to get to the stairs." Zack teased her. "Anyway, just do as I say, take her to the guest bedroom, oh and, you'll be in charge of attending to her needs, now off you go."
Lexy was about to say something but the look Zack gave her made her change her mind.
Marietta stared at both Lexy and Zack, trying to put the pieces together. Lexy looks a lot like Zack, but she also looks like Harley but not that much, and the way she talked to Zack more casually, made it feel like they were siblings and to top it all, Lexy looks younger than both Harley and Zack. She concluded that Lexy was Zack's younger sister.
****
"This is your room and if you need anything, just call me," Lexy said standing in the center of the room.
"Okay, thanks, will do."
"Where do you come from and what do big brother Harley and Zack look at you differently?"
"What do you mean?" Marietta asked, going over to the bed.
"I mean, they look at you differently from they do with other girls. I mean everyone in the pack knows Zack's a playboy and big brother Harley doesn't have time for girls or anything."
Marietta looked at her and was quite impressed at how this little girl thinks and she catches things fast, even little details she didn't notice.
"How old are you? You look a lot younger than I am."
"I'm nineteen years old."
"That means you've successfully weakened your wolf."
"Yes, this year."
"This year? Shouldn't it be when you are eighteen?"
"Technically, yes but I had a bit of delay and woke her up this year."
"Interesting, and why is that?"
"I don't know, why do you ask so many questions?"
"I don't know, I feel like something similar has happened to me too. Anyway, give me your number so I can call you when I need anything." Marietta said, stretching her phone to Lexy.
Lexy took it and typed in her number, dialed it, and ended the call after a few seconds of her phone ringing. She handed back Marietta's phone to her and started typing something on her phone.
Marietta stared at her with a smile. "You're quite cute, you know that?"
"I have a girlfriend," Lexy said, looking at her suspiciously.
While laughing, Marietta said. "I'm into guys."
"You're weird, but I already like you, big sis."
"Big sis, don't you think it's a bit too early to be calling me big sis?"
"Nope, I know you're not going to hurt my big brothers or our pack, so…big sis, I have to go, my girlfriend is getting pissed off and this is an apology date, please help me."
Marietta laughed and nodded her head, telling her to go and she wouldn't tell.
Lexy thanked her and ran out the window.
"Why not just pass the front door!?"
"My brothers are there!"
****
After three weeks of staying at the Montgomery pack, Marietta wakes up in a dark room.
"Where am I? Is anyone there?"
Marietta kept calling if anyone was there but everywhere was pitch black and the only light that was on was over her head.
Suddenly, she found herself in an empty cinema room. The camera was on but nothing was showing except a white light. She looked around and tried to get up but it felt like she was glued to the chair. She tried screaming but she couldn't hear her voice no matter how hard she tried.
She looked up at the amplifier and started switching colors until it stopped when Marietta looked happy and out of breath. She could hear a female voice talking to her but she couldn't see who it was. It then shifted into two different things with her on four legs and her still talking in the same voice.
"What's going on, where am I? I'm so confused right now."
Marietta tried jiggling herself free from the invincible force that was holding her down. "Let me go!"
Unknown to Marietta, she was screaming loud in the real world; it felt like her vocal cords were going to get damaged.
Zack, Harley, Lexy, and some of the pack members in the pack house rushed to her room. They were shocked beyond words but quickly snapped out of their shock.
Harley rushed to Marietta and tried waking her up but she kept screaming and sweating causing her bed to socked all the sweat.
She finally stopped and went dead silent but still dreaming.
*
Back to Marietta's dream
*
"Why are you doing this to me?" she asked in a whisper.
"Because you have to remember." A voice whispered back to her.
"But why do I have to remember?"
"Because your future lies in your memories of the past."
A bright blue light came into view. She blinked a couple of times to clear her vision. She was standing on top of a lake, the water below her had petals of cherry blossoms and she could see the bottom.
"Where am I, why do I feel like I've seen this place before?"
Just as she was about to take a step forward, the water below her started sucking her in and she woke up.
She was in new clothes and not in her room, she looked around her and saw Lexy, Harley, and Zack.
Zack and Harley were sleeping on the three people's sofa and Lexy was sleeping on the one person's sofa.
She took in deep breaths and tried clearing her head. After five minutes of remembering where she was and what happened, she carefully stood up and went to the bathroom, locked the door, shut the toilet cover, and sat on it.
She didn't know for how long she sat there, lost in thoughts. She only snapped out of it when she heard Harley asking the others where she was.
Finally putting all the pieces of her memories together, anger boiling inside of her, she stands up and walks out of the bathroom.
"I remember, I remember it all."