Chapter 92

I sucked in my tears, and I was determined not to join the rogues, who had killed everyone I cared about. My revenge will be served, and what is left of my pack will be reclaimed.

There was a massive number of humans around me as I made my way through what seemed like a maze of human beings. My fear was overwhelming, and the fact that they were everywhere was the only way I could describe how I felt. After raiding a clothesline and removing the clothes from it, I put them in a bag that I found in a trash can. By doing this, I was able to walk around as a human and not as a wolf when I was in the city. For the past several months, I have only been in my wolf form. There is absolutely nothing I would not do to eat a hamburger or a slice of pizza. As far as deer, rabbits, and fish are concerned, I am so sick of them.

I was dirty, my hair hadn’t been washed in months as I was in my wolf form the whole time. People either grimaced at me or pretended they didn’t see me. I sat in a park and just watched the humans learning their behaviors, so I knew how to act around them. I needed to earn money that the humans seemed to pay for things with. I saw some men sit out on a sidewalk getting money in a tin can. I grimaced at the thought, I had no choice this would be the first way I would earn money. I notice being shabby fit right in with the beggar job description, and I learned if I made it by a certain time to what is called a homeless shelter, I could have food and a bed for the night.

Since poverty was rampant at the time and brought out the worst in people, I learned that it was a good idea to get a locker at the bus station to keep my clothes, money, and so on. Then I would never have anything on me that would make me a target for robbers.

When I did not make it on time for the homeless shelter, I would not be permitted to enter, so like the artful dodger in Oliver, I would steal my food through the stealth techniques I have practiced constantly since my pack was destroyed. My favorite thing to do was to go to the library and watch their old free films that they had.

A wolf grows fast physically and in every other way until the age of 25, after which point they cease to grow and age in a normal way. Living a long life is one of the benefits of being a wolf. I was no different, I was already 6 foot tall.

Watching the videos, mostly musicals, I discovered I could sing. As a result, I began singing in tourist-attracting parks. As I was no longer representing myself as a street dweller, I dressed nicer. I kept a hat in the middle of the stage while performing any musical the audience requested.

This was a lucrative way to make money in the spring and summer, but not so much during the winter. During the winter, I worked in a variety of night clubs, and I guess the ladies liked me. Although I have slept with humans, I don't enjoy it. Having a mate out there makes me feel guilty, and human beings are fragile.

There was a locker at the bus station where I kept all the money I earned. In the end, I knew that I would have to put the money in a bank soon. There is, however, no human identification card that I possess. The wolves never needed identification; in many ways, you could almost say that we lived in a socialist society. All the money was collected in one pot, and then it was divided up by the rank of each member of the pack.

It is a fact that, in the past, I have always worked under the table for people that I knew and people that I did not know. Humans seem to be compelled to always have an identity card with them, for anything and everything they need. I was smelling two or three lone wolves that used to come into the club on a regular basis. For an ID, I was going to ask them if they could suggest someone to me who might be able to help.

The first time I inquired about how to get an I.D. card, they appeared to be a bit confused. They knew I wasn't human, but they assumed that I was with my parents in the metropolis because they knew I was a wolf. During the interaction, they asked me what my parents had done. They told me that if my father was truly the Alpha, then he would have a bank account and businesses of his own. I was taken to a wolf that would generate birth certificates from the wolf database that was kept on the web now by a wolf that made birth certificates for us. In the end, he printed that document out and sealed it with a human seal on the front. It has been a year since I first moved to the city of humans. As far as my age is concerned, I am only 14 years old. As part of my request, I asked the person making my birth certificate to make me 2-years older than I actually am. In this way, I can legally work in many places since I am 16 years old.

It was the wolves that helped me find my dad's company, which was being run by the board of directors since they didn't know what had happened to him. I had this wolf make my birth certificate as well as death certificates for my parents. Also, I had this wolf make a will in which my parents left me everything. Until I find my father's personal lawyer, I will have no choice but to wait.