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The werewolves backed away from us, their faces startled, when they saw us.

However, I only noticed that marginally, my main focus was on the person on the ground. My sister.

Now, only a few feet away from her, two things could be clearly seen: her head was twisted oddly and she wasn't breathing.

I was stunned, wanted to scream, wanted to cry. But I couldn't do any of that. Could only stand there and stare at the lifeless body of Maria.

Irgendwo in meinem Hinterkopf meinte ich Tyler reden, knurren, wenn nicht sogar brüllen zu hören. Doch konnte ich ihn nicht verstehen, konnte noch nicht einmal mehr sagen, ob er noch meine Hand hielt oder nicht. Auch konnte ich nicht mal im Ansatz sagen ob wir erst wenige Sekunden oder vielleicht schon Stunden hier waren. In meinem Kopf herrschte gerade völlige Leere. Ich hatte nur zwei Bilder im Kopf. Erstens, die aktuelle Situation von meiner Schwester, die vor mir lag und zweitens etwas, was ich sonst immer erfolgreich verdrängen konnte, das Bild meiner toten Eltern. Sie alle, meine ganze Familie, wurden von Werwölfen getötet.

Irgendwie verschwamm alles vor meinen Augen. Schwer zu sagen, ob ich überhaupt wach war oder ohnmächtig geworden war.

In any case, I only became aware of my surroundings a whole corner later and it took me a moment to orientate myself in my surroundings.

I was in a car and I was in Tyler's arms. I looked at him uncertainly. "Hey...I'm so incredibly sorry..." Tears welled up in my eyes and I sniffled. "Believe me, the werewolf that did this will never be able to harm a human again. I know " that doesn't bring your sister back to you nor make it any better but that's all I could do at the moment. But I promise you we're going to change the system here. As I shockingly found out, it wasn't his first murder and if your sister hadn't been my guest today, I'm sure they wouldn't even have bothered to let me know. Damn it! It was a murder! And that probably happens far too often in today's world. Neither would it probably only very few consider it necessary to report it further. All of this has to come to an end. It shouldn't matter if you're human or werewolf."

Completely exhausted, I leaned into Tyler, who pulled me even tighter.

"By the way, I've decided that we're going to go back today. So we will be back with the pack relatively early in the morning. I thought you sure as hell don't want to be in town any longer."

Tyler was absolutely right. I never wanted to set foot in this town again. It was there that I had lost three of the most important people in my life. Now all I had was Tyler, A werewolf. A werewolf, like my parents' killer. A werewolf, like my sister's killer. Somehow life seemed to want to mock me. Werewolves took everything important in life from me and now I had a werewolf by my side. And this one even wanted to help me to end this unfair system.

But right now it just felt good to have Tyler around. It felt good to be in his arms and to know that he would defend me first and foremost if necessary. This allowed me to focus on myself, on my anger, my sadness, my helplessness.

But I already knew that I probably wouldn't have much time for it. Tyler was not only responsible for me but also for his pack, which also needed him.

I didn't know if I might have been sleeping or if the driver was actually driving faster, but it seemed to me that the journey back to the pack was much faster than the journey back to my old home.

A homeland that no longer means anything to me, after all I had nothing there that drew me there.

It was absolutely dark when we reached the end of the street and Tyler carried me back to the packhouse, but not without wrapping me in a blanket, which must have been in the trunk, so that I wouldn't freeze on the way back .

I would have liked to have just fallen asleep in Tyler's arms, putting a few more hours, if only temporally, between myself and this horrible experience, but my own thoughts kept me from sleeping. Would Maria still be alive if I hadn't wished to meet her?

I mean, after all, she would never have been there that day, at that time. Would it have caught someone else? Was my sister's killer still there when we arrived?

I couldn't say it with the best will in the world.

"Wouldn't you like to sleep a little longer? You've had a long day and some sleep could do you good." Tyler said quietly to me, but I just shook my head. "Okay." I heard him say quietly and he was probably looking at me worried. In any case, I expected that he did, since I judged him that way on the one hand and on the other hand I couldn't see him at the moment because it was much too dark outside.

Anyway, after some time we reached the pack house and apparently we were already expected there.

In the open door of the pack house stood one of the twins. "We need to talk," he said. "Okay, let's do that upstairs in the office." Tyler replied, then asked me, "Would you like to go to bed? Or do you want to go somewhere? Otherwise I would just take you to my office, you could also make yourself comfortable there, since I had a sofa put there."

I shook my head. I really didn't want to be alone somewhere right now. "Fine, then go we straight up."

As Tyler said earlier, we're upstairs to his office. In itself it would have been interesting to look around. After all, I'd been to the Alpha office before, but now that it was Tyler, I'm sure they'd renovated here as well.

But at some point on the way up, I closed my eyes and just listened to my surroundings.

"Is she sleeping?" Asked the twin, who I suspected would be Jared.

"Yes, you're right. That's why I wanted to talk to you."

We had probably entered the office and Tyler laid me down on the sofa, wrapped the blanket neatly around me again, stroked my face once and kissed my forehead.

"Okay, tell me what's going on?", Tyler asked Jared.

"Your father invited himself for tomorrow. He wants to talk to you about the accident..."

"What kind of accident does he want to talk to me about please! It's absurd that a murder could just happen on my father's territory. They even wanted to tell me that it wasn't so bad, since it was only a human being and was demonstrably not a companion! If he really dares to try to convince me of something else, I will clearly read him the riot act." "Yes, I agree with you Tyler, but he is still your father." ,,Yes and?! I have now become the alpha of all alphas and the victim of this terrible act was, after all, my companion's sister and last relative. man or not."