Book 2 Chapter 6

Daphne’s Point of View

It had been a few days since the encounter I had with Caleb in the kitchen. I know that pushing him away hurt him emotionally, but I am just not ready to be physical again with him. It is not that I do not desire him, his very touch sends delicious tendrils of joy throughout my body. I am just fearful of getting pregnant again. As much as I have been trying to act like it has not bothered me, the truth is glaringly obvious that I am still healing. Scarlett has suggested seeking a counselor, but I do not know if I am ready to open up to anyone about how I am truly feeling.

It all comes down to the fact that I feel like I am not only failing Caleb, but that I am failing my pack as well. I never really believed that I was Luna material. I was raised as a slave, and it even took me awhile to accept that I was Caleb’s fated mate. Compared to wolves like Scarlett, Hannah, or just about any other she wolf I find myself inferior.

Even coming to this pack there was so much about my own heritage that I did not know about. Hannah had to explain the mating ceremony to me. Theo had to teach me about our history. Knowing now how much I was deprived of as a pup makes me angry at my parents still, even though they have both passed.

I believe that is one of the reasons why I have taken on my newest role of helping train the wolves in our pack that have peculiar talents. When it comes to this, I do not feel like I am trailing behind, because no one truly knows how or why our pack has been affected like this. When it comes to this subject, I am not inferior, if anything these past few weeks have almost made me more knowledgeable about us than even Theo can was able to discover.

Sighing 1 sit back in the office chair at the training center. I have completely taken over one of the older offices as my personal study. I have charts on the wall detailing each wolves’ talents, and what we have discovered about them for sure. On another wall I have a list of possible theories as to why members of our pack have been affected. I have organized Theo’s notes, and a few that Caleb took. I have my personal notebook that has a section for each wolf and what we accomplish during training.

Tonight, I had prepared a few more samples to send off to the University lab. One of the theories of our evolution is the land itself. This batch makes the last of the possible soil tests that can be run. So far, we have ruled out anything chemically, or biohazardous in the soil. This last batch of soil samples will be tested for higher than normal minerals and nutrients.