Page 28 of His Curse
I scoot around a little, making sure my loin cloth is still where it needs to be because regardless of how many times we’ve shifted in order to run together, I don’t really want to have this conversation with my dick hanging out. "You're not wrong but you have to understand where your mom's coming from, even just a little bit. Losing our parents was really fucking hard, especially since we didn't have our pack to fall back on and—”
"Something else Mom won't talk about but goes psycho over."
I frown. "Your mom never told you why we left our pack?"
Ronny shakes his head.
"She ever tell you about the other packs we tried to join?"
Another shake and a slightly confused look from my nephew has me frowning.
Huh.
I'm actually shocked Mary hasn't told him any of that.
Not just because he has the right to know, which he does because we all deserve to know where we come from, but I'm surprised because my sister usually takes any opportunity she can get to throw up a wedge between me and my nephew.. It's why my time spent with my other four nieces and nephews is so limited.
Mary thinks I'm a bad influence, thinks my curse will somehow rub off on them so she tries like hell to expose them to me and my evil as little as possible.
The only reason I have such a strong relationship with Ronny is because Ron doesn't hold shit against me and hasn’t tried to stop it since well before he first shifted, and my nephew has always been defiant when it comes to her restrictions on seeing me. Especially since he was old enough to tell his mom to go to hell. So knowing Mary didn't take the opportunity to slam me and use our many moves over the years as fuel for her fire is definitely shocking.
And a little perplexing, quite frankly.
We definitely put thefunin dysfunctional.
"Why did you leave your pack? Our pack, I guess, but I probably wouldn't exist if you didn't leave since Dad was from a pack in Montana originally."
"Wait, you know about your dad's pack but not ours?" I scrub a hand over my face and sigh. "Do you know anything about where we come from at all?"
Ronny leans back on his elbows, stretching his long legs out in front of him and crossing them at the ankle. "Just what you tell me. Mom doesn't talk about the Moon Goddess pack; doesn't talk much about Grandma and Grandpa, either. She definitely didn't say shit about any other packs. Your side of the family has pretty much been a mystery."
"You wanna know now?" Why the hell not. This is his Rite of Passage after all, might as well enlighten my Beta in order for him to actually get something out of this.
He nods and smiles slowly. "I can't tell Mom you told me anything, can I?"
"Not if you want to keep hanging out with me. If Mary finds out I told you this shit when she's obviously been trying to keep it from you, then she will absolutely cut me off from everyone."
"So, why risk it by telling me?"
"Couple reasons, I guess."Damn, I wish I had my cigarettes.Too bad loin cloths don't exactly have pockets. "For one, I'm fucking floored she hasn't told you already, especially since it could have changed your opinion of me and in turn changed our relationship, but also because you deserve to know. If you don't know everything about what makes you who you are, then you can't exactly be you, now can you?"
"You hang out with Zan too much.” Ronny laughs. "You're starting to sound like that nut job more and more. Backward ass comments and listing shit.”
I roll my eyes. "You hang out with him almost as much as I do so don't act like he's having some profound effect on me. And it doesn't change the fact that I'm right."
"Ok, Unc, let’s have it then. Tell me what I need to know; tell me who I am."
"Not who you are, but where you come from." A nervous roll of my stomach has me rethinking this to a degree, but fuck it. My nephew deserves to know what happened to us, to our pack, and why we aren't with any other wolves except the stragglers in our clan. This is as much his history as it is mine, and if I don’t tell him there’s a good chance Ronny will never find out. "You want to know about the pack itself or why we left?"
"Why you left. The only thing Mom does say about any of that is the Moon Goddess pack was the best, Grandpa was an awesome Alpha, and West Virginia was pretty sweet."
"It was, he was, and West Virginia was only cool for the mountains. Other than that it was about as backwoods as you can get, even in the 1800s.” I take a deep breath and blow it out roughly before trying to relax my posture. No need to get a Charlie horse from sitting like I have a tree branch shoved up my ass. "What I'm gonna tell you goes a lot deeper than that though, and there's a good chance you're going to look at me and your mom a little differently afterward, so I want you to know two things before I get into it, ok?"
Ronny nods then frowns, but remains silent.
"Your mom loves you very much; loves you and the other pups more than anything. Your dad and the five of you are everything she's ever wanted, so try to keep that in perspective."
"Am I gonna end up pissed off after you tell me this shit?"
