Reed (Nano Wolves #4) - Donna McDonald Page 0,46
“Go. Do what you have to. I’m fine.”
Aggie scooted by her bossy brother and smiled at Yana. “Okay. I’m ready to meet the bear healer now.”
After they left, Stewart looked at his brother who was half his size. He lifted his hands in the air. “Everything Dad told you is true. I change into a freak and look like this. Go ahead and tell me how bad it is. I know you want to.”
Kent walked closer. He looked at his brother’s worried face. “Do you think the same thing will happen to me and Aggie?”
“Yeah… I’ve already seen it happening in my dreams,” Stewart mumbled as he dropped his gaze. “Except Aggie and you both get to be actual wolves.”
Stewart looked up when his brother’s smaller hands pressed on each of his legs. The light pressure made him chuckle. Kent lifted an eyebrow at his new deep voice. Stewart shrugged. “I didn’t ask for this, you know. It just happened. One day it will happen to you too.”
“I’ll tell you what I think. Your voice sounds mature like Dad’s and you look almost his size. I better look as handsome as you do when I change or I will be really mad,” Kent said. He pushed away from his brother and stood back to look again. “Aggie and I missed you, dork face. Things weren’t the same without you making your lame jokes. I guess you really are the funny one in our family.”
Stewart laughed at his brother’s reluctant admission. He was the only one in the room who knew how huge it was for Kent to admit anything. “I missed you too… shorty.”
“Low blow,” Kent said, socking his now giant brother in his giant arm with his smaller fist. He grumbled when Stewart didn’t flinch. “So what kind of freak are you?”
Stewart sighed. “I honestly have no idea. I haven’t been able to shift again. Katarina says the beast in me is sleeping to get stronger.”
Kent turned to look at the Russian she-wolf who’d been silently judging their reunion. “I hope you’re right, Comrade Volkov. If you’re not, we’ll all get to listen to Stewart complaining about not being a wolf for the rest of his life.”
“I am alpha, tiny brother with rude manners. Being alpha means I am always right, except when I am wrong. Then I am more wrong than anyone else because alphas make big mistakes. Do you understand what I am saying?”
“Yeah… I get it. My dad already gave me that lecture.”
Katarina grunted at him. “Real alphas know things without lecture. They must think of their people and be understanding as well as strong. I am reason Stewart turned into freak. I order your compassionate brother to save daughter of bear and made him obey me.”
Kent tilted his head. “Wow. Then you’re probably the reason he grew so fast too.”
“Nyet,” Katarina denied. “He was mostly grown when we went to see bears in great state of Colorado. The shift came because his inner beast wanted to help him do what had to be done. Shift is natural thing that no one controls. It happens when destiny dictates. That is the way of shifting wolves.”
“Huh,” Kent said, pondering her words. “Will you yell at me and order me to do something? I should have been the first to shift. I’m the alpha sibling. Maybe if you yell at me, I’ll catch up quickly.”
Katarina hid her grin behind her hand as she lifted one shoulder and let it fall. “If you beg nicely, rude boy who thinks he is alpha, I might consent to yell at you.”
They all turned when the human girl in the bed started giggling.
Relieved to hear Terra laughing, Stewart used his now greater strength to pull Kent to the bed. “Terra, despite his size, this is my older brother, Kent. He’s my alpha, and he hates to be laughed at. I’m not allowed to do it, so maybe you can do it for me.”
Terra weakly pushed her hair off her face. “You have the craziest family, Stewart Longfeather.”
“I know, but I’m stuck with them,” Stewart said sadly.
He chuckled at the glare Kent turned his way when Terra laughed until tears streamed down her cheeks.
When Stewart’s alpha brother rolled his eyes in disgust and turned to leave, Katarina stood and pulled Brandi’s little shit starter along with her. “Come. We take walk and discuss alpha things. You have much to learn before destiny finds you.”
Behind them, she heard Stewart laughing—probably because he remembered her