Wait! Werewolves Exist?
Chapter 19

AMBER.

I was searching for the envelope that Mr Daniels had given me. I couldn’t replace it anywhere. I decided to just go ahead and open the box for now. I would replace the envelope sooner or later. I sat on the sofa with the box and took a deep breath. I mentally prepared myself, not knowing what i would replace inside. Whatever it was, it must have been important to Mary. I cut the tape open. Looking inside, i was so confused . Why would Mary have wanted me to have this stuff so badly? I pulled out the strange selection of items that were inside the box.

There was a fancy glass bottle. It had a stopper and was sealed with wax. There was a bright blue shimmery liquid inside. There was also a really old book. It had a black cover with ‘THE SILVER WOLF LEGEND’ written in silver. Next was a necklace. It was beautiful. It had a long, thin silver chain. With a crescent moon and a strange looking rock dangling from it. The last thing was my birth certificate, but not the one I’d seen before. I had always thought that my birth name had been Amber Collins, but it had been changed to James when Mary became my guardian to make things easier. According to this certificate though my name was Rivers, not Collins. Why would Mary have lied to me about that? None of this made sense.

I put all the things back in the box except the book I put that in my bag to have a look at later. I didn’t have time to worry about what they meant right now. I needed to go shopping. I grabbed my bag, list, and keys and headed out.

ADAM.

Mum had found a big, padded envelope under one of the tables last night. It was addressed to that woman who had moved into town. Amber, her name was. I had offered to drop it off to her, but mum said she was going to visit her today anyway. I was a little disappointed, I was looking for an excuse to see her again. I wasn’t sure why, but I felt drawn to her. I would need to replace another excuse.

BECKY.

I sat down with Mum and Dad this morning and told them what I thought about telling Amber. “No Becky.” My dad said firmly “if Alpha Stone replaces out that you disobeyed him, you will be punished. Amber seems like a nice girl, and I always liked Mary, but I will not have my daughter hurt for a stranger.” My mum agreed with him. They wouldn’t budge no matter how much I tried to convince them. “Look, eventually, she will replace out, and we can be there for her when she does. We can help her through it. We just can’t be the ones to tell her.” My mum reasoned with me. I sighed and nodded. They clearly weren’t going to change their minds.

ALPHA JASON STONE.

I was relieved to see that Amber’s car was gone as I approached Bluebell cottage. I headed around the back and let myself in through the patio doors. My dad had made a copy of everyone’s key somehow when he was Alpha. I had only used them to go and visit whichever she-wolf I was f*****g at the time. I started upstairs. I didn’t replace anything interesting, unless I counted the lingerie. Brutus growled before blocking me again. I closed the draw and headed back down.

After looking through all the cupboards I flopped down on the sofa. There was a cardboard box on the floor under the table and an engraved wooden box on top of the table. I opened the wooden one. It had photos in. I was about to put them back when I saw one that had me in it. I was just a young boy and I was playing with a friend. I remembered this day, it was a good memory. These were clearly Mary’s photos.

I looked inside the cardboard box next. I looked at the bottle that was inside. I knew what this was. It was magic, some sort of potion. Is Amber a witch? I touched the necklace in the box but recoiled in pain. s**t! It was silver which burns werewolves. The only thing left was a birth certificate. I read the name and froze. Amber Rivers. Why the f**k would she have her birth certificate? Amber Rivers was the old Alphas daughter, she was the friend in the photo with me.

I looked at the photo again. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t noticed it before. This Amber James actually bared a resemblance to Amber Rivers well from what I could tell, she was really young when I last saw her., but the hair and eyes were the right colour. It couldn’t be though. Amber Rivers had died with her parents. She shouldn’t have, she wasn’t supposed to be with them. Besides that Amber was a werewolf and this one wasn’t. f**k I was even more confused now. Was this woman planning g to try and take control of Lakeside by pretending to be Amber Rivers and use the birth certificate to do it. Did she really think it would be that easy?

I was just about to leave when the door knocked. s**t! I didn’t want anyone to see me. Then I might have to explain why I was in her house while she was out. I ducked down behind the kitchen island and waited. After another knock and a few minutes, something was pushed through the letterbox. I waited long enough for whoever it was to walk away and picked up the note. ‘Amber, there’s something you need to know about Lakeside. I can’t tell you anymore but just pay attention to everything.’ I wished that I’d seen who had posted it now. I didn’t like that one of my pack was disobeying my order. Besides, little did they know she probably knew a lot more than we thought.