I asked Storm, still perplexed, "How? How did your brother alter everything, I wonder?
This was not a narrative Storm wanted to share, as seen by the way his features melted into silence with extreme anxiety. Storm only inhaled deeply. But it was unquestionably a tale I wanted to hear.
"When I left, no one liked it, but what did I have here to even stay for? Erica was too attached to our mother to ever leave, and Mama's place was beside our father no matter how cruel he was to her, his children, or his pack. My place was not here. It had never been," she said. "Rhys was so brainwashed into thinking he needed to live up to what it meant to be Alpha-born.
I couldn't imagine his father ever letting him go, so I said, "How did you leave, Storm? His father just didn't seem like that kind of man from what he said.
