Some peeking into the past.
Soren's pov:
When Soren was three years old :
I hid my face into Uncle Stephen's neck as he kept on running while holding me tightly in his arms. We are running from the bad wolves that are following us. Uncle Stephen said they wanted to take me away and kill me just like they killed my mommy and daddy.
Whenever I think about them or miss them my chest always hurts so I decided to never think about them.
Uncle Stephen was so tired after running so long that he was breathing heavily, I could feel his fast heartbeat.
He said that we were going somewhere safe and that he'd not let the mean wolves take me from him.
He growled when he looked back at the wolves and ran even faster.
After some time, I don't know how long it had been, but when I looked up from my hiding face in his chest he was walking this time. I looked around and there were so many houses here just like when I lived with mom and dad.
"Hey buddy, you alright." I tucked my chin up and he was smiling at me but I know he doesn't want to smile right now.
"Yes," So I lied because he wasn't fine too right now. Dad used to say that you are fine if you are happy and I'm not happy right now. Uncle Stephen is not happy right now. I don't feel the happy feeling in my chest that I used to feel when I was with my mom when she played with me or when Dad took me at night running in his tiger form.
They promised to always be with me but they lied, they gave me to Uncle Stephen and now he's also sad because of me. He always keeps me hiding in his house but last night some wolves came to take me and Uncle Stephen fought them. He was so strong and he beat them badly but he was one and they were so many so we had to run from there.
"Kiddo I have to talk to you, are you able to talk right now?" Uncle asked and stopped walking. His face was all sweaty and dirty, the only thing that was clean on his face was his eyes. I nodded and he bent down and my feet touched the solid road.
He bent down on his knees too but still was taller than me. He looked around but all there were houses.
He looked at me, "Soren you have to listen to me carefully we don't have much time left, okay?" He said and he looked nervous.
"You are a brave boy, right?" He asked and I shook my head. I felt the same pain in my chest, I felt when for the first time Uncle Stephen announced the news of my parent's death to me. For some time I didn't understand it and wasn't able to let out even a little voice from my mouth. But Uncle Stephen hugged me tightly and picked me up in his warm embrace where I cried for the whole night.
These are the same words my father asked me when he gave me away, and now Uncle Stephen was asking the same. I'm not brave, I'm scared and nervous.
"No," I denied.
"Soren, kiddo listen to me, relax, and take deep breaths because the next thing I'm about to tell you, I'm sure you are not going to like it," Uncle said and I shook my head continuously, my eyes teared up.
"NO!" I let out to him.
"Soren don't cry, I have to save you, it was my last promise to your father." He chides and points at the big house, it is so big. "Look at it."
"Currently we're in the Nightfall pack and the wolves cannot enter here, anyone who isn't a member of this pack cannot enter." He said and furrowed.
"Are you a member then?" I asked.
"Yes, I am. Although I don't live here for some reason, I'm a member of this pack." Uncle explained and I nodded in understanding. He cupped my face with his right hand while his left hand was gripping my arm.
"Now listen carefully, we are going to meet with the Alpha of this pack, Shilister. Currently, he's so powerful that no other pack attempts to fight him. We'll go inside and ask for his help." He whispered his words.
"Will he help us?" I asked. I don't like any other wolf now except Uncle Stephen.
"We'll try," he said. "Soren, I'm going to ask him to make you one of his pack members, if you stay here the wolves could no longer try to hunt you anymore."
"Means I'll be the member just like you in your pack," I asked excitedly. I like to be a member of a pack that Uncle Stephen is part of, and then I'll be as strong as him and beat those bad wolves away.
"Yes, but you have to be careful and brave for your own cause from now on you have to live here without me." He said with a sad face. I could tell he was feeling unhappy and my tears came out. I don't know how they could do it so fast.
"NO, Uncle Stephen I wanted to be with you, don't leave me alone here," I hugged him tightly so he couldn't leave me, more tightly than when I hugged my parents when they gave me to him, if I'd hugged him tightly then he cannot escape me.
He rubs my back while I rub my tears and runny nose on his shoulder. He picked me up and started to walk to that big house.
"Soren, I'll be coming back to you every weekend to meet you, okay?" He said and kept rubbing my back.
"No," I choke out, my tears keep coming.
"And I promise if I had to do anything, whatever he asked me to do, I'd do it. I'd even beg Shilister to make you a member of his pack and I'll always keep an eye on you even without not staying with you, okay?" He asked and again I shook my head.
"No," I said again, and just like that, we entered the house.
A woman opened the door and she looked at us with odd eyes.
"Jiya, where's Shilister." He asked and she just kept staring at us but more at me, I think she furrowed on my runny nose, maybe she thinks I'm an ugly kid.
"In his office but what are you doing here after so many years, and this kid, who's he?" She keeps asking question after question.
"I'll tell you everything later but first I've to urgently talk to Shilister," Uncle Stephen said and the Jiya woman glared at him.
"You mean Alpha Shilister." She angrily let out.
"Yes, that's what I mean. Now, Jiya I also have a request for you too," He gave me to the lady and she took me without thinking of my dirty appearance. Maybe she's like an uncle. "This is Soren, he's a tiger shifter."
"What?" She questioned in shock and she turned her face to me, so I nodded. Maybe she didn't carefully listen to what he said to her.
"Yes and from now on he's going to stay here with you guys, I want you to take care of him nicely when I'm not here. I want him to have no discomfort here, please protect him here. I'll come every weekend to meet him, now please excuse me. I've to go and talk to Shilister."
Uncle Stephen said and hurried into a hallway and I feel like everything is going to change from now on.
After that day, I only get to meet him only on weekends. He never told me what he agreed to do so that the Alpha could make me one of the members.
Alpha Shilister, I barely saw him in the house, he was always out on his work whatever he did. Now, Jiya takes care of me, she's so sweet with the way she treats me, and his mate Frank too is so sweet and tells me night stories.
Jiya said he works as the butler in the house and she was a maid who takes care of the mate of Alpha. But I never get to see the alpha mate of alpha. Jiya tells me she's sick and never comes out of her room, it's the order of alpha.
But, living here is not so bad, there are many other wolves in this pack and some humans who live in this town. After spending months here, no wolf came tailing me. When I asked my uncle about it, he said that the alpha and he had taken care of it. So, I no longer need to be worried and live in fear.