Reggie's: Changing a Wolf's Heart (2 page)

Then, the child born under the April constellation is an Ares. This child will be the one who will be the liaison between the humans and the Were. They will travel all over the world promoting the harmony that is needed for both races to coexist. There were more shifters than just the Werewolf, and making the decision to come out into the open was going to be difficult. All shifter communities needed to be involved in planning the Revelation.

After April is, of course, May, the Tarsus. This will be the spiritual advisor and historian of the Council. This Wolf will confer with the past notes, and make sure the Council is not making the same mistakes the previous Councils made. They will record our history as it happens, and make sure that future generations have the documentation of shifter history.

The child born in June is one of the most unique among the zodiacs, Gemini, the twins.

They will be the only ones who share a month, and will share the seat on the Council.

They will be the financial managers of the Pack. Because of the responsibility, and the task being so vast, two children needed the gift. The current Council had amassed a great fortune, and the Denver Pack was extremely prosperous. They needed to build more room for the new members of both Packs as well as making sure that each member was taken care of. Quin and Jaden would never allow anyone in their Pack to want for anything. It would take a team loaded with financial people to normally run the funds from a Pack. The twins were going to be in command of the group.

The next child is born in July, a Cancer. They are the overseer of mates. Their gift allows them to see who is supposed to mate, and who is not. They are also the protector of the mates, should anyone force a mating or abuse a mate, and they are the ones who will deal with it. Quin did not tolerate any abuse of a mate in the Denver Pack. They had heard stories of other Packs that used their females as slaves, and refused to do anything like this. The overseer of mates for the Council would have a big job trying to clean up the mess in America. Quin and Jaden spent half of their time calling the Alphas from other Packs around, and reporting mate abuse that they heard about.

Devon was born in August. He is the Leo, the leader of the Enforcers of both the Denver Pack and the Council Pack, the leader of their army, a natural protector. Should he wish he could challenge Quin, of course he would never do that because he does not want the headache. He is perfectly happy being the Beta. Devon was going to be the leader of all the Betas; he would set up training for them and make sure that they were doing their job. This, as well as making sure the Enforcers were doing their job. He was like the military leader in the United States, the highest ranking General in the Were community. If there were a war with the Rogues, Devon would be leading it.

Next in line is Virgo, the child born in September. This will be the medical advisor.

They will work with the human doctors to understand the physiology of the Were, and will be the trainer of the Were doctors. There were subtle differences in the makeup of Were"s. The Denver Pack had a doctor, and he was a good one. Doc had been with Quin since he started this Pack, but there are too many shifters for the one man to help and know about, thus the need for a medical advisor. Levi knew they had found this member of the Council recently. Cloe was mated to his Beta Darien, and apparently, they shared a bond with another member of the new Pack.

The child born in October, Libra, will be the Pack builder. They will be responsible for setting up a new Pack and knowing what is going on in each of the Packs and report to the Council. Once the Council officially moved to Denver, there was sure to be an influx of Packs starting in the United States. Many of the Packs for Europe had small Packs in the States, but Quin knew that they would grow, and be much larger than they were now.

The next is the child born in November, the Scorpio. They are considered the oldest of souls and will be the consultant with the previous Council, use them as a resource, should the Council need them. There was much to be learned from humans, and other Were"s, and Quin wanted the Old Council to be advisors, but they needed someone appointed to help with organizing them.

Finally, the child born in December, the Sagittarius, they will be the liaison between the other shifters and the Council. We know there are other shifters, all with different hierarchies, and this person will be the go-between for the groups. Devon had been surprised when he learned there were more species in the Americas than where he had grown up, and he had yet to meet any. Most of the shifter community kept hidden, even from fellow shifters. Once they became public, it would be a huge job to organize all the different communities. Quin mentioned that he would eventually like to have some of the other shifters on the Council as advisors.

Levi had been too young to remember any of this. It had been in the recent weeks he discovered all of this mess. At the time, he figured he would be a guard to one of the Chosen; he had been recognized by his Beta and Alpha for his abilities. Then Reggie came to town. Apparently, while he was chasing down the Rogue who had attacked their Alphas and New Council members when driving from the airport, his second mate had arrived. Ruby discovered that she was Reggie"s mate too. She had refused to leave his side because Reggie had been wounded in the attack.

According to his Alphas, Reggie had sustained a concussion and been shot several times, although not fatally, all the injuries had been enough to send him into a coma.

While Reggie had lain in a bed being taken care of by Ruby, he had been on the streets, trying to find the Rogues. When he returned to the Pack building, it had been amid another attack. This time, the Rogues had taken Reggie and Ruby.

They were still sorting through the mess, but so far, they discovered that Casey and Reggie"s parents had been working with the Rogues, and may have even been involved in Jo"s kidnapping. Nothing was really fitting together yet, Levi just hoped soon, they would be able to find his mates and figure all of this shit out.

Levi will still pissed about the delay. Darien, his Beta, took off last week to search for one of the Chosen. He found her just thirty minutes from Denver. The shit hit the fan and in that week, everything changed. They were moving the Council Pack to Milliken, and expanding the Denver Pack territories to include Milliken. Many of the families were going to be moving. Levi, of course being the mate of one of the Chosen would move too, if he ever found his mates.

Not to mention the fact the Alphas" mate, Cami, had given birth to triplets. Ruby would have loved that. She and Cami were thick as thieves. Cami told him on more than one occasion that he was a dumb ass. It had kinda become the consensus with the female members of the New Council. Something else he agreed with, he had been a dumb ass to ever think he could ignore the mating pull.

Chapter 2

“Where the hell am I?” Reggie muttered and tried to clear his head. It felt like he had been on a three-day drunken spree, and he was coming down. The last time his head pounded this bad he had been at a celebration party for Casey. Wait; there was something he should be remembering. Crap, had he gone home with a stranger?

“Sweetie, just relax, mother is here. I will take care of you, just like I have been.” Barbara crooned next to him.

Reggie"s eyes popped open, and he looked around. Things were coming back to him. He did not want to talk to his mother. She had lied to him his whole life. He had a twin sister, his best friend Casey had lived next door to them for years, and his parents never told them. It was a serious cluster fuck. The last thing he remembered was flying into Denver and driving to his new home with the Denver Pack. Quin was the Alpha of the Pack and had assured him that he would not have to talk to his parents until he was ready. So why was she in the same room with him now? Reggie closed his eyes again and tried to concentrate.

“Where am I?” Reggie repeated his question. He wanted to talk to Casey before he spoke to his mother. They had yet to actually process what had happened as children.

Until his twin agreed, he was not going to talk to his parents. He remembered talking to Casey and her mates about it. They were in the car, the car that exploded. Hang on, a car he was in exploded and now he was with his mother. This could not be good.

“Sweetie, we are just settling into our new place.” Barbara explained, sounding very tense, Reggie thought.

“What the fuck are you talking about?” Reggie yelled, feeling very frustrated and kinda out of sorts. Nothing she was saying made any sense. Seriously, she was freaking him out a little. He heard the little sing-songy way she was speaking. She seemed like she was on the edge. Since finding out his mother hid his twin from him, this was the only way he spoke to her. She did not deserve his respect. A mother who would choose one child over the other was a disgrace.

When Reggie was small, he realized his mom was a little high-strung. She lectured him daily on Casey. She was a bad influence. She was going to tarnish his name, blah, blah, blah, was all he really heard. Reggie had been drawn to Casey from the moment he saw her. He could remember it, strangely enough. They had been small, two maybe three years old, and he saw the little girl playing in a mud puddle, and Reggie remembered how he felt pulled to her.

Casey was the only one who got him. She was the one who laughed when he came out of the closet, well kinda, he was a bisexual. His mother had freaked out; Reggie had almost not come out to his friend, because of her reaction. She had yelled, screamed, and even slapped him across the face. Reggie had been shocked; once she calmed down, she acted as if he had not even told her he was bisexual. She had refused to speak about it again.

“That other place was just not acceptable; they had no clue how special you were.” Barbara scoffed. “When you were young, I could see. You were born to be an Alpha. If it weren"t for that girl, you would have been the leader of the Pack finances; you would have been the one who got the promotion. Once the Pack saw what you had discovered, they would have kicked the Alpha out, and you would have taken his place.”

“Woman, are you on drugs?” Reggie bellowed. “I have never heard such a load of crap in my life. What the hell are you thinking?” Reggie knew what his mother was talking about. At the time, he had been proud of Casey. She had been the only accountant to see the irregularity in the Pack finances. She had worked for weeks before going to the Alpha and telling him what was going on. Reggie was a good accountant, he knew that.

Casey and Reggie had gone to school together. They had laughed when they realized that they had different strengths. Together they made the perfect accountant. When Casey saw the irregularities, she came to Reggie, he helped her work through the paperwork, but she had done all the work. She gave him credit, but apparently not enough for his mother.

“Now Reggie, just relax. I think the hit on the head did some damage. We only want what is best, and these wolves can give it to you.” The old woman said sternly.

“Which wolves, give me what?” Reggie demanded. He opened his eyes and really focused on where he was. “Where is Casey?”

“She is still with that Pack. They were never going to appreciate you. They were never going to see you for who you are. They did that when you were a baby. They referred to you as one of the „twins". You were so much more. Casey took too much of me. She demanded too much.” His mother said, and Reggie looked at her like she was crazy.

“She was a baby, duh.” Reggie said.

“Even then, she tried to take from you. The Council would never look at you like you were special. The spirits chose you, Reggie; you could have done it by yourself. You could have taken over the Council and made them listen. Coming out to the humans is a mistake. They would try to take what makes us special. I know you would have seen the light, you would have understood what needed to happen. Some wolves agreed, that is why they took Jo. They wanted to stop the Prophesy and create their own. I told them then, I could have helped you understand, I told them they could leave it to me, but they were too scared. Now, they know, you are special. You will be the one to be appointed Alpha. When Roarke and the Master beat Quin and the rest of them, he will create his own Council, one that you will lead.” She ranted.

“You have lost your ever loving mind. Where the fuck am I?” Reggie screamed and jumped up from the couch he had been lying on.

Reggie looked around frantically. He ran for a door and opened it. Lying on a bed tied to the bedpost, with a gag in her mouth, was a small woman. Reggie sniffed and froze.

Shit, it was one of his mates, and it was a girl. He looked at her and smiled, at least she was smaller than him. Reggie stood only five feet eleven inches, a little small for a wolf.

He had a thin frame, but he was all muscle. Some of the men from his old Pack called him a pretty boy, they had been correct. Reggie was modest, but he knew he was good-looking. He did not have the hard and rugged look like most male wolves. No, Reggie could have been a male model; his facial features were smooth and beautiful. His blonde and wavy hair just added to his looks. When he was young, he knew he was attracted to men and women alike. It took him a longtime to come to terms with the fact that he was different. He may like vibrant bright colors, use hair gel, and have just the right amount of swing in his hips, but he was all male.

When one of his girlfriends made fun of him because he let slip he found a man handsome on a date, Reggie decided to swing a little more to the male species. Looking at his little mate, he now wondered why.

Reggie growled when he saw that she was looking at him frightened. Enraged that his mate had been tied up, Reggie ran into the room and ripped the restraints off. He pulled the gag from her mouth and checked her over briefly.

“Do you know who I am?” He whispered against her ear.

“Yes, they took us together; they just brought me back in here a few days ago.” Ruby said quietly. “My name is Ruby, and I am one of your mates.” Reggie growled thinking about what his poor little mate had endured while he slept. He was going to kill everyone who touched her, including his mother and father if they were in this shit deep. He needed information, and he needed it now. Reggie shook his head a little to clear the last of the fuzziness out of it.