Chapter 5: One And A Half Day

~Alric~

“But werew -“ Alric stopped himself, recalling how this girl had no idea of her own true nature. All the more, she did not have her wolf, another mystery to her he had to solve.

‘She doesn’t remember? And all because she met an accident?’ Alric was in doubt, but he also discerned her sincerity. 

He gulped his theories down his throat and further tightened his hold around Alana. He maintained to savor the surrounding air, pressing his lips on her head.

Alric recognized, perhaps, there was some truth to what she said. Since she had no wolf, she could not heal the same way as he did or any regular werewolves. She could not be a late bloomer, though. As far as he knew, Alana should already be twenty-six by now. 

Back in The Port of Valmore, the largest territory within their name, they had late bloomers who shifted after they turned eighteen. Alana, however, was a different story. If only they were together then, h