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fresh rain belong to the storm pack and the others belong to the silver moon pack,” Blake explained.
    “ So if werewolves have scents according to their packs, what do I smell like?” I asked.
    “ Like wild daisies,” said Cade, looking a little uncomfortable. Blake threw him a look and smiled.
    Flowers were good; it could be worse, I could smell like old shoes.
    “ So if I had to join a pack, would my scent change to that of the pack?” I asked. Cade raised an eyebrow and I rolled my eyes at him.
    “ It’s a hypothetical question. I don’t want to join either of your packs,” I stated heatedly.
    “ Yes,” answered Blake.
    “ I don’t know much about werewolves. The only stuff I do know is what I’ve read about in teen books or learned from movies like Twilight. But aren’t werewolves too territorial to have two packs so close together?” I questioned. Questions were forming in my head faster than they would be able to answer them.
    “ In most towns that would be correct, there would only be one pack, but here things are different. I’m the alpha of the silver moon pack and Cade is the alpha of the storm pack. The only reason why we are able to run our packs together in one town without trouble is because we’ve been best friends from the time we started to walk.”
    “ When you say alpha does that mean that you’re in charge?” I asked.
    “ Yes,” answered Cade. “Our job is to keep the pack running smoothly and to keep everyone safe. The alpha of the pack is the person who gives the orders and the rest follow our orders without question.”
    I didn’t like the sound of that one bit. I didn’t want to be a part of a pack if it meant I had to follow orders from an alpha. I wasn’t ready to kiss my independence goodbye.
    “ You said male werewolves shift at the age of sixteen but female werewolves don’t—why?” I asked. It seemed a bit sexist, if you asked me.
    “ Female werewolves only start to shift once they find their mate,” he began to explain and I frowned.
    “ Why?” I asked the question, but I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to like the answer to it.
    “ There are a lot of things that get triggered in the female werewolf when two werewolves mate. Once the werewolves mate, the female werewolf begins the cycle of going into heat until she falls pregnant. It’s like nature’s way of ensuring the female werewolf has a male werewolf to take care of her needs and keep her safe.”
    Oh, hell no!
    My frown deepened. I didn’t like the sound of that at all.
    “ When the werewolf belongs to a pack, the werewolves are able to talk to each other in their minds, like a mind-link.”
    That sounded cool. It was pretty much the only thing that sounded cool.
    “ With two werewolves that have mated, the link between the two runs deeper and the two mates are able to feel each other’s emotions and stuff like that. It ensures the male werewolf knows when the female werewolf is in danger.”
    “ How do werewolves find their mates?” I asked, wondering if it went along the same lines as Twilight . What had they called it? Imprinting? And it happened when they looked at each other, didn’t it?
    “ Unlike what most books or movies portray, finding one’s mate isn’t accomplished by just seeing them. The mates have to touch each other. The touch has to be skin to skin.”
    “ What happens when they touch?” I asked, curiosity getting the better of me. It wasn’t like I was going to be hoping and praying that I’d find a mate; I was happy on my own, and I wasn’t interested in finding a mate.
    “ They know straight away.”
    “ If we have to go into that much detail, we’ll be here all night,” Cade said as he stood.
    “ I’ve just found out I’m a werewolf and I’m entitled to ask all the questions I damn well please, so if you don’t want to listen to it, then leave,” I said, putting him in his place. Momentarily surprised at what I had said, his eyes widened and then they