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world. There are no others.”
                  “You could make one.”
                  “Andros is loathe to make another wolf when we have a perfect candidate already.”
                  “I’m … I’m not a leader. Maybe Ivy … ” My voice had lost some of its bite.
                  “Ivy is months away from maturity. They need someone now.”
                  My eyes darted to Bella but she wasn’t saying anything to help me. “I’m not a leader,” I repeated lamely.
                  “Yes, you are, Willow. It is in your blood. You just need a pack.”
                  “What did you think would happen, Willow?” Bella asked in a flat voice. The kind of tone that sent shivers down my spine. “That we would all live happily ever after? I should have thrown you out a year ago.”
                  I couldn’t say anything to that. I had always pictured myself being a lone wolf. It had always been my only option. Until now. “I could, you know, teach them and … until another … or Ivy … in a few months. Only for a few months.”
                  Blake smiled. “Excellent.”
     
     
     
                  Blake waited downstairs while I packed my stuff. It didn’t take long. I just shoved everything back in my trunks and snapped the lids shut. I sat down on the edge of my bed, my heart a heavy mass in my chest. We hadn’t even been here for a full week. That had to be some kind of record.
                  “Hey,” Ivy called from the doorway. Her bright blue eyes were lit with excitement. “I just got back from hunting and Bella says to pack up cause we are leaving. What did you do?”
                  “You’re leaving?”
                  “ We are leaving.” She made a point to look at my packed trunks.
                  Of course they were leaving. Two packs in one town? That would never work. Bella had only brought us here so that I could be turned over to Blake. The mass in my chest clenched painfully. I should have been ecstatic to get Ivy out of my life, but instead I felt a strange hollowness. “I’m not going with you.”
                  “What do you mean?” She hadn’t moved from the doorway.
                  “What did you think would happen?” I asked, using Bella’s words to me. “That we could all just live happily ever after?” I couldn’t sound as flat as her, my breath was coming out too thin.
                  “Are you staying here?” It surprised me that Ivy didn’t sound happy either.
                  “For a little while.”
                  “I could stay with you,” she said softly. Before I realized she had moved, she was sitting beside me on the bed.
                  “You have to stay with Bella,” I murmured. I looked at my little sister, my eyes bright with tears.
                  Her own tears spilled over, leaving a trail down her still dirty face. I would miss Ivy. She was such a pain, but I would miss her. I always knew this day would come. I guess I just didn’t realize how much my sister meant to me. I pressed my forehead to hers.
                  “Girls!” Bella screamed up the stairs.

 
    Chapter Six
    The Second Pack
     
                  “Where are we going?” I asked Blake for the third time. After shoving my two trunks into his back seat, he watched as I awkwardly gave Bella a one-armed hug goodbye. Ivy wasn’t there when we pulled away. “Why are you driving anyways? Isn’t it faster to run?”
                  “As hard as it is to believe: the airlines frown on an oversized wolf riding coach.”
                  “Andros doesn’t pay you enough to ride first class?” His fist clenched briefly on the steering wheel but he smiled. “Are you