Fear Can Break ↠ Liam Dunbar [Book 2]

✧Goats On Bubble Wrap✧

DEDICATED TO THE MAIN BAE KRYSTA BECAUSE SCEA IS ALL THAT MATTERS!?!?!

Chapter Five ✧Goats On Bubble Wrap✧

"I was skating in my neighbors empty pool trying to do a hand plant." Theo said, launching himself into the story of how he got bit. Theo, Stiles, Scott, and I stood in the middle of an empty boys locker room, a place I would never care to be again. "Nobody was home. I'm not that good of a skateboarder but I guess I was feeling pretty determined because I completely lost track of time. I didn't even realize it was night until the yard lights came on. Like I said, I wasn't very good. On my last try I went down and hit hard. Really hard. I was sitting there at the bottom of the pool and I realized something." 

Theo paused, taking a small breath as he looked around at us. I couldn't tell if he was doing it for dramatic effect, or just to make sure we were all still paying attention to him. 

"I never heard the board come back down." Theo told us. A vivid picture was almost instantly painted in my head. I saw Theo in the empty pool, the alpha standing at the top, probably feasting on Theo with his red eyes. "It came at me fast. I barely had a chance to turn around before it bit me. Right here." 

Theo pointed to his torso, indicating where his journey as a creature of the night had really started. I almost felt bad for him, but then I saw Stiles glaring at Theo and I remembered I still was supposed to not like him. 

"It wasn't an accident." Scott told the other werewolf. "He wanted to turn you." 

Leaning against the lockers next to me, Stiles crossed his arms in an unimpressed gesture. "Right. So, why aren't you a part of his pack then? Why didn't he come back for you." 

Theo turned his head to look at me and Stiles. "Because by the time of my first full moon, he was dead." 

"How'd you know that?" I asked softly, my tone about a thousand times friendlier then Stiles'. Theo must've appreciated the attempt at a kind action, because he gave me a light smile. 

"I met another one of his pack a couple weeks later. He told me the Alpha that bit me was killed by two of his own betas." Theo explained, his attention turning back to Scott. "They were twins." 

I let out a sigh, glancing back and forth between Scott and Stiles to see they were wearing the same expression as I was. That part of the story hadn't come as too big of a surprise, especially since we were pretty sure we knew who those twins were. But still, my two senior friends didn't look incredibly sold on trusting the new guy. 

"Scott, listen to my pulse." Theo told the true alpha. "I'm telling you the truth." 

"Right. Or you just know how to steady your heart rate while your lying your ass off." Stiles suggested, pushing himself off of the locker so he could step closer to Theo. 

Scott cocked his head at his best friend, showing that he was not nearly as weary of Theo Raeken as Stiles was. Scott then looked beyond Stiles and to me. I locked eyes with the werewolf and shrugged my shoulders, we both knew that once Stiles had gotten his suspicions up about someone, there was no going back.