Laila✒️

Lailas mother used to be the mate of a stud who Laila never met, her siblings father. He died before Laila was born. And Lailas father, he was the stud of the pack, at least when Laila was born. Both her parents died not long after her birth. Both of them had been kind to her, but both had their shortcomings. Lailas mother was very old and senile, Laila was her last pup. Not to mention, she was still mourning her mate, and Laila didn't feel like she belonged among her siblings, as they were all his pups.
Lailas father was the stud of the pack, and so he had many pups and didn't care for any of them. Laila noticed that he was in love with a fair wolf, and Laila often wished that she had been born their pup instead. Laila had the same colours as her fathers mate. Before he died they had pups together. The pups mother died, too, and Laila actually looked after them a little bit.

Ever since her youth, she lived on the outskirts of the pack. She ate scraps and slept in a cave the alpha had made for wolves who wanted to leave, some wolves came and went. It was her intention to also leave at some point, but the alpha sometimes visited her and it kept her around. It was a calm life for a little bit, until she realized she wasn't alone living in the outskirts. Laila had become an adolescent, and started exploring her surroundings, when she realized there was actually another cave in the area. It smelled strong of wolf, and of puppies, but she had never even seen a pup around there. Laila started spying on this cave every day. Different wolves would walk in and out, some would leave the pack but not the same way that travellers do. They were intending to stay. They ate scraps from the pack, like Laila did. The wolves all were very beautiful, but many of them looked.. similar somehow. Something was definitely off with them. Soon enough, Laila took notice of the pups that were sent away. There were many.
"They chase all their pups, even the ones they keep, they chase when they're adults," a voice rumbled behind her. Laila swung around and looked at a glistening, lean wolf. She was taken aback by his beauty and didn't know what to say. He raised his eyebrows, "you were curious, weren't you?"
He sniffed her as he passed by, and concluded, "your first heat is coming soon, isn't it?"
Laila became embarrassed and tucked her tail between her legs.
"Too bad you won't be spending it with any of us," he smirked at her, and laughed as he walked into the cave. Laila shivered. Ever since then, Laila stayed as far away from that cave as she could.
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"Are you okay?" The familiar voice asked and she didn't even bother to look who it was, as her heart started thumping.