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46. Gaaaaaay (Green Creek Series: Wolfsong 1/4 ) · The Book-Watchers

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  Hmm, that sounds Are you sure you don't have ADHD. I'm pretty sure
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  I did get tested. It's just h Hi, welcome to book watchers.
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  Great a intro here, ladies and Jens raid a good intro. You're doing
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  great, We're doing great, honey, you're doing great. Thing. Uh
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  I'm Devin. What's good is poppin'. And of course we got the one
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  and only the six foot giant who's a butt face Jacob. Hi, Jacob,
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  welcome, Welcome, welcome, blood face, sort of blood face.
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  Well you would put a butt to your face, but as a terrible joke,
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  you do it like one slap two about six times and suddenly it labeled
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  for life. I mean, you'll call me a horse, and I'm labeled
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  for life. It's only fair cutting all that part out and were Hi.
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  Welcome the book watchers. We're here today doing stuff and saying things and gay
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  shit, lots of gay shit, lots of gains, ship, lots of
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  shi. Hey, how's it going? My name is Jacob's well yeah,
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  yeah, wow wow, So what are we doing today? We just got
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  off of the got off oh god, not the two vampires. That sounds
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  so terrible. We did a vampire month. We got damn it. We
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  just had the month of vampires, okay for October. And now what we're
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  doing, what we're doing today, I can't. I can't speak today.
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  I'm not talking today we're doing today. Yeah, you're just just myself a
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  hole I'm saying. I'm just making digging a hole of myself. Yeah,
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  just just stay just stay over there, I'll stay here. Looks pretty,
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  yes, God, just look pretty. So today we are taking a step
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  away from the vampires. Whether or not we go back to vampires will probably
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  to be determined. Uh. Today we are gonna be talking about the other
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  kind of Plassic monsters and Jacob's favorite thing, one of his favorite things ever.
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  Yes, yes, yes, so like believe it or not, people
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  believe it or not. Vampires are not my favorite type of monsters, all
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  right, And aside from kaiju, my favorite type of classical monster is actually
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  were wolves. And don't yes, Harry, I thought you want to like
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  I thought you want? Are you going ill for you're the technical fucker over
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  here? I am not. It's been established and well on multiple podcasts all
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  under the Boy Please the Fifth and the United States, Thank you, leave
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  me and the technical monsters alone, leave me in the Elder tors alone.
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  Okay. Yeah, So anyway, so today I just wanted to do something
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  a little different. The book we're reviewing today, it doesn't have it doesn't
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  have a movie adaptation yet. I don't think it has an adaptation. You
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  know, I probably should. I don't think it has an adaptation as of
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  yet. Okay, yeah, no it doesn't. So the book we're going
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  to be reviewing is a I think this is probably gonna be our first romance
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  novel that we've done, and that got the bromances the romance. Oh no,
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  it's not. I I know it's not. It's like I love this
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  book anyway, the move. The book we are reviewing today is called Wolf's
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  Song by TJ. Clinton. Gay. Yeah, it really is. It
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  is. It is a gay romance novel. And yes, the romance is
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  between a were wolf and a human. Yeah. So I just want to
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  like put this out there that I have already, Like I actually just read
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  this book, like I bought it earlier this past week. We're recording on
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  a Sunday right now, and I bought it on I believe I bought it
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  on a Monday, like this past Monday, and I spent the day the
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  next day reading it, and by the end of that day I was finished.
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  Damn. Yeah, so I only finished books within a day or so.
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  If if it's not not only because it was short. This book is
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  only like about home? Want is this book? This book is the edition
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  I have, which is the kindle edition, only has five hundred and fifteen
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  pages. But uh, the story just got me so hooked that I spent
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  the entire day. I took the day off on Tuesday, this past Tuesday,
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  and I spent that entire day reading this book. Like I seriously couldn't
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  put it down. At one point I looked at the time. It was
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  already mid like late afternoon, and I was like, oh shit, I
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  was supposed to make food. Yeah, this this is the first book of
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  six books by the way, six I thought, Yeah, the sex there's
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  in this series, in this lovely series that you all soon hear about.
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  You got Wolf Song, you got Raven Song, then you got love Song,
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  Heart Song, Faral Song, Brother Song, and then as the last
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  one that got released back in twenty twenty. So there's six books in total
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  as of right now. Oh fun Fact BYJ and Yeah and since I started
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  reading this book. I'm already on book three, of which is Heart Song.
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  Yeah, I finished reading it. I believe it was either. Yeah,
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  it was Tuesday night when I finished reading Wolf Song, and I just
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  sat there just like a there's a phenomenon that some readers may get where they
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  finish they finished reading a book that was so good that you just don't know
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  what you're gonna do with your life until you find out there's another book in
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  this series, and you're just like, so that's what I'm doing. I
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  need more. I don't need sleep, I need answers. So I bought
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  the second book, Raven's Song, and I read that in It took me
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  a little bit longer to read that one because since I had to go,
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  I went back to work. I was reading it every chance I got,
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  and I finished it. I think Friday I finished it. And then I
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  got the third book yesterday, like Friday night, and I started reading it
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  yesterday work. And so now I am on Heart Song. Oh I'm sorry.
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  Yeah, I'm on Heart Song book three, and I'm already how far
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  am I in this book? Now? There's four hundred and forty nine pages
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  in this book, and I'm already on page ninety three, oh, almost
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  a quarter into the book. Yeah, so Wolf Song is all a part
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  of the Green Creek Chronicles, and so it the story not just a Wolf
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  Song, but pretty much all of the sequels, preceding all the preceding books.
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  They center around a wolf, a werewolf pack, or a family of
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  werewolves. They are the Bent Packed. So a little background about the Bennetts
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  is that they are considered royalty among were wolves because they're their alpha is considered
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  the alpha alphas because he is in charge of not just his own little pack,
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  but every pack out there. And uh, there's just like there's As
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  you read the books, you learn more about their dynamics, Like in every
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  wolf pack there is a an alpha who is a leader, and then there
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  are the betas who are just basically they're just like the normal werewolves. And
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  there's omegas. But the thing about omegas is that they don't You only become
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  an omega if you don't have a pat and uh, the story talks about
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  how were wolves need something to anchor themselves, like a tether, like an
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  emotional tether, and that's why werewolves have packs, because the pact anchors them.
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  It keeps them in control. It keeps them from giving into their animalistic
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  urges, so they don't go crazy. They don't go crazy and wolf out
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  on people. And an omega is a wolf that, either by choice or
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  by circumcertain circumstances, have lost their pact and they don't have an alpha or
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  family to keep them from going you know, cuckoo. And over time in
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  omega will lose their Omegas will lose their their's, their humanity and just completely
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  wolf out. And they're basically like they're the The omegas are basically like the
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  classical like feral werewolf goes around killing people and bloodthirsty. But in any case,
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  the Bent family they left their home of Green Creek, I believe this
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  is important, Green Creek, Oregon. And they had been gone for some
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  like probably about let's say about good fifteen years, almost twenty years, and
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  the story fall Fall. The story of Song follows is from the perspective of
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  the main character. His name is ox Nerd Mathieson. Kind of I hate
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  that name. I don't like it because it's like it's hard for me to
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  pronounce, but I'm gonna uh for me. It's hard because it's I feel
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  like I'm saying Ox Nerd, and I'm trying to say Ox Nerd, but
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  I posted his name in the chat. That's that's how you spell his name.
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  Yeah, but everybody, uh so, it's it follows from the perspective
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  of a human boy named Ox Nerd math mathieson. Now everyone just calls him
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  Ox. Now. The thing about Ox is that he is He comes from
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  a very troubled family, so his dad was an alcoholic. He was also
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  verbally and physically abusive. While his dad never raised a hand raised a hand
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  against Ox, he had. His dad did used to beat his mother,
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  although Ox never witnessed it. He suspected it, but he never witnessed it
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  himself. When Ox was about twelve years old, because when the book starts
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  out doesn't really tell you how old Ox is, but it's implied that he's
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  very young. But when his dad finally walks out on his family, abandons
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  him and his mom, Ox is about twelve years old. And the thing
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  about Ox is that he's dealing. He does. He does deal with his
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  own form of emotional trauma, and a lot of it comes from his dad
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  because his dad would put him down a lot, call him like slow stupid,
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  even at one point retarded saying he would tell him that you would always
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  get shit for the rest of your life because how slow you are, and
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  make allig like he would make references to the fact that because Ox is such
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  a big kid, even at twelve, he was already like pretty big,
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  like pretty like sizeable, pretty tall for his age, Like when he was
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  six years old, people thought he was already twelve. His dad told him,
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  would like make like would uh compare him to like what he was named
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  after, like people call him, everyone calls Max. And he was like,
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  yeah, you're just as slow as one too, So that's really fucked
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  up. That's that's fucked up, Like like that saying shit to your own
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  like that to your own son, that's fucked up. But the thing is
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  is that what's really sad is that at that age Oxton know better. This
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  was before he was old enough to really understand that that's just not normal.
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  You know, your parents aren't supposed to say shit like that to you,
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  And so for him it was normal. And he still loved his dad,
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  and when his dad walked out, he actually wanted to go with him,
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  but Guy left him behind, and of course gave him more words of wisdom
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  quote unquote. By words of wisdom, I mean calling him slow and just
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  like that, And I just felt I immediately felt like I immediately related to
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  Ox because I've got I myself have experienced stuff like that before. For me,
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  it was more from my brother than my parents. But I just felt
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  like, oh my god, I feel for you, kid, I feel
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  for you here. I've been there. It gets better, and it does,
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  it does, it does so. Uh So Ox's dad before he left,
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  used to work at a at a auto body shop and the owner of
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  the shop a guy named Gordo. He takes a liking to. It's an
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  Ox he always when he first met Ox, he was always very kind to
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  him. Even though Gordo comes across as like this total asshole, you know,
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  really gruff man, but Ox really looks up to him. Gordo access
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  kind of becomes his uh, he becomes his fatherly figure to him and helps
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  him out, helps him and his mom out after Ox's dad dips. At
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  one point, Ox like not long after his dad leaves, he talks to
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  Gordo asking Gordo if he could come work at the shop because Gordo and the
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  other guys at the shop. Uh, they come to see Ox is like
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  a like you know, like this as so they view Ox's family and Ox
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  views them as family as well, and they taught him how to work on
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  cars from a very young age. So Ox when he goes up to he
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  goes to Gordo and asks him if he can have a job because since his
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  dad left, they don't have they're not they don't have as much money anymore.
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  Or his mom is struggling because she works as a waitress at a diner.
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  And he pretty much begs him to give him a job so he can
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  help his mom pay like ketch up on all the bills that have either gone
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  the collections or are very behind on. And Gordo agrees to let him work.
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  And of course this is all under the table because Ox is still twelve
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  years old at this point, and he loans Gordo loans his Ox his mother
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  the money. I think his mom's name is Maria. Let me look up
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  the character's name, because he know me. I am terrible with names.
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  Yep, yep, ye, I am terrible with names. I'm terrible with
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  names. Let's see did to do? Where's the and no, I don't
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  use Wikipedia, who I Almos said, let me look at Wikipedia, like,
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  wait, no, I don't know, bad Jacob. You don't use
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  Wikipedia. It's not a credible source. But uhlen Lee, okay, look
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  at the actual book. Wrong book oo, wrong book again, future Devin
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  edit this out or unless you want to leave this in first comedic effect,
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  go for it and don't your ship. Uh uh, Gordo, my mom,
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  do you know? Let me look at the table contents, because you
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  know there's an index with all the names and shit like that, so page
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  copyright dedication, the graph. Uh, I'm just gonna go to the beginning
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  of the book because that's where all the names get thrown out there. Okay,
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  well until his mom's name, Like, it'll hit me later when I
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  don't really need it. I'm just we're just gonna be like, well,
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  tonight, when we're playing D and D, you'll just hear me go,
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  oh that's her name. Yeah, that's that's what I'm gonna remember it.
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  That's what that's my name. That's her name. Yeah, I thought I
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  thought, y'all he thought I forgot, but I didn't. But I totally
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  did anyway. Uh So, yeah, so Gordo ends up leaping uh loaning
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  UH Ox's mother some money to catch up on bills, and he agrees to
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  let Ox work with it work for him for the next six months. Now,
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  Ox suspected that he didn't actually work off all the money that was loan
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  to his mom, But after six months of working with Gordo, Gordo just
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  says, all right, you've paid your debt, you've paid your due.
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  You don't owe me anything else. But Ox continues to work in the garage,
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  uh pretty much for the rest of his life, because yeah, for
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  Ox, that's just what he's good at. He's good at working on cars.
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  He actually helps Gordo figure out newer merging technologies when it comes to auto
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  body repairs, because now, like it's not like back in the eighties and
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  nineties where you could just like listen to the engine and be like, all
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  right, I know what's wrong with it. Now everything is more automated and
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  shit, so like you got to do diagnostics and plug in the computer to
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  the car to like check like what the system says and everything. And so
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  Ox becomes an invio, He becomes an invaluable part of that body shop.
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  Of course, being underage, he's being under the age of sixteen. He
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  can't exactly legally work, so a lot of his work is done under the
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  table and he works. So he continues working. Three years ago by,
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  like three years go by, and on his sixteenth birthday, Gordo officially hires
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  him as a member, like an official member of the crew, part time,
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  of course, and as a gift to As a gift for Ox,
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  he gives Ox a shirt. It's a uniform shirt with his name stitched on
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  it. And this was such an emotional scene because growing up, Ox remembered
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  his dad having a shirt like it with his own name embroidered on it,
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  and he always thought for him that made his dad want like a very important
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  person because like his name is on a stitched onto a shirt. Well,
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  Gordo gave Ox some shirts with his own name stitched on it, and for
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  Ox that was such an emotional moment because it made things more real, like
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  he was now a part of a part of the crew of Gordo's shop,
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  and it made him feel like he had worth, like he was valuable,
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  like he was valued. And after the upbringing he had under his dad,
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  his dad left him feeling like he did not have much self worth and it
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  was so emotional. I was like, oh my god, stop it.
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  I can't take it. Feelings, feels, all the feels. And also
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  on his sixteenth birthday, no, no, only was he officially hired part
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  of the crew, Gordo gave him a set of keys to the shop.
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  And of course I've made him even happier because it made him feel more responsible.
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  The thing now not long after this, actually this is on the same
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  day. Where Ox lives. He lives out in the country. He lives
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  out in the countryside. Green Creek is a mountain village. It is like
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  a mountain community, so like it's where it's set is like in a mountain
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  and is very forested area, so it's very rural. The population of this
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  town is not very large. It's probably like a couple hundred people. And
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  where Ox lived, his house was like way out in the country and in
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  a very secluded area. And his house in the dirt road leading to his
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  house not only led to his house, but a house not like a couple
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  hundred feet down the road. This house for most of Ox's life had been
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  empty. Every now and then he would see somebody up here like come to
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  the house. But other than that it was empty until his sixteenth birthday,
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  when an entire family of were wolves moved in. Now they moved in.
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  He didn't know that the Bennett family were were wolves. He didn't know.
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  He did notice that there was something strange about them, just how they acted
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  and how they interacted with each other. It was pretty odd to him at
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  first, but being who he is, he's never been one to like question
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  things like, Okay, it's kind of odd, but whatever. So the
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  Bennett pat the Bennett family moved into the house, and the way he finds
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  out that they moved in was because usually whenever Ox comes home from school slash
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  work, he walks down the dirt road leading to his house, and as
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  he's walking down the dirt road, he runs into a boy, a little
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  boy about ten years old. Like brought up a ballet the first description of
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  the boy. So I'm just gonna go ahead and read you a little paragraph.
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  You know, there was a boy standing in the dirt road watching me.
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  His nose was twitching and his eyes were wide. They were blue and
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  bright, short blonde hair, tan skin almost as much as mine. He
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  was young and small, and I wondered if I was dreaming again, and
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  after saying hello to the boy, the boy, the little this boy asking
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  like starts asking him like a lot of questions. He's like very enamored with
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  Ox because even at sixteen, Ox was a big kid. He was like
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  already over six feet tall. And uh. First thing the kid asks him
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  is like do you smell that? And Ox is like, uh, trees,
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  I smell trees, He's like. And the little the boy is like
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  no, no, no, no, it's something bigger. And then this
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  child runs up to Ox and he immediately like climbs literally climbs up Ox.
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  Like he just latches on and just climbs up to like climbs up him,
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  and it's like looking at him, like examining him and everything and even sniffing
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  him, and he's like that smells you. And Ox is like like super
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  confused. He's just standing there. There's a ten year old child just climbing
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  up him, and He's like, what is what's going on? What is
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  this? And uh? This little kid is just like it is like like
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  why do you smell so? Why do you smell like that? This is
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  so weird. Where do you come from? Where's your house? Like I
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  don't get it. What is this, and he and before Ox can't even
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  say anything, he's like, we should we should go see my mom and
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  dad. They'll know what this is. And he like jumps down and leads
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  Ox further down the road. They passed by his house. Ox tells him
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  they're like, yeah, that's where I live. And the boys like,
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  cool, let's go to my house. And they go down to the other
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  house and there they see There Ox sees the rest of the family. Uh,
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  this boy who is introduced to be Joe Bennett. He has two older
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  brothers. His oldest brother Carter, who was about the same age as Ox.
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  He has an another older brother named Kelly. Kelly is younger than both
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  Ox and h Carter. And then there is their parents, Elizabeth and Thomas
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  Bennett. Thomas is as it's later revealed to be the alpha of their pact.
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  And then Thomas's younger brother Mark. I just want to mention Ox actually
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  had actually met Mark earlier in the book. This was at his mother's diner.
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  Mark had been in town, had come into town to check up on
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  the house and make sure that make sure everything's in place for them to move
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  back. Because the Ben family, as I said before, they used to
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  live in Green Creek, but decades ago they had to leave because of werewolf
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  shit that will go into later, and they didn't they haven't been back since.
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  They haven't really been back since, and now they're back in Green Creek
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  and they're making it their home again. Ox is introduced to the whole family
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  and while he's talking to while he's talking to them, Joe he's just going
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  off. He's like, he's this like really energetic kid and uh, it's
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  uh. Ox compares him to a little tornado. And while he's introduced to
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  the Bennett family, he notices that they're looking not only at Joe and not
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  only at him out of curiosity, but they're watching Joe like they're very shocked
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  to see Joe act like they're very shocked to see Joe uh so energetic like
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  this, and uh, Joe is going is going off, saying like like
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  can't you like like I like, guys, can't she just got can't you
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  smell him? Like he's like his smells so weird. It's so like it's
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  like candy canes and pine cones and epic and awesome. And they all stared
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  at him as if he'd come across something unexpected. H uh the Elizabeth,
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  the uh Joe's mother. She starts to like she starts to she responds to
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  him, but she sounds uncertain, like what like okay, uh yeah,
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  candy canes, pine cones. That's very interesting. Uh so ox he gets
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  he learns who they are, He tells them who he is, and he
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  lets slip that that very day it's his sixteenth birthday, and Joe gets even
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  more excited, like what like, oh it is your birthday, Hey,
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  happy birthday. Like we need like I should get you something, and he's
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  like that's not really necessary, it's just it's very I thought this scene was
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  very cute because like this this little kid is like, you know, like
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  some kids they really they really bond with like kids older than them, like
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  the teen there's always that teenage. There's always that one teenager that seems to
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  have like a kid that just really like latches onto them. But it's cute.
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  I don't know what that. I don't know what that's called. But
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  don't look at me weird. Okay, I don't English very well even though
• 31:15
  it's my first language. But yeah, So after getting acquainted with this new
• 31:25
  family, he goes home, he spends his birthday with his mom, and
• 31:32
  pretty much from here, this book has a lot of time skips, so
• 31:38
  Wolf's Song takes place over a period of ten years I'd say like ten to
• 31:47
  let's say about thirteen years, because from the point ox Is twelve, starts
• 31:51
  when Ox is twelve years old, and by the end of the book he
• 31:53
  is about twenty six, So this takes place over period of thirteen years,
• 32:00
  and ox Is now becomes a part of a new routine. He gets settled
• 32:07
  into a new routine. Every day from this point forward, he goes school,
• 32:14
  go to work, and then when he comes home, Joe is there,
• 32:17
  this little ten year old boy is waiting for him every day and he's
• 32:22
  always talking to He always talks to Ox. He's always bringing Ox home to
• 32:25
  his house, and Ox enjoys it. He's he's really he's starting to enjoy
• 32:30
  this because the Bennett family they welcome in, They welcome him into their home.
• 32:37
  They really enjoy having him there. He becomes friends with Carter and Kelly
• 32:40
  because he becomes more close friends with Carter and Kelly because they're closer to his
• 32:45
  age and they all start at the same school together. In fact, once
• 32:51
  the Bennett family starts school with him, Carter and Kelly immediately stick by Ox.
• 33:00
  They're always near him. They're always like almost like they're protecting him,
• 33:04
  like first first day, literally the first day Ox he was He's always been
• 33:09
  a bit of a loaner. He doesn't have many he doesn't have any friends
• 33:13
  really aside from the Bennetts, and when he gets to school, there are
• 33:16
  a few there are a few groups of kids that do bully him. And
• 33:20
  when one of these groups try to bully him, Carter and Kelly immediately jump
• 33:23
  on the guy and force the guy to apologize, which he does because they're
• 33:29
  literally being pinned down by two werewolves, but nobody knows that yet. Eventually,
• 33:36
  Ox let's uh, he lets it slip to Gordo at the shot that
• 33:42
  the Bennett family had moved in next door. And when Gordo heard about this,
• 33:46
  he let's just say, let's put it this way. He got upset,
• 33:52
  not at Ox, but at the fact that the Bennett family had returned,
• 33:57
  and he immediately warns Ox to stay away from them because they're bad news.
• 34:02
  And Ox is confused because, for one thing, he's been spending all
• 34:06
  this time with them, He's pretty much there every day. They invite him
• 34:08
  every week to their Sunday dinner because it's tradition. And he's like, they've
• 34:14
  been nothing but good to me. Why would I what's so bad about them?
• 34:17
  And Gordo doesn't really elaborate on what's what the issue with them are,
• 34:22
  and he does tell he does reveal a little bit about their family history,
• 34:31
  how they've been gone. They used to live here in Green Creek, long
• 34:36
  before your family moved in, and then and then one day they just up
• 34:40
  and left and the reason why they came back was because of certain extenuating circumstances,
• 34:46
  and those circumstances actually surround Joe, little ten year old Joe, and
• 34:52
  Ox was confused about this and he was like, why would I like,
• 34:55
  why would they need to come back because of Joe? And Gordo began telling
• 35:00
  him that something had happened to Joe, that the poor child had actually been
• 35:06
  kidnapped. And before Gordo can explain any further, uh, Ox stops him.
• 35:17
  He puts his foot down and says, no, I don't want to
• 35:21
  know, because for Ox he felt like this was not something that he should
• 35:24
  be hearing from Gordo. It doesn't sound like something he should be hearing at
• 35:29
  all, because it sounds like it's something It sended it to him like it
• 35:31
  was a very personal thing and if he if he's going to find out,
• 35:37
  it should be from the Bennett family themselves. And eventually he does find out,
• 35:46
  but he also finds out so much more about the Bennett family. So
• 35:53
  no, it wasn't too long after Gordo told him, told him what happened
• 36:00
  to Joe about the kidnapping, that the Bennett family. In the middle of
• 36:05
  the night, they they come to Ox's house. They call I'm sorry.
• 36:10
  They call Ox and ask him to come over. It's in the middle of
• 36:15
  the night, about three o'clock in the morning, and he's confused because it's
• 36:19
  like it's so late. What's going on? And they tell him it's Joe.
• 36:22
  Joe has been having night terrors and while they've they are prepared for his
• 36:30
  night terrors and they usually handle it themselves. This particular night, joe night's
• 36:37
  terror is really bad, and it seems like the only person who can calm
• 36:40
  him down is Ox because Joe is really bonded to has become really bonded to
• 36:45
  Ox. So Ox, without hesitation he gets up, he runs over to
• 36:50
  their house and he goes up to Joe's room and Joe immediately latches onto him
• 36:55
  and he's scared. He's terrified. His night terror was brought on by his
• 37:02
  his past trauma with the kidnapping. At this point, Ox hasn't found the
• 37:08
  entire doesn't know the entire story yet, but it doesn't matter to him.
• 37:13
  He's come to love Joe unconditionally like a little brother, and he stays the
• 37:19
  night with him, make sure and make sure that he's okay. And I
• 37:22
  thought that was really sweet because like for Ox, Joe is like it's just
• 37:25
  a he's a he's family now, and it's really and the and he also
• 37:31
  sees the Bennett fam the Bennett Pact as his family too, because they've really
• 37:37
  accepted him and they've helped him to see that he has so much more self
• 37:42
  worth and he's actually loved. Not that his mom doesn't do that for him,
• 37:47
  but the fact that he has other people reaffirming that for him is just
• 37:53
  something that made him feel makes him feel more accepted and more loved. And
• 37:58
  I love that something love that we see We start to see Ox throughout this
• 38:04
  book come out of his shell. He by the time he meets Joe,
• 38:08
  he's basically just surviving. He's just taking every day, every day, one
• 38:14
  step at a time. He's not actually living. And then he meets the
• 38:17
  Bennett family and now he has so much more in his life now. And
• 38:23
  I don't know what, toe that's a really I thought that was a really
• 38:25
  beautiful thing. Like I was just talking about like the impact that the benefit
• 38:30
  the Bennett family has had on Ox, Yeah, because his dad really ingrained
• 38:38
  in him that he doesn't have much self worth. Yeah, and meeting the
• 38:50
  Bennett family and the way they include him, you know, he sees him
• 38:53
  every day every day he comes back when he comes back from school slash work,
• 38:59
  Joe is there waiting for him on the dirt road and they walk back
• 39:04
  to their houses together. And every every Sunday, Ox is invited to their
• 39:10
  family dinner because it's a tradition for them to have family dinner every Sunday.
• 39:15
  And they make them feel as much a part of their family as they make
• 39:22
  them feel a part of the family. Yeah, and he just feels so
• 39:29
  much, so much more love now and support. And this book takes place
• 39:36
  over a ten year period and he really changed. He really comes out of
• 39:45
  his show. Did you hear the part where I was talking about how like,
• 39:52
  oh fuck, I got distracted, I lost my strength? Thought,
• 39:59
  okay, so you heard the part about where Ox had like he found out
• 40:09
  that he found out that Joe had been kidnapped before they moved back into Green
• 40:16
  Creek m M. And then Joe because of that, has night terrors.
• 40:22
  And this is when they were still kids, right, yeah, so Joe
• 40:28
  I think at this point, yeah, there's still kids. Joe's I think
• 40:30
  either like somewhere between ten and twelve at this point, like sometimes passed and
• 40:37
  uh, you know, one during one of his night's terrors, nothing that
• 40:43
  his parents could do would like shake him out of it. So they asked
• 40:45
  Ox to help him because he's gone. He's grown really attached to Ox,
• 40:51
  and Ox, without hesitation, comes over and I mean and calms him down,
• 40:57
  and he stays with Joe the rest of the nights to make sure he's
• 41:00
  okay. And for me personally, I thought this was so this is so
• 41:02
  beautiful because like you know, for Ox, he sees Joe as his little
• 41:07
  brother, and you know, it's just like he's found he's found his family
• 41:14
  and he still has his mom, and he loves his mom very much,
• 41:16
  but he found a new family too. Yeah, and it's I think it's
• 41:21
  just so great. So when it comes to the romance in this book,
• 41:34
  to the romantic aspect of this book, I I know, like when I
• 41:38
  was first reading it, I was thinking, like I knew immediately, like,
• 41:42
  Okay, Joe is going to be Oxford's Oxford's love interest. But I
• 41:49
  was a little concerned. I'm like, I seriously hope there's a time skip
• 41:52
  to where they're both legal adults. Yeah, emphasis on both, because I'm
• 41:59
  not sure how I feel about there being like teen romance, but because there
• 42:05
  is a clear six year age difference between the two of them. But thank
• 42:10
  god there I was right, there is an age there is time skit and
• 42:15
  all the time hallelujah. And by the time they they both actually get together,
• 42:21
  is Joe at this point is twenty years old and ox is twenty six.
• 42:25
  And some people would still some people would they'll say, like, oh
• 42:29
  man, that's such an age gap, Like not really, I don't think
• 42:34
  of it that way, because my own parents have a six year age difference
• 42:37
  between them. Yeah, So for me, like once they're once they're both
• 42:44
  legal adults. Age is just a number at that point, do whatever the
• 42:49
  hell you want it no matter. But when it comes through like Joe's relationship
• 42:57
  with Ox. So the thing is is that since Joe's a werewolf, werewolves
• 43:04
  have this thing where they can tell when they've met there the one mm hmm,
• 43:15
  the person that they're supposed to they're meant to be with for the rest
• 43:16
  of their lives. Because because where wolves are very instinctual, even when they're
• 43:22
  in their human forms, they have their sense of sight, all their senses
• 43:28
  are way sharper than humans, their sense of smell especially, and so that
• 43:36
  yeah, they know exactly who you're supposed to be with. Yeah, so
• 43:40
  with the with were wolves, they can smell it. So for them with
• 43:45
  if they meet somebody who has such a distinctive smell that it's not it's pretty
• 43:52
  much unlike anything that they've ever smelled before, or like it could be something
• 43:54
  that they have smelled before, but for this one person it's just so dis
• 44:00
  just so then then that at that point they know this is the person,
• 44:07
  they're the one. And well I mentioned earlier that Ox smelled to Joe.
• 44:13
  Ox smelled like pine cones, and Candy canes epic and awesome. It even
• 44:22
  at ten years old, he already knew that Ox was going to be that
• 44:25
  person, his mate. Yeah, And you can see it through the relationship
• 44:31
  UH for the next decade, how Joe views Ox. And at first Ox
• 44:37
  is pretty oblivious to it because for him is like, oh, Joe,
• 44:39
  he's just he's he's like my little brother, right. And though we can
• 44:45
  see that Joe does get jealous because Os does live his life, he does
• 44:52
  meet other people, and he had he has like several relationships throughout the course
• 44:58
  of the book. His first serious relationship is with a girl named Jesse m
• 45:05
  And for one thing, Jesse is the girl that Ox ends up losing his
• 45:08
  virginity to. They have like their relationship lasts for several years and they do
• 45:15
  eventually break up. But for Jesse, she was always like one thing that
• 45:21
  always uh bugged her was the fact that UH was the relationship between Ox and
• 45:31
  Joe. Now for Ox, to him, he didn't see anything wrong was
• 45:36
  wrong with it. To him, Joe was just to was based was his
• 45:38
  friend and like a like a brother to him. But she could clearly see
• 45:43
  how uh the only word I could think of to describe how Joe views books
• 45:52
  as something like possessive and jealous because like, like Joe never was, never
• 46:00
  really liked Jesse. When he found out that Jesse and Ox were dating,
• 46:04
  Joe was upset about it, but like, what can you do? You're
• 46:09
  like, at this point, you're like, what twelve, Yeah, and
• 46:16
  Joe is already like almost eighteen, so I'm sorry Oxes. Ox is almost
• 46:22
  eighteen. Joe's like twelve, So it's not nothing's gonna happen there, kid,
• 46:29
  uh, But they're Jesse's and an Ox's relationship does eventually end, and
• 46:39
  that's because by this point uh, Ox has already discovered what Joe and his
• 46:47
  family are, and he also discovers that his boss and slash father figure Gordo,
• 46:58
  is also not entirely human. So the way he finds out about all
• 47:04
  of this is it happens when Joe has his first shift into a were wolf.
• 47:09
  So when a were wolf hits puberty, they begin they have their first
• 47:16
  shift, and Joe is about twelve years old when he has his first shift.
• 47:22
  The think about the thing is though, because of how because of the
• 47:24
  things that Joe experienced with the kidnapping, it severely traumatized him, and it
• 47:30
  made it difficult for him to go to experience his first shift. So when
• 47:32
  he begins to shift into his wolf form for the very first time, it's
• 47:37
  just not really sticking, like he's starting to shift, and he's caught in
• 47:42
  this like painful in between of where he's like shifting partially into a wolf,
• 47:46
  but he can't shift fully because, like I said, were wolves need something
• 47:52
  to like some form of emotional tether to anchor them to their humanity. And
• 47:59
  usually in a werewolf pack, the alpha is that tet is that tether,
• 48:04
  it's what hold the alpha is what holds everybody together. But for whatever reason,
• 48:07
  his dad, who is the alpha, is not able to actually like,
• 48:13
  is not able to help him. So as the last resort, they
• 48:17
  call Gordo. And because Gordo, as it turns out, is a witch
• 48:24
  who and yep, and the thing is witches and worlds, they do have
• 48:30
  a mutual relationship with each other. So some wolf packs will have a witch
• 48:37
  become a part of their pact, and the witch, of course provides things
• 48:44
  like protection and support when it comes to other supernatural matters. And Gordo originally
• 48:52
  was supposed to be the witch for the Bent Pact. That's a whole nother
• 48:58
  story that we'll get into later. But because of certain unfortunate reasons, when
• 49:05
  the Bennett Packed left Green Creek, they had to leave Gordo behind. And
• 49:08
  when they left Gordo behind, he was only fifteen. Now he's nearly forty,
• 49:15
  so you can imagine what would happen to a fifteen year old when he's
• 49:17
  abandoned by people that are basically his family. So Gordos he has a lot
• 49:25
  of resentment towards the Bennett Packed, especially Thomas the Alpha, but when they
• 49:32
  ask him to help with their son, Joe, he of course he comes
• 49:37
  to help them, but nothing he does with his magic can Nash is doing
• 49:43
  anything to help Joe fully shift into his warwolf form, and this is during
• 49:49
  a full moon, so he can't. It's not like you could just say,
• 49:51
  okay, well, I'm gonna stop shifting and go back to human.
• 49:53
  No, the full moon is compelling him to transform, so he's stuck in
• 49:58
  this in between it and it's very painful for him. So as an even
• 50:00
  more last resort, they finally decide let's let's bring in Ox because Joe clearly
• 50:08
  has a Joe has a has really bonded with Ox and Oxes is the only
• 50:15
  person that can really ground him, so they get so. Gordo gets Ox
• 50:20
  and tells him that Joe's that Joe needs his help, and before Ox can
• 50:25
  go help go to help him, Gordo tells him that he needs to be
• 50:30
  prepared for what he's about to see because the Bennett family and himself they're not
• 50:36
  normal, and he reveals that they are werewolves. And when he questions how,
• 50:42
  When Ox questions how Gordo is a part of this, Gordo tells him
• 50:45
  that he is a witch. The thing about Gordo to explain, to describe
• 50:50
  how he looks, He looks at us like a regular man, but he's
• 50:52
  covered. He has a bunch of tattoos on his arm, like different aren't
• 50:58
  like a spools sleeve, tattoos of like like rosevines, rosebuds, and ravens,
• 51:07
  and there are a few other things like rooms. There's like a torch
• 51:10
  and a few other there's a few other tattoos. These tattoos act as a
• 51:15
  form of arcane focus for him, so that's how he's able to focus his
• 51:19
  magic. And they also shift and move around. Now of course, ox
• 51:23
  has always known about them. He's seen the tattoos before, but when he
• 51:28
  sees them that night, he sees how they're glowing and how they're shifting.
• 51:30
  He realizes this is like it's real, but either way to him, it
• 51:37
  doesn't matter. Joe needs his help, so he goes to so Gordo leads
• 51:42
  him deeper into the forest to a clearing where the werewolves were congregated. He
• 51:46
  sees his extended his adoptive family in their wolf forms, and then he sees
• 51:53
  Joe himself, who's stuck in this like half transformed state. By his presence
• 52:00
  alone, UH Ox is able to help UH Joe transform. Joe is able
• 52:08
  to finally able to find that tether and connect with Ox and is able to
• 52:16
  fully shift into his work, into his warrel form now in his wolf.
• 52:22
  In his wolf form, Joe looks is just a pure white wolf. Now.
• 52:25
  The rest of his family they share similar attributes, like they're all white,
• 52:31
  but they all have like patterns like like like black spots or streaks on
• 52:37
  them, while Joe himself is just a pure white wolf. Mhm. So
• 52:43
  now Oxes realizes that he's been basically adopted into a werewolf family, mm hmm,
• 52:52
  and he he knows their secrets now. He understands them better now,
• 52:55
  and uh, it makes sense because some of the things that they do have
• 53:00
  all have always stuck out to them, like like aside from being very affectionate
• 53:07
  with each other, like they're always hugging each other, pressing up against each
• 53:10
  other. Nothing like sexual, but like you know, they're very like they're
• 53:20
  very intimate. I guess, you say, yeah, and he realizes that's
• 53:24
  because as were wolves, they tend to they like physical contact because for one
• 53:30
  thing, it helps because were wolves are very scent base, like they rely
• 53:35
  on their sense of smell more than sight and anything else. They like to
• 53:39
  when they're with their packed and with others they're close, they're closer to they
• 53:44
  like to make sure that they're scent is on each other because it brings them
• 53:50
  comfort. I guess it brings them comfort. So like, yeah, so
• 53:52
  whenever they go into like new places, they tend to touch things and they
• 53:55
  tend to like put their hands on the walls because they're trying to leave their
• 53:58
  scent behind and make it more comfortable for them, you know, like I
• 54:02
  guess, like knowing that their scent is there, like it's brings that sense
• 54:06
  of familiarity, right uh yeah, where wolves were wolves, So I love
• 54:20
  them, I like, I just love the dynamic between this family. Ox
• 54:25
  does also learn he finally learns from Thomas the Alpha Josephull story because Ox uh
• 54:36
  spend some time, will often spend quality time with Thomas, and Thomas reveals
• 54:42
  to him the full story behind Joe and why the packs left their uh left
• 54:49
  Green Creek in the first place. So it goes back decades, so a
• 54:55
  long time ago. I'd say about I think a little over seventeen years.
• 55:01
  At this point, the Bennett Pact used to be much bigger. It had
• 55:09
  more family. There were more families and more people as a part of the
• 55:15
  as part of that family. And the problem with werewolves is that werewolves are
• 55:27
  often target become target practice for hunters. So there are hunters in this in
• 55:35
  the Green Creek chronicles, and at one point there was a massive attack on
• 55:44
  the Bennett home. Hunters came and they killed dozens of werewolves and other and
• 55:50
  even regular people. Because because the Bennet packed and other werewolf packs, they
• 55:53
  will often include humans into their packs, welcome humans and their pats, and
• 56:01
  these hunters they ended up killing dozens of werewolves, you know, men,
• 56:07
  women, and children alike, and the survivor the survivors which really only encompassed
• 56:15
  the central Bennett family that we know now, so like Thomas, his wife
• 56:20
  Elizabeth, his brother, his brother Mark, and even Gordo because back then
• 56:27
  Gordo was still a part of the pact. They were pretty much the only
• 56:30
  survivors aside from a couple others. And there was one survivor of that attack,
• 56:37
  a guy named Richard Collins. Richard Collins was a werewolf and a close
• 56:46
  pact member of the Bennett family, and when those hunters attacked, they ended
• 56:51
  up killing his his his own close family, his parents, his siblings,
• 56:55
  they killed them all, and because of that, Richard ended up losing sight
• 57:02
  of his tether and break and cuts ties with the Bennett family. And as
• 57:08
  a result of this, he goes rogue and he ends up killing people,
• 57:15
  and at one point he tries to kill Thomas, who had at the time
• 57:21
  just became the alpha the Bennett Pact because he wants to be in alpha and
• 57:24
  he wants to run things. So because of everything that happened, the Bennett
• 57:32
  family had to leave Green Creek and go to some packed owned lands out on
• 57:39
  the east coast in Maine. When they left their original they were originally going
• 57:49
  to take Gordo with them because Gordo was a part of their pact and he
• 57:52
  was their witch. But the thing is is that a lot of were wolves
• 57:58
  and other packs are deeply mistrustful of humans, and after the Hunters attacked the
• 58:06
  Hunters attacked the Benettact, they're deeply mistrustful even then, and they're especially mistrustful
• 58:13
  of Gordo, not because Gordo is a witch, but because of who he's
• 58:16
  related to. So before Gordo became the official Pact which he that title was
• 58:27
  used to belong to his father. And the thing is witches like where wolves
• 58:31
  need an emotional tether to help them stay in control and basically remember who they
• 58:40
  are as humans. And his dad, his dad, I'm just gonna put
• 58:49
  this out there, wasn't exactly the greatest guy. He was. You don't
• 58:58
  actually learn much about him until the second book. But from what I learned
• 59:01
  about his dad is that he is not exactly He's a pretty self centered man.
• 59:13
  He's traditional, and he's also paranoid like. While the wolves value their
• 59:20
  witches and they and they believe that witches and war and wolves need each other.
• 59:27
  His dad, even as they're packed witch, didn't believe that. He's
• 59:30
  like, they need us, we don't need them, and his traditional ideals
• 59:37
  put some really negative ideas into his son's mind and also left him emotionally damaged
• 59:43
  as well. But at one point his father was married. Not only was
• 59:52
  he was married first of all to Gordo's mother, who was just a normal
• 59:55
  human, but he began having an affair with an woman. And the thing
• 1:00:00
  is is that witches, like I said, need an emotional tether, and
• 1:00:04
  he made that woman his emotional tether. And Gordo's own mother was already beginning
• 1:00:12
  to have develop mental disabilities of her own, and she became very paranoid and
• 1:00:22
  very mistrustful of anything supernatural, like the werewolves and the witches. And she
• 1:00:25
  actually tried to kidnap Grido when he was like about twelve years old and get
• 1:00:30
  him away from all that. But his father's put a stop to it.
• 1:00:34
  And I think, doesn't it exactly say what he did what he did with
• 1:00:39
  her. He ends up sending her away, and he moves Grdo closer to
• 1:00:46
  the pack. But at the end of everything. His wife ends up having
• 1:00:52
  a mental breakdown and she ends up murdering the woman that he was having an
• 1:00:57
  affair with, and because that woman was his emotional tether, it caused his
• 1:01:06
  dad to snap, and his dad ends up lashing out with his magic,
• 1:01:10
  killing not only Gordo's mother, but sixteen other people. He ends up basically
• 1:01:17
  he levels a small neighborhood. That's what he ends up doing with his magic,
• 1:01:23
  and because of that, the Bennett Packed as well as the other werewolves,
• 1:01:27
  have to call in more witches. They arrest him, and they strip
• 1:01:31
  him of his magic and imprison him. And because they had to do all
• 1:01:36
  that, Gordo was forced to become the Packed Witch at age twelve. So
• 1:01:40
  it was a very trying time for Gordo. He's basically an orphan at this
• 1:01:45
  point, and while he considers the Bennett Packed his family, it was still
• 1:01:50
  very trying for him. But when the Bennett Packed realizes they need to leave
• 1:02:00
  Green Creek in the aftermath of the Hunter attack, the Thomas faces the issue
• 1:02:08
  that he can that he's gonna get a lot of pushback from the other wolf
• 1:02:14
  packs because of his because of Gordo, because of what his father did,
• 1:02:21
  no one really, A lot of other people believe that Gordo will be the
• 1:02:23
  same thing, will end up doing the same thing. So Thomas ends up
• 1:02:30
  leaving Gordo behind in Green Creek, and Gordo was only fifteen at that time.
• 1:02:37
  So as a result, Gordo over the next decade and a half grows
• 1:02:43
  to resent the Bennett Packs and wearwbls in general and doesn't really want anything to
• 1:02:49
  do with them, which is heartbreaking because he is actually, he actually was
• 1:02:54
  meant to be the mate of Mark, Thomas's younger brother. So that all
• 1:03:06
  happens, and the thing back to go back to the issue of the other
• 1:03:09
  Werewolf Richard Collins, because Richard had was going was losing control of himself and
• 1:03:19
  becoming a rage monster. About a year a little over a year before the
• 1:03:25
  Bennett Pack returns to Green Creek, Richard kidnapped Joe. He had Joe for
• 1:03:35
  set about seven to eight weeks, and during that time he would torture Joe.
• 1:03:47
  He and what's fucked up is that he was doing it to hurt Thomas
• 1:03:52
  because he was trying to get back at Thomas, because he holds Thomas and
• 1:03:55
  the Benet Pack responsible for the Hunter attack, and he would call Thomas's phone,
• 1:04:04
  and as he's talking and as he was threatening and making and taunting Thomas,
• 1:04:11
  he would start torturing Joe. He would break his fingers, he would
• 1:04:16
  break his leg bones, he would cut him up with his claws. And
• 1:04:21
  his fam his family could hear him crying over the phone, and that's why
• 1:04:27
  Joe was so by the time he meets Ox, he was already very traumatized.
• 1:04:34
  Now they did manage to find Joe and rescue him, but for the
• 1:04:41
  next fifteen months after rescuing him, Joe couldn't Joe refuse to speak. He
• 1:04:47
  was so traumatized that he wouldn't speak at all. And Thomas finally makes a
• 1:04:55
  decision to return to Green Creek because for him, Green Creek is home.
• 1:05:00
  That's where his Pact has put their roots down for generations. They've been there
• 1:05:04
  for hundreds of years, so it's his territory, it's his home. He
• 1:05:11
  decides, I think the best thing for our family now that everything with Richard
• 1:05:15
  has been settled, because after they not long after they found Joe, they
• 1:05:21
  did manage to capture Richard and they locked him away. So after everything was
• 1:05:30
  settled, they Thomas was like, all right, let's go home. My
• 1:05:36
  son has been severe. My son has been so much harm was done to
• 1:05:41
  my son. I think the best thing for all of our family, for
• 1:05:45
  the whole family, is to just go home, finally go home. So
• 1:05:48
  that's why they moved back to Green Creek. And the very day that they
• 1:05:53
  moved back into their home was the day that Joe spoke for the first time
• 1:05:58
  in over a year, and that was when he met Ox than done done.
• 1:06:03
  So, as you can see, the Bennett family they really think that
• 1:06:11
  Ox is a very special person. And he is all right, he's slow
• 1:06:15
  to speak, he doesn't really do well with words, but he even when
• 1:06:21
  he even when Mark met him for the first time before the Bennett family officially
• 1:06:26
  moved back, Mark knew something was there was something special about Ox. And
• 1:06:30
  throughout as the story progresses, we see more and more of them, We
• 1:06:38
  see Ox come more, come out of his shell more. Uh there.
• 1:06:43
  Once he finds out that the Bennetts are werewolves, he becomes so much closer
• 1:06:46
  to them because he now understands them and he realizes that they they consider him
• 1:06:55
  a part of their pact, and it's just such He's just filled, he's
• 1:07:00
  realizing. He comes to realize that his life is now is filled with so
• 1:07:04
  much love and support that it's almost too much for him at times. He
• 1:07:10
  comes to he eventually comes to see Thomas as his father because the time he
• 1:07:16
  spends with Thomas and his family, he realizes that Thomas has taken on that
• 1:07:20
  role of a fatherly figure. Now Gordo still considered is still somewhat of a
• 1:07:26
  fatherly figure. And he also realizes that Gordo had made had made him his
• 1:07:31
  emotional tether. So and the way he did that was when it wasn't really
• 1:07:39
  on purpose, it just kind of happened. But when Gordo gave Ox his
• 1:07:45
  own official work shirt with his name and bordered in it, that created that
• 1:07:48
  emotional tether between him and Ox. So even though Gordo still resents the Bennett
• 1:07:57
  family, he cares very deeply for Ox because Ox is still in his emotional
• 1:08:00
  tether. So some there there's Ox has become a bridge between him between the
• 1:08:08
  Bennett family and Gordo. Gordo's uh from time now helps the Bennett family more
• 1:08:15
  and more, but he but he bitches about it the whole time. UH.
• 1:08:19
  We've seen more of Ox's various relationships. After he breaks up with Jesse,
• 1:08:28
  he has several other relationships. He graduates high school, he begins exploring
• 1:08:35
  his gay side because Ox is bisexual. It's established in this book pretty quickly
• 1:08:44
  that he's bisexual. Mm hmmm, I'm getting to that. We're getting to
• 1:08:53
  that. So I just want to talk. So I just want to point
• 1:08:57
  something out. When Ox first met Jesse, Jesse was actually the little sister
• 1:09:02
  of one of the mechanics in the shop he works at. And when he
• 1:09:06
  first meets her, he Chris, her older brother, brings her to the
• 1:09:11
  shop, and when he meets her, he is so smitten with her that
• 1:09:15
  he becomes this blushing mess and he turns into a total klutz. H So,
• 1:09:21
  imagine this big old galoot of a guy, like seventeen years old,
• 1:09:28
  and he's just like falling head over heels for this girl, and he became
• 1:09:31
  he starts losing his control of his hand eye coordination, he trips all over
• 1:09:35
  the place, he drops tools, he's he's just like he's a mess.
• 1:09:42
  This poor boy turns into a mess. And I think that I was reading
• 1:09:45
  that part and I was like, Oh, that's cute. He's smitten,
• 1:09:47
  that's adorable. And relatable because that happens to me too. Yeah. Like
• 1:09:54
  yeah, anyway, so several years pass, Like I said, he graduates
• 1:10:01
  high school and he works, He goes to work at the body shop full
• 1:10:05
  time. His adoptive brothers, Kelly and Carter. They began doing their own
• 1:10:12
  things, taking uh, going going to college, ah and everything. Joe
• 1:10:19
  is every time. So every time Ox has like a like a small like
• 1:10:27
  a relationship or a small flame, Joe being a werewolf, can smell can
• 1:10:32
  smell it. He can smell it. Uh. Every time Ox you know
• 1:10:42
  has a thing, Yeah, yeah, he can smell it, and he
• 1:10:48
  gets very jealous and sometimes not really want to talk to Ox for for days.
• 1:10:56
  And at first Ox like Ox doesn't really seem an issue with it.
• 1:11:00
  He's confused, but he's like, Okay, well Joe will be Joe.
• 1:11:03
  I guess now we're starting at this point, we're gonna start seeing more of
• 1:11:13
  their relationship beginning to grow in a romantic sense. There are several times where
• 1:11:20
  Ox proves himself to be very like where we can there are several things that
• 1:11:25
  happen. The very first thing that we see that indicate a romantic relationship,
• 1:11:31
  which is kind of like it's very sweet because when Joe was still about ten
• 1:11:40
  years old. It was not long after. It was not very long after
• 1:11:45
  Ox's birthday, which was sixteenth birthday, which is when Joe first meets him.
• 1:11:50
  Joe gives Ox a present of his own, and the present that he
• 1:11:56
  gives Ox is a little stone wolf. It's a carved wolf. The way
• 1:12:02
  it's described is like it's sitting unsconscious, its head is thrown back a mid
• 1:12:06
  how, and it's very detailed. It's ornately carved, and it's a it's
• 1:12:15
  a beautiful gift if you could, if you could just I'm able to picture
• 1:12:18
  things like that very easily, and uh so I'm just imagining this like little
• 1:12:28
  stone wolf, and I'm like, oh, that's a that's actually a really
• 1:12:30
  cool gift. But it's not until later that we learned the significance of that
• 1:12:34
  stone wolf. So that wolf. So every were wolf when they are born,
• 1:12:43
  their alpha will give them a little stone wolf, a carved stone wolf,
• 1:12:49
  like a little totem. And in with within werewolf culture, if you
• 1:12:59
  find the one person that you are meant to be with your mate, it's
• 1:13:03
  tradition to give your little stone wolf to that person. MM hmm, it's
• 1:13:09
  a promise. It's a promise gift. Mark. Yeah. Mark actually gave
• 1:13:15
  his stone Wolf to Gordo a long time ago, although because of everything that
• 1:13:18
  happened, Gordo ended up giving it back. But we'll go into that later.
• 1:13:24
  I know sad and Joe gives his two Ox and Ox loved it.
• 1:13:30
  He thought it was very sweet and he but he didn't understand the significance of
• 1:13:32
  it yet and he won't for a long time, which is good because I
• 1:13:40
  could, I'd be I would have problems if it happened way sooner. But
• 1:13:48
  when the So that's the first hint of other other romantic relationship. Joe gives
• 1:13:57
  Ox the wolf, and other time is from time to time omegas, which
• 1:14:05
  are rogue where wolves were wolves that don't have a pact and are giving in
• 1:14:11
  give and have given into their instinctual urges. They will from time to time
• 1:14:16
  attack like they will invade a packs territory and they just go crazy. And
• 1:14:26
  at one point some omegas actually attack the Bennett's home and while they defend themselves
• 1:14:34
  easily enough, one attacks Ox and he manages to defend himself and he and
• 1:14:40
  Joe actually work together and they end up killing the wolf together. And I
• 1:14:45
  think like at this point, Like, so Joe is sixteen at this point
• 1:14:49
  and Ox is already twenty twenty two, and we can see like that it's
• 1:14:58
  not really so much of a romant antic thing, but we can see how
• 1:15:01
  close they're getting. Yeah, like they're willing, they're willing to die for
• 1:15:05
  each other, Like they're willing to jump into a fight for each other.
• 1:15:09
  Yeah, so it's not so I'd say less than a year later. Hm.
• 1:15:19
  At this point, Joe is seventeen and Ox is a few months away
• 1:15:27
  from turning twenty three. It's a Sunday. They're having their traditional Sunday dinner
• 1:15:38
  there or they're about to Ox every Sunday. He likes to help Elizabeth in
• 1:15:44
  the kitchen, but she needs him to do anything, He'll do it.
• 1:15:46
  Mix this, toss the salad, get ingredients from the pantry or the garden.
• 1:15:51
  He'll do it. What what what? What I just hear? What
• 1:16:00
  did you hear? I don't know if I should repeat it, just send
• 1:16:08
  it out? What did you hear? Host the salad? Shut the fuck
• 1:16:15
  up? No? Like literally no, literally, like he if she needs
• 1:16:23
  you know, that's what they say when you're mixing it. Bade, get
• 1:16:30
  your head out of the gutter. God, damn it. It's like it's
• 1:16:36
  not it's gonna get into the gutter anyway. But this is not the point
• 1:16:41
  for you to put your head in the gutter. Okay, we're not there
• 1:16:45
  yet. I swear to God. I swear to God. God like he
• 1:17:04
  didn't me too so much. I didn't mean too I didn't do that,
• 1:17:11
  And I'm like what anyway, So moving on, continue, Continue. It's
• 1:17:23
  been established long before this that Devin has a gut her mind. I do
• 1:17:27
  I have I have roasted in the gutter? Yes, he does, so.
• 1:17:31
  Yeah, so this happened. So this next scene happens during one of
• 1:17:34
  their Sunday dinners. Joe does note that what happens next is not was not
• 1:17:44
  something that was not a gradual thing. Mm hmm, well wait, that's
• 1:17:48
  a lie. He didn't know it was a gradual thing. But it must
• 1:17:53
  have. It had to have been, because it it's the only thing that
• 1:17:57
  explained the cosmic explosion that was the feeling of want and need and mind mind
• 1:18:00
  mine. The force of this, the force of it was ridiculous. It
• 1:18:04
  had to have been there for a long time. So this part is hilarious,
• 1:18:10
  It's cute. It had me rolling. I was literally just like when
• 1:18:15
  I read this scene, I was dying. I was I was living.
• 1:18:21
  I was dying. I was just making these little like excited slash hilarious noises
• 1:18:28
  like god, O my god, fuck, like oh Jesus, this poor
• 1:18:33
  boy, Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah so too. Yeah. So
• 1:18:41
  when you made me, when you literally made me read that part, yes,
• 1:18:46
  I went off. Like when I got to the scene, I was
• 1:18:48
  texting Devin here just like the bisexual panic. I'm living for this book.
• 1:18:56
  Yeah, because right around the time Joe is seventeen and Ox is about to
• 1:19:01
  turn twenty three, Ox has this moment where he realizes that Joe is no
• 1:19:06
  longer a little is no longer that little boy that would wait for him in
• 1:19:11
  the dirt road every day. Yeah, Joe is uh, he's grown up,
• 1:19:18
  grown man, grown man, and uh, let's see here, go
• 1:19:27
  ahead. And so the day that this happens, yeah, this is like
• 1:19:43
  I said, It was a Sunday, and uh, Ox was at the
• 1:19:49
  Bennett house helping Elizabeth make put everything together, and then she h Elizabeth asks
• 1:20:00
  Uh if he could get some tomatoes out of the garden. So he goes
• 1:20:05
  into the backyard to where their garden is and picks some tomatoes. And he
• 1:20:09
  hasn't he has a good armful of tomatoes. And while he was out there,
• 1:20:15
  just as he was about to go back into the house, his adoptive
• 1:20:17
  brothers, Joe, Carter and Kelly. Uh, they were just coming out
• 1:20:21
  of the woods. They had just gone for a run. And uh when
• 1:20:28
  he sees them, he sees them just being brothers, laughing, pushing each
• 1:20:32
  other around, and he realizes he loves he loves He realizes he loves all
• 1:20:38
  of them. There's family, yeah, except except to see. So he
• 1:20:51
  notices Joe is wearing a pair of uh, low slung shorts. That's the
• 1:20:58
  exact wording in this book. M h just the smallest of things. Mm
• 1:21:03
  hmmm. And there it was, and that was dudes. Yeah yeah.
• 1:21:10
  Uh. He realizes Joe is now almost as big as he is. So
• 1:21:15
  ox, like I said, is a big guy. He's like over six
• 1:21:16
  week tall. They never say he's exact height. I'm assuming he's over like
• 1:21:21
  six foot five. And now Joe is almost his height. They were close
• 1:21:28
  to eye level, and he realizes that like Joe, girl, just like
• 1:21:43
  just the way like he's just like this scene is being described, I was
• 1:21:45
  losing my ship because it was like, uh, you know, he notices
• 1:21:50
  how much Joe has filled out. He's very athletic, muscular, he's pretty
• 1:21:56
  broad. And as Joe and his brothers are walking out of the forest,
• 1:22:03
  he kind of turns a bit and Ox notices the He saw the dimples above
• 1:22:11
  his ass, the way his legs flexed and everything, and he looked,
• 1:22:18
  I'm just gonna I'm just gonna read this, read it. I'm just gonna
• 1:22:23
  read this part. So he was almost as big as I was. Now
• 1:22:27
  we were eye level or so closed that it didn't matter, which put him
• 1:22:30
  a couple of inches over six feet. There was a sheen of sweat over
• 1:22:34
  his torso, splattering of wet blonde hair is curling on his chest that looked
• 1:22:39
  to be cut out of granite, soft definition of muscles on his stomach,
• 1:22:44
  a line of sweat that hit his happy trail and soaked into the waist span
• 1:22:47
  of his shorts. I feel weird. This is a seventeen year old.
• 1:22:55
  Oh god, but I was trust me, people, nothing happens, nothing
• 1:23:00
  happens until much later, until they're until they're both much older. So yeah,
• 1:23:06
  he turned saying something back to Carter, and I saw the dimples above
• 1:23:12
  his ass That got me. I was rolling, like the way his legs
• 1:23:16
  flex I know. I was like, oh, oh, okay, this
• 1:23:23
  is gas fuck. This is the way his legs flexed and shift and shifted
• 1:23:27
  as he hopped from one foot to the other. He pointed wildly at something
• 1:23:30
  back in the woods, and there was a blue vein that stuck out along
• 1:23:33
  his bicep, and I wanted to trace it with my fingers because when did
• 1:23:38
  that happen? Oh, and those hands, those big fucking hands, and
• 1:23:43
  I Joe had grown up and somehow I hadn't really seen it until it was
• 1:23:50
  on full display right in front of me. He must have seen me out
• 1:23:55
  of the corner of his eyes. He turned and grinned at me, and
• 1:23:59
  it was Joe. But it was Joe, so naturally. That's when I
• 1:24:03
  walked into the side of the house. This poor boy literally walked into the
• 1:24:12
  side of the house. This part right here, I was dying. I
• 1:24:15
  was like, no, oh, my god. The tomatoes in my hands
• 1:24:24
  crushed against me. My head hit the wood siding, and I thought,
• 1:24:28
  oh shit. I stepped back from the house. Bits of tomato fell in
• 1:24:31
  the grass. Damn it. I felt my face flushing as I looked back
• 1:24:36
  at the Bennett brothers. They all stood there watching me with concerned expressions on
• 1:24:41
  their face. On their faces, What the hell, carterirass, You know
• 1:24:45
  there's a house right there, right It's been there pretty much forever, I
• 1:24:50
  said, with my voice dropping lower. I couldn't even stop it. Hey,
• 1:24:55
  guys, what's up? Just tomatoes. I crossed my arms over my
• 1:25:02
  chest and got tomato on them. I went to lane against the house,
• 1:25:06
  but I was further away than I thought and fell into the dirt. I
• 1:25:12
  was just like, oh, this poor boy, this poor guy. Mm
• 1:25:16
  hmmm. Yeah. So Joe took a step towards me, and his stomach
• 1:25:23
  muscles were flexing, and the low base of the low base heat of want
• 1:25:28
  roared through me, and I remembered werewolves can smell it, and I took
• 1:25:30
  a step back in absolute horror. Hey, I said again, and my
• 1:25:33
  voice was breaking. I cleared my throat and tried again. Hey, so
• 1:25:38
  there's a thing that I have to look at in my house before dinner.
• 1:25:45
  Now they were all looking at me weirdly. They couldn't smell my immoral raging
• 1:25:48
  lest yet or whatever it was my feelings that I couldn't be having. Joe
• 1:25:54
  took another step towards me, and he had pecs, he had a chest
• 1:25:59
  that was just it was just very nice and it gave me ideas. And
• 1:26:02
  I said, whoa there, cowboy, and kicked myself internally for such bullshit.
• 1:26:10
  No, I'm just like, I was just lit. I was rolling.
• 1:26:14
  This scene got me so hard. I was like, this poor man,
• 1:26:19
  oh now, And I was thinking this scene also got me like,
• 1:26:27
  Okay, he's seventeen. We can't be like doing that. They can't be
• 1:26:31
  doing that. Ah. But I just have to remind myself it's okay.
• 1:26:39
  They don't get together. They don't actually do anything together until they're much older.
• 1:26:45
  Okay, and this is like this. That's my only complaint with this
• 1:26:53
  is just how young Joe is. M But I have topreciate the fact that
• 1:27:00
  they do wait, that there is a time there's more of times. There's
• 1:27:03
  a huge time skip where they do spend some time apart from each other.
• 1:27:10
  And when Joe returns, he is twenty years old, he's matured, and
• 1:27:15
  you know, this is where things can actually kick off where they can actually
• 1:27:19
  be together, and I appreciate that. I'm like, Okay, thank god,
• 1:27:24
  thank you, because I don't think i'd be able to finish reading this
• 1:27:27
  book if he started dating a seventeen year old. Yeah, but I mean
• 1:27:32
  there So when so Joe does come to realize that Ox is now starting to
• 1:27:40
  feel something for him, you know, start is starting to feel attracted to
• 1:27:45
  him. And that's another scene that was really funny because like his older brothers
• 1:27:53
  realize it first and they're like, oh my god, I can't believe it.
• 1:27:57
  Like Carter especially begins giving Joe a lot of shit, a lot of
• 1:28:00
  shit for it, not like like, oh my god, I'm a chilly
• 1:28:03
  for uh for lusting after my brother. No, it's more of all like,
• 1:28:08
  oh, this is the greatest thing to ever happen in the history of
• 1:28:11
  ever. And Joe tries to when Joe realizes that Ox is feeling the same,
• 1:28:20
  is feeling that way towards him, because Joe is known for years that
• 1:28:25
  he is in love with with ox m and he's even tried to drop hints
• 1:28:30
  like hey, I love you. Oh no, it's not nothing that direct,
• 1:28:39
  but like subtle and uh. Now he knows now that he knows,
• 1:28:45
  and they also The Benett family also explains to Ox the significance of the stone
• 1:28:50
  wolf that Joe gave him, and Ox makes it clear he sets boundaries like
• 1:28:57
  we can't. You're you're seventeen, you still need to graduate high school,
• 1:29:00
  you still need to live all right, go live your life. And of
• 1:29:08
  course Joe bites it. He as a werewolf. Were Wolves age differently and
• 1:29:15
  they view they for them like an adult is they're viewed as an adult at
• 1:29:24
  a different age. Mm hmm. So to him this is completely normal,
• 1:29:30
  but Ox of course sets his boundaries. They do go on a quote unquote
• 1:29:34
  date together, stopped for dinner, like just to like spend time to together.
• 1:29:42
  They run into some people that they know and it's embarrassing all around,
• 1:29:45
  and it's kind of overwhelms Joe. Uh So they end up leaving. And
• 1:29:54
  so we're coming up to this, uh to the point in the story where
• 1:29:59
  the next major time skip is going to happen. Now I say time skip,
• 1:30:04
  but it's just really like we still see things happening. It's not like,
• 1:30:10
  okay, three years later, and then it starts off from a different
• 1:30:13
  point. So there's a series of events that lead up to it. The
• 1:30:21
  first thing, the first major thing, is they learned that two very powerful
• 1:30:27
  and very dangerous individuals have escaped from captive from their captivity, Richard Collins,
• 1:30:36
  the rogue werewolf that had kidnapped and tortured Joe, had escaped his prison.
• 1:30:44
  And Gordo's father, a witch who had lost control of his powers and murdered
• 1:30:50
  dozens of people, had also escaped from his own magical prison and somehow managed
• 1:30:56
  to regain his own magic because when he was arrested, other witches came together
• 1:31:03
  and they stripped him of his magic. So somehow he managed to regain his
• 1:31:11
  magical abilities, and it was believed that it was Orto's father. I think
• 1:31:19
  his name is what was his father's name? Okay, you know what,
• 1:31:29
  let me pull up my other notes. Let's see Richard Collins. So Richard
• 1:31:46
  Collins was the name of the Also, while you're looking for the notes,
• 1:31:58
  what was I gonna say? How much more of the book is there?
• 1:32:10
  So we're a little bit over halfway through the book at this point. Why
• 1:32:14
  no, because I know you wanted to make them before we played. That's
• 1:32:18
  right, it's already, it's already gonna be six ship. Yeah, you
• 1:32:23
  know that's fine. I'm gonna just go get food. I was gonna make
• 1:32:27
  food, but I might as well just go get well. I need to
• 1:32:30
  make I need to make so what we can do well, Cortel, we
• 1:32:34
  need to pause it now. We don't have to posit like right now about
• 1:32:39
  sex o'clock. I'm mon, need to pause it. We can always try
• 1:32:43
  to finish this. Tomorrow be over, Okay, we'll figure something out.
• 1:32:47
  Uh you know, I think I can think we can finish the book.
• 1:32:51
  I really wanted to just talk more about the book itself. A natural plot,
• 1:32:55
  uh huh so uh So from here we do get more into the times
• 1:33:02
  the time skip. They find out that Gordo's father of rogue Witch and Richard
• 1:33:08
  Collins the rogue where Wolf escape their prisons, and at first the Bennett Pack,
• 1:33:14
  they decide they while they are very concerned, they decide that the best,
• 1:33:17
  the safest place for them is right here in Green Creek. So they
• 1:33:21
  get God, they get Gordo to help them, and they make sure that
• 1:33:26
  the wards that are protecting their territory are completely set and unbreakable. But unfortunately
• 1:33:35
  it's not enough, because not long after this, Richard Collins does invade their
• 1:33:41
  territory with Gordo's father's felt, God, what's his fucking name? I literally
• 1:33:47
  had his name? Well, let meet some book two. I know that
• 1:34:06
  Robert that's his name. So yep, so Robert Livingstone Gordo's father. He
• 1:34:17
  uh used, he uses his magic to conceal himself and uh Richard the rogue
• 1:34:29
  werewolf. They and Richard, along along with a small band of other Omega
• 1:34:34
  werewolves uh invade the Bennett Pax territory and they kidnap Ox's mother. They hold
• 1:34:45
  her hostage and uh when Ox comes up comes across them because they were about
• 1:34:54
  to have their traditional Sunday dinner his mother. Uh. He told his mother
• 1:34:59
  about the werewolves a long time ago, so she's now also a part of
• 1:35:02
  the pact. And the day that they were this day they were going to
• 1:35:09
  have their traditional Sunday dinner and his mom needed to go back to their own
• 1:35:15
  house to pick up some stuff. But it was just something like a quick
• 1:35:19
  back and forth. But Ox realized she's been gone longer than he would have
• 1:35:26
  expected her to be gone, so he decides to go back to their house
• 1:35:29
  and see if she's okay. He gets there, he finds that it's He
• 1:35:33
  finds four other werewolves Omega werewolves, including Richard Collins, and Richard, had
• 1:35:44
  taken her hostage, and he begins making threats He's He tells him that he
• 1:35:48
  wants Thomas, and he wants Ox to lead Thomas away from his pack so
• 1:35:54
  that way Richard can get at him. Because when it kills another, when
• 1:35:59
  a werewolf kills an alpha, that werewolf becomes an alpha. That kind of
• 1:36:01
  deal, and Richard has all he wants to become an alpha so he can
• 1:36:06
  run things his way, and he wanted to do it using Thomas. Now
• 1:36:15
  Richard makes his threats. Ox is caught between a rock and a hard place
• 1:36:20
  because he's now has to make a choice either give up his adoptive father or
• 1:36:28
  lose his mother. And before he can make this decision, though, his
• 1:36:32
  mom, God, his mom is a badass. She's so brave. She
• 1:36:39
  manages to cause a scuffle with the with the Omegas because she wanted to give
• 1:36:47
  Ox a chance to run away, but unfortunately, when she does that,
• 1:36:55
  Richard kills her. Yeah, so Richard kills his mom and Ox. He
• 1:37:02
  runs from the house and he calls out to the were wolves. They they
• 1:37:06
  arrive as quickly as they can, but unfortunately Richard gets away for the time
• 1:37:13
  being. Yeah, they chase. They end up chasing him into the forest
• 1:37:19
  and it's then that they are surrounded by dozens of Omega wolves. They don't
• 1:37:28
  know how these Omegas manage to get into the house, get into their territory
• 1:37:30
  without setting off the wards, but they don't have much time to think about
• 1:37:34
  it. After exchanging words with Thomas, Richard and his Omegas attack the pack.
• 1:37:41
  They do everything they can to defend themselves, and they do end up
• 1:37:45
  uh and in the end, the Bennett pack comes out on top. Because
• 1:37:49
  Omega wolves, they're uncoordinated and they're feral, so they don't work together as
• 1:37:57
  a team like a packed like an actual pack to werewolves would being led by
• 1:38:01
  an alpha. Unfortunately, the Omegas focused their attack on Thomas as the alpha,
• 1:38:10
  and they severely weaken him and Richard tries to kill him to take on
• 1:38:16
  the role of alpha, but Ox comes to his defense and manages to get
• 1:38:23
  Thomas away from Richard. Richard, I can't believe I read that. Don't
• 1:38:33
  look at the don't look at the chat that killed my train of thought.
• 1:38:39
  I'm know I'm trying to fake finish like speed this up. Uh. Yeah,
• 1:38:44
  so anyway, John uh So. Ox manages to temporarily uh he temporarily
• 1:38:51
  gets Thomas away from from Richard. M hm. Thomas. He's severely injured
• 1:39:00
  at this point and he can't heal. He won't be able to recover,
• 1:39:05
  and he tells Ox that he needs somebody to take on the role of alpha.
• 1:39:11
  That way. Richard doesn't and he tries to convince Ox to let him
• 1:39:15
  turn into to let Thomas turn him into a werewolf, and he wants Tom.
• 1:39:19
  He wants Ox to kill him so that way Richard can't get to his
• 1:39:26
  werewolf gets uh, can't become the alpha. Yeah. But Ox doesn't get
• 1:39:31
  a chance to make a decision. His first thought is hell, no,
• 1:39:34
  it's not going to do that, but then Richard ended up tracking them down
• 1:39:39
  and attacks. Thomas defends himself, but he's so badly weakened that he gets
• 1:39:44
  struck down by Tom by Richard. But before Richard can deal a killing blow,
• 1:39:48
  Ox again steps in and wax Richard on the head with a rock and
• 1:39:56
  Richard turns it. Yeah. Richard turns his attention to Ox and tries to
• 1:40:00
  attack him but that's when Joe jumps in and attacks Uh. He manages to
• 1:40:04
  fend off Richard for the time being, and once the attack is once Richard
• 1:40:11
  and the Omegas are repelled, they turn their they turn back their attention back
• 1:40:16
  to Thomas. And Thomas unfortunately is so badly injured that he's going to die,
• 1:40:21
  and he tells his son he needs to do it, he needs to
• 1:40:26
  take he needs to take on the role of alpha, or else Richard will
• 1:40:29
  become or else Richard may end up coming back to take it. So Joe
• 1:40:38
  the only way, Like there are different ways for an alpha for a wolf
• 1:40:43
  to become an alpha, like there's a way for one alpha to transfer their
• 1:40:47
  title and power to another werewolf, because being in alpha is more than just
• 1:40:51
  a title. Like when you're in alpha, you are in alpha. It's
• 1:40:59
  not just a word, it's an actual thing. And so in order for
• 1:41:04
  a werewealth to become an alpha, they either can do the quick and ease,
• 1:41:09
  the quick and not so easy way, and that is to kill another
• 1:41:13
  alpha and take on their power becoming an alpha, or that alpha can transfer
• 1:41:20
  their power to you. Now that takes time and energy, which Thomas unfortunately
• 1:41:28
  no longer had so Joe was forced to kill his own father and taking the
• 1:41:35
  role of alpha for himself. Oh yeah, So it's a very sad scene
• 1:41:44
  because Joe was forced to kill his dad to take on the alpha role.
• 1:41:54
  And this all happened within the same night Ox's mother was murdered. Their packed
• 1:42:00
  is attacked by dozens of omegas and Thomas dies. Now immediately after this,
• 1:42:08
  after they've had time to calm down and regroup, Joe reveals that he wants
• 1:42:15
  to go after Richard. But the thing is is that he wants to do
• 1:42:20
  it alone, or rather with a small group. He doesn't want to take
• 1:42:26
  the whole pack. He just wants to go take a small team and chase
• 1:42:29
  down Richard, and Ox is opposed to this completely. He begs him to
• 1:42:35
  stay because one thing, his mother is just literally just died and they just
• 1:42:46
  about they were just like this was a few days after the attack, and
• 1:42:53
  he was just about to bury his mom, Thomas. A cover story was
• 1:42:57
  made for Thomas's death, so nobody really knows he's dead just yet. His
• 1:43:00
  mom, his his wife Elizabeth, was going to release an obituary and announce
• 1:43:06
  his death later, but Ox is still dealing with the fallout of his mom's
• 1:43:15
  death, and he's realizing already that he does care for Joe much more,
• 1:43:20
  and now that Joe is leaving him, he's like, he feels lost,
• 1:43:24
  and he's like, I can't do this without you and needs you here.
• 1:43:27
  We all need you here. But Joe is adamant about tracking down Richard because
• 1:43:32
  Richard has already done so much damage to his family. You know, he
• 1:43:36
  kidnapped and tortured Joe when he was just a kid, and now he killed
• 1:43:41
  his Uh, he's responsible for his dad's death. So Joe ends up taking
• 1:43:46
  Gordo and his two brothers, Carter and Kelly. They end up leaving Green
• 1:43:54
  Creek and for the next three years they spend their time chasing down Richard.
• 1:44:04
  Now in that time, Ox does begin to resent. He begins to resent
• 1:44:10
  Joe because he's still he's dealing with his own grief because he lost two of
• 1:44:16
  his parental two of the most important parental figures in his life. Mm hmm,
• 1:44:21
  yeah, his adoptive father and his his mother, and the pact that
• 1:44:29
  he's been that he's become a part of has been cut in half with especially
• 1:44:35
  especially since Joe left. So for the next three years. Ox spends that
• 1:44:43
  time pretty much picking up the pieces of his of this picking up the pieces
• 1:44:48
  of their family. He brings his wolf family back together. He's there to
• 1:44:54
  support his adoptive mother Elizabeth, his friend mar because those are the only two
• 1:45:01
  wolves left after his brother after the Yeah, because after Joe and his brother's
• 1:45:08
  leave, there's only two other wolves, so they're the only two left from
• 1:45:11
  the pack. But their pat ends up growing even more because Ox. As
• 1:45:17
  a way of fighting both Gordo and Joe for leaving, he tells he tells
• 1:45:26
  the guys at his body shop the truth about wolves and about Gordo mm hmm.
• 1:45:31
  And he even tells his ex girlfriend Jesse the truth. But he was
• 1:45:36
  he actually was forced to do that with her because he finds out that some
• 1:45:43
  omegas that were following Richard they had captured her when she left the town to
• 1:45:48
  go visit some friends out of town, and so he ends up rescuing her.
• 1:45:54
  She finds out the truth about were wolves and realizes like, oh,
• 1:45:57
  it makes so much more sense now, you and Joe, that whole dynamic
• 1:46:00
  you two have, it makes so much sense. Werewolves fucking werewolves and uh
• 1:46:10
  so they're packed grows more, Jesse and the three mechanics from the body from
• 1:46:16
  Gordo's body shop. Now those three guys, they're hilarious, Chris, Tanner
• 1:46:20
  and Rico. They're actually they're actually Gordo's oldest friends. I think is Gordo
• 1:46:27
  never told them about the fact that he's a witch and that he were and
• 1:46:30
  that there are werewolves in Green Creek. He wanted to keep them out of
• 1:46:32
  the loop because you know, they were the one normal thing he had in
• 1:46:35
  his life aside from Ox. Yeah, and uh, Ox ends up ends
• 1:46:42
  up telling them as a way of like getting back at Gardo, like,
• 1:46:45
  you know what, fuck this guy he left us behind. Hey, guys,
• 1:46:47
  guess what, Gordo's a witch and there and these and these guys over
• 1:46:54
  here are werewolves. So over time, with Jesse, Tanner, Chris,
• 1:47:00
  and Rico joining the pact as humans they're not werewolves, Ox realizes that he's
• 1:47:10
  created a whole new pack with him, the three, the four Stooges,
• 1:47:14
  and the two other werewolves. Well three because the third werewolf ends up coming
• 1:47:18
  to town. This guy guy named Robbie. He was sent by the interim
• 1:47:26
  alpha of Alpha's Alpha Hughes. So, like I said, before the Bennett
• 1:47:31
  Pact are like royalty. Their alpha is the alpha of all wolf packs,
• 1:47:36
  not just their own, and Thomas was the one was originally that alpha,
• 1:47:45
  but when he died and Joe took his place, Joe didn't formally accept the
• 1:47:47
  role of alpha of Alpha's just the alpha of his pact, of his own
• 1:47:53
  little pact. So and for the time being, the other packs appointed another
• 1:47:58
  alpha to be that to take on that role until Joe was ready. And
• 1:48:02
  since there's a whole lot of bureaucracy involved in needing to wanting to keep in
• 1:48:08
  touch and uh keep track of all the packs she sent, she ends up
• 1:48:12
  sending a wolf, a werewolf representative to the Bennett Pack to keep tabs on
• 1:48:17
  them. And that's who Robbie is, uh now Robbie. He describes himself
• 1:48:24
  as a bit of a drifter because he's not he's not fully a part of
• 1:48:28
  anyone packed. But over time, over the next three years that he spends
• 1:48:32
  with the Bennett PA, with the Bennett Packed, he ends up deciding to
• 1:48:38
  just settle down with them, and he becomes a part of Ox's new path.
• 1:48:42
  And when I say Ox's new path, I mean Ox. For some
• 1:48:45
  reason, Ox somehow becomes a human alpha like he actually gets the powers of
• 1:48:56
  an alpha like other will the so like in it's not just like it's it's
• 1:49:01
  not just something that affects his the werewolves in his pact, but it also
• 1:49:04
  affects other werewolves too, like when Robbie shows up, he's not an official
• 1:49:10
  member of the pact, but he's already looking at but when he first meets
• 1:49:14
  Ox, he was like, wait, I thought the alpha was gone.
• 1:49:16
  What who's this guy? Yeah? And Ox Ox slowly realizes that the other
• 1:49:24
  werewolves like began looking at him as if he was the alpha, and quickly
• 1:49:30
  becomes apparent when he fight when more Omegas attack their home and capture more innocent
• 1:49:38
  people. When Ox goes to fight them, the Omegas are terrified of him
• 1:49:42
  because they realize, wait, this human's in alpha what the fuck? Like
• 1:49:49
  he's actually controlling the other werewolves because one thing about alpha's their power allows them
• 1:49:56
  to control where the wolves of their packed and no, who yeah, it
• 1:50:00
  kind of cool, actually it is. Uh. Now, there are different
• 1:50:04
  physical differences between an alpha beta and omega's, like especially their eyes. So
• 1:50:12
  like when a when a were wolf normal werewolves that are part of a pat
• 1:50:17
  their eyes naturally turn into like a golden Halloween colored eye colored so like think
• 1:50:24
  like a bright orange m hm. And Omega's eyes turn violet. So if
• 1:50:32
  you see a werewolf with violent eyes, uh, it's a feral wolf right
• 1:50:36
  there. And Alpha and alpha werewolf's eyes are red like a blood red.
• 1:50:45
  Now Ox doesn't have that, but he's seen in clear and via clearly as
• 1:50:50
  an Alpha. At one point, about two and a half years after Joe
• 1:50:58
  left, a guy comes into town and tries to talk to Ox about Joe,
• 1:51:06
  and he tells it's revealed that this guy, a man named David King,
• 1:51:12
  was actually a part of a clan of hunters, or at least he
• 1:51:17
  used to be. In fact, he was part of the very clan of
• 1:51:21
  hunters that attacked Green Creek decades ago. So huh ooh ooh yeah uh.
• 1:51:35
  Ox may or may not have dropped the dude on his ass, because as
• 1:51:40
  soon as he mentions Joe, he immediately thinks that the guy had ill intentions
• 1:51:44
  and like drops him. But the guy's like, wait, no, I
• 1:51:45
  come in peace. Uh. Because at this point, Joe used to keep
• 1:51:51
  in contact with Ox. They would text him from burner phones. Let him
• 1:51:56
  know he's okay and what's going on. But at one point, like about
• 1:51:59
  two years into their after like their second year, Joe, wanting to focus
• 1:52:03
  more on his hunt for Richard, stops contacting, like goes completely radio silence,
• 1:52:13
  and Ox at this point hasn't heard anything from him from him. And
• 1:52:17
  then this guy shows up says, hey, I have a message from Joe
• 1:52:21
  and messages not yet, that's all the message was not yet. Now this
• 1:52:30
  infuriates Ox because he's at this point he's he misses Joe terribly and he's pissed
• 1:52:36
  at him for a bent for leaving them for so long. But either way,
• 1:52:43
  another six months pass. Six months pass before they hear anything about Joe,
• 1:52:47
  and at this point this is when Joe actually comes home. So the
• 1:52:55
  words that Gordo had placed around the packs territory, Ox being the new alpha
• 1:53:04
  of the territory, can feel it because now since he's so deeply connected to
• 1:53:10
  where it's the wolves now and the magic and the magic that surrounds them,
• 1:53:14
  he can feel the He can sense the words that Gordo put in place,
• 1:53:19
  and so he feels when a small group of individuals enter their territory and as
• 1:53:26
  it turns out it's there. It's Joe, and the it's Joe his brothers
• 1:53:30
  in Gordo. Now, when Ox sees Joe for the first time, he
• 1:53:36
  realizes, oh, he's grown. He's really grown into himself, because Joe
• 1:53:43
  looks way more mature. He looks like he doesn't look like a gangly teenager
• 1:53:45
  anymore. He looks like an actual adult. He's more, he's filled out,
• 1:53:51
  more and more muscular, and same thing with his brothers. Carter and
• 1:53:59
  Kelly both look like They all basically came back looking like rough biker dudes.
• 1:54:06
  And even though they returned, they realized that the Pact has become two separate
• 1:54:14
  entities, the Pact under Joe and the Pact under Uh the Pack under Ox.
• 1:54:21
  So even though like yeah, Elizabeth and Marker are happy to see their
• 1:54:28
  family again, they're still part of Ox's new pact and they defer to Ox
• 1:54:31
  as the alpha, while Kelly, Carter, and even Gordo they look to
• 1:54:35
  Joe as the alpha. So the two alphas and two different groups. Now.
• 1:54:42
  Yeah, so there's a bit of the next few months are rough for
• 1:54:45
  all of them because one everyone is pitt is understandably upset with the with Joe
• 1:54:51
  and the rest of his pact that left because well they left, and they've
• 1:54:56
  been gone for three years with hardly any contact. And and the thing is
• 1:55:00
  the reason why they came back was because it was not only because they couldn't
• 1:55:03
  find Richard, like they would get close to finding him, but he would
• 1:55:06
  always slip through their fingers. But what drove Joe to finally come back to
• 1:55:13
  Green Creek was when he came across the dead corpse of David King, the
• 1:55:18
  hunter he sent to Green Creek to send the message, to give the message
• 1:55:21
  to Ox. So when he found that the guy had been murdered, and
• 1:55:26
  he knew the guy had been murdered by Richard, he decides it's time to
• 1:55:30
  come home because where the guy was murdered was very close to Green Creek.
• 1:55:36
  That meant Richard was not far away. So yeah, Richard does eventually attack
• 1:55:49
  them again. Next few months are filled with everyone trying to the two packs
• 1:55:58
  trying to come back together under one banner. And it's an oddity, to
• 1:56:02
  say the least, because there's two alphas. Now that's not that's not common.
• 1:56:08
  There are no it's typically just one alpha per pact. But now we
• 1:56:12
  have one packed, or at least half two halves of pack trying to come
• 1:56:15
  back together. But they're coming back together under the banner of two wolves,
• 1:56:19
  of two alpha werewolves, well two alphas. Ox does and Oxen his side
• 1:56:29
  of the back of the pack do end up mending things with Joe's half of
• 1:56:34
  the pact. He meant, he makes amends with Gardo first, because Gordo,
• 1:56:42
  he's known Gordo the longest and he's the only person he has left that's
• 1:56:46
  like a father to him. Uh. He also ends up making amends with
• 1:56:54
  Carter and Kelly because those two they're more direct. They were more direct about
• 1:56:58
  it. They basically just picked They basically kidnapped Ox and you know, they
• 1:57:05
  hashed it out, they got they got ship. They needed to stay off
• 1:57:09
  their chests, Ox especially, and then they made up. Yeah, but
• 1:57:15
  Ox was still really mad at Joe. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah he
• 1:57:19
  should be because they were all going through a lot, and you know,
• 1:57:26
  Ox was just coming was at the time, just coming to terms of the
• 1:57:30
  fact that he cares about Joe and in a much deeper way. And Joe
• 1:57:33
  left and he was basically alone and had to pick up the pieces. So
• 1:57:40
  he's Eventually he finally does reconcile with Joe, and you know, they admit
• 1:57:47
  their feelings for each Well, Joe has always been trump like, has always
• 1:57:51
  been open about how he felt about Ox, but Ox actually admits it to
• 1:57:57
  Joe that he loves him, and I was just like, oh he said
• 1:58:01
  it, finally, yeah, and then everything changed from the fire Nation attacked.
• 1:58:16
  Oh god. Well, you know, when you think about it,
• 1:58:19
  what happens next is basically that, like, that's basically what happens next,
• 1:58:25
  because Richard he returns, and he does and he does funck some shit up.
• 1:58:31
  The thing is though, because Richard, because Bordeo managed to place stronger
• 1:58:38
  wards around the territory, Richard can't enter the can't enter green Creek, so
• 1:58:43
  he has to he has to resort to subtlety and you know, fuckery.
• 1:58:49
  So what he ends up doing is he ends up waiting for several residents of
• 1:58:56
  Green Creek to leave the town and they would he would catch them. We
• 1:59:00
  caught about So he kidnapped about six people and he calls up Ox and he
• 1:59:06
  tells Ox, here's what you're gonna do. You're gonna you're not gonna tell
• 1:59:13
  your pact anything you're just gonna get up and walk away and we're gonna talk.
• 1:59:16
  So and if you don't, I'll kill the people I have. I'll
• 1:59:21
  start killing the people I've taken. And like you get, you really realize,
• 1:59:26
  you get a real sense of how deranged Richard is because he's completely out
• 1:59:30
  of his mind. So Ox listens to what he has to say. Uh.
• 1:59:36
  Richard tells Ox that he wants him now. He doesn't want Joe.
• 1:59:41
  He wants Ox because Joe being a full blown, full like a fully fledged
• 1:59:46
  alpha with all everything included the extra strength, strength and abilities, he has
• 1:59:51
  all of that. But Ox, even though he's an Alpha, he does
• 1:59:56
  not have any of those werewolf abilities, other werewolf abilities. So to Richard,
• 2:00:00
  he's just he's just a weak human and he really looks down on humans.
• 2:00:06
  Uh. So he tells Ox that he needs to come to this place
• 2:00:14
  outside of the Wards and they're going and he's going to give himself up to
• 2:00:18
  Richard so Richard can take the alpha power from him. And if he does
• 2:00:23
  that, he'll let he'll let the he'll let his hostages go and he won't
• 2:00:27
  and he won't ever bother the Bennett packed again. And yeah, but Ox
• 2:00:34
  didn't want to risk it. So it's very heartbreaking because of course it happens
• 2:00:41
  on there on a Sunday, just before they're about to have their their traditional
• 2:00:46
  dinner, of course because it's tradition. And afterwards, like he had,
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  he had to pretty much lie to them like everything's fine. He doesn't tell
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  him anything, but once he knows that everyone is the Once the day is
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  over and everyone's gone to sleep, he sneaks out of the house. He
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  has an interaction with Gordo and Gordo meet of course, being the sassy queen
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  he is, they ever a paranoid queen he is. He sent he senses
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  somethings up, even though Ox tells him everything's fine. Ox drives out of
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  the town and meets up with Richard, and Richard has the cost the hostages
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  there and he tells Ox and he needs to give himself up, and so
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  Ox does, but before Richard can do anything, Gordo, who had followed
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  Ox to the meeting point, attacks and he separates Richard from Ox. Ox
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  manages to free the hostages and tells him to get back head back to town
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  well within the safety of the Wards and uh So in this book, Ox
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  was given a silver weapon because were wolves are are affected by silver in this
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  so he has a silver plated crowbar and he eases it to defend himself every
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  time he fights the werewolf, and he manages to get in a good few
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  hit hits on h Richard and his omegas that he had with him, but
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  he knows that he can't beat him because Richard is a ah is a menace
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  and uh so, Richard ends up chasing Ox over this old wooden bridge.
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  It's very rickety, very near collapsing, and uh Ox goes him and manages
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  to trap him on the bridge and because oxen is because and his omegas were
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  like running up all over the bridge, it begins to collapse. Ox barely
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  makes it out of there. The thing is, when Ox was when the
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  con when the whole thing, the confrontation started, everybody, the rest of
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  his pack could sense his fear because they're all they're all emotionally connected like that.
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  So when Ox, when they sensed Ox's fear and that he was under
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  duress, the rest of the pack that he left behind immediately was alerted to
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  it and they come running, including Joe, and Joe is like frantic because
• 2:03:39
  he also suspects he suspected something, and he followed uh. He also followed
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  Ox to the meeting point, but he was further behind than Gordo. So
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  just as soon as Joe arrives, that's when the bridge collapses on Richard and
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  his omegas and Ox. At first things it's over. It's finally over,
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  like Richard's dead. Could he managed to He managed to gank Richard with the
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  with his silver crowbar mm hmm. But when Ox's back was turned, Richard
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  jumps out of the uh out of the river that the bridge collapse in,
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  and he he base. He he stabs uh Ox in the stomach with his
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  claws. Yep, and for a brief moment, Richard becomes an alpha because
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  since Ox was a human, was an actual alpha and every and everything but
• 2:04:43
  the werewolf turn Richard actually becomes an alpha for just the briefest of moments.
• 2:04:49
  And then Joe, seeing the man he loved, his mate being eviscerated by
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  a rogue werewolf, literally rips off Richard's head. Oh yeah, finally,
• 2:05:04
  finally, after decades of trying to become in alpha, Richard Collins became an
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  alpha. And then Joe set off damn but it's not over. Ox is
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  very close to dying, but in desperation, Joe bites Ox and turns him
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  into a werewolf. And when he does that, because Joe technically killed another
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  alpha, it gave him. He took back the alpha power that Richard had
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  that Richard took from Joe, I'm sorry from Ox. And so when Ox
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  and Desperation bites, I'm sorry Joe, I'm swear to God. So when
• 2:05:49
  Joe bites Ox and Desperation to save him, he also transfers that alpha power
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  back into Ox. So Ox so biting him turns him into a were wolf.
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  Because the thing is only alphas can turn humans into were wolves. So
• 2:06:12
  when Joe bites him, he becomes a were wolf and he takes back and
• 2:06:15
  he also gets back his alpha status, so he When Ox wakes up,
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  he's surrounded by his pack. They uh it's not uncommon for the wolves to
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  like have like, uh spend the night together where they're all just like pile
• 2:06:32
  together and just sleep like that. So they're all piled around him, except
• 2:06:36
  except for Joe, who was out in the forest just clearing his mind because
• 2:06:44
  he's because he's not sure if Ox will survive. Or not. When Ox
• 2:06:47
  wakes up, he's a work. He's a fully fledged werewolf. Now he
• 2:06:50
  immediately runs to Joe and as he goes to Joe in the forest, he
• 2:06:57
  has his first shift into a wolf and his wolf is pure black. Mm
• 2:07:03
  hmmm. So I was like, oh, that's cute. Joe is a
• 2:07:10
  pure white wolf and Ox is completely black. So that's cute. White and
• 2:07:17
  black. That's cute contrasting each other. Yeah, and they're both alphas.
• 2:07:23
  Ox is still in alpha now he has all the powers to go with it.
• 2:07:27
  Damn. Yeah. So there are some spicy scenes after this. I
• 2:07:33
  will not go into detail. Oh oh yeah, so when yeah, so
• 2:07:40
  when werewolves mates, when they find their their true mate, everything like that.
• 2:07:47
  After there's a little process of becoming mates, which involves sex and sex
• 2:08:01
  and biting. Uh oh so yeah, when a werewolf mates. Yeah,
• 2:08:07
  when it werewolf becomes a mate, they become mates of course, involve sex
• 2:08:11
  and one has to bite the other, which creates a mating bond. So
• 2:08:20
  aside from their pack bonds, their mating bond is a lot more intimate,
• 2:08:24
  kinky, kinky. Yeah. So yeah, they eventually did that, and
• 2:08:28
  the book pretty much ends on a very happy note. You know, their
• 2:08:33
  families together again, and because the two of them are now mates, their
• 2:08:37
  pact is able to become one again under their under both of them, two
• 2:08:43
  gay alphas. Yeah and Uh. When the book ends, there's a bit
• 2:08:50
  of foreshadowing of what the next book is going to be centered around, because
• 2:08:54
  it's one of the last scenes in the book. In this book is uh,
• 2:08:58
  Gordo and Mark. They're sitting close together and their hands are almost touching.
• 2:09:05
  Because I've said before Gordo is supposed to be Mark's mate, but because
• 2:09:09
  of everything that happened, Gordo ended up breaking out off with Mark because he's
• 2:09:16
  dealing with a bandoned issues. Let me tell you something, and that's pretty
• 2:09:20
  much what the next book, Raven Song, is gonna be about. It's
• 2:09:22
  gonna be about Gordo's and Mark's relationship and how they come back together. But
• 2:09:31
  that is it for Wolf's Song. Now, I know I did not do
• 2:09:35
  a good job. I did not do this book justice. I personally love
• 2:09:39
  this book. I love the characters and I relate to Oks so much because
• 2:09:45
  like our circumstances are different, not like with the Wharols and shit, but
• 2:09:48
  with like family and our personal lives like he did with a lot. He
• 2:09:54
  dealt with a lot of emotional and verbal abuse as a kid, which left
• 2:10:01
  him with feelings of like of self value, issues of self value. So
• 2:10:09
  he does not he didn't see himself as having much self worth. He was
• 2:10:13
  quiet. He was this big guy, and I'm like, that's me.
• 2:10:18
  I've gone through that, not with so much with my dad, but my
• 2:10:22
  brother. Yeah, so I was just like, oh, I relate to
• 2:10:28
  this guy so much. Yeah, so I definitely recommend reading this book.
• 2:10:35
  I know, like I've several I've recommended this book to several friends and they
• 2:10:39
  started reading it and they immediately pointed out, like, Okay, that's just
• 2:10:41
  problematic with their age difference, and like, yeah, I know, but
• 2:10:46
  just bear with it. They don't do anything until they're both way older and
• 2:10:52
  they're actually adults, so you can appreciate that. But for me, like
• 2:10:56
  I appreciated how we saw it go from something like like we're it's more like
• 2:11:01
  their their found family. Like they started off as like adopted brothers and they
• 2:11:07
  grew up with something more. Their relationship grew into something so much more,
• 2:11:11
  and there's just so much history that they share with each other, and I
• 2:11:16
  just love it. It's like I love that. I love that for them.
• 2:11:22
  Hell yeah, talking about that book got my boyfriend doing. Eventually,
• 2:11:28
  I'm going to read those books with these books, Yes, missed thaying over
• 2:11:33
  here still needs to finish reading fairy Tale, which is gonna be one of
• 2:11:39
  the next books that we're going to review. Yeah, probably the next episode
• 2:11:43
  of a Certain Ginger Bitch over here, even though I even though I dropped
• 2:11:52
  some small spoilers for him to get them motivated, especially considering that the big
• 2:11:58
  bad of the book is an Eldric terror. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 2:12:03
  and this certain ginger Bitch is a horror for for eldric terrors. I am
• 2:12:09
  a whore for elder chairs. That is correct. That is correct. But
• 2:12:13
  well we do Will we do fairy Time next week? Maybe? Who knows.
• 2:12:20
  Actually we'll see end up doing Ravens song. Yeah, and then fairy
• 2:12:24
  Tale. Well, we'll see, we'll see. We'll see how quick I
• 2:12:26
  can read, Yeah, we'll see, who will see? All right,
• 2:12:31
  yeah, read the book. It's great. All right, guys, We're
• 2:12:35
  gonna go and go because it's almost six thirty our time, and we are
• 2:12:39
  probably not going to record for the we're literally recording D and D. After
• 2:12:43
  this that, we'll probably can we do it? Like at seven thirty son't
• 2:12:48
  have enough time to make food? Yeah yeah, well I'm gonna have to
• 2:12:56
  go get food because I don't have time to make food right now ya which
• 2:12:58
  is but anyway, uh, y'all bye next time, Bye bye. The
• 2:13:03
  Tootles read the book, yay,