I Can't believe this is happening! I don't want to take over the pack. How many times have I told Dad that I'm not going to do it? 

I hate to let Dad down, but I was serious when I told him that I don't want to be Leader of the Mysterious Shadow Pack! 

We got our name from how all our wolves look; everyone’s snow white. Even our noses! When we are in our land full of snow, it looks like we are completely invisible, except for our shadow. Depending on the time of day, it’s still visible, which makes it look like it's coming from nowhere, so we named ourselves the Mysterious Shadow Pack.

 Our Pack is one of the strongest and largest around, but that's not saying much because there’s no one other than my pack for miles. After all, no one besides us could live in our cold, treacherous, and icy land. We mostly have to stay in our wolf form to survive, our fur coats are thicker than the normal werewolf’s, so no other pack has tried to take over our lands. 

Why would they want to fight to death for something they couldn't make use of? Besides the occasional feral wolf, we don't really have any competition, but I am confident that our pack is the strongest up against other packs.

But Dad is convinced to make me, his second son, the next leader of the pack soon, and now that an intruder has been spotted in our land, he thinks this is the perfect opportunity to step down from the leader position by acting like he can't take care of the threat himself.

I need to figure out how to leave. Every time I try to run, someone catches me and notifies my dad of my weird behavior, then he uses Leader's command to make everyone think that I'm horrible for trying to leave them. It makes me so sad and out of it that I lose my will to run away for the day. I don't want to make them disappointed in me. It's horrible!

My pack is bound tightly like chains are holding us together. This bond makes our minds link to each other, so that we can read each other's minds. But, there is a catch to all of this: wolves are not created equally. The more power the wolf has the more secretive their mind can be. Stronger wolves can read more into the weaker wolves' minds. 

Usually nobody can read the leader's mind, but I can see his plan of wanting to use this threat to step down from being Leader and pass the title onto me. 

Yes, I can see it all too perfectly in his mind. This is one of the reasons my dad is convinced that I'm ready for my role to be Leader, because I have been able to read his mind since I learned how to talk. So that means, in a way, I've been stronger than him since I was two. But that doesn't mean I would make a good Leader.

To be a good Leader you need to be responsible, caring, good at talking, and respect all pack members. I am none of those things, but my older brother, who is supposed to be next in line, is. Not that long ago, he started reading dad's mind, which means he too is stronger than dad now. He should be the next Leader, not me. He's all of those things. Everybody loves and respects my brother unlike me.

Most of the low level pack members are terrified of me, I can't tell them hello without them shaking like they're about to go in shock and the other members act like I'm an object that's worth millions, that they won't even dare to touch with their dirty hands. How could I be the Leader of a pack who doesn't even dare step six feet in front of me? 

But, Brother can talk to the lowest member without any problem and any other member treats him as their own brother or best friend and that's how it should be. Dad just can't see this truth, and won't even give him the time of day, let alone thinking about how great my brother would do as a leader.

Dad only cares about my power. My wolf is triple the size of anyone in my pack or all the feral werewolves we have come across. The size of the wolf is the size of the power that it has, which is true. 

I could take down anyone with no effort and I can outrun anyone too. No one has come close to beating me. Dad, that thick furred man, thinks too much of power and abusing his own to convince everyone else to think that way too, even Brother!

Brother has always dreamed of one day being Leader, but he has no problem and would be happy to step down from his rightful place for me. I love my brother to death, but he needs to realize that I don't want to be a Leader. I wish he could read my mind to see how much I mean it.

My mind has been closed to my pack since my birth. I can force my commands of what I want them to do in their minds, because of the pack bond, but they can't read my mind, which I love that it gives me privacy. Even if I don't want to, I'm constantly reading everyone else's minds and invading their privacy. I can't turn off my powers.

At this moment, I would really love it if my brother could read my mind, so he would know exactly what I was feeling. When you are able to read someone's mind, you know exactly what they mean without them explaining, which makes people understand and trust you more.

 I think that's why everyone doesn't feel close to me, because my mind has been closed off to them. When Brother was younger a lot of the pack members were able to read his mind, but I never had that. Dad thinks it's a weakness to be read, and since nobody read me to him this was a firm fact that I was going to be stronger than any wolf in the world, but I just think it makes me lonely.