As the three young werewolves grew and became teenagers, Harper was growing with them. He had built them a town with schools, department stores, and a hospital. He brought in doctors and teachers from California to New York to give the children and his werewolf pups the best education they could get outside of Samsaville. And Emily would be a teacher to them as well.
Teaching them how to live in the world of humans. Another lesson they would need in order to exist in a world of men.
Michael handed each new resident to Samsaville a contract. It was a nondisclosure and binding. Along with the agreement to never mention that the town was a haven to all werewolves and humans who wanted to live by the shifter laws, Harper had imposed on the inhabitants of the town, as well as being responsible citizens, they were given a substantial salary with housing to live and work in Samsaville for as long as they wanted.
After Harper discovered Liam was no longer a threat to him, he and Liam became friends. After all they were the same age.
“Liam. I have to take my sons out to teach them to become what they are. They are hunters and they are men. They know how to be men. They don’t know how to be werewolves. I want you and your wife to look after Emily while I’m gone. When school is out for the summer, we will head north to Canada and Alaska. I hear there are shifters there who may be interested in forming an alliance with me.”
“We can see to Emily. I’ve never been as happy as I have been since I met Kim. Maybe we’ll go into San Francisco. Kim has never seen the place. My sons are becoming yearlings and I need your assistance. But it can wait until you return. If they were old enough I would send them with you.”
“Maybe next time. Emily wants to check on her father and she’s excited about just seeing how much the city has changed in two years.” Harper glanced at his watch. “I have a meeting at the high school.”
“Who is it this time?”
“Do you have to ask? It’s Lycell as usual.”
Liam saw the pain on Harper’s face. “I won’t keep you.”
When Harper walked into the principal’s office, Wilder and Drayton were sitting on the outside looking at Lycell through the glass walls. Lycell was sitting in a corner behind closed doors away from the others.
“What’s this about?”
“I don’t know father?” Drayton said standing when his father entered. Wilder glanced up and didn’t answer, however, Wilder eyes told it all to Harper. It had to do with a female. And the female was the principal’s daughter.
Harper walked into the office without knocking. “You aren’t supposed to question my sons and have them assemble and sit outside your office as if they all were suspects to be rounded up.” Harper looked to Lycell sitting with a smirk on his face.
“Mr. Samsa will you sit down. I have to explain to you why I have Lycell here and the other two outside.” Harper stood.
“Lycell has been dating my daughter.”
“Yes, she is a pretty girl. Has he been respectful of her?”
“Why yes.”
“Has he shown you respect?”
“Of course.”
“Then what’s the problem?”
“He’s been visiting her in the middle of the night.” Harper turned to Lycell with a jerk of his body.
“I just wanted to watch her sleep. She’s beautiful when she sleeping.”
“Can you see what I’m talking about, Mr. Samsa? That’s just not appropriate. She woke up and he was sitting in her room. When I heard moaning and groaning you can see why I burst into the room.”
“And were they doing anything?”
“We were just kissing, father,” Lycell interrupted.
“Do not interrupt me or Mr. Kiser,” Harper said with a closed smile and steel in his eyes.
“I don’t think they were doing anything, but I can’t have him jumping in my daughter’s window at night. I want her to finish high school and the way things are going that may never happen. She could come up pregnant.”
“I see your point, but I don’t understand why you have my two other boys sitting out there.”
“Because they wouldn’t let Lycell come to my office without them. That is unusual but then when they are in the same classes it makes for a difficult time for me as well as any teacher who has to teach them.
“For example in biology class, the teacher was explaining the anatomy of a young man their age, and he showed the reproductive organs of a man. Lycell argued that this wasn’t in every case the penis had to be of a certain size. When the teacher stated he had never seen one that would be larger than the standard size, Lycell offered to show his as an example to the class, and not everyone had a standard size penis.”
“One size doesn’t fit all is what I said,” Lycell said as Harper swung a sour look at him.
Harper sat down and glanced at Lycell. Lycell hunched his shoulder because everything the principal said was true. “I just wanted to show him that his claims weren’t true,” Lycell said.
“Couldn’t you let him assume what he wanted?”
“He was saying this as if it was a fact and mother always said that if you could prove a fact is not a fact, you have a right to prove it, and I was just trying to prove that not all penis were not the same by showing him.”
“And the class,” the principal exclaimed.
“Wilder and Drayton were willing to demonstrate what the teacher had said wasn’t a fact,” Lycell said.
“Do you see why I have all three of them in my office?”
“Somewhat.” He stood and tapped Lycell on the shoulder and Lycell stood as well. “Go out and sit with your brother’s.” Lycell turned and walked out of the room and closed the door behind.
It didn’t matter if the door was closed they could hear the conversation. “I understand what you have to deal with but these are my sons and this is my town. I gave jobs to everyone because of my sons not in spite of them. I will handle the situation about your daughter. There will be no more visits to your daughter’s room at night or any other time.”
Wilder, Lycell, and Drayton saw their father shake hands and then Harper turned leaving the room and closing the door behind him.
Harper stood in front of them with a gray look.
“Go to class but I want to see all of you in my library after school.”
They glanced at each other and walked back to class. When class was over, they rode home in their trucks. They climbed out in a somber mood.
“We have a football game coming up. Now what, Lycell? Are you trying to get us benched?” Wilder said looking at Lycell who stood already six feet. Just an inch shy of Wilder with Drayton the tallest of the three.
“I didn’t show the class my cock. Although the girls were dying to get a peek at it.”
“Yeah because that’s all you talk about in class,” Drayton said leaning on the door of his truck and delaying the inevitable—learning what his father had in store for them.
“I’m bored. We’re all bored. Mother taught us about our bodies and all that other human shit we need to know about. When we tested and we are well above our age and grade level. I could get my PhD if I wanted.”
“PhD in stupidity and arrogance,” Wilder said. “You can’t be sneaking out of the house during the full moon and we aren’t going to cover for you anymore. Father knows about it and he is going to blame us, all of us if you do it again.”
“You’re just accusing me because you don’t have the balls to roam around and see what the world is like outside of Samsaville. I’ll have you know I don’t just visit the principal’s daughter, she just happens to be the one I haven’t fucked yet,” Lycell said.
Wilder let out a hard breath through his teeth. “You’re impossible.” And he strutted to the house with Drayton following behind him. Lycell tucked his hands into his jeans and reluctantly entered through the kitchen.
“I’m hungry,” he said to the cook.
“You have to see your father first. He said not to put out your food until he’s done talking to all of you.” Lycell touched a piece of Salmon and the cook slapped his hand. He glanced at her with a grieved look with the sides of his mouth turned downward.
She knew his look as well as the rest and she didn’t soften to it. Lycell had been a handful since he was a pup with his mischievous behavior. It was time someone stopped him before he became a yearling and out of control where no one would be able to reign in his outrageous antics, she thought.