Chapter 4

Christina

We run out the back door through the kitchen and immediately start to sprint away from the people chasing after us.

I have never ran so much in my life. We couldn't get to the car because they had swarmed around us so the back door was the only possible escape we had.

My legs start to hurt and I suddenly feel so dizzy. I can barely breathe. I’ve never been good at any physical activities.

“Please, we need to rest!” I yell out.

“We can’t!” Dad screams.

“Peter, we have to shift!” Melissa shouts.

I ignore what Melissa says not because I don’t understand it but because the guys behind us seem to be getting closer. I guess this is the day I die. I wouldn’t have minded dying if it wasn’t for the vast amount of drama that has happened in the past few hours. I need to At Least understand why my mother was killed before I die. Hell—I want to avenge her.

Becca looks back and sees that I’m slower than all of them. She then looks behind me and I turn around to see the people that were chasing after us are no longer people but.. animals. I can’t see them well but with the way the ground starts to shake I’m sure they're the same beasts that I saw my dad turn into.

They run like they have some kind of cheetah genes.

“Fuck it.” Becca says and before I can even blink she turns into a similar werewolf as my dad did earlier today. Hers is brown like dads. Dad does the same. Melissa tells me to hop on before following suit and turning into a brown and white werewolf.

I scream so loud I’m pretty sure whoever is on the mountains near this forest heard me.

For some reason I’m more surprised now than I was when I first saw my dad do it. Perhaps my brain convinced me it wasn’t real and now that I’m seeing it again I can’t take it.

Melissa or rather— the brown and white werewolf bends her head towards me and pushes her head up twice whilst looking at me as if she’s signaling that I should do something. I remember her saying hop on before she became this animal so I quickly walk beside her and try to climb on her back.

I put my right leg over her and sit on her back. I try to ignore how it feels whenever her hair brushes my legs. I’m about to sit more comfortably but Melissa immediately takes off with me on her back.

I start to scream because I’m afraid of falling so I lean down like I’m on a horse and hold onto her hair with my hands.

Becca and my dad are beside us. Melissa‘s running so fast I can barely see anything so I close my eyes. I stop screaming when I realize I haven't fallen off. I open my eyes and start to smile because this is actually fun. I don’t think it’s a normal experience that humans have but it’s like being on a roller coaster.

I see a tree branch right in front of me and quickly duck. I look back and see that the werewolves have stopped all of a sudden. As if there’s some kind of invisible wall that’s not allowing them to pass through. I see them turn around and run away.

I thought if I looked behind us I’d see that we’d have outran them not that they would willingly leave us. Something’s not right.

I look forward and immediately gasp. Melissa stops running and so does Becca and dad.

There’s a bunch of men and women sitting on trees pointing arrows at us. A few of them are in front of us holding guns. There’s one man in the middle of them holding a gun as well. He seems to be the one in charge, for some reason I can feel it as if he has some kind of aura.

What have we gotten ourselves into?

He’s staring straight at Becca.

“Shift.” He says simply.

I’ve been with them enough to know that he wants them to turn back to humans.

I get off Melissa and they turn back to humans. They're completely naked. To my surprise, Melissa was carrying the same bag I saw her get from the trunk of the car earlier. She pulls out the clothes that we’re inside and passes it to Melissa and dad.

The man who told them to shift walks up to Becca after she finishes putting on her clothes.

“What’s happening?” I whisper to dad wondering what the hell is going on.

“We’re in the wrong territory.” He says simply as if I’m supposed to understand what that means.

I think these people are different from the ones that tried to kill us earlier. Maybe that’s why they had run away from us when we entered this part of the forest, I guess it was apparently the wrong territory.

“What do you want from us?” Becca says after the man reaches her.

“Mate.” He says simply. He leans his head towards her neck and smells her hair.

She gasps and pushes him away.

He suddenly turns into a black werewolf. What the hell have I gotten into, this will never be normal to see. To my surprise Becca walks up to him and taps his wolf's head while he purrs.

Uh…What the hell..?

“What is going on?” I whisper to Melissa this time.

“He’s the beta. I can smell it.” She says as if I’m meant to understand.

“He’s Becca’s mate and the second hand in command of the Alpha.” Dad says as if I’m still meant to understand.

The black werewolf turns back to a human and gets passed clothes by his people..

“Is it normal for you guys to be naked in front of each other?” I ask while gawking at the organ dangling between his legs.

“Sort of.” Melissa whispers back.

The man finally wears his clothes and smiles at us.

“I’m the beta of the River bay pack. Alpha Xavier will be delighted to know that one of his intruders happened to be my mate.”

What the hell does that even mean? Dad looks at me and I look at him. He sees how confused I am and smiles.

“An Alpha is like the ruler of a pack. And a pack is like a kingdom. He’s saying that Becca is his soulmate.” I nod at my dads weird ass explanation.

“Who are these three?” The man asks Becca. He speaks with his hands behind him.

“My sisters and my uncle.” She lies…technically.

“As much as I fancy you mate, it isn’t good to lie.” he smiles at Becca before he continues his speech.

“I can smell that the lady beside you is your sister. However the other two.. not very much. That man’s a rogue and the girl next to him is an omega…” He raises a brow as if he’s deep in thought, “or.. A rogue I believe. Her scent is odd and I do not see any white strands of hair that would make her an omega but perhaps I'm mistaken.”

How could he tell through simply smelling us? And what the hell is an omega… What the hell does that mean?

The man has dark hair and beautiful blue eyes. He’s muscular but Lean at the same time.

He walks up to my dad and I, he nods once but it didn’t look like he was nodding at us.

Before we can react, a black hood is put over my dad and I’s heads and the last thing I hear before falling unconscious is Melissa and Becca’s screams.