Chapter 5: What The Hell!

He turned around with a gust of wind and scanned the trees with his eyes. I turned around the same instant and sighted more arrows coming to meet us.

Thane immediately pulled me to the ground and covered me with his body, the warmth of his skin melding into mine. I felt somewhat safe underneath his huge body, my head silenced in a moment of peace.

I felt something spooking at my legs. My breath seized, I knew what it was. Maybe this is what I need right now?

Thane raised his face and looked down into my eyes the same second, tension brewing between our fixed stare.

“Now who the fuck still uses arrows in this century,” Zane’s voice distracted us. He spat and pulled out his pistol as he hid behind the car.

“Don’t charge in blindly,” Thane ordered him. “We don’t know how many they’re yet.”

Zane smirked, “And they don’t know about guns.”

He peeked and took aim, then fired multiple shots. Screams of anguish followed every bang that was made.

Zane was a precision shooter, and so was every last one of my stepbrothers. I wonder what their mom was training them for.

“Willow,” Thane whispered in my ears with his huge body still pressing against me on the ground. “We’re gonna stand up from here and run inside the house at the count of three.”

“Okay,” I nodded coherently.

“1, 2, 3!” Thane jacked me up by my waist almost like he was throwing me and raced inside the house while my legs were busy jogging in midair thinking I was gonna be doing my own running.

He dropped me down and shut the door pulling out his own pistol from his belt.

“It’s just hunters, why are y’all taking so long to beat them?” Axel walked towards us.

“Pull out your gun, Axel,” Thane ordered him.

“Uhhhh, who put you in charge?”

“This is not the time for games,” Thane grew paranoid.

“Questions are not games leader wannabe,” Axel dissed him and then pulled out his own pistol. “This will be easier in our wolf form.”

While my heart was beating fast thinking my life was over, they were both so calm exchanging words to anger each other. Almost made me look like I don’t know what danger should look like and for a moment that left me confused.

“Uncle can track our wolf form,” Thane yelled at him.

“What’re you guys talking about?” I pitched in trying to clear my own perplexity.

A loud thud echoed across the room as the double doors plastered open. Zane pulled in an aged man by his hair and threw him at our feet.

“Tell them,” he goes to take a seat on the center table behind us.

“Tell us what?” I looked at the bruised man with my arms open in question.

“Willow,” the man crawled towards me. “We’re hunters from your father’s pack. We thought these men were kidnapping you.”

My heart melted upon hearing his story, he meant it for good but had lost all his men in the process. I stepped closer to him and ducked down, “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry for the lives of your men. These are my stepbrothers, they can be silly at times.”

Surprisingly the man pulled out a dagger from his sleeve which he struck directly at my neck before Axel grabbed me by the shoulders and swung me backwards.

My reflex was terrible, that would have been my last minute on earth if he didn’t.

“The Grim Moon Pack will not have you be our alpha,” he yelled along.

The back of my head banged against the ground with my thoughts clanging like heavy metal. For the next minute I watched them from the ground in blurry eyes, screams and yells ringing against my eardrums.

Finally the noise faded and my head was in a state of sudden silence. That was when I felt her, my wolf, a sudden feeling of excitement ran through my spine with my toes twitching.

Suddenly the forest house smelled good with a nice alluring smell running wide in different glorious scents. A soothing mist with red residues in the air filled my vision. I sat up closely, coming face to face with Thane who was probably about to pull me up…

“MATE!” My lips moved along with the newfound voice in my head.

Thane froze, he must have definitely felt something too.

I stood up in a shock reaction; my jaws dropped and my eyes popped wide open.

I looked away to Axel who was equally surprised, “MATE!” the voice called again with my lips moving alongside it.

Now I was terrified, two mates? Two very annoying human beings? Is this a nightmare? Does the moon goddess approve of this kind of mating?

I took backward steps with my eyes fixed on Thane and Axel consecutively and my mind drenched in shock. While moving backwards my leg hit Zane’s and I fell on his lap with my head landing on his chest like a planned coincidence. I looked up from his chest and the voice echoed again in unison with my lips, “MATE!”

Ah! The worst of them all.

I stood up to have a better look at his face with a sort of impossible hope that it wasn’t him. At least it could be Kris, but no it was Zane, the monster among men.

I don’t know what came into me but I turned around and attempted to run away when my left leg gave up. It seems the man with a dagger had struck my thigh when Axel was getting me out of the way.

I stared at the large wound for the first time as my eyes fell on it. I didn’t feel it at all earlier.

Thane walked towards me slowly as he watched me fall, I stood up the same minute with my injured left leg and leaped out of their sight, turning my face away from him.

I entered the kitchen and shut the door, and then I fell behind it. I’ve always been sexually attracted to them but I never expected the gods to make our fate intertwine. What cruelty is this? I’m mated to three devils who have always found ways to punish me for being their step sister. What could I expect now that I’m even mated to them? Did the last 24 hours change them at all?