Azura woke in an unfamiliar place, covered in flies and her head pounding. She looked around, while swatting them away and saw the rotting corpses of both human and wolves. She gasped and tried to back away from them. Looking up, she realized she was in a giant hole. WTF she thought, her heart pounding, where am I? Azura, you need to find a way out. The familiar voice in her head spoke to her. She checked her boot for her dagger. She sighed in relief, they forgot to check her boots. It was nearly sunset and she could hear the faint voices of men above her, laughing and cursing.
“You said it was…a silver-back wolf?” Regina said hesitantly. Ty sat on a chair next to Azura, grasping her paw. He looked at his mother, “Yes, a silver-back, he looked seasoned…I was almost too late Mom. A minute later and he would’ve ripped her throat out,” Ty swallowed hard, the words almost hurting as he said them, “She put up a great fight. He looked pretty banged up, missing an eye and gashes on his throat, but she was outnumbered, even in her wolf form.” “And you didn’t know she was wolf?” Regina asked anxiously. “I mean I guess I sensed it, but after I saw what she could do I figured she was something else,
The knock at the door continued. “Enter,” Ty said, annoyed. He and Azura broke away and made themselves look inconspicuous. James entered the room, clearly feeling the tension Ty was exerting from being interrupted. “Ahh, Azura, you’ve shifted which means you are doing a lot better,” he said to her smiling. She returned a smile, “Yes I am, thank you very much for your help.” He picked up the stones from the floor and motioned for Azura’s hand, where he placed one and it turned green. “Yes, your perfect health has returned and you may take your leave from The Infirmary.”
Azura could see her mother’s face clearly and she was so beautiful. Her hair and skin were just like hers, blonde and ivory. She had big green eyes and was covered in light freckles. She remembered the night they watched Nyx’s Shower from the rooftop. Looking from her mother’s beautiful smile to her father’s laughing expressions. He was ruggedly handsome, his beard long and bushy, his eyes were cerulean blue and his hair a deep black. They kept laughing and pointing at the sky. Then her mind brought her to the last time she saw her mother. She was standing alone in the woods
When Azura woke, it was morning. The smell of bacon trailed into her room and her stomach rumbled with hunger. She washed up and went downstairs. She was about to enter the dining room when a different scent danced under her nose. It was the smell of mint that she had grown unable to live without. She deviated from her mission and followed the smell of mint out onto the patio where Ty stood looking out to the lake, hands on his hips. He was so deep in thought that he did not hear Azura come out behind him. “Ty?” she called to him, her voice penetrated his ears. He turned around quickly
“Enough!” Ty spoke and his voice shook the ground. Azura immediately became submissive to him and walked to his side with her head down. Kiara flipped right side up keeping her head to the ground. Ty turned to his mother who quickly explained what happened. Ty’s rage was building, “Kiara! You dare disobey your Alpha?” he took a step forward to the now whimpering she-wolf on the ground, when her parents threw themselves on top of her. “We will deal with her Alpha Ty, I promise you we will,” they pleaded, but Ty was not convinced. “Ty, I think it’s best to let them,” Regina spoke, pulling his arm a little, clearly worried for her friend’s sake. Kia
The council meetings were held in a building on the courtyard’s westside. It was a building they only used for meetings, but could be used by anyone for that purpose. Kiara’s parents were part of the council, along with Ty, Regina, Jay, Derek, Eleanor, and a few other seasoned members of the pack. The curtains were drawn on nearly all the windows, except for one in which part of the curtain’s end had been torn off. Kiara squatted at this window and peered inside. “Who calls this meeting?” Ty’s voice brought silence to the room and Kiara shuttered at the chill it brought down her spine. Ty could reject her a thousand times and she would still grovel at his fee
“Ahhh!” Kiara screamed and sobbed, “Please, I have told you everything I know. Ahhh.” Kiara was tied by her wrists hanging from the ceiling. A scrawny dirty man with yellow eyes heated a branding iron and placed it against Kiara’s back, among the hundred others already there. Leus sat in the shadows on a chair, his eyes flashed silver. He signaled for the scrawny man to stop. He stood and walked towards Kiara. She did not break her gaze on him. He finally stepped into the light and Kiara gasped in horror. He was an older man with short brown hair and golden ends.
Ty found himself on the patio overlooking the lake, deep in thought. Hand over the girl or your pack will be destroyed. The words echoed in his mind. There’s no way I would ever give her to him. I would die first. I need to find a way to protect her and the pack. Ty felt a soft hand on his shoulder and his body began to relax. He turned around to see Azura’s beautiful big eyes staring into his. She knew he was worried about something, she could sense his aura. “What&