Chapter 15

My experience on the lawn with the Vampire King served mostly to make me suspicous as well of the nature of these wolf games. I felt a renewed comradery with Dani again and her crazy ideas she would suggest while I tried to get ready for bed. 

"I think they must be taking them as slaves when they try to leave." she suggested one night.

"What would the pack need slaves for?" I asked

"Maybe they have a mine somewhere and they're making them work in the mine." she replied brushing out her bob cut.

"A bunch of young female miners?"

Dani shrugged, "Or maybe they're just sending them into the defence force to fight in the war. Putting them on the front line like a distraction."

This didn't strike me as very likely either. 

"I have family fighting there," I didn't tell her why my brothers had to go, "Maybe sending those pretty miners into combat will help keep them safe," I said saracasticaly. 

"It could be for unethical scientific testing, what if they're doing horrible experiments on them," she retorted. 

"Who? The Alpha?" I thought of my stunning future mate and shook my head. Sounds like something one of his slimey friends might do, Victor or Boison, but not the Alpha. I knew he would do anything to protect his pack and I imagined him fighting off evil scientists to protect our puppies. We would have the cutest puppies together. 

"You know what? You know what might be connected? That prophecy we hear about. Remember the one that the witch aparently foretold. If we could figure out the prophecy I bet we could figure out these games," I said remembering what the servants had been whispering about on our first night. Dani looked as happy about this idea as I had ever seen her.

"But how would we find out the prophecy?" she asked.

"Well we know some of the servants know something so we could start there. I bet they wrote it down somewhere."

Dani had a mischevious gleem in her eye. 

"I'll talk to the servants," she said.

I went for a run through the forest that afternoon. Within the confines of the Alpha's mansion I was surrounded by luxury, but I just couldn't shake the constant feeling that someone was watching me all the time. I really needed some time to myself to run as fast as I could through the brisk November air and howl and feel free. 

Through the bare branches of the trees I spotted a buck. He looked a little skinny and weak for a buck, in a way he was the perfect prey. I stalked him slowly inching closer. Wolves rarely hunt alone so it takes some changing of traditional techniques to pull it off. I climbed my way into a boulder giving me a height advantage and before the poor thing had time to run I had leapt onto his back. Delicious blood filled my mouth and I ripped hungrily into his flesh. The complex meals the cooks were making us every night were good, but they just can't compare with having your meal raw and fresh. I had all I could eat and left the remains behind for the vultures. It seemed rude to drag a half eaten carrcass through the Alpha's well manicured gardens. Even though it should be expected, we are all carnivores after all.

I was feeling a good bit more satisfied and relaxed when I returned to my cabin as they late afternoon sun lowered itself in the gray sky. I heard noise from within the cabin and froze. Had Dani spoken too freely and been caught? Are we in trouble? I stood on my hind legs and put my front paws against the window sill to peak inside. 

Dani was inside naked talking to another werewolf in human form that I recognized at someone who worked here. He had messy dark hair, bronze skin, and a well muscled body that strained against the bonds where Dani had tied him up and leaned him against the wall. 

Oh no, she had gotten herself in too deep this time. I rushed to the door and closed and locked it behind me so nobody could enter and see the trouble we had got ourselves in.