{ Raine }
The ice pack was irritating the shit out of me but I knew I had to keep it on, had to keep up appearances like I was human. They would definitely notice that I was healed by now if I pulled it off and revealed my no longer bruised eye socket. I twitched my foot impatiently as I waited for my dad to show up. It had been 5 minutes since they called him, 3 minutes since I realized coming to the police was a mistake, and would be another 3.5 minutes until he walked in the door.
The policeman was nice enough. He was a fit guy in his twenties who took my statement. My friend Maria had convinced me to come in about the assault and I had went along with it because a part of me thought it was the right thing to do, to blend in. But I was quickly realizing this was a huge mistake and I hadn’t figured out how to get out of here. Once the policeman heard the story I was no longer allowed to leave the building until we solved it, one way or another. I was able to convince them to call my dad and then I would talk to them and now here we are.
I heard his truck before I heard him enter the police station. I sighed when I heard the rumble I knew so well, instantly feeling a bit better. He strolled in and I took him and his scent in to my heart’s content. He was home to me in a special way. I didn’t live with him but I’d always felt more connected to him than mom which never made sense. His hair was messy and I knew he had just woken up when he got the call and had run his hands through it many times since then from worry. He smelled of his favorite aftershave and his blonde beard was long as it always was in winter.
He spotted me immediately and walked over looking concerned.
“Hey dad,” I said softly. I wished now more than ever I could mind link him. Maybe I could get rid of robocop for a minute somehow so I could talk to dad.
“Hey baby, you alright? Don’t take that ice off your eye alright, it will help,” he said it in a fatherly way but his eyes told me everything his voice didn’t, don’t move that ice.
The police man took the initiative to fill dad in on what had happened.
Earlier that day I was getting ready for school when I had an argument with my mother. She and I have been living together all my life. My dad and her split up when I Was a baby, I saw him just as much as I Saw her but I’d always lived in her house. We were just having breakfast when she snapped at me about my plate in the sink, I looked at her like she was overreacting and before I knew what was happening she had punched me right in the eye. The second hit came so fast I hadn’t even finished reacting to the first when another fist hit my jaw. And then everything settled. And everything became clear.
My mom had hit me. Twice.
I looked at her through tears and a swollen eye and her eyes told me everything, no remorse. Then all at once it was like her soul came back into her body and she realized what she had done.
“Oh no,…” she whispered. Then I watched as she ran upstairs and yelled to me not to go to school before slamming her door. Being the stubborn child I Was, I told her ok and then I left the house.
I wasn’t planning to go to school, I was planning to go to the library but I ran into a friend right outside my door, my next door neighbor. She saw my eye before I could hide. I tried to play it off but my face was broken and she was smart enough to put two and two together. She was the sheriff’s daughter, she insisted we speak to him and no matter how much I persisted I somehow ended up here in the station with an ice pack on my eye and in way over my head.
My mom wasn’t a terrible person. She wasn’t always like this. It had been a slow development recently, her temper getting worse, especially with me. I could see the disdain growing in her eyes but I couldn’t get her to speak to me about why. I had thought about asking my dad and now I knew it was time that I did, if we ever got out of this station.
I had zoned out so I turned my attention back to the police man filling my dad in on the story I had told him. Well, the story Maria mostly told him. She had heard the yelling lately, the crazy hours and my mom’s temper hadn’t gone unnoticed by others as well it turned out. My father was listening carefully and nodding along.
“What is it you think should be done from here officer?” My dad asks.
“Well, technically, you do not have custody of her, so we can fill out the paperwork to get that changed and her out of that house but we need to return her to her mother’s care in the meantime,” the officer said.
WHAT. Ok, in my case, no big deal. I’m a werewolf, I will heal. But if I Was a human child, what the actual fuck.
My dad’s eyebrows told me he felt the same, but he only nodded to the police man.
“Alright, would you be able to find the paperwork we need to fill out so we can do it immediately? I would like to be the one to take her home to her mother and then come right back here and get them filed. You seem like you know everything that we would need to do so I’m gonna trust you on this if that is ok.”
I inwardly rolled my eyes at my dad laying it on. Whatever worked though. Sure enough the policeman had a small shy smile form on his face and then puffed up his chest in pride and said, “Absolutely, I know exactly what we need to do. You drop her off and I will have the forms ready for you.”
“Thank you very much sir, I will be back in 30 minutes at the most.” My dad says.
“Excellent, I will be calling you later to ensure you are ok later alright miss?” he asks, turning to me.
“Yes sir, I appreciate it.”
“I’m sorry this is the way it has to be but I promise we will get you out of there soon as possible,” he adds for good measure. I nod my head gratefully and take my dad’s hand as we leave the station.
We load up in his old green ford that he has had my entire life. I breath in the smell of tobacco (which he denies) and mint (cover up) as I buckle myself in.
He doesn’t say anything as he buckles his seatbelt and reaches for his phone. I watch as he sets a timer for 30 minutes and suddenly I don’t think I am going back to my house. I watch his eyes as they start the timer, glance at the clock and then back over to me finally.
“Are you ok? Emotionally?” he asks.
I shrug. “Ish. Im more confused than anything. Not sure what I did. Its been getting worse and worse lately.”
He sighs a deep sigh and rubs his hand over his face before putting the truck in drive and turning on the main road.
“You should have told me Raine, when it first started. I’m sorry if you feel like you aren’t good enough to her, because that isn’t what it is, alright? She loves you. And that is the only thing that has kept her sane this long.”
I stared at him. He was hiding something, everything. He… knew this would happen? How..? I opened my mouth to ask but stopped when I realized we were not headed to my house. I was right, we aren’t going back.
I hope you enjoy the book! About half way through, chapter 44, the chapters will get longer, please forgive me for chapters 41 and 42, they were an accident to be that short! Comments and follows are appreciated, I hope you like it.
“I have a lot to tell you, Raine. And I want to start by apologizing for not telling you sooner. But your mother insisted and as long as you were safe with her I had no reason to. Everything is going to take awhile to get out in the open and sort through but first I need you to understand two things. Number one, Your mother loves you more than anything in this world. And number two, you cannot go home or she will hurt you much worse than she did today.” I felt my breathing getting faster and shallower but I realized quickly it wasn’t panic, it was sadness. I was sad that this was the truth, but I didn’t seem to be concerned with the fact we were leaving. “First thing is first, we need to leave. Once we get on the road I will tell you everything and you can ask any questions you want but we only have 10 minutes to get out and get a good head start before people realize we left.” I just nodded when he looked t
“Ohh ok. Where to begin. Well, do you know where your mother and I are actually from? No? Ok, well we are from a town about 10 hours from here. It’s called Haven Creek. It’s a beautiful place surrounded by the woods. It’s a small town with people always moving through there.Your mama’s pack was hidden in the thickest part of the woods, far away from everyone in the town, kind of out of site out of mind. Human’s don’t know it is there, I wasn’t supposed to know either. I came to Haven Creek when I was 18. Your grandparents and I were fighting all the time. It was my fault, I was hiding a secret from them and it was making everything tense. I chose to leave. But I found myself in Haven Creek and it didn’t take long for me to realize it was where I was supposed to be,” he looked out the window as he spoke, as if he was seeing the memory play out in front of him. I glanced at the clock. 1 minute. “What was your secret?” I asked as he put his blinker on and started
Whoa. Ok, Elemental and werewolf. That was a lot to process.We continued on like that for hours. Asking questions, answering questions both spoken and unspoken. A Part of me felt betrayed, there was so much I didn’t know about my parents, so much they had kept from me. But there was another part of me that felt like everything finally made sense.I woke up to the sun streaming in and the my father humming along. I yawned and stretched before glancing at the clock. My dad had noticed I liked the timer going so he left it as it was. It now said +9hr45min so I knew we had to be close.“15 minutes out, Raine.” My dad said, answering my unspoken question.I nodded and scooted over so I could rest my head on his shoulder. I had always felt oddly connected to my dad. My mom used to wave it off and tell me everyone felt that way about their fathers when they were close to them. But n
Oh shit. My mate. My wolf was howling, this man was handsome as hell and his scent was doing things to me. My knees were weak just from looking into his eyes and it felt like time had stopped. I watched as his eyes changed back from their wolves to his and then he looked me up and down. Then suddenly his expression changed and his nose crinkled as if my scent repulsed him. “What is your name?” He asked me quietly. “Lorraine Molina,” the alpha said, answering for me. “A rogue? You’re a rogue?” he asked, disgust lacing his voice. “Matthew…”the alpha started presumably to explain who I was and everything but my supposed mate was too busy being a royal asshole to hear him. “A fucking rogue… of all the women I get paired with a filthy rogue,” he said as he took strides toward me until he was right in front of me. My heart was breaking with every word b
The anger rolled off my grandmother in waves and she stood up and began pacing. She was ranting in Spanish, clearly fuming and my grandfather’s eyes had narrowed into slits. I could feel the anger rolling off both of them in waves. “Please, you do not need to worry, I am alright. I accepted his rejection, and I just want to move on.” I pleaded. “You should have seen it,” my dad butts in, “That punk told her she was weak and unworthy, and then when she accepted his rejection he collapsed onto the floor and groaned uncontrollably at the pain while Raine stood strong never letting her emotions escape for his enjoyment. I was really proud. Clearly you both know and like this Matthew, but anyone who rejects someone based solely on rank does not deserve Raine.” He was basically bragging about me letting the gamma suffer while I held in my pain but I allowed it. It was technically the truth. My grandparents absorbed what
{ Unknown POV } His nightmares seem to be getting worse. I cannot find what the cause is and no matter what I do it seems I am not enough to cure them. I am not what he needs, or should I say who. There is no way that he remembers her, there is no possible way he misses her. Yet somehow I fear that it is her touch that he needs and not mine. I hold his tiny body in my arms as I rock him back to sleep in his chair. His head slumps against my shoulder and I hear his breathing even out. I release the sigh I was holding and stand, taking both of us back to my room. I had been trying, with no prevail, to move him into his room. But night after night, the bad dreams woke him if he slept anywhere else. At just 2.5 this sweet boy had been through more hurt than most do in a lifetime. I tried to make up for it, I spent all the time I could with him but I was not his mother. No, she doesn’t deserved to be called
{ Raine }My dad shook me awake a few seconds before I heard a smooth voice come over the intercom in the plane announcing that we were landing.I looked out the window and took in the sght that was Spain. I felt my smile grow as my excitement did too. I coudn’t believe I Was in Europe. I’d always wanted to come here, I had felt a pull to Western Europe since I Was a kid and now I felt like I finally knew why. All these questions from my life, these weird feelings were all making sense lately and despite how much pain I had experienced in the past two days I could not be more thankful for the answers that came with the pain.I watched the runway come into view and the numbly walked with my dad through the airport and to our rental car. The pack was a long way away and we had a few hours to kill in the car to get there. We settled in, grabbed some pastries at the shop next to the rental location and then went
“May I sit with you?” I asked him sweetly. He looked at me and then nodded. I sat beside him and then he scooted over so that he was touching me, side to side. I noticed the tiniest of flutters on my skin when he scooted closer which confused me. He stayed like that, silent for a minute, just snuggled up next to me. Then he put his hand on my knee and leaned his head against my arm. I wrapped my arm around him and asked him what was wrong. He didn’t answer me. He seemed to comfortable I didn’t want to move himm but then I heard a tiny snore escape his mouth and I giggled I reached down and lifted him from his arms, pulling him to my chest and letting his head rest on my shoulder. I stood and swayed back and forth as he slept on me. The mysterious flutters were stronger now as his entire tiny body was pressed against mine. “Raine?” I heard my father’s voice, slightly pan