I waited patiently at the gates as grams and Wayne spoke to each other in hushed whispers. We had decided to stay the night at his pack, but I had woken up early this morning eager to get back to camp and find out if anything had happened whilst we were gone. “I’ll see you real soon”. Grams smiled at him as they both finally walked over to join me. “You take care, Estelle”. He replied before turning his focus onto me. “Raven, it was such an honour to meet you”. He said as he held out his hand for me to shake. “It was nice to meet you two, and thanks again for the book”. I replied politely. “You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said yesterday..”. “Oh?”. “Yes, and I’ve decided that I would like to offer more help, so, I will be sending one hundred of my men to your camp in four days. I would send them sooner, but I want to gather enough provisions to last the duration of their stay with you”. He informed me, and I couldn’t stop the smile that rose on my face. “Howeve
Three months later. I stood on the platform looking down at the camp below quietly sleeping. Under the dark clear sky that was blanketed in billions of stars. We had little tents erected all over the camp for Alpha Wayne’s men that had come the day Wayne promised them to us. Only twenty could fit inside the two empty cabins we had left, and the rest of us all took turns to give up our cabins each night for the rest of them to sleep in, and tonight, some of them got to rest in my own cabin and John’s, who was patrolling on the other platform. Everyday we had been watching Whitlock closely, and although we’d catch Violet sneaking around on her phone, exchanging letters with the secret leader, there was still no timeframe of their plan to attack. Every time we thought the time was close, their leader would always change his mind, arguing with her on the phone or writing in a letter that his men still weren’t ready. The longer it went on, the more it concerned the rest of us. We’d cons
A few days passed and I had tried to make time every morning to travel to Whitlock, had seen my mum walking to her work each time, but I hadn’t seen Leo or my father again since, and Violet had become quiet too. The last we knew of her, was a letter two of Wayne’s guards had reported back to us. In the letter she had told her friend where the evacuation tunnel was and how she was planning on luring the Luna to the field once the battle had started. She didn’t detail exactly how she was going to get her there, but according to the guards she seemed very excited about handing over Addison to her friend to kill himself. As much as Addison wouldn’t be of any loss to me, I could only imagine what it would do to Leo, I know he’d be in that fight himself, so for him to have to witness his own mother being killed right in front of him sent a cold shiver down my spine. Now, not only are we participating in trying to defeat this army, but now we all had to keep an eye out for Addison approachi
My breath panted and my eyes went wide as I stared at him, his brows furrowed as he looked just as shocked as I was. “Raven!”. He breathed out with a croak in his voice. I immediately jumped onto him, wrapping my arms around his shoulders and burying my nose into his shirt as I breathed in his scent, only it wasn’t the homely smell it used to be. “Dad!”. I started to cry as his arms went around me and squeezed me tightly. “You’re here!”. I sobbed with disbelief. “Oh, Raven”. He cried and I could feel his chest whole body shaking. “You’re alive… you’re ok, we have been out of our minds with worry, we couldn’t take it anymore, I just had to come and find you”. “You’re here for me?”. My eyes streamed with tears as I pulled back to look at him. “Of course, my sweet girl. I was just so afraid I was too late! But here you are…. Here you are in my arms, my beautiful daughter”. He smiled with pride through his tears. “We’ve missed you so much”. “I’ve missed you! I’ve missed you every da
“Well, we’re here”. I said to dad as I took his hand and led him along the dirt path where Izzy was stood waiting. “Where are we?”. He asked, looking around to only see trees, as he then looked from me to Izzy curiously. “Well, Dante, the man I told you about, when he fought off the rogues, he brought me here, and there’s someone I’m dying for you to see”. “Ok..”. He replied, looking a bit hesitant. I led him through the small parting of the trees and Izzy took the lead as we walked into camp. I looked up at father, who’s eyes widened in amazement, when he gazed over all the cabins, the many people that were bustling around camp, training, cooking food, talking and laughing. He looked up at the two patrol platforms to see two intimidating guards at each one staring down at him. “What is all this?” He asked in wonder. “Dad, this is camp, it’s where I’ve been living.” “And you know all of these people?” “Yes. Although some of them aren’t from the camp, we have a lot of alpha Way
I woke up the next morning, and it took my brain a minute to remember everything that had happened the day before. As soon as it all flooded back to me I quickly jumped up from my bed of makeshift blankets and wool and darted out of my room. Father was sat on the wooden bench in the main room, slumped forward, resting his arms on his thighs and his head hanging low staring at the floor. “Dad are you ok?”. I asked softly in concern as I stepped closer. “Hm? Oh yes, yes, I’m ok!”. He replied as he jolted his head up to look at me, but I could see past his pretence to notice the angst on his face. “Don’t lie to me, dad. What’s wrong?”. “Just…”. He exhaled heavily as he clasped his hands together as his eyes wandered around the room, looking at everything but me. “The thought of going back and having to tell Caleb what’s going on”. “You don’t think he’ll believe you?”. I questioned. “No, I’m not worried about that, I know he’ll believe me. But no matter what he does with Violet, we
“What?” I replied quietly in an astonished tone. I quickly took hold of his hand and dragged him away to behind one of the nearest cabins, then I pulled him in closer to me and wrapped my arms around his shoulders, rubbing his back in support as he leaned in with hushed cries. “Oh, Zack”. I said in sympathy. “Are you sure? Are you really sure it’s your brother?”. Hoping for his sake there was a chance he could be wrong, and I didn’t really know what else to say. “It’s too much of a coincidence not to be”. He spoke through his choked sobs. “My brother is Luke, and he was so angry when he left Clemonte pack. Before he ran out of our house he shouted that he would get back at everyone”. “Oh, Zach”. I spoke softly, continuing to hold him with as much comfort as I could. “When I tried to chase after him, I really thought he just needed time to cook off, but the longer I went without being able to find him I thought something had happened to him. I never thought he’d resort to this”. “
Luke was standing in front of all his men at the edge of the forest situated at the bottom of the field, with Caleb and his fighters stomping along the deserted and murky ground to meet them. I exhaled a sigh of relief I caught sight of my father marching next to him. “He made it back”. I whispered to grams as she watched on by my side. Then I looked up toward the palace to see Dante slowly edging along the wall enough to peep around and take a good look at what was happening. I raised my hand he nodded to let me know that he could see me and wait for my signal for them to move forward. With everyone now in place just like we had planned, I averted my gaze back to Caleb and the pack fighters, that’s when I caught a glimpse of a heavily bearded Leo standing at the right side of his father, and my heart thumped slightly harder at the sight of him. They stopped in their tracks just yards before Luke and his men and began shouting for him to leave. His voice was deep and angry, once agai