Six days passed as we carried on with our chores and routine, gathering enough water and food for us all as grams and mother continued to make bulks of her mushrooms and herbs to sustain the wolves and help their muscle growth now that they were starting to wake up throughout the day. It would only last for a few minutes with their eyes opening and whimpering in fear at their new surroundings. But each time, I’d run my hand gently down their fur, and I’d smile with care, I’d tell them that they were safe and that I was a night wolf watching over them. It seemed to work enough for them to relax their tension under my hand and calmly let their eyes close again. They were even trusting grams now whenever she was nearby when they woke, she’d reassure them, and they’d listen. Yesterday, they showed their appreciation with a happy wag of their tails as we cleaned and brushed their fur, and we even managed to encourage two of them to eat some of the deer
The following day we stood at the gates of Lundberg as the guards opened them for us, alpha Wayne was already waiting anxiously to hear the reason for our sudden arrival.“Raven, how have you all been? I really do hope you haven’t come bearing bad news”. He said as he held my hand in both of his.“No, alpha Wayne, you can relax”. I chuckled and I breathed out a sigh of relief.“Well, that is very good to hear, so, in that case, I’m guessing you’re here to check in on Leo?” “Yes I am”. I nodded with a nervous smile. “Is… is he better?” “He’s still not awake unfortunately. But we do think it won’t be long until he does. Come on, let me take you to him”. He suggested as Dante and Izzy gave me a
Once again I had to leave Leo’s side and return back to camp. With Zach still out there, it uneased me to leave the nightwolves under little protection. When we left the gates of Lundberg, I could only hope that soon we would hear news of Caleb and my father’s return and success at finding and catching Zach, and that Leo would wake up and we could all start to move forward with our lives, no longer in fear of what hellish treachery would happen next. I had also been told by alpha Wayne that Violet had been taken back to Whitlock prison with the few guards and Whitlock men that had been instructed to start the build of the border wall. According to Wayne, Caleb still hadn’t decided whether to let Violet rot in a cell for the rest of her life or sentence her to treason by death or banishment. “What is it, Raven. You look as though you’re a million miles away in your thoughts?” Izzy asked as we slowed down our pace to a slow jog. “It’s nothing, I’m just thinking over a lot of things,
After our encounter with the rogues, we’d hurried our journey to the Whitlock border, even more concerned that the guards may have been attacked now that we knew Zach still had followers out there willing to obey his orders. We were relieved to see men starting the build of the wall, all untouched as the guards patrolled and kept the men protected. Seeing them all alive and safe with my own eyes assured me that Violet was locked away in the damp and darkened prison tower. We headed back to camp, keeping a watch at our backs for any rogues attempting to follow us, but when we reached the grounds of camp, I was astonished to see all the night wolves happily walking around, tending to the chores and gathering more wood for the camp fire. “You’re all back!” Grams gushed as she came bounding over toward us with a welcoming smile. “How was Leo, was he awake?” She asked after kissing me on the cheek. “No, but I did put my letter in his room”. “Oh”. She replied, with a sympathetic look.
Over the next few days we all worked together to keep the camp running smoothly and I started to slowly reintroduce the night wolves into hunting again. I took the lead but encouraged them to use their senses. To allow the earth beneath their feet feel the movement of their pray and to breathe in the air that would lead them the way of their next meal. For so long all of their senses had been weakened and almost completely diminished, it made them feel confused and frustrated to feel as though they were learning the advanced skills of a night wolf all over again.I had still avoided telling them of Zach’s rogues still lurking in the forest, and whilst they slept at night in the cabins, I’d secretly patrol the grounds with some of the guards, then come up with all different kinds of excuses to retreat to my cabin during the day to catch up on my rest. I could see how hard they were all trying to adjust being back on forest grounds after so many years of hiding away in the mountains, an
“Stop thinking so much about it and just feel it. Relax into the earth, you need to stop letting the fear control you!” I instructed the night wolves as they all sat crossed-legged on the forest floor. This was the third time over the last three days I had been trying to help them voluntarily shift into their wolf forms. With grams’s help we were trying to use the same techniques she had used on me, to rid me of my self doubt. But for them it was fear… fear that both their human and wolf forms felt. They were feeling so much mistrust with our world, scared to let their wolves come forward, only to be left vulnerable again, to be trapped, hunted down and used for someone’s own gain.I had taken the time to sit down with each of them, trying to reassure them that the world wasn’t the way they remembered it. No alpha was coming to claim them, and Zach wouldn’t make it past me, Dante and our guards to get to them. So long they had lived without connection to the world outside of the mount
“Damn you look amazing!” Leo panted as our lips crushed against each other’s mouths the moment we stepped inside the cabin. “Fuck I’ve missed you”. “I’ve missed you too. I love you so much”. I mumbled as we fervently kissed each other’s faces and lips, wanting to savour and soak in one another’s touch, smell and presence.“I love you! I never want to be apart from you again”. He growled as he stumbled into the bedroom, his hands wandering all over my back, the nape of my neck and my buttocks as my thighs tightened around his waist, immediately feeling the arousal of finally having him so close to me.We fell onto the bed with his body on top of mine as I fumbled with his shirt, vigorously trying to remove it from his chest that I so desperately wanted to feel with my own hands. We impatiently ripped away each other’s clothes, revealing our bear and heated skin to caress and grasp onto as our lips and tongues devoured each other’s mouths and necks in an inflamed frenzy. My hands trail
An instant smile spread across my face as I looked adoringly at Leo. In the three days since he’s been here, the night wolves have really taken a liking to him, but I could clearly see why. After our first night back together, me and Leo had woken up early to go hunting and he personally cooked the meat and sat around the fire with the night wolves and could see just how intimidated and sceptical they were of him, especially because they could sense his alpha blood, but instead of just ignoring them, or probing them with a million questions, he just sat there telling us all stories that his father used to tell him. He also told them about the times he used to train on Blue mountain and felt him and his father weren’t alone. The night wolves instantly became intrigued by that story and started to remember seeing a young teenage boy running and playing with his father, and they began to warm to him. Since that first morning, he has purposefully made time to get to know them, he’s helped
I led on the cool grass, calmly breathing the gentle breeze as I stared at the clear blue sky thinking about the fact that it had been tow weeks and three days since I put more focus onto Jocelyn and Frida but there was still no shifting from either of them. After our many attempts every single day, I’d take them somewhere quiet to relax, we’d all constantly shift and train in front of them, we’d encourage and optimistically tell them that they’d soon get it, but every time they closed their eyes and focused, it was as if they’d suddenly get stage fright or something, and the more they failed, the more they lost belief in themselves. I could personally understand a whole lot about not having that own self assurance and confidence in the abilities and strengths you can possess in just one claw. They both reminded me of myself and how I once was, and it made me count my blessings for how far I’d come and how different I was now. Once the wolfless pack girl, feeling like she had to hang