CHAPTER 5

ALPHA DANTE POV

During my usual rounds of the grounds was pretty routine. I liked to patrol my own territory to make sure that nothing is out of place. I don’t know why I do it but I always do. Especially with the rise of vampire attacks and I like to make sure that my pack is safe. 

This day wasn’t like any other day though. I didn’t catch a scent of anything, but as I heard something flying through the air I turned around just in time for it to strike me across the ribs. 

I fell to the ground and rolled to my side as I saw two vampires step out of the treeline and think they had won the ultimate prize by attacking an Alpha. 

But they underestimated me. After a fierce battle that severely injured me one of the vampires stabbed me in the chest with a silver blade and I fell back into the river with a strong current and carried me for so many miles. 

I finally felt something catch my ankle and when I reached down it was a net that looked like it had been placed there on purpose. Almost like someone was trying to catch fish in the river. But since the net had slowed me down I was able to grab the rocks on the side of the river and pull myself up. 

I stared up at the sky and tried to take deep breaths but that wasn’t working. All I could feel was the pain in my chest and ribs.

Suddenly I heard a voice talking to me and I was sure that it was the vampires that had tracked me and were determined to kill me. 

I grabbed one of their wrists and forced them to stop touching me until I heard a woman’s voice. 

She wasn’t a vampire. She was trying to help me. 

I felt her feel around my wounds which were extremely painful causing me to writhe with pain but she put something warm on my chest and ribs and I felt that she was stopping the bleeding. 

I couldn’t see her face. My eyes were blurred and I could only make out blonde hair and blue eyes. They were staring straight into mine. 

I knew right away that she was trying to save me. But I couldn’t stay awake any longer. I passed out from the pain. 

When I woke up again I was alone. I didn’t know where that woman had gone or why she had just left me here. 

I saw her jacket wrapped around my torso but it had bleed through. 

I took the jacket off and put it on the rocks as I looked at my injures and saw that they had all stopped bleeding. 

I managed to make it to my feet but I was weak and disorientated. 

I wasn’t even sure if I was walking in the right direction until a wolf burst through the trees right in front of me. 

The large wolf stood there looking at me like he was relieved and I knew immediately that it was my Beta Travis. 

He immediately shifted into human form and he grabbed one of my arms and put it over his shoulder as he started leading us back to our pack. 

“Vampires.” I managed to say. 

“Don’t worry. They’ve been run off. We couldn’t kill them though. They were waiting for us.” Travis said. 

“What about the girl?” I asked. 

“What girl?” Travis asked confused. 

“She helped me. While I was next to the river. I don’t know where she went.” I said. 

“I don’t know Dante. I haven’t seen any girl.” Travis said. 

“We need to find her.” I said. 

“Why? She was probably just trying to help.” Travis said. 

“She knew what she was doing. She stopped the bleeding. She gave me something. It tasted horrible but it stopped the bleeding and the wounds started healing.” I managed to get out. 

“That’s not possible. No one knows how to do that.” Travis said. 

“Then how do you explain that I’m still alive? We need to find her. She can help us.” I said. 

Travis waited until we were over back into our territory before he sat me down beside a tree and he walked over and grabbed a pair of shorts out of a hollowed out tree. 

“Dante. Even if this girl did save you she has to come to Alpha Kyle’s pack.” Travis said. 

“Alpha Kyle.” I said. 

“It’s the closest pack and you were near their border. She has to come from there.” Travis said. 

“Alpha Kyle is a closed off pack. We haven’t even met each other before. Even though we live so close to each other.” I said. 

“I know. Which is why I don’t think it’s a good idea to go poking around that pack.” Travis said. 

“I don’t care. I need to find her. Do what you have to do to get us into that pack.” I ordered. 

Travis looked a little pissed and worried about having to contact Alpha Kyle. But he knew that I was serious. 

“It could be risky going in there.” Travis said. 

“I don’t care. I need to find her. I need to find my mate.” I said without even realizing that I had said it.