Chapter Four

Erran. 

Max helped me out of the car and had me settled in my wheelchair as I looked around in total awe. 

The house was insanely huge and beautiful, floor to ceiling glass windows, marble steps, flickering lanterns embedded into the walls. 

I had only seen places like this on TV celebrity documentaries and royal tours. It looked like the kind of place a prince lived or a god.

"This is your home?" I asked out loud

"Yes and it will be your home too from now on." 

"Who are you?" 

"I am Max Black and that's all you need to know, you will be safe here and have access to whatever you need, your only job is to make sure that child you are carrying is safe." 

I was about to start wheeling my wheelchair when something moved in my peripheral vision fast but it spooked me and I turned my head slowly, it looked like a dog, but when I looked clearer, my whole body froze. 

Two huge wolves were racing across the yard, large, sleek, and silent. One grey with piercing silver eyes and the other was pure black, like it was carved from night, I had watched enough werewolf movies to know they weren’t pets. They were predators, I had read the stories and the myths about werewolves still living in New York city but I always thought they were just stories, cautionary tales at best. 

But now I was sitting a few feet from actual werewolves, my entire body froze, I tried to speak but nothing came out instead it wa just my hands and fingers pointing at them, then they changed direction and started running towards us. 

I let out a scream and instinctively grabbed onto Max’s arm, my fingers digging into his suit jacket, into the hard muscle underneath.

“They are coming this way!” I cried, trembling, "Please don't let me die, please help." I yelled, clinging onto his arm, totally terrified. 

But Max didn’t move, he didn’t even blink, he didn’t so much as breathe differently.

“What are you, are you not seeing this?” I shrieked, trying to back away, but Max just stood there, steady and calm as stone maybe I was really losing it if he did not see them

Then it happened right in front of my eyes, just a feet from us, the two wolves shifted into fully humans, their bodies, rippled bones snapping, skin twisting, fur shrinking and within seconds, they were in human form just like Max and I completely naked standing in front of us. 

One of the men, tall, dark skinned, muscular with tribal markings across his chest bowed slightly.

“Alpha,” he said and the other pale, leaner, with dark hair to his jaw echoed it.

“Alpha.”

Alpha? I repeated myself slowly, What the hell was this? Then I saw max Max give them a single nod. 

What on earth was going on here? Was I dreaming? I asked myself, confused. 

"The perimeter is secure." One of the men said to Max and he nodded again and they started walking away and I immediately let go of my hand from Max's grip. 

"I don't want to be here, please take me back to the hospital." i managed to say, he looked down at me, his face expressionless them picked me up into his arms like I weighed nothing and started walking into the entrance of the house, I tried to kick and scream but it really did nothing, I was a 4'11 woman and he was over 6 feet tall and his body muscular 

"The sooner you stop fighting me on this Erran the better for you, I own you now."