11: A Battle To Win

**TORA**

I can't shake the uneasy feeling as we start walking out of the pack house. The Alpha is weird. The way he answered our questions. He gave me an uneasy feeling but then again he ensured me that he hadn't had any people missing. The Beta seemed sure too.

And then that deal I made. I made a sacred deal and asked for a Beta favor, which should never be taken lightly. I had to make it. I had to ask.

But what is eating at me is what Estelle said right before she left me standing in the room.

It plays over and over in my mind. The way her coffee brown hair was sort of dull but fell in the most beautiful waves against her back and shoulders. How her doe brown eyes filled with a sea of unshed tears for me, because of me. Or because of the past, she was trying to get away from.. But at least she trusted me.

'Okay, I will wait for you. But I am begging you.. Don't take too long.'

That one sentence replays over and over in my head. The look in her eyes, longing for me not to leave h