After dinner I followed Elias up to the bedroom that was going to be mine for the foreseeable future. I looked at the various paintings and pictures that were on the wall, clearly near original to the house. Farmers and their families, large families. Families that just continued to grow and grow as each woman had five kids and they all have five kids. Then all of the sudden it just stopped as we neared the top of the stairs. There was an old picture, not nearly as old as the others this one had color to it and wasn’t browning. There were three kids in the picture they were hanging on each other and looked like they had just gotten back from some camping trip together. Three kids, out of all of those people three kids were all that were left? “Something wrong?” Elias turned back to me as I paused at the last picture. “Is this my dad?” He moved over my shoulder and looked at the picture. “I think so, looks like Rose in the middle, that’s Andre’s dad, Claude, on the left.
“Deserve it?” I laughed back wiping the tears from my face. “The only thing I deserve is to be alone. I don’t deserve any kindness your pack has to offer.” They aren’t offering it. Elias whispered and I felt a daring rumble of a growl in his chest, I’m ordering it. You owe this pack, and me nothing. I owe you a new life and happiness. Please let me give it to you. Tell me how I can make it right? It was almost ethereal the way the moon shined through the trees raining light down onto Elias’s back. It looked like it caused him to close his eyes and I felt him relax. The truth was it couldn’t be made right. If we could go back in time so that none of this happened then everything would be fine. Reflexively I started to stroke his head. My hand rubbed backward patting down his ears further causing him to flatten out. Looking down at him I couldn’t help but see him in his human form. That black hair carelessly hanging just barely into his face. Damn, he was attractive even in my mem
I jumped back to my feet quickly and snarled with as much of my pure wolf hatred I could at the two of them. Who’s watching Freya if you’re both here? Wow, Oliver looked to Andre, I guess we really messed up leaving the future of our pack completely alone in that house with no one to watch her. Andre nodded and answered back sarcastically, we’re absolute idiots it would seem. Then he turned back to me with an eye roll, Rose and her are talking so just relax okay. We’re going to have a serious talk now. That is if you can catch us. Oliver laughed and darted off to the left as Andre took to the right. Seriously? I yelled back to both of them, we’re not kids anymore this is ridiculous! That’s when Andre came at me once more from the side crashing into me. He didn’t send me flying back since I was ready but he knew he hit me right where that monster had left its mark hours ago. Run, I growled and gave him a three second head start. They met back up together at the edge of the
I was the reason her life was ruined. She wasn't wrong, I could have let her go. Why was it so hard for me to let her go? Why was I allowing my goddess to convince me to treat her this way? Maybe she was right, my goddess wouldn't have wanted this for my mate. I left through the back door making sure to throw the clothes I had borrowed onto the bench in the mudroom. I jumped from the backporch onto the ground landing as a wolf. I knew these woods better than anyone, I spent more time here than the average pack member at least. I just needed some time away. I found it easier to think as a wolf the world was less complicated. 11 years ago -Elias I hadn't made it far, I didn’t know which direction I was going and I didn't think it mattered anyway. It’s not like I had anywhere to go. I think Lucien was certain he had found a loophole to making Oliver alpha and he was fine if I never came back. He could tell them I ran away and all of the sudden I wasn’t anyone’s problem anymore.
He was silent the entire walk back to town. He refused to look at me, didn’t talk. He continued staring downward like he was taking me to my death. Maybe he was, but I certainly had a higher chance out there than in this place. I felt his heart breaking with each step like he had to keep convincing himself that he could reject me. On some level I understood it was going to hurt him, but it would fade. Andre even said so. He’d be okay. He’d find someone better than me. He’d find someone who was a werewolf and he’d be better. Even if at this moment I didn’t want him to find someone else, I wanted him to choose me I wanted him to fight for me, I knew it was just that stupid goddess. Inari, I sighed looking up at the sky, he was known as the false moon, the trickster, I needed him to step in I needed him to stop this moon goddess. She was going to get me killed. “You’ll take my car and get out of town. Don’t worry about returning it, I don’t use it anyway.” Elias was speaking so l
She was infuriating. That was it. I kept seeing little bits here and there of something that could have been with us, but now she has endangered my pack. She nearly got Andre killed, and that fucking thing, however unnatural it was clearly was after her. I needed to cut ties with her. She wanted it, and after everything, maybe she was right. We were too different. Then she had to go and stake claim to me. It caused me to let my guard down while fighting and nearly get torn in half, which was my mistake. Oliver saw it with his own eyes, she put down that line, and she warned Chloe not to cross it. I never thought someone could feel that strongly about me. Of course, then it ended. She was as changing as the fucking tide. One moment, she was in heat over me, then she tried to run away. Then she claimed me as hers with that very clear signal, and when she lunged for me like I was on my last breath, I thought I was going to collapse into her arms. But she ran away from me, she hid fro