Don't bring a knife to a gunfight
“How did you escape?” Stone asked in shock when he arrived to see them getting off the Dodge.
“I knocked out a housemaid when she came to deliver lunch.” Star shrugged and tried to walk past him, but he grabbed her arm.
“Not so fast. How did you get out without being detected.” Star eyed his hand on her broken skin with disdain.
“If you’d let me go, I would show you how I knew.” She ripped her arm from his grip and turned to walk away again, but stopped, “Were you even going to try and rescue us?” Stone’s jaw ticked.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind“You know what baffles me?” Stone’s voice startled her to the point that she almost spilled the coffee in hand.“Do tell.” She fought to remove the sarcasm from her voice, but she had no luck.“How is it that you made it out of the prison without anyone noticing?” Stone’s large arms were crossed over his chest and his narrowed eyes set on her, watching her every move like a hawk.“We were long gone before they realized.” She calmly sipped her coffee, maintaining eye contact.“You knocked out a housemaid, is that correct?” He pushed off the wa
A life for a lash“You better be right about this.” Stone’s jaw ticked as he looked ahead. He wasn’t a huge fan of the plan Star came up with, but she convinced him to go along with it; the idea of a hunter creating an alliance with werewolves was foreign to him.They were approaching the Lockwood territory from the north-east side, the Warden’s house was far from the civilization of the pack which made it both easier to infiltrate and easier for him to hide hostages.“Only one way to find out,” Star Smirked his way and nodded to the group behind her, it was 21:15 which meant that patrol was on the opposite side of the border.Star and Beatrice led the group, they weave
The eye of the stormStar’s foot drove into the punching bag with ruthless negligence, the voice in her head was rambling at a mile a minute which fuelled the rage bubbling inside her. The unhappiness from earlier had long turned to anger, more at herself than anything else and it was because of that, that she was determined to dispel the ill feelings before they festered.Truthfully, her problem didn’t lie with the fact that Stone kissed her, after all, he was simply acting on the signals she sent, her anger stemmed partly from the fact that she allowed him to believe she was even remotely interested and partly from the fact that she couldn’t keep her emotions at bay long enough to keep up the facade.Delivering a harsh blow to the bag, she readied herself
Belonging is sometimes found in the strangest of placesMaximus’ eyes ran down her body searchingly the moment she appeared in front of him, “I told you I was fine.” She rolled her eyes.“I couldn’t be certain, I’ve seen the kind of damage that pig can do.” He sneered and held out a hand to help her over the fallen tree.“Good thing he never took me seriously from the beginning,” Star smirked.“Never thought I’d see the day Stone made such a vital mistake.” He smirked back.“Let’s not count our chickens, there’s still a lot of ground to cover if we’re
Avenging deathEveryone was imposition well before the sky turned dark, there was no mention of the time of the attack and Star found herself growing worried, her only form of communication with Maximus was over the phone and she didn’t want to speak aloud in front of his pack members and worry them unnecessarily, so instead she sent him a text message.Star: I have a bad feeling about this, something tells me they’re planning theattack for the early morning. “The wolves are more vigilant at night,”those are Stone’s exact words.Maximus: If we keep everyone up all night, they will be fighting fatigue as well.
The hands of life and deathThe man’s body stilled when she withdrew the knife and he stumbled to turn around, not quite registering what happened, but before he could lay eyes on her, Maximus’ figure pounced on him, pinning him under a heavy paw.Thick black blood poured from his other shoulder, but even in wolf form, he seemed unaffected. Maximus was paralyzed as he watched Star peel off her hood and raise the sword he gifted her.“This is for my family and for every werewolf you’ve laid your filthy hands on. Today you’ll die by the very sword you laid in my hands.” His eyes were wide, not with fear, but with realization. His death was inevitable.Star gripped the sword abo
HealingSpotting Landon in the distance she quickly approached him, “What can I do?” she had to keep herself occupied, her fingers were already starting to tremble and the last thing she needed was to have a panic attack.“Do you have any medical experience?” He glanced over at the triage mats which were becoming fuller by the minute.“I did medical training at The Academy, but I’ve never worked on a werewolf before.” His lips curved upwards, but it fell before she could really call it a smile.“You’ll be fine, go help them out at triage, take the simpler cases and get people off those mats. Kits are over there.”
Life goes onStar watched on as pack members threw her father’s paperwork into boxes much as they had done to Stone’s earlier. Maximus was still passed out in the hospital, so naturally, Landon assumed his duty as the highest-ranking pack member and carried out the plan they agreed on.It was all she had left of her brothers and father apart from the house and whatever pictures she had of them over the years, but watching the werewolves tear through all the work he’d done over the years was bittersweet.Part of her hated that they had to destroy it, part of her was relieved, after all, it was the very thing that led to their deaths.She thought she might have felt better knowing Stone wa