Libby POVAs we checked out of the bed and breakfast, I kept my eyes peeled for a sign that Pierce was nearby. After talking to another guest of the bed and breakfast, we managed to hitch a lift on the back of a pick up truck. Which was great for our efforts in getting as much distance covered in one day as possible but the only problem was now I fear I have lost Pierce. He’ll struggle to keep up with a fast moving vehicle, even in wolf form. I don’t want him to get hurt pushing himself too much trying to keep up with this truck.We had been traveling for a good few hours when the driver pulls up to a road side diner, informing us bluntly that he was stopping for food. That we can wait for him or move on. He wasn’t charging us for petrol so we decided to join him for a break, to grab some hot food while we can. We follow the balding middle aged man into the diner where he breaks away from our group and settles on a high stool at the counter, turning his back to us already ordering h
Libby POVI’m pushing my body to the limit that I have never done in my life. Not even when the police invaded the farm..this was different. I was in danger of immediate kidnap or death.I take no notice of the stones that kick back at my shins, the rocks that I almost stumble over. My lungs were burning from my panting but I keep running because my life depended on it. If they wanted me they were going to have to earn it. Judging by their fast yet not supernatural quick pace, these were human men. Not werewolves which mean I still stood a chance. If I could just get somewhere and hide, they won’t be able to smell me like a werewolf can. I just need coverage and a safe place. I keep running, pushing my body over the limits. Being captured was not an option for me, until I realise whilst still running I had run into an old quarry. My heartbreaks when I notice the dead end coming up ahead of me.I stop at the high wall that surrounds the quarry, there’s not a chance in hell of climb
Libby POVAnwir starts to remove me from the horror scene around us. My eyes struggle to focus, as I step over body parts scattered across the quarry ground.His arm is looped around my lower back keeping me standing upright, as the urge to vomit takes over me again.“It’s okay…ssh you’re okay..” He whispers into my ear as he walks me back in the direction of the diner. I need him here to hold me, without his arms keeping me upright I’d collapse to the ground, I can’t even feel my legs anymore. Yet, I don’t want him here. What did he just do. Within seconds….he took them down in a matter of seconds. “What just happened?” I ask him as we move towards the back of the diner, the car park within reaching distance. How did we cover so much ground so quickly… When I was running it seemed to be an eternity. “Those men, who were they?” I ask trying to turn back towards them, I’m too disorientated to think clearly. Were they all dead…“No this way Lib…” Anwir tries to refocus me, pushing me
Reuben POVWe received a tip off of in the early hours of the morning of the possible whereabouts of Libby. Knowing the tip off was as good as a pinned location with a live feed thanks to his unhanded monitoring of her for the past 6 months, I knew I had to move. Now knowing others were trying to find her from the wanted posted plastered all over the dark internet, I had to move quickly. She had gotten far, she was in the most rural part of the country which was smart. She had clearly planned to keep away from technology, knowing facial recognition would pick her up and reveal her most recent location. She was smarter than I gave her credit for.This could go possibly of 2 ways, she decides to rejoin my family or she runs again. She doesn’t even know about Father…I’ve never once had to explain myself to anyone…only when Evelyn came back into my life with my two children did I question my actions of my past. I had no emotions after father’s death, I was just glad the bastard was gone
Libby POV“Don’t you know who I am?” It’s like a bucket of ice cold water has been thrown over me, knocking me out of the shocked trance I had been locked in.Even with my wolf suppressed I can feel his aura, as he lays it on thick for Ben, Beth and Anwir. The aura of the Alpha King…the most powerful aura around…well they haven’t met Evelyn yet. She could always give him a run for his money.“Yes your majesty, forgive me, I didn’t recognise you.” Ben murmurs, head down in a sign of respect..his neck submitting to the shifter world’s Alpha King.I try to keep that growing fear within me at bay, but his presence creates that dread in me that I haven’t felt in a long time. The same fear that made me leave in the first place. I can feel his eyes gaze upon me, something inside of me looking up at him wanting to meet his challenging look. As soon as I do it, I regret doing so. A smirk forms upon his face until it sinks into a frown.“What has happened?” My eyes seem to be playing tricks o
Pierce POVI had lost the pick-up truck some time ago and had resorted to shifting into my wolf form. My wolf refused to let me take command on this, it was simple…he wanted to track our mate in his wolf form and I had to let him handle this for once. Such an animalistic urge could only be handled by the animal. The only problem with this, I had no way of carrying my clothes with me. I could only take my phone via my wolf’s mouth.Tracking a high-speed travelling vehicle is never the easiest but at least being an open back pick-up truck, her scent lingers slightly in the air. Only a little mind, if she wasn’t our mate I wouldn’t have a chance of finding a scent. It had now become that faint, her vanilla scent having remained diluted down still even since finding her again. Her fading scent takes me to a roadside diner, before it picks up slightly around the back of the building. I notice cameras covering the carpark and backtrack towards a shaded area by trees when I shift again,
Libby POVIt took me a 30 minute hot shower to start to feel clean again. Rex, taken straight into his own shower having wrapped his arms around me, not realising what I was covered in. Even as I was towel drying my hair, my mind kept thinking about the bundle of joy in Evelyn’s arms. I couldn’t think of anything else. She had been pregnant. What kind of a person does that make me…I was pacing the floor, building up the courage to walk downstairs, conflicted in my emotions. I wanted to see the children, I was desperate to hold them again but I was out of my depth. I couldn’t fight against Reuben and Evelyn if they wanted to punish me, I wasn’t a skilled fighter. Isn’t that how things worked in the werewolf world, challenges and submissions. Putting the towel down I look at myself in the mirror. My hair now like a wet bird’s nest on top of my head, as I had vigorously tried to dry my hair with the towel. The results of my hands working through my inner stress. “Libby?” Evelyn gen
Libby POVThe smell of dinner perfumed the hallways of the Carmore-Bright family home and when I walked in to the dining room to find a feast on the table, I hadn’t known this level of excitement about food in such a long time. To Ben, Beth and myself, this was the equivalent of a banquet, food to last for days. Even now my mind naturally thinks of ways to reheat this food, to make it last longer for the days to come on the farm…old habits I suppose. We hadn’t ever shared a meal across a dinning table before unless you count the occasional meals at the farmer’s house at their kitchen table, which was always a squeeze. Nothing as affluent as this. Although Ben isn’t talking to me, his eyes keep looking at me from across the dinner table, anxious in accepting this wholesome meal in a grand family setting. Our surroundings had changed from rags to riches in a matter of hours and I couldn’t blame him for questioning which he preferred. At least at our simple camp fire meals there was