CHAPTER 4

Leila POV

I kept running till my legs couldn't carry me anymore, I stopped running and looked around to see that I was now far away from the pack. I was a bit too far away from the pack.

My gown was spoiled from all angles, I could see my thighs and there were stains I didn't know I could wash off even if I tried to.

"Where I'm I?" I asked myself as I looked around to see I could see any form of life around me. I didn't see anything nor anyone that showed me that I wasn't in any way close to the pack.

I began walking back, I tried to retrace my steps and go back to the pack, back to Orion, Elijah and Henry. I was a fool to let Liam's words get to me like that. I didn't know what I was thinking walking to him. I don't know no matter how badly he treated me. I always kept loving him.

I tried to stop loving him but it seemed impossible, now the moon goddess has laid an eternal curse on me to be mates with the one person that hates me. No matter the amount of times I try to make him happy, it always turns out that he hates me.

I stopped on my tracks to notice that I was lost, and I couldn’t figure out where I was. I fell on my knees and began crying, "Mom, Dad." I cried for the first time in fourteen years. I missed my parents, I remembered that I wasn't part of the Crimson Moon pack.

It was on that horrible night that my fate changed; my father was getting ready to meet with the council. I was still four years old, I played around the house. I was overjoyed and filled with energy.

I ran towards my father and jumped into his arms, I looked into his eyes. He was my hero. "Leila, one day you will be ready to rule alongside your mate as the Luna of the Blood Oak pack. I hope you make me proud." Father said to me as he carried me in his arms.

"I will, Father. I will make you proud!" I said with a smile on my face, my father put me down and told me to go up to my room. I did as I was told, I went up to my room and laid on my bed.

Moments later I was woken up by my mother. She carried me in her hands and ran downstairs through the other side of the house that dad told me was to be used in case of life threatening emergencies.

I looked back to see father fighting in his wolf form, he was fighting three wolves as they were trying to pin him down. I watched in horror as they pinned my father down, someone stepped out from behind and stabbed him with a silver blade.

My heart froze, I clinged to my mother. She reached a cave, I recognized the cave I played there with kids from our pack. She hid me there and ran out yelling to attract the wolves to her and not let them see me.

The wolves ran towards her, they pounced on her. She tried to fight back, she ran a bit to lead them away from the cave. The wolves turned back to their human form, the three of them all took turns in defiling my mother before my eyes. They defiled her, three times I watched in horror.

After they were done, they brought out a silver blade and stabbed her to the heart with it. My mother laid there lifeless, the killers turned back to their wolf forms and began leaving. One of them stopped at the entrance of the cave, I knew he had seen me. I thought that he was going to kill me.

He turned and left, I waited until I heard their howls far away. I stepped out of the cave to see that our pack was burnt to the ground. I walked to where my mother's lifeless body laid, I shook her to see if she would wake up. Well there was no response, I was a child and I didn't know anything about the violent nature of the world.

I walked to my village, everything was burnt down. Not a soul was left alive, I was left in shock as I sat on our doorstep. Waiting for death to take me to where my family and pack were, I closed my eyes. I heard sounds coming close to me. I opened my eyes and I saw him standing there.

Orion was standing in front of me, he was covering my father's body with an old cloth. He turned to me and smiled a bit, "Hello Leila." He said with a calm voice. I felt something calm, it was telling me to run to him. I got up and ran to him, he picked me up and promised me that he won't let any harm come to me.

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I quickly got up from where I was crying to find my way back to the pack that is waiting for me. I kept walking in a straight line as I wanted to find something that would show me that I was on the right path back home.

I saw nothing ahead, except the dark forest. I kept walking until I saw light ahead. I was overjoyed. I finally saw signs of life. I ran towards the light, when I got closer I stopped dead in my tracks. I realised that it wasn't my pack afterall. The scent was different, the air was filled with rage and violence they were prepared to kill.

I have heard of what other packs do wolves without packs mostly females, it wasn't a story that was told too often. I began taking my steps back and began leaving. But it seems that my ill fate has caught up to me.

The warriors at the pack gate had gotten a whiff of my scent; they howled to inform the others that there was an intruder. I immediately turned and began running for my life. I turned back to see that they were chasing me. They weren't going to listen to anything I had to say.

I kept running, I was so focused on escaping the fangs of my pursuers, that I failed to pay attention to my environment. I tripped on a rock and fell to the ground, I was scared and terrified. I closed my eyes and accepted my fate.

The wolves were already over me, I was about to be killed. I heard another howl, but this howl was different. It felt calm and welcoming. I turned back to see another wolf coming from a different direction. The wolf pushed the other three off and fought them back.

The wolf was outnumbered three to one, but he managed to overpower the other three. I saw an opportunity to run and I made a run for it. I ran away from the scene of danger but my wolf kept pulling me back.

"What's the problem? I don't know why you don't want me to leave, we would get killed if we stay there a bit longer!" I tried to reason with my wolf.

But she kept crying, "Mate, don't let them kill mate." My wolf cried, I was a bit lost how can that wolf be my mate. I clearly know that my mate is Liam despite him rejecting me there is no way I would be bound to two wolves at the same time.

I tried to walk away but she kept crying, I turned back and ran towards where the wolves were fighting. They were walking round in circles. I tried to use my wolf link to hear what they were saying.

"I don't know which pack you're from, boy!! But when we are done with you, your own pack will fail to recognize you." One of the three wolves said not to break eye contact.

"He made that female get away! Let's make his life miserable, that way in his next life he would think twice before messing with the Bjorn wolf pack." Another wolf from the three said as they were about to pounce on the wolf.

I ran and stood in between the wolves so that they wouldn't harm the wolf. I knew it was stupid move, the three wives growled as they looked at me and the wolf that I was trying to protect.

"At least we would have fun, after we finish roughing this rogue up!" The third wolf said as they planned to pounce on us. I turned to my wolf and pushed him back.

It was my first time, but to everyone's surprise my wolf was bigger than most wolves. As the wolves prepared to attack, we heard someone yell; "Enough!!!" The three wolves stopped dead on their tracks.

I turned to see that it was a member of their pack, and it seemed that he was the beta of their pack. He walked towards us when got close to us and he stopped.

"Don't fight him, leave him to me. Never in my life would I have killed one of Orion Blackthorn's sons." The beta said as he transformed into a huge brown wolf. "Now, Liam Blackburn let's dance."

I turned the wolf, did I just hear Liam? Why did he come to save me?