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As we walked through the forest trying to find a spot to hide once again I could feel deep inside of me that there was something wrong.

There were people in here and smelling even further my wolf caught the scent of my Beta and best friend Mathias who had been trying his best to have a mind link with me.

Maybe I should have just left Mathias's mind link me he should have given me a heads up.

“Hey Matt, don’t let anyone know that we remind-linking okay?” I said through our mind link.

“Man, how the hell can you just leave without a trace and you refused to take my mind links,” Mathias said.

“I can smell you from a distance so what are you guys doing here?” I asked and he confirmed my fears.

“We are here to look for you so make yourself present before the elders use force bro” I could hear the panic in his voice.

“I met someone by the way,” I said.

“And she has lost her memory too so she is here with me and bro I think I like her,” I said.

Mathias had always been my person from time immemorial so I could always make sure he had my back whenever we were discussing something which was this confidential.

“Bro, you know that there is a bride for you and she is waiting and you can’t get married to a commoner don’t complicate things please” Matt tried to plead and then I had to make sure he didn’t look suspicious because I knew how our mind link sessions where.

“Can you smell him yet?” I could hear someone ask from the background of our mind link so I cut it off.

“Avery, let’s go this way” I held her hand since she seemed super tired. Damn women and their frailty.

Two hours into our walk to find a little place she spoke up.

“Why are you running? Is there something you have done to offend the elders of your land?” Avery asked me and I looked straight into her sweaty face her curly brown hair not in any way revealing her expression to him.

“Cut me some slacks baby girl, let’s just move, there was no way I would have to answer any of those questions right now please,e,” I said. I couldn’t use my powers for now but with the way she was slacking behind I had to make sure that they would catch up to me if we didn’t move fast before I could think of anything I saw one of the elders right before me.

“So I have finally caught up with you Alpha Karl!” he said and went down on one knee to bow and show his respect and just as he did all the rest of those who were working to find him.

“You all stand and cut the formalities would you?” I said and they all stood up looking from me to the woman standing behind me.

“Shall we return to the pack now you have a bride waiting for you and we can’t afford to keep a woman waiting that would look rude on the side of the Beowulf pack Alph??” the elder said but I had a condition.

“I have a condition to return into the pack now I would like to go with Avery here she is sick and has lost her memory and she knows nobody but me at the moment so it is either I return with her or I go nowhere,” I said to them and they all looked taken aback with Mathias trying his best to tell me to cut the games and we could handle everything later, but I cut him off.

“Why don’t we direct her to a place where we can be able to know she would be safe, we can’t possibly take a stranger home with us,” one of the Elders said to me and it kind of infuriated me because I was somehow feeling they were taking this thing super wrong.

“If that is the case then I wouldn’t return with you, go back and tell the family I am not coming I need some time to myself and maybe then I would be able to help this poor woman know where she comes from” I firmly stated and I knew when I said so they would have to abide because they couldn’t afford to delay the wedding anymore the Pack needed an Alpha because there were so many projects that had been left on hold since my father was killed by the backstabber Roland Backster who had been the most trusted friend to my dad and when my father told him the secret to where he could be stabbed and killed Roland looked my dad in the eyes and stabbed my father to death to take over and I don’t even know how he was to do that. But since I had no powers then because I had not ascended the Pack throne I couldn’t meet judgement on anyone he was taken to be killed and someone he managed to run thus earning him a banishment which he could never return to the Pack forever.

“Goed, on sal haar, terugneem Nadie pakkie en Ek hoop net by sal nice ‘n Groot problem via one wees nie, Indien haar mense na haar soek” (Okay fine we would take her back to the pack and I just hope she doesn’t become a distraction should in case her people are looking for her”) the main big elder said in our dialect which was used as a mechanism for Avery not to know what we were discussing.

“Okay dit signed” (Okay this is good), I said and he shook his head meaning it was okay for us to start our journey back to the Packhouse.

Mathias's mind linked me “Boetie, jy is super hardkoppig e nook aanhoudend” ( Bro, you are super stubborn you know and persistent too).

I just laughed and then I held Avery”s hand as she had been super quiet the entire day as though she was in deep thought.