Chapter Seventeen

A couple of moments had passed already. Yet Derek could not bring himself any other thoughts except the two that already occupied his mind. Not long ago, all he had to think and imagine was the strange intruder into the borders of the dead valley pack who now identified herself as Sophia. But now, there was another thought seated right in his memory. It had to be the case of the man with no identity. He was torn between two thoughts. A part of him which was now the softie would want to cling unto the little time of ease he had spent in the embrace of the strange girl called Sophia while the other part of him wanted to maintain his vicious nature. No doubt that Derek was revered by all his people. The one thing people could not do was stand before him with no single traces of fear. Even a man as huge as Vieira had his reservations the moment it came down to his relationship with him. Though the both of them already had a long way behind their past and Vieira was the only one who knew a