Elias POV 'Elias? Chilli?' Erin's sounds in our head as Chilli leads me away to the right,'Keep going!' I tell them before turning back to look at Chilli, "Chilli? Where are we going?" But she just Shhhes me as she replies in my head, letting go of my hand,'Come on!' She tells me as she pick up the pace, 'Chilli?' I hiss, easily keeping up with her, 'what's going on?' 'This way,' she tells me, 'we'll cut him off!' Him? I think to myself, him? But my mind doesn't get a chance to dwell on it for long when a blurr in the far distant sprints between the trees. Our wolf instincts kick in and take over as we bare down and sprint full pelt after it not needing to say another word. Neither of us holding back as we keep up with each other. The closer we get more, the more I can smell the beast, and it is indeed the creature from before. I continue to follow Chilli's lead as she weaves and jumps around the trees and roots of the forest as I talk to the other

Elias POV "Shit!" I swear under my breath as I feel Chilli's consciousness start to fade "stay with me!" I tell her just before she suddenly goes limp in the seat next to me, now out cold. "AAARRRGGHHH!!" I swerve into the other lane before regaining my control of the wheel and bringing the car back to the right side of the road. 'Shit! What the fuck was that?!' I momentarily think to myself for a split of a second as the realisation hits me that Chilli has been holding back her true pain from me since we got close to the car, but now, with her unconscious, I can feel it all. "Fuck!" I grunt between gritted teeth as I struggle to fight to stay focused on the road and getting us to the hospital in one piece. Thankfully we are so close and within minutes I turn into the hospital car park and come to a screeching holt out side the main doors. Throwing my door open and leaping over the heated bonnet of the car to retrieve Chilli's lifeless body. Abandoning the car I rush

Elias POV After the longest pause ever, doctor Jones thankfully agrees to let me see her, but only me to Erin's and Leroy's dismay. They lead me through the double doors the doctor I thought was a nurse stopped me at earlier, as my heart pounds painfully in my chest. As soon as we get close I can sence which room she is in as my breath hitches. Doctor Mills pushes the door open for me to enter Chilli's room as two male nurses look so shocked to see me, I catch her nodding at them in the corner of my eye as they bow there heads before stepping slowly away from the bed and leaving the room. But my eyes and attention is transfixed to the beautiful woman laying soundlessly on it. "Chilli," I whisper so softly under my breath, hesitantly reaching out to touch her skin and take her hand in mine. The warmth of her skin shocks me as her face is so pale, I thought she would feel cold to the touch, as my eyes well up as the heat from her hand fills me with the reassurance

The drive to school is a pretty normal one, we talk, sing and laugh all the way there, forgetting about any and all problems the day may have already brought. Once there and out of the car, we all walk hand in hand with Marcus in the middle, through the blue painted gates."Luna," the teacher on the gate addresses me with a nod of the head, as does any other adult that comes into eye contact with me. I smile back and return their nods.Like always, even though we come to Lily's class room first, we walk Marcus around to his first at her insistence, she says its part of her job to look out for him to make sure herself she sees him to his door. It warms my heart the care and love they have for each other. As I kiss my son goodbye and he hugs his sister, I take note of the other high ranking children from other packs, sitting at their tables ready for the lessons to begin. Future alpha's, beta's and Luna's all learning together including Tammy and Willow, Erin and Leroy's twins who are a

"I hear some incorrect information has reached the ears of my children," "Oh, and what's that got to do with us? Idle gossip is not what these meetings are for." "No, not normally, but," she pauses for the briefest of moments to adjust her tone and the ferocity of her words, "but when it comes to petty, stupid, horrible lies about my family, my children, then you and I have a problem! A big problem!" He nearly chuckles in her face as he asks half heartedly,"Pray tell what are these so called insults?""A spare heir, a baby," she lists off the tamer ones first, working up to the biggest and worst one, before she stops again as I feel a heat burning off of her directed straight at Jorden, "and an inbreed!" The room falls silent after everyone gasps and shoot death stares at the alpha. A low growl escapes from mine, Erin and Leroy throats, our protectiveness taking over. Jordan looks like he doesn't know weather to laugh or bite back."Jordan!" One of the ot