DianaThe day had passed in the blink of an eye and the sun was setting. I'd been unconscious for most of it and then spent the remaining few hours of the late afternoon talking with Bonnie and Gavin.Bonnie had proudly announced that she had made the car journey back in just under four hours. She must have drove like a bat out of hell! Bonnie stayed with me that night after Gavin left. I felt more tired than usual so we ate dinner and went to our rooms. I was glad to be alone with my thoughts after everything that had happened. I desperately wanted to see my mom but Gavin had assured me she was fine. I walked into my bathroom and stood in front of the mirror to examine my face. I checked my teeth - again and then looked deep into my eyes looking for my wolf.Nothing.I got into bed, my thoughts of Hunter and the day's events swirling round my mind. My phone gently vibrates and I glance at the screen. A message from Hunter.'I can't stop thinking about you, I will be with you as so

BonnieI watch her, following from a distance as she walks away from the village. My heart breaks for her all over again - like before. She stops and stands there for a few seconds, her back facing me. She throws her head up and screams. It's a fierce scream full of anguish and pain and it makes me sob to see her like this. She screams until she has no breath left and falls to her knees. She stays on her knees for a while and I watch making sure she's ok. I hear her heartbeat slow down to a normal pace and relief washes over me. She's calming down. Slowly she stands back up. I watch her for a few minutes before deciding to move closer. I inch closer and closer and she doesn't move from her position, ignoring me completely. The spring sunshine has disappeared and dark clouds loom overhead threatening rain. Diana still stands there, her dress flowing round her legs with the wind. Her long hair whipping around her body like a cloak. Hours pass before I decide to approach her.

DianaWe walk slowly back to my house hand in hand. I stop and look up at the moon. "How long til the next full moon?" I ask."Three days" Hunter replies."Do you think I'll shift?" I ask hopefully."That depends........ on the wolfsbane" he says thoughtfully. "Oh" I say disappointed."Do you feel your wolf now?" He says.I shake my head. "But she's really good at hiding..... It's obvious now I think about it that the wolfsbane wasn't really ever working.... Because she was still sneaking out when I was asleep" I say laughing, thinking about how clever my wolf was. "And this morning when I asked her to take away my pain - she did. So even though I can't feel her. I know she's there... Listening" Hunter stops walking and pulls me to face him. "What?" I ask."You're right!" He says like he's had an epiphany"She's been there all along, She's been hiding because she knew you weren't ready. The only thing the wolfsbane did was mask your scent" "So what does this mean?" I say sligh

DianaWe sit at the kitchen table, all four of us eating breakfast. Me and Bonnie made bacon and eggs which Hunter and Orion inhaled within minutes. Bonnie and Orion are back to their normal selves of bickering and sniping at each other and I watch with amused fascination. How they can get on each others nerves to the point of killing each other and then fall into bed confused the fuck out of me."So... Two days til a new moon" Orion says with a mouthful of toast.I nod. "Are you nervous?" Orion asks."Not really" I shrug. A lie. But I keep my face neutral as I feel all of them look at me slyly. "I'd like you to come back with me - in time for your shift" Hunter says carefully testing me."I already told you she needs to be here!" Bonnie says raising her voice. "I think that's Diana's choice" Hunter says calmly back. They all look at me. "Diana you need to do it here, the pack needs you to be here... Your pack" Bonnie's says pleading. "You don't seriously buy into this shit ab

DianaThe drive back to Hunters pack was long but peaceful since Bonnie drove with Orion in her dad's car. She all but threw a fit when Hunter suggested we all drive together. She wanted her own car and came up with every excuse. She gets travel sick as a passenger, She needs to pee a lot and my personal favourite she needed the entire back seat and boot for all of her luggage - which technically wasn't an excuse as she filled her car, making Orion carry it all. During the drive Hunter told me about the conversation with his parents. How he had told them about me and his father's reaction. That he was prepared to leave until Orion called for their mother who had calmed the situation. It made me think about the pressures and burden Hunter had to endure growing up as the next Alpha and all the pack politics that went with it. Something I'd not known since I'd spent all of my life living under the guise of a human. The closer we got, the more nervous I began to feel and I could feel