Chapter 0004

Christina POV

We ran out of the back door through the kitchen and immediately started to sprint away from the people chasing after us.

I have never run so much in my life. We couldn't get to the car because they had swarmed around us, so the back door was the only possible escape route we had.

My legs started to hurt, and I suddenly felt so dizzy. I could barely breathe. I’ve never been good at any physical activities.

“Please, we need to rest!” I yell out.

“We can’t!” Dad screams.

“Peter, we have to shift!” Melissa shouts.

I ignored what Melissa said, not because I didn’t understand it but because the guys behind us seemed to be getting closer. I guess this is the day I will die. I wouldn’t have minded dying if it wasn’t for the vast amount of drama that has happened in the past few hours. I need to at least understand why my mother was killed before I die. Hell—I want to avenge her.

Becca looks back and sees that I’m slower than all of them. She then looked behind me, and I turned around to see that the people who were chasing after us were no longer people but.. animals. I couldn’t see them well, but with the way the ground was shaking, I was sure they were the same beasts that I saw my dad turn into.

They run like they have some kind of cheetah genes.

“Fuck it,” Becca says, and before I can even blink, she turns into a similar werewolf as my dad did earlier today. Hers is brown like Dad's. Melissa tells me to hop on before following suit and turning into a brown and white werewolf.

I screamed so loud I’m pretty sure whoever was in the mountains near this forest heard me.

For some reason, I’m more surprised now than I was when I first saw my dad turn into this creature. Perhaps my brain convinced me it wasn’t real, and now that I’m seeing it again, I can’t take it.

Melissa, or rather— the brown and white werewolf, bends her head towards me and pushes her head up twice while looking at me as if she’s telling me that I should do something and then remembered.

She had said hop on before she became this animal, so I quickly walked beside her and tried to climb on her back.

I put my right leg over her and sat on her back. I try to ignore how it feels whenever her hair brushes my legs. I’m about to sit more comfortably, but Melissa immediately runs with me on her back.

I started to scream because I was afraid of falling, so I leaned down like I was on a horse and held onto her hair with my hands.

Becca and my dad are beside us. Melissa was running so fast I could barely see anything, so I closed my eyes. I stopped screaming when I realized I hadn't fallen off. I opened my eyes and started to smile because this was fun. I don’t think it’s a normal experience that humans have, but it’s like being on a roller coaster.

I saw a tree branch right in front of me and quickly ducked. I looked back and saw that the werewolves had stopped all of a sudden, as if there was some kind of invisible wall that was not allowing them to pass through. They all turned around and ran away.

I thought if I looked behind us, I would see that we had outrun them, not that they would willingly leave us. Something wasn't right.

I looked forward and immediately gasped. Melissa stops running, and so do Becca and Dad.

There’s a bunch of men and women sitting on trees pointing arrows at us. A few of them are in front of us, holding guns. There’s one man in the middle of them holding a gun as well. He seems to be the one in charge; for some reason, I can feel it as if he has some kind of aura.

What have we gotten ourselves into?

He’s staring straight at Becca.

“Shift.” He says simply.

I’ve been with them enough to know that he wants them to turn back to humans.

I got off Melissa, and they turned back to humans. They were completely naked. To my surprise, Melissa was carrying the same bag I saw her get from the trunk of the car earlier. She pulls out the clothes that are inside and passes them to Melissa and Dad.

The man who told them to shift walks up to Becca after she finishes putting on her clothes. “What’s happening?” I whisper to Dad, wondering what the hell is going on.

“We’re in the wrong territory.” He says simply as if I’m supposed to understand what he meant.

I think these people are different from the ones who tried to kill us earlier. Maybe that’s why they had run away from us when we entered this part of the forest; I guess it was the wrong territory.

“What do you want from us?” Becca says after the man reaches her.

“Mate.” He said simply. He leans his head towards her neck and smells her hair.

She gasps and pushes him away.

He suddenly turns into a werewolf. What the hell have I gotten into, this will never be normal to see. To my surprise, Becca walks up to him and taps his wolf's head while he purrs.

Uh...What the hell..?

“What is going on?” I whisper to Melissa this time.

“He’s the beta. I can smell it.” She said.

“He’s Becca’s mate and the second in command,” Dad says as if I’m still meant to understand.

The black werewolf turns back to a human and is given clothes.

“Is it normal for you guys to be naked in front of each other?” I ask while gawking at the organ dangling between his legs.

“Sort of,” Melissa whispers back.

The man finally wears his clothes and smiles at us.

“I’m the beta of the River Bay pack. Alpha Xavier will be delighted to know that one of his intruders happened to be my mate.”

What the hell does that even mean? Dad looks at me, and I look at him. He sees how confused I am and smiles.

“An Alpha is like the ruler of a pack. And a pack is like a kingdom. He’s saying that Becca is his soulmate.” I nodded at my dad's weird ass explanation.

“Who are these three?” The man asks Becca. He speaks with his hands behind him.

“My sisters and my uncle.” She lies.

“As much as I fancy you, mate, it isn’t good to lie.” he smiles at Becca before he continues his speech.

“I can smell that the lady beside you is your sister. However, the other two.. not very much. The man is a rogue, and the girl next to him is an omega.” He says.

How could he tell by simply smelling us? And what the hell is an omega... What the hell does that mean?

The man has dark hair and beautiful blue eyes. He’s muscular but Lean at the same time. He walked up to me and my dad and nodded once, but it didn’t look like he was nodding at us.

Before we could react, a black hood was put over my head and my dad's head and the last thing I heard before falling unconscious was Melissa and Becca’s scream.