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2024-10-29 19:42:56MARRYLEN'S POV
Working for Maine's Forestry Research and Wildlife Maintainance Team has never been so hectic as it has been for the past six years now when the department I work in Beddington, Washington County for, discovered a new threat in the woods and ever since then, I, Idara and Foxlee were charged with hunting this threat down, with me leading the team. The perks of it, I get this sweet laboratory equipped with state of art technology and this sweet cabin so I can't complain much.
Plus, we also get days off to chill in the town. Beddington is a small town with a population of about 250 people, which is why everyone knows everyone.
Saturday evening is usually one of my best days mainly because I get to go to DeDeon's Bar and have a nice time with Idara especially, we've been best of friends ever since the first day we were recruited, she's the only one I've ever had feelings for although I don't want to let her know so as not to ruin our friendship.
Idara had asked that I meet her at the bar.
The road to the major road is well lit thanks to the Team, getting to the main road, I see a woman bent over the open hood of her car, it won't take a soothsayer to notice that she was struggling with her car.
"Hey Ma'am, do you need assistance?", She lifted her face and I saw the most beautiful woman I've ever seen hands down, from her back, I could tell she was beautiful but damn, nothing compared to her front view, her eyes were the most beautiful hazel shade I've seen with her long black hair in waves that cascaded just above her backside, even worn out of stress which was evident on her face, she could easily stand out in a crowd, apart from her beauty, I also had this strange feeling, like something was drawing me to her.
"Yes please", just as she shifted, I heard a familiar voice I was getting used to negotiating and chasing, that voice that sounded like a thousand roaring thunderstorm, "Leave her alone, Marrylen".
XENIA'S POV
The seven hour drive was something I was prepared for, added to the fact that I had a big urge to know my roots and find out what was so scary about it that made mom dismiss me whenever I dared to ask.
Now I had uprooted my whole life on this search, also after my dreams, I have this absurd feeling that the answer to what I'm searching for lies in my hometown and I have to find it and also him
Just few minutes after I enter Beddington, the small town my mom was born and grew up in as it says in her journal, and maybe where she met my dad cause that information was omitted from her notes, my car halts and I step out and open the hood, it's not even like I'm aware of what I'm supposed to do, and I don't think I saw any car repair around.
Great, just great, a car breakdown in a lonely road surrounded by trees and the day is getting dark, as if the stress of the drive wasn't enough, now this. As I'm about to close the hood and see if I can walk in and maybe find a repair guy, a lady walks towards me, her features are more of a plane Jane, with blond hair and ocean blue eyes, or maybe it's her masculine outfit that made her look that way.
At the first glance, she didn't seem interesting but as she got closer, I started feeling like I knew her from somewhere, or rather, like she was an important part of my life.
"Hey Ma'am, do you need assistance?", She asked me, still lost in my thoughts and scrutinizing her, it was until she came really close that I was snapped out of my thoughts.
"Yes please", I replied her and moved from the car so she can take a look at it.
At that moment, I felt the hairs on my back rise, like someone was coming, I turned to the voice that said, "Leave her alone Marrylen", and behold, there he was.
KALEB'S POV
From dawn to dusk, I continued with my usual personal activities and duties to the pack, however, I wasn't still settled. It was as if my position as Alpha was on probation, like it could be snatched away from my grasp in one swoop, I was obviously the strongest in the pack, but an Alpha without a mate or an heir is sort of unheard of. An Alpha becomes one at the death of the previous Alpha, which I became at a very young age and at that point, no one was looking at me for a heir, being that I was merely a child myself but years have passed and I have attained full maturity, yet no heir and no mate, and at any point, a member of the pack can decide to challenge me for the position of Alpha.
I was told once an Alpha is born, the moon gods choose a mate. The title of Alpha of the Pack passed through my father and his father before him till it got to me, and this is the first time, an Alpha has gotten to my age and his mate hasn't come to him; Nenyia says to wait till she's drawn to come to the den as it has always been but I can't sit around and wait forever, if she doesn't come, then I have to go in search of her.
Cainry's mate is heavily pregnant and her cravings is out of this world, if I say so myself, it makes Cainry run Helter skelter most times, which is funny to watch, since I'm bored out of my mind, I decide to go to town myself since her craving today is from DeDeon's Bar and besides, it's been a long time since I've gone to town, for certainly obvious reasons.
Just as I step out of the forest onto the adjoining highway, I begin to get a tingly sensation all over my body and this is different from the one I get during a hunt when the prey is near, rather, this particular feeling is one I haven't had before.
Looking ahead, there's a small red car with two women standing in front of it, it's not hard to identify Marrylen was one of them, she's someone I've known for a while now and even had a few altercations with, as I turn my attention to the other woman, it suddenly hits me. It's her, it's Xenia, that's why I was having those sensations, finally my mate had been drawn back to home.
Without hesitation, I stride towards them and just with every step I take, I develop this longing, I could feel her develop it too, I also feel her hairs rise and my blood boils, mainly towards Marrylen, that she's close to her, I guess it's the possessiveness we feel towards our mate that causes it and before I know it, I open my mouth and in a sort of growl say, "Leave her alone, Marrylen".
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