CHAPTER 4

As soon as school was finished that day I grabbed all of my things from my locker and Asher was waiting for me out the front of the building. 

“I am sorry that I did that to you. But I needed you get my point. I don’t need you or anyone else to take it easy on me.” I said. 

“It’s alright. I’m not sore about it. That’s what we’re there for. And I was stupid for underestimating my opponent.” He said. 

“I’m glad that you see that.” I said. And he just shook his head. 

“What are you doing now?” He asked. 

“Well, we have no food in our house. So, I am going grocery shopping.” I said. 

“You don’t have a car.” He said. 

“I know. I’m gonna go to the hospital to get the car.” 

“Don’t do that. I’ll take you.” 

“You want to come to the grocery store with me?” I asked, skeptically. 

“Sure, why not?” He asked. 

“Alright. If you don’t think it’ll be boring. Because I really do. So, it will be quick.” 

“Don’t you like shopping?” He asked. 

“I absolutely hate it. And I only do it when I have to.” I grimaced. 

I then caught a whiff of a familiar scent and I turned around to see the Alpha coming out of the front of the school building. 

“Savannah.” He sang out. 

“I’ll wait here.” Asher said. So I went up the stairs feeling a little nervous as I got closer to the Alpha.  

“That was impressive in practice.” Alpha Kane said. 

“Thank you.” I said. 

“Where did you learn to fight like that?” He asked. 

“At my old pack.” I said. 

“I know your previous Alpha.” Alpha Kane admitted, and I looked up at him with panic in my eyes. “What’s wrong?” He asked. 

“You know Alpha Calvin?” I asked. 

“We’ve met in passing. He doesn’t let she-wolves train. He doesn’t think that they have a right to. They should hide or get killed when the pack is under attack. So, how were you able to train?” 

“I don’t want to get anyone in trouble.” I stuttered. 

“I’m not friends with Calvin. I just know him. He’s an asshole and I will be the first one to admit that. I hate him. I just want to know how you were able to train in his pack when he doesn’t let any females train.” He said. 

“It was his head warrior. He trained me in secret.” 

“Why would he do that?” 

“Because I was a target for a lot of unwanted attention. The head warrior knew that I would need to know how to take care of myself.” I said.

“So, Brayden stuck his neck on the line for you. And only you. Why would he do that?” Alpha Kane asked. 

“I don’t know. I didn’t ask. He offered and I took him up on it.” I said. 

“Was there something going on with you and Brayden?” He asked. 

“No. Absolutely not.” I said. 

“Alright. Well, you did good today. I look forward to seeing what else you can do.” He said. And he turned around and went back inside. 

I needed to calm myself down after talking to Alpha Kane. He actually scared me when he said that he knew Alpha Calvin. I thought that they might have been friends and if that was the case then Calvin would have told him that we ran away. That would have caused Alpha Kane to ask a lot of questions that I didn’t want to answer. I couldn’t answer. I was scared of Alpha Calvin finding out where I was, I couldn’t do it. I needed to make sure that mom knew all of this. 

“Are you alright?” Asher asked, standing beside me. 

“Oh, yeah. I’m fine. Sorry.” I said. 

“That’s alright. Are we going shopping?” He asked. 

“Yeah. Absolutely.” I said.

So Asher drove me to the grocery store and I grabbed a cart and started moving around the store as fast as I possibly could. I hated shopping and I just grabbed what we needed to last us a couple of weeks, so I wouldn’t have to come back. 

I knew what mom’s hours were like at the hospital and I knew that she wouldn’t have a chance to go shopping at any time. So I made sure that there would be plenty of food so I wouldn’t have to come back. 

We loaded it all into Asher’s car and he drove me home. We took the groceries inside but as soon as I unlocked the door and went inside I stopped, frozen in my footsteps as I looked around the house. 

I had to make sure that I had the right house. All of the furniture had been replaced. It wasn’t the second hand stuff that we had this morning. Everything had been replaced with brand new furniture, throughout the whole two story house. Including our beds and everything. 

My room was fully equipped with a desk now and a computer along with my new double bed. 

I called my mother and she had no idea what could have happened. But she said that she would try and find out. She’ll call the Alpha. He would have a better idea than us. 

Asher thought that I was acting weird but I explained to him that all of the furniture changed while we weren’t at home. And mom and I don’t know how the hell that happened. 

We took all of the groceries into the kitchen and he helped me put them away and I was really grateful for him help. He actually made shopping bearable today. He made it a little less torture with him messing around in the shop and taking my mind off of what I had to do. 

“When will your mother be home?” Asher asked. 

“I have no idea. Hospital hours are crazy.” I said. 

“I can imagine. But werewolves heal really fast so it wouldn’t be too bad.” He said. 

“I don’t really know what she does there.” I said. 

“Does that mean you will be eating alone?”

“What are you getting at?” I asked. 

“I don’t know. I was wondering if you wanted to come to my place for dinner?” 

“I can’t. I have a tonne of homework and I don’t mind eating alone. Besides, I need to cook because I always make extra for my mother so that she can eat when she gets home.” I said. 

“That’s really nice of you.” He said. 

“Thanks.” I said. 

“Well, I’ll leave you to it. Here’s my number, store it in your phone and call or text me whenever you want.” He said, giving me a piece of paper. 

“Thanks.” I said. And he turned around and left the house. 

I grabbed my phone and I put the phone number in it straight away. And then I went upstairs to my room and I pulled out all of my books and I put them on my new desk that was facing the window so I could look straight out into the woods that was outside the house. 

I organized everything so that I would be able to get my homework done as quick as possible, but I went downstairs and I cooked dinner first. 

I made homemade lasagna and salad and when that was cooked, I ate my dinner but then I put the rest in the fridge for when mom came home. 

I went upstairs to have a shower and I got dressed into an oversized shirt and shorts, which is what I usually slept in and then I sat at the desk and I started working my way through my homework. 

I heard my mom come home at around 11pm and she came upstairs at first to see me and she stopped at the door when she saw all the books that were surrounding me on the desk. 

“Wow. Are they trying to catch you up on homework or something?” She asked, her eyes practically popping out of her head. 

“I wish. This was just from today.” I said.

“That is ridiculous. You’re in high school, not college.” She said, leaning on the door frame as she looked around my room. “You weren’t kidding about this furniture.” She said. 

“I know, right. Did you get on to the Alpha?” I asked. 

“I did. And he said that he thought the town’s doctor should live a little better than having second hand furniture. Apparently he ordered and paid for all of this stuff.” She exhaled. 

“Why would he do that?” I asked, utterly confused. 

“That’s a good question. He wouldn’t tell me. I guess he’s just trying to be nice.” She said. 

“Mom. There’s something else that you need to know. I didn’t have time to tell you on the phone. Alpha Kane said that he knows Alpha Calvin.” I said. 

“What?” She asked, walking into my room. 

“He knows him. Apparently he doesn’t like him, but that doesn’t mean that Calvin won’t reach out and say that we ran away. You know that’s frowned upon in packs. We could be banished from here if Alpha Kane thinks that we’ve put his pack in danger.” I explained. 

“Alright. If he does find out that we ran away then we’re gonna have to tell him the truth. He seems like a nice Alpha. He just gave us all this brand new furniture. And if he doesn’t like Calvin then it’s possible for him to tell Calvin to go to hell.” 

“Mom. I don’t want to cause any trouble. And I don’t want Alpha Kane asking questions. I don’t want him to know the truth.” I said. 

“I know. But we might not have a choice. And we will make sure that it stays with the Alpha and only the Alpha. I promise.” She said. 

She kissed me on the top of the head as she left my room and I turned back around, looking out the window. I wasn’t so sure about any of this. We were the new ones in the pack. 

There’s no way that Alpha Kane will choose to keep us safe if it meant endangering his pack. If Calvin finds out where we are, then we are screwed. I just knew it. Alpha Kane was already looking at me weird. And I didn’t know if I could handle him looking at me with pity. That was something that I was not going to put up with. No one pities me. EVER.

I think I found my mate in Asher, and I have to do anything in order to keep him close. I can’t risk being kicked out, which meant making sure that the Alpha knew that I wasn’t a threat. Doing anything I could to stay on his good side.