Chapter 7 New Pack

We drove for what felt like hours and hours with no end in sight. Many times I woke up and then dozed off again but dad kept on driving the car on unknown roads in the woods, at least they were unknown to me. He seemed to have no difficulty navigating through them.

The whole way my mom kept glancing backward as though she was expecting the chase or she was afraid that someone was following us. I saw fear in her eyes.

It was unusually quiet in the car and I hated it. My parents were always chatting even in the worst of times but now just silence.

“Mom…I…” I tried to say something but my mother shoot me a serious look which meant only one thing…..to be quiet. So I simply decided to sleep again as my wounds from earlier had started to ache once more.

I felt a jerk and woke up. As I looked outside the Sun was shining. Finally, we arrived at the far side of the woods. It felt nice to see light after the endless dark of the night.

I could see two people in the distance approaching our car. Dad was also looking at them. He was still seated on his driving seat, hands firmly on the steering wheel of the car as though he feared something was going to happen and he needed a quick escape.

But gladly nothing happened. The people stopped a little distance away from our car and then signaled dad to come out. He obliged and got out.

I wanted him to stay with us in the car. I was afraid of those people. I prayed for my dad’s safety. But it turned out differently. Both of the new guys embraced my dad and they chatted for a bit before dad pointed at us both mom and me and asked us to come out.

“It’s alright love, you guys can come out”, dad said.

I looked up at mom and she nodded so I opened my car door and stepped out with mom, clutching her arm. I was still not sure about them.

Finally, they came into my full view and I saw they were both huge, like huge guys. Both had white skin with brown eyes. Their hair was very long and in a ponytail, they were longer than mine. Both of them were wearing sleeveless shirts, their massive arms showing gigantic tattoos, and blue denim jeans.

They were not to be messed with. So I clutched my mother’s arm even harder. She looked down at me.

“Eve it's ok dear, they are your new pack members,” Mom told me.

“What? Is it true, how is it possible? We can’t leave our pack, I don’t get it”, I had a million questions.

“I told you we would handle everything, trust your parents dear”, mom reassured me.

Dad stood with the new guys and was looking at us and our little chit-chat. He smiled warmly at me. And I felt a bit of relief.

“Well fellas, over there is my wife and my little daughter,” dad gestured toward us.

“Meet Lois and Eve, and these young fellas are Gennady and Jose”, Dad did the formal introduction.

Gennady and Jose started sniffing the air, trying to catch our scent.

“This young one, she is different”, Gennady said to nobody in particular.

“Her scent, it’s different, her scent is completely foreign to us”, he further tried to explain his point.

My mom’s eyes darted fearfully toward me and then at my dad. Their eyes met and then dad cut Gennady’s investigation short.

“She is a she-wolf alright, not of age yet, that’s why she smells a bit different”, Dad tried to disengage them.

“Oh, that’s why, I see now, my apologies, I didn’t catch your name?” Gennady inquired dad.

“Oh yeah I forgot to tell you my name, it's Lesner, pleasure to have made your acquaintance”, dad shook hands with them again.

“Ok since we all know each other now, it’s important that you guys follow us and immediately meet Alpha and pledge your loyalty towards him upon reaching the pack house”, Gennady told us. I noticed Jose was quiet and didn’t speak a single word during the whole exchange.

“Of course, that’s why we are here”, dad assured him.

“Alright it’s settled then, follow us you lot, and don’t get lost in the woods, the sun plays tricks on you in these parts”, dad and Gennady shook hands once more and we returned to our car. Dad started the engine and waited for them to appear. And soon enough a black jeep emerged from among the green of the trees and honked at us. Our car started following the jeep deep into the woods.

“You see how nice they were, you were worried for nothing”, Dad told mom.

“Yeah, but I was not sure till the last minute, I thought they were going to attack you, when you walked up to them my heart was pounding so loud”, mom said with worry in her voice.

“Yeah well they didn’t, all is well that ends well”, dad said looking in the rearview mirror at my mom.

But I needed answers.