A Pack Proposal

Thirty minutes later, my wolf dropped its body on the floor as soon as I reach the door of my apartment, not because I got exhausted but because my blood was almost drained after getting hit by an arrow.

"Ethan, what happened?" Aiden grabs my hands and drags me inside. He was startled upon seeing the blood coming out of my left chest where the arrow was sunk into.

He began pouring his tears and whimpering while looking at me laying on the bed. Then I lifted half of my body when my brain started to feel the room spinning.

"Get me an alcohol and a cloth," I ordered him in a faint tone, ignoring his childish expression.

"What?" he asks for clarity. Perhaps he did not get the chance to hear my voice when I can't even hear it myself. So, I yelled at him to get me two things.

We don't keep any antiseptic disinfectant in the apartment so he provided me with a bottle of vodka instead. After taking a sip of the vodka, I sink my teeth into the cloth and put pressure on my gums.

Then my mouth and nose were in a race to fill my stomach and lungs with air. With the help of the cloth in my mouth, the boisterous sound of my screaming was minimized as I pull the arrow out of my chest.

The second the arrow was removed, I grab the vodka and poured the remaining amount of alcohol into the open wound to minimize the unbearable pain. I tried not to scream but my voice still penetrates the ceiling.

Good thing the circle-shaped silver pendant of my necklace saved my ass from the arrow as it first hit it instead of my chest.

However, it reminded me that there is no reason for me to wear it anymore since it was Lilith who gifted me the necklace while we were still mates.

"Stop crying, Aiden," I uttered before I drop my body back on the bed to position myself properly to maximize the healing process. "grow up. Your tears cannot stop me from dying."

"I'm so sorry, Brother Ethan." his voice cracked, but I heard it loud and clear. "I don't want us to argue anymore. Can you still forgive me?" he asked.

While staring at the ceiling, the tip of my lips could not stop from beaming. Who could have thought Aiden will come to the realization when I have to be on the verge of death? Such a kid.

Not that I don't like it considering he just turned eighteen yet he still think and acts like an eight-year-old kid, but I love him to remain like a kid so that he will not think and feel the burden my shoulders are carrying.

That also makes me think if he acts like that in front of Penelope, his first love. Cute.

The next morning, Aiden and I went out of the apartment together. His point of direction is to the school while my wolf is heading to the forest where I left the bike.

"Are you sure we gonna have to do this?" Aiden asked me halfway through to the bus station. We were supposed to use the bike heading to school but I left it in the middle of the woods.

And the worst part is that I miss telling him about it during our heart-to-heart talk last night. I don't want him to worry about how much I took from my savings to buy it if given the chance those werewolf hunters took the bike.

"I already told you everything you need to know last night, Aiden. We are doing this for Penelope." I said back. The two of us then waved to Conrad the second we noticed him approaching. "I need you to think like a man if you want to pursue her."

"Do you think she likes me too?" Aiden's mood suddenly changed. He thinks of it positively even if he hadn't confessed his feelings for her.

"Who likes you too?" Conrad eagerly asks Aiden. "Me? I like you too, dude, but only as a brother. Don't worry, no matter who and what your identity is, I will forever be your brother."

Aiden slapped Conrad's shoulder before he grabs his backpack and drop it to the ground to tease him. Then they rushed to the bus.

"See you at the school, Aiden!" I glued my feet on the ground and let Conrad fill my brotherly figure to Aiden. Then I waved at them before I disappeared from the bus station.

When I got back to the woods, my anxiety started to burst when the bike was no longer parked in the same spot where I left it last night. I am pretty sure it was the right spot when my eyes could see wheel marks on the ground.

I can even confirm my shoe marks. But that is not the point. It's the bike but it is nowhere to be found. And I was supposed to use the bike heading to school.

In the end, I found my wolf sitting on the bus. As soon as I hop off the bus, my wolf flashes to the back entrance where I last used to get in.

"What the heck?" could not help but utter profanity after seeing the broken fence was already fixed. And it was the way I could break into the school unnoticed.

"I'm not gonna do that if I were you." a familiar voice suddenly echoed in my ear before I could reach out to the barbed wire.

He touches the barbed wire himself which resulted in me moving my hands away. He shivered for a few seconds. "It's electrocuted," he added.

It is not the electrocuted fence that confused and intrigued me the most but the man standing beside me. About how he found me twice in a row.

"Don't worry, Ethan, I am not here to hurt you," he said.

"Yeah, I guess so. Stalking someone won't hurt me." I said back.

"Stalking, yes," he confessed before he glowed his eyes. To my surprise, he is not just an ordinary wolf like me but the color of his eyes tells me I am talking to an alpha.

My wolf knew a few pack alphas in New Orleans but I haven't met this one in front of me. I don't even think he is from New Orleans.

"That is because I know you and your little brother were disbanded and disowned by the owner of this school. Is this why you are trying to break in?" his confession even convinced me he is a total psycho.

He did not just know where to show up every time I get into trouble, but he even knows my terrible past. But I guess he is still unaware of the reason I have to break into the school.

"Let me formally introduce to you, Ethan," he added and stretches out his hand toward me. "My complete name is Romulo St. James, alpha of the Night Walker pack. I am here to convince you to become part of my pack."

"Excuse me?" I blurted.

"You and your brother are lone wolves, Ethan." he insisted. "you need a pack who will appreciate your loyalty, sincerity, and most importantly, your abilities as a wolf."