Chapter One

{{ Run baby girl RUN! no matter what you hear or see do not deviate from the path, do not look back! run to the warp hole and keep running after you get through until you get to sanctuary you hear me?! }} (( yes papa but what about you? )) I sob looking at my father’s face which softens as I ask that question {{ don't worry little one papa will be right here with you, always! }} he scooped me up and planted a kiss on my forehead before setting me down and tying a rope around my wrist as well as my siblings {{ to keep you from getting separated, Raven you know the way, remember it and do not stop okay?! now go! }} 

We are engulfed in silver light and pushed from within the walls of the castle out into the Divination forest and land in the center of our pack member with my father at the back of the pack and my mother right beside him, I can hear the sounds of our pack land being raided and destroyed not too far away, my father’s voice echoes through our minds ** GO!** and we all immediately take off running towards the emergency dimension warp running in formation at full speed.

My heartbeat picks up as we run with all our might, my lungs are on fire as howls and growls that do not belong to our pack members are heard all around of, they're after us, they are chasing us through the forest, I guess they picked up on our scents moving away from the pack lands and began their pursuit, what do we do? what do we do? "" ahh "" I turn and look a female pack member is under attack, she got picked off the formation and is being dragged away screaming with all her might, but no one stops or even slows to help her ** RAVEN! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! KEEP GOING! ** he knows me too well, I'm sure I can help her, I begin to slow down and glance over to the direction that she was dragged.

** Raven don't! if you break formation, you will put all of us at risk! because the others will break formation to protect you! Keep GOING! ** I once again pick up the pace obeying my father’s words and taking heed because I know he's right, the other would naturally want to protect me even if it costs them their lives and that is a risk and a burden I will not take so recklessly.

Almost there! just a bit further and we'd be safe forever! ** yelp ** my father goes flying and two rabid weres' surround him gnashing their teeth as they circle him, oh Goddess! not my dad! ** KEEP GOING RAVEN! ** I run with them to the warp and watch as they run through down to my last sibling, my mother is at the entrance and turns looking at me {{ he's hurt, I need to go to him }} [[ no mom, you'd be killed as well ]] {{ so be it! I rather share his fate than live miserably without him }} she turned to run back to him and I grab her and push her through the warp and run back to my dad.

**AWWOOOOO!** the pained cries of my father’s wolf reach my ears and I pick up the pace to get to him in time, I slide down and come up in between where they have him surrounded and release my ice shards killing them all instantly, I grab my dad who has since turned back into his human form and unconscious and throw him over my shoulders and ran like hell back to the warp, I placed him down collapsed the tunnel entrance and went through with my father in tow.

The others are gathered at the exit when he falls through and my mother is a crying mess when she sees me with her unconscious mate, she runs over to us and takes him from me and sets him down on the forest floor using her power to seal his wounds, I turn and dissolve the warp completely so no one else would be able to get through or find us here.

I turn and looked at my people and smiled [[ we can't stay here in the open like this, let us continue on to the sanctuary where we can rest and properly heal our Alpha ]] ** we shall hear and obey Raven ** my father was placed on a make shift stretcher and lifted through the everglades towards the sanctuary.

There is no way the world would be able to find us here and hopefully they'd come to forget us thinking that we perished along with the pack land and territory, there is certainly no way that those vicious Blood Hunters would ever admit to their prey escaping them with only one being captured and taken away while the others disappeared into the night.

Kai POV

{{ Mommmmmmm! come on! we've been over this I am much too old to go shopping with you, that's so not cool mom, please don't make me }} she turned her head slightly to the left as she always does when she's about to make a snide comment then squints as she always does as well " well then, look at you Mr. Kai Sloan, all big and bad and too hot to go hang out with his old lady huh? am I not cool enough for you anymore huh? are you trying to hurt your mothers feelings Kai? " She went on and on as she circled me making her comments sigh, it's all too weird to go out with this woman and having people mistaking her for my sister or worse my girlfriend, there was even one time one dude wrote down his number while I stepped away from her to hit the jon and asked her to call him when she's free.

My loving mother thought it'd be funny to bring the paper home to my loving father to show him that she still got it and I quote ** these young men’s seem to think she's a tall glass of water ready to drink ** can you guess what my dad did? he tracked the dude down himself, beat the shit out of him and covered his hospital bills and medication costs PLUS banned my mother for the longest time from going into the human part of the territory which she obviously never listened and did whatever she pleased, I mean it's not he can beat her in any way or form, you know Mystic and all that jazz.

Dad doesn't have the kind of time he used to seeing as he started two different companies and mom started four and gave them to others to manage for her as she likes to have free time for us and for herself, her two favorites is her Art Gallery and her Tech company, she always has the Jewelry business and a clothing store, she's hoping to hand them over to whoever my mate would be to continue running them and my father would hand over his companies to me and pack as well naturally, the pressure is high but they've been showing me the ropes for a long time so it's all good, I currently work as dads apprentice studying under him, we share an office so I can see his day to day schedule and man is it nuts! the good part is he works in the company headquarters for half day as CEO and the other half is spent at the packhouse office being Alpha and doing his Alpha duties which leaves me to run the office for the latter part of the day.

My dad built the companies in the human side of the city where it'd stand a better chance of flourishing, my mom assisted with the IT and marketing side of it until they got on their feet and hired people to take over from her, they do make the perfect duo I must admit, sigh.

I on the other hand am approaching age Twenty Three and have yet to find my mate, father keeps badgering me about me not making the extra effort to go out looking for it while my mom is saying I can take my time and do things I want to do in terms of traveling and whatever before I get a mate then make new and fresh memories with her once we meet, naturally I lean towards my mother’s advice much to dads' dismay calling me a spoiled mama's boy but que sera sera right?

I have been saving myself for her because mom is very strict on that with my siblings and I and even Sam about it and told us what it felt like when she found out my dad had given up on her and slept around knowing that she saved herself for him all those years and I could see how horribly he felt when she spoke about it and I know I wouldn't like that for my mate so I've been waiting but don't get me wrong, these women, both human and she-wolves alike have been trying and trying and trying to break my resolve, I almost got caught once when I was slightly intoxicated at a party mixing wolf bane in my liquor to give it an extra kick and since then I have not done that or had more than three drinks at a party, much too risky.

Madison has been hot on my heels for years now, she's the daughter of Alpha Tyson a pack that neighbors ours who's Twenty One years old, I will admit she is quite lovely to look at but I do not find her appealing at all, she just doesn't do it for me and no matter how nicely I try to tell her I have no interest in bedding or marking her she just does not relent and I have no idea why, her parents laugh it off as adolescent folly but I'm not with it and neither is my mother.

I imagine my mate to be someone with an aura of warmth and gentleness about her with a kind and strong soul, a natural beauty from inside out with a decent hint of modesty, not this mess these women are trying to sell me with their overly done make up and extra tight or short clothing, something like that would be appealing to a guy looking to nip the bud nice and easy but for settling down and spending the rest of your life that’s a no-go, every time.

That aside there is this summit meet that's coming up, my mind is telling me that, that is the place I need to be but I keep hesitating on account of my very worried mother, I mean, I know I'm a grown man now and all but I just don't want to make her sad or worried unnecessarily about me being far away, I do understand her concerns given her past and all the trouble and battles she went through for our kind and all.

I'm placing my faith in dad, hopefully he can finally win the argument on my behalf so Sam and I can go to the summit, it is also a great oppurtunity for us to form new alliances with new packs and strenghten ourselves so I see it as a great chance I don't want to miss but we shall see if she stands firm or if she'd relent and let me go.