Chapter 2 - Caught

"What are you doing here?" One of the two guards at the Western Wood Packs gate asked Camila, as they saw that her white nightgown had clung to her bare body, provocatively displaying her feminine shape.

"Please.. can you let me in?" Camila begged as she stared downward, and she also used her right palm to wipe off the raindrops away from her forehead as she avoided meeting the guards' gaze.

"Thompson! Who's there?" The second guard at the gate house asked the first guard attending to Camila.

"I don't know, Jack, but she doesn't look like a member of our packs," Thompson replied, as he continued to stare at Camila and didn't want to let her in.

"Open the gate for her," Jack replied, and Thompson knew it best not to disobey Jack, else he would be reported to their Alpha for failing to welcome the foreigner.

Camila walked carefully into the Western Wood Packs, as it was already very late, and she didn't know what time it was.

Thompson flashed his flashlight to see her face, but Camila continued to stare downward as her blonde hair were already scattered and covering her face and neck.

"What's a young lady like you doing outside at this late hour of the night?" Thompson questioned Camila, and she replied, "I was..."

"Thompson! What are you still doing there with her?" Jack asked, and he finally stepped out from the guard's house, built beside the Western Wood Packs' entrance gate.

Camila shuddered in fear as she saw the tall, huge man walk out from the guard's house, and he was also holding a flashlight as he walked up to meet her.

"Who are you, young lady? And why are you out here by midnight?" Jack questioned, as his yellow eyes raked over Camila's seductive body.

Camila didn't look her age, as she was mature and a little chubby for her 18-year-old self.

"I.. was sent away from my pack," Camila didn't want to lie, and she knew mentioning her father's name might anger the two guards staring at her.

Camila also knew that they had four territorial packs in their werewolf kingdom, but the Western Wood Packs and the Eastern Wood Packs were the two superior packs, while the other packs were just underneath them.

"Which pack are you from?" Jack finally asked Camila, as he was dressed in his guard uniform, and more like an army uniform, and seeing how seductive Camila looked, he wanted to take her to bed, as he doubted she was telling him the truth.

"I'm from..." Camila stammered to speak, as she took steps backwards.

With the heavy rainfall that had drenched Camila's body, and with how her father had flogged her, Camila's eyes were fully awake, and her wolf, Ivy, was fully active to flee in case of any danger.

"Can't you speak, young lady, or do you want us to send you away this night?" Jack asked her, as his yellow eyes burned at Camila.

Camila first looked around, and she knew that if she ran away, it wouldn't take long before one of the two men would catch up with her, as she was still healing.

"I'm from the Eastern Pack," Camila announced, and that made Jack angry.

"Let me see your face," Jack commanded, but Camila shapeshifted and immediately ran away, following the street lights, as she ran as fast as her legs could carry her.

"Shit!! Run after her, Thompson, and make sure you catch her and bring her back here," Jack ordered, and Thompson immediately shapeshifted into his wolf form and chased after Camila.

Camila ran as fast as her wolf could carry her, but just then, a fancy blue car was also driving towards the Western Wood Packs' exit gate, and inside the car was the Alpha's son, Henry Dominic.

Henry was a dark-skinned young man too, and he was 21 years of age. As his father had just assigned him the position to look after their pack, Henry was still happy with his new status and position, and so, what he does every midnight was patrolling their packs to ensure their pack was safe.

Although Henry was stronger, as being the Alpha's son, he trained more, and he was gifted with more healing powers that he couldn't be easily defeated in battles. None in their Western Wood Packs dared to annoy him.

"Shit!" Henry cursed out as he immediately stepped on the brake, while Camila rolled off to the floor in fear, as Henry's blue car had almost knocked her down. He stepped down from his car to know if Camila was alright and who was chasing after her at that hour of the night.

Henry shut his car door closed and he rushed up to the front of his car, as he thought he had knocked Camila dead, but Camila had already recovered from the shock. She stood up back and attempted to flee, but she was caught by Henry, who caught her right-hand, and he felt the electric sparks from having touched Camila's right-hand, as he pulled her back to wait.

Henry's wolf form, Matt, said internally to him, 'Mate.'

Camila felt nothing for Henry, as she turned to stare at his face. She was afraid of him too, because Henry seized her right hand in a tight, possessive grip.

Henry could inhale Camila's fruity scent. Likewise, Camila could inhale the smoky scent from him, but she really wanted to pull her right hand off, away from him.

With Henry's car headlight still on, Henry saw her rising sun tattoo on her forehead, and he knew immediately that she was from the Eastern Pack.

"Let me go!.. Please don't hurt me," Camila begged, as she was slightly afraid of Henry. With the way his right-hand had forcibly seized her hand.

Just then, Thompson ran up to meet them. He was breathing heavily, not expecting that Camila could run so fast like a cheater too.

"Alpha! You're here," Thompson said, trying to catch his breathing. He knelt to the sandy floor, to the shock of Camila that the young man holding her hand was the Alpha.

Camila's blue eyes immediately narrowed at Henry, to release her hand, and just then Henry snapped out from his trance, and he stared back to Thompson and spoke, "Rise."

Thompson stood up and Henry immediately asked him, "What happened?"

"Alpha, we saw her at the gate, and she was wet from the heavy rainfall that had fallen, but she refused to tell us who she was, and she only said she was from the Eastern pack."

As Thompson was speaking to Henry, he saw that Henry's eyes didn't even shift away from the pretty young lady that he was holding. Not until Thompson stopped speaking, and Henry replied, "That's alright. She will have to come with me, because I will be taking her back as one of our refugees."

"Refu-what?" Camila asked in shock, her blue eyes widened at the mention of Refugees. She had thought foreigners were allowed to live peacefully in the Western Wood Packs, like her father had told her.

"You heard me, young lady. Now stay calm, or else you want me to torture you," Henry slightly warned her. He did not want Camila to know that he was affected by her. He chained her hand and handcuffed her hands as he led her back into his car's front seat.

"It's okay, Thompson. You can return back to the gate, and if you see any suspicious person again, don't fail to arrest the person from the gate, before you start questioning them. To avoid mistakes like this one."

"Okay, Alpha," Thompson replied as he bowed apologetically. He finally left, while Henry walked back to his car driver's seat and sat in.

Before Henry could start his car engine to drive off, he heard Camila crying, and he did not know if it was one of her tricks to make him fall for her. 

He wondered what kind of a she-wolf she was, as her blonde hair were scattered, covering her face. Because it was night, Henry couldn't properly see her crying face.

He started his car, as it was already late, he decided to drive back home to his father's mansion first.

 Ex-Alpha Collins' mansion was the biggest in the Western pack, and most foreigners believed they were fraudulent to own such a magnificent white building.