My breath panted and my eyes went wide as I stared at him, his brows furrowed as he looked just as shocked as I was. “Raven!”. He breathed out with a croak in his voice. I immediately jumped onto him, wrapping my arms around his shoulders and burying my nose into his shirt as I breathed in his scent, only it wasn’t the homely smell it used to be. “Dad!”. I started to cry as his arms went around me and squeezed me tightly. “You’re here!”. I sobbed with disbelief. “Oh, Raven”. He cried and I could feel his chest whole body shaking. “You’re alive… you’re ok, we have been out of our minds with worry, we couldn’t take it anymore, I just had to come and find you”. “You’re here for me?”. My eyes streamed with tears as I pulled back to look at him. “Of course, my sweet girl. I was just so afraid I was too late! But here you are…. Here you are in my arms, my beautiful daughter”. He smiled with pride through his tears. “We’ve missed you so much”. “I’ve missed you! I’ve missed you every da
“Well, we’re here”. I said to dad as I took his hand and led him along the dirt path where Izzy was stood waiting. “Where are we?”. He asked, looking around to only see trees, as he then looked from me to Izzy curiously. “Well, Dante, the man I told you about, when he fought off the rogues, he brought me here, and there’s someone I’m dying for you to see”. “Ok..”. He replied, looking a bit hesitant. I led him through the small parting of the trees and Izzy took the lead as we walked into camp. I looked up at father, who’s eyes widened in amazement, when he gazed over all the cabins, the many people that were bustling around camp, training, cooking food, talking and laughing. He looked up at the two patrol platforms to see two intimidating guards at each one staring down at him. “What is all this?” He asked in wonder. “Dad, this is camp, it’s where I’ve been living.” “And you know all of these people?” “Yes. Although some of them aren’t from the camp, we have a lot of alpha Way
I woke up the next morning, and it took my brain a minute to remember everything that had happened the day before. As soon as it all flooded back to me I quickly jumped up from my bed of makeshift blankets and wool and darted out of my room. Father was sat on the wooden bench in the main room, slumped forward, resting his arms on his thighs and his head hanging low staring at the floor. “Dad are you ok?”. I asked softly in concern as I stepped closer. “Hm? Oh yes, yes, I’m ok!”. He replied as he jolted his head up to look at me, but I could see past his pretence to notice the angst on his face. “Don’t lie to me, dad. What’s wrong?”. “Just…”. He exhaled heavily as he clasped his hands together as his eyes wandered around the room, looking at everything but me. “The thought of going back and having to tell Caleb what’s going on”. “You don’t think he’ll believe you?”. I questioned. “No, I’m not worried about that, I know he’ll believe me. But no matter what he does with Violet, we
“What?” I replied quietly in an astonished tone. I quickly took hold of his hand and dragged him away to behind one of the nearest cabins, then I pulled him in closer to me and wrapped my arms around his shoulders, rubbing his back in support as he leaned in with hushed cries. “Oh, Zack”. I said in sympathy. “Are you sure? Are you really sure it’s your brother?”. Hoping for his sake there was a chance he could be wrong, and I didn’t really know what else to say. “It’s too much of a coincidence not to be”. He spoke through his choked sobs. “My brother is Luke, and he was so angry when he left Clemonte pack. Before he ran out of our house he shouted that he would get back at everyone”. “Oh, Zach”. I spoke softly, continuing to hold him with as much comfort as I could. “When I tried to chase after him, I really thought he just needed time to cook off, but the longer I went without being able to find him I thought something had happened to him. I never thought he’d resort to this”. “
Luke was standing in front of all his men at the edge of the forest situated at the bottom of the field, with Caleb and his fighters stomping along the deserted and murky ground to meet them. I exhaled a sigh of relief I caught sight of my father marching next to him. “He made it back”. I whispered to grams as she watched on by my side. Then I looked up toward the palace to see Dante slowly edging along the wall enough to peep around and take a good look at what was happening. I raised my hand he nodded to let me know that he could see me and wait for my signal for them to move forward. With everyone now in place just like we had planned, I averted my gaze back to Caleb and the pack fighters, that’s when I caught a glimpse of a heavily bearded Leo standing at the right side of his father, and my heart thumped slightly harder at the sight of him. They stopped in their tracks just yards before Luke and his men and began shouting for him to leave. His voice was deep and angry, once agai
My father gently closed uncle’s eyelids and tried to comfort grams, who was whimpering next to his body before she stormed off and scampered across the field, stifling her sobs. “We’ll have to leave his body here until I tell your mum, we can’t bury him without her”. He spoke quietly, trying to hold back his tears. I didn’t look at father to let him know I agreed, my gaze was fixated on uncle as my heart clenched and I could feel myself screaming on the inside. I suddenly pulled myself away and trotted quickly to the forest where I had left my change of clothes. As soon as I was hidden by the trees, I shifted back into my human form. My body uncontrollably shook, from my legs to my fingers as I fumbled with my jeans and shirt, frustratingly trying to calm myself so that I could fasten the buttons. “Raven…”. Grams’s voice was horse and raspy with her tear stricken face. She stood a few yards from me already fully dressed, but she looked so lost and afraid. I ran over to her and envel
I left Caleb, my father and the rest of them mumbling together about how to ‘handle’ me. But what grated me the most., is that not one of them said to me… ‘I get it… I understand’. Not one of them seemed to see what I could see! But that won’t be the case for much longer I thought as I stewed on my own thoughts. I pulled Violet along no matter how much she tried to resist, I dragged her past my uncle’s body that fuelled my rage and hurt like someone had ripped apart my insides. Then as we reached the opening of the forest, I purposefully dragged her past Luke’s lifeless wolf and all the other bodies that were littered all over the place. She stumbled and fell over most of them, and I could hear her wincing and cringing when their blood stained her clothes. She retched repeatedly from the strong stench of blood and the sight of open wounds and body parts that had been slashed apart. But I kept drudging on through forcing her to see everything that I saw the moment the battle had fin
I ran and slept in the forest for two days after I had found Zach and told him and Mavis to take the rogue to Whitlock to be questioned and whatever Caleb decided to do with him. I had told Zach of Luke’s death and the pain on his face was just another reminder of all the hurt and destruction Luke and Violet had caused to everyone around them. Being alone for two days was what I had to do, in fact I’d have made it longer if it wasn’t for the guilt of my family grieving too that pulled me back to Whitlock. The anger still hadn’t gone, I had merely pushed it down as much as I could, but it festered and was constantly eager to be let loose. The thought of just being on the same land as that treacherous bitch and the way she tried to cry her way out of her consequences… the fake remorse, passing the blame and her wicked heart resorting to keeping Addison on her side. Addison may strut and flounce around like she’s so much better and above everyone else, but the hilarity of it was that sh