Chapter Four: Special Blood

As I entered the pack house through the back door, I find it was in total chaos. Many of the pack members were running around in a panicked state attempting to find a place to hide, most holding tiny children who looked as terrified as the ones holding them.
My breathing was heavy as I looked around for my own hiding place, I can’t allow this Alpha to find me, what if he doesn’t want me as a mate and is just angry because I was one of the people who set the traps?! I stood in the middle of the lobby while many ran past me, it felt like a blur and time had sped up for everyone around me, but I was still stuck in the moment.
Someone taking my arm and pulling me slightly is what snapped me from my trance, initially, I was worried that I had been too slow, and the angry Alpha had his chance to grab me. But when I saw Hadwin’s worried face looking down at me, I knew I had a little more time to panic.
“Fern, why are you just standing there, you need to find a place to hide before the invaders arrive and start ripping the place up.” He tells me but I was still in my mini worried state, whilst many of our fighters run down the stairs and out the door to protect the pack. “Fern! See if you can make it to the cellar.” He says shaking me when I didn’t respond the first time, his shaking did help me snap out and begin to realise the longer that I stood here the closer they were getting.
“I wouldn’t even know where to look for the cellar, it’s okay, I’ll hide upstairs with the other woman until the coast is clear.” I say understanding that it wasn’t the best of hiding places, but I knew the fighter's main priority was to always keep the pack house standing, it’s the main base for any pack so it’s the first place the invaders attack. “Be careful.” I tell him now looking him in the eyes with a serious expression, I didn’t need him to be reckless and get himself killed, I need him more than he knows.
“I’ll be okay, stay down until I come and get you.” He said as screams, shouts and the sounds of swords smashing together fill the outside, this telling everyone around that the invaders have broken through, and the fight had truly begun. “Go!” Hadwin shouts pushing me towards the stairs of the lobby, I only nod, my heart beating in my chest before running up the stairs to find an adequate hiding place.
My heart continues to pound as I reach the landing and frantically, look around for a hiding place. But in this moment, I couldn’t see anything that would conceal me long enough to wait this fight out. As the sounds of the battle begin to roar from the sky outside, I knew my window of hiding was getting smaller by the second.
Sprinting down the corridors that have never felt longer before, I throw the door to my bedroom open and race inside. Once the door was closed and locked behind me, it was as though the entire world had silenced, all of the conflict going on outside faded away and I was left in my room staring at the door as though a caged animal was about to burst through.
I take slow steps backwards and sit on my bed, the messed-up bed from the zero sleep that I gotten last night. I sat there in a frozen like state, my mind racing with the memories of being trapped in that cellar the first time this happened. I was much too young to understand what was happening in that moment, but Hadwin kept reassuring me that all was going to be okay up until our father came to get us. But this time, I was alone with my own racing thoughts of what might come from this.
“None of this would be happening if it wasn’t for you fleeing from mate the way you did!” My wolf shouts in my head with such anger that she nearly gave me a headache, this only reminding me that I’m never fully alone.
“I had no other choice but to run from him, I was setting traps in his pack, how do you think that would have ended?!” I ask trying to make her see that I did the right thing, even though she enjoys telling me of how much of a wrong idea it was.
“He would be so intoxicated with us that he wouldn’t even bat an eye at the small traps that you laid down! He wanted us that’s why he chased us!” She shouts but I couldn’t blame her, all she wants is to be with her mate and in our wolves' mind, once they found it each other that was it, no matter what predicament they were in before.
Before I had the time to respond and tell her how wrong she really was, the handle to my bedroom door begins to shake as though someone was attempting to walk in. But due to the door being locked, they weren’t getting very far. I hold my breath just in case the person on the other end would hear and break through the door knowing someone was in there, fear creeps all the way through my body as the person wiggles the handle so uncontrollably, I thought it was going to fall off!
“Fern! Please let us in!” A little voice cries on the other end of the door, this little voice taking any fear that I might have been feeling and throws it to the side.
Without a second thought, I leap from my bed and run over to the door, once opened, I see around four little children standing on the other side looking terrified.
“What are you guys doing out there, you should be hiding until the invasion ends.” I say grabbing hold of each of their hands and pulling them into the bedroom, all looking relieved in a sense once I did.
“We tried! But when everyone was running around, we all lost our mummy’s and don’t know where they are now!” A little boy called Joshua cries as I pick him up and place him to sit on my bed, his entire little body shaking as I did so.
“It’s okay, you can all wait in here until the fight stops okay.” I smile making sure each one was safely tucked under my duvet; I wanted them to feel even the little piece more secure during this situation.
Once I knew they were warm and safe, I smile turning around to face the door to be able to close and lock it once again, but I immediately, freeze in place staring at the open door in front of us.
Stood in the doorway of my bedroom was a massive man, his shoulders were so muscular that I wondered if he’d have to turn to fully enter my bedroom. His face held such hatred as he looked not only at me, but the tiny children that were sat on the bed. The sick smirk which was placed on his lips told me more than him talking could, he was planning on doing some awful things to all of us in this room, for the simple fact that we weren’t from the same pack as him.
In that moment, a feeling that I had never felt before in all of my life starts to spread throughout my body. The overwhelming feeling and urge that I needed to protect these little scared children sat behind me was all I could think about, my fists clenching as I begin to formulate a plan in my mind.
“I’m giving you three seconds to back up out of my room before you and I have a problem.” I say my tone dark as I looked right in the eyes of this man, I was determined to show him that not a single ounce of fear was pulsing through my body when I looked at him.
He only stares me right in the eyes back, a little chuckle leaving his mouth told me that he either didn’t believe a word I was saying or that I was even capable of doing such a thing. But I knew what this man didn’t know, I had a special sort of blood running through my veins.
“I’m sorry Princess, but I don’t think that’s how this is going to go.” He growls taking a deadly step into the room and closer to me and the kids, but that one step caused such anger to pulse through me.
Before he had time to blink, I lift my leg up and kick him with as much power that I possessed right in his chest. My action causing him to fall right off his feet and fly backwards into the wall of the corridor but that didn’t stop him, he crashes right through the wall and ends up in a heap in another room.
If I wasn’t in the situation that I was, I would have stood there for a moment in a complete shock that I had been able to do such a thing. I knew one thing, he wouldn’t be down very long as to him, he needed to prove to me but also himself, that he didn’t just get dropped kicked through a wall by the woman he called a princess.
“It’s all going to be okay; I need you all to stay right here until someone from our pack comes and gets you okay. No matter what you hear outside, do not open that door okay, can you do that for me?” I ask turning back to the children with a smile on my face as not to worry them, they all seemed terrified as they had all witnessed what had just happened, but they do offer me a nod telling me they wouldn’t.
I smile once again before turning back around to face the door, where the dudes' legs were still hanging out of the hole that he had made. With a deep breath in, I walk towards the door and take the handle in my hand, I could have remained in the room and simply locked my door again, but this angry wolf would simply kick down the door and the kids would be in danger again.
I’m the one he wants due to me sending him flying through a wall, wherever I run to, he’ll follow which will lead him away from the kids. I walk fully out of the door and close it behind me, my eyes not leaving his feet which were still hanging out of the hole.
But each second that would pass and he wouldn’t move, I begin to wonder if the crashing through the wall had knocked him unconscious in a sense. My legs slowly walking over the drywall that had fallen to the floor so I could get a better look at his face, each step cautious as I drew even closer.
Once I was just above him, I was able to see his face once again laying in a heap of rubble in another room. His eyes were closed, and it seemed to me that he had indeed passed out from the impact, my nerves calming in a sense, and I begin to ask myself if I had enough time to move the children to an even safer spot.
As I was weighing up all my options, his eyes snap open again and fall on me as I stood watching him. In that moment, his eyes turn pitch black with anger, and I knew I needed to get him away from this door, so the only thing I could do, I take off running as fast as I could down the corridor and away from my bedroom.
Just like I had wanted, I hear him jump out of the hole he had made and sprint down the hall after me. In seconds, I reached the gold banister at the top of the stairs to the lobby, the pack house doors wide open which is probably from when this dude entered.
I was just about to bolt down the stairs when my arm is grabbed from behind and I’m roughly, dragged back and smashed against the wall. Pain rips through my body as my back is smashed against the wall so hard that I was shocked that I hadn’t gone through, the angry man brings his fist up and attempts to land a punch right in my face. But due to my Alpha training, I managed to dodge his punch where his hand simply right through the wall, I used this time to bring my leg up and kick him in the junk causing him to double down in pain.
Whilst his mind was on the pain in his lower regions, I grab onto his neck and throw him off me, so I had room to move around, but his face was soon looking at me as he calculated what he was to do next. He begins to throw many punches my way but I’m able to dodge each with ease, this angering the man to such a degree that he lets out the deadliest growl. But this resulted in me realising one thing, this man had no Alpha blood or even any high ranking at all, this meant I had the upper hand when it came to this fight, my own chuckle leaving my lips.
When he went to throw yet another punch at me, I was able to grab his fist with my own hand. The look of shock which filled his face as he looked at me would have been comical in a sense, but I only smirk using my strength to squeeze his hand where I heard many of the bones cracking underneath my fingers. He screams out in pain, this allowed me to grab his arm and twist until I heard another crack, my action caused him to knell on the floor in pain allowing me to kick him straight in the head, this sending him flying into the wall and this time, going fully unconscious.
I should have used the time which I had to calm down and head back to the children, but when I turned my head and saw yet another man stood by the doorway, my heart sunk but also, started to beat and a hundred miles an hour all at the same time.
We soon lock eyes once again where a smirk filled his expression, I hadn’t taken much notice of the door during the fight, but I could see he had witnessed the ending. I shake my head taking a step backwards not breaking eye contact, I needed to run and fast to lose him again. With that thought, I turn around and take off running down the hall as fast as I could, such adrenaline pulses through my body as I ran down the hall so quickly each door and painting were a blur.
I didn’t have a clue if he was behind me at all, but that didn’t matter, I needed out of this pack house so I could find a place to hide within the battle or perhaps even find the cellar. I soon reach the second staircase to the pack house and run so fast down; it was as though I was flying in a sense.
A sense of relief pulses through my body once I saw the back door, to me the door symbolised freedom and only pushed me to run even faster. But when I was close enough that I could have grasped it in my fingers, arms wrap around my waist sending immense sparks to spread throughout my entire being and I’m pulled back into a hard toned chest.
A shiver runs throughout my body when this mystery person leans down to my ear and whispers, his hot breath fanning my ear allowing my body to begin to pulse a slightly with desire.
“Where do you think you’re going little mate?” His deep voice asks me, his voice alone causing my body to scream at me to melt into him
I was now in his trap.