Chapter 9: Caught

Gray face-planted on the ground and then frantically stood up in confusion. She looked behind her only to see her hind paw caught in a hole between the rocks and tried to pull it, but it didn't budge. She panicked, especially when she saw the Alpha run over to where she was stuck, doing a sort of cocky victory lap and then stopping behind her. 

Gray threw a fit, assuming the worst. As Judah approached her from behind, she started crying, whimpering, and making all kinds of noises to try and keep him at a distance. 

Alpha Judah wasn't trying to mount her at the moment, but the way Gray was crying and whimpering made him feel like a monster so he decided to explain himself. He shifted into his human form and stood up. He moved to her side and reached out his hand to her. 

"Look, I'm not going to hurt you," he said. 

Gray was in doubt, so she started to thrash around, snapping her jaws at his outstretched hand. 

Judah wasn't stupid and careful enough to get his hand near the desperate wolf where she could bite it. 

"Stay still. I'll help you release your leg," Judah commanded Gray. 

Gray didn't like how the hungry Alpha spoke, but her poor paw started hurting. She looked at his eyes, and all she saw was seriousness and concern despite the tone of his voice; it was because he was an Alpha, and he was used to a commanding tone. 

She'll let him help her, and after that, she could pick up running again, no problem. 

Once Gray let him get close enough, Judah went behind her again and looked at how her paw was lodged in between the rocks. To Judah, it looked pretty bad, painful and needed to be taken care of. He knew Haquihana she-wolf didn't have fast healing ability, unlike normal she-wolves. It tends to heal slowly, around five days or more, especially for a wound like this. No matter how fertile they are, their healing ability is slow. 

Right now, she probably couldn't feel it, but her leg was completely cut open, and it was bleeding profusely. Judah pulled the rocks apart to release her, and Gray shot off like a bullet but didn't get far because a fierce pain shot up her leg. She howled so loudly that Judah was pretty sure she shook the trees. He ran over to her and crouched down beside her, careful to keep his dangling glory away from Gray's snapping jaws. 

"Can you shift? I'm not going to hurt you or rape you. I'm trying to help. If I don't tend to your wound, it will be infected," he told her. 

Gray decided to give in, a game over. Well, at least her wolf did. She was hurt and couldn't run any longer, so there was no point in just laying out in the cold night, letting her wound get infected. This was the end of the line, and as much as she hated to admit it, she did need the hungry Alpha's help. 

And when she's healed enough, she'll proceed to her plan, then run away again. 

Gray shifted to get done with it. She covered herself with both hands, trying to hide whatever she needed to hide. She noticed that Judah had no issue with showing all his birthday suits to the world, but despite being comfortable with her nudity, she'd rather not have him see her completely immodest. She's conservative despite being a werewolf. No one had seen her naked except this hungry Alpha. 

Judah grinned and gently lifted her off of the ground, her hissing as her ankle dangled in the air, swaying around. Gray tensed as she felt his muscles ripple when he walked and her own wolf betraying her by being content with the situation and with the hungry Alpha. 

Gray was angry at herself, not only that she had been preparing to escape for years and only fell down on an Alpha's hand. If only for the clumsy legs she has, she could have been hiding right now, and in two more days, the game is over. 

And then she suddenly thought of Alice. She was thinking if she was okay or if the Alpha who got her hurt her. 

Gray started squirming at that thought and was rewarded with the sound of Judah's chuckle reverberating through his chest. 

"Do you have to fight me every step of the way, little one?" Judah asked Gray.

Gray hadn't been trying to fight the hungry Alpha. She was trying to escape from him, but now she was. How dare he call her that? She knows she's short compared to other she-wolves, but how dare he call her little one? 

"I'm short, I know, but I'm not a little, you bastard! And I have to help Alice, so put me down!"

Judah shook his head in amusement. 

"No," he said. "Besides, we're almost there, and you can't do much of anything on that leg."

"But Alice-!"

"Alice is fine," Judah interrupted, assuming she was talking about the little blonde girl she was with. "She's with her new mate, and he isn't going to hurt her. He's going to take good care of her and breed her, as he's meant to do."

Gray wanted to counter Judah and argue just for the sake of it, but she knew there was no point in it, not after hearing the finality of his voice. But the fact that he thought being forced by a man to breed wasn't any big deal disgusted her and made her even angrier. She did manage to hold her tongue despite all of that. 

How dare he say we Haquinahanas are only for breeding purposes? Does he have to rub salt in our wounds? We know we exist solely for that purpose, a substitute for their deceased mate, but does he have to say Breed? And we breeders don't have any right to refuse. But not me. I'll do anything to escape this tyrant, no matter what.