Chapter 5 On the Run

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LUCIAN

   I crash into my room and begin to pace. My human thoughts are being so overwhelmed by my natural wild instinct I can't even shift back. My muscles are screaming with pent-up frustration, and all I want to do is attack. I want to inflict pain; my werewolf nature is calling for it.

  "Alpha, I have the cuffs," Beta Kohn says, and I snarl at him.

  "I understand, Alpha...How about we place them on your ankles....keep them hidden along with the fever? If you keep on like this, you will continue to harm the females," Beta says, and I stop in my tracks.

  I give him a brief nod, and he dashes forward to cuff the thick strips of silver around my ankles. It only takes a minute for the poisonous bands to do their job, and I begin to shift back.

   Kohn exhales a sigh of relief as my fur recedes and my naked form once again becomes human. My senses immediately take a nosedive, and my thirst for inflicting pain recedes completely. The only emotions I have left in me are grief and longing. 

  "Fuck," I growl, and Kohn nods.

  He knows what I'm thinking......I've never taken a female against her will. I've never had to. Being an Alpha pulls females to me willingly. And I've never been interested in the slaves. Only my lower males bed them. Not even Kohn messes with them. Just the third in command and below go to them for sexual comfort. And my third Ruben has a special thing for the Dany female... Maybe my pack member also has a secret. Shit. I used her...his eyes even flashed gold when I ordered her to be brought to me. I let my rage consume me, which gave way to the fever faster. 

"Millie can be trusted. Tell her about the fever, Alpha. She understands you are mourning. Combine that with the mating fever....she will forgive. You didn't take her maidenhood. She will understand that your human emotions are new and overwhelming," Kohn says softly in an attempt to ease my growing guilt.

  "No, I just made her bleed out her ass. Even an emotionless animal doesn't deserve what I just did to her," I growl sarcastically, and Kohn flinches a little.

  Millie's injuries will take at least two days to heal since she is a lower female. And that entire time she will be thinking about me and what I did to her. 

  "Tell Millie she has the next 48hrs off.....I can't keep this up, Kohn. Ever since I scented her two months ago, the need to mate has been building and building. That's why Lucifer went to get her early for my birthday...he knew I was running out of time. She isn't a wolf, so she won't have a heat...My rage keeps building," I snarl, and he kinda grins.

  "And it's not like you had the most charming personality, to begin with," he jokingly jabs, and I give him a low warning growl.

    No other wolf besides Kohn and Lucifer has ever been allowed to be informal with me. My father raised me that way. As the only pack on the East coast, we have the responsibility to communicate with the human government. I have to be powerful, intimidating and educated. My members have to respect the very ground I walk on to prove to the human government I am always in control that their involvement is never needed in my pack's affairs.

  So as a fourth-generation lawyer and the eleventh-generation Alpha in this territory, I have to be perfect. And the Goddess just had to curse me with a human minor as my mate.

  "I need Agent Tran to have her here as soon as possible," I growl as my internal thoughts make my anger return.

  Kohn nods.

   "If he fails," Kohn asks, and my eyes flash gold.

  "Get five of our men ready to hunt. If he fails, I will go after them for breach of Werewolf Law. Now that I have the cuffs on, I can think...Have Ruben, Dany, and Millie come up. Oh, and the healer. Senator Gavens is smart, conservative to the core, and a widower. He isn't going to hand over his high school-aged daughter without a fight, and now that he knows a simple no won't make me disappear...Just be ready, Kohn. I might not want her as my mate...I definitely plan on making her pay, but for the pack, she has to be here. I need my pack members safe. She is nothing more than a human slave," I order, and Kohn immediately bows.

  "Yes, Alpha," Kohn says before leaving.

  I go to my bathroom and get washed up. Millie and Dany's scents are all over me. Something I can not stand at the moment. I need Amber's sunflower seed smell back. Jolene's fresh lemon smell doesn't even sound appealing.

AMBER

  "Well, stop standing there hiding. Get over here and snuggle me," Kenny whisper yells, and I smile as I peek around his door with damp hair.

  I don't know how he knew I was standing there, but I'm not complaining.  I quickly run towards his bed and dive in. Kenny laughs as he wraps his long arms around me, and I sigh.

  "There's my baby sister who makes up tall tales," Kenny says, and I immediately stiffen.

   "I did not! Every word was the truth, Ken. I witnessed them shift. I saw them kill and I escaped from them," I state as I pull back to stare him in the eyes.

  "It is hard to believe...Are you sure it wasn't some big hairy guy? Like a real ugly lumberjack that needs me as his stylist," Ken asks while trying to make the conversation a little lighter.

  "I swear, Ken. Big huge hairy creatures that shift between men....and ugly wolf-men hybrids...They also talked about vampires at the place they held me for four days. We don't live in the world we think we do...I swear on mom. The girl I escaped with...they shot her in the back of the head. To escape from the basement I made the furnace explode...I killed people to get away from them, Kenny. I became a monster to escape monsters. I would never make that up," I declare, and Ken's eyes widen as he digests my words.

  Suddenly dad comes striding into Ken's room looking panicked. He softly closes the bedroom door, and we both sit up. He gets right next to the bed and crouches down to just under our eye level.

  "Okay, listen up. Officer Curtis is passed out...I need both of you to pack a bag. We have to get out of here. I've booked us all different flights. Ken, you are going to Aunt Michelle's. She is going to enroll you in some fashion camp for the next few months. And if this all doesn't blow over, I have given her permission to enroll you for your senior year...Yes, I know about your secret plan to run off and go live with her so you can be in California. I'm old, not stupid," Dad says quickly as Ken's mouth falls open.

  Then he shifts his eyes to me, and I see the same fear my dad had when mom got sick in his eyes.

  "Baby girl, I'm so so sorry. I failed. I took you to the office to expose you to politics, but I exposed you to those supernatural monsters. I'm sorry I called you a liar, honey. It was just the easiest way to relax, Officer Curtis.....What you saw was real. Five supernatural species co-exist on this Earth with us. The most dangerous being vampires and werewolves. The others have never been seen. They keep to themselves or use magic to stay hidden I don't know which. The day I took you to the office, one of the werewolf's leaders was there.       He works closely with a department upstairs in my building. Anyways he scented you, or so he claims. It's very, very rare for a werewolf to be mated to a human and even rarer for the wolf to be an Alpha...I've actually never heard of it happening before. But...Honey, he won't stop. He will kill anything and everything to get you. They aren't human. With those creatures, there is only black and white. Kill or be killed...It's barbaric...Now, Ken and I can't go with you. He will be expecting that. He might be a brute, but he isn't dumb. He is one of the top lawyers in the country, and he has hundreds of foot soldiers under his control. I tried to refuse him taking you that day...but he must have hired the kidnapper to take you anyway.......

I can't protect you, sweetheart. According to the law, they are separate beings. They don't fall under the laws of man. He can kill. He can steal. He can hurt you, and he will. Since he is claiming you are his mate he is protected by law as well," Dad explains as tears begin to pour down my cheeks yet again.

   "Dad, we can't leave her alone! If what you are saying is true, we have to stay with her. We have to protect her. We already lost mom. I can't lose Amber," Ken pleads, and dad's head falls before shaking back and forth.

  "We can't, son. I'm sorry. In their eyes, you are both of mating age. He will see you as a male keeping him from his breedable mate. He will literally decapitate you in front of her. We aren't strong enough to fight him off, and only special types of weaponry can kill them. I'm sorry, Ken. I know I'm letting you down once again. I know I haven't been here like I should...I'm sorry I couldn't cope with your sexuality. I'm sorry you lost your mom...." Dad apologizes before his sobs overtake him.

  "Dad...why are you acting like this is goodbye," I whisper, and Ken's eyes become saucers.

  "You didn't get you a flight, did you? You plan on confronting him. Or do you plan on stalling him," Ken guesses, and our father nods while crying.

  "No, daddy. No! I've seen what they do. They kill without mercy," I plead before throwing myself at my crouching father.

  Ken stays frozen as I hug my weeping father tightly. After a few moments of silence and crying, dad looks back up at us. His fear is gone. Nothing but protective determination is left, and I know his decision is final.

  "Pack. We have thirty minutes to get you both on your way," dad says before untangling my arms and striding out of the room.

   My wide-eyed stare shifts to Ken as soon as dad disappears. This can't be happening. Where is dad even sending me? I highly doubt I will be able to stay hidden...., but I'm probably not safe here either. 

 "Go pack, Amber," Kenneth whispers, and my already shattered heart breaks even more.

 What has happened to my life? I murdered a room full of terrified girls to save my own skin. I witnessed a new friend being carved up for breakfast. I escaped death and managed to find my way home, but I'm still not safe. Now I am losing the last two people on this planet I care about.