“You can buy the mining company?”
“How many times do I have to repeat myself?” His brows knotted in annoyance. “Didn’t Elyon tell you of the territory that I’m running?”
“You don’t have a pack. You have a company—a business.” His father sadly said.
“It doesn’t matter what you call it. What I have could save your pack.” He averted his eyes. Not having a pack wasn’t a problem for him for a long time. He doesn’t feel the need to belong in a company of his own kind, however, coming back to his childhood home brought out a lot of complicated emotions on his chest. It must be because he was anxious by Lina’s disappearance.
“Now that we are clear with what I can give you, I want the help I came here for.”
“I would assume that the way in the city doesn’t help you find Lina?”
“Yes.” He reluctantly agreed. He doesn’t like the smug expression on his father’s face. “I need your best tracker to find me, Lina.” He pulled out Lina’s nightdress. It wa
“Breath through your nose and don’t let your thoughts wander away from the person you’re searching for,” Geo said while kicking his back. They had been standing under the cascading waterfalls even before the sun rose and Geo hadn't given him a break since then. The sun is now high up in the sky. “Stop letting your thoughts spill!” Geo gave his spine another shattering kick. He couldn’t help but grunt when he heard his bones crack. Geo's way of training hasn’t changed but he was no longer a child that would cry because of broken bones and freezing water.When the elder told him that he had to train with Geo, he was expecting this much suffering. Geo wasn’t kind in any way when it comes to his training techniques. Especially when he heard that he was just going to train with him for a week. After that, he would be on his own. He tried to talk to his father because he felt that he got cheated on their deal but his father didn
“There is nothing but the wind,” she muttered under her breath and creased her brows. Why do the words don’t feel like they were hers even though they came out through her mouth? ‘Weird,’ she thought to herself but felt glad for somehow it ease the fear in her heart. Those strange noises had been ongoing for a long time now and light hasn’t come back. She wanted to fall asleep yet, she couldn’t. Those scary noises had been making it impossible for her to do so.She pulled her thin blanket closer to her chest. She began to hate this room that she was in. At first, she was glad that they removed the rope tying her to the bed and the fact that she was being fed on time and no one touches her, but glancing at the lines that she draw every time they brought her food and seeing those lines getting longer, her anger brew for they seemed to mock her.She slid down the bed and stared at the ceiling. This should stop. She can’t jus
“You can run but you can’t hide!”Lina didn’t stop to listen to the man that was running after her. Last night, with the strong gust of wind, a tree branch fell on the roof of her room. The tin roop gave up from the weight of it and Lina took the opportunity to run.She was panting and gasping for air. Her feet were full of wounds and her legs were too tired from running around aimlessly. She had no idea where she was. When she crawled out of the room where her kidnapper kept her, she almost fainted when she saw that she was in the middle of a forest. It’s like her nightmares coming to life but she took a leap and ran anyway.“Fuck!” The man kicked a tree and pulled a phone out of his jeans pocket. He was scrawny and wearing a flannel shirt and he was shivering and so was she. She was observing the man, trying to listen to what he was saying from under the tree roots that she crawled into.“The she-wolf ran!
Lina and the two men guarding her rode an old truck. The rain finally stopped and Lina realized that the place where she was kept captive for how many days—she had no idea that it was an old house until she had a good look at it when they were leaving. They rode in silence and she saw nothing but trees for hours. Lina had a good look at the man’s watch that was sitting on the passenger seat because his hand was resting on the back of the driver's seat and she saw the date and time. She had been stuck in that hateful room for five days! It felt like an eternity and now, she’s on the way to someplace and she had no idea what’s waiting for her there but she had already made a decision to escape no matter what.She hunched down, pretending to be asleep but every now and then, she would open her eyes and check their surroundings. She became alert when they finally reached a wider road and the trees surrounding them became thinner. She swallowed nervously wh
Lina blinked and opened her eyes into the darkness. She could hear the faint sounds of the rain as it pitter-pattered on the tin roof. She ran her hands all over her body and she didn’t feel anything strange except for the heaviness of her eyelids. The jerks injected something in her that made her fall asleep on the road. She had no idea where she was but she’s still lying in the backseat of the old truck. She slapped her face to wake herself up and slowly pushed her body up the seat. She had to hurry. If they come back, she won’t be able to escape. Before they injected her with the drugs that drove her into a deep slumber, the men discussed how they had to just put enough to put her down while they were at the house of the other man. They needed her awake when they presented her to the elders of the pack. She had no idea what they meant but it’s not the time to know those things. There are a lot of things that she didn’t know and had no plan of knowing. She pushed the door
“Would you mind taking off your coat?” The woman asked while lighting the three candles on the small kitchen table, carefully arranged inside a round metal tray.Lina stared at the woman for a few seconds, she glanced over her shoulder then pulled out the wrench from the inside of the coat pocket and put it on the table, next to her steaming cup of coffee.The other woman laughed. “Atta girl. No need to worry, other than my two cats, I am alone in this house. You’ve already met Enola. Her brother Sherlock was already in my bedroom, sleeping.”Lina felt at ease with the way the woman talked and the fact that they were alone in the house. She shook off the oversized coat off her shoulders and was about to put it on a chair next to her when the woman took it from her and brought it to the kitchen counter. She watched as she opened the kitchen drawers, pulled out a black garbage bag and put the coat inside then tied the bag with some dr
“Where is she?” Tamara looked at the man, standing on her front steps, wearing a scowl on his handsome face. “Despite all the precautions that I put in to make sure that no one would find her and yet, here you are in my place.” “I have no time to play with you, witch! Where is she?” He growled at the woman, wearing a white nightdress and nothing else, standing cockily against her door frame. “I don’t know why you’re still asking me when you already know the answer. She’s not here.” She smirked gleefully at the anger in his face. Eon put his hand on her delicate neck in the blink of an eye. Two cats hissed behind her while she just laughed as if her life wasn’t in his hands—literally. “You smell different from the ones that were running after her.” She grinned when Eon's hand loosened around her neck. “And because of that, I’ll let you in.” Eon pushed the woman inside and he went in, growling at the two cats that were glaring at him, hi
“Where to now, boss?”Eon didn’t look at Frio. He looked outside the car’s window, trying to process his emotions. They didn’t find Lina but he found out that she was safe. And for that, he was thankful. However, he wasn’t one hundred percent happy with the thought that someone took her and she chose to call whoever that person was than him. His jealousy was raging.“Back at my father’s pack. I need an elder from what the witch gave me.” He glanced at the black garbage back, sitting next to him at the passenger seat. He had Frio drive while Ehann sat in the passenger seat and he took the backseat. Not finding Lina and from what he heard from the witch, pissed him off that he would rather just contemplate at the back of the car than drive.Frio and Ehann could sense his bad mood that the two didn’t make any noise in the whole duration of the drive back to his father’s pack. The more than six hours