I pulled a current of wind around me as I ran out of the pack house, shifting as I took to the forest surrounding it. Vix shooting into the tangled underbrush. I laughed to myself as we ran and imagined the look of frustration, pain, and shock on that wanna-be Alpha Wolf Mates face.
It was funny, but it’s going to make it hard for us to have Kits or Pups later on. Vix said in my head as she leapt over a downed log.
Who said we’ll even accept this wanna-be macho Alpha as our Mate? It’s not like he came to us with roses and love. I scoffed back.
Well, we did just steal from him and kick him in the family jewels. I could practically see her rolling her eyes.
We need the ring. We didn’t come here to meet our mate, fall in love, and start a family. Also, he’s so cocky. We would never work, and you know it. No one controls us, and if what they say is true, that’s all those types want to do. I moved the current of air to cover our scent as I heard the howls and pounding paws in the background. We needed to find somewhere to hide out quickly.
In front of us was a cliff, and there was a massive fir tree not far away from the edge. Vix and I concluded that the only option was for me to transform back into my human form and scale the tree. Pulling on my clothes I had grabbed up off the floor upon my swift exit from the pack house, I considered the tree in front of me. It didn't take me long to mount the tree while keeping the wind wrapped around me, and once I got to the top, I found a nice branch to rest on as I watched the wolf pack run after a ghost.
I had been staying in their pack house for five days, and throughout that time I had been sleeping in an empty room on the second floor. It took about half that amount of time to find the ring that I had come looking for. After that, the remaining time was spent moving things around and observing how they reacted to the changes. Acquiring knowledge about them and seeing how they behaved throughout the day.
Three wolves emerged from the woods just a few yards behind the tree where I was sitting. One of them sniffed around in the air with its nose raised high in an attempt to find me. Since the evolution of my wind magic had only grown over the course of the past few weeks, there was no chance that they would ever be able to detect my scent. I decided to tease them by releasing a trace of my odor while also sending a gentle breeze their way. I caused it to fall down the cliff just as they got closer to following it. Although I couldn't say for certain, based on the way the air smelled like water, I would guess that there is a lake or river at the base of the cliff. While they were looking over, I called upon the water that I could smell and was now sensing, and I caused a section of it to splash, making it appear as though someone was attempting to swim against the tide. The three wolves scattered and ran off to the edge of the cliff, where they followed a path that was only visible to them.
This is going to be like taking candy from a baby. We’ll nap here and when the search party calms down, we’ll move out. I told Vix, as I attempted to get more comfortable on the tree branch. Closing my eyes, I thought of home and how happy I would be to be back. This forest on the outside of Portland just wasn’t for me.
10: 46 am
I was startled awake on the tree branch that I had been snoozing on for the past few hours. I didn't know it had gotten late. As I tried to fully wake up from my short snooze, I was unable to hear anything. There was no one else in the area.
I was startled when I felt something jab into my leg, and when I looked down, I saw that there was a dart poking out of it. Strange, I have no idea why I couldn't hear that.
"Hello, little Mate. Were you under the impression that I wouldn't be able to find you?" A calm voice emanated from a branch that was relatively close to mine, sending a thrill of excitement through my body. I looked up into the eyes of the owner of that voice, which were the lightest of blues, and noticed a sneer on his full lips at the same time.
"You son of a..." As soon as I started to reply, everything went completely black, and I felt myself slipping off of my branch.
Upon waking I couldn’t move my arms. Looking around I noticed I was back in his bedroom, chained to his bed. Well, that’s not good. I yanked on the chains to see if they had any give, none. Who has a way to chain someone to their bed? You know what? I don’t want to know.Looking around the room, I noticed that it was mostly in black and mahogany. Very clean and overly tidy. I guess someone has a clean freak problem.Voices outside pulled my attention to the door.“So, you’re just going to keep her chained up?”“If she didn’t try to run, this wouldn’t be an issue. I can’t go chasing after my mate every five minutes and I need to know why she wants this old thing.”“This isn’t the way to start out a healthy relationship.”“I’m aware, but it’s the only way to get her to stay in one place for long enough. I’ll deal with the pack business later, Kade.” I could hear the door handle turning and pretended to still be asleep. “Now, none of that. I know you’re awake. We could hear you pulling o
I looked down at her. Now sleeping like an angel in human form. Her almost bleach white hair spread around her like a halo. With a heart shaped face, but not a fat one like the ones you get and give on the human Valentines Day, a rather fitting one for her face. Her hazel eyes had staired at me with so much contempt. Her solid smooth nose led to a slight point with full, red lips underneath. It looked like she had been traveling for a while with baggy clothes, loose around her rather toned body.I sighed. Well, this wasn’t the plan, but I’m happy to have her. I’m happy we found her. Grumbled my wolf, Dezz.This isn’t how I imagined it, Dezz. A little help with what to do next?Human, it’s all up to you. I’m not getting involved, but if you lose her, I’ll eat every dead animal I come across till the end of time. Thanks. I mumbled back sarcastically. He gave a mental flip of his tail and curled up in the back of my mind.Now, what am I going to do with her? Normal female wolves marked
My body felt heavy, I tried to wiggle my toes and failed. What is going on? Slowly the feeling in my feet, then my legs started to come back. And I felt worried? Why would I be worried? What happened? Wait, this isn’t my worry. With that a flood of memories came back to me and I sat up ramrod straight in his bed. Looking around his room, I noticed him asleep in an arm chair that wasn’t in the room before. When did he move that in here? I was probably only out for a few minutes.I moved to get up off of the bed seeing the bathroom to the left of the bed. I felt stiff all over. Looking over at the man sleeping on the chair, a pair of ice blue eyes where looking back at me.“I hope you weren’t planning on trying to run again. The last three days and the bond setting will have weakened you.” I looked at him with my mouth open like a fish. Three. Days?!“What do you mean three days? There’s no way. And I never consented to you marking me. Isn’t it a rule for y’all too that you ask permissi
I had taken an intentionally long shower in the hopes that the weirdness from before would be gone by the time I was out. Looking around the bathroom, I realized I forgot clothes. Sticking my head out the door, he was gone. Slowly I walked out into the bedroom. He could return at any time, I better get dressed quickly. Going into his closet, I found his clothes hung up in perfect color order. All the seams of the pants and sweatpants were on display. Again, I wondered at the neat freak nature he has about him. Grabbing a pair of sweatpants down with a string, I pulled them up to my waist and tied it off. To say they swallowed me, would be the understatement of the year. I had to roll up the pant bottoms to even be able to walk. Looking at the shirts, I found one with the band The Pretty Reckless on it. I love that band. I pulled it on over my head. It looked more like a dress than a shirt on me. Whatever, this will have to do.For a while I sat on the bed and waited for him to return.
Stomping up the steps to the pack house, I could hear someone catching up to me. Turning around I started to speak without looking at the person. “Look, Kade. I’m just going to go up to the third floor and find a room. Please, if you must follow me, give me at least a little space.” Looking up, it wasn’t Kade I was speaking to but Aziel.“What’s wrong with my room?” He questioned me with a puzzled look.“I thought you would be entertaining later and I’d rather not be involved.” I glared at him. Crap. I didn’t think I would still be this mad about the blonde touching him.“What’s that suppose to mean?” He wasn’t getting it or did he want me to spell it out for him. Glaring at him from the top step of the porch, I didn’t know what answer was correct. Fine, if he wants to play games, let’s play.“That beautiful blonde you were speaking to at the practice field. I thought maybe you would want to ask her out on a date.” I said while acting as innocent as possible.“Oh, that really did both
I watched him moved around the kitchen. For someone his size, he moved with the ease of a dancer. His shirt clung to him like a second skin. Hearing a beeping, he pulled his phone from his pocket to check the text message he had received. “What size clothes do you wear?”“Why? I don’t plan on staying here long enough to need new clothes.” I grabbed the knife from him and started dicing the onions he was working on before the text.“If you want to wear my baggy clothes, I don’t mind, but I thought you would like something more your size and comfortable.” There was a smile in his voice, and I could hear the hidden laughter. I guess I did look like I was wearing a circus tent.“Medium top, 34 b bra, medium underwear, and size 8 or medium pants.” I continued to dice the onions. They were starting to make my eyes water. I don’t understand how a plant can reduce me to a mess of tears. Tearing up, I walked to the sink and turned on the water. I felt a warm, strong chest come up behind me. Le
We went out the back door this time. The forest was located about 100 yards away. We walked towards it without talking. When we got to the edge, he turned and looked at me. “Now no trying to run off. I have scouts out in the forest and I don’t think you would be able to get away again with that mark on your neck.” Oh, yeah. My personal homing beacon. I don’t know how I’m going to manage to escape and stay gone with this thing on my neck.“Understood.” Looking towards the trail in front of us, I started to stretch. Feeling eyes on me I looked between my legs while touching the ground. He was looking at my butt. “Do you mind?”Startled, he looked away. “Are you ready to go? I figured we would follow this trail; it loops back around and comes out at the front of the house.”“Sure, let’s get to running.” I took off on the trail and soon heard him following me. Slowly he caught up and we were running next to each other. For about a mile, we ran without talking. After the next rise there wa
We had spent the rest of the day not talking. He told me about his library and I buried my head in a book till he reminded me about the date.Standing in front of the mirror, I stared at my reflection and ran my hands down the dress one more time. No make-up. And a too tight dress. What was I meant to wear on my feet? Finally, I turned and walked out of the bathroom. No one was in the room but there were two shoe boxes sitting on the bed. Reaching for the first one, I found a pair of rather tall black heels. That’s a solid nope unless he really wanted to see me fall on my face. Turning my attention to the second box, I found a pair of ballet flats in black with rhinestones in the shape of a butterfly on them. They were beautiful. Pulling them on, they fit my feet like a glove.Looking around, I gave myself a minute to find my strength to go on with this. I walked out the door and found Aziel standing at the front of the stairs. He had on a button down top, in red to match my dress. So