I wake up the next morning to an empty bed I look at the clock on the bedside table and spring out of bed when I see it’s eleven in the morning usually it’s a six am start for me working out then study or school. I walk to the shower feeling a little swollen down stairs then imagines of last night rendezvous I smile at what the twins and I got up to but start to feel alone and used considering not one of them stayed with me until I woke up. Now I’m angry sad and decide to get dressed and head to the hospital to check in with Sophia before going down to the coven to make sure everyone including Delilah and Atticus’s family are settling in well. I finish up in the shower and decide to wear a red crop top my leather jacket and some high wasted black jeans with a pair of timberlands I throw my hair up into a messy bun add a touch of fire engine red lipstick. I take my phone before I leave the room when I look on the screen I have a heap of txts and missed calls from both Destin and Colton
I make my way over to Delilah as I’m coming the elders are leaving. I let myself in and call out to Delilah I throw myself on her lounge and she walks in and does the same. “How are you holding up and I’m not asking you as the high priestess but I’m asking as your friend how is Delilah holding up it’s been an intense 48 hours” She lets out a sigh and looks up at the ceiling. “It’s hard work but I’m coping I’ve trained my whole life for this moment yet I feel so unprepared. Add a move and grief into the mix im feeling a little flat” she perks up a little and looks at me “But you my girl are glowing” she sends me a wink and I feel my face redden she knows I wonder if she know with whom. “New moisturiser” I laugh and she laughs with me. “Keep your secrets if you don’t want to kiss and tell that’s fine but I have other ways to find these things out.” “Dont you dare want to take twenty minutes time out and go to the base for a while I haven’t been there in a while and all that’s hap
Delilah povI can see faith struggling she has had an eventful week she wears her strength well but I can tell she is feeling it all hit her like a freight train. She’s just moving her food around her plate and she doesn’t have her usual oomph not even the twins can bring her out of her funk which is odd. She leaves dinner early and doesn’t stay for the traditional f5 family games after dinner I can see the twins clearly want to go to her but can’t ditch everyone like faith did. Family games run until about 11 before everyone dispersed and went to bed. At about 12 I had a set of frantic knocks on the door. I unlock the door to answer but before I could open the door Colton and Destin push in through the door and barge into the house they walk around the house “is she here is she here Delilah” “Well hello to you too boof heads! Is who here why are you too here is the question” in unison they both answer “FAITH” Colton is more erratic than Destin pacing biting his nails. “She’s not i
I don’t know where I’m going to go I’m just running to put as much distance between myself and the pack. I need to stop for a minute to clear my head and work out an actual plan I’ve been gone now for about 2 hours so I should have put enough distance between myself and the pack. I’m so emotional I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders I shift back to my human form and find a hollowed out log to rest in if I put clothes on I would only have to take them off again and the plan is to rest for a few minutes make a plan of a attack and go from there. I have packed away some money but have little experience in the human towns where I plan to hid I don’t know how long my money will last in the human town but for now I need to think about food and shelter they are my main priorities. I could stay in a motel find a job and get an apartment in the long run I have enough money to last at least a month if I really skim down on the basics. It doesn’t take long for my intrusive thoughts to
When we get back to the motel. Chase cooks chicken stir fry as it turns out in am in fact clueless when it comes to cooking he put some in a takeaway container for me to have tomorrow night. His stir fry tastes amazing like a flavour explosion in my mouth and watching him it seems simple. “So how did you learn to cook?” Chase shrugs his shoulders “the pack cook taught me when I was little. I wanted to learn the basic life skills” “Nice. What other domestic duties can you do” “Other than being self reliant pretty much everything my fathers cold and distant being an only child I sought attention else where in the pack from a young age” “What happened to your mother” Chase visibly grimaces at my question he puts his fork down into his bowl seemingly annoyed now maybe a crossed a line I was just curious to know maybe he too has suffered a loss and that’s why his helping me in my hour of need. “I better get going my father will notice if I’m gone to long and nothing good comes from
I toss and turn all night unable to relax or rest maybe it was a bad idea to just run from my problems instead of confronting and working through them I really isn’t like me to run from a challenge I usually rise up to the occasion. I have never spent the night away from the pack alone werewolves are not solitary creatures. It’s 2:30 in the morning so maybe I could try to take a shower it might help me to relax a little enough to get a solid hours sleep. Feeling relaxed I exit the bathroom to try my luck at sleep when I see a black figure in the dark sitting on the edge of the lounge. When it starts to walk towards me my heart rate quickens until chase comes into sight. “Couldn’t sleep too huh” “Far out chase you sure know how to get a ladies heart pumping” He throws his head back and laughs a little too hard. He motions for the bed for me to sit. I yawn and start to feel the comfort of sleep chase pulls the blanket back for me and I climb under. He lays on top of the blanket and w
While I’m sobbing on my bed I’m hit with the sudden realisation. This is not me this is not who I am I’m not one to cry and run no I am the girl who fights fiercely crying on my bed isn’t helping me or my people. What I need to do is get my miserable butt out of bed and continue my training to fight for what I feel is right. Tonight I will attend family dinner with the visiting faction members and the ranked members of our pack and coven then tomorrow I will go see Sophia seek the answers I need to hear wether that be what I want to hear or not then I am going to throw myself into my training to protect those who can’t protect themselves against injustice a war is approaching the last thing I should be doing is laying in bed feeling miserable. I make my way to the guest quarters I can tell who is in what room according to their personal energy it’s something I have never done before or I have never noticed before Marisha and Alvin are in the second room I come across so I knock on th
I guess I’m trying to atone myself because I was pretty much the last person to leave the dinning hall my mother thankfully didn’t mention my time away and I’m thankful for that I don’t want to constantly apologise or feel like I need to explain my reasonings. She tells me Sophia is waiting to meet me she explains her current state almost as a heads up on what I will be confronted with I tell my mother I had planned to see her tomorrow morning. I head back up stairs then Destin mindlinks me “come to marishas room we’ve set up a board game night in here can you bring up some snacks?”I turn on my heels to make my way back down stairs for the kitchen. I find a few reusable bags in the pantry and start to fill one bag up with cool drinks and bottled waters the other with chips, dip and some bags of lollies. I don’t hear anyone enter the kitchen until someone has hands on both my hips as I stand hunched over in the pantry looking for my favourite lollie stash behind the tinned foods. The