To receive that mindlink to say Evelyn was back on our territory filled me with relief. I had done nothing but freak out since we had come off the phone to her brother Jacob and heard she had never returned to pack. Hearing what had happened to her had broken my heart. I knew that pain. That loss you feel when you lose your mate. And to know she went through it alone. A pack member being the cause must have been hell for her and her wolf, likely sending them into a blind panic. The way the actions of her wolf were described sounded crazed, she was struggling. She was in pieces. She needed someone there for her. I wish I had been there for her. Instead, she was alone. All alone, unsure of what to do. Fearful of her own pack, and in a panic. But for her then to have disappeared with no response sent me and Cayden into a blind panic too. Yet Jacob told us not to hunt for her, to stay on our own territory. Not to risk ourselves for her. He had no clue, that I think I would di
My heart had been feeling instantly lighter hearing Evelyn was back, knowing she was safe again after worrying non-stop since the moment she had left pack, even more so after hearing what had happened to her, knowing she had suffered through that traumatic experience alone had broken my heart for her, I desperately wanted to be there for her. She did not deserve to go through that alone. So the relief of knowing she was back here where we could take care of her, where I could try to be a support to her was so immense. But then the sudden shift to my heart in a matter of hours was drastic, it had felt like it had fallen through the fucking floor the moment Jackson told me the things he had been feeling as he walked toward her when she had been brought to our borders. Everything you feel as you meet your fated mate. Everything I had experienced as I met Lily. Everything he will already have experienced when he first met Ava, and was now getting to experience them all over a
I stood in my office, talking to Beta Jacob of River Ash Pack, Evelyn’s brother, on the phone. He had been desperate for news on his sister. Understandably so, as had we when we had heard she had fled their pack after the events of earlier today. “Evelyn is with us.” I told him as soon as I had greeted him. “What?! Thank fuck. Bring her home.” He tells me. “No.” I say bluntly. “What do you mean no? You know she follows the orders of her Alpha. And he summoned her to come home, return to pack, so you tell her to get over what happened, stop throwing a tantrum, and realize her pack needs her.” Jacob says, and I have to say I am shocked at how cold he actually sounds. This is his sister! She had lost her mate earlier at the hands of one of her own pack mates. How can he have no compassion or sympathy toward her? “Erm, excuse me, but things have changed. She will not be returning to you, now or ever. Firstly, do you have no fucking heart? She is suffering the
The shock coursing through my body at the realisation this she-wolf in front of me is Evelyn is like nothing I have experienced before. My wolf, Kali is pacing so anxioulsy within my mind, only adding to the bizarre feeling I am experiencing. How can this have happened? This does not feel right. But I am intensely aware of the fact Evelyn needs our help. I look down to her, the alluring scent of the violet and vanilla is almost being overpowered by the scent of blood from her injuries. Evelyn is curled up on the forest floor, in the foetal position, I assumed to have protected herself from attack, but still she was badly wounded, and now unconscious. I slowly and gently laid her so she was on her back to see the extent of her injuries. There were wounds down her legs - bite marks and scratches. Some of the same along her arms. And what looked to be an attempt at her neck, which somehow she had escaped, which I instantly feel relief to see she escaped or else that would have
Hearing the words of the doctor within the hospital, I had no clue what made me follow the doctors to the forest. My priority had been to search for Evelyn, but I knew my friend may need my support too. Yet a part of me hoped that with the fact Cleo had mentioned she had seen Evelyn head in the direction of the forest on the security footage we may see her on the way, or when we get to Cayden he may have seen her if he had been running out in the forest… Never did I imagine I would find this upon my arrival here. This is not what I thought I would see. Cayden on his knees, next to what he says is his new second-chance mate. Telling the doctors he has marked her. To save her life. Which when their wolf is absent through trauma or other cause this is not an unexpected action, one of desperation to bring your fated mate back to you. A means of saving their life. Then to say he had licked her wounds too. Something so personal, so private. Intimate. Something only close family o
I rush along the familiar forest trails after the two doctors, now taking Evelyn to the hospital to finally check her over. Her laid out on the collapsible hospital stretcher, looking vulnerable and broken. They say she is healing, but until I see her awake, speaking telling me she is okay I will not settle. My heart is in pieces in worry for her, yet my body filled with rage for the things my so-called best friend had implied. When he had told me she was his second-chance mate earlier it had hurt, all the things he knew I felt for her, yet he told me through mindlink. There were better ways to have done this, and he knows it. But I accepted it, despite the pain within my heart. Despite the fact I had allowed the sweet girl into my heart, albeit reluctantly and fearfully at first. But she had brought a lightness I could not explain. And one I did not want to lose. Yet hearing the words she was his second-chance mate, while it hurt, I had taken and given them their spa
The words of the rogue hit my ears and I feel myself falter slightly. I look to Cayden and then to the rogue. “What?” I try to find some voice from within me. Right now I feel like I am disintegrating. I had imagined a new life with a new fated mate. Never had I imagined having to share her with my best friend. I had heard of werewolves with more than one fated mate, yet had never actually come across them, it was not particularly common. I had seen Evelyn as mine the moment I had realised she was my fated mate. There had been feelings beginning to develop prior to that. She was already forming a place within my heart. Bringing sunshine into my previously very dull life. Making me smile so easily, and making me look forward to seeing her each day. I had no clue if the feelings were reciprocated. Though when I had moved to kiss her that once in the office, before Cayden had interrupted us she had not pushed me away… That was my hope she did not find me completely repulsive.
I follow Doctor Jacobsen into the hospital room where he tells me Evelyn is waiting. I can only imagine how irritated Jackson is in this moment being told he was not allowed inside! The fact Evelyn had requested to see me had filled me with hope there could be a chance for us. Yet, I don’t think I can explain the emotions within me right now. Nerves? Happiness? Excitement? Worry? Maybe a little of them all… Yet the moment I walked into the room and I saw her and her eyes locked onto mine, her face broke into that beautiful smile. She was laid in the hospital bed, a sheet over her slim body, looking so frail, but perhaps that is because all I can think of is how damaged she looked earlier. Though they had cleaned her up a little, but she still looked so fragile. I desperately wanted to take her and hold her in my arms and just protect her. But I took it carefully, not wanting to be too much for her, so instead settled for walking to her side, and gently taking her hand. She