Chapter 48: In Troubled Water

BAELA

I wasn't disturbed for the rest of the night by anyone else until it was dawn. I slept the longest I have ever slept since we started on our journey to the ends of the world. When I woke up all the Beta's who had gone to guard our perimeter had arrived back to the camp and we were about half an hour away from packing up and leaving.

I couldn't believe I had slept for that long and neither Beta Oliver or Beta Mark could wake me up. It was not their duty after all but it was usual for a lesser werewolf like myself to still be allowed to sleep when those superior to her were awake.

As I spotted Beta Oliver's face as I came out of his tent, I could tell why he refused to wake me up when it was dawn. He looked visibly upset with me, I guess it had to do with what transpired last night after I had rejected his advances of being intimate with me. I couldn't let that bother me though, I had to hurry to the stream. I couldn't go a day without having my bath and cleaning my body.

I ran