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“Thank god, watching that shit I nearly contemplated turning gay” Donnie says. I shook my head at my wolf but I was also excited to get out of there so I could hunt down another rogue. I need to hurt something, need their screams to drown out the screams of my pack, need to see their dead faces instead of hers, anything to get the image of what they did to her out of my head.
Once I was home I got out of my car to see one of my pack members waiting at the door of the packhouse. His fear was so strong I could smell it and it enraged me, they had no need to be scared, nothing was getting in or out of this pack yet they were all too scared to go about their normal lives.
“Alpha?” He says baring his neck. His blonde locks fell in his eyes as I approached him. His green eyes are fearful when I step in front of him.
“What is it, Clay?” I ask annoyed, I know they hear the rogues screaming but they have no reason to fear me it isn’t any of them strapped to the table.
“A few of the unmated wolves want permission to leave” He stammers out.
“What for?” I watch his adam’s apple bob in his throat. “Speak I haven’t got all day” I tell him annoyed he is wasting my time.
“They want to go in search of their mates” He says so quickly his words jumbled and he stuttered.
“Why do they need permission to do that?” I ask him and he drops his head.
“We just thought to tell you since we lost Luna” I cut off his words and I don’t even remember moving when my hands were suddenly around his throat. I wasn’t sure if I did it or Donnie as I strangled him, his hands clutching mine as his eyes wided.
“Speak of her and you will find yourself strung up on a flagpole ” I growled at him, my words foreign to me, I barely recognised my own anger or the things I say before saying them. His face turns purple and
I feel Donnie trying to take over when my hands let him go and he gasps clutching his throat coughing.
“They can go” I tell him before walking off and toward the forest behind the pack house. I searched for hours looking for any sign of rogues, yet word seemed to be getting out that people were going missing near my borders and when it fell dark and I still found nothing, I turn around. I was heading home when
I could just make out the scent of a fire burning. I walk to the clearing to see if I can spot smoke polluting the air.
“Uncharted” Donnie says when we realise it was coming from the other side of the mountain, it was usually off limits because it backs onto a human town, wolves usually steer clear in case of hunters yet it was the only sign we had in days. Deciding to chance it, we trekked our way around the mountain only to come to the river.
“Let’s go home” Donnie says but I was already pushing through the water to the other side and getting washed downstream a bit before reaching the other side.
“How are we meant to force a rogue through the water Andrei, we would lose them in the stream”
Donnie says before receding. I just wanted to check it out, find where this camp was. The moon was high in the sky by the time I picked up movement in the forest. The smell of the campfire growing stronger.
“F*ck Donnie shift” I tell him when he doesn’t.
“No this stupid we can’t even get them home ” He snaps receding and refusing to shift. Fine I don’ t need him anyway. I watched carefully for movement but it was obvious when they picked up my scent because the forest fell silent except the cackling sound of the fire burning. Stepping into their camp, three men sat around a campfire and one in wolf form laid on the ground just away from the campfire.
The wolf was grey, completely grey, her fur the colour of gunmetal, no colour except the blue eyes that stared ahead unseeing like there was no life behind those eyes, they looked sad. No that wasn’t accurate enough, it was like looking at the eyes of the dead.
They instantly jumped up yet I couldn’t take my eyes from the wolf that lay by the tree, Donnie pushing forward suddenly amongst the stench of rogue was the most mouthwatering scent I had smelt since
Angie, cinnamon and vanilla invading m y senses. I stared stunned for a second, I had to be imagining it, there was no such thing as second chance mates yet Donnie screamed the word in my head before seeing one of the men run at me with a blade in his hand. Donnie shoving forward in my shock and ripping into his arm making him drop the blade.
His screams piercing the quiet and bouncing off the trees and the other two take off into the woods. I notice out of the corner of my eye the wolf gets up wanting to escape. Donnie tears into the rogues stomach, spilling his intestines onto the ground while the man clutches them trying to stuff them back in when we lunge at his throat, our teeth sinking into his flesh before shaking our head.
His blood spraying everywhere over our fur. He gurgles as he takes his last breath when we hear a yelp that turns into a whimper. Donnie shifts back and I stand to turn around to find the wolf still by the tree though she was struggling to remove the collar around her neck that she was chained to and was no longer in her wolf form. Long Blonde hair falling to her waist and over her ass as she crouched low to the ground trying to undo the chain. Hearing me coming toward her she growls and she shifts back but even that doesn’t help as she struggles to get the chain undone before I approach her.
She turns on me, baring her teeth and snapping her teeth at me. ” Stop, I won’t hurt you” I tell her but that just makes her growl louder as she steps back, her fur hackled up and I bend down keeping my eyes on her in case she goes for my throat. She does and I drop the long chain falling back and put my hands up.
“Why is she chained?” Donnie asks me worriedly as he peered back at this wolf that appeared to be ours though I couldn’t understand how that was possible.
“I don’ t know, ” I tell him. I didn’t really want to think of why they had her chained I just wanted to get her off it.
“I will unchain you just don’t bite me” I tell her kneeling and reaching for the chain slowly, she growls her eyes not leaving me as I wrap my hand around the thick chain. I tried to break it but it was far too thick even for me to snap. I get up, moving too quickly and she lunges at me, her teeth sinking into my arm and I shove her off a little harder than I intended and she hit the tree before jumping back to her feet and I scramble backwards on my hands and feet just as the chain forces her back, ripping her backwards.
I growl at her before getting to my feet and walking over to the dead rogue by the campfire and rummaging in his pockets, no key which means one of the other two must have had it. I looked around before finding an old worn axe stuck into a fallen tree where they were sitting. I pull it from the log before turning back to the she-wolf. Her blue eyes going wide and she starts ripping on the chain trying to break it.
“Wait, you are only hurting yourself, stop it” I snapped at her. Yet she continues to yank it the closer I get. She growls at me before trying to bite me and I grab the scruff of her neck before shoving her head down on the dirt and step over her forcing her between my legs and holding her there. She thrashes and I lift the axe before bringing it down on the chain. She yelps and my ears ring from the noise of clink the axe, it was so blunt it took three hits on the chain before it snapped and she took off, nearly knocking me over as she pulled backwards between my legs and darted for the trees.
“Oh little wolf you don’ t want to make me chase you” I growl before shifting.
Shifting we follow her scent, Donnie looking for any sign of the she-wolf, she was lithe on her feet, and quick. She would have been hard to find except the clink of the chain that was still attached to her neck hitting the ground as she ran from us.
We make our way around the mountain she was heading in the direction of home but when I came to the river all noise was drowned out by the waterfall.
Smart, she knows her scent would be hard to find yet I couldn’t hear the chain any more.
“Maybe she stopped” Donnie whines sniffing the ground and following the river.
“She might have jumped in to be washed downstream” I tell him.
“Get the pack out here” he says and I have to agree better with more eyes. I open the link feeling for what was left of the pack, I hated it, hated feeling their sadness yet rarely used the link to teether us all.
“There is a grey she-wolf along the border somewhere with blue eyes, help me find her but no one is to touch her” I command them before hearing a chorus of yes Alpha.
“What if she steps over into one of the traps?” Donnie asks.
“Shit, I didn’t think of that” I tell him shifting back. My pack knew where the bear traps were, knew where the ground would swallow them but she wouldn’t know. I walk through the river before climbing out. I could hear my men running through the forest.
“No one touches her” I remind them.
“Exactly how do you expect them to catch her if they can’t touch her” Donnie asks.
“They don’t need to touch her to catch her” I tell him and he growls as I pick up a stick.
“We can check the motion sensors at home and at least we will know if she crossed the river” I told him. Grabbing a stick we head home and I hit any bear traps setting them off on the way and I uncover one of the holes that was placed to catch anyone off guard. It was going to be a pain resetting them.
Unlocking the door, I walk to my surveillance room, checking the wildlife cameras. I could see my men searching.
“Colten set off the traps near you in case she stumbles across them” I mindlink seeing him come into the picture.
“Alpha, is there a reason we are searching for this wolf?” He asks, while shifting. I watch as he grabs a stick, setting some traps off.
“I will explain later when I know for sure” I tell him.
“Know for sure, I didn’t imagine it. Andrei she is our mate” Donnie says, yet second chance mates were unheard of so I found myself wondering if I truly had lost the plot.
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