Chapter 22

NATHANIAL

She ran away from me as soon as I touched her.

I’m in shock.

Ox is stunned that she would do that. He wanted to get to know her. He hasn’t been talking to me as he hates what I have been doing with Alyssa. He ignores me but when we come to the cafe, I can feel him there, thinking we will see her which seems to calm he but everytime we are there she is never there.

I always think back to the day I met her. I also found her name before I left. The whole scene plays out in front of me once again when Sam walks into the café.

*FLASHBACK

We all started to eat but halfway through our meal, the door opened really quickly, in floats the smell of blood. I stand up and look at the door and realize that my younger brother Sam is covered in blood.

“Sam what happened” I ask running up to him, checking for injuries but I can’t find any.

I take him over to our table and make him sit. He is shaking.

All of a sudden a glass of water is placed in front of him by Emily and she kneels beside him, looking at him. “You okay? What happened?” She asks smoothly.

“I wanted to come into town with you big brother, I followed you here and got lost. I ended at the back of the cafe when a rouge spotted me. He was angry and came charging up to me but someone knocked me down, told me to hide. When I looked up from my hiding space, the person who had saved me had gone and the rouge was dead” he says really quietly.

I can feel the anger building up “Do rouges come into town?” I ask looking up at Emily.

I can finally sense we have gained a crowd around our table the shocked faces of the customers standing by explain a lot. Alyssa is standing there too.

Emily looks up at me and shakes her head “No, they don’t.”

I look at my brother who is still shaking, “I think we will leave now I need to get my brother back home” I say looking at me friends.

They all get up and leave. Dane carries Sam but looks back at Emily as he leaves. The others follow him, I head to the counter, and realizing that we have to pay but when I get there an elderly woman was standing there smiling at me.

The girl didn’t come back. I have to see here again.

I pay the bill for our order but before I turn to leave “I hope your brother will be ok, rouges never come into town. I hope we will see you soon” the old woman says to me with a smile.

I nod, “I will have some of our pack members to patrol around later on when its night and keep watch to make sure they don’t come back again.” I say and turning to head out the door.

“Her name is Mila if you are wondering” I look back at the old woman, stunned. “She is not what you expect” and she leaves to go back in the back of the cafe.

I stare back at the door the woman went through and I have the biggest smile on my face. I finally have a name, Mila.

I now know who I will be dreaming of tonight, I thought as I push open the door and head back to the others.

FLASHBACK ENDS*

I finally know who counter girl was.

I was so excited to come back to the cafe to see Mila but she was never there. I tried everything even staying there till closing. Gloria kept looking at me and glaring. I thought she wanted me to get to know Mila, why would she tell me her name but act a different way.

After that rouge attack on Sam, Alyssa saved him. I am so grateful and I had to make it up to her in many sexual ways. Every time we are intimate I am constantly thinking of Mila. Alyssa seems to think that saving my brother has earned her spot as my Luna but no, it hasn’t. I told my father that I still want to look for my mate once the whole rouge situation has died down. I also stated that Alyssa will never be Luna which he still seems to be relieved to hear.

Sam seems really distant since the attack. He wants to come back into town but our parents won’t let him. I think he wants to meet new people.

Dane thinks Mila is my mate, but since Mila is human, I will have to work on her but I don’t know what to do as she keeps hiding from me. Dane and Emily have finally become mates. It turns out that Emily is a witch. But both her parents and Emily tell Dane that Mila is human.

I am still staring at the door that Mila has run through. Dane comes to my side “What the hell” and turns to see Emily’s face. She looks concerned and worried.

“Baby, what’s wrong?” Dane runs to her side and holds her tight around her waist. I really want to do that with Mila. I shake my head to focus on Emily.

“I can feel her, she is in pain.” She looks up at me with tears in her eyes.

Before either I or Dane can speak to her, her mobile phone rings out.

She takes it “Dad what’s wrong? What? Ok I have to find her” she says slamming her phone down and puts it back in her pocket.

“I need to find Mila; rouges are making their way to the town, loads of them. Barry seems to think about 30 are heading here” she says and starts running towards the door where Mila run through.

“Emily, wait. We need to get everyone out of the town” says Gloria who made Emily stop in her tracks.

We need to tell my father, so without thinking, I mind link my father about the situation.

“Dad, there are at least 30 rouges on their way to the town; we need to evacuate the town. I am going to suggest our territory for them to go.” I say

“Good thinking son, everyone should come here. Also our boarder warriors have just mind link Beta Michael that there another 20 or more coming from the other direction. They are hunting for something” he says.

“Ok Dad, we will help the town to evacuate and head to the pack house. Make sure all children, pregnant women and elderly wolves are placed in the bunker.” I say and cut the link.

I turn to Dane who was listening in on the full link from my father now, he nods to me and heads to Emily. I look over to her.

“Tell your father to get everyone to the pack house, it’s more safe there” I say as I try to reach her but I feel an elderly hand go to my arm and pull me back. I look down to see Gloria looking up at me.

“You hurt her and now she is in pain, we can feel very emotion running through her. I will tell my son about all of us going to your pack but I will tell you now, Mila is not your typical person and she hates many and I mean many people. If you have hurt her, she won’t forgive you.” she says snarling at me.

I’m in shock, what the hell have I done to Mila which causes her pain.

I nod to her and run to catch up with Emily and Dane who are heading towards the path through the forest but after an hour, I realize where we are the cliffs. You can see the pack house from here.

Emily stops suddenly. She looks around but looks in one spot. I look to where she is looking to, Mila is sitting on a bolder, crossed legged with her eyes shut.

I try to take a step forward but Emily stops me “I will go to her” she says.

Dane and I stay back, we know we have to go back to the pack house but we will not leave the girls alone. I can’t hear what they are saying.

“Something is up with these two” mutters Dane “why would she be in pain due to you?”

I shake my head “I have no clue what I have done” but before I can continue that conversation I look up and see the girls, walking towards us.

Mila’s eyes look puffy; she hasn’t looked at me or more like she won’t.

“Come on, we need to get going, I can sense they are trying to come in from everywhere” says Emily.

“We will go back to the pack; your grandmother has told everyone to head there.” I say and turn to the direction we need to head too, which on many runs with Ox, found to be a short cut to get back to the pack.

They look at each other and start to walk towards the path. Emily looks towards Dane who is right by her side and she takes his hand, walking just in front of me.

Mila is by the side of me, but she won’t look at me. I can feel the tension between us but it seems she is having more of a fight with her inner self than anything to do with me.

“Mila please, I don’t know what I have done to cause you pain but please let me fix it. I want to get to know you” I say pleading for her to talk to me.

There is just silence. I look down at her but she still doesn’t look up.

We are getting closer to the pack. I can sense all the fear coming closer to us as I know we are heading into something unknown.

I hear a deep sigh “I’m not what you think, I hate wolves mainly because I have seen so many lives being destroyed by so many of them” She says “I have a lot of anger but one thing I will say to you is I......”

Before she could finish, we are met with a gruesome sight, rouges attacking from all angles of the pack. They not just going for the pack members but also the other shifters are being targeted too.

All women and children are running towards the pack house and all the fighters are trying to get them to safety in his the pack house.

I feel my anger boiling at the carnage that’s before me. I need to protect my pack. I give the loudest roar of my life “Ox, I know you are pissed at me but we need to kill some rouges tonight.

Without a word, I start to run towards the fighting, noticing three wolves against my friend Eric; I jump over one of the rouges and shift midair, Ox lunges straight onto him and bites down on his neck hard, snapping it. His lifeless body drops to the ground and I set of the loudest roar, giving off my Alpha aura knowing that I am present and ready to kill them.