Chapter 13 CHAPTER13
You have to understand he is not your true mate. Your true mate waits for you. He has what is calling you. In time you will see until then we will have many trials. As did those who came before you. We walked and talked all day but when I stood in front of the same cabin that was falling apart I was devastated.
"Why?" I asked Spirit.
"You had to learn about you, some people will meet you tonight do not be afraid of them. But do not give away to much of what powers you have." She said and laid down to sleep. I made my fire ate some jerky and drank some water then wrapped in the blanket and went to sleep. The fire was dying down. It was getting colder. Then suddenly the fire roared again. I woke startled. There were four people sitting around the fire. Three men of different ages and a woman. It was the woman who spoke.
Thanks for the fire doll, sorry the ass woke you my name is Imara, these jokers are Kyle, Roman and Nigel. I will assume you are Raven the girl everyone is looking for." She said.
"Please, don't take me back to them." I begged. The woman laughed.
"No fear of that Raven, we all have our reasons for being out here. But you should not be alone. You're very lucky it was us who found you. There are other who would hurt you and leave you for dead just for fun." She said her eyes looking into the fire.
"You have any food?" The one she called Kyle asked. She was quick to slap him up the head. You ate today don't try and take the girls food.
"I have lots of jerky I can share." I said nervously.
"He ate a whole rabbit today he needs nothing." She said.
"I'm still growing Imara." Kyle said. Imara growled at him and he stopped asking for food.
"Raven we don't want your food. You need it you have not shifted yet. But in the next year you will and you will need help with that. I came looking for you to join us. I can protect you and help you with your shifting. I can see by your eyes. You’re a child of the fire sky. Not many know of your people's existence. But I was saved by a fire sky wolf along time ago. Maybe it was so I could help guide you to becoming a mature wolf."
"There really are rouges out there who would kill me just because?" I asked.
"They will do many things to you before they kill you child." Imara said a sad expression on her face.
"What way are you heading child?" Roman asked.
"South then east." I told him.
"Ah yes, we will get out of this horrible weather." He said with a smile.
Imara came over and sat beside me.
"My wolf will help keep you warm. Roman you take first watch. Everyone go to sleep. Come closer Raven, I will make sure, you stay warm." Imara said.
I was cold, but I did not know this woman from Adam I was not going close to her.
"Fine be stubborn, and cold." She said. After about half an hour I moved over beside her. She was like a furnace. She put my blanket over us both, my hands and feet warmed up fast.
"Sleep well child." She said as I fell asleep.
HAWKIN'S POV
It had been three days not a word about Raven. Clare seemed to not have been effected by her being gone. My heart ached for her. I stopped asking Joe if he heard anything yesterday. He said he would tell me as soon as he knew anything. He seemed effected by her disappearance as much as me. Maybe he was right, she needed guidance, someone to teach her who she was. That was not me. I had no clue. I sighed and dried the tear that fell from my eye. Tonight, we would be at the new pack. Joe had given me his number and promised if they found her he would call. But there was no guarantee she would want to come to the new pack, if they found her alive. That reality sunk in last night when I tried to sleep. Three day in a strange forest without being able to shift to her wolf. She was defenseless against any wild animals or rouges. Goddess if rouges found her I had yelled out her name in my sleep. Joe woke me and we talked for a while it was all my fault.
"I don't really think so, Hawk I think she had been planning it all along. Clare said she kept unpack and repacking her bag putting less in it. She left a note with the new stuff Darlene had got her thanking for the clothes, but she would not need then. She said to give them to the next person. She only took what Jessica gave her; she even left her winter boots and took her hikers. What you did hurt her, but she ran for other reasons." Joe said.
"She rejected me. I hurt so bad inside." I told him.
"Do you still feel Clare is your mate?" He asked.
"Yes, just Ravens bond was stronger."
"When you mark Clare the pain will disappear and there will be no more pain that Raven rejected you." Joe told me. But I could not understand why it was so strong with Raven.
Right now I did not have the urge to take her and mark her like I did that night with Raven. I wonder if I had marked her would she still be here with me now.
"Hawk, let it go, you will drive yourself crazy." Joe said. Like he could hear my thoughts.
"Why was it so strong with Raven?" I asked him.
"Hawk, I don't know why. Maybe because she is not a regular werewolf." Joe said.
"What do you mean? I agree she is a bit extrinsic in some ways. But still a normal wolf." I said.
"I was not going to tell you this, mainly because she has run. But she is no ordinary wolf, Hawk. They have found out something about her." Joe said not really wanting to tell me more by the expression on his face.
"What did you find out, I need to know." I begged. Joe sighed.
"The pack she was taken from was not her true pack. Her mother mated into the pack to expand the gene pool of the original pack. " he said.
"What pack did her mother originate from?" I asked.
"They are an ancient pack; no one sees them or hears much about them they are powerful. Have you ever heard of the Sky Fire pack?" He asked. I thought about it for a while.
"All their children are born when the moon and the sun become one and sky is a blaze of fire." I told him.
"So you have heard of them. How?" He asked.