Chapter 14 CHAPTER 14
"My mother and father are seekers of lost knowledge. Mom taught me about many packs that had been said to be lost. So, you are saying the Sky Fire Pack still exists today?" I asked.
"Yes, Raven is on a journey to find them. They start calling their children home at sixteen year. Unless she is killed or mated. The children travel sometimes for years seeking their pack. If the make it to the pack a great celebration is had. Our witch has found out nothing else yet. But she is still looking. She said there is so much speculation about their power no one knows for sure what is true and what is not." Joe said as he mulled it over in his own head.
"Raven was 8 when she was taken from the pack. So she would know none of this." I said.
"She is driven by something inside her to go somewhere but does not know where. The braiding of her hair she does not know why she does it. Or the singing." Joe says. None of what he told me felt better. Clare came forward from the sleeper of the truck.
"How much longer until we get there, Joe?" She asks.
"Couple more hours. Clare. Try and get some sleep." Joe answered.
"Who can sleep when all the two of you do is talk about Raven. I'm so tired about hearing about her. She left us. It was her choice. You both think she was so good. But you forget I heard and saw her wolfs eyes she is mean and scarry." Clare said. Hawk turned to her what about her eyes? What did you forget to tell us. Her wolf's eyes were not violet they were a fire of bright purple. I can't explain it. They were scarry. She told us.
"Why did you lie to us, Clare, that was something important." Joe said. He pulled over and got out of the rig. He talked on the phone for about half an hour, he is yelling at one point then he hangs up. He calms himself before rejoining us.
"They found a spot where she slept this morning." Joe said.
"Are they close?" I asked.
"No, it was where she slept the first night. It was not her scent they found it was mine. She took one of my old gray blankets. But their is nothing. With the masking spray no one can find her. Unless they stumble over her by accident. Question for you though if they were taken at eight, did they get to go to school?" Joe asked.
"No, I taught them on my days off how to read and write and do math." I told him.
"Why were you so dedicated to them, besides being your wards." Joe asked.
"I was in the van when Raven's father was shot." I told him.
"You were there when she was kidnapped." Joe looked at me like I was a monster.
"Myself and Ethan were order by the Alpha to drive the van that night. I had never left the pack before it was my first and last time going. Until we got to that pack I had no idea that is where the girls that would show up came from. I was just a guard on the boarder . I know nothing about Alpha's doings." I explained.
"Your just as guilty for their kidnapping, you did nothing to stop it." Joe growled.
"How was I to do anything, I could not stop him and sixty of his warriors by myself. The only thing I could do was to ask to have them in my care. I was only granted that because no one wanted them." I told him.
"I guess you are right; you would have been killed and who knows where they would have ended up. Is that how Raven knows survival skills?" Joe asked.
"Yes, I knew I would run with then as soon as they were old enough, so I taught them everything I knew." I told him.
"Get a couple hours sleep, Hawk, was all he said after that until we reached the new pack. I thought I would be arrested when we got there. But Joe did not repeat what I told him. We stayed in the truck inside the pack lands until morning. Joe was called to speak to the Alpha first. Then Clare and I were called in to see him. Clare was I were called to see him.
We entered Alpha Hunters office, heads bowed. His Beta Brent was there as well as
As Luna Lilith.
"Hawkins, Clare please be seated here. He pointed to the two chairs in front of his desk.
"Hawkins I'm to understand you were Clare's caretaker?"
"Yes Alpha Hunter," I said. He did not mention Raven had Joe even told him about her I thought.
"Hawkins I asked you a question?" Alpha Hunter said.
"Forgive me Alpha Hunter did they not mention Raven?" I asked.
"At this time she will not be joining us. If she is found we will consider it. Now I asked you if you still wanted to be her guardian?" He asked.
"When Clare turned sixteen, we discovered we were mates. It is my intention to wait until she is mature enough and has her wolf to mark her." I told him honestly.
"Clare are you in agreement with this?"
"Yes Alpha Hunter." She replied.
"Are you sure it is the mate bond, Hawkins?" Luna Lilith asked.
"Yes, Luna Lilith, one hundred percent sure." I told her. She nodded her head to the Alpha. Our Beta Brent will get all your information. We not let you reside together, Clare will be give a new guardian and you may court her, Is this understood?"
"Yes Alpha." I said.
"Go with Beta Brent and he will finish your papers; you will be accepted into the pack in two days time. You are dismissed." Please send back in Joe, I heard him tell one of the guards.
TITAN'S POV
"Koda, get the fuck in here now." I yelled.
"What is it Titan? What are you so upset about?" Koda asked entering Alpha Titan's office.
"This!" Titan yelled throwing a report at him.
"I have seen it. What about it, just another rouge trying to cross our borders." Koda said.
"Was he checked?" I asked.
"I'm not sure." Koda replied
"I'm gone two fucking days, and you can't make sure a so-called rouge is checked?" Titan was going to lose it.
"It was the middle of the night, Titan." Koda said.
"You should have checked him. Go and check him now. Before I really lose it " I growled.
"Umm, sorry Titan, I can't." Koda said knowing he was really in for Titan anger now.
"Why, the hell not?" I asked trying to calm down.
"He passed away before, morning, Titan." Koda said trying to find the fast way out if Titan's office.
"Are you telling me he got no medical attention?" My wolf stared to come forward.
"It was the middle of the night, Titan."
"Where is his body?" I asked.