Chapter 9
Jake's POV
I was so excited, finally after 10 years of searching we finally had Bryn's exact location. It's been so hard this past decade, having only just found my true mate and having her whisked away from me so easily. I felt as if I didn't do my job to protect her and I feel as if this was all my fault that she was taken.
We were almost at the pack house an hour later and as we pulled up into the territory, I knew something was wrong. Charlie obviously sensed it as well as he spoke up, "Do you guys smell that?" He asks and we all get out of the car and take a deep breath through the nose.
"Blood" Chase said with a worried expression, and I'm sure my expression matched his. "We have to go find Bryn" I say running off towards the pack house and was startled at what I saw. There were wolfs fighting and dead bodies laid on the grass tinted with blood. Luckily, it looked as if the battle was almost over so I ran into the pack house in search of the Alpha. I found a group of high ranking wolfs in what appeared to be the pack's living room. "Alpha Jake" The Alpha walked towards me with a crying Luna standing beside him. "What happened" I asked and he sighed in sadness. "The neighbouring pack has been trying to take over for years, and they attacked today" He told me and I started to panic.
"Where's Bryn?!" I asked and the Luna's cries got heavier and I frowned. "It's all my fault!" She cried into her mates’ shoulder as sobs raked her body. "It's not your fault honey" He said and she shook her head as tears fell down her cheeks. "Bryn was protecting me, we were upstairs in one of the rooms when two male wolfs broke the door down. She told me to take the kids and jump out the window. I left her alone to fight off two males and she couldn't even shift and now I don't know where she is!" She screamed and broke down into her mate’s arms and I paled.
I mind linked the boys to immediately go search for Bryn while I tried to get more information. Keeping a straight face I tried to comfort the Luna "Luna it's not your fault you had to protect the children and she had to protect you, she used to be able to handle herself so I assume she still can" I say and she nods, "I'm just worried for Jennifer's sake, if anything happened to Bryn she'd be devastated" She said wiping away the tears in her eyes, and I burrowed my eye brows.
"Who's Jennifer?" I ask and the look of horror and shock drifted across her face and she slapped her hand over her mouth. "Oh my god, you never knew, did you?" She said and I shook my head confused. "Jennifer is Bryn's daughter" She said and I can hear my wolf growl and snarl in my head. He knew the child wasn't his and he was upset that our mate would bare another male’s child. The idea that it could possibly be Nick's angered me to the core, they never mated but I know for sure they were together romantically.
"Excuse me" I say before walking away heading to find Nick, and hopefully tear out his throat. I walked outside and I could hear the faint sound of wolfs fighting and then I heard Charlie shouting into my mind. "Jake, we found Bryn's scent in the forest, meet us there" He said and I quickly made my way towards the growls I heard in the woods.
My wolf howled out in happiness when we could smell Bryn's scent. It has changed over the years but I could still smell the original scents there. I ran through the woods faster when I could smell the scent of blood and Bryn started to mix and I growled not liking the idea of my mate injured.
I walked into a clearing in the trees and spotted the boys staring at something wide eyed. I ran over to their side and gave them a questioning glance. "What are you guys staring at?" I ask and Lucas lifted his hand and pointed out in front of us. I turned to look at what he was pointing at, there was multiple bodies scattered all over the ground. Hideously torn apart, blood everywhere. But that wasn't what we were looking at it was the figure standing in the middle of the pile of dead wolfs. Bryn stood in her human form, blood scattered across her clothes and her eyes pitch black.
She started walking away from the wolfs and started heading for the pack house, and we quickly started following after her. "Bryn!" Charlie called out and we soon regretted it, she spun around and growled at us! I put my arm in front of the boys and pushed them back, "Don't be offended, her wolfs in control and she sees us as a threat" I say and they nod, luckily Bryn spun back around and walked back up to the pack house and we followed her from afar.
When we arrived at the pack house and watched Bryn completely walk past the Luna who was happy to see her. I chased after her and watched her storm down the hallway, the Luna shoved past me and ran after her into a room I wasn't aware they had. It seemed to be a playroom, where two children sat on the mat playing with action figures. The little girl stood up and smiled, "Mummy!" The little girl squealed running into Bryn's arms and she picked her up and breathed in the little girl’s scent.
"I'm so glad your safe" Bryn whispered into her little ears and her eyes went back to their original colour. The Luna walked over to Bryn and hugged her shoulders, "It's OK Bryn, I promised I'd watch her and I did" She whispered and Bryn nodded. "Um Bryn?" She said and Bryn nodded, "You have some friends here to see you" She told her and she stiffened, before turning around to see the 5 of us.
She didn't say a word but she was smiling and a tear rolled down her cheek. "Hey guys, long time no see" She said with a chuckle and we all awkwardly chuckled along...