Vague Rejection

CHAPTER 5: Disorientation: I’d look it up but I’m lazy

SAPPHIRE

"Mother, it's been three days!" I wail and pace back and forth as I pull my hair in frustration. "I'm about to go out of my mind!"

"Sapphire, you need to calm down. We know that Red is safe, just that we don't exactly know where she is." I stop pacing as Orion enters the room with his phone against his ear. He was talking to his Beta and probably Link about Red's situation and I'd like to think they had this under control but I was already a mess.

"Mother, does that even make sense? How can you know she's safe-"

"Princess, If I may." The camera pans to Doctor Ruby who was standing beside my mother calmly. "You don't need to come back here just for this, I know my daughter is safe and I trust the person she's with right now."

"Just for that? My best friend is missing!" I felt my heart rate start to pick up as my frustration grew even higher. How can they all stay so calm!? I know Red would probably survive anything at this rate but she's been going through si much lately!

"Love." I automatically relaxed as Orion's arms wound around my waist and pulled me closer to him. I felt his heart beating through his shirt calm in into more rational thinking. "She's fine."

Something about his voice made me turn to him and hurriedly say to the people on the other side of my phone. "Orion, there's something you know that I don't."

He sighs, gives me a smile and directs me to the couch where he settles and places me on his lap. "Can't you humour me for now?" I raise my brows and give him a flat stare. "Look Love, we're in the mountains of The North, inside a beautiful glass cabin surrounded by nature and close to no neighbours. Can't we enjoy this time alone without worrying about anyone from the palace?" He stroked my lips and I had to breathe in to hold myself together.

"We can." He gives me his heart-stopping smile, making his dimples appear. "But first tell me what you're hiding." He immediately shakes his head.

"I'm not hiding anything. Just, it's a bit complicated to explain but if you want you can look into my head and know for yourself."

"I respect you, Orion. I want to know because you told me yourself." He plants a short sweet kiss on my lips and smiles.

"Have I told you 'I love you?'" I laughed, still feeling tingles everywhere he touched.

"Not in so many words." I plant a kiss on his cheek and stared into his blue eyes, as I buried my head on his neck- "Hey! Stop distracting me!"

Orion guffaws then tightens his arms around me. "Okay, It's time I told you about my cousin. He wanted to introduce himself to you personally, but I guess I'll have to tell you."

LINK

I storm the carpeted corridors of the palace as I clench my fists in order not to punch a hole in the fixtures around me. This stupid i***t! Even my wolf was on edge. He was pissed too, even more so than I am. Our friend was hurt and now we don't know where she is.

As I rounded the familiar corner, I hurried my footsteps and kicked open the brown double doors to my brother's chambers, not caring that his chosen was on top of him sucking his face off.

They pull apart instantly as some of the door's remnants land on their figures. I would have respected their time, but I'm way past respect— my brother deserves none from me.

"Link, what the hell!?" I walked towards them calmly, shoving Melanie off my seething brother. "WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM!?"

Abe stands from his position, in all his naked glory and glares at me as I throw a blanket towards his woman on the floor.

"My problem?" I am mad. So mad that I didn't register the movements of my fists until they landed and made a deafening crack on my brother's face. "My problem is that you are here sucking face with this slut, while-" I stop talking as my eyes land on the puncture wounds on his neck. "YOU ALLOWED HER TO MARK YOU!?"

I am beyond mad at this point. I am livid. I jump on my brother and land punch after punch, letting my body do all the work as my wolf takes control. He wasn't even defending himself. The bastard knows he deserves it and I planned to give him what he deserved, ten times more. "YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARD!" I continued to punch him even as I saw and felt different sets of hands holding me back. All my mind could see was Red's hurt blotchy face. She's been through so much all because of him.

"Link!" I ignored the voice as my wolf only saw Red. He was out for blood. We promised the Princess to protect Red and we couldn't do that.

"Link, Stop." My fists froze mid-air as I breathed heavily and stared down at my brother. He was barely conscious, but by the weight of his stare he knew why I pummelled him. He knows yet still remains stubborn.

Soft arms wound around my biceps as my wolf calms down. I turn to see the Queen giving me a calm smile and guiding my back as servants transfer my brother into a stretcher and brings him somewhere with Melanie crying after them. Weak, the lot of them!

"She's safe, Link." I couldn't speak as I stared at the blood on my hands. "Link." I looked at the queen, who gave me a motherly hug.

"You don't have to feel guilty. Honestly, a lot of people were lining up to beat the s**t out of him. You just got to him first." I gave out a small laugh, my wolf still feeling mad and frustrated.

"Thank you, Link." The Queen pulled away and I saw the doctor standing behind her with tears in her eyes. "Thank you for defending Red's honour." I nodded. There is nothing I wouldn't do for that fire cracker.

"Let's go Ruby. You have to treat the injured." The Queen dragged the doctor out of the room not before I heard.

"No. I promised Red I wouldn't treat him." I smirked at Doctor Ruby's words.

"Noelle would have hated that answer!" The smirk turned into a smile thinking about how nice it would have been to have Lady Noelle together with these powerful women.

"Well, she's not here!" Well, Doctor Ruby wasn't wrong...

RED

I woke up to cold air and a dark, starless sky. Why am I even here? Where is here, even? I tried to move my body but it felt stiff and heavy.

Did I die?

I probably did, didn't I?

A sudden sound made me sit up in fright, but soon as I did, I groaned and buried my head in my hands as a dizzy spell invaded my senses. I tried to feel for my wolf but I couldn't get anything out of her, so I breathed in and out, trying to re-orient myself to the situation.

I looked up as I heard the sound of footsteps walking on dead leaves, but I couldn't see anything or anyone. My vision wasn't working well and even my ears had to strain to hear the faintest of sounds. What the hell had happened to me?

Just as I attempted to bend my knees to stand, a large brown wolf walked out from the shadows, carrying what looked like a rabbit in his mouth, but instead of feeling scared, I sort of felt comforted. Also, probably because this reminded me of when Link and I met.

"Hi?" The brown wolf looks at me and I gasp. He looked so majestic the closer he got. The moonlight highlighted his features and made his fur seem luminescent under the soft glow. His light brown eyes stare at me as he drops the rabbit before me and sits on his paws.

"You're a werewolf, right?" He nods his head and pushes the carcass closer to me once again, but I refuse the meat. It was just too raw. "Can you shift?" He shakes his head no and nudges towards my shredded clothes on the clearing away from us.

I frowned at first until I looked down and realised I must have been in his clothes. I feel my cheeks redden at the thought of a random man seeing me, but it was probably a life and death situation, right? "Are these your clothes?" He nods his head as he tears into the rabbit himself and throws the other half on my lap, an action that made me gag.

I stand carefully, making him stand in turn and take off the too large shorts as I hand them to him. His shirt was large enough to cover me until my thighs, this should be fine. I mean he didn't exactly do anything bad to me, right?

He could have raped you already, you thick head!

Ugh, I swear my conscience is always doubting everyone.

"Here you can change back, I'd like to know how I got here." I sat cross-legged on the ground as I looked at him- hey, now that I think about it, it could be a her! Oh, maybe I am safe after all.

He or she grabs the cargo shorts with his/ her teeth and hides behind a tree before I hear the cracking of bones and when he appears once again, now as a human, my mouth drops open.

"Vos?"

What in the world is this development??