The Hunters

Chapter Fourteen: The Human Town

We stood on the outskirts of a human town. Their cars drove by without even seeming to notice us there. There were lots of homes and buildings all relatively close together. The human life was completely unaware of us, and those that were, were usually the hunters. It was why we hesitated going any further.

We were now rogues and would be targeted by the werewolf hunters who lived in the human towns. They typically left us alone as long as we stayed in our werewolf communities. Once we were in the human towns, we were subject to whatever fate they decided to bestow on us.

"I guess we should find a hotel," River said and she began walking towards the town.

"Wait!" She paused and looked back at me over her shoulder. "Are you sure this is the best place for us? It's dangerous if anyone finds out what we are."

"Alana, we don't have a choice. Our pack is dead. Our families are dead. The only ones that know we are alive are their murderers. No one will probably believe our story, and that's assuming we reach another pack before the New Moon Pack gets to us first. We know too much. They will kill us. To other packs we are nothing but rogues," she explained. I knew she was right. Surviving among the humans was our only chance.

We walked for what felt like hours before finally finding a hotel. I had managed to steal quite a bit of money from Alpha Remus before we left, so hopefully it would be enough for us to get by until we got more money. That would mean jobs. I scrunched my nose at the awful thought.

We got a hotel room for a couple of weeks to start us off. I immediately threw myself onto one of the two beds and started to cry. I was going to get a bed to myself without being touched. I was finally safe. River stared coldly at me as I buried my face in the covers. She then went to shower while I unpack my things.

I fell asleep early that night, letting the exhaustion from our escape over take me. The stress and horror we had both endured was hopefully all over now. I didn't even wake up when the sun rose. I shielded my face from it with the covers. I was enjoying not being woken up by a horny Alpha Remus. I clutched the covers to my body which had clothes on it this time. I hadn't felt this comfortable in months. Not since before the destruction of the Full Moon Pack.

River rudely woke me up by snatching the covers out of my hands. I groaned and grumbled at her bitterly. I wanted to yell at her, but I reminded myself that she was also broken. She had her humanity ripped away from her as I had. We had been nothing but the objects of someone else's pleasure.

"We have to find jobs," she told me sternly.

"I just want to have a bad to myself," I whimpered, further burying my face into the bed.

"If you want it to stay that way, we need to find ourselves some jobs," she snapped at me.

I sat up and rubbed my eyes, "Fine," I mumbled. I got ready as fast as I could for miss grumpy and shoved some money into my pocket before we headed out for our job search.

"This would be easier if we had phones for them to call us," I told her.

"Okay," she said hotly, still clearly agitated with me and I couldn't understand why.

We ended up doing some shopping. We each got a cell phone, a laptop, and a couple pairs of new clothes. We headed back to the hotel to work on our resumes as River finally realized we needed them to apply to jobs. We also had to set up emails. All things we hadn't really worried about before. Once we got back, I decided to confront River.

"Why are you acting this way?" I demanded, placing my hands on my hips.

"Because you have to make things more difficult. You act like you aren't thrilled to be here," she said pushing her long, dark hair out if her face. She looked at me as if she were shaming me.

"What do you mean? Of course I am! And we handle things differently...." my voice trailed off at the end. It appeared my last statement made her even angrier.

"We handled it differently because we went through things differently! I didn't become a w***e for you to get f****d by the Alpha who probably impregnated you!" She yelled.

"I did it so you didn't have to keep going through that and worse," my voice was a low whisper.

"But it was all for nothing because you did that and it wouldn't have happened at all if you would have stayed out of trouble in the first place!" She yelled, her face was flushed with fury.

"It wasn't my fault! I didn't do anything wrong! I swear! That warrior tried to force himself on me and some jealous shewolf saw and twisted what happened around to Sasha!" I exclaimed. River shook her head at me.

"And because you are so special with your wolf's purple eyes that you got royal treatment. You got to stay in the comfort of the Alpha's room! I bet you didn't even want to leave! You wouldn't have to get a job then. All you'd have to do is lay there for him," she sneered and I felt my heart seize up in my chest. "You didn't even tell me about your wolf having purple eyes!" It seemed like she had so much pent up rage towards me.

Now she was huffing after all her shouting. Hopefully, we didn't disturb any of the other hotel guests.

"I hope he f****d you good," she spat.

"f**k you! Why even help me escape if this is how you are going to treat me!" I shouted back.

"Because you are all I have left. Love you or hate you, it doesn't matter. We are all that's left," her strained voice now sounded sad and defeated. River was such a prideful and strong shewolf. It was sad to see her like this now.

"Then stop acting this way and know I did what I thought I must to survive," I told her, but she looked away from me and started to open up the new laptop. She was determined on finding us jobs and trying to blend in with the humans as quickly as possible.

I deeply hoped that we could go back to our normal friendship soon. This was awful. It was bad enough having to live with what happened, but even worse to not even have her anymore.

I pulled out my new cell phone and began working over the internet on there while River used the laptop. The rest of our day continued in silence as we tried to realistically fib on our resumes so it looked like we had normal job experience.