Chapter 17: Need Answers
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**Amyra**
I packed everything and sat on the edge of the bed holding my knees to chest.
A large part of me wants to stay.
What has happened to me?
Why I'm thinking about him? Fantasizing me.
I'm not able to get rid of his thoughts.
His touch makes my body shiver, I want to breakdown in his arms.
Suddenly I feel an ache in my chest.
He is a wolf when I saw him shift to one, my heart ached.
Though Alex says I'm a wolf, but I never shifted nor felt it. I can never shift. I'm human not a wolf.
Our worlds are different, we can never be together.
This is the reason I'm leaving, my friends are staying back for some more time.
If I stay back, I can't control myself.
I have to leave, a tear escapes from my eyes.
I don't know when I became so sensitive over a boy who had just kissed me?
I am crying for even small things.
Come on..get your s**t together Amy.
This is not you.
But then that kiss was mind-blowing.
"Princess...Alex is here" Dad calls me from downstairs.
May be Aaron is also with him.
I rush down the stairs to see only Alex, he was sitting on the couch.
I scan the doorway, no sign of Aaron.
"Aaron is outside, he is talking to someone," Alex says eyeing at me and chuckles.
I roll my eyes.
"I'm not looking for him," I say and rush to my room window, from where I can see the side of the house where the vehicle is parked.
"Yeah..we know," he says from behind and Dad and Alex laugh.
I ignore them intently.
I peep through the window, I see Aaron standing with a girl, they are talking and laughing.
After some time he leaves in the jeep with that girl.
Where did he go?
I run to the porch and the parking lot.
He had already gone.
Tears start pricking my eyes.
Alex comes behind me " Amy...what happened?" he asks.
"Nothing..." I say and rush to my room. I will lean behind the door and allow tears to wash over my face.
"Amy...open the door," Alex says knocking the door.
I wipe my tears and open the door.
"Aaron had some work...he had called me just now," he said looking at me.
I turn away "Of course he had," I say.
"What's the matter? You know you can share with me anything" he says.
I pause for a long time.
"I won't force you, just know that I'm there for you," he says giving me a sympathetic look.
I gulped.
"I wanted to talk to him one last time, but he didn't meet me, he just...left," I say as the tears start trailing down my cheeks.
"That's it? You are not leaving anywhere" he says giving me a small smile.
"I can't stay here anymore," I say cursing myself for sharing this with brother.
"Didn't you see, what the mayhem I had created? So many people died, I couldn't save any of them and it all happened because of me. I never wanted this. I hate violence. I hate wolves, vampires, ghosts. I can never be a part of this world, my world is out there in Orleans. My college, party, and friends. I want that life". I say sobbing.
He hugs me and says "I understand you are disturbed, but everything will be fine when you shift".
I release from his embrace and look into his eyes "I can't shift. I don't want to. I can't kill anybody" I say.
Moving away from him, I stand against the window.
He exhales sharply.
"You think we shift to kill the innocent people? We kill the people who harm our species, who are dangerous to our kind. We don't attack until they attack us. You have seen it yesterday...didn't you?" he says trying to convince me.
"You don't understand, have you ever held anybody in hand, you stay there helpless and let them die in your hands? I can't..." I say trailing off.
"You have to know, there are a few things you can't control. You have to just leave them. Amy...listen to me, just stay with me for a few more days, Dad will be there with us. I will take you to my pack." he says.
I paused staring at Alex as I allowed the information to sink in.
The fact was that I also wanted to know what was happening to me.
There were a million questions in my head that had to be addressed.
About those wolves which saved me from ghosts.
I was terrified as hell when I saw them coming to me, but something inside told me that they are here to help me.
Why all this is happening when I'm around?
Why my heart flutters for Aaron?
And what is the deal with Dad and Sameera?
I can't keep on avoiding the elephant in my head. Ok not elephant, it's the wolf.
And if I go back to Orleans, I still keep thinking about all this.
I need to know the answers to all my questions.
Alex narrows his eyebrows and looks at me.
"What are you thinking?" he asks.
"I will come with you," I say.
Instantly corner of his lips curl up in a smile and he hugs me.
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**Aaron**
I was in a jeep with Nina. She had asked me to drop to the packhouse.
She is a good warrior of our pack.
Josh had texted me, that rogues were seen in the border.
I had informed Josh and Dad when I had seen Jenny with rogues. But they had disappeared at that time.
Now they are back again.
How can I be so careless?
I am the goddamn Alpha.
I have to take care of the pack.
I had come here to see Amyra, but couldn't meet her.
What if she leaves tomorrow?
If she leaves, once the rogue's problem is solved, I will go to Orleans to get her.
But right now pack needs me.
I can't distract myself.
How can rogues regularly barge in our borders?
Is there someone helping them in the pack?
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