Phoenix stands looking at the same spot for a while until he realizes that Alina is moving too far away from him. After seeing what just happened to Alexis and Lucas, he has absolutely no plans of letting Alina too far out of his sight.
Jade and Axel pull Hunter and Ava to the side and tell them about their floating theory, even though they are slightly embarrassed to say it, after what they have just seen, that tiny pendant nearly taking out a mating pair in a few minutes, the unknowns of magic are just too large. What they didn’t think possible before could be plausible now.
So the four of them stand and squat repeatedly, looking like the strangest sight, but no matter how many times they do it, they all still arrive at the same conclusion.
‘So somehow Brodie floated all the way to here from the alpha house, with no one else around?’
‘I am not sure I can’t smell anyone else, but we couldn’t smell anyone yesterday or today and someone had to have written that’
‘But if we can scent Brodie, it means the scents weren’t masked. Yesterday there was a complete lack of scents. I couldn’t smell anyone, not even the dead’
‘So they were able to take Brodie from his bed and take him over this distance without even being present?’
The four look at each other. Undisguised worry can be seen on their faces.
‘This is really bad’
Wolves only have an advantage at close contact. If they can be defeated and manipulated at a long distance, how can they fight that?
‘So he was bought out here, he may have still been sleeping, no one heard a thing at all, if he woke it would be impossible for him not to make a noise’
Ava nods.
‘He was exhausted yesterday. That is why it surprised me that he would wander out here alone. At least he was peaceful on the path to his demise’
Jade’s nails dig into her palms.
‘But with the pendant in his hand, I don’t think it would have been a peaceful end. I thought it was just a gruesome death, but I think it was more of a horrific death’
‘What level of hatred does one have to make a little boy die like that?’
‘I don’t know, but I am trying to stay positive, but I feel like things are spiraling further out of our control’
‘I know, but backing out now is not an option. Even if this becomes a suicide mission, we still have to do it. I think they are coming after us, so whether we die hiding or die fighting is up to us. I know what I would prefer’
The four look at each other, it is not even a true question, but they all know the answer.
Alexis has pulled herself together enough to be able to investigate again, but she is a lot more cautious now. Lucas walks up behind her placing his lips over her ear as he embraces her.
“Don’t touch anything else weird”
Alexis rolls her eyes.
“There is something weird touching me now”
Lucas turns her around in his arms.
“Well I see you are all recovered. You can even make fun of me”
“I will make fun of you with my last breath and when I am on the brink of insanity, that is not a measure of how I am doing”
Lucas leans down, covering her plump pink lips with his.
“Do you know how much I love you?”
“Probably more than I deserve”
Lucas holds her tight, kissing her harder.
“Princess, you deserve the whole world”
Ava and Hunter rejoin Phoenix and Alina and pick up where they left off. Combing through the bush. Their ideas have changed drastically now. If a scent cannot be smelled on the ground, is it possible to be smelled at a higher level?
In the forest in the thick of the trees stands an old concrete structure. Before the packs merged into what they are now, the werewolves were more primitive, more natural. Mixing with humans was unheard of. As the human race grew and spread, the need to join society grew. They didn’t have the luxury of wide open spaces and that is when the packs were formed.
They spent most of their time in natural form, but alpha wolves still met, for that purpose they had buildings so that they could meet in human form. These buildings are few and far between, they were very well hidden and documentation on them has long since disappeared. This is one of those buildings.
A black hooded figure walks into the door, the people looking at the large screens and some training and even some sitting around playing games don’t even notice this figure.
Her footsteps don’t leave a mark, there is no scent left behind, her hooded head turns slowly to look at the minions doing her bidding, her copper eyes shining, her lips curled up in a sneer of disgust.
She walks straight back to a windowless room in the depths of the building. The door opens as she approaches. The room is lit only with red candles, giving the place an ominous yet strangely romantic feel. Behind the desk, which is the only piece of furniture in the room, sits a handsome man. He is in his early thirties, dark hair and brown eyes. His most distinguishing feature is the thick scar running from just below his eyes, running down his face over his chin, down his neck and finishing just over his heart. One would think that a scar that large would detract from his looks but it seems to add a bit of evil charm to his face.
The figure lifts her hooded head, her copper-colored eyes seem to glow in the shadow cast from the hood, the flickering of the candles gives her delicate shadowed features a sinister vibe.
The man looks at the hooded figure lazily with a hint of excitement with a tinge of lust.
“Which two are dead?”
The hooded figure opens her mouth, her sweet voice is so menacing, how you would imagine a snake to sound, slightly venomous yet sickly sweet, enough to run a shudder down anyones spine.
“They escaped unscathed, she is already back at it”
“How is that possible?”
He was there. He witnessed the little boy dying of fright, the alpha-blooded little boy that is just by nature born stronger than others only lasted ten seconds before his heart gave out. The sweetness disappears from her voice, she sounds low and deep like a demon.
“DO NOT QUESTION ME”
The handsome man shivers, the powerful man, used to controlling others, can only be servile in front of her, he suppresses his crippling fear and stands, he tries to keep his voice as steady as normal, he still wants to be the dominant one, but in this partnership it is not possible.
He wraps an arm around her slender waist.
“Do you want me to make you feel better?”
Copper eyes stare at the man. She doesn’t stop his actions. The only thing these animals are good for, she despises yet loves his touch.