Mated To The Werewolf Huntress

Chapter Two

SASHA

It took me a few seconds for me to register that I was in my room and on my bed. I turned my head to the side to see that the sun was already filtering through the closed curtain in my room. I frowned. I wasn’t supposed to be in bed at that time of the day. If my father got to know…

Shit!

I tried to get up from bed, but was hit with a sharp pain in my head. I fell back immediately, hitting the very soft pillow.

Huh?

“You awake!” I turned to see my uncle entering my room, with a tray in his hands. “Don’t try to stand up so quickly, it would only make your headache worse.” He said, placing the tray on the table next to my bed. I did as he asked and sat up slowly.

“Hi..uh..uncle Riley?” I blinked, slowly remembering how I had had a brain splitting pain in my head, just before I had passed out in his arms. “Where is Dad?”

Uncle Riley just chuckled and gestured to the food on the table. “Eat something. Your aunt prepared those for you.” He gave me a warm smile.

I took the tray and put it on the bed, peering at the contents. I smiled as I saw the heart shaped pancakes and the ‘get well soon’ note she had left on the tray. Aunt Olivia was a darling. Pity I didn’t get to see her more often, since she was a level 11 hunter, and worked around the clock.

“Thank you.” I said, picking up my fork and digging into the deliciousness. “How long have I been out?” I asked. I knew I had passed out sometime in the evening.

Uncle Riley sighed. “Sixteen hours, Sasha.” he drew a chair close and sat down. “Tell me what happened before you passed out.” his voice was low, and laced with concern.

I swallowed the food I had in my mouth and looked at my plate. “I really only just felt a very sharp pain in my head, and then I couldn’t move. That’s it. Woke up this morning in my bed and I still feel a dull pain in my head.” I forked another piece into my mouth and sipped from the glass of orange juice next to me.

“Did you take your tea yesterday?” He asked.

By ‘tea’, he meant a concoction he and my father usually made for me for as long as I could remember. According to him, I had been a very sick child, and that was what had kept me healthy. He usually had a flask ready in the mornings. It was a compulsory morning ritual for me, and my uncle never failed to bring it to me.

I nodded. “Yes I did.” I lied. I had skipped that tea the previous day because I had had too much pain that morning and the tea always weakened me for at least two hours, before the effects kicked in. I had wanted to get on my day as quickly as possible to avoid being at the receiving end of my father’s anger.

“I see.” I could feel his gaze on me, and I didn’t dare look up. My uncle knew me too well, and could tell when I was lying through my teeth. “Anyways, somehow, your father has agreed you should take the day off, so you could get back on your feet.” He rose to his feet and headed to the door. “I’ll have to get going now. Take care of yourself, Sasha.” He smiled.

I waved at him. “Take care too, uncle Riley.” I said, just before the door closed behind him.

Hah!

If my head wasn’t pounding, I would have leaped into the air with joy. Ever since I had turned eighteen and got into level one, I had never gotten a break from training and missions, except it was the holidays. And even during the holidays, I trained for two hours each day. “Thanks dad!” I whispered into the room.

Headache forgotten, I shoved the food quickly into my mouth and was done in no time. When I finished eating, I rushed into the bathroom and had the quickest shower I had ever had in my entire life. I didn’t even dare wash my thick mass of blonde hair, because it would have taken forever to dry.

Twenty minutes later, I was heading down the staircase. My mission…

Read, then swim.

I loved to read, and unsurprisingly, the ‘pack house’ had a very huge library that was mostly untouched and was almost only visited by I and the housekeeper. I took a quick look at my reflection in the hallway mirror and stood, staring at the person in the mirror. I looked really pale, and my white blonde hair was not helping in any way.

Huffing, I marched to the huge door that held my favorite thing in the world.

Books.

NIKOLAI

“Are you sure you found him at the river bank?” I asked the sentinel for the umpteenth time already. The man who was probably fed up with my question just nodded his head.

I couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing. In front of me, lay a member of my pack, who had gone missing over fourteen months ago. And all efforts to find him had proved negative.

Just a few hours after I had returned from my run, two of the riverbank sentinels had come to me with news that he had been found floating on the water, half shifted.

And werewolves only died in this state, when they had gone through a lot of torture. f**k! Even his eyes were still glowing. Meaning he had died only a few hours ago.

“Gather all the sentinels. We will meet in three hours.” I said, and left the room where the body was. I couldn’t stomach it anymore. Even my wolf had turned it’s back on the sight that greeted us.

“Nikolai!” Justin called from behind me. He was my beta, and younger brother. We had both been left with the responsibility of heading a pack a very young age. He, twenty-one, and I, twenty-four.

That was six years ago.

“Hurry up, Justin. You know where I’m headed.” I said and broke into a run, heading straight for the woods. The scent of that wolf was already all over me, and I knew I wouldn’t have a hard time getting the answers I needed.

Simeon had tortured that man, and had sent his body afloat in that damn river.

I growled as I heard my brother shift behind me, the moment we got into the woods. The sentinels we had passed didn’t dare say a word as they watched us.

“Are you sure you will find what you are looking for?” My brother asked, his voice clear in my head.

I growled, sniffing the ground as I went. “We need something. Anything. You saw him. He didn’t just die. Someone murdered him.” I continued to run, very well ahead of my brother, who tried to match my speed.

“I know…but I know where you are going. And I do not think it’s a good idea,” he said.

I was heading East, and that was where the scent I had finally picked was leading me to. Why there? I couldn’t tell.

But nothing was stopping me.

“You could go back, if you want.” I came to a stop as the scent became stronger, pulling at my senses. Even Justin stopped too.

“What’s wrong?” He asked. I could hear the tension in his voice as he spoke.

I looked around. The tall trees shading the floor from the sky, had caused the woods to be dark, making it impossible for a mere human to see anything.

We weren’t humans.

And I saw it, felt it, smelled it.

“Let’s head back. There’s nothing here.” I lied. Turning and making sure he was ahead of me as we headed back to the pack house. It actually took everything that was in me, to get my wolf to turn around and head back.

I was shaking by the time we reached the house..

“There was something there, Nikolai, and I know it!” We were back in the house. I was so thirsty after my run, that I headed straight for the refrigerator to get myself some water. When that was not enough, I tipped the carton of milk into my mouth and drank in large gulps. “Whoa Whoa whoa! Slow down man! It’s not like you ran a f*****g marathon!”

I set the carton back in the refrigerator and turned to my brother, who had taken a seat at the dining table. “I didn’t see s**t bro.” I went to Sir with him and placed my elbows on the table, feeling very hot and shaky.

“Then why are you so sweaty like you are having an internal battle with your wolf?” He asked with a raised brow.

He was right. I was trying to keep my wolf down. My wolf kept growling one particular word to me.

Mate.

Yes. I had smelled something in those woods, and had it been a different circumstance, I would have gone exploring, to know what it had been. I had smelled my mate. But the scent had been tinged with something really eerie and only made the furs on my skin stand.

I had literally forced my wolf to turn away to avoid whatever the eerie feeling had been.

Whatever it was in those woods earlier, it wouldn’t have been good. At all.

I looked at my brother who still waited for my answer with all the patience in the world, and sighed. “I smelled my mate.” I stated calmly and watched as the expression on his face morphed into that of shock.

“Wait…what?”