Chapter Four
ISABELLA’S POV
For the next few days, I watched him. Thane never spoke a word to me, and I wonder if he had forgotten everything because I hadn’t.
I didn’t exactly lie to the Luna, but I wasn’t telling the truth either. I did remember a part of my life. A part where ‘He‘ was my everything.
SOME YEARS AGO…
I had found an abandoned house, right in the middle of the woods. It was the perfect place. Here I wouldn’t be encroaching on any packlands; no one would ever be able to find me.
I was a runaway wolf. I had left home one day and never returned; my parents might believe that I died; I didn’t think they would cry over my death. To them, I was already dead. I had an illness, one we all knew would kill me in the end, and maybe that’s why I ran away. I wanted to live life to the fullest with the little time I had left.
anyone,
I’ve always loved nature, so it was no shocker that I ended up in a house surrounded by trees and nature’s wildest animals. I wasn’t alone; no, I never really had so I never knew what the feeling was like, but everything changed the moment I perceived the most beautiful scent I had ever inhaled my whole life.
I knew what this was; I had read about it in the books. I was always a sucker for romance books, and maybe because I believed I would never experience that in my very short life. I had already made a decision many years ago. I knew I was going to die, so there was no need to put someone in the misery that follows after one loses
his mate.
That scent would lead me to him–my mate Every instinct in me told me to move towards it. I was going to be happy, and for the first time in my life, I wanted it so badly. It took everything in me to turn in the opposite direction and run.
That should have been the end; he should have gone and never came back, but that wasn’t the case. He returned every single day, waiting; he stayed for hours, and all those times, I stayed away.
I never saw his face, but I spent my night imagining what he would look like, and the next day, when he came, I made a very stupid move. I followed the scent, and
finally… I saw him.
My imagination did him no justice. None at all. He was the most handsome man I
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had ever seen; he had brown hair and beautiful amber eyes. I couldn’t move; it’s like my whole world came to a stop and it was just the both of us. I was well hidden, but somehow he managed to spot me. His gaze on me snapped me out of my trance, and I ran, just as I always did, but this time he followed.
When I thought I had outrun him, I felt a firm grip around my waist; instinctively, I struggled, but he was stronger than me.
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“I won’t hurt you.”
“Let me go!” I cried out, and he did.
“Your voice…” he began. “It’s beautiful.”
“Stay away from me.” I said, but before I could try running again, he caught me once
more.
“Don’t you feel it?” he questioned.
“Feel what?”
I did feel it; his touch alone was electrifying, igniting feelings in me that I had never thought I could have.
“You are my mate.” He says, confident.
“No, I am not” I insisted.
“You don’t have to lie.”
“I am not lying; I don’t know you, and you are hurting me; let go!”
He finally did let go. “What’s your name?” he asked, and I looked him in the eye. I could tell from his aura that he carried Alpha blood in him, the more reason I should stay away from him, and yet I heard myself speak up.
“Bella.” With that, I ran; this time he didn’t follow.
