Chapter Seventy Nine
Chapter Seventy Nine
It was very surprising that they had arranged all these in just a few hours.
“What is this?” I asked, still in awe of everything.
“A date between the three of us,” Thane answered. “I told you I was going to try make this work.“.
I had never heard of a date between three people, but this attention… I could get used to this.
“Nothing like a midnight snack in the middle of the woods,” Thane said as Axel dropped me on my feet and I walked forward.
“How did you plan all these in a matter of hours?” I asked.
“It will be worth it if you like it.”
“Of course I love it!“,
“Then that’s all that matters.
Axel took a seat, and Thane leads me to my seat, being the perfect gentleman by drawing o a seat for me, before having his own seat. I could really get used to this.
“Hope you are hungry?”
“I am starving.”
“Good”
It was fun; we all engaged in little chats about very random things, and at this moment I felt like I had known these people all my life.
“Axel,” I called.
“Huh?”
“You’ve never spoken about your parents before I noted. From the look in Axel’s eyes, I knew it was more complicated than I thought it to be. “You don’t have to if you aren’t comfortable with this,” I added quickly.
“No, is okay,” he says, but I don’t think it is; I was ready to do anything to move on from this topic. “They had both been banished; the last I heard from them was ten years ago, so I can’t really tell what position they are in now–or if they are still alive,” he answers, but his answer raises more questions in me–questions I couldn’t ask because Axel wasn’t ready to answer that yet and I didn’t plan on invading into his personal matters.
“It must be lonely living without your parents.”
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“Yeah,” he says, still giving nothing away.
“I was thinking, maybe it’s time you join us during official meetings,” Thane says, maybe to change the topic–I couldn’t tell.
“What meetings”
“There are always regular meetings held between Alpha’s and other pack leaders to discuss further plans or solve disputes. I think it’s time you got involved in the pack matters too. Usually the Alpha is always present with their Luna,” Thane said, and I couldn’t be more pleased.
“That’ll be really nice.” I responded. But of course I knew who must have taken my position before now. I didn’t need to think too much on that.
“Riley, have you tried reaching to your wolf side since you came here?” Axel asked, and I shook my head.
“No, it won’t work,” I said. I didn’t like talking about my wolflessness. 1
“Actually,” Thane began, “You are mated to an Alpha, to me…
“You said it yourself; the mark would be nothing but a scar; we aren’t actually mates.”
“We followed same procedures; maybe I was wrong,” Thane said with a shrug.
“What is that? Is the big bad Alpha finally admitting that he can be wrong?”
They both chuckled at that, and then Thane rose.
“Come,” he says, and I give him a puzzled look before taking his hands; he leads me out of the little space into the woods. Our only source of light was the moon and those very beautiful stars. “We would never know till you try,” he says. His voice is reassuring, and I actually think it could work. I didn’t want to raise my hope or his. I did try this a few times back in the Windborne pack, and I was always left in tears. It had never worked, not since that once when I had been so angry.
“Close your eyes,” he says, and despite the protest rising in me, I do as he says, “Do you feel a presence inside of you?”
“No”
“You have to try Riley,” he says, and I inhale, trying to reach anything in there, but no matter how hard I grab, I end up with nothing–because there was nothing in there. I felt the tears of frustration building up.
“Stop this, okay, it doesn’t work, it won’t, I’ve tried” I said. Thane took off his jacket and then his shirt.
“What are you doing?”
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“Maybe you just need some kind of catalyst,” he says, and with that, he switches into his wolf form so easily and magnificently. I wanted that; I wanted the other part of me that seemed to be missing, that part that left me incomplete. He turned to me, staring at me with glittering golden eyes; they were commanding, and though he couldn’t speak, I knew what he said: he wanted me to join him. I wanted to. I watched as he zipped into the forest, urging me to follow, and I did just that, running on my foot, following after him, and.just then… I felt something, it could be my imagination, or maybe it was due to the fact that I wanted to follow after him so badly. My whole body shook; hot, blinding pain filled me, and then I heard the sounds of bones crackling. 2
It wasn’t coming from Thane or Axel… these sounds were coming from me, and when I walked forward, I noticed I had thick furred legs in place of my human legs, my vision was clearer even in the darkness of the night, I heard the little sounds, even the ones made from tiny insects, and then the smell, the beautiful scent, I followed after it, going as fast as I could, even if I wasn’t very used to moving on my four feet, and there Thane stood, in all his naked glory; he had switched back to his human form, and he was striking.
“You are even more beautiful than I thought you would be,” he says, and I open my mouth to speak, but a low rumble leaves my lips instead. Not a sound a human would make.
“I am excited too,” Thane said, as if reading whatever sound I had just made.
Suddenly I was staggering backward.
“Riley,” he calls. “Riley, are you alright?” he asks, but his voice was getting all blurry, just as
vision too was seizing up, and then the darkness welcomed me.
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