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We walked past the people and came to a dirt road that led to a sort of reservation with Recreational vehicles littered around it. The lone wolves picked the outskirts of the town to make their abode. They had done all they could to keep out of people’s business and not be a nuisance.
Too bad they had to leave.
I looked around at the vehicles. There were ten in total, and I guessed that might mean ten or more wolves. If it leads to a fight, the numbers are equal. I turned around and saw some of the neighbors standing at the top of the reservation, watching to see what was about to happen. They mostly had scowls on their faces.
I don’t like this.
James had sent us on a mission that might create discord between the people and him. If this goes sour and there is a fight, the resulting outcome wouldn’t matter; the main messagewill be that sticking to the rules doesn’t grant you a welcome in James’s territory. That’s not the kind of message James wants circulating.
But he didn’t care. James must have thought of all this also. The Tarloux family and whatever business they had with James was more important than his reputation.
Whatever way this goes, whatever the Tarloux family is in town for, I can sense already that it would be the beginning of a long summer. A long summer of unrest.
I sighed as the doors to the RVs opened, and the werewolves came out.
They looked just like any other werewolves. Hard looking, with calculating eyes, taking in their environment and mapping out patterns for an attack should it lead to that or for an escape should that be required too.
My pendant felt heavier suddenly, and it was so cold it was almost burning into my chest. I took my mind off the cold burning into my chest and focused on the wolves before me instead.
The lone wolves stood a couple of feet from us, banded just like a pack would be banded.
“Who is your leader?” I asked.
“Who’s asking?” one of the wolves said. He was about six feet tall with brown hair. He didn’t look like the leader. But none of them look like the leader, and in a way, they all also look like the leader. That must be what it means to be a lone wolf. To have total control over your actions and not be subjugated to others.I would have loved to be like them. That autonomy over my life was what I had to sacrifice for protection, shelter and food, and in time, position within the werewolf court.
“I am asking. I am on an assignment from James. The Alpha of the community. I demand to see your leader.”
“You demand,” the same werewolf said. “Well, little miss in charge, we don’t have a leader. We are lone wolves, haven’t you heard?”
I looked around at my own pack. Most of them had a stolid look on their faces, but Viper had a sneer on. He was enjoying that they were giving me a difficult time.
“Which one of you is Luke?” I asked.
The group was quiet for a while, and then one of them stepped forward. He was taller than the others, with dark hair, dark eyes, and a particularly dark demeanor. When I saw him, my pendant got so cold and heavy that I considered removing it, but then it stopped, and it was light and nonexistent on my chest.
“I am Luke. Who are you?”
I stepped forward until I was just about a foot or two from Luke. It was when I stopped in front of him that I noticed that I hadn’t even intended to walk toward him. It was like there was something in him that pulled me closer. I looked at him skeptically. He was awakening a strange feeling in me that I didn’t understand.
There was an air around him that I couldn’t describe. It was mysterious but attractive.
“I am Hayley,” I said. “And I have a message from you. You have to leave town by the Alpha’s order. You have to—”
“Is that all you do?” Luke said, cutting into my sentence. “Pass on other people’s orders?”
He threw the question at me with such bitterness that it took me aback, but I recovered fast enough and disregarded what he said. I focused on getting the message out instead.
“James wants you to leave.”
“What do you want?” Luke asked me.
“What?”
“You, Hayley,” he said, and his dark eyes danced around me, making my throat dry up. “What do you want?”
I didn’t understand the effect he was having on me. A part of me, deep inside me, wanted to sayyou.
I wanted to tell this man I had just met moments ago that he was all I wanted out of life, and I would abandon my pack and the orders of my Alpha just to be with him.
