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“So, how long have you been out here?” Here it was, the questions. This is why I enjoy being alone. No getting to know people.
“Why do you want to know? It’s not like we are going to be friends. Get warm and leave.” I growled as I pulled my rabbit from the flames and stood heading to the cave. I didn’t want anything to do with this wolf. I just wanted to live my days alone.
“Has she come to you yet?” His question stopped me in my tracks. No, this is not happening! I turned slowly, my eyes locking with his. He cocked his head and raised an eyebrow with his question.
“What did you say to me?” My eyes narrowed and my breathing became heavy as my heart started to race. You have got to be shitting me.
“By the way you are glaring at me, I’m going to assume that she did.” The male wolf stood and brushed off the dust on his shorts before sticking out his large, calloused hand. “I’m Markus and you are?”
“No, I’m not doing this for her. She fucked me and now I have nothing to do with her.” I snarled at him and stepped back. Shaking my head, I stepped further back. I wasn’t going to do this for her. I refuse!
“Well, I don’t think you have much of a choice. I was told to come find you and then we would find three others.” He stared at me as if what he just told me was going to convince me to find whoever these people were. But I did have a choice and I had made it the night she killed my Kalila.
“I’ve told her. No. And I’m telling you no now. Leave me or I’ll be beating your ass all over this rock face.” I lowered the tone in my voice and yet this wolf didn’t make a sound nor move to leave. He had balls.
“Well, I’m here and there’s nothing we can do about that but go forward. Do you want to live in a land that is ruled by a tyrant?” So, my uncle had been making a name for himself. Still, I didn’t care. The things that made life worth living were gone.
“He doesn’t affect me. I live on the land, no pack to tell me what to do. Nothing he does will have anything with the way I live.”
“That’s where you’re wrong. I’ve grown up with an alpha like him. They are a plague on the land. Each generation is worse than the other until someone changes.” The way his green eyes glowed with that statement made me wonder. What was so different about this prophesied alpha than any other? How was he different from me?
“Yeah? Well, sometimes a plague is needed to cleanse the world.” I told him and turned back to go to the cave. I didn’t want anything to do with this. He had my pack so there was no way for me to take it back now.
“That is true. But if you want to find that fated mate of yours, then helping to defeat that tyrant will bring you that much closer.” His statement stopped me again for the second time. How did he know I didn’t have my fated mate? Did she tell him? To get under my skin?
“Yeah? Well, I’m pretty sure I don’t have one. I’m twenty-seven years old and haven’t found her.” A heaviness in my chest made me short of breath as I glanced down at my feet. I shook my head and turned my gaze back to the male wolf. “Leave! You and her can go fuck yourselves! There’s no mate for me!”
“Fin, you’re still a young wolf. Have you thought she might not be of age? It’s not uncommon.”
I had told myself this exact line back when I had met Kalila. Could she still be out there? If she didn’t have her wolf that would be the reason, I couldn’t find her. I growled to myself at how stupid I had been. Shaking my head, I continued into the cave and sat down. The rabbit cooling on the wooden stick I had been carrying around.
The male wolf followed me into my rock home and stood at the entrance. He was quiet as he stared at me. The sun finally letting go of its hold on the sky. I glanced up at the wolf that was sent to me from the Moon Goddess. As much as I didn’t want to help her since she took my chosen and pup away from me. I still wanted to find my fated and if getting to this prophesied alpha would bring me closer to her then fine. “Take a load off. Looks like we’ll be together for a while.”
Since I met Markus, things have been different. It felt good to be with another wolf, but I was still wary of him. I didn’t like that the Moon Goddess had used him and my fated mate to get me to find this alpha. He talked about everything, from his past to now when he found me.
Aloysius liked when we traveled in wolf form. His favorite thing to do was playing with Naik, Markus’ wolf. He acted like a pup. One of the good things about having another wolf was that we could take down bigger game. No more rabbits for this wolf.
In the two years that we had been together, we had yet to find the other three wolves that the Moon Goddess had wanted us to find. Which was pissing me off. It made me feel as if she was pulling my paw. I wouldn’t put it past her.
We had run into members of my old pack. Luckily, they had never met me while I was alpha, so I didn’t think anything about them escaping after Markus and I kicked their asses. They had turned tail and booked it away from us. If I wanted, I could track them with as much blood as they were spilling. I didn’t tell Markus that I knew their smell. There was no reason, really. It was no longer my pack.
“You’ve been quieter than normal Fin.” Markus’ voice made me turn to face him, the leg of the deer being rotated on the spit to cook it evenly. The deer was what had led to the attack by the other wolves.
“Nothing, just ready to get this whole “quest” over with.” I told him as I air quoted the word quest. My stomach growled as I sat there staring at the meat spinning on the stick. The sizzle of the fat dropping into the fire made it worse, causing my stomach to roll.
“Yeah, well, we still have to find the other three of our group. So it might be a while before we find them and then this alpha.” Markus answered me. He was older than me by five years and had a lot more patience than I had. I felt like a much younger pup with him. Markus was easy to talk to once I allowed myself to open up to him. He reminded me of Harlen.
Sighing, I stood and went to get more firewood. This wasn’t how I thought this was going to go. I mean, hell, we were wolves. Why couldn’t we just be able to sniff them out? And if it was so pertinent to find these wolves, why didn’t the moon goddess give us their scent?
A splash brought my attention to my left. The ripples in the lake stopped me in my tracks. When the red head crested the surface, my jaw dropped. I stood there with the wood in my arms and when she turned, my jaw dropped even further at the cute face staring back at me.
“Stalker much? Can you not turn so I can get out?” The mousey little voice that shouted back at me didn’t have the effect I was hoping for.
“Sorry, maybe you should make sure there isn’t anyone around before jumping naked in a lake in the middle of the woods.” I snapped back at her. A twig snapped to my right, and a grey wolf pushed through the brush on my right. His lips pulled back off his fangs showing the pinks of his gums.
Dropping the wood, I shifted just as the other wolf lunged at me. Another rushed through the brush as we fought. I didn’t understand why they would be attacking me. The grey wolf was fast and part of me thought maybe he was an alpha, but he wasn’t as big as I was.
Three sets of claws fought in the scuffle, two to my one not unlike when I would train in my pack. I jumped back away from the two wolves. The other wolf that had joined him was brown with splashes of black in his fur. They were rogues, too. My white coat was splattered with their blood as I stood there snarling at them. Brown, grey and white fur littered the ground. Aloysius snarled ears to the back of his head.
