Chapter 18
“Neah, we will be returning to Moonshine tonight!”
shouldn’t have accused him of stuff.
I feel my stomach drop. He was returning me. He finally realised that I was no good. My eyes close and I feel my breath catch in my throat. I should have been like the others Raven had told me about. I should have thrown myself at him. I should have tried harder. I I feel his rough fingers on my chin as he tips my face up. “Neah, open your eyes.”
I keep them squeezed shut.
“Neah, I am not returning you.”
Continuing to keep my eyes squeezed tight, I didn’t believe him. I knew it was going to happen eventually.
“I will try harder.” I plead. I may still not know what the future holds for me here, but it had to be better than going back to my brother.
“Neah, you are not listening. I am not returning you.”
I peek through slits. “We,” Alpha Dane points to Beta Eric and himself. “Are going back tonight.”
“Is that a good idea?” Raven mutters. She glances at me and sighs. “What if that’s what they want?”
“Raven, I can handle myself and the pack has barely a hundred members. I could kill that many in my sleep.”
“Are you taking Jenson?” Raven asks
“I wasn’t planning on it.” Alpha Danes’ gaze shifts back to me. “But now I think it is a good idea.”
“And what if they aren’t there, like last time?”
“Then we will burn it to the ground.” He shrugs his shoulders, “Or I might just do that anyway.”
I see how he watches me, waiting for some kind of reaction.
“If you see Beta Kyle, rip his insides out through his throat.”
Raven’s jaw drops open as she looks at me. Beta Eric was staring at me too but Alpha Dane, he had a smile creeping over his lips. “Gladly.” He muses.
He shifts his gaze to Beta Eric. “We leave at nightfall.”
Beta Eric responds with a simple nod and leaves the office. He pulls a protesting Raven with him, leaving Alpha Dane and I alone. “You’ve thought about his death?” He asks, curiously
“Beta Kyle……”
“Don’t call him Beta. Twat, prick, spunk bubble, you can call him anything but Beta. I told you he doesn’t deserve the title.”
“Okay.”
“I have more questions about him, but tell me why I can smell my brother on you. Does it have something to do with why Raven asked me if I was taking him with me?”
“He said something about getting to know me.” I didn’t want to cause problems between them.
“Let me guess. Because you will be family one day.”
I nod and see how he frowns. I really wanted to curl up in a small ball and pretend that none of this was happening. I didn’t need to be causing more problems.
His head suddenly turns to the window. “Neah, stay here. Lock the door behind me.”
Alpha Dane doesn’t give me a chance to ask any questions as rushes out the door. I see Jenson, Eric and some other men catapult themselves out the door, some already mid shift.
Quickly closing the door, I slide the lock across. I had no idea what was happening. They could obviously sense something that I couldn’t. In my panic, I shove the chairs in front of the doors and sit under the window, hugging my legs to my chest. Moonshine had never been attacked and the pack had never attacked anyone, I had no idea what to do.
Peering over the window frame, a huge beast was being dragged out of the trees by the Wolves. It was tall and muscular with strange tufts of dark fur. A body like a human, but its head was just like a Wolf only much larger. I had never seen anything like it. It digs its back feet into the ground as the Wolves try to drag it into the clearing. Large claws swing at the Wolves as it tries to break free until someone grabbed hold of its neck ripping it from it’s shoulders