New Beginnings

Chapter 19

This chapter goes to the perosn who made my amazing new cover, thank you :). Also special mention to MarkBinks1993 who helped me along with this chapter :). 

Isabelle’s P.O.V.

My dad’s visit soon came to an end, I found myself feeling it was too soon and didn’t really want him to leave however, he had to return home that evening. We had talked about trivial things and he had caught me up on the goings on in the pack; like who had shifted, who had mated and which members had left us. Then with regret he told me that he had to set off before it got dark, gave me one last hug and left, but not without making me promise to come home and visit my mother soon.

Spreading out on my sofa I thought about all the things I had learnt today. My thoughts went to Elle and Drake, the biggest shock. Grabbing my phone from my pocket I dialled Elle’s phone number.

“Hello, phone of the pretty blonde, angry wolf speaking.” Came an unknown voice.

“Hello, who is that? Can I speak to Elle?”  I reply.

“Oh, no. She can’t come to the phone right now, she’s a little… tied up at the moment.” With that he burst out laughing and hung up. Something wasn’t right, it could easily be a pack member messing around, that’s where she is after all with her pack but I felt uneasy. Without really thinking I punched in Drake’s number.

“Elle is that you?” He answered immediately.

“No, it’s me… Bells.” I reply. “What’s going on, where’s Elle? I called her phone and got some guy.”

“Some one answered the phone? What did he say? What did he sound like?” He was begging.

“Drake, what’s going on? Where are you? We need to meet up and talk!”

Twenty minuets later I enter the Cooper pack house. Drake is sat in the foyer to greet me and jumps up to envelope me in a hug the moment I walk through the door. After a minute his body tenses and he steps away.

“Bells I’m so, so sorry for the way I acted. I was selfish and childish and I love you, the last thing I wanted to do was hurt you.” He says, pleading with his eyes for me to believe him.

“I know Drake, its okay, I forgive you. I love you too.” I reassure him.

“No it’s not okay. I didn’t know what it was like to loose a mate but now I do.” He slumps down the nearest wall with his head in his hands.

“What do you mean you know what its like? Where’s Elle?” He just stares up at me. “Drake where is she?” I ask with more force and purpose.

“We don’t know. She was taken yesterday.” I do the math in my head; today is the twenty seventh of December, I had last seen Elle on the evening after I got back from my date with Dylan, she was due to go back to the pack house the next morning, that was four days ago. However, I had last spoken to her on Christmas Day, she was extremely happy that day even for her and I guess that had something to do with Drake but why didn’t she tell me? By Boxing Day every thing had changed.

“Taken? What do you mean taken?” I ask, I can’t get my mind around what he’s saying.

“Taken Bells. How else can I put it? She was kidnapped. We have had one call with a ransom, they don’t want money they want territory.” He explains.

“So they are shifters, that much is certain. Is that all we know?”

“I think you should talk to Alpha Cooper. They answered the phone when you rang, maybe they will do it again.”