Red Riding Hood Meets The Wolf: Book One (and Two) of The Hunted Series. (First Draft)

The Wolf Picks Up the Trail: Chapter 16

   Another update before Cinco De Mayo, you shall have. Enjoy this Chapter, you will. Happy Star Wars day!! May the fourth be with you!!! :D

Dedicated to AngelMaree1 for commenting on the past three chapters and begging me to update. The action starts very soon after this so you should be happy :D Thought this would be better then a comment as well…speaking of which…you never answered me…what would you do if I didn’t update? :P

“Arthur!” I yelled at him as I banged open his door, not in the mood for ceremonies.

“Yes Alpha?”

“Why don’t we search up past residences and properties owned by Vanessa and her family all the way to her great Grand Mother. They moved her when she was pregnant with Vanessa’s Grand Mother.”

“Got it Alpha.” He said, turning to his computer screens behind him and typing in some coding that I knew nothing about. Within a few minutes he had seven addresses pulled up for me including the cottage where they lived now and the house in which Vanessa and Katy lived with their parents. “Okay, so there seems to be nothing abnormal about the cottage and I doubt that Vanessa’s Grand Mother would want to raise suspicion within the neighborhood and their old house is now owned by your parents…”

“They bought that to give to Vanessa when she married for her and Katy to live in since it was closer to the College and High School then their Grand Mother’s house.”

“And then there are two within the city itself which will make it harder to search, but three in the outskirts that we could got to with our full werewolf forces due to the woods being ample cover.”

“We will start with the city as mass amounts of people could be hidden there and there is the sewer system, Vanessa had a dream about a tunnel and was in an underground place while Aretha took over right after Sam’s shift.”

“Well then, we should start with this one near the high school as there are three sewer entrances right next to the exits.” I left the room before he could say much more and I rounded up our search parties, knowing I would need Arthur to come along with us because he was the only one who could be the most help in finding her, besides myself, as her Protector. The job would take a few days, but it needed to be done in a hurry. The two week deadline was going to hit this Saturday, and it was only Monday. We would have to spend a day at each site and then leave behind a team of five men to keep watch in case there was any activity. The group consisted of the majority of our fighters as we needed to leave some behind.

“We will get our Luna back, and we will before she is forced to open the Huntress box. I will make sure she never leaves my side again, otherwise I will go on a rampage to get her back, not caring who is in my way. And if you care for the sanity of your Alpha you will help me make sure she never leaves again.” I got a resounding and hearty Yeah out of my my men in reply making my wolf bristle in pride at the knowledge that his pack would help him in anything and that they loved their Luna as much as he did. I made my way to the front door, but when I opened the door to the house, there was a package. I held my hand up to stop the group following behind me before bending down and giving it a whiff. It smelled normal so I picked it up and ripped open the packaging to find a small CD case. A yellow post it note was placed on it saying nothing more then the word, watch. I ran to the DVD player in the main room while the majority of the pack came in and watched me.

A video immediately opened up once the disk loaded and it was aimed at a metal door with not much light shining in. The door slammed open and some light slowly filtered in on a frightened Vanessa. She then spoke about the person holding the camera. “Wow. I haven’t seen that look since last night at dinner, Aretha.” I got angry at the fact that my mate was obviously being kept as a prisoner in her room and that they were forcing her to dress like they did. I looked closer at her and noticed bruises and cuts on her face and arms and I growled deeply, frightening some of the younger women and pups in the room.