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Chapter 16
It was now Wednesday and I, my parents, and James were waiting anxiously at my house for my Cousin Damien’s arrival.
It turns out the guy who had broke into our house and attacked me was indeed working for Damon and that he had others working for him as well. No one knows for sure how many because the guy was apparently new and he won’t give anymore information out. He was a human though and must be used to werewolves. Everyone now suspects Damon to be wolf like us, but I tell them he’s not.
It was about six o’clock when Damien arrived. He was about four months younger than me and was tall. Like, really tall. Damien had the bluest eyes you will probably ever see, and really dark black hair.
My cousin was a part of the Elite wolf society and you were pretty much guaranteed to be in their group if you had a dark colored wolf that was all one color, like blacks and grays. You began training at age ten at a special academy and come out seven years later with top of the line training in fighting, tracking, camouflage and medical expertise. There’s way more, but I can’t remember much of it.
Personally, I’m glad I don’t have dark colored fur and if I did I wouldn’t join anyways. The training is way too intense for me and having to endure seven years of it, with out being able to see your family except on holidays? No thank you.
James pulled me out of my thoughts when he got up from the love seat we were sitting on to go stand by the door and my parents did the same. Not wanting to be left behind I got up and followed them to the door.
Through the glass door I saw a sleek black car pull up into our drive way, and when it was parked out stepped Damien.
I flew out the front door, not waiting for my favorite cousin to get up here. I haven’t seen him in a year!
“Damien!” I cried as I flew into his arms just as he got on the walk to the porch. I heard his deep laugh as he spun me around.
“It’s good to see you too!” Damien said as he set me down on the sidewalk and began walking to the door where my family and my mate were waiting. “Gosh, I’ve missed you. It’s been what, a year since I’ve seen you?”
“Feels like ten years!” I said. Damien and I were now inside and my parents greeted him with hugs and words like ‘It’s been so long’ and ‘It’s good to see you’.
When Damien turned to say hello to James he looked at me and said, “So this is him, huh?”
I blushed and nodded my head. “Yeah, he’s my mate,” I reached for James’ hand and he pulled me into his side.
“Aw, well don’t you guys look cute,” my Cousin said an evil spark in his blue eyes. “I want to talk to you later,” he said to my mate.
I looked up to see James pale and he looked down at me with a horrified expression on his face, to which I just grinned at. “He won’t hurt you, I promise,” I said smiling. He wouldn’t hurt him, just scare him. Damien was known for that.
“Right,” James said. “Well should we get him informed?” he hooked a thumb towards Damien.
My father clapped his hands together and started walking towards our kitchen. “We should, come on,”
After everyone was settled around out kitchen table we started to tell Damien what was going on.
“Basically,” my Father began, “Anna’s ex-boyfriend found us again with in a month of us living here. He is stalking her and sending people after her, leaving notes or breaking into the house. He has people working for him, and we think Damon might be a werewolf or is in contact with them because his men that work for him seemed to be unfazed by us and the guy we caught is human,”
Taking a breath he continued, “We wanted to see if you could track Damon down or find out of he is one of us so we can stop this once and for all. It’s getting out of hand and James’ life has even been threatened,”
When my dad was finished our heads turned to Damien who was slowly taking all of this in. “If I see him when I’m tracking he’s dead, no questions asked,” He said after a few minutes. He sighed, “Okay, well I need a scent now,”
An hour after we had gotten everything settled for Damien to start tracking, him, James and I was seated in the living room with the news humming quietly in the background.
“Oh, I need to talk to you James. Anna, could you go upstairs?” Damien said.
“Why?” I asked. James shot me a look and I understood. Damien was going to give him one of those ‘If you hurt my sister I’ll kill you’ talks, even though we’re cousins.
I huffed. “Fine,” with that I trudged up the steps to my room, going as slow as possible to see if I could hear any of their conversation.
James’ POV
My gaze followed Anna as she walked slowly up the steps. Can’t she go any slower? I really don’t want to do this talk thing with her cousin. At least I didn’t have to go through it with her dad… I shuddered at the thought.
Damien turned to me and stared at me and stared at me, probably contemplating what to say. “So,”
“So…” I echoed uneasily.
“Hold your right hand up and repeat after me,” I did as he said. “I, James Porter, mate of Annabelle Smith,”
I sighed. “I, James Porter, mate of Annabelle Smith,”
“Solemnly swear I will never hurt her,”
“Solemnly swear I will never hurt her,” I echoed back. As if the thought would ever even cross my mind.
“Never go against her, will always protect her, defend her, and never let her be hurt in anyway,”
I repeated his words.
“I will always be by her side and never leave her,”
Again, I echoed him.
“Will love her and cherish her over everything else and will go to any length to make her smile when she is sad. I will never push her to do anything she doesn’t want to do or go behind her back,”
I repeated him once more.
“And finally, I solemnly swear that I will love her forever and if I go against anything I just said I give Damien Johnson the permission to punish me by ripping out the family jewels,”
“And finally, I solemnly swear that I will love her forever and if I go against anything I just said I… am not saying that last part,” I said. No way.
Damien laughed. “Okay, fine, but you have to go tell her you said all of that now. It’s either that or you give me permission,”
I thought for a moment. Do I really want to tell her all of that? There’s no doubt in my mind that it’s not true, because it most definitely is true. That would be really… embarrassing though…
“Hurry up and make up your mind, already!
I sucked in a deep breath and stood up. “Fine, I’ll do it,” and I headed towards the stairs and Anna’s room.