Gracie
"Thanks for bringing me home" I smiled at him through the window of his car. "I don't know what I would have done without you."
"Anytime" he winked and sped off.
I took a deep breath and walked over to my house. I stood at the bottom of the tree and looked longingly up at my window. I wished I had never left my house.
I pulled myself up and climbed up to my room, hauling myself through the window.
I collapsed on my bed and stared blankly at the wall. I was staring but I couldn't see it. I thought back to what had happened this evening.
A few hours before...
I watched in utter shock as right in front of me, my boyfriend became a wolf and then a loud scream pierced the air. I looked around, wondering who it was that screamed before I realised it was actually me.
The crowd gathered around were looking as if this was an everyday occurrence- like people just changed into wolves whenever they wanted.
I looked at Grey again his now gray eyes were looking at me mournfully.
I needed to get out of there.
I hurried back into the house, the crowd parting for me like the Red Sea.
Where was my bag?? Where was the stupid bag?!!
"Gracie!" I looked up to see Grey hopping into the house as he attempted to put on some black sweatpants.
Thankfully, his parts were covered before I looked at him.
"No!" I screamed. What did he want with me? Kill me like he was about to kill that guy out there? "Please, please, Grey, I beg you, please stay away from me."
The amount of hurt that entered his eyes at that moment was almost enough to bring me to my knees.
Almost.
"Gracie" he started coming towards me.
Sod the bag. I was getting out of there.
I ran out the front door and immediately realised how stupid I was. I was miles away from home.
I began to run down the endless driveway, knowing Grey wasn't far behind me.
Fudge! They could host the track olympics on this driveway!
An engine revved and a pair of headlights focused on me as the car drew nearer.
"Get in!"
"Gracie!!!" I looked back and saw Grey running terrifyingly quickly towards me.
I looked back at the occupant of the car and without a moment's thought, pulled open the passenger's door and we were off before I could even properly close the door.
I watched in the rearview mirror as Grey chased the car a bit before stopping and just watching us go.
I waited until he was completely out of sight before turning to the driver of the car.
"How did you know I was there?"
"I didn't, I had some business in the area." Scott looked at me, "What happened?"
I sighed and looked at the trees were were speeding past. I wanted badly to talk to somebody about what I had seen tonight. To dissect, and try to understand what in the world had happened and convince myself that I wasn't going crazy.
But...
It was obvious that this was some secret and even though I was terrified of Grey right now, I still didn't want to give up his secrets.
"I don't want to talk about it." I said softly.
"But I did save you right?"
"Yeah of course."
"Sooo that makes me your hero then?
I smiled. "I'm fruity. Just leave the hero stuff to me"
His laughter filled the square box we were driving in.
Back to the present...
I didn't even know how I felt about Grey at the moment. I was terrified, angry and...heartbroken.
But I knew one thing for sure.
I needed that stay far away from him.
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Grey.
"Fuck!" I swept my arm over my desk and sent all the items on it clattering to the ground.
"Grey"
You shifted in front of Gracie.
I sent a glass smashing against the wall.
"Grey!"
"Stay away from me" she said.
Broke a chair in half.
"ALPHA!"
"Get out." I snarl.
"Alpha, we need to-"
"I said GET THE FUCK OUT!"
I sent a vase in his direction and it smashed against the door as he quickly shut it behind him.
I collapse on the only piece of furniture remaining in the room- the desk.
Gracie was scared- no terrified of me. What I saw in her eyes was pure terror. As if she thought I would or could hurt her.
A stabbing pain shoots through my heart as I think about the way she looked at me again.
I had been so blinded by anger and my wolf took over when that pup mentioned Gracie; my mate and the word die in the same sentence that I had completely forgotten she was there.
And then I had let her get away.
Who was driving that car??
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I descended the stairs into the cell where we were holding the rut that had caused all this mayhem.
I would have killed him immediately but we needed answers.
Answers which he had.
Oh but he would die eventually. Nobody could do what he did tonight and expect to get out of here alive.
The rut had the audacity to smirk when he saw me.
His entire face was still bloody from the beating I gave him.
"I must be really special." He laughed- or attempted to but it came out as a wheeze "I get the full attention of the Alpha."
"Shut up." I pulled the chair one of my men had set there for me and sat on it backwards, rolling up my sleeves. "See, now, we could do this the easy way, or the hard way. But something tells me you're a hard way sort of guy. Do you want to prove me wrong?"
He looked at me blankly.
I laughed, "I was right. I'm always right."
I held my hand out and one of my men put a knife- handle first, into my hand.
"Okay, now let me explain how we're going to do this. This is a pure silver blade. A few slices will end you in the most excruciating way."
I got up and walked towards him, seeing fear already enter his eyes. Silver was a werewolf's worst nightmare. "So, I'm going to ask you a few questions- just a few, and if you lie, or don't cooperate in any way,.... slice."
I grinned as I reached him, "Capish? Great! Question 1, who sent you?"
He cackled "He is the great chosen one and he will be the end of you!"
I made a buzzer sound with my mouth "Wrong answer! You see, I was looking for a name"
I ran the blade deep across his forearm, making him scream and thrash.
"Okay, we'll go on to the next question, okay?"
"You psycho!" He screamed.
I laughed "No need for compliments right now, pup. Question 2, what pack are you from?"
There was silence and I raised the blade.
"The Shadow pack" he shouted and I grinned again.
"See, you've learnt to play the game! Isn't it fun?"
"Third question, what is your plan with Tamara Grace?"
He smiled, showing a row of blood coated teeth "The plan has already begun and it's like a set of dominoes. One piece will fall on another piece, one event will lead to the next until! You are dead, your pack destroyed, and your dear Gracie begging to die while my Alpha fuc-"
"See and there I thought you had learned to play the game" I smiled, before sticking the knife straight into his heart.
"Grey!" Mason shouted "We could have gotten more answers from him!"
I ignored him and stalked out of the room.
Game on, chosen one.