You Rejected Me. Remember?

Aspen quickly jumped in front of Asena, and looked around. Although Asena was an alpha, Aspen felt protective over her and his instinct to keep her away from danger kicked in. Asena too had smelt the strange scent. Narrowing her eyes, she sniffed the air. There was something familiar about that smell. However, she couldn’t lay her finger on it. Curious, she stepped aside. She wanted to investigate.

However, Aspen started to push her towards the pack with his snout and indicated using his massive head to follow him. It seemed to her that Aspen was worried about the rogues.

Aspen desperately tried to push her away from the woods. He kept wondering if he should try to mind link her. He knew marking her would form a link between them. But since she had not marked him yet, he wasn’t sure if it was possible.

But he had to try …

“Let’s go! We shouldn’t wait here. We are not alone,” he urgently mind linked her. It was their first mind link. Although it was not as strong as it should be, Asena heard Aspen’s voice loud and clear.

“But I think I know that smell,” she retorted and squinted into the thick foliage of the forest.

“Asena! No! Let’s go!” Aspen insisted, however, Asena didn’t seem to listen. She took a step further into the forest with her senses on full alert.

Aspen once again blocked her path.

“Asena, it isn’t safe here. I know you are an Alpha, but still, we must go. We don’t know how many of them are here,” he pleaded.

Asena stared at him. Tilting her head, she licked his face, catching him off guard.

Chuckling internally, she used his distraction to her advantage and dashed into the wilderness.

“No! Asena!” Cade gasped and Aspen rushed after her.

Asnea was amused that she had managed to distract her mate. She knew he was chasing her and it added fuel to her adrenaline rush. However, her excitement was cut short when the foreign scent intensified. She skidded to a halt beside a huge oak tree. Aspen quickly caught up with her.

“Shhh,” she hushed him through their link before he said anything to her.

Asena took cautious steps forward. She was certain that the rogue was hiding behind the trunk. Aspen copied her movements, not wanting to let her out of his sight.

Asena spotted a familiar brown wolf trying to hide in a bush behind the tree. The wolf was trying to stay hidden in the leaves, yet, Asena’s alpha senses were sharp enough to spot him. Baring her teeth, she started to growl. She was ready to tear the pathetic wolf apart. She knew who that was. That was Fenris, Elijah’s wolf.

During the days of her s*****y, she had seen him shift on the training ground of the Red Wings pack. Elijah was one of her worst enemies. She hadn’t forgotten how he knowingly fed her wolfsbane. Each time she saw him train in his wolf form, her anger boiled. Getting her revenge was something she always wanted to do and she didn’t want to let go of the opportunity.

Fenris realised that he had been found. He had sneaked into the Dark Howl territory hoping to somehow meet the non shifter – Monica. However he got the fright of his life when a powerful aura invaded his nostrils. An aura that could only belong to a strong alpha.

And he was right. He saw a massive alpha wolf accompanied with another wolf in the woods. The black alpha reminded him of Warg, Baron’s wolf. However, he knew that this cannot be him. Warg was a male and this was a female.

He knew an alpha wouldn’t accept seeing a rogue and wouldn’t hesitate to shred him into pieces so he tried to hide. But it looks like his attempt to hide was unfruitful. Yelping, he dashed out of his hiding spot and ran for his life. The two wolves chased him, snapping their jaws at him angrily. When he heard their angry growls behind him, he felt his fear skyrocket.

Fearing for his life, he ran as fast as his legs could carry him. He knew that the night was almost over and the sun would soon rise. He eagerly glanced at the sky, hoping to catch a glimpse of any sign of the rising sun. He mentally rejoiced when he saw the beautiful twilight in the horizon. Never in his life had he so eagerly waited for the sun to rise, especially after his mate cursed him.

He looked back. And realised that somehow he had managed to run ahead of them.

Whimpering and praying for the sun to rise sooner, he crouched under a thick bush and laid low. However, he knew the chances of them finding him was extremely high since an alpha’s senses would be several times better than a normal werewolf.

“Please, please…” he mentally begged, squeezing his eyes shut. He was trembling in fear. He could hear their footsteps. They were getting closer.

Soon, the sun peeked over the horizon, spreading its rays throughout the earth. The sky was decorated in beautiful shades of red and orange. The sun rose and as soon as it did, Fenris morphed into a toad. He opened his eyes when he felt that his body had shrunk. When he saw that everything looked bigger than him, he cheered for himself. He had morphed back to a toad. Never in his life had he thought he would feel relieved that he had turned into a toad!

After cheering for himself, he peeked through the leaves of the bush just in time to see the two wolves sniffing the air and searching the area. The rays of the sun had started to filter through the leaves of the tall trees, lighting the place up.

They weren’t going to find him anytime soon. He thought, chuckling to himself. The jet black, female alpha and the other dark brown wolf paced in the area while Elijah carefully studied their movements. He was rather curious about this new female who he had never seen in the past. He was especially familiar with all the alphas in the region, and this particular female alpha was without a doubt, new.

He was aware of the Dark Howl pack’s alpha. He was a male and Elijah knew his wolf, Adolphus. This new female alpha looked exactly like Warg, which was strange. As far as he knew, Baron didn’t have a sister or any close female relatives. But this female was of alpha lineage. But which one? He wondered.

He gazed at the brown wolf and realised that it was the male wolf that Monica had climbed on in the vampire territory. He was the same male he had seen beside Monica when he first visited the Dark Howl pack. Elijah was sure that the brown wolf was the tall, well-built man with shoulder length hair who disrespected him that day. He recalled how Alpha Miles had taken his side that day, humiliating him in front of everyone. Even in the domain of the bloodsuckers, that male didn’t leave Monica’s side.

Perhaps they were mates. He thought.

His toad eyes widened. So this could only be her…… Could it mean that…. the female alpha was Monica’s wolf? However, he couldn’t fathom how that could be a possibility. Monica was a non shifter. Yet, all the pointers pointed in one direction. She was the only new female in this pack as far as Elijah knew, and this male was the one Elijah had seen her hanging out with each time.

Elijah stared flabbergasted as the two wolves started to walk away, still in their wolf forms. He wished that they would shift back so that his interpretation could be confirmed. However, they didn’t. Elijah continued to gape at them until he lost sight of them.

His little heart pounded in his ribcage as he tried to analyse what he had seen. He didn’t want to believe what he had analysed. A little part of him wished that he was wrong. After all, he was the one who fed her wolfsbane and they had made sure that her wolf was gone for good. And he did it, just because he wanted to earn the favour of his alpha.

He silently sat in the shadow of the bush, thinking about it. The only reason for her wolf to survive that gruesome ordeal was Monica’s wolf being an alpha. That could only mean that Monica was silently communicating with her wolf, despite being unable to shift. Her wolf most probably was too weak because of the wolfsbane. But now she must have healed and shifted.

It all made sense!

He realised. Gulping, he glanced in the direction they went. He couldn’t deny the uncanny resemblance between Warg and the new alpha female. And with the reputation alpha Baron had, the possibility of him fathering pups without his knowledge was extremely high.

Elijah felt as though the whole world stopped revolving. If his little theory was true, it meant that he had unknowingly abused his own alpha. And that Monica was Baron’s daughter. In addition to that, as an alpha, she had every right over their pack.

s**t! Maybe I should go back and try to squeeze information out of Baron. He thought.

He cursed himself as his eyelids started to feel heavy.

Right, it’s nap time….

He g*****d and started to dig the earth so that he could sleep.

Elijah woke up in late afternoon, just a short while before the sun set. Since the sun irritated his delicate skin and dehydrated him in that form, he avoided the sun and patiently waited for the sun to completely lower itself under the horizon.

As soon as it did, he morphed into his human form and he was kind of glad that it was night time. He knew how to sneak out of the territory without being noticed by the patrols.

He ran towards the borders and glanced at the wolfsbane vine that grew a short distance away from it.

“Well, here goes,” he mumbled and started to rub the leaves on his body. He had learnt that rubbing wolfsbane leaves on the skin would cancel out his scent until it’s effects wear off. It would sting, however, being able to sneak past those scary wardens without being noticed would be worth it. He would jump into the first water body he saw as soon as he managed to escape. Then, the itching and the stinging would cease.

He moved in the trees, unnoticed by the guards on duty. The wolfsbane had helped him mask his scent. Elijah didn’t stop until he managed to leave the Dark Howl territory and dash into a safe distance. He ran despite the irritation on his skin and as planned he plunged into the river that ran in between the lands claimed by the packs.

Gasping for breath, he rested on the river bank. “Fenris, do you know what I’ve realised?” Elijah spoke to his wolf.

“I know. I was not sleeping. Just unable to contact you and in pain because I was trapped in that tiny body,” Fenris replied.

Elijah gulped. “What do you think?”

“I think we have messed up….big time. And we need to change for good,” he mumbled. Sighing, Elijah laid his back on the dirt and closed his eyes. For the first time he started to feel guilty for his actions. Fenris was right. They had messed up and they needed to redeem themselves.

But the problem was, he didn’t know how.