Song of the chapter:- Animals by Maroon 5
EMMA'S POV
Long drives are always fun right? Especially in the middle of the night, with the person you love, during winters, cold wind and cosy clothes, stary sky and the moon shining at you, how could it be wrong or bad, right? Well, NO.
I also used to think the same way, a few hours ago. And then we got a call from Alpha Smith saying there is a pack emergency, in his pack not ours thank god I shouldn't be grateful but for once it feels good to know your pack isn't the only one under danger and your not the only one messing up, ofcourse you don't want anything bad to happen to anyone else, but your glad atleast it's not YOU this time.
So here we were on our way to save the day again. To be honest at this point me and Ethan had accepted the fact that our life was never going to be normally normal, and maybe we didn't even want it to be normally normal.
I'm not saying normal isn't great because it is. And we don't appreciate it, ever. I didn't. When I was in highschool, I had my family and friends and the only problem was my crush was dating my bestfriend, that was literally my biggest problem, pinning over my bestfriend's boyfriend. And now here I was with some wierd magic powers from my birth mother who was also killed by my sperm donor, and apparently lots of lives depended on me, which was honestly very stressful.
But then again what was the point of living in past?
Let's be honest nostalgia is lie. Because things were never so good, or so bad, or so complicated, or so easy, it was just the idea of living that phase again, maybe the chance to change the things you've gone through or you'll have to go through, that makes nostalgia so dreamy and out of the few things I've learnt is to not live in the what if's? Or what could've been's? Because it's just... pointless.
And coming to the present here we were stopping at some old shitty motel on our way.
"Is this where we're staying?", I asked Ethan looking at the tilted and rusted sign over what looks like an abandoned building.
"I guess this will have to do, atleast we'll be alone together" he said winking at me.
Being alone together with Ethan should be enough for me to tolerate an almost cold shower, and then almost getting a heartattack from seeing a huge spider on my clothes and then falling on my ass, right?
After all of that struggle I finally managed to get dressed in the small, like really small bathroom just to find out I'll be sleeping with my boyfriend and mark as well, not on the same bed thank god, but still in the same room.
I used to be really close with Mark but after I left we both changed alot, and him being in the same room while I want to jump on my mate is akward as hell.
"So much for being alone, huh?", Ethan said under his breath throwing a throw pillow at Mark who was trying to fit in the small couch.
"The extra bed they arranged for me broke, what do you want me to do, Alpha?" All I wanted to do was to roll my eyes at them but I somehow controlled myself.
"Come on Ethan, let's just sleep" I said trying to make the situation but it only made it worse.
"Sure let's sleep baby, with our friend Mark ofcourse", he said as he got under the covers.
"Look I didn't want to cockblock you okay? But would you rather Sean do it or me?"
"Whose Sean?" I asked.
"Emma, you're our Luna, and you don't know some of the pack members yet?", Mark asked looking shocked as if I'm supposed to know about every being that exist in this universe.
"I'm your Luna but it still takes time to get to know more than a thousand people you guys included in pack when I left".
"You'll meet him tomorrow Ems, don't worry", Ethan said pulling me to him and the bed creaked under our weight.
"Thank god the lights are off", and "shut up mark", were the works I last heard before I drifted off to dreamland.
Next morning I was glad we had shared a room with Mark and not Sean, who is really tall and really scary guy I might add, specially when he just keeps on staring into nothing and at the same time also paying attention to each and every thing we're doing or talking about. Other than him we had Nick, who even shocked me by being here, but Ethan said he's just here because of his skills or he would've left him back at the pack.
Finally we reached Alpha Smith's pack and were directly escorted to his meeting room without any delay.
"We were attacked by your father and-
"He's not my father ", I said I had literally just stepped into the room and they were already testing my patience. By they meant Alpha Smith, his Beta and their third in command who even asked and I quote "what is a woman doing here" and got almost punched by Ethan and me but Sean and Nick somehow managed to stop us, but atleast they got the message.
"I apologise Luna, I meant the dark wolf", and then Alpha Smith proceeded to explain about the fire in his pack which was obviously started by Donovan's men, "and then this threat was delivered to me personally ", he said showing us a crumpled piece of paper.
"Choose a side. We're coming for you. All of you."
"What do you mean personally?", Ethan asked.
"Well it was tied to an arrow which was shot to my heart", he said showing the band aids on left side of his chest.
"And where were you when they tried to kill you?", Ethan asked looking out the window in his office.
"My office. Here", he replied.
"Then this place isn't safe, me and my mate won't be staying here. Where is your closest safe house?", Ethan asked already pulling me to stand upand opening the door of the room where Nick and Sean were already waiting outside.
"This isn't your pack Ethan, so you don't get to decide who stays or not", Smith said walking towards us.
"Yeah well, we're not the ones who need help Smith, just say the word and we'll leave."
"Hey guys, let's just calm down and talk okay."
"We'll talk but not here, somewhere safe where my mates life isn't in danger or we're leaving", Ethan said not moving.
"Atleast we should listen to him once Ethan", I said pulling him back towards the room.
"Emma I agreed to the listening part but I can literally feel that there's something about this place that feels off, so like I said three times before NOT HERE", he said and left.
Later that night when we were getting ready for dinner I asked him, "listen what happened this afternoon-"
"Will happen again if he doesn't consider our, especially you security, you fath- I mean Donovan is out there trying to kill you and he just took us back to the room where he almost got killed himself! Don't you think this all is a little bit suspicious?"
"Don't just jump to conclusions, we'll listen to what he's got to say and then we'll think about it okay?" I asked keeping my hands on either side of his face making him look at me.
"Okay", he said and I just hoped the dinner would be better than the meeting.
"And don't you dare cut me off mid sentence again", I warned.
But he just gave me his best smile and said ,"Yes ma'am".
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Published on:- 11 June, 2022.
Hey guys I finally updated again.
So you know I always say I'll update more and then I don't which is totally my fault ( obviously*rolls eyes at herself*) but I think it is just my habit to always push my self into writing more and writing better.
Y'all might've noticed my chapters now are longer than before and I've already changed my writing style a thousand of times which are all because I'm always pushing myself to do more and then I do do more but it ends up messing with my health or something else.
What I'm trying to say is that I'm trying my best to make a schedule, which doesn't include updating only once a month but more, and also doesn't take too much toll on me.
So all of you, who probably think this is boring and not even read it it's alright, thank you for still reading and also really motivating me by those amazing comments nd votes. I love y'all. And this was a nice heart to heart....for me atleast.
Take care.
Love,
IceQueen.