Pack Law

chapter 19:

The car door was still locked when I tried to open the car. I had to wait for Darian to open it for me and when he did he returned his unforgiving grip to my arm and pulled me out with little mercy.

Howler was stood on the porch as we walked up to the house looking confused and as if he had been dragged out of bed early.

"Call Thomas and Brady" Darian simply instructed as he pulled me past the boy who was clearly non the wiser as to why I was being forcible taken into the house.

He let go of me when we were in the living room. The only room in the house apart from the bedrooms with just one exsit. Darian just paced by the door without saying a word.

"Their on their way" Howler confirmed when he stepped into the room breaking some of the tension that had mounted in our silence.

"Good" darian finially stopped his pacing.

"What's going on?" He looked from me to his alpha, his eyes heavy with concern as they spotted my already bruising upper arm.

"Wait outside, no one is to disturb us" darian commanded.

Silently howler nodded and left. He cant disobey his alpha I told myself. Even if he wanted to.

"Swear feilty to me" he turned to me.

He coudlnt be serious I thought as I observed him "no"

My response prompted another raging growl and he punched the wall. I jumped back again. I knew he was capable of being dangerious but seeing it in person was something else.

"Swear. Feilty. To. Me." His words were slow and clipped.

I knew it would burn the last of his fuse but I repeated "no!"

His gaze snapped to me it was cold and penatrating "it would be easier if you just did it catri" he warned.

"I dont care" I shrugged "I'd rather be dead then tied to you for the rest of my life"

I knew he couldnt kill me yet and he certainly needed me to be willing to do what ever it was he needed me to do. He had his trump card though, when the time came, Melissa's life.

It was a sinking feeling as I realised that I was going to have to do what he wanted. But I wouldnt make it easy for him.

"You realise when he rises he will kill everyone who is not loyal to me" Darian explained.

"He wont kill me" i said instinctively.

"How can you be so sure?" He was starting to sound almost amused.

"Because he appeared in my dreams first. He appeared to me to save my life, he appeared to you to use you. How can you be so nieve darian!" The words were flowing from some instinctual part of my brain, I said them as they occured to me and it made perfect sense "I had to leave my pack land or I would die, he needed you to get me back there. This isnt about taking back the original pack land, he just wants out of his hole in the ground and your stupid enough to believe that you wont get caught up in the cross fire!"

Darian didnt even think on my words before responding "he has opened my eyes to more then your could possible understand. Tonight we will take back the original pack lands and we will free the night demon, and you will help us" he stated flatly and stormed out slamming the door behind him. I heard him shouting "no one in or out of that room untill I return!" At Howler as he left.

I began pacing untill pacing became to tedious. My hand rested over my racing heart and I felt the necklace there, the one he had given me. I immediatly took it of and shoved it in my pocket. I didnt want the damn thing round my neck in that moment.

Was I stupid for believing I was just going to be accepted here? No catch? It hurt just to think about how welcome they had made me feel, and how for a moment I felt like this place could be my home, this pack could be my pack. When the whole time Darian was planning this. The whole time he knew who I was.

I felt almost sick as I thought about the night we had changed together an ran in the woods. I wondered how he was going to tell the rest of the pack that they wouldnt be running tonight but invading a town near salt pond instead.

How where they even going to get there? it took all night for me to run here.

That's when I noticed the commotion occurring outside. Dozens of people had arrived. They were gearing up, loading cars, and that's the first time I saw one of the wooden boxes open. My heart stopped. They had guns. Big automatic guns.

Guns wouldnt kill a shifter that was in wolf form, but they could kill anyone who wasnt, or injure the wolf enough to force it to turn back in to a person.

Shifters never used anything as human as guns to fight. It just wasnt the done thing... untill now.

It was mid morning before the door opened again. I had taken to standing by the window watching the commotion outside.

"Your not going in as wolves?" I asked not even looking to see who had entered. I could sense him now.

"Some are" he explained simply. "We are leaving in an hour to make it there by night fall. You should eat something" I then noticed the plate in his hand with a sandwich and some chips.

"I'm not hungry" I said still in a state of shock. The pack wouldnt see then coming. Theyd be massacred.

"We will be entering while the pack is out running. Anyone who swears feilty to me after their alpha is dead will be spared" he explained as he placed the plate down.

"And that's supposed to make it okay is it? Your shifters for Gods sake! Your supposed to fight with teeth and claws, guns are for humans. It's not a fair fight" my words came out with as much rage as I was feeling. "And do you honestly think the night demon will spare any of them? You said it yourself, hes been locked away for centuries. His revenge will be a reckoning"

Darian shook his head as if I wasnt seeing the point "I have faith that he will uphold his end of our deal"

"Faith?" I laughed mirthlessly "fucking faith"

I didnt understand how Darian could be such a good alpha to his people, everyone here was treated well and fairly, he was a strong leader. And yet. He was so power hungry I could see it in his eyes now. As if I was seeing him for the first time. He was looking forward to the conquest.

"When this is over I will ask you to swear your feilty to me again" he simply stated "and you will be my mate as that is the place you were born to take. At my side."

The words struck me like a bullet as he left. Again tears streaked my face. I stepped away from the window and lay on my the sofa. I needed to escape even if it was just for a short time so I closed my eyes.