Scarlet Flame

Chapter 10

Eric's POV

"You are being a little too quiet. I know we are looking for your best friend, but you seem to have too much going on in that pretty little head of yours. Care to share with the class?" I said to her hoping she would open up to me.

"It is all my fault, I know that I had orders to follow, but even I knew that I should not. If I had not followed the orders, she would be safe and happy with her mate at least for now. I know that the prophecy is scary, but have you ever seen her fight, to date the only one that has ever beaten her in a fight is James," she really did have a lot on her mind.

"We both know that this is about more than strength, Shelby is physically strong, and she is intelligent, she is guarded, and it takes time to win her trust. I am sure that she will give me a hell of a time when it comes to you. From what I hear she is very protective of you and everyone she holds dear, with the exception of her father. I think that you did the right thing, we all do. Even if you did not it was not your choice if you had disobeyed the Alpha you would have been hurt," I explained to her.

We walked in silence for a while just enjoying each other's company, I looked down at her hand and moved a little closer to her. I was planning on holding her hand when Darren's voice popped into my head. I looked over to Amanda to see if she was also getting the message, I saw her eyes glaze over too.

'We found nothing at the lake. Does anyone else have any luck?' Darren asked through our mind link.

'Nothing at the beach,' James replied.

'We are still looking on the trails, so far we have not seen her,' I replied.

'Can you get through her mind link?' James asked.

'Can you?' Carli replied with some attitude.

James just growled in response. 'Everyone search the trails she has to be here somewhere,' James said ending the link. I heard Amanda laughing, it was the most beautiful melody that I had ever heard.

"She has not changed a bit,"

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Carli was one of the first missions that I had gone on. Normally I would find hybrids in a vision or when I got close to one and James or someone else would be sent to help them and let them know what was happening to them. Finding Carli was one of the first that James insisted that I had come with, he argued with his father. I was very reluctant to go, Shelby would have been better, she is better at helping people than I am, she usually knows what to say. Ever since I have gone on every mission, apparently I connect with people and they trust me..." her voice traveled off and her eyes glazed over indicating that she was in a mind link. I just watched her, she was so beautiful, her eyes were normally a sky blue but during mind links, they were greyish and still the most captivating I had ever seen. She blinked a couple of times and her eyes returned to their normal color. Her hand went into her curly blond hair. "I found her," she sounded sad.

"Why does that sound like a bad thing?"

"Only one of us can get up there and I do not know if he can use his wings anymore," she looked at me in the eyes and I could see one thing, fear.

"I'll call everyone, where is she?" I asked.

"A cave behind the waterfall on the mountain," I nodded.

'James?' I called in my mind. 'If you can hear me, we found her. She is in a cave behind the waterfall on the mountain,'

'Everyone be there if five,' James kept his reply short.