The Forest At Night

Chapter 12

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"Oh fuck," Ash cried as she ran out the front door and puked. Cain took out his cell phone and called Knox, letting him know how they were found. The incubus walked out the front door, handing his friend a cold water bottle, which she accepted. By the time she was done swishing the third round of water around, Knox and some members of his pack came in wolf form, minus Tate.

Knox transformed back into his human form, and was handed clothes by Kurt. He quickly changed into them and ran to Ashtynn, and held her. She gulped back tears and he rubbed her back.

"I don't know what to do with her dogs, they love her so much... but I don't know if I can care for four dogs at once with everything going on. It wouldn't be fair to any of them." Knox started whispering plans with her as he sent the rest of the group inside the house, five other wolves, minus Kurt.

"Kurt, I want you to go around the property, see if you can tell if there was more than one person. I definitely smell Tate. See if you can smell Raff any." Kurt nodded and bounded around the house, about to run the property.

"Cass, I want you to converse with Kurt and you both run the property, just in case we're being watched, we should be in groups." A short haired blonde werewolf came out of the house, transformed into a white wolf, and bounded down the same way Kurt did. Ashtynn knew Knox normally would be inside the house, figuring out what was going on, but she could tell he was getting sent things through the pack mind link.

Blaez looked at the two bodies, and could understand why Ashtynn got sick. There was blood, body parts, and innards everywhere. Whoever did this was a real sick fuck, and from the smell of it, it was Tate. Blaez found it hard to believe that she could be this brutal, he felt like he knew her after they hooked up a few times. I guess you never really know somebody even if they open up to you. Blaez shook his head, as he sniffed around. The werewolf couldn't smell Raff anywhere, but why would Tate want to attack Grace?

"We don't smell anyone but the humans and the dogs around the other areas of the house, Beta." One of the werewolves confirmed as he walked downstairs from Ashtynn's floor. Cain strolled in and was filled in by Blaez.

"So Tate did this. I bet Raff put her up to it." Cain theorized as he looked around the bloodied living room. Grace's precious TV was still on, her blood splashed across the screen.

"You don't think she was so jealous that Raff liked Ashtynn that she would do this just to hurt her?" Blaez asked as he turned away and faced Cain. The blonde incubus shook his head, and his eyes were back to sky blue.

"No, Ashtynn was done with Grace. We were literally coming back for her dog and some clothes. Speaking of, I'll grab those and Pancake's stuff so Ashtynn doesn't have to worry about coming into the house. I think Raff just wanted them out of the way so he didn't have to worry about Grace interfering at all." Cain said as he climbed the stairs to grab everything. Blaez called other members of the pack to come and get everything straightened out. They would come and document everything like a CSI team and use it to punish Tate.

Ashtynn pet all the dogs and made the decision to keep them. The poor things were traumatized.

"Knox, we have to keep them," she looked over at him with sad eyes.

"Of course, we have staff and they can help. I'm sure the pack will love to have some dogs running around. Either way, I'm the alpha and you're going to be their luna, what we say, goes." Ashtynn was happy that he was considering her an equal and not lesser than. She hoped she would be able to help him be a good leader, growing up thinking she was human, and all. She didn't know werewolf laws. Cain walked out with some bags and loaded them into his car and Ashtynn sat in the passenger side, staring out the window, Pancake panting in her lap.

"Thank you for being here for me, Cain. You're my best friend." Cain smiled sadly at her and started his car, seeing Knox was back in wolf form and followed behind them. The purple haired girl was thinking about how crazy her life had become. She just hoped no one else got hurt.

Tate was back on Raff's land and she was still covered in blood. The blonde hoped this made him happy, she had done so much for him. Tate was starting to think that he was just using her. He had hit her, thrown her around, made her bleed. Yet he still fucked her and never turned her down for that. She nearly lost her shit last time when he called her Ashtynn. The blonde werewolf saw a pond and hopped in, washing the crimson regret off her skin and out of her hair.

Tate transformed back into her human form and didn't bother trying to find clothes, the human wouldn't be alive too much longer. The blonde saw the dogs were outside and all four started barking and growling at her. Tate rolled her eyes and opened the door, letting the dogs back in. She picked up two of them and tossed them into the bathroom, the other two ran in. The corgi snarled and bit her leg as she closed the door.

"Fucking bitch!" She whispered.

"Ashtynn, honey is that you?" Grace's voice rang out. Tate was getting real sick and tired of hearing that name. She growled and came around the corner, seeing the two humans sitting in their own recliners.

"Oh you're naked! Who are you?" Grace yelled at her husband to shut her eyes. Before Grace could get up, Tate was across the room and ripped her husband's torso off his waist. The old woman screamed and attempted to run. Tate flashed over to her and threw the old woman back into her chair.

"You hate werewolves, bitch? Well this is the last thing you're gonna see." Tate's eyes were glowing gold and she also separated Grace from her lower half. The blonde dropped both parts into the chair. She licked her lips, it had been a while since she had human blood.

"Thank the goddess that's done." Tate walked out the front door and left it unlocked. Ashtynn would find them soon enough.

Tate came out of the water and swam back to the shore, climbing out. The blue eyed girl looked at her reflection in the water. She wondered when she let Raff completely manipulate her. She remembered when he came over at the end of spring and she was totally fascinated by him. He showed so much interest in her and listened to her, unlike Knox. Her own alpha hardly listened to her.

Tate was meant to be a luna, and Raff acknowledged her bloodline. She told him how strong their pups could be, Raff was ensnared. He changed in one day. He had come back and started treating her like garbage. Raff kept saying some other girl's name and that's the first time he hit her. The blonde remembered looking at him in shock, too scared to move.

"I just wanted to be loved," Tate whispered to her reflection. She had to leave Raff. Maybe she could go to the other pack, the one across the bank. Tate had to get a couple things off her chest and her stuff, she was leaving.

Raff was pacing his office, waiting for Zara to walk in. The door flew open and Zara stood in the doorway.

"Hello, Love," her silky voice flowed throughout the room. Raff could see her long black hair flowing with an imaginary wind. Her sharp silver eyes looked him over, and she lifted her pointed chin.

"How may I serve my alpha?" Zara asked.

"You're sure I can get her pregnant through her dreams?"

"Absolutely positive." Zara sat down in a chair. Raff remained standing, running his fingers through his dark hair.

"Why isn't she pregnant yet, then?" Zara waved her fingers and a crystal chalice filled with red wine appeared in her slender fingers. Zara looked through the window, and Raff knew she was thinking.

"Well, I can batch up something that can speed things up a bit. She has to drink it in her physical form, however." Raff threw his bookcase down, Zara was unphased.

"I can't get fucking near her! She'd never come to me! They also have Hazel as their pack witch and she can smell dark magick. She'd get it out of Ashtynn immediately." Zara sipped her wine and a smile crossed her face.

"She won't come to you, but she'll come to Knox, right?" Raff sat in his chair across from her, his fingers intertwined as he looked over her his hands at her.

"I'm listening."