THE INDIFFERENT LUNA 1 - Austan wolf

CHAPTER 30

"Stop! She means no harm." I heard Adela say as she walked in front of me and I suddenly remembered her.

The other wolves stared at her now, surprised. We had all been so focused on the battle we were about to be engaged in that none of us had noticed her presence.

Inside my head, Rieka had awoken and was excited to actually be in a real fight with someone of her kind and not just one, not two but seven! I knew she was on edge and at any minute now she would have forced herself to take control.

She growled in frustration when Adela spoke up, the excitement she brought fading away as she got disappointed.

The other wolves stared at me cautiously not moving an inch. My scent of cinnamon and earth as less threatening as it sounds seems to mean danger to them. They weren't even sure if they should listen to their leader or not and I watched them through my own blood-red lens observing their every move with my heightened senses.

Honestly, I didn't want to fight either, because something tells me that with one shed of blood on this forest ground, Rieka would take over and the moment she takes over, this forest would become another winter hollows. The only reason why I was excited and felt insulted by their growls was because of this stupid predatory instinct and it is all Rieka's fault.

"Shift back all of you. I am not in the mood for this." Adela said sternly in a way that commands respect and it surprised me.

I stared at her as she walked to the fire and sat beside it. Her face was hardened and void of emotion. The wolves jogged to the back of the trees to shift back to their human form, they were dressed up when they finally returned to sit with her by the fire, bowing their head a little to acknowledge her presence not minding the look on her face.

The look on her face didn't change either and I realized, this was the face of the leader they knew. She must be sterner than I thought, maybe she had been trying to appear nice to make me comfortable because she didn't look anything nice right now, her face seem as if she hadn't smiled in a thousand years.

I wonder if the smile she had been giving me on our journey here were her first. Maybe I was too harsh?

I relaxed my offensive stance as the adrenaline slowly left my veins, my fangs and claws retracting as I stared at them not making a move to walk into their circle.

"Selene. Give her some of your clothes." Adela said again her face still void of expression, and her voice leaving no room for argument.

I looked at the girl who was now on her feet, she had the same stature as me but was muscular, her hair was blond with dark roots showing she wasn't really a blondie, and her skin darkly toned.

She walked to a duffle bag sitting at the foot of a tree and pulled out a pair of clothes, then walked cautiously to me to hand it over. I collected them without a word and went to the back of another large tree to put it on.

It was a pair of leggings and an oversized T-shirt. I quickly began to unzip the leather jacket when I heard them,

"mistress is that.....?" I heard an unfamiliar male voice whisper.

"She can hear you, you know?" Adela said interrupting him, then I heard the ruffle of leaves, "what's for dinner, I'm getting hungry." she said again casually.

"We would go hunt for some animals." I heard another unfamiliar person say before the sound of footsteps walking away, crack of bones, then thumping of paws that want further away.

I quickly pulled the white shirt over my neck, ignoring the peaking of my nipples below the shirt as I walked back to the gathering. The black legging I put on while listening to the little gossip about me was a little faded but it fitted me perfectly.