Tall, Dark, and Wolfe

Chapter Eight

Giselle could feel her heart pounding in her chest from the speed she was going at. She knew she had lost the Alpha male who called himself Eric but just to make sure she had debated with herself  about whether or not she should travel a few miles in the river she stopped by.

The pros of traveling in the river is that Eric could not find her of track her by a scent unless she came out. Another reason is that she could finally wash off enough of the dirt and grime that covered her skin from head to toe.

The cons were that traveling by water was slower and almost impossible because the currents were fierce and Giselle knew she couldn't bare the feeling of almost drowning while going upstream. It was also risky because once she left the river her scent would be more pronounced since she wouldn't have other scents to cover hers up with. 

Giselle decided to just in the river and risk what happens afterwards. I mind as well get cleaned up I think the dirt on my skin started to form new life. She then proceeded to drive into the river and get herself some much needed freshness. She took her rinsing the dirt off since she had no scrubbers to clean herself up with. 

This is one of the few times I wished I was still with my old pack but the comfort of my room is not worth the pain of having to be treated as a man's play toy. Even If I was the daughter of an Alpha I had no say in any part of my life.

Giselle shivered as the memories of how life in her old pack was like. How women were only to be seen and not heard and how the slightest mistake could result in a punishment not worth the mistake that was made. She remembered the day she finally managed to escape that life.

Flashback

Giselle was crying as her father dragged her by her hair up the stairs until he reached her room. She was only sixteen years old, she didn't want to be married to some perverted old stranger like her father was forcing to do. The man was forty-five years old for God sakes with five children who was already in there twenties. It made her skin crawl.

"Father! Please stop you're hurting me!" Giselle cried.

Her father violently swung her head first into her room into her room making her hit the steel pole in her room. "Shut up and none of the pack better hear a word from you until I get back for the Alphas meeting and when I do you better be prepared to marry Steven." He shut the door on her and locked it from his end.

That's it I can't be here any longer I just can't stand the abuse, she thought. Giselle knew that she had only a small window of time to escape before anyone noticed she was gone. 

 She waited a couple of hours before she started to pick the lock on the door. She knew her father was gone and that the rest of the pack was going for their nightly run. I have only an hour to get out and start running, she thought.

Giselle crept down the stairs and made a stop in her father's office. She knew she was going to be on her own for awhile so she needed money and she was going to take it. The code to the safe was her father's name: Michael. Her father was arrogant enough that he believed no one would dare to oppose his will, people was to scarced to do so. She opened the safe and stole about 75,000 thousand dollars from out there and stuffed it into the mini bag she grabbed to put some clothes in. It would be a few days before he noticed it missing but by then she would already be gone.

She used his office window to get out of the five story mansion that housed all the unmarried women in the pack since they were not allowed to live alone nor were they allowed to even attend school, only the males were. It was an injustice toward females. The drop from the window to the ground was far but she knew she could make it.

She jumped and hit the ground running, increasing her speed as she ran from the only home she even knew to a place where she could be herself.

Flashback end

The first few days were hell for her since she had no idea where she was going but to her any place was better than the one she was born in. Her father and the other males in her pack were the reason why she hate being in a pack. She felt that as a woman and a person as well she should have the same freedoms as all the males. Impossible, she thought, my father would never allow a women any shred of power in his pack, even me.

Her father was the main reason  why she hated Alpha male wolves the most. He was a horrible father and a cruel pack leader. He always used force when it came down to getting things done in the pack. He never even cared if he was breaking down the mental barriers that kept a werewolf sane while he or she was in wolf form. There were quite a few pack members that had to be killed because of this. I refused to be weak anymore, she thought.

She drifted up the river as the painful memories of her past consumed her.