Bloodline: The big return

8. SOFIA KANE

I let my gaze wander around the room and the people inside it. I hadn't exchanged a single word since Jayden had brought me in that place. If anyone who saw them was aware of the werewolves' existence, then they would know right away that the men who were standing near me belonged to that kind. Broad shoulders, tall, muscles everywhere, all dressed in black outfits like there were mourning, that look on their faces that you should be afraid of... None of them felt familiar to me. Except the four people I had in my life since last August and who were circling the room, leaving me somewhere in the middle.

I didn't mind. I had cocky figures everywhere around me, hiding me from the one person I didn't want to be seen by.

He stood in front of the entire pack, a bitterness painting his face, while his big brown eyes were travelling around the room that was full of the people who would probably die for him.

I wouldn't.

He titled his chin up to someone in the crowd. I couldn't make out who exactly, due to a ginger head being on my way. But I heard his voice the moment he spoke up to his leader. Thick and a bit trembling.

"We found them there a little after we called sir Wayland to inform him about the female dead body." Jayden's cold face appeared on my mind the moment the male werewolf mentioned his last name. It must had been him.

"We found them hanging from a tree near the training area. We immediately set the alarm, so everyone knew that..." He paused, before adding something that caused the others to gasp loudly. "That there might be vampires in our area."

I saw the leader's hand rising in the air and I immediately spotted the tattoos covering his wrists. "Listen, all of you. First of all, the people we lost today were the last ones. If we want to make this hope true, we need to move quickly. We still don't know if the Black siblings are behind all this mess. But whoever is doing this, must have something to do with them. He, or she, has power and a way to get in our Base. We'll look everywhere and everyone, unfortunately." Lots of protests sounded clearly from the crowd, causing him to raise his tone of voice. "We don't have much time. There is something coming that won't leave us time to adjust before it destroys us all. I believe that the dead bodies we found this morning was only the beginning. A simple warning before they put our own heads in those trees."

The whispers slowly started draining away as a few people walked out the room. The others followed, too. I was jealous for a moment, because everyone knew what they had to do and where to go. What each word meant. The silence that filled the room a little after the leader's mouth closed in a tight line, was a sign. A sentence I didn't manage to figure out the meaning. Not until I was the only one left in the room.

Even after I quickly left Jayden's room so I didn't get caught when he'd come out the bathroom, I got lost for a few seconds. Dove had already left her bedroom and when I took the risk to get downstairs on my own, alone, along with all the people who stared at me like I had three heads the moment I reached the last steps... I felt kind of shy.

"Stay close to people you know and do not speak to anyone until I get there."

Well, at least Jayden didn't have a reason to be mad at me. I had stood still at the final steps for a while, having lost any courage I had when I was alone with him earlier. Everyone, literally everyone, was glaring at me a bit more than they should. I was hypnotized. My legs and hands were trembling, my breath was stuck somewhere deep in my throat and my body was just not moving forward.

Suddenly, while I was still deep in my thoughts, I felt cold fingers grabbing one of my wrists, pulling me forward and through the crowd. I quickly dropped my eyes, trying not to look too weak, as I might had been looking a few moments before. But the blood in my veins was running too fast, now. At least, I was able to breathe again.