Gone (Book Two of the Dark Lycans Series)

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Last Night

I yelp when I am dragged off the cot. My mother grabs my arm and pulls me out of the cell.

She is very pissed off, and so is Shade's mother. Shade and I are dragged out of the police station, and watched as the officers snicker at us.

One of the wolves had started laughing and I growled at him. He put his head down and whined making me smirk.

Our mothers finally let go of our arms and took a deep breath. My mother pinched the bridge of her nose.

"I know, I know I should have told you about last night," Shade says submissively rubbing her arm.

"Yes you should have, why did you even kill that person?" Lily asked glaring at Shade.

"Because..." Shade didn't look like she wanted to finish her sentence. Lily made a motion for her to keep talking.

"He looked like..... He was going to," she closed her eyes and sucked in a deep breath.

"He looked like he was going to rape us," I finished, resisting the urge to roll my eyes. Shade nodded with her eyes still closed.

I heard our mothers such, and saw that they weren't nearly as upset as before. We started walking towards the forest.

"Do you and Shade want to go out into the forest tonight?" My mother suddenly asked. .

I turn to Shade, but she has her headphones on. I caught her arn and she stopped looking back at our mothers.

"Sorry, what did you ask me? Or tell me either one of the two?" She says moving aside one of the headphones.

"I asked if you wanted to go out with Raven again tonight. Just into the forest," My mother repeats. She nods and looks to me. I just shrug and nod.

She smiles and pushes her headphones around her neck. When we get home I go straight to my bathroom.

I jump in the shower to wash off the smell of the jail.

"How many people do you think have been in that cell?" I hear Shade ask. I look over and see her leaning against my door frame in her pajamas.

"I don't know, it there were so many horrifying smells in there I'm don't care to know," I say gagging. Shade laughed wrinkling her own nose.

I get out of the shower and dry myself quickly. I put on a tank and a pair of tight booty shorts and started combing my hair.

"Okay well I'm going to sleep and I don't know about you but I am not going to the club tonight. Or for that matter, ever again," Shade says pushing herself off the doorframe.

"Yeah, tonight I could not agree with you more. Hey what do you want to do tomorrow?" Shade's face fell.

"I don't know, you pick. Maybe we just train in the arena," she shrugs.

"Hey is there something you want to tell me?" I ask placing a hand on her shoulder. She shakes her head and smiles at me, but it doesn't reach her eyes.

"No, nothing really. I just remembered something really sad. I wanted you to know that there is no such thing as goodbye, its always a see you later," Shade says sadly, looking me right in the eye.

I nod and pull her in for a hug. Shade rests her head on my shoulder, and I feel wetness from her tears.

She cried into my shoulder, and I just held her tight. When she finally pulled away, she wiped the tears away and gave me a sad smile.

"Thanks, I needed that," she chokes out. I just nod and pull her to the silver door.

We jog through the tunnels and out the exit. The stars were bright in the night sky, and the moon shone through the trees.