Born With A Curse

Chapter 21.

In the space of a couple of hours dad and I managed to clean the rest of the kitchen and every other room downstairs. It looked like home again, dad offered to cook for me so of course I accepted, nothing like a nice greasy steak after cleaning the house. I took a seat in the living room and switched on the TV just like old times, just sitting here I feel like I never left, dads in the kitchen cooking some dinner and I'm lazing about on the sofa, ah old times, so much has changed!

The delicious smell of a sizzling slab of meat cooking in a pan fills my nose making me inhale its mouth watering scent. I breathe in through my nose taking in all the deliciousness, only when I breathe back in I catch a different smell, a familiar one but not a friendly one, I jump up from my seat on the sofa and sniff the air again. my senses have gotten stronger and I've learnt in these past couple of days how to sniff out anything unusual.

"Dad get in here now!" I demand shouting to the kitchen.

"What? What is it?" he replies appearing in the living room.

"You need to stay in here, stay near me."

"Why Bree? What's going on?"

"Someone's here, you need to get out of here," I explain as dad walks closer to me.

"Who's here? Bree you're freaking me out."

"A wolf," I reply.

I don't know what one, but I can tell it's from the same pack we fought the other day at camp. I sit my dad down on the couch and slowly make my way into the kitchen. The steak my dad was cooking is still sizzling away in the pan, I can no longer smell the gorgeous fumes coming away from the pan as my senses are all focused on a male wolf. One who is getting closer by the second, I hear a crack, like a stick breaking then all of a sudden glass shatters and I'm thrown to the floor.

"Dad run!" I scream wrestling the huge figure on top of me.

Now he's close enough I know who it is, it's the Alpha. The one mum warned me about, I killed his mate and he's come for revenge just like mum said he would, he must have tracked me here when Tanner and I left.

A hard force connects with my cheek, knocking my face to hit the floor beneath me. My head swings back up getting a glimpse of who's above me. His features are intimidating, a firm strong jaw line with a scar stretching all the way up the side of his face, bright red eyes staring down at me as his large hands snake their way around my neck squeezing tightly.

With his hands focused on my neck I have enough space to move my legs, thinking ahead and strategising I kneel him hard in the back of the legs. His legs buckle as I expected them to giving me space to escape, except now I'm mad and I don't want to escape I want to fight.

I swing back around and kick him hard in the face knocking him to the floor, it makes a loud thud as his large body falls. He's quick to get back up and punch me in the stomach, I buckle but continue to fight back, if this is how I die then I'm going to die fighting.

We exchange punch after punch. He may be double my size and more but I don't give up easily, I swing my leg and kick him between his, a real girly move but it gives me the advantage. When he bends over in pain I quickly knee him in the face twice, as I'm going for the third I'm thrown into the wall, I hit with force and fall straight to the floor, in seconds I'm surrounded by more enemy pack members, at least 5 of them.

I scramble to my feet with my back to the wall, blood dripping down my face and a pain shooting down my back, I can't back down now, not that I have the choice, I flick out my claws and prepare to fight.

The first to pounce is a girl, she lunges right for me, I jump and hit her mid air, claws out I slash her right across the side of her pretty little face. With her down the second to attack are two guys, they come at me from both angles. I swing for one but as I do the other hits me hard in the side, I go down as they both continue to hit me, punch after punch, swing after swing they connect with every inch of my body, I can feel myself loosing consciousness as well as a lot of blood.