Navy Wolf

Chapter 60 - Season 1 Finale

KAVEN

They had taken my girl into the ER as I was standing here not being able to do anything for her. To feel any less pain or discomfort. To not feel lonely. Or not supported.

Like a bum I had to wait here outside of this hospital praying that these docs would find out what was wrong with her and that they were able to cure it.

I had so much anger and resentment in me that I wanted to tear up trees along with the roots but the only possible way to vent was to walk up and down just so time would pass and I'd see River happy and healthy again.

Anakin's dark eyes had been studying me since we got here but he kept silent the entire time. Probably knowing, that we all had no nerves left and there were more important things right now — like River's health. Riley was silently crying in the corner what I really felt so sorry for but I couldn't change the situation so I reluctantly looked away.

Just the thought of the memory of seeing her running in bare feet down the stairs below the hotel I was staying at and the horrified expression on her fever-heated face made me want to slit all of the throats that I would ever encounter if I saw one shuck again.

If Anakin hadn't called and asked me to pick them up I would have never left the building. I had thought they were down at the lobby when it turned out he wasn't able to catch a cab to get to the hotel.
The chauffeur witnessing my conversation with my brother offered me to pick them up so we drove the five minute drive to the ferry terminal but by the time we got back hell had broken loose there. I didn't know what had gotten into Anakin when he had yelled shucks and forcefully threw the chauffeur out of the car before he grabbed the steering wheel himself, but I just guessed he knew what he was doing. Probably caught some details that slipped my attention when I was fixated on River running into oncoming traffic like a startled doe.

What did she say right when she got into the fucking car?

Caleb. That Caleb was a shuck.

What made her say that?

I looked over at my brother who stared into nothing.

"Hey Kin."
He looked up.
"Why did you throw that chauffeur out of the moving van?"
Anakin's brows moved into an angry expression. "He knew."
"He knew what?"
"He knew that River was alone in the hotel suite and distracted you by offering his service."
His vision had shown him a glimpse and being informed by this fact my blood started to boil. I wanted to rip that man's head off.
"What do you have lying around in that hotel suite?" Anakin asked, his jaw clenched.

"Nothing Important."
"Where's the necklace?"
"Around Rivers neck."

He gawked at me like I had grown a second head. "You shouldn't have given it back to her."
"That was the only thing that protected her when I wasn't around."
"Yeah, but that's also the only thing that attracts danger when you're not around." He almost growled getting up on his feet.

"What are you guys talking about, if I may ask?"
Riley interrupted our argument with her hesitant question. "Is she going to be in danger?"
Both of us stared at her, completely speechless, none of us knowing what to answer. That was the frustrating part. The not knowing.
Now I felt a huge tight knot form in my stomach as if Riley had confirmed something I had been so horrified by, but weren't brave enough to admit to myself.
River had become a target of these shucks and I didn't know when and where they were going to attack. This constant tension was eating me alive and now seeing Riley's face I knew that she felt the same about her sister.

„Kaven?" she said grabbing my attention again.
I sighed, my limbs stiff in worry. "I don't know."
Was that the truth? If I was around the answer was no, but if I wasn't—
"She's going to be okay, Riley. Kaven is protecting her with his life and so do we."
Anakin sounded so confident when he told her this but to be quite frank: I was scared. I was scared that I wouldn't be there in time if something happened again. This fear had become bigger today, now that I had been away for five minutes and these shucks had surrounded our location, invaded our privacy by forcing her to run for her life in the middle of the night by herself and into oncoming traffic.