The Book Of Life

Chapter Five

I squirm as I watch the darkness fly past outside. My body aches and hurts in place I thought it couldn't. My whole body tingles, white hot pain flares underneath my skin and my muscles, like a thousand bolts of lightning contorted into jolts of an electric current that runs underneath my skin. Arron chuckles at my cluelessness.

"Don't worry it's not that far. Relax, everyone will be ecstatic about a new wolf in the pack. " he says as he puts his blinker on to turn down a street.

I flinch as we pass by a familiar house and slide down in the passenger seat. Arron glances at me.

"My best friend lives in one of those houses." I reveal as I grimace and squirm in his leather seat again.

He laughs. "Give us about five more minutes and we'll be there. You'll love it, the woods surround the house and all of our land we own."

"I hope your right. About everything." I sigh.

Eventually I sit up as the pain just increases no matter which way I sit. I keep continuing to shift in my seat as my muscles and bones flare with pain that licks them like fire and lightning. I ache in excruciating pain from head to toe. I wriggle in my seat as my whole body begins to tingle, it's like an army of ants are crawling underneath my skin and I've been bitten by green ants as white-hot pain flares underneath my skin.

"Hurry up Arron!" I growl; my voice doesn't sound human.

He curses, "SHIT! I didn't realise you were that far along."

I hear the V8 engine roar as he steps on the accelerator and the car lurches forward. I'm in too much pain to notice when we turn left down a dirt road and at the end a giant steel gate slides open to let the car in. I only register where I am when the car pulls up at a giant mansion. Voices echo outside the car. Most are arguing over who gets to look at the new person first.

"ENOUGH!" a voice shouts, " Leave the young girl alone."

It's oddly familiar to Arron's and it also has the authoritative tone to it. Footsteps crunch along the gravel and I'm able to tear myself away from the leather seat, trying to ignore the excruciating pain for just a few seconds. A guy, around Thirty, bends down below the car roof after the door is opened, to look at me. He has balayage hair with some grey streaks. His brown eyes asses me before they glow blue with mine and we growl at each other.

"You didn't tell me you were bringing an Alpha. I thought you said she had been turned, son!" he growls.

He is Arron's dad.

Arron bends down to look at me. "I didn't know!" he cries.

Even with his green eyes you can tell these two are related- same hair and height plus body build. I will my eyes to flash gold. Arron's dad balks, and he stops growling.

"I thought Riley Coraz had the book."

"She did. Until two nights ago she gave it to me- and the people after it- who turned me." I growl, squirming in my seat.

The bloody pain is back.

It clicks in Arron's father's mind. I can see the cogs turning behind those eyes.

"Dad! we have to help her, I met her a couple days ago at work, hours before she was turned. You know what it is like to have a wolf roaming around that is confused and scared about everything." Arron pleas.

"Call me Nikolai, Nik for short." he offers me a handout of the car, "We can't have a civil conversation or allow you onto our lands without you agreeing. Think of it as a peace treaty; my pack will respect your space and boundaries only if you respect mine and the others." Nik, explains.

I grab his hand, and he stars speaking, "I, Nikolai Everett, Alpha of the Stone Pack accept this Alpha onto my territory as long as they obey and follow orders."

I am a bit, okay, a lot creeped out by this. But the pain I'm in only intensifies and I do want someone to help. Causing a permanent grimace to be plastered on my face.

"You must reciprocate what dad just said! or we can't help you." Arron's urges me,

"Repeat: I, Katlyn Alexi, accept your offer and promise to obey and follow orders. Otherwise, we can't help you."

I growl at him but manage to speak, "I, Katlyn Alexi, accept your offer, promise to obey and follow orders."

Although. there is a lot more breathing and growling in between each word as I fight the pain. Nik and Arron, he helps me out of the car.

"This is going to be weird but since you won't be used to the shift or anything to do after it, so we're going to have to chain you up. Your wolf is making its first appearance and you most likely won't have control. You also knowing nothing to do with Werewolves adds to the precaution." Nik reveals as Arron and him help me around to the backyard.

I balk in their grasp but not from the pain. "You're saying that I could turn into a rouge?"

"Don't worry, no one will see. But you are goin' to have to change out of your clothes." Arron grimaces.

"Supernatural's are weird." I mumble.

I growl at him. "I can help with that. No woman ever likes boys looking at her, even with clothes on." A woman is standing atop the wooden deck steps, looking down at us.

It's a wide-open veranda with a few tables and chairs, eve a hammock.

"Mum!" Arron cries.

Nik scoffs. I grin.

"It's true though." I hiss through the pain.

My legs are getting harder to walk on.

"I like her." another, younger girl appears at the top of the steps.

Alyx Everett.

"Alyx! You and your mother are in charge of the pack tonight. We've got to deal with Katlyn." Nik says to his wife and daughter.

Alyx's eyes widen at the mention of my name, once she recognises who I am.

"At least let me help her with her clothes first." The woman states, "Woman aren't that out there with showing their nudity."