Lost hope (Completed)

Chapter 17

(Nick Hoverdinck's P.O.V)

Dust kicks up behind my truck. Going eighty on the dirt road. I take my foot off the gas and let the black truck slow down the rest of the way to the main gate, pressing the breaks five feet away. More pissed off than before, I put the truck in park and exit it, forgetting the key in the ignition.

"What the hell happened?!?" looking at the guard who was on shift.

All the muscles in his body tense up up. He averted my gaze, afraid that I might strike him.

Conner appears in front of me. "Calm down!" he says, placing a hand on my chest. "Emma has something to say, unless you're too busy with Brad here."

I roll my eyes, comprehensibly vexed with Conner's appearance.

Emma walks up to me, looking down at me as if I'm an ant. Her eyes watery and red. Strain and worry covering her.

I look at her, blood noticeable on her ice armor. She looks like she got in a fight. Her paw now on my shoulder.

•~~~~~•

"Ahhh..." someone screams in the distance. I look in front of myself and see three wolves, recognizing Emma's and Axel's. The other one smaller than the both.

I examine the smaller one, noticing the same native marks as Emma's. Must be Tyler. 

Emma's head is now straight up. What was that? Her voice echos, taking me out of my reverie. 

I don't know...I'll go check it out, stay here with Tyler. Axel takes off towards the source of the scream.

I look around, trying to figure out what part of town they're at. Trees mostly covers the area, making it hard to point out the location. The sun beams down onto a rock that Tyler is sitting on, Emma close to him. 

There's a rustle in a bush ahead of them. Emma lowers her stance with Tyler now at her side. She begins to growl at the bush, sniffing the air. That's when something jumps out and attacks her, another coming out and snatching Tyler.

I try to reach out to Tyler, but I couldn't move. They weren't afraid of Emma's intimidating height. 

They fought, Emma getting tackled to the ground. Every time she was on the ground, the rouge would scratch and bite at her. Every time she wasn't on the ground, it would bite at her legs. It all making her cry out in pain. Her howls were piercing. 

The rouge that was attacking Emma, ran off as soon as the other one was a good distance away with Tyler. A howl broke out of her snout, devastated with her loss. 

•~~~~~•

"Where's that search party?" I question Parker.

"On their way, Nick." Parker states.

Tre walks up with the first group. He barked orders at them as he approached me.

"How's she hold'n up?" I ask Tre.

Tre points out to the gate and the group shifts and heads out to the woods. "In the hospital right now. Some of here cuts were fairly deep."

"And Axel?" I look at Tre a bit confused. I don't even remember seeing him with Emma.

A howl breaks our conversation. A big emerald and black wolf, to my right, howls again. Tre looks at it with concern. I take it the wolf must be Axel. 

"I just sent the first search party." Tre says.

"That's not why we're here." a guy says as he walks out from behind Axel, a Hunter follows suit.

"Nick, this is Loiyd." he points to the brown haired man, accent different than one I've heard of. "This is Victor." This time he points at the Hunter.

"Jeg opprinnelig ikke ser ut som dette." the Hunter says. I jerk my head back and furrow my eyebrows, not understanding a word he said.

Loiyd looks at him. "Um, forstår de ikke hva du sier husk, du bare snakke norsk når du er sånn?"

"Oh, meg dårlig." he shifts to normal. "I always forget about that, Emma almost killed me once for doing that." Victor says more understanding.

Loiyd chuckles in response, but Axel just growls lowly. "More like, you almost got her and Tyler killed." Axel's growling stopped when Loiyd corrects Victor.

"So you're the guys that helped Emma escape?" they just nod. "Great, so why are you here then?"

"Uh, we were going to go look for Tyler." Loiyd answers. "We can take night shifts." he mentions.

I just roll my eyes in response. I get in my truck and drive off. Before I knew it, something jumps into the back of my truck. I look in the mirror and see Axel, fully clothed.

•~~~~~•

I park my truck in a open spot closest to the doors. I open the door after I turn the truck off, step out, and slam it shut.

"-el, you ain't go'n out in those woods to look for Tyler alone!" Emma yells as she storms out of the hospital. "You will take me with you to find our son or you will stay home with me till Tyler is found." she pokes him, aggressively, with every word.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Axel takes Emma's finger away from his chest. "How'd you find out?" shock evident in his voice.

She raises her eyebrows. "I heard whispers." is all she says raising her head up.

I clear my throat. "Sorry, don't mean to intrude, but shouldn't we get you home now?"

"Please!" she pushes Axel out of her way.

Axel jumps in the bed of the truck as I open the passenger door for Emma. As soon as I get in and engine is started, I blast the country music. Emma didn't move, she just kept her eyes fixated out the window.

How did she even find out? I don't know if I can trust that Victor, he's a Hunter after all. Anyways, if Emma trusts him, then I'll do the same. I gotta talk to the guys later and see if they wanna go out tonight and hunt down those rouges. I will not let Emma down, even if it means sacrificing my life for her. Yes, I do have feelings for her, I've loved her from the day I met her. Though, it seems like she doesn't have any interested in me.

"Somethin' on your mind?" she speaks.

I take a look at her then turn the music down. "What?"

"Somethin' on your mind?" speaking more smoothly.

"Oh, no, nothin' really." I lie, trying to cover up my feelings.

"Nick! You're go'n miss the turn!" she shrieked.

I turn sharply into the dirt trail, kicking the dust up in the process. The back end slid a little with the sharp turn. Axel almost falling out as he desperately holds onto one of the side. 

"You need to be little more careful, Nick!" Axel yells as he pounds on the back window.

I stop the truck in front of the gate. Emma runs out and jumps over the gate, running from Axel.

I drive away as soon as she reaches the top of the stairs.

(Emma's P.O.V)

I slam the door in Axel's face. Tears start running down my cheeks. It's like the world was taken from me. My boy, my boy was taken from me.

How could I have been so blinded? It's all my fault!

A warm feeling courses through me as Axel raps his hand around my arm. I turn around, face in his chest, soaking his shirt with my tears. I let him down. Sobs escape me as I grab onto the part of his shirt closest to my face. He wraps his arms around me, allowing me to cry into him for a couple minutes.

I begin to sniff away my tears as he lifts my head up by the chin. "Come on, let's go to bed." he coos as he directs me to our room.

(Translation at the end of the book)