Demons

Chapter 26 - Warning...

Brutus' pov:
She's fumbling slightly in my arms as I finally stop. For the past couple of hours I've been running furiously and she's complained about it ever since I started. I've had to keep going though. Just the very idea of him hearing her scares the living hell out of me. I can't risk her being found by him...I can't let him get anywhere near her. I would rather run to her annoyance and at worst, risk my own life before I let him anywhere near her. No matter who came after us, I would die protecting her...hopefully it never reaches that point.

For some reason I just know that it will though. At some point, somebody is bound to come after us and I will do something radical so that either both or one of us, survive. Mira is the only thing that matters. She's just a couple of hours old and she's already lost her mother. I lost her mother. I need to make sure she gets somewhere safe, somewhere far away from Don.

There is only one place I can think of, but there's a risk involved: they'll either say no to taking her and killing me, or say no and put me in a cell for the rest of my life. I hardly think they will say no to taking her, but rather no to either let me live or be free to roam the woods on my own. As long as Mira is taken care of though, I don't care where I end up.

- You're going to be okay, Mira. Daddy will make sure that somebody keeps you safe from every possible harm there is...

I let out as I look down on her. She's got these beautifully blue-green eyes that remind me so much of her mother. There's hardly anything that's different about her eyes and it almost breaks my heart to see them, but at the same time, I feel this overwhelming love for her. She is just as beautiful as her mother was. I couldn't be more proud to be the father of such a beautiful girl.

I plant a soft kiss on her forehead before I rise back up on my feet and look around myself. I'm by the infamous pond where I know I almost helped Fagan kill Blake. Oh, how things have turned around these last four years. Now I'm actually fighting to keep Mira safe and hopefully somewhere down the line, I'll see myself trying to save Blake...no matter if you believe me or not.

I know it's not that big of a distance to the pack-house, but I don't expect to get that far until somebody finds me and reports to the Luna, who so happens to be Kate's mother. Kate is probably there too by now and so will Alec along with his mate. Alec will probably be less than pleased to see me, his mate even less after almost breaking his mate's back, but I can't have any regrets. I did what I had to do to keep my family alive. Otherwise, Mira wouldn't be alive to make her weird baby-noises.

I walk through a denser part of the forest before I reach a clearing. I start to hear noises around me...noises of wolves circling around me. I know they see me and that I see them. I look down on Mira for a moment, thinking this might be the last time I get to look down at her while she's in my arms. I place a soft kiss on her forehead again, bend down slowly and place her on the grass. She immediately starts objecting and it takes every ounce of strength I've got to not lift her back up.

- You really have some nerves showing up here with an innocent child in your arms. Are you really that into kidnapping children?

I recognize Alec's voice right away. I see him appear on his wheelchair slightly on my right. His wheelchair isn't really built for this kind of terrain, but around here it seems to manage just fine.

- All of the things that I've done in the past has all been to keep my family safe. Everything I've done over the last four years has never been about me despising you, but about keeping the ones I love safe.

I see he's skeptical to my explanation. He doesn't really believe me and I didn't really expect him to.

- Whose child is it?