The Sun Will Rise (Moonlight 1)

Chapter 16-The Lone Wolf

We'd split into two groups once we left my place, Michael and Ashton had left in one direction whilst I stayed with Calum. One thing had struck me as odd though, the whole time since we'd made plans Michael had continued to protest about the whole idea, saying he'd prefer that we went to see the movie. Calum had kept shutting him down insisting that this was necessary to keeping the four of us safe from the hunters. I wonder what Michael's problem was because you'd think he'd be all for it.

To be honest, I was more than a little nervous about the possibility of encountering the girl who had caused so many problems for me and so many others. Yet, I had Calum here with me and like it had in the hospital knowing that, somehow made me feel a lot better. Maybe it was an Alpha thing, but there was something about his presence that seemed to calm me.

"So, can you explain to me what on Earth you're trying to do?" I asked, turning to face Calum who had been pacing around the park for the last fifteen minutes. He'd barely explained what he was doing and I was starting to become less and less certain that it was anything at all.

"I'm trying to get a scent." Calum frowned, pausing to look at me, "But it's not working too well."

So, that's what he was doing? I guess I should've been trying to do the same. As I'd been taught, I closed my eyes and sniffed the air. I could smell several things, the earthy smell of grass, pollen that made me want to sneeze and the smell coming from the kids playing on the play equipment on the other side of the park. Yet none of them were anything like the scent from the cave or yesterday.

"Alright, I give up." He sighed, breaking me out of my own attempt, "Let's head for the back of town. It's possible she's been hanging around there if that's where your parents found her. We might have more chance there."

I nodded, that did seem likely that had been where we'd seen her the other day after all. Surely, we might at least be able to pick up a trail away from there at least.

We walked from the park into the town. The two of us continued to search on our way between the two but all the smells were mixed up from the number of people that had used the path. As we grew closer I picked up the scent of where we had been the other day, but there was not much else beside that and the questionable smell of rotting garbage. We were both growing less certain that she'd even been around the town besides the day we'd seen her. My only guess was that she'd mainly been sticking around the forest whilst she's been here.

"We could try the cave..." I suggest. When I thought about it her keeping to the forest seemed quite likely.

Calum shook his head, "Nah, I think that's where Michael and Ashton were headed. For all we know they've probably found her already."

"Yeah." I agreed. I guess he was thinking the same as me. Though if they had, I'm surprised we hadn't heard from them. It's not like the bond wasn't working, it had been working back at my place a short time ago.

We walked a little further, and I became aware of someone watching us from the end of the alley. She sat on a dumpster, in a dirt stained light blue hoodie her frizzy hair wild as ever as it poked out from under it.

I couldn't pick up her scent but I focused in on her, I recognized her from the photo and from the other day, "Calum, down there."

Calum frowned, as he followed my gaze. The girl was pale, as she stared at me like I was a ghost. She sat completely ridged as if she had been frozen in place by our appearance.

I guess if this was the same werewolf who'd thought she'd killed me. I was probably her worst nightmare come to life, she probably thought we were seeking revenge on her or something like that.