Hunted

Chapter 12

"Elliana" He says my names again. I smile at just hearing his voice. I wipe it off my face a moment after it comes.

"Chase" I look anywhere but his green eyes. 

"I wish I could speak to you without these bars" He looks at the bars ruefully. 

"You could just let me out?" I ask hopefully. He laughs slightly. 

"Yeah and then we'd get about a half a kilometer before Leo kills us" 

"Well you could always do it when he's asleep" Ideas forming in my head. If I was his mate, he'd definitely help me. 

"None of your ideas would work" He says. "So wipe that look off your face. I might be your mate. But I also have loyalty to this pack" 

How did he...? Oh so he's either a mind reader or I'm bad at hiding my thoughts or it had something to do with the fact we're mates.

"But I thought mate love was stronger than anything" I say. 

"Love? You think I'm in love with you? I barely know anything about you. I know your name. I know you are a hunter. And that's pretty much it" 

"How do you expect me to betray my school for you when you can't even betray your own pack for me?" I say coldly. Because it was the truth. And it summed up this situation perfectly. In the end, if we were to survive, one of us would have to betray our home. 

"Because my pack would look for me for longer than two weeks!" He retorts. My heart falls. "Because my pack is family whereas your school is just a place where they take childhoods. Where they murder people. Where they train you to be  heartless warriors. You know, I pity you. What they've done to you. Who you've become" He looks at me in such a way that I begin to feel so disgusted with myself. So disgusted in the way I'd been brought up. I see him turn and begin to leave. No way I'm letting him have the last word, again. 

"It wasn't them! It was your kind. Wolves. You want to know why I'm like this then look around. It was you's. Your kind murdered my family. You're the one who orphaned me and made me be raised in that place. It always starts with wolves!" I scream at him. He stops and I shut my mouth. 

"How many wolves have you killed huh?" He asks. 

"11" I say proudly. I move the hair from my neck and show him the tattoos. He looks at me in disgust. 

"11" He says quietly. "11" He repeats.

"I'm 20. My brother, the beta, he's 24. The Alpha's 21. Our third? He 32. None of us have ever killed anyone. In fact, none of us in this pack have killed anyone. And if we have, it was rogues" What the hell was a rogue?

"Humans, wolves, vampires, witches. Each of us have bad and good people in our species. You humans- We don't judge you because of the people we read in the news. The people in the wars. The complete psychos. We don't give all of you a label because of the few bad people. Rogues, the one's who kill mercilessly. They kill both humans and pack wolves."

"If you're human. If that is what it means to be human. Then I don't want to be human. You, you make me so sick. I'm so ashamed when I think of you being my mate. My mate, a murderer! I'm sick of trying to help your case. Maybe I should just let Leo kill you. At least then I won't have to live with the fact that you've killed innocent people" 

And he leaves. With the last word. And me, for the first time, crying. Crying at everything. Because he could be true. And I would've killed innocent people. Faye and her child. And for the first time. I stopped believing that they were monsters. I looked at the small cup with water next to the plate of food and stared at my reflection. 

I started to believe something I had ignored for years.

I was the monster

A/N

I know the books going really fast, the story line I mean. But this happened a few says after the last chapter, and this book isn't meant to be long.