~ The Legend ~ Bear Claw

chapter 53

~ Chapter 53 ~

Lincolns POV

"No! Daddy! Please wake up!" She screams sobbing, her heartache not reacting even while she sleeps. Her body thrashes and her face holds so much pain I could barely stay silent and watch her.

I growl at cadell and he looks at me sighing.

"Seva" he whispers gently shaking her shoulder, she continues to sob.

"Seva" he tries again a little louder and she shifts slightly looking confused.

"Seva" he shakes her again, this time she sits straight up breathing heavy with sweat dripping down her face and chest. She wipes her tears and breaths deeply, doing her best to calm down.

I ignore her and cadells conversation and focus on watching her eyes, how they cast over with a pained faraway look every now and again.

Her parents really have broken her.

She stands and heads into the forest, as soon as she's out of sight I stand despite cadells warning and silently follow her.

She looks so at peace with herself out in the forest and it makes me realise that she really is wild. Everything about her screams dominance and seriousness. But seeing her out here so peaceful, so calm and unworried makes me want to keep her here forever.

So she's no longer worried, hurt, pained or stressed. So she's free, free from everything including herself.

But even I know she's far too strong headed and loyal to simply walk away.

I watch her hidden far enough away into the darkness so she can't see me as she suddenly opens her eyes and heads in another direction.

I watch as she pushes through crap loads of bushes and walks towards the lagoon.

I force myself to look away as starts to get undressed, its feels wrong to simply watch her without her consent.

I look back at her only when I hear the light splash of water, I see the water moving as she swims beneath it before resurfacing and wiping hair from her face.

Her beauty still awes me and I have a feeling it always will.

She lays back in the water and my eyes rudely take in her appearance without my permission.

I'd seen her partially naked before but only her back, that was when I was caring for her wounds.

But now I see that she has been through many battles, she has many scars on her body and I know those scars are her pride for another victory.

She also has Celtic tribal tattoos on her as well as normal ones, a big red and golden dragon starts at her left hip. Its head huge and its mouth open while it looks as if to bite into her flesh, it twists and wraps around the inside of her thigh and going lower as it twines around her left leg three time before the end of its tail stops at her ankle.

She also has the mark of a warrior, the mark of the sacred tree, wisdom, faith, loyalty, leadership, and brotherhood. Despite her being a female she's one of the men in a way, she fights like a man, takes a hit like a man, eats like a man, hell she more balls than most men do.

She also has a tattoo on her face, it stands out from all the rest as it's more feminine that any of the others, it seems almost personal. She's not the kind of girl that has something like that and of makes me more curious about her.

Crack.

A branch snaps under my paw from my weight instantly alerting seva, she opens her eyes but shakes her head and closes her eyes again.

As quick as lightening I bolt away from her and back to her pack, will she hate me knowing I've seen her in her undergarments?

Is it wrong for me to want to take them off her?

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Sliding my top on over my soaked bra I grab my jeans and pull them on, adding my socks and boots after. Grabbing my daggers I twirl them in my hands as I make my way back to my warriors.

"Been swimming?" Cadell asks me and I nod having a feeling what he was about to say.

"Looks like you've pissed yourself sev" he sniggers and I roll my eyes at him.

"You mean like you did when that squirrel chased you through the woods?" I ask in a smug voice, the warriors smirk at him and he turns the faintest shades of red.

"Aw is my big bad beta blushing?!" I fake coo and he turns a deeper shade of red and huffs.

"Blushing is manly. You wouldn't understand" he scoffs and I raise my eyebrow.

"Oh, you didn't do it" I frown sighing and he looks at me confused.

"Do what?"

My reply is a scoff, cocking my hip and placing my hand their while flicking my hair behind me with a bitch face.

"I've never done that in my life" he Denys getting angry at me while I smirk.

"Really? Remember my 7th birthday? The day at the beach? The girl you thought was replacing you? Or maybe the time when yo-"

"OK! I get it" he holds his hands up in surrender and I pretend to flip my hair as I turn away from him. My warriors laugh at the exchange, not used to seeing me so..carefree so they're enjoying it for now I guess.

"Time to fix Jayson" I tell my warriors and instantly the mood shifts to serious, we head home in human form. Lincoln must have taken off his clothes before he shifted so he is the only male dressed.

Im used to my pack being naked, its our way.

One thing is on my mind though, why was I cuddled into Lincolns dirty fur?