On the Run

Chapter 21:

Chapter 21:

        Derek and Cora looked at me and I smiled weakly at them.

        "Her first word was pack?" Cora said.

        "Maybe we heard her wrong? Maybe she said dad or something. Dad sounds like pack." I said.

        "Pack," Nattalia smiled at us.

        "She definitely did not say dad, Connor." Derek said.

        "Well, I may have said the word once or twice around her. What's the big deal?"

        "What are you planning over there?" Derek asked me.

        "Nothing important," I lied.

        Derek handed Noelle to Cora and slowly approached me and without warning he snatched the book I was writing in off the desk and he read what I had been writing. When he finished reading he looked up from the book and his eyes were glowing.

"I wasn't sure if I would do it so I didn't want to say anything!"  Derek grabbed me and dragged me up to our room then slammed the door closed.

        "What the hell, Connor?!"

        "You had your chance now it's my turn!"

        "Why do you even want to do that? You have us!"

        "And I love you guys, but we need no I need to do this."

        "Are you implying that I'm not strong enough to protect you?"

        "No!! Why do you always have to turn everything around?"

        "I just I don't want it to destroy you like it did me." Derek said sadly and looked down.

        I tilted his chin up and looked him right in the eyes.

        "It won't destroy me, I promise. I was kind of hoping that you would help me."

        "You want my help? I'm like the worst person to ask for help, Connor."

        "You still blame yourself for everything Derek! You have to forgive yourself."

        "I am to blame, Connor! My pack would have been better off with you as their alpha instead. I was too worried about power to even be a good alpha."

        "When my parents got divorced I thought it was my fault, because they'd always argue over me. Now that I'm older I realize that they weren't meant to be together as long as they had hoped. It may seem horrible, but Derek... Erica and Boyd, Paige, your family. That was fate just like us. You didn't make Kate set your home on fire! You didn't bite Paige and you didn't make the alpha pack kill Boyd and Erica! You didn't make Peter kill Laura. Stop blaming yourself!"

        "How did I even get this blessed to have you as a mate?" He smiled at me.

        "Fate."

        "I'm sorry I yelled at you." He said then I hugged him.

        "Are you gonna help me?" I asked and he laughed.

        "Yeah, I'll help you." He slid his hand down to my butt and smacked it causing me to squeal.

"So how did you shift into the wolf?" he asked as he pulled away and sat down on the bed.

        "I don't know."

        "My mother and my sister Laura could shift into a black wolves too."