Dawn 'till Dusk

Part 23 - War

I didn’t sleep all night, horrible images of his beautiful wolf, being torn apart by the vicious vampires kept seeping into my head. Christopher woke up around eight in the morning.

‘Have you been up long?’ he asked.

‘No, just before you,’ I lied.

‘I will have to leave soon,’ he whispered.

They would set out for war in an hour, I was so scared for his life.

‘Do one more thing for me, before you leave?’ I pleaded, turning in his arms, to face him.

‘Anything my darling,’ he promised.

‘Make love to me,’ I whispered.

He kissed me immediately, obliging to my request. Forty five minutes later we were both downstairs with every male from our pack. Angel was standing beside me, the woman had already left, having said goodbye to their loved ones and taking the younger boys, who were too young to fight. Christopher was talking to his troops, motivating them, making them hungry for vampires. I wasn’t listening, I was crying in the arms of Angel. We sought comfort with each other. The men jumped outside, running to the place where the fight would take place. Christopher first hugged his mother tight, promising her he would come back. She went into the living room, where we heard her cry. He came to me one more time.

‘I will always be with you, Muffin. I love you so much. I will come back for you,’ he promised, tears evident in his eyes.

‘I love you too,’ I whispered, hugging him tight, kissing his chest, cheek and mouth.

‘See you soon, my Muffin,’ he promised and he left also.

I wanted to walk to the living room, but fright took over. My legs gave in and I cried, sobbing hysterically. Angel ran to me, picking me up from the floor, she took me to the living room and together we sobbed. Scared for her son and my mate. After some time, Daniel broadcasted to us that the other packs had arrived and that they smelled the vampires. Soon after that I felt the fight had started.

Christopher’s POV

When the other packs arrived, my nerves lessened. We had quite a large group of wolves, most of which had already fought with vampires before. I let Alpha Clark be the frontman, he had fought and killed many vampires before, he could lead us best. When the smell of the foul vampires penetrated our noses, we all shifted into our wolves. When they broke the forestline, I immediately went for the kill, but looking for the vampire that had harmed my beautiful mate. I knew he had set this up, he had planned to attack our packs, just like he had eliminated the pack near Dawn’s old home. I hadn’t told her that, so she wouldn’t worry about me. I had found out while we were still debating if she would come with us. I ripped off one or two heads, but I didn’t find the one I needed to kill. I kept searching, there were a lot more vampires then we had anticipated.

Dawn POV

‘Angel, I think something is wrong,’ I whispered.

‘No dear, that’s just because of these horrible things happening, everything will be alright,’ she said, rubbing my back.

I had stopped crying, but I really felt uncomfortable, like someone was staring at me. Suddenly I felt someone pull me up by the hairs.

‘Angel, run!’ I yelled.

She didn’t, she got to her feet rapidly, staring angrily at the man before her.

‘Leave my daughter alone!’ she said in a low, threatening voice.

‘She’s hardly your daughter.. She is Alpha Matthews spawn, she never should have survived our attack twenty two years ago,’ he said, grabbing my throat with a lot of force.