Don't Burn Out (Currently Editing)

Four

FOUR

Zayn's Point of View

"And she was running towards Joshua's pack..?"

"Yeah." I take another swig of liquor straight from the bottle, "He's probably the reason she's so afraid."

"Are you sure she's a wolf? Maybe she's just human and doesn't understand mating?"

"I caught her scent she's a wolf, for sure. What she-wolf runs from her mate?"

My Beta, Niall, just stirs his liquor. "Do think she realized your an alpha.. Maybe she's scared to be a luna..?"

"Even if she's scared she could come to me. I hate to think she's somewhere scared out of her mind." I slump into my black leather chair, nursing my bottle of Jack. "God I just-"

'Alpha, I'm on the northwestern border, I've just found a rouge..' My wolf, Javadd, gets excited as my good friend and Epsilon, Nadia, mind links me.

Lovely my mate ran from me, there's a rouge, and Javadd's acting like an idiot. Wonderful. Fucking wonderful.

'Just kill him.'  I don't have the time nor the patience to deal with this right now.

'But, Zayn it's a girl and she's injured. I haven't approached her because I didn't want to scare her off.'

A girl.. Girls typically don't become ro- MATE.

'Nadia I'll be out right away. Do not approach her. Just watch her till I get there.'

'Yessir.'

I nod to Niall knowing he heard the conversation Nadia and I just had.

"Can't wait to meet the Luna..." He says retrieving the Jack Daniel's bottle from my desk. I dash down stairs and outside. Just as the door swings shut I'm in wolf form and already deep into the woods surrounding my territory.

I sense Nadia and a few others just ahead. She and the others bow their heads as I approach, but I'm not interested in them. Her delicate scent invades my thoughts. Freesias, berries, and something warm. A soft, but powerful perfume.

'So sweet.' Javadd moans.

I follow my nose till I'm hit with another aroma... It still smells of her, but metallic. It taints her sweet perfume.

"...she's injured."

'Her blood.'

I'm sprinting off to her. Luna I hope she's isn't hurt too badly. Soon I reach a clearing where her scent is most powerful. Just through the bushes I see her petite wolf curled up on the forest floor. She's dark, black. I lean in to get a better look at her, but something cracks under my foot.

Her eyes snap to mine.

'No use watching her like some stalker when she knows you're here.'

True.

I step out of the brush and shift into my human form then grab some sweats and a tshirt for her.

I approach slowly, not wanting to frighten her.

Sitting next to her on my knees, I comb through her thick fur with my fingers. A tingle rises up my fingers and through my arms.

'So soft.'

So beautiful. I need to see her human.

"Sift, love."

She curls herself up tighter and more of metallic scent of her blood is unleashed into the air. I notice quite a few gashes on her legs along with something that appears to me a bite mark.