Eclipse Child |✔|

|8|

worlds change

when eyes

meet.

d.j.

***

I'm gritting my teeth as a new form of frustration rises in me.

Irritation from lack of food, and good sleep is seeping into me.

Two days in and still no wolves.

I had no food.

A rabbit had crossed my path early in the morning, scarring both me and itself as it raced across my feet.

I had stared silently after it, debating if I could shift and catch it.

But then I felt another weight settle in my stomach as I thought of all the steps that needed to be completed for the simple process of just consuming it.

Skinning, starting a fire, cooking.

All things that I didn't know.

I look up at the sky, holding my hand above to shadow my eyes from the dull light.

The day would soon be over.

A heaviness settles in my mind as my thoughts go back to that office.

Was it wrong to take such a deal? Did it matter how I got to the top, so long as I was there?

The image of my father's face flashes in me.

It's clouded over by Vincent's.

And a sick feeling rises in my stomach that I had even entertained the idea for one second.

But I had to be Alpha.

What would my mate think?

I feel my hand rise automatically to my hair.

But I quickly push such thoughts aside.

I had retraced my steps again and again to make sure dad was not trailing me.

If it was not him, then one of his men.

The only scents I had uncovered though, were those of different animals and their faint traces.

The various plants and wildlife that managed to grow within the grey of the mountain.

And then I hear it.

A yap.

A yap of a wolf.

My whole body tenses as I stop in my tracks to take in the noise.

A long pent-up breath is exhaled from me as I softly walk forward.

I'm holding my breath.

Walking so silently.

Taking in the sound.

It was far off.

Still a distance away.

But I couldn't make any unnecessary movements.

And soon, I'm emerging from the trees to face a clearing of rocky surface.

And there they are.

The wolves.

My eyes widen and quickly dart to take in each one.

Twelve.

In total there were twelve.

They had stopped next to a small pool of water.