Orion

Thirteen. Ashes

anybody else addicted to Shane's Jake Paul series? Like I don't even watch Jake Paul and I'm super invested lmao. I loved the Tana one too but the Jeffree one I didn't like 

"You know you can't keep her locked up forever, right?"

They were walking along the southeast border of his territory. Miles and miles out. Orion and his Beta did these checks every other morning. He was a hands on type of alpha and that meant that Adriel had to be just as submersed in his role as well.

Orion didn't speak immediately. He stuffed his hands into the pockets of the ragged sweat pants that he was wearing; looked up into the trees. The sky was still dark, darker than it was at the beginning of the night. It was three forty five in the morning. Chaos was still asleep. The moon was cool in the sky, mocking him. He could practically hear it even though she hadn't said a word to him. She'd been back since the run that had closed over into raised skin still reading chaos had opened again.

"I'm not keeping her locked up. She's been in some type of trance for the past three days. I'm just leaving her to her own devices. She's a pain in the ass anyways."

With a chuckle, Adriel dropped to his knees to pick up a separated wolf's maw. The blood on it was dried, yet they both knew it was still a fresh kill. The fighters on patrol for this section had been playing with their prey. Twelve subordinates had decided to go on a killing spree while Orion was away, and once word got around that the alpha was back, they'd gotten scared and tried to run after convincing a friend to let them out of the building where criminals were kept.

It was a house with no windows, no electricity no contact with the rest of their pack. Being in the exact midpoint of the pack lands, hearing the world go on around them as they sat trapped in darkness, one wolf to each 'cell' with no contact with their pack mates for extended amounts of time would even break the will of the strongest of wolves who had no clue how to handle the silence. They weren't forced to be quiet with gags, but they knew what would happen if they were to try to speak to either each other, or anyone on the outside.

The young wolves had a little leader who had a young female wrapped around his paw, and that was how they'd gotten free. Only two ran, the ring leader and one other. The other was the one the maw belonged to. Orion kicked it when Adrian dropped it back to the ground and they continued on like they were taking a stroll through the park.

"What does she do anyways? Did she give you that cut?"

Orion could tell the Beta had been holding back his questions, they were spilling out of his mouth like water did a cracked dam.

"And how did you end up finding your mate when you set out to find someone to kill?"

That woman was something that Orion had never come across before. If he had thought he was normal for the slightest of seconds, Orion knew he was wrong. Chaos was a new kind of crazy for him, and he'd seen crazy- hell he had his own type.

Chaos was afraid to sleep by herself, yet she had threatened to kill the both of them if he tried to take her charms again.

Now, at home, she wouldn't speak to him. The night before, while they were in bed, he'd thought about kissing her. The idea that he would want to surprised him. Orion wasn't that type of man. He'd only stopped himself because he knew Chaos would use it against him, and he refused to just give it to her. Plus, she'd been in that room all day. When she came out, she was serene, and Orion would rather have a serene mate who was ignoring him than the one who could let fire leave her fingertips.

What else could she do? At the hotel she'd broken free of her ropes. At her house, she'd used that same telekinesis to open the door for him when her hands were full. And now, after the fiasco where he'd demanded her belongings and she'd set them on fire, the rune that signified Chaos (The one that had actually gone away and left only a faint mark) was now bleeding once more. The ringing in his ears had faded after the first time he'd touched her, but now that was back as well. Loud and clear like a bell ringing in his ear.