Bittersweet Aisly

{4} Something Worse

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Chapter 4: I kept my head down as the other diners began directing thier gaze towards me. I looked up to find someone on the phone, and before I knew it a sherrif's car was parking outside with its red, white and blue lights flickering. I panicked. 

I stood up loudly and ran out the door and past the squad car and into the forest. "Hey, hold it right there!" The sherrif yelled firmly but I ignored him. Thats when I heard the familiar sound of a gunshot and the seering pain in my right shoulder, shit. 

Alpha:

I jolted out of sleep when my study door slammed open. "Alpha! She escaped!" I looked up at Toby, My Beta. I rubbed my worry filled eyes. "How?"

He sighed. "We don't know, that's what we are trying to figure out. But There's something I have to show you." He quickly shuffled through the papers on my desk and found the television remote and flipped on the T.V.

Before my eyes my mate face was all over the news. Not only is she a rogue but shes a murderer? And her names not Brenna its Aisly. Still a beautiful name but why would she lie to her mate? I took a deep breath, trying to calm my anger that was rising. "Do you have any leads of where she might have gone?"

He scratched the back of his head. "Um.. Yeah Theres a few squad cars over at a diner in the next town over. They said she headed South into the woods." A look of pity crossed his face. "I'm sorry Alpha but she's headed into Alpha Nicolas' territory"

Thats when I bolted out of my chair and ran out the door. "Get every wolf out there looking for her! And if shes crossed into his territory I will have to deal with him myself."

"Yes Alpha!" Toby yelled but I was already out the door and running towards Nicolas' territory.

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Aisly:

I clasped my palm around my shoulder as the pain sky rocketed. I hissed through my teeth as blood trinkled through my fingers and down my arm. I was still running but was now slowing down when I knew he had lost me. Although I could still hear him walking around somewhere in the distance. I walked through the pine trees and dodged low branches when I came to a clearing full of wildflowers. I smiled as the pain seemed like nothing, as I was hypnotized by the hidden beauty of this meadow. But as quickly as appeared, it vanished and a black wolf stood before me and snarled at me.

I held up my hands, which only made the gunshot wound on my shoulder more painful and leak a river of blood down my arm. "I-I'm sorry." I clasped my palm firmly around my shoulder in hopes to stop the bleeding. "I don't mean any har-" I started when the wolf pounced at me suddenly. I let out a yelp and jumped out of its way just in time so that it almost flew headfirst into a tree.

I stumbled away, hoping that I could make it to the treeline and lose him there. 

  making me scream. He clamped his fangs around my calf harder growling loud enough to shake my whole body, a huge growl erupted from the trees ahead of us. I looked up through teary eyes to see a brown wolf, his grey eyes looked at me with pain and anger; I instantly knew who it was. It was the Alpha. The black wolfs fangs slowly retracted from the deep bloody pits of my leg and took a stance; challenging the alpha and I quickly limped out of the clearing and a few trees deep into the woods. I silently watched the Alpha and the other wolf circle eachother when the alpha jumped on him and bit his neck. It made a horrible sickening crack and the wolf laid there limp and unmoving. I laid my head back against the rough bark and stiffled a sob. How could my life get any worse? I honestly don't think it can given the, fact that I just got attacked by another dog. I looked down at my battered leg. My pants torn and strewn here and there while I was thankful that he didn't bite my leg in half.

The alpha ran up beside me. He had shifted and was in sweatpants and his chest was bare. He reached for me to pick me up but I pushed him away. I would be healed soon and I didn't want nor need his help.

He sat back on his heels. "Aisly-"

I whirled my head towards him. "Aisly? Who said you can call me that?"

"Actually nobody did. I learned your name from Channel 13 news."

"Oh... Well, what's your name?"

He laughed and raked his hand through his hair. He looked my age now, a carefree teenager. "My name is Christian."

My arm stung uncomfortably, I almost forgot I was shot. I held on to it tightly I was pretty sure the bleeding had seized but I wasnt sure. The bullet didn't just graze my shoulder, I was pretty sure the bullet was still there. 

 "I'm so sorry." Christian whispered, I could hear the pain in his voice.

I clenched my jaw. "Why?" I said through my teeth

"It's all my fault that you hurt like this." He gestured to my injuries.

"No its not, its my fault. I'm the one who was stu-" but I was interrupted.

"Youre not stupid."

"Yes I am! I get caught on someone Else's territory twice now and I got locked up in a cage! You don't know me, yet you save me? My life is a living hell! So why would you even care?" I snapped and regretted for saying them in such a rude way. That was just the way I felt. I was most likely only twenty to thirty miles away from where my father was was, putting together a search team to bring me back and do who knows what. Tears rolled down my cheeks, I was so fed up with everything, and everyone.

Christian gently grabbed my chin and made me look at him. He wiped the tears from my cheeks with the pads of his thumbs. "Shhh. Don't cry please." He whispered. "I would like to know you instead of chasing you around. I saved you because he would have ripped you to shreds and the way your leg looks I feel horrible for not getting to you in time." Sadness filled his voice and he looked at me with sorrow. "You think your life is a living hell? Yeah, your life sucks. So did mine, but you can get through it and I care about you because that's what mates do, and I will always care about you no matter what. If your a rouge or a murderer. "

I looked at him in shock. I wouldn't be surprised if my mouth was hanging open. I closed it quickly and looked at him again, no man in my life has ever been that direct while talking to me and he looked like he was telling the truth. "I have heard of mates a long time ago. What are mates exactly?"

He ran his hand through his hair. "Mates are just like soul mates, you are destined for each other whether you like it or not. Like for me, I am attracted to you and I can feel what you feel, sometimes you can even communicate with each other through a mind link just like with our packs. You would do anything in your power to keep one another safe. But there is the disadvantages of having mates..."

He sighed and ran his hand through his caramel hair. "If your mate rejects you, you can lose your wolf. So technically if you get rejected you'll be half dead. You'll never be the same, if your mate is in pain you'd also be in a state of pain along with them." He said the last part as a whisper and I felt bad for him. He thinks I will reject him, probably but the thing is I don't want a mate who will jump in front of a bullet for me. When my father comes for me--whenever that will be-- Christian will fight back and get hurt all because of me, His pack can't go on without him.

I didn't know what I was saying, If I reject him he wont be there for his pack just sulking in his own sadness and having no way of protecting his pack. I've never seen it, but I've heard stories and I knew right then that I had made my decision. The huge decision that could change everyones life and quite possibly put all of us in danger. I shook my head, "I won't reject you, ever."

He smiled, placing his hand on my cheek as he leaned down towards me. "Good." He whispered and he closed the little distance we had between us and placed his soft lips on mine. His lips caressing my own, and I didn't mind it not one bit. I had forgotten  about my leg, my shoulder, my father. I forgot everything and I loved it. But it even made me reconsider my decision, making me want to turn around and deny what I said. And it made me feel like a total bitch.

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