The Secret

Chapter 2: A Wolf and a Black Tiger?

~*~Recap~*~

Hannah's POV

"I wonder who your mates going to be..." She looked at me and bit a chunk of bacon. I almost chocked on my strawberry I had grabbed. I tried to hide my surprise. I played it off, shrugging. I don't really care.

'You will, trust me' Sky promised.

I pushed her back and turned my attention back to Tara.

"Do you want a party?" I asked. She stood up, done with her food, walked over to the sink and washed her plate and fork.

"Uh...sure. But who are we going to invite, I mean, we basically know no one here..." She dried her plate and fork and put them away.

"You do have a point there..." I finished my pancake and went to wash the fork and plate like she did, pushing our chairs in. She was silent as I made my way to the sink. She had wandered over to our floor length mirror and began to braid a part of her hair. I dried my plate and fork and put them away.

"No party then?" I said sitting in a chair and watched her braid. "Seeing as we can't invite anyone, that's a no, I'm sorry. If we knew someone then maybe." I stood up off the chair and walk back to our room. I grabbed my brush and walked back to the kitchen, moving up behind Tara and began to brush the crazy tangles out of my hair.

"Hannah, I'm going to go out for a bit. See you later." I backed up as she moved away from the mirror. She waved at me then walked out.

"bye" I called after her, I don't think she heard me.

'Want to stretch our legs?' Sky asked. I felt her excitement. Which was making me even more excited for just thinking about running as a horse.

"I guess so" I said and walked over to put my favorite boots on.

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Taras POV

Mack and I were having a small argument about me shifting. Wonderful.

'So I can't shift right now?' I asked for what seemed the billionth time.

'No, you cannot. You are not of age! We have been over-' She stopped mid-sentence and I knew something was wrong.

She whimpered and started to freak out, fighting for control immediately. I felt my eyes shift purple as she fought. I pushed her back the best I could. My eyes turned brown again when I won control.

'It's Hannah!! Something's wrong with her! Go back to the house!!' She howled. Everything seemed to stop as panic began to settle in. I turned around and sprinted, pushing myself as fast as I could go. I will not let Hannah get hurt. I will protect her with my life. The trees blurred in my vision as I ran back to the house, my legs burning. When Hannah came into view I sighed. My relief was cut short, however. There was a guy. Near her. Talking to her. My possessive and protective instincts kicked in and I was by her side in a mere second. My eyes shifted instantly, landing on the boy.

"Who are you, and why are you near her?" Mack snarled. My fangs in full view, ready to rip this guy to shreds if he moved a muscle. I didn't give him any time to respond before I was yanking him almost 3 yards away from Hannah, putting myself in between them. I let out a low deadly snarl, warning him to move closer. My wolf instincts told me to kill him, torture him; but my human side said to keep him alive; question him. I shook my head slightly, Mack gaining some control.

"Back away." I sounded downright deadly. He backed up, his hands in the air; palms facing me. Good. He should surrender. Before I rip his throat out. With my teeth. (See what I did there? Haha. No? Okay.) I bared my teeth at him again, a protective growl escaping. Mack was going to kill him if I didn't stop her.

'I'm going to kill him! He will die! I don't care what he says, HE WILL DIE!!' Mack howled in anger. My vision was turning red, I was beyond angry now. My body crouched low, a predator, hunting it's prey. A continuous growl escaping my mouth as my vision became almost all red with anger.

"Tara! I know you can hear me! Fight against her! She's going to kill him! Tara, FIGHT!" Hannah sounded so desperate. I stopped moving. My eyes turned to her. She looked so determined to get me back. That's when I used all my might and shoved against Mack so she couldn't fight back. My vision was normal now but my eyes were still purple.

"Who is he?" I asked, keeping my eyes on Hannah. I willed myself to take long, deep breaths; calming myself. I will not ever get that close to losing control again. She walked around me and stood in front of him; Mack of course, growled.

"A friend." She said bluntly. Her blue eyes giving me a silent plea to calm down.

"Who." I asked slowly. Mack was fighting for control, she'd managed to keep my eyes her color.

"Andrew. He knows about us. He can help us." She explained. She moved so she was next to him and sat down. Andrew followed her. Mack snarled at him in the back of my mind.

'Shut it!' I demanded. She stayed mostly quite for the rest of the time, except for a growl escaping her muzzle every time she thought he was going to touch her. I had turned my eyes back to my normal brown with some reluctance from Mackenzie.

"What is he?" I asked, eyeing Andrew. He looked about 6'3 and has deep blue eyes and shaggy brown hair that fell just above his right eye.

"A tiger.." He answered. My eyes widened, filling with wonder. Then there was a black tiger in front of me. Instead of a white tiger with black stripes, he is the complete opposite; all black with white stripes. His eyes are what caught me. They are bright orange. Like flames in a fire.

"Hi." I squeaked, awed by the beautiful animal he possessed. He shifted and introduced himself and his tiger.

"I'm Andrew Holt. I go by Andy most of the time. That was Jace you saw." He smiled, showing off white teeth. I just had to smile back. He seemed like a nice person.

'Don't trust him, just because he looks nice, does not mean he is' I ignored Mackenzie and continued to talk to Andrew. A strange expression took over his face before his face turned expressionless. None of my questions have been answered yet.

"Okay. Tell me why you're-" he cut me off, a frustrated facial expression took over his nice features.

"I'm sorry but I have to go. Bye." He gave Hannah a apologetic look, turned and shifted; running back into the woods. I looked at Hannah in confusion.

"Hannah, you never answered me. Why was he here?" She glanced at me then the floor. I have an idea of what she is going to say. I narrowed my eyes, and I'm not going to like it.

"He almost attacked me when I was out running. When I shifted, he shifted back. I know it was stupid to shift back, but I panicked. He walked me back here apologizing the entire way. He was about to leave when you came back." I looked down, feeling ashamed of myself.

"I'm sorry."'I casted her a apologetic glance before turning around.

"It's okay. Thanks for defending me. And in the future..try and keep Mackenzie under control. She almost killed him."