The Rogues Mate

chapter 2

here's the second chapter

above is how I pictured max

Riley 

I woke up to max shaking me violently, "Riley!" he screamed. My eyes snapped open and I looked around my room frantically. My bed, my walls, my door, which was wide open, and max standing on my bed, jumping up and down.

"Guess what day it is!" he screeched. I threw my face into my pillow and mumbled at him to go away. "Riri get up it's your birthday" he said softly and lay down on top of me. My birthday. No, my birthday is in July and its-

"It's my birthday" I whispered, Max turned to me and smiled, holding up seven fingers "how old? This many?" I chuckled and sat up so he was sitting in my lap "not quite bud" I replied. Lifting him onto my hip and carrying him into the kitchen, I set him down on one of our chairs.

"What do you want for breakfast?" I asked, when he didn't answer I turned around and he was gone.

"max?" I called. He ran into the room seconds later holding a piece of paper and sat down at our four person table. "I made you a card" he smiled widely. My eyes widened in surprise and I slowly took the card from his small hands. On it was a collection of colors, ranging from red to purple, in the middle of the page was a drawing of two people, who I assumed were us. It was all drawn in crayon, and my name was at the top of the page, the 'y' was backwards and he forgot the 'e' but it was the best card I had ever gotten. I sniffled and wiped the tears that had escaped my eyes.

"I knew you wouldn't like it" max muttered quietly enough for me not to hear, but with my werewolf hearing, I could. I snapped my head to him and saw him wiping a few stray tears off his cheeks.

"No baby I love it" I rushed to him and held him to my chest, "then why were you crying" he mumbled, looking up at me in confusion, I chuckled and kissed his forehead "happy tears" I assured him, smiling. I picked him off the floor and grabbed the tape on the way to my room. Putting him down on my bed, I went to my picture wall of all his drawings and taped up his card. He came up behind me and hugged my legs. "I love you riri" he muttered, staring at the wall in fascination. I smiled down at him "I love you too maxy"

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After breakfast, which max insisted on being pancakes because it was my birthday, (although we both know that he just really enjoys my pancakes) we went outside. He grabbed a bucket and ran in the direction of the bush of berries he loves. shaking my head with a smile I followed after him, stopping when I saw him holding and petting a rabbit, the poor thing looked like it was going to shit itself as max picked it up and thrust it at my face. "look Riri!" he said excitedly "can we keep him?" he smiled at me and used his puppy dog eyes, knowing that its hard for me to say no when he does.

"max... we cant keep the rabbit. Who's going to take care of it?" I asked, already knowing that I was going to say no. "I will! I promise, I'll feed him and take him for walks outside, please please let me keep him!" he said, pleading for me to allow him to keep his pet. "I'm sorry bud, we can't keep a rabbit" kneeling down to his hight I took the rabbit from his hands and put it gently back on the ground, I looked back up at max to see him frowning as the rabbit sprinted back into the bushes. "come on" I said, reaching for his hand. He took it and scraped his feet on the ground as he walked, his head down and a pout resting on his lips. An idea popped into my head as we continued to wander. "how about we play hide and seek?" he jerked his head to look at me, a toothy grin on his face, hide and seek was Max's favorite game, our parents started playing it with me when I turned ten, to train me to control my heightened senses for when I would shift. Average werewolves shift between ages 11 and 16, although I shifted when I was 12. 

"Yay! hide and seek" he screamed, bouncing on the balls of his feet "you hide, I want to count" he said sprinting off in the opposite direction, I chuckled and went to hide in a bush, an easy spot for max to find me. Ten minutes later I heard his giggles as he jumped on me from behind, and shouted in my ear "I found you!" I laughed and stood up, with max still on my back. "ok you hide I'll count" I said, putting him down on the grass, he nodded and ran off "don't go too far" I called after him. 

"99, 100. ready or not here I come!" running off in the direction max went, I used my nose to try and track him. After 20 minutes of looking, and not finding his scent, I started to panic. 'what if he went onto another packs land?!'  my wolf, Arya, cried frantically. 'he's not an idiot, he knows not to go farther than the marked trees' I replied, trying to convince her max was fine, although I wasn't so sure myself. We lived in the middle of the woods, there were packs surrounding us, he could have wandered too far, onto claimed land. my panic rose and I started to head north, calling out his name and searching for his scent. 

An hour later I still hadn't found him, and a few minutes before, I had decided to shift into my wolf, it would be easier to find his scent, if it was even there. I stopped suddenly, when I heard a low and feral growl behind me.