The Colour of Love ✔️

Chapter 7

~Gabriel POV~

It was weird. 

My knees hit the ground and I dry heaved as a strong burning scent burned my nose. Everything burned me and I had to practically grovel to feel better. 

I looked around and realised that I was in some sort of burnt waste land where the dirt was black and no longer rich. My eyes landed on Connie as she lay on the ground and stared in amazement as the dirt began covering her body. 

"No!" I crawled forward but I felt as though I was restricted by some invisible force that didn't want me to reach her. When I finally got close to where her body was buried, it started glowing. A Gold colour that had me blinking at the gentleness of the hue and as if by magic two wolves, both black with a golden hue around them, appeared next to the body and laid down. 

They let out the saddest howl I ever heard and I sat back as I stared at them as they whimpered over the body. 

"Oh, I didn't expect to see someone here." I spun around startled and stared at the woman. She was a witch, with long white hair and bright purple eyes. She unnerved me but she didn't seem all that fazed by my presence.

"Don't get any closer." I growled and she rolled her eyes. 

"Boy, I could kill you with a look. I'm not here for you." She moved away from me and towards the glowing wolves who looked up at her. "Once again, I've come." She threw her arms over the slightly smaller wolf and took a deep breath. I was shocked, I thought they were apparitions but they weren't. 

"What do you want?" She turned to look back and snarled nastily at me. 

"I should ask you that?" I blinked. "You reek of wolf." I frowned. 

"I was with Connie when she began bleeding from her nose and then using something weird, she teleported us here." I looked around again. "Not that I know where here even is." 

"Connie?" She stared back at the bump before shaking her head. "And your relation to Connie?" I blinked slightly shocked. 

"I'm her mate." She stared at me shocked before looking back to the wolf she hugged. 

"You hear that Rain, she got a mate." She placed a hand on her chest before turning to look at me again. 

"What's happening here?" I asked. 

"It's the only time her parents ever get to see her. They struck a deal with the Moon Goddess you people worship and this is the price. Their wolves are called here and their human parts spend time together." I blinked. 

"For how long?" She shrugged. 

"For as long as they want." 

"Then why are you here?" She cocked an eyebrow. 

"I'm the protector of their souls and body." I looked around again. 

"Where are we?" She studied me closely before shaking her head. 

"Have you ever heard of the Waning Moon Pack?" I scrunched up my eyebrows. Packs were no longer named after the moon phases instead after something close to the Alpha or even a distinguishing mark close to the borders of the pack. 

"No." She sighed. 

"Well I very well doubted you did. It existed over a century ago. This is the remains of the pack, and those two wolves were the Beta and Beta male." I blinked, Beta male? There were female Betas? 

"The Beta was the older sister of the Alpha and earned her rank. She was very admirable and a dear friend of mine." She looked back at the wolves for a long moment before looking back at me with a sad smile. "They didn't deserve what happened to them."

"What happened?" I was hooked. I had never heard of a female Beta or this pack. 

"She lost 15 pups before having this one. She had almost given up, after 18 years she thought the Moon Goddess had forsaken her." She bit her lip and I looked at the smaller wolf with respect. Losing a pup changed females. It broke them and took a piece of them. "But she never gave up and she never forsake her Moon. Her male was always by her side and when she finally got her it was as though the sun rose and set with her." She smiled wistfully and the smaller wolf howled. 

"That's heavy." I rubbed a hand over my chest and she tilted her head. 

"Which is heavier, burying your only daughter or losing your life?" I blinked. Had Connie died before her parents? 

"Burying any child is heavy." She tilted her head and gave me a sad smile. 

"Rain would agree with you." I looked around again. 

"What happened to the pack?" It was a burning question I had and one I think I needed the answer to. 

"They were massacred and burnt to the ground. They were all lovely people and the last of the purest wolf line alive. They were the last of the wolves who wanted peace, who could shift to war forms. They were the last." She whispered out softly. "And they were my best friends." Her voice broke and I understood the pain she felt. 

"Who did this?" She laughed. A sound so scary it made my hackles raise. 

"One of those cowardly other packs that was threatened by their prowess. They asked a witch I murdered and they destroyed something so beautiful." She growled and for the first time in my life I was afraid of something. "You don't have to be afraid of me. I would never hurt her mate." She gave me a smile and I swallowed. 

The wolf apparition nudged her head and she tilted her head before looking at me. 

"They'd like to meet you." I blinked. 

"I'm not dead." I don't know why I thought that was important to mention but she glared at me and I shrank back. 

"I'm not stupid." I swallowed. 

"And how am I supposed to meet them?" She studied me before smirking. 

"I'm going to kill you." My eyes widened and I stared at her stunned. "Kidding." She smiled and I wasn't convinced. "You're going to have to shift to your wolf form and come over here." I eyed her warily before striping out of my clothes and willing the shift. When I had successfully shifted, I padded over to her with ease and she placed a hand on my head. 

"Sleep."