In His Nature

{Eli}

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Excuse the Mistakes

  

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“Eli?”

I turned to face the direction where the voice had come from and found a middle aged man standing there. He clamped hand on my shoulder and said, “Thank you for saving our Luna.” Then, he nodded and walked away. 

This is how the whole afternoon had gone. First, this morning, there had been the funeral for the two people who’d died in the fight with the hunters. Dot had been with me then, but ever since the pack returned to the pack house, she was nowhere to be seen. 

After people gave their condolences to the families who’d been affected by the deaths, they seemed to find their way over to me to thank for saving the mate of their alpha. It was honestly making me feel uneasy. I had always been a loner, and suddenly a ton of people were coming up to me and talking to me. 

Suddenly, I caught sight of Adam walking into the kitchen across the hallway, and I hurried towards him. “Adam!” I called, and he turned around to see who’d called his name. 

When he saw it was me, he gave me a small smile. Ever since Dot and I started to work things out, I’d gotten to know the twins better, and they were actually pretty cool. “What’s up?” Adam asked, and I noticed that his voice wasn’t as happy as it usually was. 

“Do you know where Dot is?” I asked, “I haven’t seen her since we got back from the funeral.”

“Oh,” Adam replied, rubbing the back of his neck, “She’s probably still at the pack cemetery, Eli.” I gave him a confused look, and he shrugged. “That’s where I would look, at least.”

“Alright,” I replied. Adam know Dot well, so if he said she was probably still at the pack cemetery, that’s where I would go. Plus, it would take me away from the rest of the pack. “Thanks, man.” 

Adam nodded and crossed the room to where his brother was standing at the counter with Dot’s little brother. Without so much as a look around, I walked quickly out of the back door of the house.

The pack cemetery was in this small field on the eastern side of the woods behind the house, and when I’d asked Dot why, she said it was so the spirits of deceased pack members would always run in their woods. 

My feet crunched across the dead, shriveled leaves that littered the ground and I pushed into the woods. I thought about shifting for a moment, but I’d borrowed my clothes from someone else and I didn’t want to get them dirty or rip them. 

The funeral hadn’t been the easiest thing to go to, and I’d almost opted out. The only other funeral I’d been to had been Nina’s, and it had been my job to dig the hole and bury her. My parents hadn’t even showed up. However, my reservations aside, I went because it was something that a pack member needed to do.