Secrets

Chapter 4: Meow

Damon p.o.v

     I had called a emergency pack meeting for all the members living within my mom home. I needed to discuss the arrivals of my cousin and how they don't know about us and how we need to be careful around them when shifting.

    I stood in between everyone as they discussed the information I just gave them. My mom stood closer to the house and watched everyone with her famous hawkeye's. Soon the smell of a rogue drifted in making us all tense.

 
   "Rogue on our lands. We haven't had any rogues I  a while" my friend Brandon said smirking.

    Soon they shifted into wolves as I did. I was about to bark out commands when the smell of tangerines hit me. Turning I could see Camilla walk out as soon as my mom shifted. I expected fear to be etched onto her face, but she seemed more shocked than frighten. No long after Ashley came out rubbing her eyes till she notice the wolves before her. Camilla turned and ran to her sister placing her behind her like a normal person would do. 

    "I told Natalie to wake up, she on her way down" My mom whispered in my head.

        True to her word my aunt walked out and sighed. She began to talk to them before picking up Ashley and walking to my mom. Camilla watched with no emotoion as her mother walked to my mom and patted the top of her head. Fear leaked off Ashley as her mom try to get her to pet my mom. Eventuaslly Ashley did and let out a giggle, all the fear she was experiencing earlier was gone.

          "Wait if Aunt Mariah can do that does that mean you can?" Camilla asked watching her mother with a hard glare. Her mom gave her a nodd to confirm the answer to the question she asked. She set Ashley down and stepped from her a bit. Then she shifted and I forgot what her wolf looked like. Her medium sized white wolf sat on her hunches and gave her daughter a look. 

        Camilla just turned and began to run. She ran into the forest causing her mother to jump up to start running after her. My mom snapped at her making her stop in her tracks. 

        "I have to go after my daughter"  she snapped. 

        "It'll be a suicide mission. There's a rogue out there" my mom said to her. 

        

        “I'll go” I said. Without giving my mother any time to fight with me I got up and began to run where her scent was last at. This girl was extremely fast when she was in a emotional distress.

“I'm sending Jacob and Daniel after you just in case. The others have ran off to tell the others what has happen and that there's a rogue. Please be careful” my mom soft words echoed in my mind. Laced within her words was fear and worry. She afraid I might die like my father and she's worry for Camilla. What worries me the most is how Camilla didn't have a single look of fear on her face when she saw mom shift and aunt Natalie shift. What had me curious was her look of sadness and indifference before she turned and ran.

As I was lost in my current thoughts a scream of pain could be heard. What was unusual about it was the etched hiss of a cat like figure. Soon the soon of someone running and the smell of the stupid rogue grew close. I knew the smell of tangerines from anywhere and my mother fears hit me hard. Camilla was the one screaming in pain earlier. Pushing my legs faster than before I manage to get to where they were. Camilla was lying on the floor covering her face up like any survival instinct would tell her to do, and the rouge was posed to lunge.

As he did I intercepted knocking him away standing over Camilla. I heard her breathing even as she looked up at me with eyes that seem to recognize me quickly. The rogue began to snap it jaws at me before he tried to go around to attack Camilla. I don't know what the girl did to him to make him go at her when I was clearly right here. Grabbing him by his scruff I tossed him backwards across the clearing. The wolf seemed to be focus on me know as we both went to attack. The rogue bit into my scruff as I had did him earlier. I shifted my body and manage to get my legs under him. I started to claw at his underside making the rogue let go and that's when he made the biggest mistake ever. Leaping upwards I sunk my teeth around his throat. The force of my bite crushed his windpipe as I jerked backwards tearing his throat out. The rogue went limp and fell lifelessly on the ground before me.

Turning my attention to Camilla I could see she was looking sick and tried to move. Due to this her arm seemed to leak out blood even more. I went to walk towards her and this caused her to start crawling backwards. That was mistake on her behalf as she clutched her shoulder and let out a scream of pain before lying completely down on her back. I needed to get closer to her, so I laid on my belly showing I wasn't a threat and slowly began to crawl towards her. As I did this I could hear her breathing began to shallow out and slow down showing she was about to pass out. Shifting back to human form I looked down at her as she closed her eyes.

As I went to grab her though I wasn't suspecting this at all. The tingles shot all up my arms as I picked her body up.

“Mate” my wolf growled loudly in my head. What the hell! How can this be? She's my cousin, I can't be mated to kin!What kind of sick cruel joke was this? Pushing that behind me I started to run home to get her looked at by the pack doctor.

Camilla p.o.v

My body refused to wake up. I was left trapped within the own darkness of my mind. I could feel a dull burning feeling on my shoulder. What happen?

Then everything that happen suddenly came back to me. My inner cat was pacing my head as she silently listen to everything going through my mind at the current moment.

“The tingles, what were they?” I asked.

“Wolf is our mate child, but I am very confused” she replied simply.

“HOW CAN THAT BE! HE'S MY COUSIN!” I screamed out. She let out a growl of annoyance before hissing at my loud tone.

“Remember child” was all she said. Remember what?