Wolves Of Secrets Book 2

Homeward Bound

Kai groaned as he slowly regained his consciousness and the first thing he registered was the fact that he was naked as the day he was born, freezing cold and his left ankle was burning in pain. He groggily opened his dull amber eyes and saw that he was lying on the floor of the empty villa and almost immediately everything from last night came flooding back to him. Slowly sitting up, the spiky-haired brunette groaned as his tired muscles ached.

It was then that he noticed something wrapped loosely around his waist.

He looked down and saw Cole lying next to him with an arm lazily wrapped around his boyfriend's waist. He hadn't left Kai's side the entire night, scared the smaller teen wouldn't wake up. He kept a protective eye on his sleeping boyfriend until the sun rose that morning and Cole couldn't fight his body's need for sleep. Kai moving must have disturbed his own sleep and Kai could see his bushy brows furrowing as the muscular teen tried to either wake up or stay asleep.

Kai slowly tried to move and not to wake Cole up but he cried out loudly in pain when he shifted his left ankle.

He looked and his amber eyes widened when he saw the horrible state his left ankle was in The pale skin of his entire lower leg was smudged with his dried blood and was badly bruised. He couldn't see how bad the injury was because a large piece of once grey fabric, now almost completely stained dark red, was tied tightly around the wound. He knew it was as bad as it felt. He felt the body next to him shift and saw Cole had finally woken up.

As soon as he saw his boyfriend awake, the raven-haired teen shot up and pulled Kai into a tight hug.

"KAI! OH THANK FUCKING GOD, I THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T EVER GONNA WAKE UP! ARE YOU OK?!" He screamed in joy as he pulled away, only for his happy expression to fall when he saw the tears streaming down Kai's cheeks. Everything seemed to finally hit the brunette all at once. His hunger, his cold skin, his fear, and his pain. He honestly thought he was going to die in that fox trap. He thought he'd never see his family or friends again.

It that moment all he wanted for his parents to wrap him in a hug and tell him everything was going to be alright.

"I wanna go home." Kai sobbed loudly and he could only hope Cole wouldn't hate him for this. Cole simply nodded and pulled his trembling boyfriend into a loving embrace. They stayed like that for a few minutes until Kai stopped crying. After they pulled apart, Cole helped Kai get dressed, having to stop himself from throwing up as he tore off another piece of the curtains to re-wrap the wound. As soon as they were both dressed Cole carried Kai bridal style through the forest back to where they had left the car.

Thankfully no one had found Cole's car and all their belongings were still in the trunk.

Cole carefully laid Kai across the back seat of the car while he got behind the wheel. They started driving through the forest and back towards the road. As they drove through the forest, Cole winced at the quiet gasps of pain Kai released as they occasionally ran over a bump. When they finally reached the road they had come from Cole thought they were home free. That is until the large car slowly crept to a stop right in the middle of the empty country road.

Cole growled in frustration when he realized they had finally run out of gas.

They didn't have enough money to get some more and even if they did they were too far away from the nearest gas station. Cole reached into the glove box and pulled out his cell phone and cheered internally when he saw that he still had service and battery life. Not a lot though so he had to make this call count. He looked over his shoulder and saw Kai was starting to fall asleep again. He considered calling an ambulance and taking him to the hospital but quickly pushed that idea away.