Hiding in the tree line watching as the men get interrogated by Quillon and some of his pack members. I watched from behind a tree getting ready for a window to open so I can get away safely. One of the men from the camp yelled outrun, some of the men from the camp came running into the forest while others stayed. I turned and ran with the others.

“How did he find us so quickly; we were so careful that we didn’t leave our sent anywhere,” My wolfs voice filled with panic said to me.

“I don’t know, but we're getting out of here without him following us again,” I told her trying to calm her down a little.

Two of the males from the camp came up next to me from behind and ran next to me they said they were going to try and hide my sent from the others. I nodded to them and they both formed into their wolves and brushed up against me, still running by the way. We ran side by side and soon enough their sent was wrapped around me like a blanket keeping out the cold. In an instant, one of the wolves was pummelled to the ground and now had his fight to go on with. The other one had to leave to help one of the younger wolves. I was left to run for my life by myself.

Sadly, in a matter of minutes he had caught up with me, I glanced over my shoulder to see his black wolf with his piercing crystal blue eyes that had a death grip on me as we ran to make sure he couldn’t lose me. He came bounding up next to me and pushed me to the ground. I went tumbling into the forests floor and I hissed out in pain, gaining more cuts from him and he caused the wound on my side to reopen and bleed a little, but the bandages stopped it from bleeding excessively. Before he could come over to me, I changed into my wolfs form. He stalked over to me and pinned me underneath him. He had one of his large paws on my chest right where my ribs were broken, I was whining and yelping uncontrollably from the pain.

He looked at me then at his paw and he lifted it off of my chest to see my broken ribs, he moved his paw away and put it down next to my body. He looked back up at me and a flash of concern flashed in his eyes for a second before it left as soon as it appeared. A deathly growl emitted from him and his eyes turned silver as he scanned my body for cuts, he looked at the bandage and he decided it would be a good idea to rip it off which hurt a little, but it also made it bleed even more. His head stayed down while he glanced up at me then looked back down at the cut which had his attention. His head lowered as he licked the blood that oozed out, his rough tongue licked the blood around the cut that had healed a little over the time I was passed out.

I growled at him warning him to not do it again and a little hint that it may hurt from the tiny whine I gave that I hoped he didn’t hear. Lifting his head back up he looked me in the eyes, and I noticed that they were back to their normal blue colour. I then thought of something that may work, maybe if I play coy and play my cards right, I can run from him again and this time is not found for a while.

Looking at one another both waiting to see what the other was going to do and see who would act first and, of course, he did he placed his head on mine and closed his eyes. I acted now while he had his eyes closed and seemed like he didn't expect me to do anything. I moved my back legs under his stomach near his back legs and pushed him. He didn’t fall over, but it at least got him off of me. I quickly raced away from him.

As I was running the pain in my chest intensified and it was hard to breathe and move, I thought back to when he pushed me it must have fractured or broken my ribs even more. I kept running even though the pain was almost unbearable, I had to keep going because he was chasing after me, he was slowly closing the gap that was between us. Pushing myself harder to move even faster was extremely hard but I pushed through the pain and kept going. I kept moving even when he stopped all of a sudden, then I heard another wolf after me it was one of his hunting wolves and they caught up with me and tackled me to the ground. Seriously what is it with these guys with tackling.

We clawed, bit, and snarled at each other before a noise distracted us from our fight, he wasn’t paying attention to me anymore, so I bolted. I was running and didn’t stop until the rays of the sun started to peek from the ground, in the morning light a small pond glistened as the small spots of dew dropped into the water from frogs jumping about and a soft chirp of crickets could be heard around me. Peaceful.

Lapping up the water felt like I was downing larva down the back of my throat, the water was hot in my mouth but still was nice to have. Laying down near the water I rested for a little to regain my stamina and to get the tight burning sensation in my ribs to ease. As I kept pushing through the pain and kept running and only maid small, shortstops for water and food to keep up my health and stamina. But as the days turned into week my wounds had all healed, but one my broken ribs and my paw was almost fully healed. As time went on food had become scarce and it was making it harder for me to continue.

2 Months Later

I cannot last any longer I need actual food to sustain myself and I am sick of some of the rouges I see, it's crazy how many times I have had to give up my food to get out of a fight with one. I’ve gained more cuts and scratches then I had before, and I think some have gotten infected. It’s gotten to the point where it takes a lot out of me to just walk a few meters. I looked around and found a tree that was growing moss on it and decided that would be a comfortable place to lay down for a few minutes. The roots were showing and the tree itself was a big tree, some of the roots created a little hiding place that I could easily fit in. curling into the tree I plopped myself on the ground and curled up into a ball to make it harder to see me.

My eyes were slowly closing as exertion washed over me. As my eyes were closing and my vision went blurry, I saw a figure walk over to the tree and look around until they found me, I moved back further against the tree until I couldn’t move. My body decided it was a good enough attempt to get away and it was a great place to close my heavy eyelids and pass out while someone was trying to get me out of the tree roots. Before I did pass out, I heard voices I tried to make them out, but I couldn’t.

When I was waking up all I could hear was a rhythmic beeping next to me, I opened my eyes and looked at the white ceiling that held bright shining lights, I shot up not knowing where I was until I looked around and realised, I was in a hospital and wasn’t in my wolfs form. I started panicking slightly and pulled out all the small tubes, wires, and needle. The machine stopped its steady beeping and went to a flat line that screamed out to the doctors and nurses that soon ran into the room. I was already of the uncomfortable bed and standing on wobbly legs. They came over to me and tried to get me to get back in bed, but I didn’t listen I pushed passed them only to be met with a small group of males who were coming closer and talking to each other about what to do.

Snarling at them to back off, but they didn’t listen didn’t even care I was snarling at them. One of them was starting to come closer so I stood ready to attack when he stepped closer, and he did I swiped my claws at him and cut him across his cheek and a little on his nose, he instantly backed away while holding the cuts I gave him. The boys looked shocked and the doctors stopped trying to push me towards the bed, everyone was like a statue except me I pushed past them when I had to stop because someone was in my way. I looked up and saw that it was Quillon. I let out a growl and took a step back and at that moment everyone in the room defrosted from their frozen state and one of the nurses yelled out.

“Hold her still, we need to run more tests on her” the female voice yelled out and instantly I felt someone grab my shoulder, looking over I saw it was one of the males I elbowed him in the guts, and he groaned but didn’t let go so I punched him in the face and broke his nose. He walked away probably to get his nose fixed. Then an iron grip held my arm I looked up to see who it was and saw it was the alpha he held a stone-cold look and I returned it with a death stare, I tried yanking my arm away, but it was no use he wouldn’t let go.

He then turned me around so my back was against him and held one arm around my stomach, he somehow had pinned my arms to my sides so I couldn’t move them. From the corner of my eye, I could see one of the nurses walking over with a syringe, so I struggled, even more, to get out of his embrace around me. Then he put his other hand over my mouth and nose to stop me from moving my head, letting out a growl I licked his hand to see if he would remove it but all that did was make his body stiffen until he got over the fact, I licked him. I let my teeth grow sharp and my fangs grow long and bit him instead but still, this did nothing to him he only let out a hiss of pain and turn my head to the side to expose my neck letting the nurse inject a clear liquid into my bloodstream. My body stopped moving as the drugs started to affect me and I fell limp against him.

But before the drugs could take full effect and he let his grip go soft my wolf took control and she ran for it, down a hall around a corner and into another person who was in the room before and knew what was going on and before my wolf could do anything, he had me pinned between his legs and putting another lot of drugs into my system. my body didn’t have enough protein or energy to properly heal my ribs so when he was putting the needle in my neck, he kneed my ribs harder and I let out a yelp and then fell to the floor when the drugs fully kicked in and everything faded to black.

Once I finally woke back up, again, I was back on a bed and felt even worse than before, opening my eyes half-lidded and looking around I saw that this time I was in a small room and still in my wolfs form. I felt someone next to me, to my surprise, it was my mate I had no idea why he was here but right now I couldn’t do anything against it because they put a collar on me that prevents me from changing back and attacking anyone. I let out a small huff and was surprised that I didn’t wake him up, but I didn’t care and let sleep take over me again.