“Where is Sheila?” Killian turned to Jax.
He shook his head, “I haven’t seen Luna yet.”
Thea’s smile immediately turned to a scowl. “Clearly, she had many important things to do other than the feast. She is utterly unreliable and useless.” She spoke calmly, but her sharp words only pissed off his wolf, Ryker.
Killian quickly mind-linked Allen to go look around and find Sheila. Even though Ryker was protesting he abandoned the feast in search of Sheila. He shook against it.
“Allen?” Killian called his attention through the mind link, waiting for his response, which came rather quicker than expected.
“Yes, Alpha,” Allen said through the mind link.
“Do you know where Sheila is?” Killian questioned him through the mind link.
“No, Alpha,” Allen replied, and after a moment, he added, “Ria said she thought Luna joined you hours ago. She also doesn’t know where she may be.”
A growl erupted from Killian’s, causing Thea and a few of the guests to stare at him with questioning gazes and murmurs. He instantly sent them all death stares, silencing them.
“Allen, find her!” Killian ordered through the mind link, clenching his fist.
Where the hell is Sheila?!
“You drove my mate away,” Ryker said, which irritated him even more.
“Relax, Killian, everyone can tell you’re angry at something,” Thea whispered into his ear with an unwavering smile plastered on her face.
Ryker growled in his mind, and it took Killian every ounce of control not to snap at her. All that mattered was finding Sheila.
***
Sheila carefully navigated her way through the guards that remained in the castle, as she ran as fast as she could, her cloak trailing behind her. She had an unsettling feeling crawling in the pit of her stomach.
Although she had made it out of the castle where her mate and his rotten lover dwelled, she couldn’t help but feel like she was being followed and watched closely by unseen eyes.
Sheila flung her head backwards but failed to see her stalker. It was dark and at night, which served as great camouflage for her devious stalker. She couldn’t see them. She ran, heading for the forest.
“She is headed for the forest. Didn’t she know about all the terrors that lay in wait in the dark forest?” Sheila’s stalkers whispered to themselves, somewhat surprised by her foolish actions.
“Hopefully she doesn’t make it out of this forest alive. If she is out of his way, that would make my plans much simpler to achieve.” A wicked grin formed on the lips of Sheila’s stalker as they thought.
Soon enough, they finally exploded into a dangerous laughter.
Sheila’s point of view
The sounds of owls hooting and insects chirping were all around me in the gentle night air, and the moon shone in its full glory, illuminating every path and step I took. After much time, I realized that I had been lost, walking round and around in circles.
“Where the hell am I now?” I thought to myself, confused. Now I was running up north in hopes of finding some trail leading out of this damn forsaken forest.
Quickly, I stopped on my tracks. Although I hadn’t yet discovered my wolf, I had a better than average sense of hearing. I wasn’t alone now. Someone was indeed in this forest with me.
I tense up, grabbing the small dagger I held for protection, gripping on tightly to it like it was my only form of life line. I wandered into the forest all alone at night. Somehow, I had a feeling that whatever and whoever was in this forest with me wasn’t coming in peace.
“Hello, is there anyone out there? ” I inquired, spinning my head around in search of whatever was present with me.
“Hi,” I heard an almost angelic, soft voice say from behind me. Startled by the voice, I turned around to face a pair of surreal emerald green eyes staring right at me with wrinkled eyebrows.
“Fuck!” I screamed, “You almost ripped my heart right out of my chest.” I swallowed some air, regaining my composure and stance.
“Ahh, my bad, that wasn’t really my intention. I was passing through and I noticed someone taking what seems like a fucking midnight stroll around the forest. Are you crazy? Do you have a death wish or something? You should know you shouldn’t be out here alone at night,” his emerald green eyes searched the place. He had slick black long hair that was trimmed right below his ear and a well-chiseled jawline.
“First of all, I’m not insane.” I saw him roll his eyes while he murmured something. I’m just not really sure what it was. “And secondly, what makes you think that I was just taking a fucking stroll? I was trying to run away,” I retorted, not lowering my small dagger held to my chest.
“Well, whatever it may be, we better leave right now, unless you want to end up dead,” he suggested, still looking around a bit frantically.
“What exactly do you mean-? No, who are you? ” I asked, getting confused about what was actually going on. The buzzing sound of flies was growing nearer.
“I’m afraid there’s not much time for that; they are approaching,” he said, placing his hand at the head of his sword and studying the environment. I had a lot of unanswered questions. Who was he and what was coming? I don’t understand what was happening.
My words were brought to an abrupt stop by the sound of his sword unsheathed.
“They are here.” He looked straight at me with his emerald green eyes.
“Who is here?” I quickly asked him.
He looked at me like I had asked the most stupid question he had ever heard. “Don’t you know where you are?” When I couldn’t reply he shook his head. “This forest belongs to some rogues. Believe me when I say they are dangerous” He looked around again. “They’re coming, we need to move now,” he replied. Rogues were coming? How could he tell?
Before I could ask, his green eyes shut me up. “We do not have the time for unnecessary questions we need to get moving now,” he said. A series of howls went off from all around us, and jumped behind him.
“I suggest you shift into your wolf and start running and don’t look back,” He yelled quickly after pushing me out of the way and shifted into his wolf, his eye changing from its usual green gemstone color to a golden yellow color, reminding me of someone I’d rather not think of. It was his fault I’m in this situation.
I obeyed the green-eyed stranger. But since I couldn’t shift, I ran for my life. I could hear his wolf trailing behind me, accompanied by howls of the rogues that wanted us for dinner, but that was seconds ago. Now he was out of sight and I was left alone with the thick canopies of trees surrounding me.
Oh goddess! I obviously didn’t think this escaping through.
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