The Woodland Packs

The Omega, bless his courageous heart, actually threatened me.

“Or what?”

I laughed and gripped tighter to his shoulder. He wanted to know what I’d do to protect my pack?

I pulled his dislocated arm down and twisted until he was kneeling on the dirt screaming at me to stop.

I let go, a little.

“Or I’ll rip you apart, piece by piece, I swear it. On the life of my unborn child, Omega. You have no idea what I’d do to keep them both safe.”

The Omega nodded and I let him go.

“Okay… I’ll call them.”

And he did.

The meeting was set.

We just had to work out what they wanted more than our extinction.

***

I convinced my pack to go to bed, to stay safe, while Gray, Dex and I went into the forest to talk to the Alpha of the bear’s den.

We didn’t have much of a plan, other than to broker a truce.

Somehow.

“If Trevor actually turns up, guys, I swear I’ll kill him,” Grayson said as we walked up the road and into the clearing where we’d organised to meet.

Not too far from the pack, if we needed back-up.

“You keep your feelings to yourself, Gray,” Dex threatened. “We need this to be as impersonal as possible.

Grayson snorted.

I had to laugh. “Impersonal, Dex? Then you should have sent some of the elders to this meeting. It doesn’t get much more personal than this for me, you and Gray.”

They grunted in agreement.

Dex nodded. “So, we stick to the plan, and hope to God they haven’t brought an army with them.”

Grayson said. “If they do, we shift and run. We won’t have a chance of winning out here.”

Dex said. “My pack’s on standby, and so is the rest of the town.”

We trudged forward and I glanced behind me again.

I had the strangest feeling we were being followed, but every time I looked behind us, I saw nothing.

My heart, which was already beating too hard, began to bang against my ribs.

“Do you smell that?”

The scent of bear was on the breeze, and it suddenly became too strong to stand. A stench.

I forced myself not to cover my nose, so they didn’t see my revulsion if they were around.