I don't know how long I've been sitting there with the wolf but I opened my eyes to see the brightly shining sun. The rays spread through the circular room brightening it, the moss covered stones are very old. The wolf hasn't moved and my body is very stiff. I look at my watch and I'm shocked to find out that it's three in the afternoon. I missed a whole day of school, my parents are going to flip out when they see me coming from the woods and hear that I missed school today. I look up at the wolf, who seems to be asleep sitting next to me. I shifted making the wolf look at me.

"Thank you for saving me." I tell the wolf as I get to my feet and move my muscles around hoping the stiff feeling will go away. I head for the entrance doing my best to ignore the blood stained stones. I stopped just at the entrance and look back at the wolf, who hasn't moved from where it still sat.

"You look so familiar... I wish I knew your name... Thank you again." I tell the wolf and leave.

* WOLF'S POV *

I can't believe she came here... after so many years of her being gone... The wolf thought to himself.

He got to his feet and walked back over to his bed, the hard stone had become a very comforting place for him. This place he stayed... memories of his home that was taken from him because of her... the young woman that he had saved last night and who had stayed with him and not feared him. Just the thought of her made his cold heart thaw. How could he have ever thought she was involved with what happened so many years ago. Though she couldn't remember him, he was going to make sure that her memories came back and maybe if she was willing...

* Sapphire's POV*

I stood in the living room while my family watched as my father and mother yelled at me for skipping school. I didn't even get a chance to talk, so I decided the moment they started to yell at me now to tell them about the near rape thing or the wolf.

"What were you thinking? First skipping this morning meeting and then skipping school. You better make sure that you double everything tomorrow and do not let it happen again." My father shouted at me.

"Yes sir." I said looking at the floor.

"Now off to your room." My mother shouted.

The eyes of my family burned into me like I was errant child. I hated them all... I quickly left the living room and made my way up the stairs to my room. Slamming the door behind me I cursed them all under my breath. The large dark wood dresser that my brother had ordered for me years ago was heavy and would make it hard for anyone to get through. I pushed the dresser in-front of the door and walked over to my bed and sat there. Tears pricked my eyes as the thought of my parents having the woods near the house destroyed and all the animals that live there having no home. The thought is unsettling and I can't help but hate my family, always so strict and doesn't want anything unexpected to happen.

I don't know why but I had to get away from my family, they are so stuck up and think they are better then everyone and think that the world is theirs for the taking. A light knock sounds on my door. I look at the door, whipping my tears away.

"Who is it?" I shout the question not caring if it's my dad or mom.

"Open the door Sapphire." my brother, Max, coaxed through the door.

"Go away Max, I don't have anything to say to anyone." I shout at him.

"Mom and dad were just worried about you and so was I. You shouldn't have run off like that this morning we all thought you had went to school early like you do every morning but when the school saying that you had been out the whole day. We all thought the worse, where did you go?" Max asks.

"I said go away! I mean it Max leave me alone!" I snap at him.

The soft muffled steps of shoes on dark hard wood floor were Max leaving me alone. I laid back on my bed and recalled the events that had happened in the last few hours. I had been chased even into and past my own yard, into the woods that I'm forbidden to go and then saved by the largest wolf that I have ever seen and there is no one way in hell my parents could know about that. I can't stand being here in this house with these damn people. I have a life and I want to live it the way I want to live it, not the way my parents want me to live. They can have their money and their perfect life and choke on it. I thought to myself, the thought makes my blood boil as anger takes a strong hold in my heart.

Getting up off my bed, I walk over to my closet and open it. There is a large camping bag that I had bought some years ago when I ran away once. I packed some clothes in it and went to my window. My dad was stupid not to think I wouldn't jump from the second floor of the house to leave. Lucky for me I have done this so many times that the landing is nearly perfect. I open the window and quietly slide out of it, closing the window quietly as I sit there on the roof for a moment. I heard voices below, my dad and uncle are talking about how I acted when I was being yelled at.

"Strangely she didn't even act phased by your anger. She'll grow up to be a fine hunter when the time is right." my uncle says.

"Yes, but she doesn't have any desire to go into the family business and you know as well as I do that we all have to be in the business. I don't want to destroy her dreams but she is so difficult, she hasn't opened up to anyone since that day eleven years ago." my dad says.

"You can't blame her, we all put her through a bunch of pain. Do you think she remembers anything from that time?" my uncle asks.

"No, and if she does, she doesn't show anything or say anything about it. I just wish I knew what she was thinking and what she wants." my dad says.

I scowl knowing all to well that dad and mom and Max could care less about my dreams and what I want. I won't be coming back to this damn house even if they try to make me. I'm eighteen years old and I don't have to listen to a damn thing they say anymore.