A Visit to The Pack

A/N: Hey long time no write! Yep that's right RAKSHA SOUZA is back! Damn it's been a long long time since I've written! I can't believe how long it's been. Well I graduated and took a year off and I'm working and writing my life away!

I don't own anything but the plot line. Kelly Armstrong is the author of The Darkest Powers and a wonderful woman for doing so!

Without further notice here we GO!

Chloe's POV

A beautiful woman, she had to be at least a foot taller then me. Near equal height with Derek, she was wearing the tightest black clothes. Her heels were at least five inches which I suppose was cheating her height.

"I'm here to speak with you on our leaders behalf. Generally we wouldn't let anyone into our territory let alone meet with them but you've caught our interest." It was the fifth pack we'd visited in four months. We'd learned that walking right in was not the answer when we ended up as prisoners for a week, they advised us to send notes in by leaving them on a tree just inside the border of a packs territory. It's have our names, story and a number to reach us at from then on packs would send us from territory to territory. They advised us on which pack might be best and we jumped around.

"Can you help us? Are you willing to?"

"For a price." She replied glancing over my shoulder right at Derek, "werewolves belong with their own kind. We will take down Bird, we just need you to be the bait. After this is done Derek Souza is to come live inside our territory. None of you will be permitted."

"That's ridiculous! I would never agree to that!" Derek growled circling his arm around my waist.

"Spare me the false pretense of your all so important family bonds, I've seen it before. You will be aloud to visit outside the borders."

"It's our only choice." I whispered looking back over my shoulder at Derek.

"No, absolutely not! I will never live with these people."

"Enough!" A deep voice rumbled, "we will assist you ignore Charlotte she simply hates other supernaturals. She was taken from her family when she was three by a few witches." A figure stood in the shadows. He loomed over even Derek, this was the alpha.

"Sir-" Charlotte tried to speak only to be growled at.

"Bird killed my mate seven years ago. He's the reason this pack exists, my own father leader of the pack in the south wouldn't help get revenge. He didn't want to take the risk, send his men to battle. Everyone here respects me and will follow me. Some of them lost others to Bird as well, mothers, sisters and mates."

"They may have lost people but I refuse to lose Chloe." Derek replied wrapping an arm around my waist, "so we will not use her as bait. Am I clear?"

"Perfectly." The man replied as he stepped from the shadows. He had a scar down his face from his hair line on the left side of his face down through his eye and lip ending at on the right side of his chin. "My name is Nicholas Dean, you may not call me Nick or Nicky nor Deany, Mr. Dean. My name is Nicholas and that is all."

INTO THE PAST

"Will you stop this already! You are to be my successor, you will run this pack." He was always like this, commanding me. Demanding me to listen to obey, something I never wanted to have.

"I don't want this. I never asked for it, give it to one of my brothers!"

"Your younger brother is twelve you on the other hand you've come of age!"

"And I don't have a mate! He does just wait a few years please Father I want a different life. Outside the boundaries you built."

"These boundaries have protected you you're entire life!" He scolded as if it mattered to me.

"I'd rather live in fear then live in a cage!"

"Then leave!" He demanded turning his back to me. My opportunity had arrived, it was my turn to take it.

A month passed with nothing happening. I hated this, I thought by leaving the reserve I'd earn myself a better life, I'd get to finally start my life. That however wasn't how it went. My life was dull, boring until I met her. It was just a simple coffee shop, like any other but she worked there. She rushed around as a barista and I couldn't take my eyes off her. She was lovely, beautiful and kind but I knew all this without speaking to her. She looked up into my eyes freezing in her tracks as she did.

"Nicholas." She whispered my name as she met my eyes and I knew. This woman, no Elissa was my mate and I in turn was hers. We were connected for life, for all of eternity.

We began to meet after her shifts. Talk about everything, from why we left our families to our mutual distaste in being werewolves. She told me how she loved to act and that was what she wanted to become an actress. It was a week later that I first met Bird, he was a good friend of her roommate. He smelt of werewolves but I could smell more on him, he had been with a mate, another woman who was not his mate. I could smell her blood on him, and I wasn't the only one.

He spent the night staring at Elissa, watching her. Every where she went every step she took he watched. He began to come over more, claiming he wanted to see Elissa's roommate it was a lie. I knew that well enough, it was a terrible thing to watch. Elissa and I both know we had to avoid him, keep our distance, but as soon as I took my eyes off him and her I turned around to find them both gone.

It took me a matter of minutes to track them down, it was like he was waiting for me. From the grin on his face and my unconscious mate lying at his feet I knew this was a game he played often.

"Welcome, Nicholas. Do you want to play a little game?"

A/N: I don't know when the next update will be. I'm updating all my stories from top to bottom so tune in! If you haven't already read my two best stories!

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