Chapter Three

The cool lazy voice on the other line I didn't recognize at all, but it did trigger something in my past but it was so hazy I shrugged it off.

"Hello, it's been a while Vivian. How are you?" I stood their frozen wondering who on earth could of phoned me that wasn't part of the pack. Usually if anyone wanted to talk, they'd just take a short walk here and talk to my face. So this stranger wasn't part of the pack at all, and how on earth would he have gotten this number. It wasn't listed, and we all had a private number, and the only number that was listed was the Lodge.

The other part what was really getting my nerves was how did he know me?

"Oh dear, are you trying to remember who I am. Of course you are. Well it's been a few years and I so dearly miss you. Come back to me Vivian." The voice spoke so sweetly that it was hypnotizing me. I shut my eyes as I realized who it was. The one person who had met the pack. Who swore he would never look or speak of us. The one and only time I'd fallen head over heels for a meatboy. Aidan. He was the stranger phoning me. I glared at the phone in my hand even if he couldn't see me doing so I spoke with hatred.

"What are you doing phoning us. You know that you were told not to come to us ever again." He laughed at me.

"Oh, but sweetheart, you know that I was crazy for you. It's been too long, and I miss you. Come talk to me. I need your help with something." He told me with laughter in his voice.

"No, I don't want to see you and I don't want to hear your voice either so quit it and leave me the hell alone." I yelled at him with the most disgust I could muster up inside me. But as I was about to hang up I heard him say.

"Well, I guess you don't want to know where your mate has gone. I mean, you believe he's gone to see your Uncle Rudy. How is he by the way? I imagine him getting old now huh, and what about your mother. I don't believe I've met her."

"What are you getting at. Of course Gabriel has… How do you know where Gabriel went and how did you know he went to see Rudy." I asked him but I could sense he was grinning on the other end.

"What makes you think I'm not close by to you and your sweet beautiful long legs that you showed to me all summer when we were together." He chuckled, I shuddered as I remembered what I had done and worst of all he was most likely imagining a picture of me. "I want you to come see me."

"I'm not going to see you." I said flatly.

"Well I guess your not going to see Gabriel for a little while. At least for a week, until you come to see me. I'll see you soon Vivian." He told me as he hung up. I stood there more frustrated then I was before I picked up the phone. I slammed down the phone and yelled to the top of my lungs. Hoping that my anger would seep away. But there was no use. I stormed my way up stairs to my bedroom. I started to search for my CD that the four gave to me a few years ago. I found it and put it in the small player that was on the table by the door. I pumped up the music to fill the room as I threw myself on the bed. I took the pillows and buried my head under them as I tried to forget the conversation that had just took place and wondering if Gabriel was at Rudy's. No he wouldn't be there yet, it'd take maybe a day to get there and he left at noon. I debated a little while wondering if I should phone, but I didn't in the end. I lay their thinking of anything that'd get my mind off of things. Eventually my eyes grew tired, and slipped back to sleep.

Meanwhile….

Vivian was finally asleep in their room. Surprising that she didn't go take a run with the others. Maybe because her mate wasn't here to run beside her I thought to myself and smiled cheekily. What a terrible night it was for her, I mocked a motherly tone. Her mother didn't give a rats ass about her at the moment, which was fine by me. We'll see how her mother will warm up to her later on, that's if she does.

I turned my back away from the open window of their bedroom and sauntered into the ticker forest, not that it wasn't thick enough already. If Vivian wanted to come to the window and try to find what or who was making that terrible feeling when an intruder was around. I laughed to myself as I thought of that. Vivian was a pathetic fool to marry someone like Gabriel. Powerful and muscular to weak and dense. I'll put her to the test as soon as I introduce myself to the pack. A huge smile crossed my face as the thought entered my head. Vivian will never know what crossed her.

Late in the afternoon…

The clatter of pots and pans had always got on my nerves, but I needed to eat and the only thing I usually ate when I was alone was Kraft Dinner. I grabbed the small pot and filled it with water and put it on the hot element. I took the box and ripped it open and fished out the packet of powdered cheese. The music in the living room was nothing like at all to the music I listened to last night while trying to fall asleep. Over the last six years I started to get a feel for country music. More sentimental and so much more romantic to what the four listened to. I grew soft hearted, but the four say I always was. There was a knock at the front door. I turned around from the stove and walked threw the living room towards the small area where the hallway was. I peered through the long narrow window by the door. I tried to see who was at the door but couldn't get a good glimpse at who it was because of the curtain. I went to the huge oak door and opened it to see one of Gabriel's sisters. Darcy, one of the triplets that seemed to get on my nerves when I first started to see Gabriel. Her mid length golden hair and the same colour of Gabriel's eyes made me sick of worry for Gabriel again. Darcy was the same height as me even if she was only fourteen. I treated her as if she was a young adult. She looked up from her feet looking as though she needed to talk to someone. I smiled at her and moved away from the door so she can come in. she walked past me into the kitchen and sat on one of the bar stools by the island. I followed her to the kitchen and went to the bubbling pot to put the noodles in so Darcy would have sometime to open the conversation. It was silent for a few minutes, until I turned around and looked at her. She sat there with her elbows on the counter, her hands were cupping her face, but she was looking though the big window, into the dark forest. I cocked my head a bit as I leaned against the stove, hopping she'd notied my movement so she'd turn my way. She looked at me and gave a weak smile.

"Okay, what's up." I finally summed up the courage to ask her. She sighed and waited a few minutes before answering.

"Vivian, I'm worried that Gabriel is lost, or worst yet who ever he went to go see didn't see him yet. What if there's something out there that could of got a hold of him or what if he got caught by some cops or may…" she blurted out in a rush.

"Whoa, hold up. Gabriel is one of the strongest in the group. I think he can handle anything that goes his way. Try not to worry about it Darcy. There's no point in worrying until we know for sure that Rudy has seen him or not." I simply told, even if she didn't believe me. Heck I didn't even believe what I was saying. Darcy didn't have a look on her face that she wouldn't listen to me. It was silent again so I turned around to take the noodles off the stove. I started to make the cheese when she suddenly asked me.

"Are bloodsuckers real." I wiped around wondering how to answer that question. The shock on my face probably gave her a warning and made her change the subject. "Hey look it's William." She pointed toward the back door. William walked in and looked at the two of us.

"Sorry if I'm barging but Darcy, your sisters are looking for you." He said, Darcy rolled her eyes.

"Tell them I'm not here, I'm somewhere else." She told Will. He shook his head.

"Sorry kido, their on there way here already. I suggest if you don't want to see them to hide." She jumped off the stool and ran towards the front door. William turned toward me and started to walk towards me. He looked in the sink and saw the noodle in the bowl. "I thought you'd be making KD again."

"I got hungry and wanted something simple. Can you think of anything more simpler that Kraft Dinner." I told him.

"Salad, sandwich, mushroom soup…." He started to name a few and flicked them off his fingers. I laughed.

"Shut up, I get the point. So you came here to see Darcy."

"No I came to tell you that Gabriel left Rudy's last night before midnight. I phoned after I left here. Rudy told me that Gabriel had to go right away because there's a few of the stronger packs up north, that have gone missing. No one from the packs are around. No women or children around, all the males are gone. So something's up and that's the reason why Gabe had to go. I thought you might want to know that. Apparently he went up north to see for himself too. So he might not be back for a while, my guess for another three days." William explained to me. I finished making my supper and sat down thinking it all over.

"What do you think could have got a hold of those packs. Were they gone, like vanished, did they move somewhere else or were they killed or what. I mean they can't just leave unless they had been kidnapped, but taking a whole pack, not to mention one of the more bigger and powerful too." I said William sat by the table with me.

"I don't know what it is but it's something and we think it's rouge wolf wandering around." He said to me as he got up and started to pace the kitchen. He could never sit and worry at the same time.

"What do you mean by we." I asked sharply.

"I phoned and then I told some of the guys so they wouldn't worry so much either. That's all, you're the first person we've told. We thought that you should know before everyone else did." I nodded and had a few bites.

"So are you all sure that it's a rouge wolf or could it be something else." I asked without thinking.

"What do you mean Vivian."

"Well, just before you came in here. Darcy asked me if bloodsuckers were real or not, and it occurred to me that I didn't even know."

"They do." He simply said in a dark stern voice. It was silent again. Minutes stretched on and on. William was pacing still thinking of something. Then it hit me, what if these bloodsuckers were behind it. I gasped at the thought. William turned around and rushed to my side, bent down on his knees and held both my hands in his.

"What is it Vivian. Vivian."

"Do you think that maybe these…." I started to say before he cut me off.

"No. There not around here."

"Are you sure though." He didn't answer.

"William." He still didn't say anything. "Have you ever saw one before.''

"Promise not to a word to anyone Vivian. I'm serious to. Don't say a word to anyone at all." His voice was dark and stern again. I nodded. "Good. Come with me. I'll show you. But it's in the dark forest and be prepared."