Chapter 8
Fang POV
My muscles tensed and the rest of the flock followed suit. I turned towards the guy again and repeated Iggys comment.
"I think we should go now" the guy looked at me in surprise.
"But you're obviously hungry and I'm offering you food. Why don't you want it?"
"Let's just say that we don't trust easily" I practically snarled back.
"Hey there's no need to take that tone" he snapped back. "I only wanted to know how you got up here, I was honestly curious. There aren't any trails"
"Then I might ask you the same question" I said on a deathly calm voice. "How did you get up here if there's no trail?"
The guy looked up at me in an appraising way. "Good to see your thinking straight, but you don't need to know that. I just want to know how you got here. It might mean that this place isn't safe. That's all. So if you still want that food..."
He broke off then and stared at Angel. I glanced her way and say that one of her wings was still partly out. He must have seen it. Crap. I looked back at him, expecting fear or horror to show on his face, but instead I was met with a look of surprise and...anger. He then looked us all over and seemed to get positively livid at the sight of us.
"Get out" He hissed at us.
We just stood there in complete shock. Well, that was unexpected.
"What?!" I hissed back, completely nonplussed.
"I said get out now. Leave, take the food if you want, just get out of here now. You shouldn't be here."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Iggy practically shouted across the clearing at him. The guy flinched and looked down, as if to make sure that the girl hadn't woken up.As if I thought, it would take a lot more than that to wake your average human.Then I threw a questioning glance at Iggy, an idea having come to mind. He caught the glance and nodded slightly. So the girl wasn't human either. Brilliant.
I turned my attention back to the guy. He was still checking on the girl. I heard him whisper something, as if to himself and took the opportunity to change the subject.
"What did you say?" I yelled across the clearing
"I was saying thank god she didn't wake up, it's hard enough to get her to sleep through the night as it is. And thanks for shouting, that really..."He started or reply in an irritated voice but then he broke off then as the girl was starting to stir.
"Damn it.." I heard the guy swear quietly as the girl groaned slightly and scrunched up her eyes.
"What the..." Angel started to ask, but at that the girls eyes snapped open completely and she levered herself into a sitting position, rubbing her eyes gently. Her hair still covered her face, so I couldn't tell what she looked like but I was so pissed right now that I couldn't care less.
"What's happening?" the girl croaked. It sounded like she hadn't used her voice in a while. There was a soft gasp to my right and I turned to find Angel frozen to the spot and staring at the girl in shock. She must have seen her thoughts and gotten scared, I though anger coursing through me. I turned back to the couple in time to see the rest of the girls hair fall off her face, though she kept her eyes scrunched shut.
And I froze too.
I knew that face. I knew everything about it. I knew how stroking that cheek felt on my hand, I knew how soft that hair felt to touch, I knew what those eyes would look like in practically any situation as I had seen then in almost every possible one. And I knew how those lips felt, how soft they were, how they moulded against mine. I knew everything about this girl. She was my world.
She was Max.