When You Say Nothing At All

by Hanna Smith

Ruthie Lahote was named after her great-grandmother, she is Paul's sister and she has selective muteism. What makes her the ideal girl to be brought into pack life? and will a certain wolf be able to help her in her quest to find her voice? FLUFF

20. Chapter 19

Chapter 19

Embry's POV

I ran out of the house feeling happier than I had in ages.

I stripped off, phased and my thoughts were joined with Jake and Quil's. Jacob filled me in on the nothing that was going on along the borderlines, before phasing out to go home, just as Paul phased in.

I had totally forgotten that Quil had swapped patrols with Paul, so Jake didn't have to hear his thoughts about Rach, not that I wanted to hear them either.

We started to run as Quil phased out, wishing me luck with Paul.

He was thinking about Rachel, as usual, while I counted backwards from a hundred in counts of eight to stop me thinking about Ruthie.

Suddenly Paul smelt a vamp and slowed down to wait for me to catch him up.

What happened next was all so quick; a blonde leech jumped out at Paul, teeth bared, ready to bite.

Without thinking about it, I launched myself between them and the vamp hit me with an almighty crunch.

Paul howled and the others phased in as he fended off the attacking leech.

I tried to stand up, but I couldn't; there was a crippling burning pain in my ribs, which hurt when I breathed in, and a shooting pain along my back and hind legs.

I snarled as another vampire appeared from behind a tree.

I forced myself to stand up and lunge at the unsuspecting vampire, who had passed me off as dead, ripping its head off in one clean movement.

I managed to throw the head into the newly lit fire before I collapsed again.