Where the Wind Blows Magic happens

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

I can do this! I have to do this! I will survive even if I have to do it alone! Never give up, never forget, and push harder …...

Tydus P.O.V.

It was midafternoon and I was just leaving the Armani store when I suddenly heard my stomach growl. I didn’t eat breakfast and I hadn’t stopped anywhere to grab a bite, so I was pretty much starving by this point. I walk to the truck parked on the curb and spot a restaurant I don’t remember being there. It looks like a decent place, very modern and blends nicely with the other buildings around it. Given the crowd I would say they have good food and won’t have a table for long if I don’t hurry. I have nowhere else to go right now besides home so why not try it. I put the bags in the Rover and walk the block down since finding parking is hard enough without it being lunch hour rush.

When I stop in front of the door, I smell something amazing and so familiar. It is causing me to scowl because it is such a delicious smell, I can almost taste it. Even Victor, my wolf is even stirring at just the intoxicating smell and he usual naps while I do meager things like shopping and such because humans could not handle his existence. I open the door to the diner and step in and right in front of me is the one person I have thought about every hour of everyday it feels like since I have been gone. She stops and looks at me with those honey brown eyes and the curly auburn messy bum on top her head just like I remember. She seen me as soon as I opened the door, like a deer caught in head lights, she just stares as if she had seen a ghost. I don’t know what to do I want to run to her, feel her in my arms, explain everything, beg for her to forgive me.

I instead do nothing but stand there and watch her serve a table food. She works here? Why is she working in a restaurant as a waitress? I remember her dad was very successful. I just stand there aw struck. She is my destined! I knew it all those years ago, that explains why I was so drawn to her when we were teens. Humans are not typically a destined mate for werewolves, in our history it has happened but not for many generations in our pack now. My father was so sure a human couldn’t possibly be destined for a strong alpha as myself. It is making me angry thinking about how my father spoke of her and the anger in his voice when I didn’t want to leave her.

I just stand there watching, it was as if my legs were broken and couldn’t move. I watch her serve the table and hold a smile that doesn’t quite reach her eyes. Her eyes were always so beautiful and full of life. They were so big and such a rich liquid honey I felt as though I could swim in them. She is so beautiful, honestly, she still looks as I remember the last night we spent together, maybe a little more mature but still so beautiful!

I watch as she interacts with the table of customers still stuck in the same spot. I listen as she speaks to the table and her voice is like a sweet melody to my favorite song. I listen and watch until she moves towards the back. She puts her tray on a stack and keeps walking to the back. I should go after her but before I can I see her walking quickly across the parking lot to her car I assume. She stops and looks into my eyes and all I can see is the hurt, sadness, and disbelief in her red, puffy eyes. She is crying and I should run out there and follow her and talk to her but instead I stand there and still just watch.

I barely notice the guy standing next to me. He is about 6’ tall with darker features but he has big blue eyes. He appears to be human but something about him is off and it bothers me. He has to be some sort of fae or fairy blood, but I don’t know why it would bother me. I don’t really even care after watching her drive out the parking lot. My heart hurts. She ran from me; I knew it would be tough coming back not like this.

I order some coffee but wish this restaurant had a bar instead, I could use something stronger. Much stronger with the anger and hurt growing inside of me. I get a burger to go and sip the coffee as I wait. As I wait, I do nothing but think about her, how she looked, how she ran. It is driving me and victor crazy sitting there. I feel his agitation and listen to him rant in my head about not going after her and how I let her drive away. I pushed him to the back of my head and blocked him when he made a point of tell me I should have given him control and not fought him. In my silence and own thoughts, I decide I will go by her parents’ house and if she still lives there.

When my food was brought to me, I handed the guy a $50 in exchange for the bag of food and told him to keep the change. I rushed down the street to the rover and get in. It has been more than 4 years, but I still knew the drive to her house like the back of my hand. As I got closer both me and victor became anxious, only to see a dark house. Do they still live here? The blinds are drawn, and it seems no one is home, but I do not smell her. Even just a lingering smell that she was here in the last few days.

With the events of the day still fresh in my head, I head back home. Taking my time scanning the city, trying to pick up on her scent to know which direction she went. That’s when I smell it out of nowhere. A rogue, but where? I am going too fast to just pull over in traffic. So, I circle back at the next intersection, but the smell is gone. Where would it have gone? The pack has a specific scent only your destined can smell you for your true scent. I know it was a wolf shifter and not of my pack. How did it just vanish into thin air? Witchcraft much have been used.

There are not many witch covens around here. Witch’s live in small family size covens scatter around the world with spells to protect their home and true identities. The more powerful the witch the harder to find them and their covens. We have a peaceful relationship with all the covens in the surrounding area. This rogue must not be from an area close by to have a potion to mask his smell and none of the witches reached out to us to tell us about the rogue trying to buy it. I get back in the rover and drive as fast as I can back to pack lands, I really need to speak with my father.