LIFE
“ Rae!” He screamed at me. I threw my hands around my abdomen now round in my 4th month of pregnancy.
“Kota help” I sobbed “ he’s coming”
“ I will always protect pup and you” she growled back to me, one day we’d kill him but not today.
I was so glad she broke threw in my mind 3 and half months ago. After he found out I was pregnant and I found out he wasn’t my actual mate I tired to run. Kota pushed me so hard to run, aside from being beaten with his hands, his sick friends plunged sliver knives into my feet, so it was pure h***. Kota was using her energy and strength to help protect our pup. No matter the father they were ours, our beautiful innocent child that I wouldn’t let him or anyone else hurt. I didn’t get far with him and 4 other men chasing after me. After that he chained me up with a wolfsbane chain around my neck. I was completely alone for a while. I couldn’t keep track. Until one night I heard her. She was howling, scratching her large brown paws in the corner of my mind.
“Kota?” I questioned i fully believed I was going crazy. I’m a wolf chained in wolfsbane surely I wasn’t hearing her. But after what felt like years she answered me back.
“I’m here, we are not alone, we are together.”
I wailed like a baby that night it’s not possible but it was happening.
“Rae she is coming” Kota whined to me huh? She?
“Pup is ready, get rid of him” “a girl?” Sobbed earning me a harsh grab of my face from Andrew.
“SHUT UP” “Andrew please I can’t tonight” I cried. Usually if I cry enough he gives up anymore. The drugs have taken over his mind and it seems he looses track of what he is doing. So I cry. And I cry no one wants a snotty blubbering mess so it’s what I will do. “Screw it” he mumbles and staggers his way to the fire in the middle of the rouge camp he has taken lead of. It was a blue moon that night only happens every 3 years and I was going to have my first child outside under a blue moon. If I wasn’t held captive I would be joyous and so happy she choose this wonderful night to come into the world. But now I wish I could just keep her inside until it was safe for her. The pain was terrible, but I kept silent until they were all too messed up to even know what was happening. 3 hours of labor and my beautiful little girl came Into this world, she didn’t cry which scared me at first but then she opened her beautiful eyes and just looked around. “Dylan” i cried her name in my mind
“She’s strong” Kota purred, I nodded in agreement. “We need to leave Kota, how are we going to keep her alive - safe- trapped to a tree truck?” I pleaded to her. See I have thought about leaving before she came but Kota wouldn’t let me. She said it was more dangerous and we should wait till our pup is a here and a little older. “6 months more Rae that’s all we need”
Kota and I came up with a plan to shower Andrew with love which made my skin crawl but whatever I had to do. We would do everything we could to have him give leniency about keeping us chained up, ask him to spend alone time together, that way there was a reason to free me. He’d still feed me wolfsbane but he didn’t know that it now didn’t effect me. “Collect what we need” and I did as she said. The night of our escape we’d tie our girl in a blanket and Kota would carry her while we ran. “Place the wolfsbane in the fire after they fall asleep it will keep them down while we get far” Kota guided me through the steps once again. Tonight was the night. We were doing this and I was scared but it needed to be done, I watched my baby sitting up against the tree I had padded with pillows, she was so beautiful and strong. “Pure” she was right she was so pure nothing like her father, the stupid man that tricked me into thinking he could feel our mate bond because he was older. He wasn’t always horrible. I think I was in love for a little or maybe it was just lust. But of course he lied we weren’t mates and he had a horrible issues with drugs and alcohol that I just easily over looked when we met. But I was all alone when we met. I have no clue who my parents are or why they didn’t want me, why didn’t they keep me safe?
I didn’t even know I was a wolf until I was 16 and Kota came into my mind. Just a poor, homeless girl walking the streets of New York City. She helped me find food shelter and she helped me be a better person over all. I’m just lucky she didn’t leave me when I choose to believe Andrew and go to live with him. Though we are one person, she is also like the overbearing mother I never had.
It had been dark now for a couple hours and the guys were already falling over themselves so I knew it was almost time. Dylan was asleep swaddled tightly next to the tree we always slept under. I made my way over to the fire and drug my hand a crossed Andrews back “ how are you feeling handsome” I mentally gagged as I asked. He just grunted. He was too engrossed watching the fire dance in front of him in his drugged haze to even pay attention. As I walked away I threw the wolfsbane I ground into powder into the fire, looking back I saw that none of the noticed the change in the color. I grabbed Dylan making my way far from the fire and covered my face. Grabbing the cloth and things I needed hidden in the stack of wood, I bolted. I started to hear their cries and yells as I made it farther then I had the last time I ran. They weren’t coming after me Atleast not tonight. I stopped, placed my little girl down and I began to shift. For the first time in years I felt my bones shifting and instead of hurting it was like a well needed stretch after a long car ride. It was euphoric.
Kota nudged the knotted ball of fabric I tied for her to carry Dylan, she slipped her head in the hole and let her hang against her chest. “She is okay Rae. Still asleep, and our fur will keep her warm.”
We took off running as fast and safely as we could with our bundle hanging from our chest.
I’m not even sure how long we ran for our how far we had gotten but I started to smell people food, and the faint sound of kids laughing. “ people out here? Has to be a pack” I thought. Suddenly I heard leaves moving far off, spooked we bolted toward the sound of children. If it was a pack I could beg for sanctuary, or at-least ask for help. The sound got closer in front of me as well as the sound of someone behind me got louder. I couldn’t get this far to just get taken back. He’d kill me, and I couldn’t leave her.
Lost in thought I bolt through 2 large oak trees when suddenly 4 wolves jump in front of me. Growling, dragging their paws back so hard the sound woke Dylan. She screamed stopping the wolves tilting their head in confusion. This gave me a moment to let Dylan slide off my neck so I could shift. Naked and dirty in front of massive wolves I pick my child from the ground and latch her to me so she would eat and not cry, once she was I placed the one hand not holding her in the air “ My name is Rae, and this is my daughter Dylan. Please help us” I all but cried
They all stood still for a total of 2 minutes, then the smallest gray and white wolf turned and ran the opposite way while the others stood tall no longer in a fighting stance. Taking a deep breath in I thought I was safe- Dylan was safe, I dropped to my knees crying. Soon I heard a growling from behind me and I saw him. Andrew has followed me.. how?! His scrawny muted brown wolf was walking a line behind me but not coming any further. Screaming I fell on my a** trying to push myself backwards, getting as far as I could before he could get to us. Kota was shaking trying to free herself and end him once and for all but I was frozen. Everything happened so fast the 3 wolves that stayed behind jumped over us and ran after him, a women touched my shoulder as I watched Andrew be chased away, it was too much 3 years hit me all at once I looked at the beautiful red headed women in front of me and handed her my child, and then It all went black.