Soul Mates

Chapter 8

Mary-Katheryn

His room.

The room he sleeps in.

The room he brings girls to for... for... for...

OMG. I don't wanna be one of those girls. And I've been saving myself for my Mate so I have to find a way out of here. I have to find Jason, I have to get back to my Mate. Maybe together we can figure a way out of this mess.

"Come here Mate of mine." He says and I look around to see that he already has me in his room. I don't even remember coming up here.

"Huh? Where... How did we get up here?" I ask looking around the place.

"We walked, of course. Now I said COME HERE!" I stay firm and don't move a muscle. Next thing I know I feel pain and Dominic is standing in front of me. I look at him trying not to cry. I put my hand to my stinging cheek.

"Why did you do that?" Is that small voice mine. I look at him and clench my fist. "Why would you slap me?"

"I. SAID. COME. TO. ME. NOW!!!" I keep standing and take a step away from him.

He matches me, for every step I take back, he steps forward. "What are you doing Mate of mine?"

"N... No... Nothing." Once we are near the door, I kick out in front of me and while he groans,

I turn and run out.

"MARY-KATHERYN!!!!!!!!" I keep on running as he roars my name.

I turn a corner and see more corners. This place is like a maze, not giving up I kept running.

I see someone turning the corner in the distance and ran to her. "Hi, I'm looking for the pack kitchen. I need some water. Can you help me find it?" I lie.

"Sure, Luna. It is this way, come." She starts walking, but she's walking too slow for my liking.

"Can we be a little fast, so I can sooner get back to Dominic." I say pushing her a little.

"Okay. So... How do you like it here so far?" she asks as we walk-run through the halls.

"It's okay... I guess... but I haven't seen much of the place. Would you like to give me a tour, after I get my water?" I say pushing her a lot faster.

"Sure, Lu-" I cut her off.

"My name is Mary-Katheryn, or M.K., not Luna." She looks at me, not saying a word. "Um... What's your name anyhow?" I ask trying to change the subject.

"My name's Samantha, but everyone calls me Mantha." I hear footsteps in the distance and know that it is Dominic coming for me.

"Well Mantha, let's move faster ok. Don't want to keep Dom waiting." We start a light jog and once we reach the kitchen I see the door and go to it. I see a forest beyond, so I turn and look at Mantha. "I'm sorry for misleading you. But I had to get out of here. Thanx for the unintended help. Hope we meet again under different circumstances."

After that I ran out the door towards the woods.

I've been running and walking for hours. I don't know where I am anymore. I just hope that there is somewhere I can rest, in front of me. Cause this is brutal. Almost makes me regret running away from Dominic. Nah... Nothing will make me regret running from Dominic. I just have to figure out where I am.

The sun is setting and I still haven't found anywhere to hide. I did though find a river, where I washed myself to hide my sent, so I won't have to run anymore.

I really need to find somewhere before it gets dark.

I'm tired, wet, cold and dirty. After the sun set the rain started pelting on me. So there's one good thing about this. Its add protection against Dominic picking up my trail somewhere. The bad thing I feel like my feet are about to give out on me, yet something tells me to keep going, and in the atmosphere there is another thing telling me to leave this place and never come back.

So I trusted my gut and kept on going forward.

30 minutes more of walking I see a scary looking house in front of me.

The joy at finding the house is indescribable. I'm gonna get out of the cold now. So no matter how scary, ominous and uninviting the place is, I am gonna go in so I can be dry for a while.

I open the door, enter and shut it, closing my eyes and sliding down the door in exhaustion.

I feel a pair of eyes on me, in fact, I feel a lot of eyes looking at me, but I brushed it off as nerves of Dominic finding me.

"Who are you? How did you get in?"

******

Jason

Oh crap...

Not again.

"What do you two think you are doing?" That said by the Beta of our pack. What is wrong with this whole pack. Are they all turned to the darkside, or maybe they hate me enough to turn.

I mean at every turn there is a powerful member trying to do bad things. This isn't the great and powerful pack, which does not discriminate, and treats everyone the same.

I mean I did not expect it to be a pack of people sitting around, singing songs and communing with nature, but still...

"Oh, nothing, just checking the place out." Blaze says while he nonchalantly walks towards the Beta. "I mean, your security is wack. You should really sort that out." He stands next to the Beta, holding his shoulder with one hand while gesturing around. "You could really loose people. I mean prison break is really big these days. You should really look into that. It's not safe. You might get hurt." At this point the Beta is looking at him like he's crazy. Is he nuts?

"Uhh... Blaze... We should-" I say getting a little nervous at the Beta's calmness.

"Blaze?" He asks before Blaze punches him in the gut. The Beta doubles over and Blaze finishes with a punch on the face knocking him out.

Blaze looks at me. "He had nothing important to say. So let's go we're in the clear.

We walk or run to the door and open it without interruptions this time. Once outside we look around for a road to follow but there is non.

"Circle the place." I shout at Blaze as I run the other way. We reach the front together with no road in sight. "What do we do now?" I shout getting nervous that the more time we spend here, the more likely we will get caught.

"Calm down moron. I'm thinking." He says looking around.

We kept looking for a road and after rounding the place a second time, I started walking in a random direction.

"Where are you going now?" He says as he starts to follow me.

"Away from here. Any place is better. So you do it too. Choose a direction and follow it." I say as I keep on walking, not even looking back to see what he does.

I don't care what he does at this point. He is a rude person I would not want to continue knowing in my life. Who wants to hang around a sarcastic jerk who always has a bad word to call you with. So me? I was like good riddance to bad rubbish.

I save the jerks life, and he repays me by being a total douche, and always insulting me. I mean he hasn't even thanked me for saving him once. He is an ungrateful jerk. So bye.

I walked for like an hour with no direction in mind but to get away from that place.

As I'm walking all my mind can think about is my Mate.

Is she alright?

Has Dominic marked her yet?

Does she know where I have been?

If not. Does she worry or think about me?

Those are the kinds of things that go through my mind. If I'll be able to steal her and run away together, and now I won't be able to reach her faster because I can't change.

I'm dog tired, (lol, see what I did there), and my wolf is riding me. Wanting out to go to his Mate, but I can't change with him following me.

I don't get him. He's been following me since we left. I think he thinks I don't know he's there so I keep quiet and continue with my walk like he isn't there.

I reach a road and look around. It's deserted there are no cars to be seen so I pick a direction and walk along the road, so that when a car passes I can hitch a ride.

For 30 mins I walk and spot a car in the distance. I step in the road and make sure the driver stops. The car is a small yellow beetle car. When it stops I step near the drivers side and indicate she should roll down the window.

"Hello, sorry to inconvenience you, but would you please tell me where I am?" I say when she rolls down her window.

"You are in Nigeria." She answers with this small voice. And I gasp at her answer. How the hell was I transported from South Africa to Nigeria without waking up once to feel the long distance. Then my brain kicks in and I remember I was drugged. I look at her again. She smells human so she may help me. Humans are the nicest species on this planet.

"Can I please trouble you for a ride to the nearest town?"

"Okay... But the nearest city is Ibadan, which is miles away." She looks at me again and I hope that its okay, then I turn.

"Would you like to come or stay out here and die of starvation." I say looking into the forest where I hear someone kick something and swear. I turn back to the girl. "I have a companion who is gonna come out. Please don't be frightened. We won't hurt you we just need the ride."

He comes out and looks at me as I enter the passenger side of the car, leaving the back for him. When the car starts moving he asks " How did you know I was behind you? I thought I was being quite."

"I don't know." I look at the girl. "Sorry I didn't introduce myself. I'm Jason and that's Blaze" I point to him and he scowls. "What is yours?"

"Abayomi Lawal, nice to meet you." She says as she keeps on driving, taking us to Ibadan where maybe we can find a way back to South Africa. And if we couldn't... God help us cause we don't know anyone here who could help us.