Her

Marked 14

The crowd around the pack house was huge. Mothers had their hands covered over their mouths while a loud wail could be heard deep in the crowd. Men were pushing the crowd further out to get them away from whatever was in the center. The sun was starting to set and that's when I saw a furious Sebastian coming towards me as the crowd parted for him like the Red Sea. His eyes were black like charcoal, his muscles were tensed under his white shirt that had blood stains on the edges and his hands were clenched with dark blood on them and I couldn't keep my eyes away from his bloody hands.

He dipped his head low and sniffed my neck as he wrapped his arms around me and lifted me slightly off the ground.

"Where's Thalia?" He says roughly while looking towards Laura's car who was standing half inside her car half out with Thalia still sleeping in her car seat in the back

"She's fine, she's fine what's wrong what happened?" I say trying to look over his shoulder at the massive crowd

"Someone came and attacked a pup. He died Bella. s***h marks all over his little body. Some others were a injured but they're all okay..Th-..they-" His hands were a little shaky and he spoke with anguish and hate.

I whipped my head around towards the crowd and noticed the mother kneeling down over the bloody child his stomach still had blood pouring out of it and he lay pale and motionless on the ground beneath him.

"Ar..- are you hurt? How's the rest of the pack.." I stutter

"They left a message on his body."

He says ignoring my question, he growls ferociously and a howl rips out of his chest as he changes into his huge wolf and rushes towards the woods with warriors and his beta right by his side while the pack howls and mourns for a lost one. Sebastian didn't come back that night, they all didn't. I heard howls far away in the distance once or twice after they had scouted out. The rest of the pack stayed back and comforted the mother of the young boy. I told the old members to help carry the child to a better place for the time being as I led the mother over into the pack house where she sobbed into my shoulder until midnight. Thalia was in my arms; asleep as I entered our home with an eerie silence.

••••

Waking up to a screaming baby was not pleasant. At all. I rushed to her room and lifter her in my arms and patted her back while walking back downstairs to make her a bottle as she got louder with every step I took.

"Sh..sh..sh baby, I'm here sweetie don't cry mamas here."

When I finally took the last step off the stairs my senses caught the curtains wide opened with the sun gleaming inside through the shinny windows. I walked closer to the kitchen where noise was coming from and Thalia's wailing was still as loud as her little lungs could take her.

The woman's back was turned to me as she was sitting on the barstool, she picked at something that was on the table and turned to me when Thalia finally got quiet and was blinking away her tears. The woman whips her head around and her brown eyes look me up and down at my clothing and then towards Thalia whose head is now in the crook of my neck.

"Mia?" I say startled, her stool screeches against the tile and the sound pierces my ear.

"....What are you doing here?" I say looking around the kitchen to see if Sebastian was here since he didn't come home last night.

"Oh... I didn't know I'm sorry I thought Sebast- I thought Alpha Sebastian was here."

"He didn't come in last night... I'm sorry did you need something..?" I head towards the counter where Thalia's baby bottles are.

I look on the island table where Mia was seated at and look towards the brownies that are smack dab in the center of the island.

"Are those for him?" I ask curiously as she fiddles with her fingers nervously

"Uh...um yea, wha-what are you doing here I thought it would just be him?"

'Someone has a crush' I think to myself

"I live here." I say as Thalia try's to take the bottle into her hands

"Oh" Is what I get from the pretty brown haired women

I look around confused as to why she just asked me that when Sebastian clearly announced it the other day.

"I'll just go now" she says rushing towards the front door while I look down at Thalia sucking on her baby bottle, confused at the relationship Mia had with my mate.

••••

The sun had faded away over the pack house and I still heard nothing from any of the pack members. Sebastian and the Warriors hadn't came back and it was now eleven forty. The date that he had planned out didn't even seem to cross my mind till Violet came by and asked if I had heard anything since her fiancé was also with Sebastian.

I was laying down in our bedroom with Thalia laying on my chest as I rubbed her back when I heard the front door being slammed open and my mates woodsy scent drifted into the house mixed with dirt and a nasty odor of blood.

I set Thalia back down in her crib in her room as I heard Sebastian rummaging downstairs with who knows what.

I walked clumsily down the stairs with some of my old sweats and one of Sebastian's flannels.

His shirtless back was a sight to see but that wasn't what caught my attention, it was the blood stains and dirt patches on his back had me leaning on the island table in a dizzy state. His smell of blood and sweat hit my scenes like a thousand bolts. Sebastian was gulping down water as if it was a life or death situation. He turned around as if he knew he was being watched but didn't come any closer to my stunned figure that was gasping at the amount of blood he had that covered his muscular chest. His eyes were bloodshot and his body was bloody and bruised.

"Your back" I say breathlessly

He doesnt say a word at my comment. He sets his glass of water down quietly and clenches his fist.

"Did you read the message?"

I turned the other way at his question. The child was pure and only about seven years old. There was so much blood when I had looked over Sebatians shoulder and the chillds body was so small that I couldnt see the lettering from where I was standing. There was just so much everywhere that my attention was towrds the mother who no longer had a child.

He slammed the palm of his hand on the Island table and I flinched at the sound of his skin making contact with the granite counter as a crack could be heared echoing through out the house.

"ANSWER ME ISABELLA! DID YOU READ THE MESSAGE ON HIS BODY!?" He roars through out the house

"NO! No I didn't okay. I was helping the women who lost her child!" I yell

His nostrils flared and his eyes were once again a charcoal black.

He turned his back towards me again and rammed his fist into the wooden cabinets with a loud 'crack'.

"Sebastian STOP!"

At the sound of my voice he just stayed there in his place without uttering a word. He shook his head and threaded his fingers through his dark hair in frustration.

"The-..they left their initials on his little body Isabella C.M., they were bloody and messy. I don't know who it is. We tracked them down and only captured two. They didn't tell us anything they were like mutes. They've been roaming around since you've become Luna, day and night. If you know who it is you need to tell me Isabella."

I couldn't utter a word as I just stood there silently, his words drowning out as the letters C and M slipped out between his lips. My eyes widened at the idea of Cole being so close, he was here. Cole finally found me and he was going to take everything that was most important to me.

"I..-I have to go. I can't be here. He's here. He'll hurt the pack, He'll hurt you. I gotta leave. I..-"

I took off in a sprint upstairs my feet stomping on the carpeted stairs as I hear a growl come from Sebastian's chest. All I can think about was leaving with Thalia and running away as far as we can go away, from Him. I got to the top and before I could take another step towards Thalia's baby room Sebastian's strong arm wrapped around my waist and pulled the door open to our room and slammed it back closed as he pulled me to his strong bloody chest.

I cried and whimpered as he wouldn't let me go with frustrated tears running down my cheeks.

"Let me go Sebastian! I have to go!"

"No! not when I need you the most! I need you, me and Thalia and this pack. You came to me for a reason and now that the threat is here I need to protect both of you. You cannot run away anymore."

He pulls me closer and shoves his face close to my neck and then kisses me softly and sensuously for comfort. I fall limp In his arms as he pulls me closer. His words tug at my heart as he keeps whispering words of comfort into my ear.

"Don't go. Not now. Not ever." I wrap my arms around his neck and shove my face into his chest and nod my head slowly while the tears stop and we now just stand against the dooe

"I won't go" I whisper as I kiss his cheek

His arms roam around my back and licks the junction of my neck as I feel his canines slightly skim over my skin.

"Don't ever go" he says before his canines bite deep into my neck as a growl rips out loud deep in his chest and a groan comes out between my lips at the pain that numbs my neck. My eyes turn foggy as he finishes of the bite with licking it once over again. The last thing on my mind were the initials C.M.