Precious Life

Caught

Luke POV

All night Titan has been restless and I have had to take control back on multiple occasions to stop him from waking and claiming her.

“It’s our Mate! She’s sleeping on the ground! How can you expect me to just leave her there?”

I reply in my head, “because she is not ours! damn! Do you not think I want to help her?! We can’t! It’s against our oath! To do that would be to not only kill us but kill her in the process!”

It never gets any easier. For the last year this has been happening. Every couple of weeks or so, this perfect angel that is my mate is tormented by her peers, bullied and threatened, and chucked outside to sleep until the morning. It makes my blood boil. The only thing that stops me is that she isn’t of age. She hasn’t got her wolf yet so she doesn’t feel Titan and myself. When the day comes and she turns 18, I’ve reasoned with myself that that is when she can make her own conclusion. But by the goddess I hope she accepts us! I can’t imagine anything else!

Until that day though I need to wait in the sidelines; protecting from afar and hope when the day comes she lets me into her life.

I might not be allowed to interfere; talk or make myself known to her. However ever since I’ve graduated and proven my worth to patrolling on my own, without a mentor, I have watched her from the shadows.

Unfortunately my mentor always stuck to the book and whenever we would find her curled up outside in the churchyard he would report it to Mr Redd immediately, who would march her straight back into the school with a temper that worried me. I never saw marks on her, but I always knew she suffered. Her delicate face was constantly red and puffy from crying whenever she was caught, and once I saw her limping through the school grounds.

Since I’ve had no mentor I have always watched over her and not reported anything to Mr Redd since. Whether this has made her life easier or not I’m not sure; however she doesn’t seem to be crying as much lately.

At 6:00am I know my mate only has about an hour until the school awakens, so I return to the churchyard and gently push her with my wolfs nose to get her to wake up. I take a moment to look at her delicate features: her perfect mouth that is slightly grimaced as if she’s having a bad dream and her white eyelids that seem to be sparkling in the morning sun. She stirs, so I run and hide behind a bush. Knowing what she will do next, I turn back into my human form and quickly get dressed into a pair of black jeans and a black shirt.

I watch her dust off her clothes, stretch and start making her way back to the school; using her typical route of avoiding the main entrance. Clever girl.

Luckily for her I requested the patrol of the East side of the school and have been successful so there should not be any other patrols that she runs into however I am always cautious.

Unfortunately she’s quick, even with her skeletal appearance. She definitely doesn’t eat enough; and this thought makes Titan howl painfully in my head.

She’s on her way up the stairs and I can hear someone patrolling the third floor where her bedroom is. I quicken my pace, determined to not let her get caught. Because she doesn’t have her wolf yet she does not have heightened senses and she’s about to walk out onto the third floor when I grab her.