Jackson's Vengeance

Chapter 7

Jackson’s POV

The moment I realized what I was doing, I pulled my teeth out of her neck and took off into the dark, I didn’t even look back to see if she was ok, all I know is, I need to get as far away from her as possible. What the hell is her, how can she be a vampire and then shift into a wolf, not just any wolf, an Alpha female, destined to become the mate of an Alpha? An Alpha who can transform her with his roar.

The first thing that comes to mind is that I have never been able to roar before his moment, I howled but this roar. The only time I ever saw it happen before was when my mother had lost her cool and my father had to calm her down.

I had roared because I thought Iva was going to destroy her in her own home, I didn’t want her blood spilled here, especially after she had helped us find our own. Iva was in pain I understood that, but the fight was wrong. Things changed when I saw her shift, I left them to fight but when it was done I stopped them, and again, I meant to use my normal howl but it comes out as a rumbling roar, loud and thunderously echoing through the courtyard.

After watching her fight, my wolf just took over, and now, I have marked her. How can this be happening? How could my wolf choose a vampire, or whatever the hell she is? She isn’t a wolf, she can’t be. Something does not add up.

“How, how do I always end up in these messed up situations,” I ask out loud.

I find a quiet patch of grass and throw myself down, I shift back and rub my hands over my face, I have no idea why, I should have just turned away. There is a whole camp of she-wolves and I just had to mark the one that is also a vampire.

I have been laying on the grass for a long time, I hear footsteps and I know who it is even before he says anything,

“So, you finally marked someone!” Bruce says, he hands me a drink, some kind of home-cooked spirit, it smells strong and I take a huge gulp.

“It means nothing, she can’t be my mate, she is a vampire,” I reply.

“We need to talk to her and find out what happened,” Bruce says.

I know he is right, but I can’t face her now, not after the marking. Like he is reading my mind he says, “She doesn’t know what just happened, Minnie said she has no idea what marking is and why it is done.”

“The problem is, I know what it means, all those wolves know what it means, and how, how do I come back from this?”

“You have come back from worse Jackson. You need to think carefully about this, man your eyes were changing color, it wasn’t yellow, it was amber and I think if you accept her, you will take your final form.”

“You telling me that I need to accept a vampire as my mate to become the True Alpha? That will never happen, Bruce, It will never happen. I hate her kind and I can never look past the fangs she walks around with all day.”

That night was worst than the nights in the forest, I kept seeing her naked body, I kept seeing her wolf form. I kept seeing our mating and it made me toss and turn until I woke up and stared at the ceiling wishing I had never met this vampire. Suddenly every problem I had was linked to a vampire. I hate this feeling so much it makes me want to punch something.

I decide to take a walk and while walking I see her, she walks out to the field and then jumps into the air shifting mid-air. She runs through the long grass, wild and free. It reminds me of the night at the lake and I stand there mesmerized as she chases fireflies and runs up and down. How can she be so carefree now after what happened?

Granted she doesn’t know what a mating mark is, but it was still a bite and would have still hurt. Yet here she is dancing in the long grass as if nothing matters. This time I leave before she sees me, and I make my way back to the room. I lay on the bed and think about this woman, she claims to have had so much pain and suffering yet here she is enjoying herself like nothing bad has happened, as if nothing can go wrong.

“Bruce is right,” I say to myself.

“Tomorrow we need to know what her story is.”

Suddenly the loneliness I have always felt sinks in and I realize that even though I have a pack I still have no relative left, everyone is gone, and I look around me and wonder what it would be like if I had arrived here and found my parents still alive.

I blink the pain away and think about the happy moments with my family, the normal days of mother making breakfast, and father teaching me what it is like to lead the pack. Sometimes it didn’t feel like we werewolves, it felt like we were just normal people.

Never in my life had I thought I would lose my parents. The guilt I tried to bury in the past always resurfaced when I was alone. I could never tell them that I was sorry, that I loved them, and that I needed them. I still need them, I need them to tell me everything is going to be ok.

I regretted so much, the fights with my father when he tried to stand up for me, the fighting with my mother when she didn’t want me to leave. Leaving one’s pack is not a good thing, a wolf on his own could end up killed. By humans, other packs, and just about anything bigger and more dangerous.

I wonder to myself if I had stayed, what would have happened, would I have marked a vampire today, would I be dead with the rest or would I have saved everyone fighting side by side with my parents. I will never know, what I do know is that tomorrow I need to know exactly how The Vampire Tori can shift into an Alpha wolf.

Tomorrow she will answer all my questions and then I will take the pack and leave, we will never see her again. We have better numbers and even though Mike and Angelo are against me, I cannot see them not fighting for the loss of their families. All the wolves here have lost family and all of them will fight.

We will beat these vampires and I know that we will win, my thoughts are distracted by a knock on the door, It’s Lin, Gail’s cousin.

“Jackson, the Alpha.” She says striding in uninvited.

“Do you need something?”

“If I knew you would be choosing a mate today, I would have fought too, not fair to choose without warning.” She whines and it annoys the hell out of me.

“I have an early morning, I need to get some rest if you don’t mind,” I say showing her the door.

“I saw your mate out in the field, she doesn’t understand what just happened, I thought I would come to help you, you know take care of the raging hormones.” She says pointing to my pants.

“Please leave, now!” I say, raising my voice.

“You know that she can never truly be your mate, she can never truly be the Alpha female, no one would accept that,” Lin says bitterly and walks out.

I slam the door shut and feel worse than I did before, I had a lot of answering to do, Minnie was upset with me for the way I left things, Cayley was furious because she always thought it was her, while I chased after Gail, Cayley chased after me and Lin just threw herself in with inappropriate comments and actions. It was a mess back then and it is a mess right now.

I looked out the window and I could see her walking back to her room, the way her body moved, her hips swaying from side to side, I felt my pulse race and my body tense up. This cannot be happening to me, I turn away from the window, shut off the light. In the darkness, I wish all my thoughts away. All I need is one night of decent sleep and tomorrow, well tomorrow will deal with itself, as my father always said.

I closed my eyes and forced myself to sleep, this time I willed my mind to focus on nothing, I pictured nothing, and I thought I was winning until I fell asleep. In my dreams she was there, smirking at me, laughing at me. There were other vampires there, they trapped us and started killing each wolf one by one as she laughed with her vampire friends. I got up, drenched in sweat, my heart pounding and my claws digging into my palms.