Bás (completed book 6 of the blood moon saga)

5

"Oh yes sorry it's been a while"

She pulls it on and I drive to the shop down the hill. She looks around as we drive

"Where are we?"

"In my town"

"You have an entire town?"

"Yes, it's to keep us out of the way of humans. Most packs are like this some live differently"

"I'll bet"

She answers, I frown and look at her.

"What do you mean by that?"

She looks at me nervously

"Just those that kept me didn't live like this. The first one did but nobody knew I was there until Hannah helped me escape and the others lived in the middle nowhere"

"You were kidnapped twice?"

She nods and her heartbeat picks up again.

"The second time you were taken it sounds like they were rogues. They are kicked out of packs because they break our laws"

"So what, you just release them to the rest of the world. Let them go torture the humans that can't defend themselves that's smart"

I bite my lip but say nothing. She was right. And she had every right to be angry. I stop the car outside the shop but as I open the door her breathing gets faster.

"Do you want to come with me?"

She nods and climbs over the seat and into my arms like a little monkey. I smile as she wraps her legs around my waist. I carry her into the small shop and smile at sue

"Alpha who have we got here"

"Your Luna"

"Oh really. Well congratulations on finding her let me see her"

"She's a little nervous maybe wait until she's ready"

"It's fine. Hey"

She looked at Sue and her eyes widened in surprise and her brows furrowed.

"Hey Luna it's nice to meet you"

"Nice to meet you too.."

The door opened and she scrambled back into my chest i covered her body with my arms

"Shhh it's ok, they won't hurt you I'm here"

"And you'll kill them if they try"

She says so quietly into my chest no one else can hear her.

"Exactly. Just remember that ok"

She nods and I look to sue who's looking at her with sadness.

"Give me 2 packs of the usual and 2 lighters please, she's been through a lot maybe when she's feeling better she will be happy to meet you all properly"

"My brother's mate went through something similar. It helped a heap when he changed her"

I freeze and pray she didn't hear her. I don't want her to freak out and run. Sue gives me the smokes and I walk out and back to the car.

I sit her down in the passenger seat and hand her the cigarettes, she takes them eagerly and opens them and as I get into my side she stuffs one in my mouth making me chuckle, she holds the lighter up and lights it for me.

"Do you want to go for a drive? Maybe go buy some shoes?"

She looked around

"That would actually be really nice"

I smile and open the window then take off after she pulls her seatbelt on.

"What did she mean by change"

"f*****g sue. Please don't freak out and leave if it's not what you want I'll never change you I swear"

She smiles and nods

"Change as in become like me"

"Ohhh. And you don't want me to be like that?"

Her voice was low like it hurt her to feel like that and I swear someone must have stabbed me in the heart.

"No that's not what I said, I would love that because for a start you would be able to defend yourself better and your life would be longer like mine and I wouldn't have to lose you but you don't need to worry because if you don't want to it's ok and I'll still love you and still protect you and everything. Ok?"

She doesn't say anything but pulls on her smoke a little more. After a minute she looks at me

"How would it happen?"

"Well basically I would have to mark you"

"What does that mean?"

I bite my lip and try to think of how best to tell a human this

"Ok so when my kind finds their mate it's for life. So we mark each other and I know it sounds bad but that basically means we bite each other on the neck. That links us so we can communicate through our mind and I would know if you were in danger. I would feel how you feel and you would feel how I feel. So if that's what you wanted I would mark you and my bite would link our DNA and change yours and you would get a wolf of your own and she would talk to you and you would have your first transition. It hurts the first time but after that it's fine."

"So nobody could hurt me if you marked me?"

"No nobody could hurt you anyway because either way you're not aloud out of my sight so no one would want to try and hurt you or they die but.."

"No but I mean if I wear your mark I'm yours and people wouldn't touch what is yours? My dad told me about this I think"

She looks like she's trying to remember something, but shakes her head and looks at me.

"Yes that's what it means"

"And you could find me and know if I'm in danger?"

"Yes"

"Ok"

"Ok"

I answer unsure of what we are ok about. I look at her and wait for her to elaborate but she doesn't and instead freezes and starts to hyperventilate

"What, what is it baby?"

I grab her hand and she points down a dirt road.

"The cabin is that way. I crashed the car over there"

I growl and grab the steering wheel and brake, she freaks out and starts to shake her head

"No please, please, I can't, please drive on please"

I put my foot down on the accelerator and the car jumps forward and she sighs her grip on my arm doesn't ease up though and she continues to cry.

"I wasn't going to go down there I just wanted to tell my men where to look I will never let them hurt you again I promise Fay"

"Or you will kill them"

She starts to take in deep breaths and relax again, she repeats her new mantra over and over again and soon she relaxes even more and loosens the grip on my hand but doesn't let it go.

"Good girl"

We drive the rest of the way in silence and go straight to a small shoe store and I carry her inside.

She spends the entire time in my arms and her heart never slows the whole time. I wonder how long a human can last with a heartbeat that fast and suddenly fear hits me. What if she has a heart attack on me. I shudder at the thought and push it out for now. After getting her shoes of every kind she pulls on sneakers and we leave but she stays in my arms even when the cashier looks at her funny but I don't care. If it makes her comfortable then I'll do anything. Damn I'd kill the world to keep her safe. It amazes me at how quickly she became my everything.

We get back into the car and she points down a side road. I follow her direction and she grabs my hand

"Stop here"

"At a strip club?"

I raise my eyebrow at her.

"I was working here the first night I was taken"

I couldn't help but growl and she smirked at me.

"What I don't like the idea of you dancing for perverted old men"

"Well those perverted old men paid for the cancer treatment that saved my dads life"

She says looking back at the place. She doesn't sound offended though, more like she's deep in thought. I wish I could get into her head and hear those thoughts.

"You earned enough to pay for treatment?"

"Yeah. Most of it anyway. I worked in a cafe as well and that paid nothing compared to what they paid there. The man that ran the cafe was the first man to kidnap me. I shot him when he found me with his friends the second time. I had quit that day and I slapped him across the face. He turned up at work and I told my boss so he kicked him out and gave me a gun with silver bullets and walked me to the car with a shotgun but he shot Mike and took me. I wonder if he's still alive. He might own this place but he was a good man and never hurt any of us, he paid us well and wouldn't let a punter ever touch us or hurt us. He was a good man"

I was honestly surprised by everything she just told me but a car drove into the parking lot and a man with greying hair jumped out and she gasped and opened the door. I got out of my side of the car and followed her across the street.

"Mike?"

I could tell she was crying already.

"Fay Fay is that you?"

She ran into his arms and cried her heart out

"Your alive I thought he killed you"

"Where did he take you?"

"He kidnapped me. I just got free last night. Arden saved me"

She pulled back, his eyes hardened when he noticed me. And when she walked back towards me he grabbed her and pulled her behind him. She yelped and I growled

"Don't hurt her"

I say to him panicked.

"No, let me go. Let me go to Arden"

She cry's harder but his grip on her tightens as she pulls and yanks herself trying to get away from him. I feel bás right at the surface ready to kill him but I hold him back. This man was afraid and he was trying to protect her but he didn't realise what he was doing was more than wrong.

"He's one of them, Fay. Your not going near him or anyone like him again"

He pulled a gun from his pocket and she screamed bloody murder

"Let her go your hurting her"

I growl again and take a Step towards him. I hear the gun go off and my eyes meet her terrified ones as she screams bloody murder.

——————-

Fays POV

The moment I met Arden I new he was different. My body felt like it was complete by his side. I couldn't understand why I felt so safe with him and I didn't even know him but something inside me begged me to trust him. To believe in what he said.

Then he told me I was his mate. Me. I was surprised but I remember the story's dad would tell me.

———flashback———-

"I met a supernatural today at work. He took over the company. He was a nice man. I new straight away that he was a wolf and a kind one at that"

"How do you know that dad? He could kill you?"

I answer in awe of how calm he is around the supernatural. He worked for an electricity company. Moon enterprises and he worked with a lot of supernaturals.

"I just can tell the difference. He had kind eyes. We talked and he told me about his mate. It sounds amazing to have a mate. How much respect they have for each other and what they would do to keep each other safe. It's remarkable really."

"What's a mate?"

"A soulmate. The other half of their soul. They would do anything for each other and all pain goes away when they are together it's really rather interesting isn't it"

———flashback ends———-

I knew they would come for me and I knew I was safest with him. But then something strange happened in his arms and suddenly I got my confidence back. I even gave him lip and each time he laughed. He liked it and that made me even more comfortable. He liked the real me, the one with a big mouth that I couldn't control and instead of punishing me for it he tickled me. It was a surreal feeling to have lived through what I lived through and somehow find someone that accepts and protects you and your flaws.

Iv always had a smart mouth, so to be able to be me, without living in fear of what he would do gave me back the fight I had lost inside myself so long ago. He gave me hope and that was more than anyone gave me in years. Even before I was captured I didn't have hope. But within hours he had filled me with it and for that alone I liked him.

How I'm not sure but suddenly he was home. He was safe and for the first time in my entire life I felt safe. He would keep me safe and he would kill for me. That would have freaked me out a few years ago but now it makes me feel safe. Even as a child I didn't feel safe, I always felt like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop so when my mum died I wasn't surprised, then dad got cancer and for years and years he fought and then we had to sell it all, move to the poorest part of the city and live on beans and even that didn't surprise me. The day I gave up all my dreams and became a dancer I wasn't shocked. But what did shock me was when he was cured. Now that I was shocked at, but when I was taken it all clicked back into place and normalised again so when you have that feeling finally returned it gives you this light. A small one that needs to be nursed and cared for so it won't blow out. So it won't disappear and for the first time ever I didn't just have a candle I had an entire fire burn in my soul and that was because of arden. He gave that to me and I welcomed it because somehow i knew I was his and he would never let anyone touch me again.

He would kill for me, be the ultimate protector and he would look after me. But when I saw Mike alive I was so excited I forgot my fear and I ran to him. He opened his arms and I hugged him. But I pulled back because it felt wrong to hug him. I didn't want comfort from him. I didn't want him or anyone else to touch me, it made my stomach queasy so I pulled away and tried to go back to Arden. MY Arden.

You would think after everything I wouldn't trust anyone again and honestly normally I wouldn't. And when I was out of Ardens arms I realised that I didn't trust Mike. I didn't trust him to touch me but as I tried to go back to Arden he caught my arm painfully and yanked me back.

"Don't hurt her"

I could hear the panic in Ardens voice. This was wrong and I needed him. I needed to go to Arden. I didn't want Arden to be upset but I also was so afraid of my own shadow that if I didn't have him I'd never be safe again.

"No, let me go. Let me go to Arden"

He grabbed me harder, making me cry out in pain. I pull my arm but he doesn't let go so I scream as memories of being taken come back. Memories of being held against my will.

———flashback——-

"You will stop this. You will stop fighting this or I'll maim you myself"

Patrick growls at me. Every pore in my body suddenly started to sweat as he approached me with the knife. I screamed as he grabbed my arm and yanked it painfully, dislocating my arm. I scream as it drops to the side and I can't move it but damn did it hurt. He ran the red hot knife across my arm and I screamed bloody murder. He was a monster, the real kind and he didn't look scary on the outside, he looked clean and put together. He was the perfect gentleman to those who didn't truly know him and to me that was scarier than any boogie man that lurked under my bed as a kid.

He stuck the knife to my chest and yanked my arm back as I tried to pull away. It was definitely dislocated if not broken aswell.

He ran the hot knife across my breasts and the pain is so bad I pass out

———flashback ends———

"He's one of them, Fay. Your not going near him or anyone like him again"

He pulled a gun from his pocket and I screamed bloody murder. He was going to kill him. The only person in the world that would never hurt me. The only person in the world, That will love me for who I am and for what iv survived. I can't lose him. I need him. I pull on my arm as Arden takes a step towards me.

I see his eyes flashing from his amazing purple and orange to black. He was holding back and I was thankful that he wasn't going to kill Mike but I'd rather lose Mike then lose Arden.

"Let her go your hurting her"

He growls again and takes another Step towards me. I see Mike lift the gun and I scream. I scream so loud the birds leave the trees. I can't lose him but I'm so weak I can't fight him and now I'm going to watch the only person in the world I can trust get shot.I hear the gun go off and my eyes meet his. The look of worry destroys me and I sob.

—————-

Ardens POV

He shoots me but the bullet bounces off me as Fay screams and falls to her knees and cries. My entire body wants to go to her but I'm afraid he will hurt her.

"Let her f*****g go before I kill you"

She screams and pulls her arm away but he won't let her go and I lose all patience for him and walk towards them. He fires shot after shot at me.

"Stop it, he won't hurt me, he is my mate. Don't kill him please don't kill him"

She begs him and he doesn't listen. The gun stops firing so I grab it and throw it away. I take him by the scruff of the neck and grab the arm that is holding her.

"I said let her f*****g go your hurting her. I promised her I'd kill anyone that hurt her and I'm really trying not to f*****g kill you right now because I know she likes you but if you don't let her hand go I'll break it"

He drops her hand and she jumps up and runs into my chest and she cries.

"Do you want me to kill him?"

"No. Just take me home please"

I drop him and she scurries up my body like a little mouse and I hold her. I walk back to the car and get into the driver's seat but I keep her on my knee as I drive. I hold her until we come to a service station and I park and pull her face up to mine.

"You ok baby?"

She shook her head

"No I thought he was going to kill you I thought you were going to die and I don't want to lose you"

"Shhh baby you're not going to lose me. I'm a hellhound I can't be killed. And certainly not by bullets"

She cries harder and soon she settles down and all I can hear is her little hiccups. I grab the smokes and put one to her lip then I light it.

"To be honest I'm a little shocked you care that much about me I honestly thought you were just using me for my protection"

I have to say the fact that she does care makes me feel really happy. Although I'm not to happy about the way I found out that fact. She pulls her head back and looks up at me.

"You really think that?"

I nod and smile, wiping a tear from her face.

"I thought that I felt safe growing up, I thought living in fear was safe. I thought I was always safe when I lived even though I was ready fir the other shoe to drop, for something else to go wrong even up until that night but now I realise I've never felt safe before, not even as a kid. Iv never felt more safe then I am in your arms. You make me feel safe and plus what good is protection if it's dead"

She smirks at me. I growl softly at her

"You just had to ruin it didn't you"

"Don't growl at me, what is your wolfs name?"

She says playfully

"Bás, and that growl was from me he's too chicken to growl at you"

"Death? your wolf name is death?"

Her eyes were wide in surprise

"Yeah and aspens us beatha, we are twins Mines means death and hers means life"

"But why?"

I shrug and take a pull of her smoke and blow it out the window

"Don't know. Because we are the perfect killing machines"

"Why is bás to chicken to growl at me"

I chuckle and shake my head

"Because he doesn't want to scare you off, plus he just wouldn't growl at you. We don't usually growl at our mates because we are equals"

"I'm not your equal?"

"Oh yes you are. The power you have over me, makes us equal and don't ever forget that but please don't use it to your advantage"

She grins at me and kisses my cheek and I'm the one that freezes as her lips linger there. Then she makes me laugh when she sniffs my face.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Your skin smells good"

I watch her as she sniffs my face then she licks my cheek and I pull back so I can see her properly

"Seriously now who's the dog?"

She shrugged and climbed off me

"I just wanted to see if you tasted as good as you smell"

"And what's the verdict Sherlock?"

"Mmm wouldn't you like to know"

I tickle her sides and she squeals in excitement

"Tell me and I'll stop"

She giggles and squirms in my arms

"Fine fine yes you taste ok"

I scoff and throw her a wounded look

"Just ok really? What do I smell like?"

She taps her chin and thinks

"Toasted marshmallows. What do I smell like"

I grab her arm and pretend to sniff her but instead I lick up her arm

"Eweeee gross"

"You smell like apple pie fresh baked out of the oven and you taste kind of like it to"

She screws her face up and wipes her arm down my T-shirt and I smirk at her and wink then start the car. She pulls her seatbelt on and we leave.

We drive in comfortable silence most of the way but I hear her heart start to drum while we pass the dirt road and then I hear her chant over and over again that I will kill anyone that tries to touch her. I take her hands and kiss it and rub it against my face. It seems to calm her down a little.

"Do you remember what roads you took when you left the cabin? If you can't it's ok but it would help my men find them if you did"

"I drove out to the end of the dirt road and took a left and then I came to a sign that said New Orleans and I followed it and then I nearly passed out and crashed"

I relay the information to my men then smile at her.

"Why did your eyes go funny?"

"I linked my men, I can link all of them at the same time like that, it's just easier"

She nods and soon we are driving up the dirt road and past patrols, they wave at us and she watches everything

"It's nice here"

She mumbles

"Yeah I like it anyway. So when we get back it will be dinner and my brothers will be home. Are you ok to meet them?"

"If your ok to let me sit on you, and they don't bang anything my heart can't take that s**t"

I snort and nod

"Yeah I noticed. Your skeleton nearly jumps out of your skin but they have all been warned. If they scare you bas will bite them"

"What age are they?"

"Zander is my age 25, but he's away on business, he is gamma or third in command, Jack is 23, he lives at my aunt's pack with his mate Johnny. Luke is 19 and Paul is 17, they both live with mum and dad away from the packhouse but they will be at dinner though because mum can't cook, like not even a little and if she makes you anything do not eat it"

She chuckles and pulls out a smoke and lights it.

"You want one?"

I nod and she puts one in my mouth and lights it.