*Max’s POV
I came home that day and told my dad everything. He was pissed, he couldn’t believe I had just left my mate there and didn’t do anything.
“This is just unbelievable, Max, how could you leave without her? You know the importance of a mate.” he almost screamed at me. I couldn’t believe in myself either, but I had my reasons.
“Dad, you know how the pack looks at me, what they think about me. Do you think I would be intelligent to NOT come go an attack?” I asked him. I knew he would understand.
“Still, Max. I understand the importance of being present for your pack. I was the one who told you to do those things, but I’m now worried about your mate. Where are we going to find her?” He softened his tone a little bit.
“Dad, I don’t know, I don’t even know why she did not recognize my scent, you know, she didn’t even flinch when I caught her scent.” I didn’t know a lot of things about mates.
My mom passed away 5 years ago. When that happened, I. My mom and I were inseparable, and her loss made me really angry at us. So when that happened, I wanted nothing to do with the pack, not life here. So, I went to Europe and lived there for four years. I was planning on living among humans and forgetting about wolves. I gained my wolf at 18, as is normal, but I didn’t want to have that connection with him, so I never talked to him or anything. He would be super angry with me all the time.
Everything changed one day when I met an Alpha there. He was from Vietnam, he was so different from the wolves I'd known and he taught me a lot of things about loyalty to the pack. After a few months living in his pack in Vietnam, I understood that werewolves are an amazing kind, we have so much to give and, as Alphas, it is our duty to guide the pack to its fullest form.
During my stay there, I got close to Apolo, my wolf. I learned a lot about him, and decided to come back to my pack. This was six months ago. Obviously, the pack was angry at me. Usually the Alpha takes control over the pack when he turns 18, but because I wasn’t there, my dad had to keep running it. When I came back, I started earning trust and respect from everyone. It was a difficult path and my dad was an amazing Alpha, so the bar was high. This is why I decided to come to the pack the day of the attack instead of going to my mate. She deserves a pack where people respect and trust their leaders.
“Son, the only reason I can think of is that she’s not 18 yet, she doesn’t have a wolf, so she wouldn’t fully recognize your scent as her mate, but I’m sure she did get your scent” he explained me me made sense, but the thought of her being me 18 made my more angry at the situation. I wasn’t able to protect her and help her. Where was she? It was driving me crazy.
“Dad, what if she’s dead? I would be lost, if I didn’t get the chance to meet her”. I was freaking out.
“Max, what does Apolo say about her being dead? I’m sure he can sense a little trail of the bond, even if it is fragile can understand” he said, trying to calm me. It was kind of impossible.
“Dude, I told you I’m sure she’s not dead, I can sense her, but nothing more, because we haven’t even met her. I can’t locate her nor anything” Apolo said, the knowing that she was alive calmed me slightly.
“Apolo, what are we going to do?? What the f*ck with me, I feel horrible, I’m the worst mate in the world” I said with 100% of remorse.
“With this attitude, we won’t find it here, try to think and we ARE going to find. Try, no matter how long it takes us” he said. I was acting like a little child.
I told my dad what Apolo just said to me and we made a plan to look for her. It was going to be hard, but I would find her. And I made myself a promise, the day I found her, I would spend the rest of my life making her life a dream come true.
*Olivias’s POV
I’ve learned a lot of things about this pack and the more I know, the more I think it is distrusting the way distress runs.
I was cleaning the kitchen one day, when two men came to me and asked me to follow them. I knew I always had to obey what they said, so I just went after them. They took me to the Alpha’s office. It was a big and scary room. It with stuffed animal heads. I never liked hunting just for fun, and in my pack we didn’t do it.
“So, hello, it’s you who I wanted to see” said the Alpha, looking over some papers he had in his hands.
“Good afternoon, Alpha”. I bowed my head in respect, not that I respected this guy, but he was well known for being cruel to people who didn’t show respect to him.
“I hope you can be helpful, omega, I’m going to ask this one time and I hope you answer correctly” What the f*ck with this guy?? “Where is the other healer wolf that you had in your pack.” he continued. I knew this was what he wanted from me, but I wasn’t going to say anything.
“Sir, I don’t know, you should’ve killed them” I said, looking him dead in his eyes. I was full of anger at that point. He stood up and the other two guys held me so I wouldn’t run.
I knew I was going to be punished for that, but I couldn’t hold back anymore, he was the reason my family was dead and I was alone. He slapped me in the face and I felt, again, the burning sensation. When I turned my head back to its normal position, he slapped me again and held my head down so I was kind of bowing.
“This is the way you have to be around your superiors, omega, don’t even think about disrespecting me again” he gritted his teeth after saying that.
“I’m going to ask you one more time, where the f*ck are the other healer wolf???” I just stood there without saying a word. “ANSWER ME!!!” he screamed, but again I didn’t say anything. “Well then, if you won’t cooperate you’ll spend a week in the dungeons, with just one ration of food every day, have fun, sweety” saying this, the two mad hold me and make me walk to the dungeons, it was disgusting, the ambience was damp and it smelled like something died in here. They chose a small cell and threw me there.
So this is how it’s going to be. Of course, I won’t say anything about myself being the other healer Wolf. I sat on the dirt mattress and just stayed there. It was going to be a long week.
“Hello, who are you? I have never seen someone like you here” someone from the cell besides me said. I turned so I could face her/him. In the other cell, was a thin man, maybe in his thirties had he seemed like he had been there a long time.
“My name is Olivia, and are you? I asked him, he seemed nice and at least he wasn’t mean to me.
“I’m Alan, I was the old doctor of this pack, but I pissed off the Alpha once and he replaced me and put me here. I’ve been here 4 months now”, he shrugged his shoulders saying this.
“Oh, uhm, wow, that’s awful, I was from the Blue Moon pack, and they killed everyone looking for healer wolves” I confessed to him.
“I’ve heard about that, I’m sorry you had to go through that” he said with a soft smile. I felt a little bit better, he was nice and I could talk to him.
We talked for hours about everything, we dreamed of being out of here. He was now my new best friend.