It's for the Moon Godnes to know

Chapter 10

Pete’s POV

Immediately the next morning I went to the pub, but Shelia was not there. The innkeeper and his wife were not willing to help me find her. I spent the day walking up and down the streets around the pub, hoping to find her, but without success. Late in the afternoon I went back to the pub, to have an early dinner and then look for her of course. She was at work and I sat down at the same table as the night before. She took my order and brought me my food. When she had put my food and beer on the table, she leaned over it, pretending to wipe the table.

"I do not know what you are here for, but once you have eaten, you disappear!" She straightened up and wanted to walk away as I grabbed her wrist.

"I'll go, but only if you promise to meet me tomorrow!" She tried to pull free, but I did not give up. When a moment had passed, the innkeeper shouted, "Do you need help Shelia?" Shelia shook her head, "I'm fine Hans!" She looked at me angrily, sighed. "By the baker up at the end of the street, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock!" I released her and she went back to her work. When I was done eating, the innkeeper himself came down and settled my bill. He looked sternly at me. "My girls are not for sale! They serve food and beer, everything else you have to go somewhere else for!" I nodded and thanked for the food, got up and said goodbye.

The next morning I was standing at the bakery already a quarter to nine. She was not getting out of the meeting by claiming that I had arrived too late. She even came strolling five minutes to late and I could see that she was anything but happy to see me.

"I was hoping you were gone!" I shook my head,

"You don’t get off that easily!" She sighed and turned her back to me as she walked she looked over her shoulder,

"What is it you want then?" I walked with long strides up the side of her and offered her my arm. She looked at it suspiciously, but took it and together we walked down the street.

"I want to know more about the wolves that live here in the capital!" she looked up at me in horror.

"We can not talk about that here!" I nodded, I was also nervous that someone would be overhearing us, but I did not quite know where we could go. She obviously did, she led me safely through a few streets, and a single backyard, before entering a house and up three sets of stairs, before unlocking a dilapidated door. I remember thinking it was hardly worth locking it, even a pup could break it down.

She checked that the stairwell was empty before closing and locking the door behind us. She quickly looked through the three rooms in the apartment before pointing me to a dilapidated bed.

"I share this apartment here with two human girls, it would be bad, did they overhear our conversation!" I nodded and sat down.

"What do you want to know?" She did not waste time. I sat on the edge of the bed, it was really not comfortable.

"How many are here?" She looked at me with a disappointed look.

"It's impossible to say! We are all hiding!" I nodded understandingly,

"But do you know of others?" She shrugged one shoulder,

"It happens I run in to one from time to time, but we prefer to avoid each other!" I nodded, but then came to think of that male wolf from the other night, he had known she was a wolf!

"The man I sat with the other night, he knew about you!?" She nodded, and started walking a little back and forth on the floor, it creaked uncomfortably under her.

"He's an old wolf who's helped me here in town. I met him right when I came in, he took pity on me, took me to Hans. Hans gave me a job, and put me in this apartment, the two other girls work for Hans too!" I sighed.

"What are you doing in town yourself?" She stood in front of me and looked accusingly at me. I smiled disarmingly at her.

"I'm looking for my mate!" She snorted scornfully.

"Fated mates are a fairy tale! Rather go home again to the pack you come from, if they still exist!" I got up and straightened my trousers.

"It’s there still, my father is the Alpha! And who said anything about me looking for my fated mate?"

I started walking towards the door when she stopped me with one hand on my arm.

"Wait, did you say you had a pack?" I looked back at her and nodded. "Then you’ll go home?" She asked softly. I was hit, I do not know by what, an urge to protect this young female wolf.

"I'll go home when I've found what I'm looking for!" She nodded, looking up at me with tears in her eyes. "I hope you find it!" She just said, letting go of my arm. I watched her as she went over to her bed and sat down. I was filled with shame, she slept on a bed that did not even deserve to be called a bed, it was so miserable. She lived in an obsolete box of an apartment and worked in the miserable hole of an old pub. I, myself, slept in a proper bed, in a half cheap hotel, but after all better than here! I had a home and a family to return to. I had so much more than her! Maybe her aggressive rude behavior was just a defense? Before I could stop myself:

"Do you want to have lunch with me?"