The journey
1374 Words
Chapter three.
"Amaya, Wait!" She stopped when Kenji called out once they reached the borders.
"Thanks for accompanying me this far." She spun to look at Kenji. He got down from his horse. He patted the side of its face.
He walked to stand in front of Amaya. He took her hands in his. He looked at them before glancing up at her face. "I will miss you." He pouted, his eyes not daring to leave her face.
Shit! Amaya cursed. He always had a way of melting her heart. This was not the time for all this. She had an important task to carry out tomorrow. The last thing she needed was a distraction.
"Same here, but I need to go." She breathed. Her eyes landed on his lips. The lips she had kissed some time in the past, the lips she wanted to have one more taste of, but she knew she couldn't.
"Amaya..." Kenji called when she attempted to leave.
"Wh...?" Her question was cut short as Kenji smashed his lips hungrily against hers. Without hesitation, Amaya took his lips hungrily into hers. They kissed as though it was their first time trying and they wanted to have every bit of it.
"Uhh." A moan escaped Amaya's lips. She brought her hands up to Kenji's hair. She threaded her fingers in his hair. They continued kissing.
Kenji's hands left her waist and moved down to the waistband of her trousers. He found the button that held her trousers in place. The button came undone, once his hand found it.
Amaya was so consumed in the kiss that, she didn't realize what was happening until Kenji's hand in her trouser cupped her c**t.
Her body tensed. Instantly, she pulled away from the kiss.
"Please! Just this last time." Kenji pleaded, his chin resting against Amaya's neck.
She wanted to have him. She wanted him to take her all in. She wanted him to devour her for the last time. Yet, she needed to be committed with a clear mind, once she arrived Blackwood tomorrow.
"I'm sorry. But I can't. " She leaned in and kissed him one more time. She took steps away from him.
"You have a mate and thanks for everything. I will make sure to reward you if we ever meet again."
She waved at him and dashed off. With frustration, Kenji climbed on his horse and rode off. He had a mate, but he wanted her too.
'I should have had a mate before now. But it is already too late. I'm not interested at all.' She grumbled within her as she pushed forward.
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The moon shone brightly in the dark sky, illuminating the dark and narrow part of the forest Amaya traveled on.
It was thanks to Kenji that, she could travel through the thickest of forests at any time in the day or night, without being scared of anything. He had taught her every secret and defensive measure.
Even if she was attacked by wolves or rogues at this point, she knew just how to target them.
The forest was eerie silent, with just crickets chirping. No other sound could be heard.
She knew it was just a few more hours before she reached her destination.
She wanted to visit her pack first. It has been eight years since the incident. She was fifteen at the time it all happened in front of her eyes.
She wondered what it would look like.
She dreaded thinking about it. She dreaded walking into the pack and stepping on the bones of her father, mother, or brother.
She hated the idea of going there, but she had to.
"Revenge is not a better idea." Ena, Amaya's little wolf muttered, rolling her eyes. Left to her, they should have just stayed back in the Nightfall pack.
Amaya halted, with her hands clenched in a strong fist on her sides. "This has nothing to do with you." She continued walking not wanting to get into a fight with her wolf like they had been doing for the past years.
At one point, she had thought that she was wolfless because she had never heard from her.
But it surprised her that, Ena had suddenly showed up about five years ago when Amaya and Kenji had gotten laid.
Ena was excited thinking that Amaya had found their mate, just to come out disappointed that, she had found a handsome but mysterious f**k boy.
"Hey, chill. I was just saying." She rolled her eyes again.
Amaya stopped, this time, fueled with anger. "None of these would have happened, if you had helped back then, when I called out to you, when I needed your help. But you didn't." She hissed. "If you do not have any plans of helping me, you better shut the heck up."
Ena didn't respond. She sat quietly. She didn't know how all that was her fault.
After a few hours of walking, Amaya finally came to a stop just at the entrance of her pack. A pack she had stayed away from for eight years. There was no joy in her, whenever she thought about that particular day.
The blood she had witnessed, was the same blood she wanted Blackwood pack to witness. She wanted nothing more out of life than that.
She ran to hit behind a tree when she saw what seemed to be someone holding a bush lamp in the distance ahead.
No, not a distance. It was in her pack. Not only did she spot one, but many of them.
She shook her head. Were they ghosts? What was happening? She tried to think then she remembered.
Alpha Jackson had told her that, the Blackwood pack now owned their pack. They had their people scattered across it.
Her heart felt as though, someone had tight a cord around it and was pulling it together such that, it almost snapped from the rest of her thoracic cavity.
Her back slid down the tree.
Tears streamed down her eyes. Those memories could never fade away.
How could one person be this wicked? And he would be happily crowning his son tomorrow.
This is not the time to be weak, Amaya. Be strong. She reassured herself.
She put her hand in the chest pocket of the black leather jacket she was wearing.
She brought out a piece of paper where she had carefully drafted her revenge with the help of Kenji.
She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and opened the paper in front of her face.
She started reading her plans in her mind.
1) Kill Alpha Tobias.
2) Burn the entire pack; kill everyone if possible.
3) kill his only useless or weak son or maybe leave him to the same fate as his father had left me.
He will have no one to turn to. He will cry and the earth will not hear him. He will be more miserable than I have ever been.
Everyone in the Blackwood pack has to suffer the fate my pack went through eight years ago.
She was about to fold the paper back into her jacket when she remembered one very important point she had written behind the paper.
The luminous spring, was the cause of her father's death.
4) Find the secret to that spring and give it out to any pack that would be interested. Then my revenge will be done. She concluded.
With that, she put the paper in her pocket.
It would be a joyous day tomorrow for the Blackwood pack, but they had no idea what awaited them.
"I'm Amaya Aiko Hunter, daughter of the late Darius and Luna Hunter, a sister to late Chairo Hunter. But that was in the past."
"I'm now called Aiko. No one has to know the real me until my revenge is over."
Her once long black and wavy hair was now dialed all white. Making her unrecognizable.
She stood up and dusted her clothes.
She then started off at Blackwood Pack.
A small dagger was hidden in her jacket from the inside. And her little piece of paper.
The language she understood was revenge that involved blood spilling and nothing else.
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