The Jade Wolf Prophecy

Chapter Ten- Rose POV

    We were sitting down for dinner at our long wood table, when we heard a knock on the door followed by Mr. Stevenson letting himself into our house. He looked worn out and stressed. Carrying his black briefcase. 

    “Max, nice of you to stop by. Come sit down and have dinner. Where is Molly?” My mom asked. She loved when Molly, his mate, came to visit. They have become such close friends. 

    “I’m sorry Linda, this isn’t a friendly visit. This is about Rose and Mr. Russels.” He stated plainly. 

    “What about him and I?” I asked coldly. 

    “Rose I didn’t mean it like that. But he isn’t who he said he is. He is a warlock and we believe he wants you.” He said. 

    “What the hell do you mean, he wants my daughter?” My dad asked. Mr. Stevenson backed up a few steps.

    “Just look for yourself!” Was all he said as he pulled hundreds of pictures from his briefcase. 

    They are all of me! They are all taken at different times and places. Mr. Russels has been stalking me this whole time. My body went cold and I felt a chill spread throughout my entire body. 

    “There is more. We found this journal and other dark artifacts in his desk.”

    “What’s in the journal? Why did you go through his stuff?” My mom asked, almost as a whisper. If we weren’t wolves we wouldn’t have been able to hear her. 

    “He never returned after I said Rose would be homeschooled. Remember he yelled and left. After almost a week, I figured it was time to clear out his items and hire a new teacher. This is what I found. Though the artifacts I gave to Milly to check out.” He said looking at my mom. She nodded and he continued. 

    “I didn’t read all of the journal entries. I skimmed some of them. From what I can tell they were all about you Rose. From what you wore that day, your encounters, or where he saw you or watched you. To him mating with you and taking your powers.”

    “I thought he was human?” I finally asked. I am in shock, my teacher who bullied me, harassed me this whole year, is obsessed with me but also knows what I am? How?

“We all thought he was. But the evidence points that he isn’t. He must be pretty powerful or have pretty powerful friends to be able to appear human among wolves.” My mom said as she came close to hug me. 

    I couldn’t take my eyes off the pictures. They were all so personal. He was there the whole time. At the coffee shop a block from school or the mall when I was shopping for a bra. Worse, he was at the pool in town and had taken pictures of me in my bikini. 

    I began shaking, I felt the fire within me begin to burn deep inside me again. I couldn’t stop the anger or the hatred I was feeling. This man needed to pay for violating me.

    I could hear everyone screaming for me to calm down, but they sounded far away. The only thing I felt was fire. The only thing I was, was fire. The flames began around us. 

    A portal opened and Milly came through, trying to calm the flames down, but it was too much for her. She was getting tired quickly. 

    The flames weren’t dying down, instead they kept getting bigger and bigger. I could see the flames dancing all around me beautifully. The red and orange within them, promising me revenge. 

    Suddenly I’m grabbed by strong arms. Feeling the sparks run up and down my body, I knew who it was. 

    The flames began to calm down but weren’t out completely. Having Brandon close was helping but I was still angry and didn’t know what to do about Mr. Russels. So the flames began to grow again. The more I thought about my old teacher the madder I got. 

    Brandon felt my anger through the mate bond but instead of running away, he spun me around and kissed me. The kiss started slow and simple. But the need to be close to each other took over. The kiss turned passionate.The flames bursted alive with our kiss, but then slowly started to die down. 

    I looked around and there was no damage to the house really. Maybe a few chords and lampshades singed but overall everything seemed okay. 

    “How didn’t it burn anything down?” I was completely shocked.

    “You’re stronger than you think. But your anger was created by the wrong doings of a person. So the flames were seeking someone to be burned alive. The house wasn’t the cause of your anger this time.” Milly said, sounding tired. 

    “Here Milly, drink this and I will make you a plate of dinner so you can try to regain your strength.” My mom said to her friend. Milly just nodded and sat down. 

    “Milly did I hurt you? I am so sorry! I didn’t mean to.” I said panicking. 

    “Oh heavens no. I’m just tired from trying to control all of your magic. I couldn’t put the flames out this time, but I could keep it from spreading from all of us in the room. It’s draining. Tomorrow I will be much better.” She said with her usual kind smile. 

    “Anyone want to explain to me why my mate got that worked up?” Brandon asked and everyone turned to look at him. 

    “Her teacher has been watching her a lot more closely than we originally thought. He has hundreds of pictures of her. Plus a creepy journal. He apparently wants to make out with her and take her powers from her.” My dad said, clearly livid about some creep man wanting to take advantage of his daughter. 

    “May I see?” Brandon asked. 

    I couldn’t look at the pictures anymore, they were making me sick, so I just nuzzled closer to Brandon while he looked at everything on the counter. I heard him growl a couple times, making me jump a little. 

    “This isn’t good, does he know where she lives? None of these pictures look like they were taking on pack lands.” He asked.

    “No we don’t think he does, but when Rose has an outburst like that he might be able to track her. She released a lot of magic tonight. So over the next few hours she is traceable.” My mom said, stating plainly. 

    “Great.” Was all I could say. 

    “May I spend the night, I can sleep on the couch or whatever. But I won’t be able to leave Rose tonight knowing all this.” 

     My mom’s eyes lit up. “Of course!” She said. My dad didn’t look too happy and started grumbling about doing an air mattress for Brandon. We all laughed at this reaction. 

    “There is something else we need to talk about tonight. Well two really. One is a need for Darrel to return as Head Warrior right away. The men are slacking and my dad can’t always be tracking the men. Today when I arrived, only one guard was at the gate. You don’t even want to know where the other three were.” He said very seriously. 

    My dad thought for a bit then said, “if you can help with Rose’s training and watching over her, then yes I will happily return.”

    This made Brandon give us this happy, sexy smile that makes me want to melt. 

    “Next matter at hand. We need to tell my parents, only my parents about all this.” He said looking down at me, I shook my head vigorously, saying no. 

    “Wait Rose, listen. Our businesses outside the pack are being attacked. There was a message on the wall written in blood, saying ‘she will be ours’. I’m not saying it’s your creepy teacher, but it's obvious that someone is after you. We need the pack's protection for you until you are ready and trained. I will be with you the entire time.” He said, hoping I could understand what he was saying. I just sighed and looked at my parents. 

    “This is your decision.” My dad said. 

    I looked back to Brandon, I could tell that he wanted to protect me. I needed to learn to trust him. So I nodded a yes that we could tell them.  

    “Great, now tomorrow afternoon, alpha can you take me to the location of the blood message? I would like to examine it.” Milly asked Brandon. Brandon nodded his head in agreement.

    “Darrell, can you work on the warriors tomorrow as well? We need to tighten security right away.” Brandon asked.

    “No, I will do it tonight, I will do night shift. They will be whipped into shape real quick.” My dad replied, leaving the kitchen.

    Shortly after my dad left the house to meet with the warriors, we decided to call it a night to get some rest. I went to my room to shower and get ready for bed while my mom and Brandon talked more about the killings at the packs businesses in the human community. 

    I was grabbing clothes from my closet when I heard a weird smashing sound. When I turned around I saw a hooded figure standing in front of me. He mumbled some words that I couldn’t understand, then my world went dark.