JAXS POV.
I watch her sleep as the vehicle moves quickly on the highway. It is taking everything inside me not to reach over to her and smoothen the lock of hair that has fallen across her forehead. She is beautiful to say the least. She is ethereal. Like someone out of a novel. Truth be told I have never seen anyone as beautiful as she is and trust me I have seen my fair share of beautiful women from all of my travels but she takes the lead and it is not just about her unusual features like her eyes and hair but the innocence she radiates is uncommon. Even in her anger and hurt she was still innocent. It shows that some people are not even bad people but society or betrayal make them bad people or make them do bad things because even as she called out her sister for being a b***h it hurt her to do. It exhausted her to use such harsh words and it broke her heart that she had to result to name calling just to get them to see the terrible things they had done to her. She is not the type of person to have outbursts from the way the majority of the pack were surprised that she was finally speaking up for herself.
what do you think you are doing Jax? I hear in the mic in my ear. It is the voice of my beta and my best friend. He is my most trusted and the only one with the guts to call me by my name.
I press the button that gives me privacy from my drivers and since this mic is only for I and my beta it is safe to speak into it.
what do you mean what am I doing? I ask him.
you know what I mean and stop playing coy with me and answer the question. he growls.
i assume it is the girl? I ask dryly.
yes it the girl genius. Why did you take her and what do you plan on doing with her?? he asks.
i didnt take her per say. The way you say it like I kidn*pped her or something. She is not here against her will, if she wants to leave she can leave anytime she wants.
why did you take her? You know there was no need for us to interfer in pack matters that dont concern us right? he asks again.
i know but still, this is nothing, she was practically leaving the pack anyways. I tell him.
i have a feeling you have something else planned. If you are planning to use this girl to somehow take down this alpha then I think you should reconsider. I dont think its a good idea. Look she has been hurt several times let me breathe and let her not feel like shes been used all over again. he says.
we are all pawns and players in someone else game. Think about and dont worry about her. Shes in safe hands. I tell him.
I look over at her huddled at the edge and sleep and I feel gentle when I look at her. She looks exhausted and her face is pinched in a frown. Even in sleep she is fighting demons. Her gown covers her well so the coldness of the air conditioner does not disturb her. My pack is pretty much not a modern pack. Over the years a lot of packs embraced modernity which is good. theres rapid innovation and we cant keep being stuck in the past and our archaic ways when there are always newly improved and simpler ways to get things done. We are wolves and are highly trained for combat but at the same time I make sure that my members take courses on how to use new modernized weapons and I make sure we have the best gadgets. Check out our cars, the latest, fastest and safest... I mean they are bulletproof and can most likely out run wolves if we are being attacked during any one of our travels.
if we want to take him down then we have to do this the smart way and I am not going to take any chances we already know what isat stake here so we have to use whatever means necessary to do this. I have not even determined if shes going to be useful to the cause. I tell him.
There is silence at the other end before he responds slowly.
theres so much we dont know about this girl.. I heard whispers of this supossed curse and we need to get to the bottom of it if shes going to be staying with us and our people not that we should atke her under our wings and find out shes just going to be a liability to us. I know you are curious about her but the truth is our people and those we love come first no matter what. he says trying to reason with me.
i know you put our people first always. I am not questioning your leadership or the way you run things I just know how fascinated you can get with things you dont understand or you cant figure out. Let this one go. he says.
heard you loud and clear. You know if you werent my best friend and my right hand man I would have your head for insurbodination. I tell him gruffly.
He laughs at the other end and ends the mic conversation. But I would never do that to him. Where I am the figure head and everyone looks up to me without my best friend I wouldnt have been where I am today. He is more than a friend and he is also my confidant, adviser and one of the few persons in this world that I can turn to and he is going to have my back. I remember that particular windy night that I found my dad dead on the floor with a knife sticking out of his chest I fell to the ground is shock and mostly rage. He was there to talk down from that high, his voice drew me back to the normal and in a sense he is the one that gets and calms me down.
Throughout my journey to being the formidable leader that I am he has never once made me doubt him and I in turn have listened to him and made him my beta and the commander in charge of our armed forces. After I he comes next in command in the entire pack.
He doesnt take our security measures lightly thats one of the reasons he is highly suspicious of everyone. I understand where is coming from but this girl has sparked up my curiorsity and other than her peculair appearance and that is her hair and her eyes she is very attractive. As she lays down at the edge of the car with her head leaned against the door I can still clearly see the outline of her body. She is all woman with that curvy body and a big ass to boot. A lot of women would rather not have any meat on their bones because of the new fashion trends and what they think society desires but we are wolves and we cant adopt everything the ignorant humans do. Right from time we have always opted from fully formed women to mate with and bare our children come home after a long day of training to sink into the pillowy body of your woman and enjoy her comfort and smell but here you can sink into them anymore. I love my women thick and enough to hold and handle.
This curse thing I heard about it and asked the Alpha about it and he was only too glad to tell me about it. Apparently their oracle had a vision on the day Lily was born that was going to be as white as the lily flower and as the sky on a summer day but in the midst of that light would come darkness. A deep darkness that will wage and swallow everyone that ever comes in contact with her and also her wolf is dormant and will never emerge. So many other things and he even said how he and his trusted advisers planned on doing away with her once she started maturing but he is very good friends with her dad who is a loyal enforcer and that means he cant do what he planned to her so me taking her off of his hands will not be met by resistance in fact he will see it like I did him a solid but I know there is more to her than meet the eyes. My mama used to tell me the tales of a child of destiny with hair as white as snow, eyes as blue as the sea and skin as brown as the earth. Three factors that mean so much to the prophesy. I have a feeling that the oracle would have gotten the prophesy wrong. Because there are just a ,ot of tings that dont add up when you piece it together and look at the big picture.
what am I going to do with you? I ask myself as I look at her. She might be thinking that I am going to let her go when we get to the pack like give her time to regroup and leave but thats not the case here I am going to have to keep her busy so she doesnt slip away from me. Something about letting her go just doesnt sit right with me or even letting wander alone to where I might not be able to help save her or rescue her. I need to devise a way to keep her busy so she doesnt forget