Chapter One
Lena was staying in an apartment with her two friends in a town in Scotland. It was summertime and she was supposed to meet them at some club later, but Lena was too tired to join them. She was just going to watch movies and have an early night. She was tired and didn’t feel like pretending to be a partying human student tonight. She dozed off to sleep for a few hours in her room. When she heard a loud bang, the front door to the apartment was kicked open and broken. Immediately, Lena woke up and her training kicked in. She jumped out of her bed and immediately began packing her things. Just the things she needed in an emergency. She quickly changed into something comfortable, put on her running shoes and threw the necessities into a bag. She also got out her car keys and placed them in the bag. She was always ready to run in case they found her. She heard another hard knock as something hit the ground. She remained silent. She heard male voices coming from outside her room. “Where is your other roommate b***h?” the male voice enquired in a viscous manner. “She’s not here!” A female voice shouted, who could only be Sarah, one of my friends. Lena’s stomach dropped. She had thought her friends were still out clubbing. But they must have just got back. She peeked out her room and saw that two men had her friends Sarah & Megan. Lena saw a tall red-haired man slap Sarah across the face. “You’d better hope she doesn’t come in then. I don’t want anyone to ruin the good time we are about to have, because if she does, I will put a f***ing bullet in her pretty little head.” Another male voice said, laughing. Megan, my other friend, began to shake. “What do you want with us?!” she cried. “Firstly, we want you dearie, both of you” the man said with an evil smirk on his face. Lena ducked into her room just as she heard material ripping and both Sarah and Megan began screaming and crying. “No please don't!” Sh*t this wasn’t good at all. Lena knew that if she didn’t try to do something now those shitheads were going to r**e Sarah and Megan. Her training would really only work if she was able to turn or change into a werewolf, but she had turned down the blood rite and she was therefore a weak human and could only do so much in this situation. Taking on two huge red-haired men would be a challenge for most people. Let alone a tiny little woman like her. A bullet would easily kill her, but so could 2 men beating her up to a certain point.
She heard another scream. She knew she wasn’t going to stand by and let this happen. Lena looked around for a weapon. She usually had hers with her, but this time they were all in her car after her last training session. She’d gotten very sloppy thinking they weren’t going to find her apparently. Her eyes fell upon her hockey stick. She picked up her hockey stick and grabbed some pepper spray from her bag and popped it into her pocket, and went against her training and the need to survive. No way was she going to let these a**holes win. She opened the door and crept down the hall silently as she crept up on the one man who was busy r****g Sarah. Lena hit him across the back of the head with the hockey stick with as much force as she could muster. He cringed and made a moan. The large male turned around to face her. This time Lena used her hockey stick to smash him right in the face. She heard a crack as it made contact with his cheekbone. She had definitely caused some damage. The other male tried to grab her and she evaded his attempts and when she got an opening she whacked him right in the balls. He let out a huge wail and scream. “You Bloody B***h!” he wailed. Rolling on the ground holding his most precious and sensitive man parts. Lena felt a surge of satisfaction watching him wail in pain. Lena found a way to finally get to where Sarah and Megan were. “What are you doing? Get out of here!” They both said. “Are you crazy? I am not going to leave you both here with these sick sods”, Lena said. She was trying to unlock the chains that they had put on them when she heard Sarah and Megan both shout “Lena, watch out !” She felt a hard thud on the back of her head. She felt a throbbing pain in her skull. Everything went into blackness and darkness as Lena collapsed onto the ground with a thud.
Lena woke up when some ice-cold water was thrown on her. She noticed both Sarah and Megan were chained up naked across the room and their mouths had been taped shut. She realized then that she was also chained up and lying on the floor, but luckily she still had her clothes on, for now… Her head ached terribly. She saw blood on her shirt. They really had given her a good crack over the head. She looked up and came face to face with the first a**hole, the one with the now messed up cheek and face thanks to her hockey stick. He raised his fist and punched her right across the face. “You like that b***h?” he asked. Lena looked up at him and spat her blood in his face. “F**k you, A**hole!” “That all you got?” “You hit like a p***y” She said with a smile. She knew she would just provoke him to cause her more pain, but she wasn’t ever going to lie down and be submissive ever. She would fight till the bitter end if she had to. So, obviously, he then proceeded to hurt her worse this time and started to kick her in the ribs. Lena cringed at the pain searing through her body. She was sure he’d definitely cracked if not broken her ribs. “Just wait when we are done with your friends, it will just be you and the 2 of us having so much fun. I've always enjoyed sharing my women”, he gave a sadistic smile. “Geez. How romantic definitely every girls dream to be tied up and man handled nowadays, but the only downfall this time is the two men with the smallest c***s I’ve ever seen,” “Sorry to burst your bubble psycho, but it’s just not my kind of thing, and I definitely don’t do ugly fire crotched f***ers either” she said laughing. He punched her again. “Sweetheart, you won’t be saying that when you feel me inside you later. What makes you think that you have a f***ing say?” “As far as I can see, you’re the one chained to the fecking wall not me.” She spat out her blood again. “These rusty f***ing things holding me are chains? Who would of thought?” She asked. “Our first date and I don’t even know your names?” She said, trying to provoke them.
“Oh you’ll know exactly who we are when we are done with you and your little friends here” the older looking and taller of the Two men said. “Keep your head up and your eyes open” he said. “You really want to watch us as we torture and kill your friends. It might even enlighten you”. This time Lena looked up, but with tears in her eyes as she knew she was in deep trouble and that there was nothing she could do for her friends this time. These were some seriously sick men. She had an idea of who might have sent them, and if she was right Lena knew that she needed to urgently find a way to escape before she was next on their list or, worse, they took her to whoever sent them.
She stared at both Sarah and Megan. They both nodded their heads while tears were flooding down their cheeks. She knew they were telling her to get out again. Lena looked around and found a hairpin on the ground. She shifted her body a little until she got the pin in her hand, and started picking the lock to the chains that were similar to hand cuffs and digging into her wrists. Her previous few years of training had finally come in handy. Not that the training helped her earlier, but hopefully it worked this time. She kept watching the two sick bastards in front of her, while she tried to pick the chains locks. Both men looked back at Lena. “I hope that you are enjoying the show, Lena” “You’re going to enjoy this next part.” “Did you know that your two friends here are just like you?” The older male and leader of the two said. Lena looked at them confused. “How do you know my name and what do you mean by just like me?” Lena asked in confusion. Them knowing her name confirmed her dark suspicions and fears. “We know everything about you, Lena. When I say everything I truly mean just that. Everything - and I can’t wait to learn every part of your body too. He said as he traced his palms up and down her shirt and fondled her breasts. Lena felt sick but she was close enough to one of his arms and decided to bite into him. He yelled in agony. “F***ing feral b***h” and slapped her again. Once an animal always one, I guess” “ Just like you are of werewolf descent Lena” “So are your two friends here.” He proceeded to say with a smile on his face. Lena’s heart began to pound out of her chest even more than it already was. She couldn’t believe what he had just revealed to her. “I would have known if they were!” she shouted. “Did you not know that some of your kind has knocked up a human or two?” They are just like any of your kind they also have the genes in their body and are able to become werewolves too with the right provocation.” He said with a smile. “They just might not be as strong as you” “As you are a “pure” were wolf my dearie” “As pure as can be these days” “Now are you ready for the next part of our act?” “Are you ready Lena, I hope you are watching this closely?” he asked. “Because you are going to really love this part” he said sarcastically. Both men took out 2 silver knives and slashed both Sarah and Megan’s necks and faces. They then took out a jar of some red, almost rusty looking liquid, they took out one last small vial of the same colour liquid and it began to change colour. It almost got a shiny tinge to it and became brighter in colour with flecks of silver shining through it. Lena’s heart began to speed up and her mind began to race. This can’t be possible, she thought. It can’t be.
Lena had realized they were trying to do some parts of the rituals that her kind did to awaken their inner wolves. These men were trying to awaken Megan and Sarah’s inner wolves. Both men took their hands and dipped it in the liquid they began to rub into Sarah and Megan’s bleeding wounds. They also made markings on their faces and bodies. They ripped off the masking tape from both Sarah and Megan’s mouths and forced them to open up their mouths. They then poured the liquid into their mouths and put the tape back on forcing them to swallow the bright red – silver-flecked and glowing liquid. Both Sarah and Megan pulled their faces in revulsion at the taste of the liquid. They removed the masking tape again. “What do you want with us?!” they both shouted with tears streaming down their faces. “Oh but you know what we want?” The larger red head said. “No we don’t… just let us go please you got what you wanted you already r***d us” they said in anguish. “Oh please, that was just some fun to be had. One can’t let two fine women such as yourselves leave this world without the gentle loving touch of a man such as myself and my brother here. But to answer your question … What do we want with them? He asked his companion or brother. Who smiled and laughed. They both had sick sadistic smiles, “But to kill you, of course my dearies”, he answered. Both girls began to scream as they both started going into convulsions on the floor. Their eyes started to roll back as they convulsed. Their eyes then began to flash. Sarah’s eyes flashed from the beautiful dark brown they were to amber-coloured eyes and Megan’s to ice-blue eyes. Their pupils began to change too. Their bodies stopped convulsing and their bones began to break. You could hear as each bone cracked and broke. Both Sarah and Megan began to scream in utter agony. Lena watched as they began to grow fur and slowly their bodies transformed until there were two huge magnificent wolves standing in front of her. One was a dark brown colour with amber eyes, while the other was pure white with ice blue eyes. They were bigger than normal wolves by far. Both wolves began to snarl and growl. Lena thought to herself maybe we actually stand a chance now. As the wolves tried to break the chains that were keeping them in place. The two men stood there laughing and Lena then saw why. Both of the wolves were swaying now. It was then Lena noticed that they had been drugged, and she then realised and knew that her friends were dead and didn’t stand a chance. Tears streamed down Lena’s face. Both wolves were chained up and going nowhere no matter how hard they tried. Then both the men took out 2 long silver swords and stared down at both the growling wolves. They raised their swords and began to hack off their heads. Blood began to spray everywhere. The walls were covered in blood and so were the men. Lena screamed “NO!” Tears were flowing down her cheeks as her heart began to ache. She felt sick and wanted to vomit watching these monsters kill her friends.
“Dougal, why don't you begin draining their wolf bodies of blood,” The bigger male said. “Then we will begin skinning their beautiful bodies after you’re done with that”, he said with a smile. “Sure, Graham.” Dougal said. “How did you like the show Lena? Hope you enjoyed it. Now you have an idea of what’s to come next for you” He said with a huge toothy grin. “F**k you” Lena said. “Now, now that’s no way for a lady to speak” he said. “But don’t worry - soon Ill put that foul mouth to real work my dearie” “We will soon have your friend’s blood and their skins too” Graham said. “Marcus will be very pleased with us” Dougal said to Graham. Lena knew this was all Marcus. “Marcus sends his love Lena, he has missed you so much. He told us we could have our fun before taking you back to him. That we could help “break you back in for him”. Then Graham turned around, “Believe me, I can’t wait to feel you squirm beneath me Lena” “Marcus said it is something to treasure the feeling of” Lena felt sick and had bile rise up her throat. “Once we are done skinning your friends that is” He said with a smile. “We’ll give you a breather to prepare yourself” Lena couldn’t believe what had just happened. Things felt so surreal. That sick pyscho piece of sh*t Marcus and his pack were still trying to find her all these years later. He had never given up. Lena had luckily just managed to unpick the lock on the chains that were keeping her in place, and she knew this was her only chance to escape from these psychopaths. She had to make this count or else she was as good as dead if she landed up back with Marcus again.
As they began to skin her friends' bodies in wolf form right in front of her. Lena tried not to vomit as she was usually fine with blood and gore, but it was the fact that it was people that she had cared for that messed her up. She looked around for a way to get out of this alive. She noticed that she still had the pepper spray in the pocket of her hoody and then she saw in the corner of her eye that Graham and Dougal had made the biggest mistake they could ever make. They had left one of their silver swords close to her on one of the couches. They had left her with the perfect weapon for her escape. Lena watched their every move with precision and waited for the right moment. When they were both very focussed on skinning her friends, she then dashed up and made a run for the sword, but just as she got to the sword, the male called Dougal came at her. Lena ducked and just missed his fist and hit him right back with a punch to the face. She then grabbed the pepper spray from her pocket and sprayed it right in his eyes. “He began to scream”. Dougal came at her again even though he could hardly see due to the paper spray, his biggest mistake, Lena thought. As she side stepped him and slashed his stomach right open. He then turned around screaming and he then fell to the floor on his knees holding his abdomen in pain. This was the perfect position for Lena to make this count. Being short has its disadvantages usually, but not this time. As he lay there holding his abdomen, Lena then swung her sword around and lodged it into his neck. She pulled the sword out. And she took another hack at his neck. Dougal then dropped down on the floor with his hands holding his neck, as blood began spraying and gushing out everywhere. In the corner of her eye she saw Graham move and saw he was holding a gun this time. She quickly jumped to the side as a bullet grazed her arm. She then jumped behind the couch out of the way in time as he started shooting more bullets at her. As Lena heard the gun go quiet she made a run for her room, and managed to lock the door before Graham could shoot her. She had already packed what she needed when she first heard them breaking down the door. Lena grabbed her car keys. “I’m coming for you. You she -wolf b***h! You will pay for this. And when I get you, you will wish you were dead, because I'm going to do things to you that even you wouldn’t be able to comprehend. And I'm going to take my time with you!” he shouted. As he started to shoot at the door and kick it down. Lena’s adrenaline and fear of death kept her going. She opened the window and looked down at the bushes below her window. She got onto the windowsill and by that time Graham had managed to kick the door down. Due to how quickly he got through, she guessed he wasn’t human, and she was right. His eyes were glowing. Just as she jumped out of the 2nd floor apartment window she felt another shot that grazed her leg more deeply, and due to that, as Lena landed she also twisted her ankle, and sprained it, but Lena pushed the pain aside and made a “run” or hobble for her car. Which was close by, luckily. As she made it to her simple Ford Ka, some gun shots rang out and hit her car. She sped off just in time luckily. Lena knew there was only one place that she could go to, and she hadn’t been there in a long time. She needed to go back home to her Pack and to her family. If this was what she thought it was, then they were all in trouble, and this was just the begging. Lena knew she would have to face her many enemies back home, but there was no more keeping her family and friends safe by staying away. Lena started her long drive into the Highlands. She was far away but needed to push to get there before anyone else did or before anyone started to follow her.
Lena couldn’t believe she was going back after being away from home for so long. It had been a few years since she’d given them her decision and told them that she had chosen not to inherit her blood rite, and to not unleash her wolf or be part of the pack. Lena remembered telling her parents her decision. They had been disappointed, but had understood. As she still wanted to unleash her wolf, but didn’t want to do it then, as she wasn’t ready to be dictated to by some Alpha male the whole time and needed space to “find herself”, she wanted to study abroad”. Well, that's what she was told to tell everyone and she made them believe her words, because she had to protect her family and friends.. but there was a lot more to her story than what she had told everyone else. Her life had been utter hell since that decision, but she had done it for her family and friends, and they would never know what she truly gave up and went through for them. Because of the decision she made, Lena knew that she would not be receiving the warmest of welcomes from everyone from her previous pack as well as her friends and family. Thank goodness there was a new “King” Alpha in charge and quite a few new alphas from other packs that had taken over. Lena had hated the previous Alpha or, more truthfully, she despised him and if she could kill him herself she would.
It had been a few years since she had been home - Lena had, had a tough life since she had turned 17 - everything was supposed to be very different than what it was now. It was a long story - but she had been through some sick alphas and packs already and somehow she managed to survive. She just didn’t know if she could trust her old pack as they would likely not be too impressed to see her appear out of nowhere after looking for her for so long and thinking that she had left them. She really missed her parents, her brothers and her old group of guy friends.
Lena realised that she should probably have contacted the new “King” Alpha in charge of protecting his pack as well as all the packs to let him know that she would be popping in for a “little” visit, but she knew if she did she would lose her nerve and turn around and never look back. The Alpha’s could be very dominant and overbearing and she was pretty sure the previous Alpha and his family, who she despised, would still have a say and huge influence on everyone in the pack as well as everyone she knew. She had to keep her nerve in this moment and keep on driving till she reached their territory. She really needed their help after all and turning around wasn’t an option either, as then she’d be killed or captured and even though she had enemies at “home”, it was the lesser of two evils for now.
Lena looked up into her rearview mirror and noticed that she was being followed. Lena was still bleeding from her previous assaults with the fire crotch a**holes. She really didn’t feel like another set. She sped up and took a turn onto a different road and began speeding up even more. The car that was following her took the same turn and sped up after hers. It was not like they would struggle keeping up with her and her Ford Ka. It's not like it was made for speed now was it? Lena began overtaking every car that she could. The car kept following her and doing the same. Lena kept driving and pushing her car to the limits. She suddenly turned onto a more secluded road and the car behind her continued to follow her. She took a fast sharp turn into one of the sets of forest. The other car was still following her every move. This was not good. She needed to lose them ASAP. She then remembered there was a piece of road through the forest where only her little car could fit through. The car following her would never make it through seeing as it was a big 4x4 car. She kept driving on the dirt road through the huge trees of the forest till she hit that exact spot she needed to. Lena revved her car and drove onto the road with huge trees lining every part of the road and only enough space for a tiny car to fit and drive down. The trees and bushes would protect her and the car wouldn’t be able to follow her for a while. The car behind her stopped as the occupants realised they wouldn’t be able to fit their car through. The low hanging trees would of damaged even their fancy 4x4. She saw them get out of the car and heard a few gun shots fired in her direction. Luckily, she was too far away for them to be in any trouble. Lena smiled as she saw the image of the car disappear in her rearview mirror, and kept driving. She came out on the main road again a while later, and kept driving as fast as she could. She had passed the boundary and the pack probably knew she was on their turf. Lena had luckily taken a round the bout route incase people were following her again, and the trip had taken her a little longer than it should have, as she had to be sure all was safe. All she needed was to slip up. If she brought danger to her pack, they would more than likely kill her. No questions asked. She was already seen as a traitor, deserter or worse. Werewolf packs were all about protecting each other and if someone put them at risk or in danger, then their lives were not that important. Luckily, she hadn’t done that just yet. Lena looked in the mirror, her bruises had started to heal, a nice perk to being a werewolf even if she was more human than a werewolf right now. She had also used make-up to hide the rest of the bruises as much as she could. She didn’t want to look like she was weak to the other were-wolves in the pack. Weakness was not a good look either. There was no hiding the gun grazes or her sprained ankle though, which were also healing already. Lena had just made it onto the territory of her old pack in the highlands of Scotland without being followed. In about 10 minutes she’d have the packs Protectors surrounding her car.