The Forbidden Mate

Chapter 4: Lost and Alone

As the sun shines brightly through the window, Rosalie begins to stir awake. She sits up and calls for her daddy.”Dadddy me is awake now”. But to Rosalie's surprise her daddy never answered. Rosalie slides out of the covers down and scoots off bed. She walks to the bathroom and tinkles, then goes to see if daddy was still asleep. Rosalie opens her father's door and looks in but he is not there. She quickly thinks to herself maybe daddy is already down stairs.

Rosalie bounds down the stairs and into the kitchen but once again daddy wasn't there. Worry finally starting to set in Rosalie frantically calls for her daddy. But no matter how much she called for her daddy he wasn't answering. Next thing she knows she hears a gurgling sound. Wrapping her arms around her tummy it rumbled again and she knew she was getting hungry. But being two Rosalie didn't know how to fix anything to eat, so she did the only thing she did know to do. Rosalie walks over to the cabinet getting her favorite bowl and the cereal of the counter then sits it on the table.

She quickly realizes she forgot the milk and spoon. So hops down and goes to retrieve the milk and her spoon. Rosalie sits the milk on the table and climbs up into the chair once again. Pouring the cereal and milk into her bowl and begins to eat. While eating she keeps thinking about where her dad could be. “Daddy never leaves me here alone, he always is here when i get up but it's already dinner and daddy still isn't here.” Rosalie finishes up eating and puts her stuff up.

Deciding she wasn't in the mood to play, she went back to her room. Then crawled back into her bed where she began to cry. Later she stirs awake and realizes she had cried herself to sleep. Feeling like there was no point in even getting up that daddy would get her up once he came home. Rosalie crawls back under the cover and goes back to sleep. Rosalie wakes up having to tinkle and looks out the window. It's dawn already. “I slept the entire day away”. She then headed to the bathroom where she pottied and got herself ready for today.

Rosalie headed back to her room and she decided to go looking for her dad. Packing her a backpack of all the things she thought she may need and she headed down stairs. Rosalie opened the door and walked outside turning to lock the door. She wanted to start the search for her daddy close by at first. Rosalie walks around the house to the backyard but is stopped in her tracks, her eyes grow to the size of saucers. Panicked she slowly proceeds but the closer she gets the more blood and black ash she sees and starts to smell a foul odor. Rosalie being curious she followed the blood thinking that something could be hurt and she might be able to help it. She follows the trail when she halts to a stop and sees what she could only think of as a nightmare.

Her father Jaxson laying in a pool of blood and a man she didn't know laying not far from him both wasn't moving. Rosalie runs to her dad's side bending down crying. She felt lost and didn't know what to do now. Rosalie gets up and starts to wander around deep into the forest. She stops and looks up to realize she no longer knows where she is. This part of the forest looks different than she was used to playing in. Rosalie tries to be a big girl and thinks about what her dad had told her if she was ever to get lost. Which was to find the first adult and tell them that she is lost and they could help then.

Rosalie finds a little dirt path and follows it till she finds a little market type place. There's lots of people here and she didn't know who to talk to so she kept in the shadows until she saw a lady with blonde wavy hair, high cheekbones, and a smile that was contagious. Rosalie thought that she looked like a nice person and walked up to hery pulling to her dress.”ma’am i’m Rosalie and i’m lost”. The lady smiles down at Rosalie “ i’m Lara and i'm sorry your lost sweetie but you are welcome to come with me and we can see if we can help you find your way home” Rosalie nods and takes her hand but sadly tells her “i would like that but i have no home to go to” Rosalie frowns as tears streams down her face.

Lara uses her better judgement to not push it and begins leading her towards Evermore Orphanage. Which is where Lara was the house mom. Lara and Rosalie walked and talked the whole way. Rosalie was opening up a little but the only information she would share is that both her parents were deceased. Which is all Lara needed to know. For with that information she will be able set her up to live at Evermore.

Back in the pack lands Slate has been trying to call his brother for days without any luck. He decides to go over there and see why his brother was ignoring him. As soon as Slate parks and opens the door the smell of blood smacks him in the face. Slate follows the sent as he sees his brother's body laying there with a whole punched in his chest. Slate begins to become enraged with anger. He looks around to see another body lying just a few feet away with it’s jugular ripped out. All Slate could then think about was his niece. How long has she been alone and where Rosalie is.

Slate checks the house but Rosalie was gone there was no sign of her anywhere. Slate runs outside and changes from so he can track Rosalie better. Slate uses one of Rosalie's blankets to pick up her scent then runs and picks up her scent and follows deep into the forest, but the farther he runs the lighter the smell. He kept running hoping he would re-pick up the scent but after a while it was gone and Slate feared the worse. He turned headed back to let the pack of the tragedy he had witnessed . Everyone begins to settle, and mourn the loss of their next alpha. Slate reassured the pack that it's not over that they will one day find Rosalie.