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Capítulo 20: Chapter Twenty

It was clear that Katie was not going to come back to this place, though it made Ash sad that he wouldn't get to talk to her, there was nothing the rest could do to help the situation. "Jason, Caden, take Ash to our place. He will be living with us until he finds his calling," Cole ordered them.

"Don't take too long outside. The hunters won't be happy about it if you run into their night patrols," Jason said, picking up a weak Ash and helping him walk. "There you go, slow and steady…" the soothing words continued along with the constant nagging questions, "So do rogues like… get to have mates or it's some brutal breeding mashup?"

Cole brought his hands to meet his face in disappointment, "That boy is done for. I wonder what I was thinking leaving him with Jason."

Sandra continued giggling from the way Jason was attacking the young boy with numerous questions, "Jason is an interesting character."

"Oh…" Cole said, eyeing her through his hands with a smirk on his face, "Do you like him?"

Sandra watched the alpha walk away thinking over the question, her eyes wandering up into the night sky before she answered the question, "I don't think so. I can't tell."

"Such a confused girl… this is why I love being a werewolf. There is nothing like not being sure of such a thing. The goddess handpicks our perfect matches," Cole said, puffing out his chest proudly.

"Oh, is that why you cannot stop staring at Katie every time you get a chance to?"

"Hey, don't tease me for being curious about her. Although now that I know about her and the power she wields, she scares me more than I would like to admit," he said thoughtfully.

"Were you doubtful that she could beat you in a one on one fight?" Sandra asked after careful consideration of wording, keeping her voice levelled as the subject was a touchy one.

"Normally when a pro hunter states that they can beat a Royal, they mean it through hard work and that it would be a close match, but ultimately what they are saying is that their power is comparable… but that's not the case with Katie," he explained. Shivers ran down Sandra's spine when she remembered the last detail of Katie being a royal as well. Was it really fair for the gods to grant someone so much power?

"I have known her a long time and to be honest, I can barely keep up with her. Every time she trains with me, she leaps in milestones and learns fast. It is like she has a talent for it and yet, she never once likes to show it. I decided to ask her to train me so that I could always have someone to chase after. She trains me well, teaching me new things each time she does so, she is always patient with me. When something proves to be too hard, sometimes she even helps me find a way around it," Sandra got carried away speaking about her master, her aim to show Cole that regardless of the power she held, she was still just as kind and humble as anyone else who didn't have that much power.

The two walked on for a while, Sandra leading Cole to her home so that she could also let him get back to his and call it a night. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure…"

"Why was she so angry when she saw Ash?" Sandra was somewhat stunned by the question, her mind quickly explaining to her that Cole knew nothing of the town that she had grown up in and this wasn't something that could have occurred to him in the slightest.

"Katie is the one in charge of protecting the school and where she can, this town. That means every rogue that is in sight should be wary of her and yet… they were right under her nose."

"How was she to know that there was a way that werewolves below the age of eighteen could suppress their wolf sides?" Cole said, thrusting his hands in the air in exasperation.

Sandra was speechless for a bit before answering him, "Yeah… but still, it's unforgivable… to use children as spies."

"Yeah, I hear you on tha…" a scent hit Cole's nose all of a sudden. One that he knew all too well from the brief moment he had gotten a whiff of it at the school. He hadn't had the chance to track down the source when he was still with Sandra there, but this time, he wasn't going to miss it.

"What is it?" Sandra asked him when she noticed her friend's odd behaviour.

"I smell something… wonderful," was his reply, "How close is your home?"

"We have almost reached. It's at least a ten-minute walk from here," she said.

"Get on my back. I'll get you there in a flash…"

"You don't have to… Oh, he's doing it," Cole was already halfway through the transformation, his pitch-black wolf towering almost the height of two fully grown men when he was done shifting. He got down allowing Sandra to grab hold of him and climb upon his black coat. The fur of the wolf she touched was so smooth and silky that Sandra felt like sleeping in it.

The moment Sandra was comfortable on his back, he zipped through the trees, leaping over fallen trees and weaving through the forest faster than Sandra's eyes could follow. Before she knew it, the backyard of her house, along with many others came into view. The wolf stopped exactly where the tree line ended and let her slip down. "Thank you, Cole," a pat on the head seemed appropriate even though Cole snarled when she did it, getting a laugh out of Sandra, "I know I haven't met many werewolves, but your fur is beautiful. Your mate is one lucky girl."

Sandra bid the stunned black wolf farewell before running off to the back gate and leaping over it in a series of well-timed steps on the walls and pillars. This was something she had done more than once before and once she was in, she turned on the lock procedures for the house which immediately lined wolfsbane around the entire house sealing out any werewolf and sealing any that would have already entered. Cole stayed still, a bit stunned by the readiness of these households. A close look at all the other houses told him that every other person who lived in this neighbourhood had turned on the same kind of thing. The discomforting smell of wolfsbane reached his nose forcing him back into the woods.

Once Cole was back in the woods, the alluring scent that had plagued his memory for days came back to his nostrils. He took in a deep breath, his eyes closed, allowing his senses to give him all the information they were capable of giving him. There was no telling how far the source of this scent was, though that did not matter to him. He was going to find its source no matter what. 'Mum, how will I know when I find my mate?' memory of him asking his mother came to mind.

'That is a question that many don't ask. Her scent will be the first thing you will pick up,' she would say, although every time she would say it, she would cry.

Cole started running through the forest going as fast as his legs could carry him, weaving through the forest at threatening speeds. He could smell others, hunters, as he went through the forest, which made his journey longer as he had to take a long route around them. This spurred him to run even faster than he already was, getting even more anxious to find the source. The scent kept getting stronger and stronger as he ran through the forest. 'It's impossible for me to have smelt something that is this far,' he thought to himself when he noticed that he was well beyond the borders of the town. Beyond that was dangerous territory and it was dangerous to be running in this territory. Any territory that did not fall into the protection of the hunters was labelled a dangerous zone since it meant rogues would camp in such places.

A sense of urgency and caution was starting to creep into him when he realized he was going really far from city boundaries and this was pushing his luck. The only reason he was still going was the fact the scent was only getting stronger the farther he went. He could feel himself getting closer and closer and right when he felt like he was almost there, the scent vanished. He slid to a stop, standing still, his breath coming out laboured and noisy. He had been running at top speed for twenty minutes.

He stayed silent for a while or at least tried to make his breath as quiet as he could manage using his ears to the best of his abilities to at least hear out who it was he had been tracking. A few minutes of waiting got him the first sound, "What might you be doing here?"

He quickly turned around to the voice that had managed to sneak upon him. Fear struck through him like lightning rooting him to the ground when he recognized the face of who it was that had found him or that he had found. 'What was she doing this far from the town?' What was Katie freakin' Chase doing this far from the town he was so eager to protect? The memories of the demonstration of her fear and strength were as clear as day in his memory, as well as that of how angry she was when she left them back at the hunter's training ground.


Capítulo 21: Chapter Twenty One

Cole stayed still in a defensive stance from the hunter. If Katie chose to fight him at this moment, she would win without a second thought, there was no doubting the power she wielded. This hunter was the real deal, even scarier than most of the hunters that he had met up until this point. He continued to rack his brain for ways to get out of this trouble or at least some form of explanation in case things took a turn for the worst. How had Katie managed to find him? Had she been chasing him the entire time? No, that was not it, this did not feel like it… He had been afraid of the possibility of finding a number of rogues camping out in the woods outside the town, but now that Katie stood before him, that wasn't something to worry about.

"What's with you? You're shaking a…" Katie took a step forward, tripping on a stone so small it could have been dust before she descended heading for the ground with no sign of catching her balance. Cole rushed forward, putting his head beneath her such that she fell on him. Sparks went through his body on every spot on the wolf's body that she touched with her bare skin. The faint smell of wolfsbane hit his nostrils from her hands although it was not enough to make him cringe. He made a few adjustments, pushing the body of the half-asleep hunter upwards such that he could place her on his back. "Would you really… after…"

"Forget about it. Let's get you home, Katie, or at least what I call home. It's really late…" he said before starting the run back to the place they now called home. He felt like slapping himself for having feared her when there was nothing to be afraid of. Sandra was right. Katie was still Katie no matter what she looked like or how powerful she was. And that was what mattered, she was the one person that he felt something for. It was a faint feeling of affection for her that brought him to keep trying to find out more about her. He had never thought he would find out that she was stronger than him, however.

He jogged on till he was back at the hotel that the Royal family had booked for Jason, Caden and him while they studied here. They had booked a whole floor just for the three of them. 'Honestly, alphas had packs to run and they would rather send those two along with me to act as bodyguards,' he thought to himself, placing an unconscious Katie by a tree before he shifted back into his human form. The cellphone in his pocket flashed a notification that said he had twenty missed calls from both Caden and Jason. Dailing Caden's number, Cole called him to come to help him take Katie up to their suite.

.........…..

"So where did you say you found her?" Jason asked, whilst he looked at Katie's face on the couch.

"I found her something like five miles from the town. She was severely weakened by then and collapsed the moment she saw me," Cole explained from the kitchen while he poured herself a drink. Caden sat on the sofa opposite the one they had placed Katie in along with Ash who couldn't take his eyes off Katie.

"What do you think she could have been doing that far out? Do you think she was attacked?" Ash asked.

"I doubt it. If she had been attacked there would be scratches or marks on her that showed that she was attacked, even if she was the one who ended up the victor, she would still have some kind of sign. She was knocked out purely due to muscle stress and exhaustion. She has probably been pushing herself too hard for the past few days and now it has taken its toll on her," Caden said voicing his opinion. Jason, on the other hand, had now switched to drawing funny pictures on her face along with writing words like, 'I'm the strongest wimp!' and phrases like that made Katie look like she was from a bullying situation.

"I wonder what she will do to you when she finds out you did that to her face," Caden pointed out.

"I'll just say Ash forced me into it," he said.

"But I didn't even…" Ash began.

"Oh, come on Jason, leave the boy alone. You have been making his life difficult since we came back," Caden groaned.

"I was only messing around. How was I to know that he was taking everything I said seriously," he denied.

"Okay, Ash, from now on. Do not listen to anything that comes out of that guy's mouth. He is not the kind to get serious at any one point in his life. Sometimes, I wonder how he's even an alpha," Caden spoke, turning his attention to the new arrival. It was already coming to midnight and they were yet to catch some sleep. Cole had called on this meeting to discuss what had transpired that day.

Cole took a seat on the sofa that faced the television such that the four of them were on both sides of him and took a sip of his coffee before he began talking, "As we all know, we have been through quite a bit under only a few hours. The rogues attacked when we least expected it and something tells me the story runs deeper than random rogue attack. This was said to be the safest town, but I guess that reputation alone might be open to discussion. I found Katie far from here as you all know and I say she spends the night here since I am in no condition to take her to her house whose location I have no idea of."

"Can we know what you were doing that far from the city boundaries yourself?" Jason asked him.

"Oh, yeah, that. Remember the scent I told you about on the day when I first…"

"Cole, I thought we talked about you…"

"I know, I know, Caden. I have been heard that my entire life. I just want to hope that she is still out there. It is not unheard of a second chance mate to appear once in a while," Cole spoke indifferently. The scent that had been plaguing him was similar to something that had been described to him before, but he also had reason to believe it didn't mean the same thing to him.

"That is true, but they don't happen when you are still this young," he replied.

"I don't know guys. My wolf was excited… I couldn't let the owner of that scent slip away from me and so I gave chase. They must have been moving too because no matter how much I closed the gap between us, they continued to evade me. Until the scent just went dark like there was nothing anymore. "Do you think that scent belongs to a rogue and Katie was in pursuit when you found her?" Caden asked.

"Yeah, but that doesn't explain the rapid vanishing of the scent."

"It is possible if the rogue had those pills on hand," a small voice said in the room.

Cole turned to Ash, "What pills?"

"The ones we used to use to suppress our presence," he explained.

"I had forgotten about that. Locking up your wolves, that must be hard on the wolves within you," she said.

"Yes, that is true. Many of them died because their wolves simply wouldn't let themselves be silenced. One is required to communicate with their wolf side before suppressing it otherwise, they will be plagued with a minimum of a huge headache and dizziness," he explained, pulling his knees close to his chest and wrapping his hands around them, memories plaguing him while he remembered his form life.

"Hey, Ash, try not to think about it too much. You are safe now. No one is going to force you to do spy work anymore." With that, he led the boy away from the living room and to his room to sleep. Something that the lot of them ought to have been getting.

"What happens to Katie?" Caden asked pointing at the unconscious hunter on the sofa.

"We'll put him in my room," she said.

"No argument there. Don't get naughty though," Caden said, lifting the hunter off the sofa and walking off with him in the direction of Cole's room. Cole stayed in the same spot sipping her coffee, her mind moving back to a memory that had been trying its best to surface, but she had blocked it. Now she let the memory take over her.

............…

Cole was twelve years old when he was finally tired of hearing words of pity whispered behind his back about how he was mateless. It didn't make sense to him that people would know such information about him when he was only twelve years old and it angered him every time he heard someone speak of it.

The morning of that day, he snapped during his morning training and a fight between him and one of the pack warriors broke loose. 'None of them have a right to make a decision only the moon goddess can. It had taken three of his comrades to keep him from disfiguring the wolf's face any more than he already had.

'Why don't you ask your father about this rumour? That should clear up your suspicions,' Caden had told him. Apparently, this rumour was well known to be a fact all over the palace. Hearing this from Caden made his blood boil with anger. Nonetheless, he heeded his advice and began the walk to his father's office on the fourth floor of the colossal Lycaon palace.

He didn't bother knocking at the door and just burst in, his anger becoming somewhat hard to contain. "Father, I need to talk to you."

His father looked up from the paperwork before him, taking in his son's state and closing everything accordingly. "What seems to be the problem, Cole?"

"There is a rumour going around… something about me being… mateless," the word was repulsive even as it rolled off Cole's tongue.

"Well…" his father sighed, finally noticing the blood on Cole's knuckles, "Now might be a good time as any… you might want to take a seat."

"Just tell me if it's true or not," Cole yelled, a yes-no answer seemingly the only thing that could make sense to him.

"You aren't mateless because that would mean the moon goddess did not choose a mate for you or that she decided you were not to have a mate," he said.

"What are you not telling me, father?"

"Much as you aren't mateless… your mate is… dead," he reluctantly confessed, "I wanted to hold out from telling you for…"

"You can't know that… I'm not eighteen yet. The moon goddess has not yet…"

"Calm yourself, Cole. The moon goddess revealed your mate well before you were born. The two of you, chosen by the moon goddess herself to bring forth the end of this war, but not everyone was too happy about that. A few nights after she was born, you as well, the two palaces were attacked by rogues. We were able to fend off the attack, but the girl was… killed," he said.

"You mean, Katie Sirius, the daughter of the other Royal family that was killed when she was still an infant," Cole asked, remembering a story one of the werewolves he heard was gossiping about.

"Yeah, Katie Sirius was meant to be your mate… I'm sorry, Cole."

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