Chapter 2 Bodyguard

Abby

I was shocked to see the guy standing in my dad's office. He is a giant. I'm only 5'3 with a petite frame and I had to look up.

Best guess would be around 6'6,but with the muscles he just looked like a guy who could crush a guy's head with his bare hands, and 2 swords stood out strapped behind his back.

He looks brooding and masculine with a symmetrical and strong jawline, protruding chin and hollow caved in cheekbones. His eyes are a piercing baby blue with a devilish glint that is looking at me with that charming bad boy style smile.

But his hair caught my attention, even though he looks young, Long pure white hair that looks like it had been touched by snow, with a streak of dark ocean blue that goes straight into his ponytail. He looks anything but sweet and charming.

"Hello, welcome at Frost Pack, I'm Abigail Hawthorne, future Luna".

It came out of my mouth so fast, I'm not even sure he heard it.

"Arkyn", came out in a deep and husky voice. I need to compose myself, no snarky comments about him being my babysitter, with my dad being present in the room and all.

"So Arkyn, I hear you are my protector, bodyguard, whatever you want to call it, What is your experience?" I asked him while motioning him to take a seat across the desk, he kept standing though.

"Luna, I have studied and mentored self-defense training, weapons training, tracking skills, sword combat, close combat, law enforcement and surveillance and hacking", he told us looking between me and my father the whole time.

My jaw dropped, same training as me. I wondered if he is a bounty hunter as well.

"I must say I'm impressed Arkyn. You look like the type of guy that I would want by my side when things get nasty with the business. When I'm here things are calm mostly but when you travel with me to work, things will get bad. I'm saying when and not if because in my line of work things can go from bad to utterly shit in just a second, but more on that later.

Lets see how you do the week until the ceremony. and your first task with me for the day is....", I looked into my planner on my future desk. "dress shopping".

The next moment I burst into a laugh and tripped face first into the floor because I was laughing so badly, even my dad couldn't help himself. All I heard was a "good luck, you are going to need it." The expression of horror was evident on his face, he clearly didn't like going with a bunch of women to look for dresses, if he has ever gone out with a woman.

Kat

We were driving to Dundrum Town Centre with Abby in the passenger seat and her new bodyguard driving. I was sitting behind Abby and our Gamma, Emily behind him in the first back seat with Abby's mom and my mom in the second back seat. We decided to take the Tahoe since we are six going shopping today and we didn't want to be squeezed into a car. The guy hasn't been very talkative. We have all bombarded him with questions, but he was either silent, gave a scoff or answered with yes and no.

"Do you have a mate?" Abby asked first. "No".

"What pack did you come from? " was Emily's question. Complete silence, and then a Mmmmm.

"Can you explain your white hair? is it natural?" I fired off two questions to see if he would answer both just to get the guy talking. I waited two seconds and then came the answer I was not hoping for. "No". We'll I guess that answers both my questions. I decided to give up on my idea for the guy to talk and focused on Abby instead.

"Any idea on what kind of dress you want, Abs?" I asked, and suddenly all focus was on her, the conversation between the two moms was turned into silence. " Well, I don't know exactly. I know our tradition is using the pack colours, and although I love black and silver, I feel I want to go non-traditional, like maybe a deep purple, no offence mom. I know you would have liked me to wear your Luna dress, but its just so.... outdated". We all snickered and my aunt put her hand over her heart and pretended to be hurt by Abby's statement, but we all know she isn't. Giving over the title in less then a week, the Luna of Frost Pack was always elegant and classy, always in a dress or a skirt and silk blouse with 4 inch heels before we even woke up in the mornings. You wouldn't see that woman in pants or jeans while we were kids, but you can see she will be going into retirement soon. She has lately been wearing comfy mom jeans and even sporting leggings around the house with a comfy sweather. She has even joked with us about not telling her about leggings sooner. She is really a kind and sweet woman. Her and my mom, the Beta female always made sure the kids were fed and the house was spottless with all the pack duties done before they went to sleep. We all thought they had superpowers or something. Turns out to be just hard work and training for the future position. Our dads were the same, Abby and I. They didn't want to give us the titles of ranked members until we found our mates, but since that seems to be taking a while and with the years that are passing by and them not getting any younger, they decided to give us the titles anyway. Even though Abby's dad is over protective, mine wasn't.

He has been secretly training us to become bounty hunters in the supernatural world and teaching us of things that we were one day be taking over from them.

Alpha Aiden did let us train with the warriors, but he didn't know about the secret classes we were taking to become bounty hunters with my dad and he was so busy with Alpha business, he barely noticed. Our moms knew though and they were okay with it since they knew what our future held.

While lost in thought, I didn't realise Abby was talking to me, snapping her fingers in front of my face.

"Hey, earth to Kat, are you even listening?" I snapped out of my trance and looked at Abby. "Sorry, I was lost in thought. What did you say?" I asked her. "Have you thought about your dress? Emily already answered me because you were so lost in thought thinking about who you were going to have sex with tonight" She looked at me with an arched eyebrow, a glint of naughtiness in her eyes. "Oh fuck off you" I answered, making everyone laugh, including Arkyn.

We stopped at Dundrum Town Center after an hour's drive. "Alright, are we going to split up into teams of 2 and meet for lunch or go as a group?" Abby asked us.

We all agreed to split into teams so that we can get through the shopping faster. Abby went with her bodyguard, Emily went with Abby's mom and I went with my mom in 3 different directions. that way eveyone had a warrior protecting them.

From the age of 16, the future female ranked members started training to become bounty bounters. While me and my mom walked to Zara, we started talking about daily life and the upcoming week. My mom decided to go look at dresses while I went to the shoe section.

A pair of silver high heels caught my attention. It had 2 straps where my ankle would be and the whole shoe was embellished with crystals. It looked absolutely stunning and would go with any dress.

I called the assistant to help me find a pair in my size and she went to go check at their stock. While I was waiting my mom called me over to where she was standing

"Kat, come here. I think I found the perfect dress for you for the ceremony", she told me.

When I looked at the dress, I gasped. I gave her a quick smile and adverted my attention to the dress I'm now holding in my hands. "Thank you so much mom. I love that you know my style and my size!" I skipped happily to the dressing room to see it on me. It absolutely took my breath away. The black bodice was an off-the-shoulder sweetheart neckline with a corset back that accentuated my curves. It flowed directly into a A line style skirt that was like a flowy black waterfall. I came out and showed off my Beta dress with a huge smile.

"You know, I'm glad I know your style and size. It makes everything less complicated when I want to buy you something, unlike that dramatic fourteen year old brother of yours" she told me with a small giggle. She was right though.

Tyler keeps changing his clothes style to wear with whatever fit in at the school with his mates. I linked the rest of the group to ask if they were still busy shopping and all but Abby was done.

My mom quickly found a dress and shoes as well. We went to the front to pay for our clothes, and I started talking with the bright and bubbly young cashier, not human because her scent is different, but I like her and found her energetic bubble to be contagious. I kept staring at her bright purple hair when I found my wolfy senses were tingling.

Something suddenly felt off, and I tried to figure out what it could be.

Looking around the store, nothing seemed weird or out of place. I got the feeling we were being watched, putting me on a sudden high alert. Keeping my mom who was looking at jewellery in my sight, I linked my girls.

Hey, anyone else's wolfy senses tingle like crazy? I asked keeping the link open between the three of us.

Same. Feels like an ice cold hand is running down my back. Emily answered back first.

Me third. I think we are being watched. I think we should circle back to the car. Walk a different path back and we will all meet there. Keep your eyes open, we don't have our weapons right now and we are in public which means no shifting. I'll tell Arkyn to be on high alert as well, Abby's voice came through my head.

I grabbed our shopping bags and my mom, explaining to her that we were being followed, so she needs to stay close to me. I could smell her fear, and honestly even I was scared as well, considering what my job is. Who would have us followed in daylight? Hundred possibilities were running through my head, but I pushed them aside for now focusing on our safety first and worry later.

A few minutes later I saw someone round the corner and my senses went into overdrive. We were almost at the car where everyone was already waiting, only to glimpse back and see he was running towards us with something shiny in his hand.

"Abby!!!!" I shouted as loud as I can. On instinct, I push my mom into her arms, just in time to block his attack with a chinese dagger, I feel the crushing burning sensation against my arm.

My training kicks in and I throw a left hook right into his liver, drawing the breath out his lungs and making him stagger back.

I suddenly feel weak and unable to stand. Just before the darkness surrounds me, I feel Abby's arms catching me as I fall, and Arkyn looking pissed, holding the man up by his throat.