Embraced By The Pack
img img Embraced By The Pack img Chapter 2 TWO
2
Chapter 6 SIX img
Chapter 7 SEVEN img
Chapter 8 EIGHT img
Chapter 9 NINE img
Chapter 10 TEN img
Chapter 11 ELEVEN img
Chapter 12 TWELVE img
Chapter 13 THIRTEEN img
Chapter 14 FOURTEEN img
Chapter 15 FIFTEEN img
Chapter 16 SIXTEEN img
Chapter 17 SEVENTEEN img
Chapter 18 EIGHTEEN img
Chapter 19 NINETEEN img
Chapter 20 TWENTY img
Chapter 21 TWENTY ONE img
Chapter 22 TWENTY TWO img
Chapter 23 TWENTY THREE img
Chapter 24 TWENTY FOUR img
Chapter 25 TWENTY-FIVE img
Chapter 26 TWENTY-SIX img
Chapter 27 TWENTY SEVEN img
Chapter 28 TWENTY-EIGHT img
Chapter 29 TWENTY NINE img
Chapter 30 THIRTY img
Chapter 31 THIRTY-ONE img
Chapter 32 THIRTY-TWO img
Chapter 33 THIRTY-THREE img
Chapter 34 THIRTY-FOUR img
Chapter 35 THIRTY-FIVE img
Chapter 36 THIRTY-SIX img
Chapter 37 THIRTY-SEVEN img
Chapter 38 THIRTY-EIGHT img
Chapter 39 THIRTY-NINE img
Chapter 40 FORTY img
Chapter 41 FORTY-ONE img
Chapter 42 FORTY-TWO img
Chapter 43 FORTY-THREE img
Chapter 44 FORTY-FOUR img
Chapter 45 FORTY-FIVE img
Chapter 46 FORTY-SIX img
Chapter 47 FORTY-SEVEN img
Chapter 48 FORTY-EIGHT img
Chapter 49 FORTY-NINE img
Chapter 50 FIFTY img
Chapter 51 FIFTY-ONE img
Chapter 52 FIFTY-TWO img
Chapter 53 FIFTY-THREE img
Chapter 54 FIFTY-FOUR img
Chapter 55 FIFTY-FIVE img
Chapter 56 FIFTY-SIX img
Chapter 57 FIFTY-SEVEN img
Chapter 58 FIFTY-EIGHT img
Chapter 59 FIFTY-NINE img
Chapter 60 SIXTY img
Chapter 61 SIXTY-ONE img
Chapter 62 SIXTY-TWO img
Chapter 63 SIXTY-THREE img
Chapter 64 SIXTY-FOUR img
Chapter 65 SIXTY-FIVE img
Chapter 66 SIXTY-SIX img
Chapter 67 SIXTY-SEVEN img
Chapter 68 SIXTY-EIGHT img
Chapter 69 SIXTY-NINE img
Chapter 70 SEVENTY img
Chapter 71 SEVENTY-ONE img
Chapter 72 SEVENTY-TWO img
Chapter 73 SEVENTY-THREE img
Chapter 74 SEVENTY-FOUR img
Chapter 75 SEVENTY-FIVE img
Chapter 76 SEVENTY-SIX img
Chapter 77 SEVENTY-SEVEN img
Chapter 78 SEVENTY-EIGHT img
Chapter 79 SEVENTY-NINE img
Chapter 80 EIGHTY img
Chapter 81 EIGHTY-ONE img
Chapter 82 EIGHTY-TWO img
Chapter 83 EIGHTY-THREE img
Chapter 84 EIGHTY-FOUR img
Chapter 85 EIGHTY-FIVE img
Chapter 86 EIGHTY-SIX img
Chapter 87 EIGHTY-SEVEN img
Chapter 88 EIGHTY-EIGHT img
Chapter 89 EIGHTY-NINE img
Chapter 90 NINETY img
Chapter 91 NINETY-ONE img
Chapter 92 NINETY-TWO img
Chapter 93 NINETY-THREE img
Chapter 94 NINETY-FOUR img
Chapter 95 NINETY-FIVE img
Chapter 96 NINETY-SIX img
Chapter 97 NINETY-SEVEN img
Chapter 98 NINETY-EIGHT img
Chapter 99 NINETY-NINE img
Chapter 100 ONE HUNDRED img
img
  /  2
img

Chapter 2 TWO

"Why did you take me?"My heart pounded, watching the guy in the back with laser focus as his body continued to change. The van was still flying down the road, but a car crash was the least of my worries considering I'd been taken by werewolves.

I'd have loved to deny it, but I heard the animal growl in Veggie Guy's voice when he grabbed me. And now, I was watching him turn slowly and painfully from animal to human.

"You're his mate. When a wolf finds his mate, he goes wolf and hunts until she's his," Seatbelt Guy explained quickly. "Staying with him will buy you more time."

That second part was kidnapper bullshit, for sure.

"Why would staying with a 'hunting' werewolf ever buy me more time?"

"Because he's going to be stuck in his wolf form until he's either changed you into one of us or killed you. You're the she-wolf he wants, and he won't back down until you're his. He'll try to get you to offer yourself first, to ask him to change you but there's no telling how long he'll wait, and then he's going to bite you. Werewolf venom changes the strong and kills the weak."

Well, if it killed the weak, I was in trouble. I hadn't exercised in months.

Wait, no.

It had been an entire year.

The last time I'd attempted to visit the gym was the day before classes started my freshman year, and I was currently a few weeks into my sophomore year.

"Staying with him will prolong his hunting, giving me more time before he starts biting?" I checked, still 100% planning on running as soon as I had the chance.

"Yes. It will make him feel like he's winning," Seatbelt Guy confirmed.

The van took another turn, harder and faster. My head smashed into the window, and a savage snarl broke out from Veggie Guy, who now looked almost entirely like Veggie Wolf.

"Shit! Sorry." Seatbelt Guy held a hand out toward the wolf in the back of the van. "Trying to keep her safe and get her away from the humans isn't easy, Jesse."

Veggie Wolf twisted his already-freaky face and made a menacing sound.

"We'll be back soon," another guy in the back with Jesse (AKA Mate-Guy-slash-Veggie-Wolf) snapped at him.

But being back soon was good.

It was good for me at least, because it meant that their place wasn't insanely far from mine. Which gave me at least a tiny sliver of a chance at escape.

The van turned sharply, and I slammed against the seatbelt hard enough to bruise my chest. The sudden pain made me scream. My honey-colored ponytail smacked me and Seatbelt Guy in the face as the van's tires squealed, and the floor started to sort of vibrate beneath us.

Crap. We were on a dirt road.

That was not a good thing as far as my chance of escape went. Dirt roads and I were not well acquainted.

Hell, nature and I wasn't well acquainted.

"Faster!" someone behind me yelled.

Faster? Were they completely out of their minds?

"She's got to stop screaming or he's going to kill one of us," another guy snarled from somewhere in the van.

I screamed again, this time in hopes that he really would kill someone to give me a chance to get the hell away from them.

"Brakes, now," another guy barked.

The driver slammed on the brakes, no question asked. The van squealed and swerved as it skidded to a stop. There were five other guys in there with me six if you counted Jesse's newly-furry ass so half the group must've stayed at the sandwich shop.

All five of the non-furries bailed the second the van stopped. The doors opened and closed in record time, leaving me trapped with a wolf.

I shoved on the seatbelt, pressing and pulling and tugging, but the damn thing was stuck.

A hairy monster jumped over the seat, landing beside me on the bench. I opened my mouth to scream again.

Before I got the sound out, the monster okay, maybe it was a wolf shoved his head toward mine and legitimately climbed on my lap.

"You're not a dog," I yelled at it.

It licked my face.

"Not a dog," I repeated, my voice faltering a little.

It barked.

"Not a... What am I doing? I'm losing my damn mind. Get off me!" I shoved his furry body. I'd expected a werewolf to be gigantic, but he wasn't. He was only a little bigger than my mom's German Shephard, Gallifrey.

I wiggled and jiggled the seatbelt while the wolf watched me.

When I decided that wasn't going to work, I huffed and leaned back against the seat I'd been trapped in.

The wolf gave me a look, almost like it was asking, "Are you done?"

I gestured toward the seatbelt, still scared out of my mind but growing angrier by the minute. "Don't just sit there, dammit. Help me!"

The wolf slashed his claws at the seatbelt. They sliced right through, and the seatbelt flew up toward the spinning mechanism.

The claw slash reminded me of what the guy had said about the wolf.

He was hunting me, and wouldn't stop until he'd bitten me.

And changed me into one of them.

"Stay back," I warned, scooting out of the seat and toward the door.

The wolf surprised me by listening.

Moving at snail speed, I slowly lifted my hand behind me, to the door's handle. When he made no move to attack, I pulled. The door clicked as it opened, and my body tensed, waiting for him to make a move.

He didn't.

The wolf just sat there, watching.

"I am so confused," I mumbled.

But when he still didn't attack me, I slowly opened the door.

"No sudden movements," I said softly, partly to myself and partly to the wolf, because it seemed like he was listening to me. If he was, I would take advantage of it.

I lowered one foot out of the door, poking around with the toe of my old red Converse until my foot met the dirt.

The wolf stayed where he was, watching me silently.

I slowly straightened, my hands landing on the faded fabric of the seat as I carefully lowered my second foot to the dirt.

"What's she doing?" someone whispered. One of the non-furry guys from the van, I assumed.

"I think she's trying to escape," another said, with some amusement.

"He hasn't tried to stop her yet," a third pointed out.

"He doesn't want her scared of him," a fourth responded.

Dammit, if they kept talking, all the football-player-shaped werewolves were going to be the death of me.

I took a step backward, then paused.

The wolf didn't budge.

Another step.

Pause.

No movement from Veggie Wolf.

I continued to move away from the van step by step, never taking my eyes off him.

Though I wasn't sure exactly which direction my dorm was, we hadn't gone far on the dirt road when the guys pulled the van over. If I ran beside it, I hoped I could get back to the real road and possibly make my way back into town.

And from there, get home.

My tiny dorm room sounded like heaven.

Right when I started to think the wolf was going to let me go, he jumped out of the van in one smooth, powerful movement.

Another scream welled in my throat.

Instead of letting it free, I sprinted down the dirt road.

            
            

COPYRIGHT(©) 2022