Deserted But Not Alone novel Chapter 10

The journey back home was completely silent. Adam and I were lost in our own worlds from the moment we left the living room to grab our luggages. I felt so stupid and afraid. My father's sister just confirmed that my parents death were her and her husband's doing and there's nothing I can do about it. To top it all off, I'm a rouge. What the hell am I supposed to do with that information? Lie low and hope for the best? Or should I be on the run from people who don't even know me but are hunting me and my brother down? How am I supposed to do that for the rest of my life? This wasn't what I imagined my 18th birthday to be like.

Those were the thoughts that plagued me on the plane, at the airport and even in the cab back home. Like a robot, Adam opened the front door and just went up straight to his room. Five minutes later I heard something break. Then a crash and the sound of something else breaking. I don't know if it was my new sensitive wolf hearing or Adam was just that loud, but I heard him crying and I covered my mouth to stifle a sob of my own. I collapsed on my bedroom floor and cried silently. I tried to wipe away my tears, but they just kept on coming rapidly. My eyes went to a picture of my parents on my nightstand and a I could imagine was Aunt Meghan and her husband attacking and maiming them until no life was left in them. I imagined their evil grins as they watched my parents slowly die. No wonder the doctors said it was an animal attack! Aunt Meghan and Uncle Travis killed my parents with their wolves!

I can't stay like this. I can't keep living like this, not with everything I know now and the doom hanging over my head. I have to be strong right now, if not for me, then for Adam. I don't mind going down, but I'm not going to let anything happen to my brother. I forced my tears back and steeled my myself, deciding to no longer be scared and afraid.

I got up from the floor and left my room to go to Adam's. I knocked on his door.

"Adam?"

"Go away Abby." Came the reply from inside.

I tried again. "Listen, I know you're probably feeling a lot of things right now. Anger, hurt, fear. I feel all of that too. But don't forget what we are now, rouges. We're rouges Adam, and every pack in our vicinity is going to come for us regardless of us being a threat to them or not. So please open the door so we can talk about this."

Silence. Complete silence.

"Adam?"

"Adam?! I know you're in there, open the door!" I was already worried because he could be having a panic attack behind that door.

"Salem what do I do? He's not answering." I asked my wolf.

"Break the door down. You're not going to be here for much longer anyway." She had point, but where was I supposed to get the strength to break this door down?

Salem understood my worry, "I'm here with you Abby, you have the strength. So break THIS FUCKING DOOR DOWN!"

With that, I rammed my shoulder into the door and it gave way immediately. The door fell into the room. On a normal day, I would be in total shock, but what caught my attention wasn't the broken door, it was the fact that Adam wasn't in his room.

Now I wasn't just worried, I was full on panicking.

"Adam? Where are you?" He wasn't on the bed so I checked the closet. Negative. The windows were closed from the inside too, so he couldn't have gone out. The next option was the bathroom. I tried opening it, but it was locked. I didn't think twice before breaking the handle and pushing the door open. What I saw next made my blood run cold.