Life After the Storm novel Chapter 12

I wake up somehow uninjured. I coughed up the water, not even a bruise. I get up to collect myself from what just happened. I'm free from the Wicked Pack. I don't have to worry about the Alpha any longer. I look on my shoulder to see if his mark is really gone, and it is I can't believe that I died and then still survived. This is my 2nd chance at life and I will not disappoint my brother. I know the only reason that I survived that fall was because of him he healed me. My brother always believed in me more than I believed in myself, even though we liked to mess with each other a lot and sometimes even make each other miserable. We are always there for each other when one of us needs one another, no matter what. Now that I am free, I need to figure out what to do. I never left home before, I need to start to run. I don't want to be seen by any pack members.

I have been running for hours. I have not found another town yet to call home there was more wilderness than towns in Alaska. I want to leave Alaska all together, but I don't have any money and I can not risk the Alpha picking up my scent. He will know I'm alive. Even though his mark was gone, unfortunately, he is still my mate. I don't need a mate to be happy, I will be just fine. I hear crying, which is odd. I'm pretty deep in the woods. I follow the noise I see a child I'm not sure if it's a boy or girl I start to approach the child when I see a bear coming in full force I shift into my wolf and run I jump over the child and go straight towards the bear I aim for its throat trying to get it to run away. I can feel the bear's long claws digging into my side. I'm trying to not kill the bear. I hate killing animals. I stand in front of the child and I let out a defense growl. Shockingly, the bear then turned around and left us.

Run over to the child “are you OK, are you hurt, where is your pack?”

He looks at me with teary eyes and says, “I am lost, I can't find my way home.”

“What is the name of your pack, maybe I can help you?”

“My daddy is the Alpha, it's the Starlight Moon pack.”

“Well ok let's try to figure out which direction to walk in which way did you come from.”

"I don't know what direction I walked I'm sorry."

“ It's okay buddy we will walk this way for a little and see if we find your family.”

“Thank you I was so scared my name is Jayden, but my friends call me Jay. You can call me Jay too if you want too.”

Hello Jay, my name is Lilly I was glad to help you, but we still need to find your family first.

“It's only my dad and me, my mom died when I was born.”

“Oh buddy, I'm so sorry.”

“It's okay you didn't do anything Lilly stop I can smell my dad.”

We stop and he starts to yell “Daddy Daddy I'm over her.”

The little boy runs over to me, I kneel to him to face him “It will be ok don't you worry about me, you go home with your daddy and be safe try not to run off anymore.”

“No just come back, so you can heal then you can leave, I don't want anything to happen to you.”

“It's OK Jay I will be fine I will rest until it's healed and then be on my way go with your daddy.”

“Jayden she is a rouge she is not coming back to our pack she will put us all in danger.”

“Daddy, she saved me from danger. She jumped in front of a bear to protect me. How do you think she got hurt? It's because of me the bear clawed her.”

“Jayden I am not telling you again I don't care what she did for you, she's dangerous and I don't want anything to do with her.”

I see a figure in the woods behind the Alpha, I am not sure what the hell it is, but it's coming for him. He is leaning down talking to his son, trying to get him to understand why they don't allow rouges in their pack. I tried to get his attention, but he didn't react to me. Why should he don't know me? Right before the Wolf lunges on him, I shift into my Wolf and jump in front of him, the Wolf latches on to my neck I can barely breathe it hurts. I whimper out in pain, feeling terrible that his son is witnessing this. My body is losing its strength, I already lost too much blood from the bear attack now this. Not sure why I jumped in front of this Wolf to protect someone I don't even know. I don't want that boy to know how it feels to lose both of his parents. It's not just something you get over, it haunts you and the pain of being alone is terrible. All of this has happened in the matter of seconds. My eyes start to go blurry as they are covered with tears. I don't want to go to sleep, but I can't stay awake any longer. My eyelids are getting so heavy. Even if I would take my last breath right now, it would be ok knowing I protected that boy from losing both of his parents. Everything is starting to fade away going black as I fall into a slumber.