The Wolf In Me novel Chapter 47

Mei's POV

I was sitting down on a wooden garden bench, reading a book called An Unexpected Kind Of love which I have been consumed in for a while. The breeze was delicately touching my warm cheeks, feeling the heat of the sun against my skin. Mason, now five years old was playing with a few other kids a few meters away from my sight.

Luka went for a spot check with Jake like they do every day in wolf form whilst they discuss activities, training, gatherings and some stuff that are necessary for the pack to keep it entertained. Lylah and Nelly left for a few weeks to meet with some witches, in the hopes to rebuild a strong coven as they have had in the past. Everything has been quiet for years now but yesterday Luka and Jake have discovered a freshly dead body of a human, left abandoned in the middle of the forest. I've got a hunch about it and since then I felt restless, always making sure Mason was by my side.

As I was back gaping at the book, I felt a hand over my shoulder that startled me.

"Oh, Melody. I didn't feel you coming."

She smiled at me and sat down on the empty part of the bench observing the opened book.

"The last time I read a book was that demon spell book we took from the library."

She sighed and rested herself against the backside of the bench, moving her face towards the brightness of the sun. Closing her eyes, she smiled, absorbing herself into the moment.

"Since then, everything got so quiet, it's almost boring I can say."

I closed the book and looked at her intently, observing every corner of her face.

"Boring is good when you have a five-year-old son and another on the way," I mumbled, looking down at my belly.

She stared at me for a second, thinking I was joking.

"What? Are you serious?" She asked squeakily.

"I was about to tell you the same thing about me! I'm expecting too," I half gasped and laughed as we locked into an embrace, screaming with joy.

Luka's POV

"F**k man, another one," I muttered, turning myself back into human form.

I was down on one knee hovering over the dead naked female body. Jake turned her around, seeing if any of us would identify her. He shook his head and looked at me.

"She might be one of us, but not form our pack," I said, covering her body with a blanket that was under her.

"Maybe a rouge?" He asked, looking up at me.

I shrugged my shoulders, still fixing the blanket over her. I sighed as I observed the surroundings, in the hopes that I would find a clue. Sure enough, there were a pair of human footprints pointing out the direction from where the woman came from. Following the tracks in the soil, I realised that I was right. She was a wolf and it seemed like she was running in wolf form before she turned into human form and died at the spot.

"No bruises, definitely alone since we can only see one set of footprints, but.... she was running from something for sure," I observed, moving my fingers softly on one footprint, thinking and imagining what she was running from.

Mind linking Mei, I sent for Melody to come and assist us with her ability as a witch. We waited silently for her to arrive, wearing the spare clothes we brought with us.

"Melody," Jake yelled as we watched her approaching from afar.

I tied my shoelace and stood up to find her taking the last few steps towards us.

"Mei said you needed my help," she said, turning her gaze at the dead body.

"Oh. You found another one?"

Leaning down by the body, Melody closed the young woman's blue eyes, sighing as a gesture of sadness towards the misfortune.

"I am guessing you want me to find out what happened to her, right?"

She looked at her with a sad expression, asking with a brittle voice.

"We need to know who did this and what for. They might be doing this as a threat towards our pack, maybe our kind, or it could have possibly been an unfortunate accident, which I doubt very much considering that this is the second time finding a body laid so close to our territory. Something or someone is responsible for this and we need to act quickly before its too late," I explained to her, showing my urgency.

With a nod, she focused, with her eyes closed, and hands hovering over the body, trying to find a source of energy from the lifeless woman.