Chapter-8

Hunter's POV

We are all sitting in my room. I am holding my mate in my arms. Her cheeks look red. I run the back of my fingers on them and hold her hand.

Clara and Mark are sitting side by side. He is holding her close.

"So, Linda is a witch?" I ask.

"Yes. I wanted to make sure that you are Angie's real mate. I wanted to make sure that you are not someone that has put a spell on her to make feel the pull and the tingles and all the... mate stuff."

"You didn't believe me either?" Mark asks.

"After the things we have been through, I don't trust anyone. I am sorry. I will tell you everything later." She tells him.

"Why would anyone put a spell on her?" She is a human. Why would they want to make her feel those things?

"Before I answer that, just tell me... Are you the only red wolf? Do you know anyone else who is a red wolf?" She asks.

"No. As far as I know, I am the last one. Although, I did hear a rumour that there was a child that is said to be a red, but I heard that she was killed along with her family. She is the daughter of Mountain pack's Alpha. She is a child and hasn't turned yet, but it was only a prediction. We will never know now."

"Haven't people come for you or have they not hunted you for being a red wolf?"

"My father made sure, no one knew I was a red wolf until I was fully trained. Even my pack members didn't know till I was twenty two years old. He took special care of me after he heard about what happened to that little girl."

"You are holding that rumoured little red wolf in your arms right now." She speaks and I gasp. It's like all the breath is knocked out of my body. I look down at her.

"No way." I hear Mark saying in shock.

"She is a Red Wolf?" I ask again to make sure I heard her right.

"She is." Clara confirms.

Not only is she not a human, she is a wolf. She is a Red Wolf. Red wolves are a rare breed. They are stronger, faster and dominant. She sure doesn't look like a dominant person though. They are considered superior to the other wolves.

There is a legend that hundreds of years back, there was a revolution in werewolves. They rebelled and made our existence known to the human kind. They lost track of right and wrong and started behaving as rulers. All the other werewolves made a pact to bring them together and put them down to sustain peace and keep our existence a secret as it was.

A plan was made and all the red wolves, at least most of them, have fallen into the trap and all of them were dead. Since then, only few red wolves have lived. Now it's only us both.

"People did come to take her one night. My mother died saving us. My mother's brother Uncle Anthony rescued us and taught us everything. He raised us. He trained us. He protected us. He created the rumour that we are dead to protect us. He didn't even tell Angie about herself or how important she is. She still doesn't know." Tears gather in her eyes as she speaks. Mark holds her close.

"How does she not know? Didn't turn into her wolf?" We turn at eighteen years of age.

"Uncle asked Linda to put a spell on her wolf and suppressed it all these years. Because of that, she developed headaches. I think it's because her wolf is trying to connect with her. She didn't have this kind of severe headache since her eighteenth birthday. It's the day her wolf would have come out for the first time. I guess, her wolf sensed you as her mate and it really wanted to come out today."

She did have a headache yesterday in the car.

"This potion helps subdue the wolf and her pain." She brings it out of the pocket and shows it to me.

"Why hide it from her? Don't you think that if you tell her, she will protect herself better. You can't subdue ones wolf." Mark speaks. I am still in the shock. I am processing all of this information.

"No. Our Uncle didn't want that. We didn't want to risk anyone seeing her in her wolf form. Not after we saw how selfish people can be. But, you have to know, she can fight though. She fights pretty well. Uncle trained her pretty hard. That saying in her human strength. I can't imagine what she can do if she turns into her wolf form. She will kick everyone's ass."

I chuckle. I would love to see that. I would love to teach her how to fight.

"She does not have the sass to do it though. She is too kind for that unless you try something with her."

That's true. She is sweet like an Angel.

"Take good care of my sister, Hunter." She sounds serious.

"You don't have to doubt that for a minute." She will be protected by my life. "What happened to your Uncle?" She falls silent for a second as I ask her that.

"It was because of my stupid mistake. I was so stupid to trust this person. Uncle died killing him to keep the secret that Angie is alive."

"Who is that person? Who are the ones that are after her? Do they know that she is alive?" That means she is in danger.

"All that I know is his name is Lupus and that's not his real name. We don't even know how he looks. Only Angie has seen him, that too for a few seconds, when he tried to kidnap us the night he invaded our pack. We lost our parents that night." She lets out a sob and Mark pulls her close to sooth her. "He has predictions that she is alive. He keeps sending men.

We don't stay in any place more than a year. Sometimes we move every six months. That's how we came here."

"How long did you plan to stay here?" I ask.

"If everything went well, a year." She wipes her tears from her cheek. "I don't know. Now... it's all just..." They found their mates.

"You know that you do not need to run now, right?" I run a hand through my hair. "You guys are not going anywhere anymore." I look down at my mate. She looks so peaceful. I lean down and place a kiss on her forehead. "Does she have red hair?" Clara nods.

"She does. We just always made sure she covered it up so that, even if he catches up with us, he wouldn't know particularly that it's her."

"Has she ever asked who that person is?"

"She knows that he wants her. He told her that he will be back for her before he left. We haven't told her everything. We just told her that our ancestors come from a very special heritage and that this person wants her for reasons that are not good. She asked more, but Uncle never told her. He just thought the lesser she knows the better.

They have had arguments several times where she asked him to her tell what this is all about, but he never told her. He told me that I am wolf when I was around sixteen years old. I was rebelling and my hormones were all over the place."

That's not a wonderful time. Our body is changing, our wolf is developing in us. All the sense slowly start heightening. I can understand.

"He finally shows me that he is a wolf and tells me I am one. I obviously freaked out, but I can't deny who I am. He told me everything about the red wolves. He told me that she is the one and that's the reason they want her. He told me to keep a secret from her. I just never saw the reason to tell her either. She doesn't know that I know."

My heart lurches out for them and me and my wolf feel at peace knowing that our mate has been well protected. Mark is looking at Clara with such admiration. He holds her hand.

"I feel proud to have you as my mate." He tells her. She smiles and hugs him. I wish my Angel wakes up and looks at me like that. She has been through so much. She doesn't even know what she is fighting and she doesn't know when to stop, but she never gave up. That takes strength.

"Uncle thinks that one of the reasons they want her is because she is a female wolf. She could produce off springs." She says and I lose control.

A growl erupts my throat. A loud one. I don't stop growling for a minute. My anger raises as I think about it. My wolf nearly comes out.

"Hunter." My Little wolf's voice puts me in place. I control myself and look at her. She hasn't woken up yet, but she looks like she is about to. My heart suddenly flips that she is saying my name in sleep.

Oh my Little Wolf, My Angel!

A/N:

Hey my cute dumplings!

All secrets are revealed. Too much information. Too much drama. But Angela is in the middle of it all and she doesn't even know why.

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