Chapter 10: A promise

Pov Eros
"What's with you and the pathetic human?" Erik, my Beta asks. I glance from the papers in front of me on my desk to him as he leans against the doorway an irritated expression on his face.

I raise a brow at him. "Since when is that any of your business?" He looks annoyed as I say this. A scowl resting on his face.

"It isn't exactly the perfect time to hook up with girl, we got more important matters at hand." Now I stand up with a fierce look in my eyes.

I bring my fist down on the desk making him jump as my leadership comes forward. "Don't you think I'm busy trying to trap that hunter? Do you think I haven't been thinking about those innocent members that have been killed in cold blood, cause I do and I know what I'm doing!" My voice raises and a growl leaves my mouth.

He averts his eyes to the ground a sign that he submits. "I'm sorry Alpha, but it just seemed you were more thinking about that girl than the situation going on now." His voice is much softer than before cause he knows that he's walking on eggshells right now.

"I'm looking out for her too cause she's a member of this town now like the rest of the humans in this town. And they need to be protected too, cause they are weaker then us. But that doesn't mean I'm not protecting my pack, I will try anything to stop this hunter from killing anymore of my people." He nods and mutters something about apologies before he walks out.

I sigh and sit down again. Speaking of Helena, that walk I took a few hours ago with her was somehow peaceful, for a moment I forgot everything, feeling mesmerised by her. I can't believe I almost tried to kiss her, she was just so sexy in that dress and how she looked into my eyes after I caught her right on time before she collapsed to the ground. I don't know, she has this aura around her, like a good vibe and even my wolf finds peace in talking to her. But I know that there is something about her, it's like I've met her before but that is absurd cause I wouldn't know where I could have met her, I would remember if I've known her from somewhere. But those sparkling hazel eyes and her small grin.

A smile comes to my face just at the thought of her. She's so damn beautiful...

I shake my head at the stupid teenage thoughts. I'm really thinking things of her that aren't innocent. I bet if she would know she would turn that adorable shade of red.

I shake out of my thoughts and I look back to the paperwork I have, knowing I'll have to finish this. Erik is right, these are matters that can't wait.

I've got letters from family from all around the globe. Great leaders and warriors of packs who haven't been terrorised by Hunters. Yet.

Each of them offers to send help before this pack is wiped off the globe. And I appreciate it, cause I know from experience that leading a pack isn't an easy task, so knowing that all of this distant relatives want to help me out I can't help but feel enormous respect towards them.

So I've spent the last two hours writing letters back, telling them I will contact them if I need reinforcements and that I am grateful for the help they want to provide. I've also wrote that if there is anything I can do to help them, all they have to do is ask although it's a rough time right now.

I've been thinking the last few days of a way to capture that mongrel and I've come up with a plan. Me, the members and the leader of my troops, Kade, have talked about all different kind of plans, and we've come up with a good one.

We are gonna put more wolves around the border and have one hidden around the area and when the hunter wants to kill the others he will attack him. Surprising him as he surely won't expect one to attack him from behind.

The plan will start tonight, hopefully we will catch him tonight, stopping the bloodshed of my pack and I swear this, if I catch that hunter I will make him pay, I will torture him, let my members have the honour to do the damage for their killed family. And after enough torture we will hang him to rot in the dungeons where his only company will be the rats and the flies.

I have no compassion for such beings. I don't even understand why they want us dead, we have lived in peace with the humans for centuries now. Caring for them like they are one of our own kind. In my town some of the humans even know about us, respecting us like we respect them.

I sigh and look at the clock seeing it's already ten o'clock in the evening.

'Be careful out there, and hopefully we will get this bastard tonight! If there is anything mindlink me and I'll send back up!'

I mindlink my members, actually hating it I have to put them in the situation that they are the bait.
I breath out heavily, rubbing my hands through my hair, making it messy, wishing my mom would be here, she would have known what to do in such situations. And she sure as hell would be better in solving problems.

My thoughts are interrupted by one of the wolves at the border.

'Alpha! Alpha, it's bad ! So bad! The hunter got us, but has gotten away. Tim is wounded but slowly dying of wolfsbane and Yannick has been shot trough the head with an arrow and Olson died of an silver blade in the lung. We are gonna bring them in immediately!'

Three of my members have been hurt, two had an instant dead and the third is slowly burning up from the inside. My wolf takes control and I pull the desk up, throwing it across the room breaking things in the process.

I howl out of rage and storm to the infirmary of the pack, running as fast as I can while holding my wolf back. I see a few members running, carrying Tim in there arms, in his human form, a blade stuck in his side. Others hold the bodies of the ones that have died already.

I rush beside them. Going inside of the infirmary where the packdocter immediately bolts to help Tim.

The pack nurses are chaotic as they see the bodies of their dead friends, some of them even crying.

"Bring him to one of the infirmary rooms!" Damian, the packdocter calls. The remaining three, James, Patrick and Ricky, rush with Tim to one of the rooms laying him softly on the bed.

Tim groans out of pain, sweat dripping down his body as the wolfsbane kills him from the inside slowly burning his veins in a painful process.

"You need to get the blade out Doc." James says nervous.

Damian grabs the handle but before he can do anything Ricky interrupts. "Don't you need to sedate him first?"

"There is no time, the longer the blade stays in the more painful it wil be for him." And before anyone can say anything more Damian pulls the blade out and he quickly puts it on the table beside the bed before he presses his gloved hands on the wound trying to stop the bleeding. "Marsha! Bring me a needle and a thread and an sedative to numb the pain."

He calls to one of the nurses and all we can do is stand there and watch. The nurse rushed in. A syringe in hand and in the other needle and thread.

"Give the sedative to him now!" Damian calls, getting nervous too, sweat dripping down his face.

Marsha pushes the needle into his arm, releasing the fluid into his veins . His groans lessen and his heavy breathing calms down a bit. Marsha looks at him, pain in her eyes.

"Don't you stand there women and hand me the needle and the thread and then go get me a bandage!" She hastily gives it to him running off then to get a bandage while he stitches the wound, knowing it won't heal itself anymore.

The painful look on Tim face as Damien stitches the blooding gap on his side makes us all restless and miserable.

Just when he's done stitching Marsha hurries in, giving him the bandage and Doc puts the bandage on the wound. He looks up at me and comes beside me and he whispers in my ear.

"I'm sorry Alpha, but he's gonna die very soon. It will only be a matter of time before the wolfsbane reaches his heart." I nod at him solemnly walking closer to Tim's bed, grabbing his hand.

He looks weakly at me and I see the life draining out off him. "What did he do to you?" I ask softly.

"The hunter is not what you t-think it is..." His voice crackles and he coughs, almost choking, his eyes slowly losing its light. "The hunter is a g-" and before he can finish his sentence his eyes go lifeless and his hand goes limp in mine.

I feel anger and pain washing over me and with a heavy voice I make this promise. "I promise you I will find the hunter, I will avenge you and I'll make him pay..."

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