CHAPTER 6:

"I am so tired and my feet ache." Frigg moaned in pain as she slumped into the couch, rubbing her feet.

"Well, you were the one who danced all night," I explained laughing at her expression.

"I wasn't the only one, tell me, Hope. Who was the hunk you were dancing with? I mean talk about lucky." Frigg exclaimed, looking at me curiously.

"Just someone I met at the festival." I blushed as she made kissy faces at me.

"Ah! Is my Hope growing up?" she said and tackled me to the ground, hugging me with fake tears.

"Get off me you troll," I said as she faked a gasp at me.

"I am not a troll, you are!" she said and we started a mini playful fight on the ground like two toddlers.

"Okay okay, you win I am the troll." I laughed, "I seriously need a bath though." I explained and stood up from the floor.

"Yeah you do, you stink." She said playfully shouted and pushed me away, taking out her phone and texting someone, probably George her lover.

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Relaxing in the warm bath I played with my necklace. It saddens me that Dmitry just left without a goodbye, but he looked so... I don't know, almost scared yet in so much pain. He looked at my necklace as if it brought him physically, but emotional pain too.

It wasn't the first time either, now that I thought about the first time we had met, he had the same expression once he saw my necklace. It was strange, how could a little necklace have brought so much pain? It was a harmless necklace.

Closing my eyes, I sunk into the water deeper as the moonlight shined upon my face through the window. As I went underwater my necklace lighted up and the water started to glow a light blue colour too. The glowing light of the necklace and the light of the moon complemented each other, which made the whole atmosphere in the bathroom mystical and beautiful. The whole room lighting up in a soft blue colour, before I was startled by a howl.

Running to my room and jumping into my PJ's, I rushed to my bed and threw the blankets over me. I then waited for sleep to take over, while the memory of the wolf from the woods played fresh in my mind.

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Running through the woods, I try to calm myself. Where had she got her hands on that necklace? When I first saw it yesterday, I thought that it was just a coincidence, but know up close... It was the one I had been searching for. It was Arena's necklace.

It was the same little moonstone and silver chain as all those years ago. I thought I lost it with her, but there it was on the neck of another and through all these years kept the same.

Hope... when I first saw her she intrigued me. I couldn't smell her scent or any hormones like I could with anyone else and that necklace... When I saw it, it didn't just bring me emotional pain, but physical too. I had never experienced such pain. It consumed me so that all I could feel was throbbing pain, making my eyesight blurry. I could barely hear anything as sirens blared in my ears and my body felt like it was being burned from the inside, yet she consumed me. I couldn't get myself to stop thinking about her, I couldn't get away from her. She was everywhere, my dreams, nightmares and thoughts. All I could think about was her, how her eyes sparkled with innocents, how soft her skin was when she touched my hand, how she would laugh when playing with the children. It amazed me that someone of her age still had all that energy to play with the kids or play with them out of a free will and still enjoyed it. When you looked at her with the children you could truly see it was her passion.

She was the most innocent person I have ever met. She doesn't know what she does to me; it was like she has awoken this beast inside me that I have kept locked up for years. I couldn't help but get jealous when I saw her dancing with her friend. My beast didn't like it that someone was touching her or got her to laugh in a way that he wanted too. He wanted to be the only one to touch her, to please her and to make her happy. He wanted to lock her up and keep her safe for all eternity. He wanted to make her His and that scared me the most.

I ran through the woods until the moon was high and my wolf howled at it. I did not know where I was. It maddened me more that I was able to lose control so easily, I was always in control of my actions. I was about to argue with Him when he suddenly changed direction and sprinted even faster than before.

Our heart rate picked up and our muscles felt stronger, making us move faster to where my wolf wanted to go. We came across a clearing just outside Michael's border; it was a little two-story house that was painted a faintish yellow colour and had a big backyard.

Taking a few steps forward I stop, wondering what I was doing. My beast was growling at me for stopping, forcefully pulling me closer to the house, that was my cue to growl. My wolf rarely overpowered me or took control; the only times he gained full control was on a full moon and when I lost my temper, but I knew the perks in and out.

As a passenger in a car, I watch as my wolf walk closer to a window. That was when I saw her. She rushed into a bed and pulled the blankets over her head, scared of something and that made my wolf growl. He wasn't happy that she was so afraid. We stayed and watched the window, listening to her heartbeat softly beating slower as time passed until we were sure she was fast asleep.

Walking closer to the window my wolf's paw started to burn, which made him jump back in pain, carefully moving closer to the garden bed, I smelt the ground and growled. Wolfsbane!

'Volv!' I mentally yelled at the beast, trying to get control back, but he didn't budge and only growled at me. Still fighting for control he gave me one last growl before he sprinted through the garden and jumped to the window, turning into our human form and leaving us hanging on the sill of the window. Tempting to just fall to the ground and return to the Lodge, my wolf pleaded me to go inside the room. Giving up, I opened the window with one hand and pulled myself up and inside.

'What are we doing, Volv?' I asked him irritated for putting us in that situation.

'Shut up, I know what I am doing.' He growled at me. Walking around the room I took everything in. It was a plain room, probably the guest room of that house which means that she was just a guest there in town.

Walking closer to the bed we noticed that she was a cuddler, she cuddled her pillow while her hair was loose and in a mess around her. She looked at peace and childlike, her little body cuddling the pillow for its life.

My wolf howled in pleasure about the thoughts of her body wrapped around us. Both he and I weren't much of a cuddler or an affectionate type of person. We didn't like hugs and the only time we were intimate with another woman, were when we needed a release and even then, we were picky, but the thoughts about her, with us in that way made us shiver in bliss.

Sitting next to her on the bed as softly as we could, we brushed a few strands of hair out of her face. Absolute beautiful! As if on instinct she left her pillow and snuggled up to us. I traced my thumb over her soft plumed lips as she deeply inhaled. Her body reacted to my touch in an instant and in pleasure, which made me wonder why? Slowly brushing my hand over her cheek and to her neck the necklace reappeared from under her shirt, making me weak again. The pain was like nothing I have ever felt, making me almost scream as electric shocks caused through my veins.

She moves again and that time the necklace slid back under her shirt making the pain go away. It felt like cold water was thrown over my overheated body and only her touch could let it go away, yet her touch did nothing.

I sat there until the sun had risen and the birds started to chirp, just looking at her and sometimes cherishing her cheek or neck, my thoughts running from the strange girl to why I felt sudden feelings that had been dormant for years. Before the house awoke, I jumped out of the window and ran back to Lodge, I asked Alex to do some research on Hope and went straight to the gym.

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