Episode 5

"Can we go home? I'm cold" I say, trying to convince him in every way to go back

Dark had gotten it into his head that this human belonged to him, and being as stubborn as I am, he wouldn't rest until he got her...

It's no use saying no... he could fight and transform even if I didn't want him to, he was stronger than me...

And now we are here, in front of that woman's house while he stares at her window

"You're not cold... especially when I'm in my form" he says

As I had explained to that woman, we were two people sharing the same body...

Dark was my wolf.... And regardless of what form we were in, we could talk to each other mentally, as if we were each other's consciousness...

"So let's at least go! Dude, what's wrong with you? It looks like you're in heat....she doesn't even have a wolf, she's human...." I murmur

"Even so....it must be her" Dark says

"Just because she scratched your ear?! Imagine if she scratched your belly"

"It's not about that..." he says seriously

"She already said she's not coming....You're not like that....Why this insistence? Why does it have to be her?"

Before Dark could answer me, the woman came out of the house with heavy steps, walking towards us with a not-so-good look on her face.

"Get out!" she says, pointing away as if telling us to get out of there, but Dark doesn't move

"Let's go! Shoo!"

She stomped her foot, clapped her hands, tried to drive us out of there at all costs...

She kicks, she screams, but Dark continues to stand still

She takes snow, makes a ball and throws it at him, but he doesn't even flinch

"Leave me alone! Go away! I'm not going with you to the village! I'm not interested in having a pet!" She yells

Dark continues to stand still

Until, suddenly, she disappears into the house and returns with a shotgun, her determination clear in her eyes. My heart races, the survival instinct alerting us to imminent danger.

"This woman is completely crazy, Dark. We need to get out of here before she does something crazy!" I warn him, feeling a growing concern

"Adrian, you're overreacting. She's just trying to get us off her property. I see no reason to panic....She needs to understand that we're not just going to disappear" He replies calmly

I scoff mentally

"You're not seeing the situation clearly, Dark. She's coming towards us with a shotgun. This is dangerous!"

"Last warning!" She cocks the shotgun and fires a shot into the air

"Dark, let's go..."

Then she cocks it again and points it at us

"Dark!" I yell and finally, he turns to leave, his resolve crumbling in the face of imminent danger. But before he can get away completely, I feel a sharp pain echo in my mind.

"Dark, what happened?" I ask, worried about what might be happening.

"Something hit me in the back," he replies, his voice gasping in pain

With that urgency in mind, Dark pulls away as fast as he can, running away from that crazy woman

"You still want that crazy woman around?!" I yell

"Yes...this is not going to make me give up..." he says

"You are as crazy as she is...." I murmur

Dark, still feeling the throbbing pain, manages to get to the hideout to enter the village. Carefully, he approaches the house of Zade, one of the few friends I had in the community, if not the only one...

With an instinctive movement, he begins to scratch Zade's door, hoping for help

Every scratch was a desperate attempt to get Zade's attention.

Meanwhile, I watched in silence, sharing Dark's anguish and pain.

Every second that passed felt like an eternity, and uncertainty hung in the air like a thick fog. I could only wait, praying that Zade would help us so late at night....

Until finally, the door opens, and Zade appears, with a sleepy and worried expression on his face.

"What happened, Dark?" he asks, his voice laced with concern.

Dark just whimpers softly and turns to him, showing the wound

"Come in...." He says and then Dark enters "Let's take care of this...Go to the back..."

Meanwhile, I hear footsteps coming down the stairs, and soon Anne, Zade's wife, appears in the room, surprised by the scene before her.

"What's going on here?" she asks, her voice full of curiosity and concern.

"Just Dark got hurt, honey. You can go back upstairs and sleep, I'll take care of this" he says softly, trying to reassure her

She nods and goes back upstairs.

Zade takes me to a small room and asks me to resume my human form.

And when I reassume human form, I realize that the shot hit the side of my butt

Upon seeing the wounded area, Zade frowns.

"This looks pretty painful" he comments, his serious expression reflecting his concern.

"It's burning like hell......" I murmur

"How did you get hurt?"

"I got shot with a shotgun..." I say

Zade examines the wound carefully

"It was a rock salt shot. If it was gunpowder, you wouldn't have a butt right now...and probably no leg. Fortunately, it was superficial and didn't go deep." He explains

Zade, besides being one of the alphas and on the front line, had medical knowledge and also acted as a nurse....

"Lie down on the table...I'll bandage it up...but you're going to be unable to sit properly for a while..."

I lie down on the table, feeling the cold upholstery on my skin making me shiver

As he cleans the wound and bandages it, I'm indignant...

"You happy now, Dark? Want to go back there and get a rock salt shot in your ass too so I can be faceless?!" I murmur mentally but Dark remains silent

Of course he's going to be quiet now...

After bandaging it, Zade hands me a pair of clothes

"How did this happen?" he asks

"It was....that woman who saved Dark..." I say

I take a deep breath before I begin to explain the story to him. How Dark became fixated on having her at all costs, and how that crazy woman acted impulsively and shot Dark, who was in wolf form, as he tried to approach her.

Zade listened attentively, his expression changing from surprise to understanding as I recounted the events. Then, when I finished, he couldn't help himself and started laughing.

"You got shot with rock salt!" He says laughing "Rock salt, dude.....You almost lost your butt because of a crazy woman your wolf got obsessed with" Zade says between laughs. "You're not even lucky in wolf form, huh?"

I roll my eyes, knowing Zade was just messing with me.

"Rock salt, dude," he says laughing. "Seriously, Adrian, I've seen a lot, but you always manage to exceed all expectations!"

"At least I'm okay," I reply, trying to keep a straight face, despite the teasing.

Zade kept laughing, clapping, and shaking his head.

"Oh, you're something else, man! That's what I call the hectic life of an alpha. I don't know how you manage to survive so much chaos", he says, between laughs. "But that's why I love having you around. It's always an adventure guaranteed!"

After having some fun at my expense, Zade gets serious

"So now what, Adrian? What do you intend to do about this? If Dark doesn't get what he wants, it could have implications for your personalities, you know that, right?"

Zade's question made me reflect on the possible consequences of our actions. If Dark didn't achieve his goal, I knew he would become even more frustrated and unhappy, and he might even go against my personality or worse...kill himself off little by little until he ceased to exist completely....

I would still have his genes, but it would be useless....

I take a deep breath before answering

"I need to get her here....Somehow..." I mutter

"But you said she doesn't have a wolf," he says

"No, she doesn't....I didn't smell any wolf, and if she did, she wouldn't be so shocked..."

Zade nodded, understanding the gravity of the situation.

"So what do you suggest we do?" he asked, ready to help in any way he could.

"I have no idea....Even if I marked her, I don't know if she could handle it.... I don't know how the genes would react in her body....What I do know is that I need to get her here..."

"And then? Do you intend to marry her?" Zade asks

"What? No! Well...I don't know....I haven't thought that far ahead yet?" I mutter

"And what have you thought about?"

"Bringing her here.... To my house....that way Dark would always be near her..."

"And what excuse are you going to make for her to live in your house without arousing suspicion? And what about your girlfriend?"

"I don't have a girlfriend..... There's only Melany, but we're not dating...."

"Not according to her and her father....the old man wants you to marry her... Don't get me wrong, but you can do better... That woman's voice makes my wolf's fur stand on end and not in a good way," he says, making me chuckle

Melany's father wanted me to marry her, he is one of the alphas of the council.... We went out once in a while and hooked up too but, besides Dark hating her and her wolf, I had no romantic interest in her....

"Look for someone strategic, you seem to have no idea what to do, do you?" Zade said in a playful tone

"I am...It's harder than coming up with a war strategy..." I mutter, rubbing my forehead

Zade gives a slight laugh

"Well...I think I have an idea...but I don't know if either you or her will be happy about it..."

Together, we began to devise a plan to deal with the delicate situation we found ourselves in, knowing that Dark's future and my own were at stake....

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