"How many have you caught?" I asked making eye contact with the werewolf infront of me. ...

I saw him visible cower from me. He took a glass of water and drank. My eyes not missing not even a little of his movements. I wanted to get the hell out of there and go to my mate. Which reminded me that Anastasia had not yet sent me the address.

I had been seating of that God forsaken chair for hours through the night with pack member surrounding me. I had seen him before,on few occasions. The passion pack alpha,known as Ian. He was reasonably tall and had good looks,or so the woman said. The first time we meet was after he had been put Alpha and that was after his father retired. It was at an way stage,40 years,while most retired at 50 or more.

"We have only two. The rest flared." He said,back pressed way too hard to the chair. Personally,He had nothing to fear. It was the most progressive thing I had heard from all the packs I had been to. His was the first to actually hold the vampires voltage,We'll the ones involved in the attacks.

"The rest?"

"Yes the rest. I believe that they are the ones that have been orchestrating the attacks the whole time. We have not gotten them to talk yet but in time we will."

"Time is what we don't have. Were are they?"

I stood from the chair,ready to go and force the information out of them. If the attacks were in anyway connected to what had happened one hundred and eighty-two years ago then my beloved was endanger. 'He' would kill her or worse.

"The cells." He said standing and walking ahead of me. Dylan was not far behind me. And back at the Pack,I had left Strider uncharted with his mate. They were the thirds in command. "Are you by any chance thinking what I'm thinking?" Dylan whispered to me. "I hope not." I said slightly shaking me head. The thought terrified me. I couldn't put her through that in the case that what I was thinking was true.

We got to a big wall made most of steel and iron. The stench of vampires revolting. Ian,dialed numbers on pad on the right and a door was revealed. A very thick door. We walked in. I mainly wanted to get as much information on their leader,as possible before I killed them but on one side I could just kill and ask later.

Like he had said there were two of them. One was visibly taller than the other,with messy brown hair and like all of them pale skin. They looked worse than the dead but one the other hand they were the dead in a way. I turned to the shorter one. His eyes were a little red and shoot. His breathing was fast but his face,both their faces were cool. I looked him in the eyes and he maintained it for a few seconds before faltering. The taller one was calm. I knew that he wouldn't say I word no matter how much I would try and I couldn't say the same for the other. He looked more like a new comer. An immature.

"I will never talk." Said the taller one as Dylan landed a soft punch on his chest. It was nothing compared to what he would really do. To what damage he would really cause and most of it permanent. He increased the intensity of his punched and after each one he continued the same line. "I will never talk." I got irritated and eventually ripped put his throat and before I made contact with his neck,a smile made it's way to his face and he all but whispered something to me. "He will come." Blood had stained the sleeves on my shirt and splattered all over my clothes.

Who the hell was 'he'? And what did he want?

"Now look,you friemd has ruined my suit." I take frowned turning to the only vampire in the room. He tried snarling his teeth at me for a warning. "You should really never do that,except your teeth and sharper and deadlier than your enemy's." I said snarling mine at him. He pulled his back in with a shatter and a shake from his body and I had even started with him yet. His friend had gone the easy way. If he irritated me to a point then he whole most probably suffer the same fate.

"Get out." I turned nd looked at all the people in the room that were most probably pissing their pants at the seen. All the werewolf scurried out the room. Leaving me,Dylan and my little friend all alone. The temperatures in the room dropped drastically as the door closed. They had their own special room. All their prisoners had their own.

I looked up at the roof and saw a small window. He shook his head frantically as if knowing what I was going to do. "Your friend over here," I looked ed at the lifeless body on the ground and started to take off my jacked and threw it on the furthest corner. "Had it easy but now you-" I halted. "You are going to take the tough road." I said a devilish grin forming on my face. "But if you talk then..." The grin growing bigger. " I will stop." I said rolling my sleeves up. He just stared at me without a word. "The hard way it is." I saw Dylan shiver at the corner of my eye ad the words came out. He had seen me at my worst and what I was going to do to the vampire was nothing compared to what I had done. Actually in a way he also had it easy. Not like his partner but close.

"I think I got enough information." I said throwing my shirt on the floor after wiping my hands. It was covered in vampire blood and unfortunately it had also splattered on Dylan. He had watched me mercilessly force the vampire to talk and he looked to have stopped aging at twenty or less.

We walked out to the pack house with all eyes on us and like everytime,I couldn't care less because they weren't from the one person I wanted to see.

Werewolves were much shorter than lycans and our abilities were much superior to theirs. The lust in the females eyes infuriated me. The only eyes I wanted to see were my mate's but I doubted if she would except me if she saw how I was. What I had to the vampire. She would see me as a monster. The thing that kept her awake at night and gave her nightmares. She would reject me.

"He is surely behind all of this. I would put it past him. But why go into hiding for for many years?" I looked at him with concern. Concern for my mate if he had found out about her. "Why use Alex to do his dirty work? It doesn't make sense." We talked while walking to our rooms to clean up. I still had to go and see my mate. Anastasia had sent the location and address an hour after I got into that room with his kind.

"Increase the patrol,I will be back in a few months or sent someone if you encounter such an attack." I said getting into the car and left for my mate's house.

"I'll meet you at the hotel." I said getting out of the car,right outside her gate. "Be careful." He was beginning to sound just like mother.

I ran the door bell and the door opened after three rings. "Are you trying to..." Said a voice I could recognise among millions she opened the door. She was wearing a pair of white jeans with a long sleeved shirt that cut just above her bellybutton. It was also white and in that time of the year,it was known to be warm,so bright colours always did the trick while I was dressed in a pair of ripped jeans,a shirt, a ladder jacket and sneakers. I wanted to wear something a little formal but that would sent the wrong impression.

She tensed at the sight of me. Her mouth opened but nothing came out. She repeated the same thing a number of time until another female came around the corner. She looked a little younger that my mate and she was wearing a summer dress.

"Who is he?" She asked nudging my mate on the ribs. That seemed to break her from a trance. "Um...Nick? What are you doing here?" She asked still shocked. The much younger one smiled widely. "Your boyfriend is hot." She said bluntly which made Scar nudge her in the ribs as she blushed. "Whose boyfriend now?" Said an exasperated voice behind then. It belonged to a much older but beautiful woman standing behind my mate. She was holding a dish cloth that gave me the impression that she had been wiping her hands. She was my mate's mother. I could tell from their facial features. She had the same face shape as Scar and their cheeks were the same though her were a little different due to age. And also last but not least,they were human. All but a scent that I got from my mate that was also present in the room but did not belong to her.

"Oh,My. Where are my manners? Come in young man." She pushed through her daughters and practically pulled me in. I walked in to their lounge area that overlooked a big glass wall overlooking the ocean. It was breath taking. "Will you not introduce us?" She said her hand slipping to my mates back and she released a small "Ouch "

"I'm Nick Wildwood,her boyfriend. "I said extending a hand,that her mother gladly took as her little sister just stared at.

"Boyfriend?!" She yelled in shock. Her mother and sister gave her a knowing look. She glared at me and she smiled nervously at her mother that did something that made her say "Ouch " again.

She gave me a fleeting glance before turning to her family. "Family this is Nick...my boyfriend. Nick this is my family." She said in a small voice and a warning smile send at me. Her mother smiled from ear to ear,as her sister blushed. "Your father is going to be so happy." She mother beamed. I looked to Scarlett to see a worried look on her face. She was thinking about something. Something that bothered her.

I was tempted to reached thoughts. Hear what bothered her so much but I didn't. Ok,I did. She was worried about her father. About what he think of me.

It worried me two by I couldn't let her see that. I wanted her family yo like me. It was the most important thing.

"Jason?" She called out and a man walked down the stairs. His scent his me first. It also had that thing that my mates' contained,just that his was more concealed that hers was. Though concealed it was stronger.

"Nick Wildwood." I said standing to greed him. His grip was strong,stronger than any human I had known and his aura was not of a human. It felt stronger than mine and I was a lycan and a king at that.

He let go of my hand after his wife send him a look.

"Sorry about that. He could be a little protective at times. "

Protective?! That did not even start to begin to explain what I felt when he shoke my hand and it was nowhere close to being ' protective '. I smiled sweetly at her as her husband sent daggers my way. The look he gave me made me want to hide and yet arms proudly infront of his daughter and tell him I would protect her.

He pulled me to the side for a talk. One of those talks the dad's gave to the boyfriend of their daughters. And it ended with me telling him that I would protect and love his daughter. Give my life for her if need be. I was truthful. I would not think twice about it. Her being safe meant that i would be sane and alive.

He was not skeptical at all but instead seemed to relax a little,like someone that had been told to let their sword down there is no need for war. In that case then he would have surely killed me.

"Can I talk to you for a moment please." That sweet sound I had been hoping to hear for two weeks said as the father gave me a pat on the back. "Listen go yo know and trust that you will love her but please don't let anything happen to my little girl cause I will have your head." He said bluntly. I smiled,I thought he was joking but then nothing changed. He was serious. He would have my head on a plate if I let anything happen to his daughter.

I nodded and he let me leave.

She pulled me to a patio and pushed me against a wall. "What are you doing here? Who gave you my address? Why did you come? Why didn't you say anything about coming?" She said with a hand buried in her head n her hair. "Why are you smiling? Can't you answer m? And what did you say you were my boyfriend for God sake? I thought we had not gotten there yet." She said now both hand raking through her hair. "I came for you and I thought you would love to be my girlfriend?" She blushed. "Of course I would. I love it but you could have asked me first a little warning would have been more than enough. And you could have given me a heads up about you coming." She said attempting to the ti her hair in a bun.

"Sofia please bring me a hair band or elastic. "She shouted and I heard a mumble come from her before the sound of footsteps ascended to what sounded like stairs came. "It was supposed to be a surprise " I said smiling sheepishly. "It sure as hell surprised me." She said sarcastically.

"You know,I would have thought you were gonna do something seing as you had pinned me to a wall." I teased and she blushed. "In you dreams." She said turning away to look at the area below. Her house was build a little up the hill but overlooking the ocean. "And yours too. Hopefully they will come true." I whispered to her and goosebumps erupted on her shoulders. I smiled to myself. I knew I had an effect on her but this,being so close to actually see it was he found rewarding. She tilted her head to the side. She wanted me to kiss her but I didn't. I reached to take a hold at the railing and leaned backwards as I washed her with her eyes closed shut as she awaited my impact. It was amusing.

"Is something wrong? Is the air too much?" I teased. She opened her eyes to see me standing next to her with a smirk. "Whatever." She stomped off back into the house leaving me laughing on my own.

"Why don't you tell your boyfriend to stay for dinner?" Her mother suggested and she gave me a look. One that made me want to bust out laughing but I didn't. She looked to me with eyes that stood me to make an excuse. Any kind of good excuse. " Oh,mom. I'm sure he is busy." She refused so I intervened. "I'm not for the night but I do have an early meeting tomorrow along with a flight." I said smiling at my mate that had glared at me. "You see?! It will be ready in a minute." Her mother said walking into the kitchen.

"A flight you say? Are you leaving tomorrow?" The curiosity in her eyes was beyond me. She had wanted me to leave just seconds ago. "Yes." She frowned.

"Oh. Why don't you stay longer? I wanted to show you to my friends. What a buzz kill. I had already told them about you." Sofia said with the same frown. "Bury me now." My mate said burying her face in her hands. The frown quickly gone and covered with embarrassment.

"Dinner is ready." Called her mother from another room. We all got up and went in to seat at a big rectangular table filled with at least ten chairs.

So she had a big family.

The dinner was mostly quiet but I couldn't say the same for the time after. Her mother told me so many stories about her past,that I found it impossible to not laugh. She had once fallen from a tree saying she and a friend had made a bet abojt who would climb the highest. And one day,she was playing and got in one of the lower kitchen cupboards. She took out all the dishes and just stayed in ther not saying a word as the whole family looked for her and even sent a search party to look for her. Not once in their minds did the thought that she had been in the cupboards gross their minds seeing as the dishes were out.

"Unfortunately I have to leave now."I said standing from the the lawn were they had laid out blankets to lay in as we watched the stairs. That explained her undying love for the night sky. She took it from her family. "So soon?" Her mother asked also getting up. It was way past eleven PM and we had laid there in the grass as they told me crazy stories about my Scarlett. Apparently she was quite the comedian growing up.

"Why don't you stay the night." Her little sister spewed out of nowhere and I swear I saw Scarlett's eyes widen in shock. He father cleared his throat. "I-I don't think-" Her mother tried to talk but got interrupted by a lot of pleading. "Oh please mother please. I promise to do the dishes for a whole month if he stays the night. Please,please,please, pretty please." Puppy dog eyes at her parents.

"I don't see why not,but in separate rooms." Her mother said as she got a hug.

"Now they Can see him." She said in a giddy voice walking towards the doors that led inside as we all followed behind.

"Seeing as your staying for the night and my dad seems to be a tiny bit fond of you. I'll tell you their names seeing as u have not told you yet." Scar said walking a bit slower to the back. "My mother is Adriana,And remember to never comment on her food as 'good' or 'fine'. It breaks her. An old now father. He is Jason but I address a him as dad or father. As for you,never address him in those. Unless told otherwise. He will skin you alive. And also remember to never talk or mumble anything bad about mom. He will kill you. Well he will kill you in any chance he gets. Last but not least. There is the monster that I adore,Sofia. She-" She stopped as her father Called for her. "Hurry up back there." She rolled at her eyes. "We will father."

"As I was saying,there is Sofia. She is obviously my little sister by..." She stopped to count her fingers. "Eight years and that makes her sixteen. Likes bagels but you can win her over with a night out any day." She cranned her neck back to meet my eyes. "And then there is me,The last of the four. I love coffee,As you may or may not have noticed." She laughed slightly. " There is not much to know about me." She said as we reached the patio. Now was my time to stop.

What the hell did she mean by there was not much to know?

She had many special things about her that I was soon to find out. She was special,unique to me.

"Why would you say that? I have been trying to get to know you for weeks and I'm not that proud to say,I haven't learned much." She laughed loudly making her father turn on his heel. "You should go and sleep now. I'll show him to his room." Jason said walking to us. "Sorry about that." An apologetic smile on her beautiful face and I nodded.

I watched her walk off up the stairs swaying her hips unknowingly. I admired and loved her. She didn't even know what she was doing to me and with her father around.

"Now tell me something,where did you two meet and how?" He asked as we reached the lounge. It felt like one of those times were you had that gut feeling to tell the truth but knew that the same truth would turn their lived upside down. But that didn't mean I was lie. If I did and he knew the truth then that would put me on a bad side with her father and on the other hand,say I told him the truth. He would report the existence of my people and all the supernatural.

"At her house. I had a few matters to resolve with her friend. " I said honestly. Well half honestly. He hummed. "What are your plans with my daughter?" He gave me a stern look. This felt like that time during an exam were both answers felt right but none was good enough. "To someday make her my wife." I was going to stick to making my answers short.

The interrogation was kept short and sort of civil. He didn't fry me like I had originally thought. Never in my life had I been as scared as I was talking to another man. And that was not just any man. He was my mate's,the Luna of my pack and queen of all shifters. Both werewolf and lycans.

He escorted me to my room and gave me a small pat on the shoulder. I think he sort of,kind of,maybe liked me. It was a working process.