The bartender was dumbfounded.
Debra’s POV: As soon as I left the bar, it started to rain again.
I knew that Leonel were monitoring my every movement, waiting for the chance to kill me.
I knew that it would be safer to stay in Caleb’s pack, but the humiliation he had caused me was worse than death. The pain was no less than my heart being ripped out of my chest by Leonel.
I kept going, forcing one foot in front of the other, as though I was Walking toward certain death.
I just kept thinking about what Vicky had said and trudged on northward.
I didn’t know how long I had walked. My legs felt like jelly and my soul was weary. Gradually, my vision started to blur.
In a trance, I thought I saw my mother up ahead. She was smiling. “Mom!” I reached out and tried to hug my mother, but everything suddenly went black and I rolled down the hill.
When I woke up again, I was lying in a strange bed.
“You’re finally awake.” A werewolf with curly brown hair in a doctor’s uniform was checking the IV Liquid I was hooked onto. He smiled gently to me. “I’ve checked your vitals and the child is healthy, but the wound on your shoulder is quite serious. It’ll take some time to heal.”
Looking around in a daze, I was totally confused. “And you are…?” “Kayden Murray, your attending physician,” he answered promptly. ”
“And we’re in..?”
“Xeric Pack.”
“Xeric Pack?” My eyes went as wide as saucers.
Yes.” Kayden smiled slightly and seemed to have expected my reaction. “And yes, this is the pack that nearly went extinct.”
“Well…” I felt a little embarrassed for being so obvious. Smiling sheepishly, I asked, “Then, how did I get here?”
“We saw you at the foot of a hill. We figured you rolled down the hill and was knocked out by the impact. Some werewolves from our pack happened to be passing by the area and they found you, so they brought you back here,” Kayden explained patiently.
I nodded slowly as his words sank in. Just when I opened my mouth to ask him something, a loud howl interrupted me.
It was warning, and the howl sounded very familiar. It was Leonel.
It seemed that Leonel and his men were waiting for me at the border of the Xeric Pack.
“They have been howling all day.” Kayden sighed in exasperation. As he spoke, he looked out the window with a Long face.
I could tell that he hated the howling from Leonel and his subordinates.
