Filed To Story: Fated is Overrated Novel Free by Brenda Minnaard
After getting out of the shower, I stroll back towards the bed and pick up my phone to see if there is anything I have missed tonight. I always leave my phone at home when going to parties. The people who would need to reach me can mind link me anyway. Upon unlocking my phone, I see some missed calls and a text from an unknown number. I open the text and read “Chris this is Nadia. I went to look for Lola after we left but she’s not at home. She left a note saying f*ck us all and that she’s out! We need to find her and bring her back before she does something stupid!”. This reminds me that I do need to get a search party out for her. Not to bring her back before she does anything stupid – but to punish the b*tch for defying me. I hear a big growl in my mind and notice Cezar is stirring in my mind. ‘Oh is the puppy awake again?’ but I don’t get any response. That’s when we hear in the pack mind link “I, Lola Chevron, hereby officially reject the Red Dagger pack as my pack and I declare myself a rogue henceforward”.
Chris POV
I snort to myself, wow, she is really going rogue as a female? I have to admit that’s ballsy, as it for sure a death wish with the rogues out there and especially for a female. And if not for the rogues, she will for sure stumble upon other pack lands and get ripped apart on sight. Before I can even answer any of the mind link messages I’m getting, I feel Cezar pushing for control in a way I have never felt before. But I can’t shift in here as he will trash the place. I make a run downstairs and head for the door with my fur already sprouting out on my arms. ‘Calm the f*ck down dude what is wrong with you?!’ but of course, still the silent treatment from him, whilst viciously fighting for control and although I’m normally really in control of him he actually won and took over by force this time. ‘Cezar talk to me!’ and finally I get a word out of him, although not really what I was looking for ‘f*ck you!’. While he starts running like a mad wolf towards Lola’s house. I suppose this is his Alpha instinct, and I am just being a terrible Alpha actually because I am letting my dislike for women cloud my judgment to protect pack members. Yugh, I hate it when he is right. And I hate it even more when I am wrong in the process.
When reaching her cottage he starts sniffing the air and following the trail towards the pack borders, completely ignoring the two siblings awaiting him there. She wasn’t kidding when she said she was going rogue. Suddenly, I start to feel uneasy with all of this. She has actually never done anything wrong to me at all.. In fact, we used to be best friends until I started hating women and firing my vengeance plan on all of them. Since she was the only one not fawning over me and the only one to actually openly dislike my behavior, she got the worst treatment out of everyone. And although I still hate all women and trust neither of them, I have to admit she didn’t deserve me bullying her into making her go rogue and committing suicide by doing so. F*ck! We do have to find her, and I’ll even let her disobedience slip this time. ‘Father, start a search party for Lola if you haven’t already. Going out there rogue as a female is a death sentence’ ‘already on it of course, son. Do you know what happened for her to do this?’ ‘no, not really’ I lie. I don’t think he ever realized how badly I treat women, and Lola in particular. No, actually, I am sure he doesn’t realize as he would have brought me to my knees for it already. Despite what mom did to him, he was still sympathetic towards women and Lola in particular he felt sorry for, as she came to us as an orphan and then was even more devastated when she lost her mother. Unlike my piece of sh*t mother, her mother was an actual angel. She was always so sweet to us when we were kids, always letting us get away with all the mischief we pulled, covering for us. Always taking care of us both as if I were her own as well. If anything, I owe it to her mother to bring her back safely. And maybe treat her a bit better in the future to not make her sign her own death sentence again.
As Cezar reaches the pack borders, I see him sniffing the air frantically. ‘Did you lose her trail?’ and to my surprise, he replies to me ‘yes I lost her trail’, and he lets out a devastating howl for losing his pack member. Someone who trusted us for at least her protection. And we let her down. Cezar doesn’t give up and starts dashing out into the unclaimed territory. Which, even for an Alpha, is not the smartest thing to do on your own. Although I am a big and well-trained Alpha, getting ganged upon by a few rogues could actually end poorly, depending on the strength of the rogues. ‘Cezar, shouldn’t we wait for the search party my father has sent out? I know you want to find her, but it isn’t safe for a solo trip, not even for us’ ‘have to find her.’ Is all I get back. After running out into the woods for hours and still no sign or smell of Lola, we head back home, feeling defeated. ‘Any luck on the search party father? Any sign of her?’ ‘afraid not son. We have sent out search warrants to all allied and non-allied packs and have made it known she is not to be harmed. If she were to stumble into another pack she should be fine. Let’s just hope she doesn’t stay in unclaimed territory for too long’. I hope so too…
Lola POV
After running for hours and hours on end, I feel like I have finally placed a decent enough amount of distance between me and the pack in order to take a small break. I pull out water and food from my bag as I sit down on a fallen tree. It is still dark out, but morning is approaching fast and I need to get my plan together soon on where I am going to go and how I am going to provide for myself. Should I stay in the woods for a while, or should I head into human territory and make a life there? Being the think it through type of person I am, I weigh pro’s and con’s and decide I need to put a few weeks of distance between me and the pack to be sure nobody knows who I am and where I am from, and then head into human territory there. I have never been out on my own in the woods for that long and honestly I don’t even know yet how I am going to pull it off, but I have to. All neighboring packs will have gotten the word by now, so I can in no way stumble upon any of their lands. Rogues in general aren’t treated nicely already, but I am on the run for defying and attacking my future Alpha. I definitely need to stay in this unclaimed no man’s land. The possibility of running into rogues will be less dangerous than facing the punishment I get when I would be captured by another pack. Rogues are often loners too, so I would prefer a 1:1 battle with a rogue. Pick your battles carefully, mom always said to me.
After having eaten and drank, I get up from the tree I was sitting on to push forward. Dawn is approaching slowly, and I can see the beauty of this no man’s land begin to unfold. As a werewolf, I can see perfectly fine in the dark, but the vision of the night doesn’t do justice to the beauty of the landscape here. Through the past few hours, the terrain has varied from plain meadows with all kinds of beautiful flowers, to thick forests and everything in between. I prefer walking in the forest as it gives me shelter from anything or anyone, so I tend to stick to the forest side as much as possible. But the flower meadows are just plain gorgeous to look at though. I could get so lost in the beauty of it I would almost forget that this could also be a very dangerous place.
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