Filed To Story: The Guardian Wolf and her Alpha Mate
“Why can’t we scent you? Or the blood?” Kia suddenly links her.
Looking surprised she looks at me with wide eyes, “Kia” I explain chuckling.
“Oh..um, I used a scent mask spray, a strong one it seems to hide everything. I took it from Hannah’s belongings” she admits.
“Why?” I ask.
“I thought it would be safer travelling back here, make me more invisible incase they found Hannah quickly and wanted to follow me” she says. “She’s dead.”
“You killed her?” I check.
With a solid nod of her head she shrugs, “that bitch deserved it.”
“You need to explain Sophie, I just want to understand” I say gently reaching a hand out to clasp her own shaking one.
“I persuaded dad to let me go and study business at a human college, I wanted to experience a bit of normality and maybe find somewhere I felt like I belonged. Growing up we were constantly moving and it was tough, I thought college would help me, the socially anxious teenager, gain some confidence and find my meaning in life a bit more. I met Hannah there, she was a girl in a dorm down the hall from me. We clicked right away and had lot of similar interests, over the course of 3 years I spent a lot of time with her and when life at home became a bit much when I returned she was who I turned to.” She explains before taking a sip of her water.
“I had no idea she was a hunter” she says with a pained expression. “Honestly I never saw that tattoo until today, she would have long tops on and she had a brace on her wrist sometimes, she told me she had a weak wrist but now I think it was to cover the H.”
“So what made you realise?” I ask quietly.
With a sad expression she looks at me, “Luca told me about your parents and what exactly happened. When he told me the date I automatically thought of Hannah and how I hadn’t seen her for a while. I got my phone out when Luca had a shower and was looking through pictures of us from our trip and I saw the tattoo she’d tried to cover. I knew then that she had been lying to me the entire time, I just knew she was involved. She was acting shifty at the time but she said it was family drama, and she disappeared most days” she cries softly.
“So what did you do?” I probe.
“I text her, off of a phone she gave me. She always got on at me that I didn’t have an up to date phone so she gave me one last time as a “gift” from her” she scoffs, “I never used it. I don’t think I even mentioned it to dad as it stayed turned off in a box as I had no use for it. I’m not a materialistic person at all, it’s just not me after the lifestyle I grew up with.”
“Did you text her here, at the pack?” I ask sharply.
“No” she says shaking her head, “I didn’t have it here so I had to go and collect it, as soon as I had the suspicions of her I figured that she didn’t give me the phone to be nice, it most likely has a tracker on it. I knew I had to confront her and asap, so i spent some time with Luca and when he went to training I left.”
“We had the same suspicions but thought it might be on your phone, I mean the one you use” I say.
“Yes well, I checked and turns out only father has a tracker on that one” she chuckles. “That’s why I left it, I didn’t want anyone else to risk being hurt and i knew it was something I needed to do.”
“Is that why you didn’t let Luca mark you?” I ask her softly to which she nods sadly.
“I didn’t mean to upset him, but I didn’t want him to risk himself either. I can’t bear the thought of him being hurt Nova, he means so much to me and it’s only been a short amount of time” she admits.
I smile at her words, “he will be relieved to hear that, he was doubting himself. How did you manage to leave the pack?”
With a grimace she looks up before answering, “I um, I “borrowed” a car. It was one of the warriors that I heard tell his friend he was staying with him for a few days as his parents had visitors so he parked it at the packhouse garage for a few days. I left it in the local town incase you caught on and couldn’t track me. I’ve brought it back and it’s not damaged, I even put more fuel in it.”
With a soft laugh I look away as shame washes through me, “what’s wrong?” She asks noticing my expression.
“I should never have doubted you” I say simply.
Nova POV:
“I can’t blame you” Sophie says quietly, “I would have had the same reaction.”
“I know, but I still feel guilty” I admit as I realise she knew that would have been our first thought.
“Well don’t, please” she says with a small smile.
“So you confronted Hannah?” I ask getting back to the topic at hand.
“Yeah” she sighs, “I told her I was fighting with dad and I needed to let loose for a while. We met at a hotel under the pretence of going out to a club for the night. But I said I fancied some food first so I drove to a quiet diner and suggested getting some fresh air with a walk to clear my head. She suspected nothing” she chuckles darkly. “I restrained her and told her I knew who she was. She was terrified, she told me..everything.”
“What do you know?” I ask interested.
“I know your grandfather knows Caroline is here, I also know he has 3 spies, all high up and they tell him everything there is to know about you” she admits.
“Anything about dad?” I check concerned.
“No” she says shaking her head, “i lied about where i lived whenever i spoke to Hannah about home, it was part of the agreement of dad allowing me to go to college. But also i never told people the truth of where we were, I grew up not trusting others and it was dad’s strict instructions to never expose our whereabouts.”
“So why didn’t grandfather do anything if he knew where I was?” I ask.
“Because he knew one day dad would find you, and he’s been waiting for that day” she says quietly.
“Anything else?” I ask calmly.
“I know how many hunters there are under his control and I know he’s planning an attack on you. But if they find out what happened to Hannah that may change” she admits wincing.
“Do you think they will in the next week” I ask quietly.
“I don’t think so, I had the idea to send a text off of Hannah’s phone saying she was spending 10 days with me and that in that time she can’t risk being found so she wouldn’t be contacting them” Sophie says.
“Impressive idea” I praise her making her blush slightly.
“Well it was common of her to disappear for a little while and then report back her findings I realised once I looked through her phone. I’m confident they won’t suspect anything, she has no trackers on her phone either I checked” she says a little flustered from the compliment I paid her.
“Nice” I smirk. “You’ve done a good job Sophie. Admittedly I would have liked to know beforehand but I know you were protecting us and for that I’m thankful. Are you ok though? I can imagine today has been a long day.”
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