Storm
I woke up the next morning and it wasn’t long before the thought that today was my last day with Kat sank in. Laying there, I felt the ache in my chest as the tears gathered in my eyes. I was going to miss her when I left here, but my leaving here had to happen. There really was no other option for me. My survival depended on me getting out of here and making a life for myself elsewhere.
In this case, 'elsewhere,' being as far away from here as humanly possible. Thinking about how tomorrow meant that I would no longer be living here in this pack, slightly eased the ache in my chest. Soon I would be free of this place for good. I was meeting Kat for lunch today at a local cafe in town. For Kat, it would just be a normal lunch, the same as we did each week, but for me, it would be a farewell lunch. The only thing was, I would have to make sure that Kat didn’t catch on to what I was up to.
I had told Winter that I would be spending the morning packing my bags for Ireland. Winter had reached out to one of her friends from high school who had a talent for making fake documents for cash on the side. He was incredibly talented, and his work was impeccable. Winter had arranged for all the documents that I would be requiring and had even gotten me into university under my new fake identity. Her friend had also used the fake ID to make me fake school transcripts for my university application.
To guarantee me a spot in my chosen course, Winter and Felix had pledged a large donation to the university, so long as they accepted my application and pushed through my enrolment into my chosen course and provided me with accommodation within the dorm.
Winter had even set up two bank accounts using my new identity. She had emptied my bank accounts into her bank account and had transferred my money into the new accounts that she had opened for me in my new identity.
The reason she had done it this way was so I would have access to my money and my father and brother could not track me or find out my new alias through my bank accounts and transactions. Winter had said she wouldn’t put it past either of them to attempt to find me this way. We were lucky that Winter and Felix had taken the time to open the new accounts for me in a bank that didn’t have a branch in our hometown.
Winter and Felix had travelled to a town three hours away to set my new bank accounts up. The reason for this being that members of our pack worked in the banks and other various businesses within our hometown, and they could have provided my father with information on mine and Winter’s movements if we had done anything in our hometown.
Deciding I needed to shake a leg and make a start on my packing. I got up and had a shower and once I had gotten dressed, I began packing two giant military duffel bags, each of which carried a maximum of fifty kilos of luggage with the things that I would be needing for my new life in Ireland. I packed the first with clothing items, a few pairs of shoes and boots I would need, and made sure that I had packed lots of warm clothing. My clothing comprised of jeans and long-sleeved tee shirts, along with an assortment of work out clothing and laze around the house clothing, such as yoga pants and tee shirts.
I also packed some hoodies, along with the usual undergarments and sweatpants. I also threw in a few nice Jackets, and an assortment of scarves and beanies. In the second duffel bag I packed my personal items that I couldn’t leave behind. My two photo albums, personal documents that I might need containing my actual identity which I hid so that no one would find them. Then I added my makeup kit and a couple of my favourite leather belts. I then proceeded to pack all my valuables that I would never be able to replace and the jewellery my mother had left me when she died, along with a bedside digital clock/radio, and two laptops and my iPad and iPod and their chargers and a bag which contained my flash drives and portable hard drives. Four of my favourite baseball caps and the boxes of adaptors that Winter had brought for me to use since we had different electrical plug adaptors here in the states to what they used in Ireland. Next, I packed my toiletries items and two bath towels and once I had put everything into the duffel bags; I placed my Nike backpack and stationery items I would need for university on top.
The plan was that Winter and Felix were going to take my luggage down to the car with theirs, when they were loading up their luggage, so that no one would be suspicious, since everyone knew that Winter was leaving with Felix anyway. Deep down I was terrified that they would end up getting caught when they carried my luggage downstairs to the garage, and then our plan would end up shot to hell before we even got out of the house. But they had both assured me that they had a plan, so I just had to trust that they knew what they were doing. All I knew for certain was that if we got caught, Mason and my father would end up killing the both of us for sure.
Once I came out of my wardrobe, I glanced over at the clock on my bedside table and saw that it was time for me to meet Kat for lunch. Picking up my phone I sent a text to Winter letting her know that I had finished packing my duffel bags and had stored them in my walk-in wardrobe, and that I was now heading out to meet Kat for lunch. She replied in a short time, letting me know that her and Felix would get my belongings and load them into one of the SUV’s that we would be taking to the airport.
Storm I snuck outside of the Alpha residence and made my way towards the eight-foot concrete wall which surrounded the Alpha residence. Crouching behind an enormous tree in the garden, I watched as two of my father’s guards made their way past my hiding spot. Even though these guards were assigned to protect the entire Alpha family, my father and Mason had turned the guards against me and Winter, just as they had done everyone else within the pack. So, if the guards caught on to my presence and I was captured, it would mean trouble for me for sure. I waited until the guards were out of sight, and when I could no longer see them; I ran over to the wall hiding among the trees near the wall. When I was sure the coast was clear, I crawled behind the shrubby bush which covered the hole in the wall that I used to sneak in and out of the Alpha compound. I crawled through the hole and found myself between the wall and another bush which hid the hole on the outside of
Storm When Winter arrived, I was relieved to see that she had brought Felix with her. Winter and Felix sat with us and joined in for a brief chat with Kat so that we wouldn’t appear suspicious. It wasn’t long before Winter suddenly announced that we had to be leaving, because we had somewhere that we needed to be. Thankful that Winter had come up with an excuse for us to leave, I got up from the table, glad to be away from Asher, and hugged my friend for the very last time. I held onto her tight, and when I let her go, I saw the curious look she gave me. So that she didn’t ask me questions that I wouldn’t be able to answer, I simply said, “I will call you tomorrow and see where you are at, and what your plans are, maybe we can go do something together, okay?” Seeming happy with that, Kat smiled at me and nodded. As soon as we got into Winter’s SUV, unable to hold my emotions at bay anymore, I burst into tears. Winter who was sitting in the back seat
Storm Setting my backpack on one of the shelves in my wardrobe, I started arranging my outfit for tomorrow. Selecting a pair of black yoga pants with lime green pin stripes that ran down the sides, along with a lime green long sleeved tee shirt and a dark purple zip up jacket, and a pair of Nike runners. I put the clothes on the shelf beside my backpack ready for in the morning. With my outfit and everything I needed ready for tomorrow morning; I made my way downstairs where I found Felix and Winter snuggled up on the couch watching a movie. When Winter saw me, she smiled, and I sat beside her on the couch, and watched the movie until it was time for us to make our way into the dining room for dinner. When we got into the dining room, I felt relieved when I saw that Winter, Felix and I were the only ones who would be eating dinner that evening. Everyone else must have been out, as there were no other places set at the table. The three of us ate our meal quiet
Storm The flight from Houston to Dublin took just under ten hours. On the flight, I did what Winter and Felix had said, and set up the phone with my favourite apps and downloaded music onto Spotify. We were halfway over the Atlantic Ocean when Winter and I had renounced our ties to the Hunter’s Moon Pack, which meant that we no longer had any links to that pack. During the flight, Winter had sent me a text message that contained the details for my new email account and various other accounts that she had set up for me in my new identity. She also gave me my newly forged documents that her friend had made for me. I took a quick look at my new identity, noting the name, Lena Wolf, smiling at the irony of the name, as I placed everything into my backpack. By the time we had landed in Ireland, it was almost three o’clock in the afternoon. Seeing as how all of us were exhausted from the long flight, we decided we would eat our dinner and sleep on the plane for the
Storm When we arrived at the door of my dorm room, I knocked on the door just out of courtesy, not wanting to make a poor impression with my roommate by walking in on something gross, say like my roommate shagging a guy on the kitchen table for example. When the room’s door opened, a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes answered it, her scent hitting me, immediately alerting me to the fact that she was a werewolf. I felt a cold shiver run along my spine as I realized I was going to be living on another pack’s territory. In my excitement at the thought of finally getting away from my pack and beginning a new life for myself, I had never even thought of this being a possibility. Being here with this girl was dangerous. I was in just as much danger, maybe more, living here with this girl as I had been living within my old pack. Packs hate rogues, and I was now a rogue after having renounced my pack ties with my father’s pack. Masking my features to hide my concer
Lilly The moment the door closed, and my new roommate and her family had walked down the hall, I bolted into the bedroom which was directly across from mine on the other side of the lounge room. Jumping into the air like I had seen Spiderman do in heaps of movies, I launched myself on top of the sleeping form of my sister Leah, landing on her like a human cannonball. Leah sat up in fright, screaming at me, “Lilly for the love of God, have you lost your ever-loving mind?” Ignoring her question, I cried, “You guys will never guess what has just happened!” “All I can say is for you to wake me up in this fashion, someone had better have died,” Leah snapped, clearly not impressed with my choice of morning wake ups for her. “Well, we all might die in our sleep tonight, does that count?” I retorted, looking at her expectantly as I awaited her answer. “Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?” my other sister Julie asked from her bed on th
Storm I stood there in front of the dorm building and watched as Felix and Winter drove off in the hire car. Once the car was out of sight, I made my way back upstairs to the dorm room which would now be my home for the next four years. When I got back up to my room, I was standing at the door when I realised that I had left my key on my bed with the information pack the administration lady had given me earlier. With tears still streaming silently down my cheeks, I knocked on the door and a moment later Lilly opened the door again, smiling at me. “Sorry, I forgot my key,” I explained to her as I stepped inside the dorm room, wiping the tears from my face. “That’s okay,” she said quietly as she smiled at me. I quietly followed Lilly into the room that I would be sleeping in. When I got in the room, I noticed that there were two other blonde girls sitting on Lilly’s bed, and just like Lilly they were also werewolves. Seeing my confusion, Lilly sai
Storm I thought that it was crazy that I had been here in Ireland for a week already, but I had to admit, I had found that I had seemed to be finding my feet alright. Since I had been here, I had taken to working out extensively in the university’s gym at all hours of the day and night and running for hours along assorted paths of an evening and between classes. It hadn’t taken me long to settle into my classes and honestly; I was finding university life extremely enjoyable. Winter and I had taken to calling each other every Tuesday and Friday night. This was so we could keep in touch easier. I enjoyed talking to her about what her and Felix had both been doing throughout the week and filling her in on my week. It was great that we were able to let each other know we were okay. I found I had peace of mind knowing she was okay, and I am sure she felt the same way. The girls and I had been spending a lot of time together outside of classes, and it surpr