Chapter 50
“what happened?” Ambrose's voice sounds before his body finished coming. “block Skylar link to her parents fast she's driving.” I order Ambrose he didn’t ask questions as we slowly gain our composer just starts chanting. When I was younger I had tried to learn his langue but couldn’t find the right translation. The words all seemed to be a combination of words and sounds. When his fog finally leaves and he's fully in the room. His misting has been taking longer on pack lands than off I have a feeling it's his no magic barrier spell. “she won't feel them until she is back with her mate.” he says looking around the room. Coming to me he takes my hand now black from the bag closes his hand over mine and chants. I can feel the ash moving around in my palm but when he pulls his hand away left is my hand. The ash is gone along with the bag. Now all I have left is the paper still in my hand crumpled from my hands being fisted at my chest.
Ambrose points to my hand and I look down. Bringing the paper up I unfold it.
kids,
We all love all of you so much remember that.
they all knew something bad was going to happen and their last words were to tell us they love us. My chest feels raw. Hunter I can see is linking will. “Ambrose can you help William focus on the task for now but let him feel it again and process it when he's back with hunter like you did for Sky?” “for young Hunter and young William I can help them process the pain faster because I can touch hunter as I cast it. They will be out for a few minutes to us but for them, it will be for as long as it takes to process the grief to a bearable level.” “do it” I hear from behind him. At some point, Hunter broke the link and heard what was said. He knows about William's first few years in the hill pack and how long it took him to get over things. Losing not only his mother but the man who raised him as his own and the woman that gave him his first happy memory all in one moment is going to be crippling to him. With a nod, Ambrose grabbed a hold of Hunter's hand and starts.
A bright blue light forms around his and Ambrose's hands. Ambrose's eyes deepen even darker black sucking all the light in the room into him. Hunter's eyes start to glow with the blue-silver of the moonlight. His body relaxes as he starts to lower to the ground. A soft pile of moss appears under him. Soon as his head touches the moss his eyes close. Then Ambrose pulls back. “link your men with will need one to stay with him but not to worry about what he sees. The rest can continue. Will will catch up. As an alpha, I don’t take orders from anyone well unless you’re older than time witch looking at me with black pits for eyes. So I link them and tell them what Ambrose said. Soon as I come back I see Hunter's face shifting to Will's and back to Hunter over and over. It's like they are one being shifting between forms. It reminds me of the stories of skin-walkers.
skin-walkers are a mythical race or I hope it was made up. They can shift into another human, any human, and take over your life or do horrible things in your likeness. I know we shift into wolves but we are not shifting to someone else the wolf is us. The thought of someone replacing me is terrifying. A few minutes go by then the flickering stops and the moss slowly disappears and Hunter lowers to the ground. Ambrose drops to a chair panting heavily. “Ambrose are you okay?” “yes yes still healing from ripping a hole in my place. Magic takes a bit out of me the more I use it at one time. And those two spells were pretty big.” “you should have said so, Ambrose. don’t wear yourself out only you know how long we have with you and I kinda want you to meet my future pups one day.” he just waves his hand at me dismissing my rant.
Hunter slowly sits up shaking his head. “dude if that was a drink I would call it “think twice the hangover is no joke” but I do feel lighter and will feel so much better than ever before this. A lot was taken off his chest. He turns back to Artemis and Skylar trail. He has a new something in his” waving a hand in front of him at a loss for words. “he has no more grief weighing him down making him guess himself. He will be the wolf he was meant to be the mate of a delta the delta male. He's a lucky wolf to have mates as he does.” Ambrose says hunter starts laughing “old man I think you lost a marble somewhere William has one mate me. And he was already the wolf worthy of being the deltas mate” hunter half laughs half sneers at him. With a shake of his head Ambrose walked over and touched his forehead. “see what I saw when I connected to you two boys” and Hunter's eyes go white. His eyes went wide giving me the creeps. A soft smile soon fills his face and a single tear runs down his cheek. Ambrose pulls back and smiles at him “keep it to yourself the future is a tricky mistress.” hunter nods staring off into space with a goofy grin on his face.
“will you okay man?” I link him “ya, whatever that was was crazy but worth it. I just made it to town and you not gonna believe what I am seeing. Skylar is gonna be pissed.” since I can still link with will tells me that Skylar stayed on pack lands and went into our small town not too far away. It's more like a small outlet mall. “tell me”
“your girl is doing a runner. Bro why is she not shifting to run through the woods?”
“her wolf is missing she can't shift, but keep it to yourself for now.” never been very good at keeping things from Will.
“got it. How long do you want me to follow her?” a wicked thought goes through my mind “let her go until she stops for the night then link me where you are and where she is. She will check into a hotel she is a princess after all.” chuckling in the link when wills chuckle joins my before we cut the link. “who wants to go with me later to bring Artemis back? Oh, Ty sky is gonna be a bitch when she gets back. Artemis snuck away on her watch.” “fuck fuck fuck. No fuck you send me somewhere. Where do we need things done I am not listening to that shit. Sky and Matt moved in on the beta wing when he was moved to the elite team. Having me and gunner around to help with the pups. I can't go home to a hurt pissed off bitch.” he paces losing his shit.
