Chapter 54

(Maya POV)

When the sun began to rise, something beyond the front gate caught the attention of the guards standing in or way of escape.

“What are they all looking at?” I asked Eli.

His wolf huffed and moved to the side where there was a break in the trees. Then in a matter of seconds he shifted into Eli once again. Why were these people so fine with being totally naked like this? In front of everyone!

“It’s Tommy!” Eli says kneeling down and peaking toward the tree past the border.

“Tommy?” I ask quickly beside him.

I scanned until I recognized some very familiar eyes, and as soon as my eyes met Tommy’s I felt my heart drop. I had missed those eyes. His eyes seemed to meet mine and grew thin and crescent shaped. He was smiling and I couldn’t help the smile that grew on my own face.

“Maya.” His voice echoed in my head.

I felt my skin tingle as his deep voice seeped into my mind.

“Tommy! You’re here!” I say back to him.

“Of course, I am! I will always come for you! Are you ok?” He asks.

“I am fine. Eli and I were able to get away from a few guys earlier, but these guards haven’t spotted us yet. I’m not sure why, but they don’t seem to be picking up on our scent either.” I tell him.

“Is there another way to get out?” He scans over the area.

“Eli says there is only this one way out, but I may know a way. I am just not sure if it will work.” I hesitate to say.

I had thought about the fact that the spell was linked to each pack member. I knew the way to be initiated into a pack meant drinking the blood of the alpha. If I really was Alpha Kane’s daughter, I should be able to pass through any point of the spell and be left unharmed. He cast the spell with his own blood and only he could break it, or someone of his blood line. That meant me. I just need to figure out how to do it, and time was not on our side.

“What do you mean Maya?” Tommy asks breaking me from my thoughts.

“If I really am the alpha’s daughter. I should be able to pass through any part of the barrier or break it all together. I just don’t know how. I am guessing there is a specific way that was included in the spell.” The only thing I could think of was walking straight forward and seeing what happens.

“Wait, maybe we should consider other options before you try and walk through the barrier. It could seriously hurt you if your wrong.” He said with a worried tone.
I knew it was stupid of me to try this, but I was done being trapped here, and I would do just about anything to be away from this place. So, I didn’t think, I stood and walked through the last row of trees between me and the pack barrier. I wondered what a human would see if they saw this place, because to me Iooked like liquid silver
was all around us. With the sun rising, it made the barrier shimmer. I raised my hand toward it and hesitated, hovering my hand less than an inch away.

If I pushed through this barrier would it alert my father?

“What’s going on?” A thundering voice had me frozen.

It was the Alpha and he was close.

“There is movement along the far side.” On of the guards said.

“How many?” The alpha asks.

“Several.” Another guard answered.

“They can not breach the barrier. So, they can wait as long as they want but they won’t get in here. I want you to focus on making sure Maya does not get out. Keep your eyes open for her and that mutt.” He said with a growl at mentioning Eli.

“I am not a mutt.” Eli growled through the bond.

“Of course, you aren’t, just a sweet pup.” I reply giving him a big grin.

He lets out a huff.

“I am going to try something now, so stay close to me ok?” I tell him.

He nods and I hold my hand out to him. Our fingers intertwine and with a firm squeeze of reassurance from him we move forward together. I didn’t know why the guards and my father could not sense us, but we moved carefully.

“We will cause a diversion.” Tommy says quickly.

I still myself with Eli’s hand firm in mine and waited for the signal.

Tommy and his father stepped out from the trees and walked slowly toward where my father stood.

“We are here for our pack member and my son’s mate!” Tommy’s father says firmly.

Tommy and his father stood only inches away from my father and his guards now, with only the barrier between them.

“I am not holding any of your pack members currently, so whoever you are looking for has come into my pack without invitation and can be considered a threat. As for my
daughter, she was taken from me long ago and I will not let her go again.” The Alpha replied.

I hated hearing him sound like he really cared about me, when all he wanted was to use me. He didn’t care that my mother had taken me away to keep me safe, he care that such a powerful person wasn’t under his control. If I had stayed would I have turned into a power hungry monster like him?

“Maya may be your daughter, but she is no longer a member of your pack. Not now that she is my son’s mate and the future Luna of our pack. Your rights to her has since
been lost.” Tommy’s father says.

I had to admit, that this side of him was a little intimidating. He had always been so calm and kind when I had been around him, so this was a side I had never seen before. His power was clear but controlled, where my father looked as if he would attack any minute. Hiss temper was far less controlled, and it was a struggle for him to keep his anger subdued, and that seemed to be what Tommy was hoping for. I suddenly realized what Tommy’s plan was. He was trying to provoke my father so he and his men
would make the first move of attack and break through the barrier.

Then Eli and I would go through at the same moment. With all the activity our move would go unnoticed! Eli and I crouched down a little more to stay out of my father’s line of sight.

“My daughter is not leaving; I demand your son break his bond with her!” My father yells.

“I won’t!” Tommy growled. “She is mine!”

“You can not handle what she is! And your whole pack will cower in fear of her as she grows more powerful! From what I hear from those who found the bodies of the men she killed; her powers are growing quickly. How are you going to stop her when she begins to lose control? Hm? I am the only one who can help her, she needs me!” My father eyed Tommy and laughed. “You think your alpha blood can control someone like her? That she will submit under your wolf? She won’t. She can’t! She is more powerful than you will ever be, and she will outgrow you!”

I froze at his words and looked to Tommy. He was trying so hard to seem unmoved by my father’s words, but I saw it.

Fear.

It only lasted a second, but it was there. He was afraid of me, of what I would become. I couldn’t blame him; I was scared too. Killing those men only cemented that fear in
my mind, but I needed to get out and tried not keep seeing their faces flashing through my mind. I had pushed it away and tried to focus on escaping, but I had killed them. Easily, and that was what scared me. But what scared him more? The power with in me? Or that I may become more powerful than him, and not subject to him as my alpha? The pack would never grow to trust me if I did not accept him as my alpha and be willing to follow his orders. As far as the world has come, the traditions inn packs were held on to. The alpha was the head of the pack, and his mate was to complement him not outshine him.

In more traditional packs, the Luna was simple the one who made the Alpha look good. She works alongside him and stays with the pack when there are dangerous situations. The Luna never stands in a fight, and she never kills unless it is to protect the pack.

I had already killed, first James and then the two men who had been after Eli and me.

I had blood on my hands, and it had come from trying to protect myself. Because everyone either wanted to have me or wanted to kill me. I had to wonder, when I return to Tommy’s pack would they want me when they find out what I can do, or will they try to kill me instead?

Did I even really belong anywhere? I was an oddity to put it simply. I didn’t really belong with wolves, but I also didn’t belong to the Fae. I was a part of two worlds that
would both either fear me or hate me for what I am.

Why was I fighting so hard to run to a place where I don’t even fit in? I wanted to be with my mates of course, but they would only suffer because of me. If people from other packs heard about me, would they want me dead too? Wouldn’t that put my mates and their pack in danger? Why was I fighting so hard to get away? At least here maybe I could help the people here, maybe I could fight for my right to this pack. I could grow stronger and overthrow my father and take his pack as my own. Oliver had said many people hoped I would stop my father. I could use him for now, grow my power and when the time was right, use that power to save this pack from his rule.
I looked back to Eli, who was watching Tommy stand against my father. The I turned to look at Tommy as well. I felt this pull to them, and warmth when we were together, but there was something off about it. I felt this need to do more, to be more. Something about this place, made me want to stay and fight for them. So much so that it didn’t hurt when I had the idea to pull Eli through the barrier but return when he was safe on the other side. To tell them to go home without me.