115. Kaya
Kaya
Once I felt all cried out, I looked up at Cade, who looked just as crestfallen at our impending separation. "Cade." I mind-linked him. "What is it love?" "You also have to send away those who don't have wolves. They can not defend themselves. Not to mention the mothers who had their babies in February." The funny thing about the wolves is we only went into heat once a year and all the females in a pack synced up with each other and for Shadow Pack that was back in July. I was currently the only one pregnant in our pack. Kimi left to spend her heat alone at the beginning of the month. That is when I would have gone into mine, but I had been drugged and went in early.
I continued to mind-link him. "Those who can't fight and who have babies still nursing need to be placed somewhere safe. Nieva will take them in. I am sure all of them will be able to fly or drive there. Saka and Len with them. The pack has come to trust them. They will help get them there and adjust to life in the North. It will be a shock to them, but it will be the best. You can focus on stopping Howi faster if you don't have to worry about protecting anyone."
"I think you are right. It is a good plan." "They won't want to leave their mates, but they will want to protect their young, and it will win out. I don't know what you want to do with the kids that are above 13 with wolves if you want them to fight or not. That is your call, but If they have younger siblings, they could take them to the North and watch them for their parents. But nursing mothers need to go with the babies and those without wolves for sure." He put his hand over his face. I didn't know how he planned to break it to the pack that everyone would be displaced for so long.
I knew he had no time frame for how long it would take to kill Howi and his goons. He signed, "Kaya, I will figure all this out once I talk to Mark and Nieva, but when they go, you will go as well. It gives us more than a couple days. We will have about a month and have to pray to the goddess Howi, who does not come before then." I nodded. I didn't like all this. It felt like all this separation from our pack would be detrimental. Everyone who was separated would be missing their mate, and children would be missing their parents.
I signed, "How are we going to tell them all this. They will want me to accompany them, and I won't be. They don't know how hard this pregnancy has been so far. They will hate me for lying." "No one in our pack will ever hate you. You are their hero. What you can do, how devoted to them you have been with teaching and showing them there is a better way to live. Trust me, no one will hate you. In fact, they will want you to be more protected than I am making you with just Robert and Kimi." I nodded.
I would have a month with him before everything changed. We would all be separated, and a pack needed to be together, not apart. We werewolves, and there was a reason we lived in a pack. It was our nature to have a group to live with, like wild wolves who all lived and hunted together. We were supposed to be like them but with a higher brain capacity. "How will I find a place to live?" I asked Cade.
"We will look at a few places. Someplace inconspicuous that no one would think you lived. Probably a house in a lowkey neighborhood." "It will be by the woods, right? I don't think I could be far from the woods." I signed. "I don't know Kaya. The woods are predictable. Honestly, it is probably not a place close to the woods. But Robert can take you to some state parks if you just have to be in the woods." I nodded.
How would I do this? How could I be parted from him? He said he would mostly likey to be there when our baby was born. So it would take a little bit, but what if it didn't? What if he missed it. "Kaya, you know I won't be able to visit once you leave." I mind-linked him back. "Of course, you can't risk someone finding out we have separated." He nodded. Man, I hated this. I almost wish I could face Howi alone and destroy him for causing me this unhappiness. If Cade doesn't kill him, I would. He had no idea what he had done by threatening us.
But that was it he hadn't. Not directly, at least. This could be all just stupid, and we would find out in a few months there was no threat, and we could all return, and there would be no war. But that belief didn't last long. I knew where he stood on the matter. He hated me. He wanted me dead. He had said as much to me back at the tournament. But I couldn't figure out why. Why did he hate me? He said it was because I was from the North. But what problem did he have with the North?
We never fought with anyone. We had no enemies. Not to mention, he was, by all accounts, from the North. So why does he hate it? Why did he leave it all? It made no sense. I needed to figure out why he hated us. I didn't know how I would do some digging, but I was determined to find out. I smiled at Cade. Trying to make light of the impending disastrous situation, I mind-linked him. "It would be good for Shadow Pack to use what I have been teaching. They will get a chance in the North. Also, think about when they try to seal for the first time." He cracked a smile, and I continued to link him. "When this is all over, we will bring our pack home together. And then, who knows, lots may find their mates?" "That is a good thing to think about love." I nodded.
That was another thing to at least be hopeful about. If some older kids went to the North to watch their younger siblings, they might find their mates. I knew in the North, things had to be happening. We had only one pair mated last year besides me, and it had been strange every year for the previous couple. Fewer people were finding their mates, and few were returning from searching. It had to be a weird coincidence with everything falling apart in the South.
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