Page 13 of Wolf Forgotten

I rested my head against the headrest before shutting my eyes. The purr of the engine accelerating almost lulled me to sleep when my mind suddenly came back from alcohol fog and my eyes snapped open. I hadn't told him where I lived.

“Where are you taking me?” I looked out the window to see we were approaching the edge of town to the east. I lived to the south. “Let me out. Now.”

He glanced over at me and then in the rearview mirror. “Do you see those lights behind us?”

I looked in the side mirror and saw a pair of headlights belonging to a truck. "Wow, another vehicle on the road at midnight, big whoop."

“Those are the two guys from the bar. They're following us.” We reached the edge of town, and the two-lane highway opened up into the great unknown.

Cole had his phone in his hand and was sending a text without even looking at the screen. That took major skill.

“You're crazy.” I looked around, trying to spot my phone before I attempted to open the door. It remained locked, trapping me with a lunatic.

My heart pounded in my chest and I wondered if I would be able to fight him off when we got wherever it was he was taking me.

Cole suddenly accelerated to a blazing fast speed. I held on and looked back at the headlights that were keeping pace with us. The speedometer topped one hundred and was climbing. Maybe he hadn't been lying about the truck behind us.

“What the fuck is this?” A million thoughts and situations went through my head at once as I kept my eyes locked on the lights behind us which were still just as close.

“This is going to sound crazy,” Cole said through gritted teeth. “But I'm kind of not supposed to be in Arbor Falls. And then there's you…”

He did sound completely crazy, but I had already determined that.

"Me? What about me?" I held onto the door for dear life as the scenery passed in a blur.

"You're... different." His knuckles were turning white as he gripped the steering wheel. "What are you?"

"What am I?" I was so confused.

I was preparing to give Cole a piece of my mind when the truck behind us bumped the back of the car and caused my head to jerk forward. Cole remained in control, but the truck was right behind us again and rammed into us a second time.

The back of the car fishtailed, and my head cracked against the side window as the car rolled.

It felt like an eternity but was most likely only a few seconds. A scream refused to dislodge from my throat. I coughed as my lungs grew heavy. My ears rang, and my vision was tunneled before going black.

Chapter Seven

Eli

When Cole told me he was going back out after he got home from his "job" I about choked on the piece of steak I was eating. Cole wasn't one to go out. He wasn't even one to work, not in the traditional sense.

Cole was loaded and the rest of the pack wasn't too bad off either. Even if Cole wasn't a millionaire, he wouldn't have had to work. Alphas ran the day-to-day operations of the pack, especially since we had secrets that needed keeping.

I was lying on the couch in the living room reading when my phone beeped with a text, interrupting my peaceful evening of solitude and enemies-to-lovers epicness.

Cole:Two of Silas's wolves just came into the bar and told me it was game time. I'm taking it as a threat. I already contacted Dante for reinforcements and I'm going to convince Ivy to come with me.

Dante was the lead beta of our pack and in charge of protecting the perimeter of our territory. If Cole had contacted him, that meant things were serious.

I turned off my eReader, put it on the coffee table, and stood to stretch. I'd been reading for way too long. I walked across the room to the floor-to-ceiling windows that overlooked the forest. The moon was bright in the sky and cast a silvery glow to the dark green of the trees.

Cole's voice came through his alpha connection, which meant he was far enough in our territory to use it."They're following us in a truck. I'm going to get as far into our territory as possible. Eli and Sara, be ready in case things go south."

Sara was my twin sister, and we were the jacks of all trades of the pack. We were also the weakest wolves, with my sister ranking higher than me because I let her. She had enough to deal with without also being the omega.

I jumped into action, grabbing my shirt I had discarded earlier on a chair, and ran down the hall to the garage. I pulled on my boots before jumping in the extra-large SUV we used for medical transport. A row of seats had been removed and the entire back area was decked out with medical equipment and bars around the perimeter in case a wolf went crazy.

I backed out as soon as the garage door was open and picked up Sara, who was waiting on the road at the end of a long gravel drive that led to my parents' house.

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