I fell to the ground as they ran back into the forest. I lifted my shaky hands and stared at them.

"Hey Soph thank you for sticking up for me," Jacob says. I felt like a monster. I could've killed her.

Titus picked me up and wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist. I sob into his shoulder while he brings us back to the house. He sits on the couch but I still stay wrapped around his body.

"I'm so scared," I whisper to him. He rubs his hand up and down my back trying to soothe me but tears welled up in my eyes.

"I'll always be there to protect you baby," he says kissing my temple. My mind raced down f memories of the few months I was in that torture cell. I felt my throat close and I began to sob uncontrollably.

"Hey, Hey Sophia you need to breath through your nose," Titus says as I sit up and my chest begins to heave up and down. I breathing became raspy as I thought about what would happen if I go back there.

"You're not going back there. I promise I'll do whatever it takes to protect you," he says as I kept taking short, deep breaths. I stuck my head in the crook of his neck and take in a deep breath of his scent. I relaxed in his arms but stayed in that position letting his scent take over me.

"You promise?" I ask him in a small whisper. He nods and I close my eyes and fall asleep in his arms.

"Get up bitch," The man growled. He was a new person that came in a few days ago. I lifted my head weakly, pulling myself up from the chains.

He held up a metal rod with a flat edge at the end. In his other hand, he held a blowtorch up to the flat end and heated it up. The metal became red and became smoky. He threw the blowtorch to the ground and held the rod up to my shoulder. As the heated metal made contact with my skin, I let out a piercing scream of agony.

He lifted the rod off of my burning skin and I saw a burn mark of scratch marks on top of my birthmark. I stared at it as it slowly started to fade. With my wolf constantly being pumped with silver and wolfsbane, she still is stronger than she should be. My body on the other hand was becoming weak.

"Damn it," he screams me as he throws the rod at me. It barely missing my head.

"Baby you need to wake up," Titus says shaking me. His voice pulls me out of the memory of when I was kidnapped. I sit up and Titus wraps his arms around me.

"Hey it's okay you're not there anymore, you're here with me," he coos. I nod and wipe the tears forming in my eyes.

"Look in a few days, it marks the third month you've been with us," he says. "Which means-"

"My heat will be coming soon," I say finishing his sentence. He nods confirming my sentence.

"Also a week after that, the annual Alpha meeting is coming up," he says. I sigh and lay back down on the bed.

"Tomorrow we'll leave to my cabin just at the edge of the border. Brody will watch over the pack while we're away and we can stay there for a week," he says. I nod and keep my gaze at the ceiling.

"Wait tomorrow?" I say sitting up. He nods and groan.

"That means I have to pack and find someone to watch Tala," I complain.

"Well Jacob will watch over Tala all week and I already packed for you," he smiled, pointing at the suitcase in the corner of my room. I give him a smile and look out the window.

"We leave 7AM tomorrow," he says. It was already 9PM and I wanted to call my brother.

"Can I call my brother for a few minutes?" I ask Titus. He nods and walks out the door and I take out my phone and dial his number. It rang twice then he picked up.

"Hello?" James asks from the other end.

"Hey James," I say. I heard a loud bang in the back and a string of curses.

"Shit, hey Sophie," he says.

"What's going on in the background?" I question as I heard another loud bang.

"Laura is throwing a tantrum because we caught her trying to sneak into the woods to watch the warriors train," he says while a scream comes through the line.

"Look just pick her in her room for a bit and watch the windows and she'll calm down by herself," I explain how to control her.

"Alright give me a second." I hear the door slam and Laura scream.

"Hey I'm back," he says.

"The rouges...they're coming back for me, they've been leaving letters, in a few weeks, they said I'll be back with them," I said, my voice becoming shaky.

"Look Sophie if they ever lay a hand on you again I'll kill every single one of them," he says.

"Well you have to wait in line. Titus is going to kill all of them first," I laugh.

"I'll come visit you in two weeks," he says.

"I have a Alpha meeting to attend to that week, I'm sorry," I apologize.

"It's fine I'll find some time to visit you in the near future," he says. I could basically see his smile as he was talking to me. I missed him the most in my family. He wasn't only my brother but he was my best friend.

"Terry's ceremony is tomorrow. He's gonna become Alpha without a Luna," he sighs. Serves him right he rejected me and thought Kira could be his replacement.

"That means your gonna be Beta," I said with a smile on his face. I was supposed to take the Beta position because he wanted to be a warrior instead, but fate had other plans for me.

"Unfortunately but, I just realized I'll be at the Alpha meeting too as his Beta," he says.

"Yay that means I can see you," I said with a big smile on my face.

"Look I have to go Laura got a little to quiet," he says.

"Alright see you in a few big bro." I hang up and throw my phone beside me.

"So Terry is becoming an Alpha tomorrow?" Titus asks as he walks back into my room.

"You were listening on my conversation?" I question as he sits on the bed next to me.

"Can't help it, we have sensitive hearing," he said pointing to his ear.

"Will you be able to control yourself while I'm in heat?" I ask. I lean my head on his arm and he nods.

"I have too or else you'll be in pain and I can't leave you out there in pain when I can do something about it," he says wrapping his arms around my small frame.

"You might not be able to resist me," I say. He slings me over his body to where I was straddling him. I lean my head on his chest and he plays with my hair.

"I'll never do anything to you unless you're okay with it," he says quietly. I nod on his chest and enjoyed his arms around me.

"Do you want anything to eat? You haven't had dinner yet," he points out. I shake my head.

"I had a late lunch," I said quietly. I was getting drowsy again as Titus' scent flowed through the room.

"We never finished lunch, we were interrupted," he says rubbing my back lulling me to sleep.

"I'll be fine," I mumble then fall back into my much needed sleep.

The shaking of the bed woke me up from my deep sleep. Wait why the fuck is the bed moving? I sit up and see that the scenery had changed. I was now in the back of a car. I see Titus' eyes look in the mirror and he smiled.

"You're finally awake sleeping beauty,"

He laughs with his deep voice I fell in love with.

"How did I get here," I mumble as I wipe my eyes.

"You seemed really tired last night so I just let you sleep while I drive. We're about 30 minutes away," he says. I nod and climb to the front seat.

"That was dangerous," he sighs. I roll my eyes and buckle up.

"We're werewolves, we'll heal," I tell him. I adjust my chair to where I am comfortable. Titus places his hand on my thigh and caressed his thumb back and forth.

"Can we go on a run?" I ask. My wolf was itching to get out and she was begging to get restless.

"Yeah, I can feel your wolf becoming more restless through the link," he chuckles.

"Did you bring any food?" I ask as my stomach begins to rumble.

"I told you you should have eaten last night," he said with an 'I told you so look'. I roll my eyes and he points to a plastic bag on the car floor. I picked it up and took out a sandwich.

"Ugh this is so good," I moan as I bite into the sandwich. I notice, in the corner of my eye, that Titus' eyes turned black but quickly turned back.

"I can sense it coming," Titus says lowly. His hands gripped on the wheel as he turned off road. We drove on the forest trail and came up to a small wood cottage.

"It looks so cute," I squeal as I run out of the car as he parks. "Can I have the keys?" I said giving my best puppy dog face and pouted my lips. He reached into his pocket and threw them. I catch them and run to the door and unlock it. I looked inside and it looked like a perfect log cabin. All the furniture in the cabin matched each other.

"Do you like it?" Titus ask, coming up from behind me. I nod and plant a kiss on his lips. He grabs my face and deepened the kiss. I pushed away for a breather but he let out a growl. He picked me up from my waist and I wrapped my legs around his waist. I felt my back slam on a wall and I heard a loud crash. I turn and look to see a picture frame on the ground. Titus leaves slow kisses down my neck and to my mark. I moan as he sucks on it.

I felt his bulge poke on the inside of my thigh as he kisses me everywhere my skin was exposed. I moaned his name and he rips my shirt off and his eyes turned black as he stared at my red lace bra.

"My eyes are up here," I whisper into his ear. I grab the hem of his shirt and pulled it up over his head. I place small kisses along his jawline as a rumble of pleasure comes out of his chest. My shorts come of next and reveals my matching lingerie. I move down to his neck and leave a love mark there.

A sharp pang in my stomach made me gasp. Instantly I fell to the ground while my hand was on my stomach. I looked up at Titus and saw his eyes had turned golden and stayed golden.

"You're heat started," he says quickly.

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