Ryder's P.O.V
That girl will be the death of me still. What have I gotten myself into?Thinking of simpler times I tried to get everything into the little cottage that will be me and Mary's home for the next month or two before we would need to move on while also trying to finish the breakfast before she woke up.She never understands that I am doing this for her, to keep her safe from everyone and everything.At least that is the excuse I use whenever she asks me. I painted this picture of a group of bad men that are following us and that they want to take her away from me to somewhere where she would be sad.It's been working so far but I do for a fact know that I would need to get a better story together because as she gets older she will be asking more intelligent questions and won't be falling for this stupid story anymore.All she wants to do is go out and play and make friends but I can't risk anyone seeing and recognising her for who she really is.One would think that after being together for the past 5 years that I would have gotten used to her but no. I'm still a little useless in the child care department, and the kitchen, and a few other departments as well but..."Dad, DAD..."Why is she screaming?When I looked down and finally came back from all the thoughts I saw why she was screaming.I had burned the eggs AGAIN."Ugh, I can't seem to do anything right today. Sorry love.Let me just start over and then we can eat.Here have a sausage so long."I handed her one of the sausages that by miracle was perfectly cooked while I started with the eggs for the third time this morning.This is what happens when you are in a new place and haven't even packed anything out because you stopped at two in the morning and just wanted to get the five year old in bed otherwise you were going to be sitting with a cranky toddler and for that I don't think I have the patience especially between the moving.At least I have learned not to get too comfortable and keep only items we absolutely need and use and move that along with us, not carrying anything unnecessary with us.Good thing that these small town folk are also very trusting and don't mind letting out furnished cottages and small apartments.Its best to stick to the small, middle of nowhere places as its a lower chance of Mary getting recognised.Genes have never been more against me in this situation. She is already starting to look the same as her mother at age five so I don't want to know the similarities as she gets older.Her mother is... was...A little poke made me focus again. Just on time or I would have had to start with the eggs for a Fourth time and for that I'm really not patient enough.After breakfast and clean-up we moved the rest of the clothes and boxes from the car into the cottage.Planning to start unpacking afterwards and get everything in the place it needs to be.Living near the forest definitely has its perks.Nobody usually comes out this far and I don't have to worry about Mary wandering too far in her search for friends because she is a little scared of the shadows that creep around as the wind blows.Carrying the last box into the cottage I hear voices.Not just little Mary's but another child's voice.Did she really already have someone to bother me with?Running out I smell werewolf and its not little Mary's masked scent. It's another one.Panicking that we have been found out I ran out to see the two playing around in the dirt with her doll and his little toy car.When he saw me he smelled the air and then scrunched his nose.That's how I knew we would not be staying here long.You see I am a werewolf and little Mary also but we are classified as rogues as we don't have a pack affiliation and move along quite a lot because I want to keep little Mary safe.She doesn't know what we are. To her werewolves and vampires and such are just stories and theory that people made up to pass their time.The little boy made a weak excuse and left while I started packing again to leave before he had the time to get back to their pack lands and notify his Alpha of our presence.Although we are on neutral territory he might still try and pick a fight with me.I'm good but not that good.Alpha blood makes them so much bigger, faster and stronger.My warrior status wouldn't be enough to beat him."Mary, come and help me pack. We need to leave now."I don't have a place in mind as I thought I would have a little more time here to decide.I asked around and there wasn't any mentions of a pack living here in the area so they must be of the old ones choosing to not be known.That in fact makes them even more dangerous than any other pack.They don't follow the laws of his Majesty and go their own way.You could get beheaded or killed for looking at someone the wrong way.This is exactly another reason why I don't want to have a pack affiliation and also why I am keeping this from Mary.I have just seen too many good people being punished or die for absolutely no reason." I don't want to leave. I want to go and play with my new friend. Plwease daddy?"I knew once she started using that little voice of her that I would be done for so I would need to be strict here and now and get this conversation over with.I could always hug her later and explain that we were in danger and that's why we had to go again.Explaining right now wasn't an option."Mary, please just pack. We really do need to go before the bad men come for us again. They caught up to us."After she heard this she dropped the frown and I wiped the tears from her eyes.She packed everything up and asked if she could leave a sorry note for her friend so he doesn't worry when he comes looking for her to play.I told her as long as I could see it before she left it it wouldn't be a problem.Just needed to make sure that she doesn't leave him anything in the letter.Not that she knows where we are going, hell even I don't know where but still.Can never be too safe especially...Getting Mary and everything back in the car really wasn't as easy as I thought it would have been with everything still mostly packed as we hadn't gotten to the unpacking part as of yet. It had taken a little more time than I had wanted it to take but we were still able to leave before any wolves showed up. Keeping my eyes in the rear view mirror I saw some shadows of wolves just as we were turning from the dirt road onto the paved road. I hope and pray to the Moon Goddess that they do not give chase and just let us leave peacefully and without a fight. I might not have seen anyone following but being on the run for the last five years have definitely taught me that not seeing someone following doesn't mean that they aren't following behind you. I drove around taking random turns and making random stops just to be sure that I wasn't being followed and that they had just wanted to install a false sense of security by staying a little back making me think I
Mary's P.O.V I woke up way before we arrived at the bed and breakfast last night. I just saw how worried dad was and how not worried his eyes were when he saw me sleeping and save so I pretended to sleep all the way there. I don't know who these bad men are and daddy doesn't want to tell me the story but when I see how afraid dad is that makes me really scared because dad is this big tough man and him being scared means that the bad men have to be even bigger and badder than daddy. I was kinda scared when he got out of the car after he stopped and left me alone in the car to go into the store but I'm a big girl and that means I can't be scared of stuff like this. I have asked daddy if I could train with him but he said that I am still to young for all of that and that when the time comes he will start my training. I really try and be the best girl I can be as to not put any extra stress and worry towards dad because he already has. Somet
I woke up quite early despite what had happened last night and didn't feel like I needed any more sleep so I decided to wake daddy up by launching an all out tickle fest on him. He loved to do it to me so why should I let him have all the fun when I can also have some fun.To say my plan didn't work would be an understatement. He hadn't even moved and when I sighed and got on him so I could reach his most ticklish arms he had me in a tight bear hug making me giggle when he started tickling me back just as much as I had tickled him when I wanted to wake him up.Not wanting to get up and daddy still holding me close and cuddling me we just laid in bed until my stomach growled loudly.Daddy started poking me in the stomach asking if I was hungry. His poking made me giggle again but I still managed to do a yes nod with my head telling him that I was indeed hungry. Daddy started tickling me again before he told me to get dressed so long and to meet him do
Ryder's P.O.V I don't think that Mary was too interested in the going to school idea. She smiled and agreed but her face really didn't show that she was too happy. I don't mind teaching her everything that she does need to know but the social interaction would be great for he especially because she doesn't get to really talk to anyone at the moment. As promised if she finished her dinner she got her ice-cream. It looked so nice and refreshing so I stole a few spoons making her giggle and be mock angry at me for stealing her ice-cream. She really can't stay mad at me because on the way home I gave her a piggyback and that instantly cheered her up and made her smile and laugh for me again. I love how her mood just changes from one extreme to the next in literally a speck of time. I decided that with it being her birthday next month that I would slowly start easing her into telling her about us being werewolves and that hopefully I could get he
Queen Dianne’s P.O.VFlashback to six years ago Royal palaceI was just leaving the nursery because my little miracle was sound asleep and the guard was stationed outside her window keeping her safe from everything. We are really blessed to have had her after struggling for years and having quite a lot of miscarriages. I was ready to give up and live with the fact that we would not have any children of our own and I know Zach was really sad because of this.We both decided that we would be trying one last time and then our miracle little Mary was born without any complications or problems. The morning of her birth was the most stressful and funny day in my life. Zach was so cute being so worried when I told him that my water had broke and that he would need to get me to the pack hospital. He ran around the house for like ten minutes looking for his keys when we wouldn’t even need them.I pi
That was unfortunately not the case because when I woke up the next morning it was still the exact same as the day before and nothing turned out to be a nightmare. Mary was really gone and no amount of searching and looking led us anywhere and we were no closer to finding than we were the day she went missing. We hired private detectives, and we made announcements and pleas and posters and pictures asking for her safe return but none of that helped.It was as if she had disappeared from the face of the earth never to be seen again.Zach has started going more and more into his shell and never really smiles or laughs anymore. We haven’t had a joyous moment since she was taken five years ago. I can’t really blame him because I haven’t been any better myself also. I miss that little bundle of joy.Its like the moon Goddess closed off the happiness tap and opened the depression and sadness tap fully.Today she would have been six years old and we would have had a huge celebration and ever
Turns out that they left almost immediately after Liam got the tip and he followed their scent for a while but lost them again. Honestly, I don’t know anymore. This constant hope is going to be the death of both me and Zach.Ryders’ P.O.VHer nightmares continued and started coming more frequently. I don’t know how long it will continue before it changes into what really happened and she starts hating me. I decided that I would take her on a picnic and we could try and see if something that happened is the cause of the nightmares.I was thinking it could be the warning signs of her wolf coming forward but her smell hasn’t changed at all so that one is ruled out.I thought about her and the little wolf she met and thought that that could be the reason for her nightmares and that she had smelled him and then linked it with some smells from her past but I’m not sure if that could be the case as she isn’t supposed to be able to link smells until her wolf comes.All this uncertainty was giv
Ryder’s P.O.VThe woman stopped like four yards from us and placed the basket on the ground in front of her feet. She still wasn’t talking and kept on staring at us. I still couldn’t get a read on her scent. I definitely smell something that is not entirely human, but she is not a wolf or anything I have been in contact with before and I’ve been in contact with quite a lot of species before this whole running away and hiding away part of my life even started.Being part of the royal pack definitely has its advantages in this regard. Royal visits to the other realms and meeting the other species of the supernatural world.She started taking a few more steps toward me and started motioning with her arms and it looked like she was trying to tell me something, but the words were not coming out of her mouth. She pointed to her mouth and showed me something.“Okay so if I understand you correctly then you are either not able to talk at all or you are not able/ want to talk to me at this mome