JESSICAS POV
While I was sitting in the cafeteria waiting for max to come I began trying to calm myself down.
I closed my eyes as unhelpful memories clouded my head from times that food and drink were poured, stuffed and smothered on me. All for the sake of joking around.
His words not mine.
Jess it’s alright calm down. remember he will get what he deserves along with Rex and Ryan. You They do not deserve our anger only our revenge.
My wolf was right they didn’t deserve anger or emotions form me.
A broad body sat down in front of me with two iced coffees.
“Did you find him?”
I shook my head no.
“Look I’ve had an idea.”
I nodded an indication to go on, we are both equals in our work so there was no reason why I should decline his idea.
“Look I think I should get into their little gang, get them to trust me and become their ‘little buddy’. That way i can try to grab hold of the information we need.”
I nodded
“Well how would you get the info?”
I replied guzzling my iced coffee.
I could feel a pair of lust filled eyes on me making me lose my appetite.
“Well I will try and get into the business of what they are doing like earn their trust so I learn their secrets. Meaning Bing bam boom The guilty die sooner and our revenge on Albert comes quicker with less girls being taken to where ever.”
I could tell he was proud of his plan which I admit is pretty good but he kept his expression blank, only his eyes told me what he was truely feeling.
“Good plan but where do I come in. In all of this and how do we find where he has sent other girls.”
I over lapped my hands onto one another propped up on my elbows to rest my head.
I’m starting to get really annoyed now.
who ever is staring at me is gonna find pain.
“Well I was thinking either you become really close with Albert or while I’m with them you go and investigate around the school and pack house staying invisible to the world.”
We store directly into each other’s eyes1
“What do you mean get really close to Albert.”
I raised my brow at him challengingly. Hoping he wasn’t impling what I thought
“Become close.”
I could tell my eyes were starting to glow purple because max began to sweat a little as I tried to calm down from my sudden anger rise.
I could still feel eyes on me and now I was just sick of it I turned my head to stare straight into the shittiest brown eyes that haunt me in my dreams.
He has no right to stare at us like that!
My wolfs growl was cut short by a food tray hitting the ground.
I broke our stare to see spaghetti meatballs all over a person I knew all to well sitting by him self. Ryan
Expecting a rage filled roar I was actually surprised when he just rose from his chair and walked out of the cafeteria alone without creating a fuss.
I looked back at Albert who just smiled watching the same thing.
Confused I stood up and followed Ryan to try and figure out what that was about.
I could obviously tell Albert and him no longer got along but curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to know why.
I followed his pine leaf scent that led into the Forrest behind the school.
I looked at the edge of the tree line where torn clothes and large wolf foot prints covered the soft brown leafy dirt.
I tracked him and after a while through the thick trees I realised where he was. The trees and path, the old tracks that indicated struggle hidden under the same wolf prints.
He was at the lake.
The stuggled tracks were mine and the paws his.
I came to the edge of the Forrest where I saw his brown hair and well toned body sitting at the waters ridge on a large rock propped amount smaller ones. The yellow Daisy’s stood tall and the water rippled in all I can guess familiarity at my face.
He was fiddling with something, I couldn’t tell what because I could only see his back. I just watched his arm mussels contract and extract as his hair waved slightly in the breeze.
Jess his wolf is hurt somethings up. I know we wanted revenge but I have this weird feeling about something I think you should go over and talk to him.
Ok for you Ellen but I still might kill him no promises.
Fair enough.
I walked out from the wall of trees and closer to Ryan who.. Might I add was butt naked sitting on a rock holding a medium stone in his hand and a carving knife with the other.
He was concentrating so hard that he didn’t notice me sit down below him on the surface of many flat stones like the one he was holding.
I picked up a stone from where I was sitting to notice something was different.
Words had been scratched onto each stone that surrounded me for meters.
Each one had a name written on one side.
Taylor
I store at the hundreds of rocks flipping a few over to look at the oppisite side of my old name. Every text was different from the next one I picked up.
I’m so sorry I didn’t try to stop them.
Was on the back of one of the flat stones.
Each stone said a sorry for what he had done. I could feel the guilt that had been carved into them. My wolf softened.
“So. You did all this to one girl?”
I spoke up startling him.
He shot up to cover his private parts making him fall flat on his back onto the rocks below.
“How long have you been there?”
I giggled at his childishness when He ran over to the tree line and came back minutes later with some pants tied around his waist.
I got up and sat back down where he was sitting and picked up the rock that had freash carvings in it the same name was carved on one side but the message made my cold heart twist in confusion.
All that I have done to you, I am ashamed. I’m sorry I made you cry. I did things to you no one should do to a person. I’m so very sorry.
“Why do you write these?”
I ran my thumb over the freash powdered rock.
He has probably done at least 100 stones.
He didn’t answer because we both knew I knew the answer. I mean who wouldn’t by reading the stones he was sorry but I couldn’t help but feel angry and furious.
“Arnt you the new kid?” I looked up and saw a little curiosity in his eyes. Which soon fizzle away at my gaze.
“Because I have done terrible things to her
That I am truly ashamed of.”
He replied I could hear his wolf howl in the back of his head.
“Why don’t you just apologise to her?”
I blurted out looking from his face back to the stone.
“I can’t.”
His voice was strained.
I kept running my thumb over the stones perfect carves.
“And why not?” I asked simply with no emotions just a shrug
“Because she’s d-dead”
I looked up at him then his face was white and Sunken he looked like a 30 year old man instead of a 22year old. He was slowly dying in guilt.
“Hmmmm. You know I herd about a girl who lived here once, her name too was Taylor. What a coincidence right? I heard she was raped and experimented on by the future alpha along with his beta and third in command. That was until one day they dragged her out here and raped her for the last time. It wasn’t Only before she was killed one of them backed out and left her there to die completely helpless as the other two killed her.”
I watched as his eyes went glassy and distant. He was looking into the past memories of the old me.
“But that’s obviously not the same girl right ? I mean it’s just a rumour? A story?”
I asked jokingly watching him slowly come back to reality.
“Right. Just a rumour.” The corners of his mouth twitched a little upwards and went down just as fast.
I stood up from the Rock and dropped the stone letting it land with the others to begin walking away.
I had already given him to much detail of what I knew and soon he would get suspicious.
“Do- do you think she would forgive the man that walked away for what he did to her. I mean at least he didn’t kill her right?”
I could hear him behind me. His voice breaking.
I stopped staring at the Forrest full of green and brown.
“Could you forgive someone who raped you or experimented on you? What do you think is worse, killing somebody or walking off knowing what will happen and choosing not to do a thing about it? To me both are murders in their own way.”
With that I walked away leaving him speechless.