His Spirit Wolf

Anna’s POV~

When the trucks started arriving, the first of the women were in bad shape. Emaciated and filthy.. various wounds, all in different stages of healing. Bonnie and Sabrina led them to the showers.. helping them bathe.. then getting them into hospital gowns so we could examine their injuries. I will only heal the more serious ones, so I don’t wear myself out, too soon. One of the women wouldn’t stop crying.. thanking us profusely.. telling us she hasn’t seen her family in two years. Axel is going to each of them, once they are examined and getting their information.

Some of them are in bad shape, so we medicated them down to sleep a solid 24 hours to speed their healing process! The last two were brought in.. broken beyond belief.. they were both unconscious.. and I could tell the youngest one had to be in her early teens! None of them had been sexually assaulted.. which seems to be the only plus in this entire situation!

Getting the last of them cleaned and fed.. except the three that are unconscious and labeled critical… Falcon wants to start interviews to get the information he will need to file his reports with the council. We have decided to petition to have all hunting clans outlawed and to get a law passed prohibiting hiring a hunter to go after rogues.. feral or otherwise.. Packs should have the right to go after rogues without repercussions or penalty!

Axel came in where I was monitoring the little girl, he whispered “I think I have some information on this little one.. her older sister is in a room down the hall.. keeps asking about an Amy” I told him to wheel her down here and see if we get a positive identification! Bringing her in.. she gasped and her hands flew to her mouth.. trying to get out of her chair. Axe wheeled her over to the bed.. and she reached to touch her, but I stilled her hand “Her bones are healing.. and under her bandages, her skin is knitting. I have healed her as much as I can. Tomorrow, I will start again. What can you tell us?”

Tears streaming down her face she whispers “I thought she was dead. I haven’t seen her for two months. They took her in the night from our cage.. and didn’t bring her back. My name is Isabella.. hers is Amelia.. we were abducted walking home from the movies almost two years ago. We lived with our parents and baby brother outside Alberta, Canada. We’re lone wolves and I don’t know if our parents are even alive.”

I smiled and told her to give Axel her parents names and their last known address and we will locate them, if they’re still alive. She looked shocked and asked how we could do that.. and I explained about lone wolves having to register with whatever pack they were close to.. so it was known they aren’t rogue!

Falcon called us to the office. Word from the trackers sent to the Culver cabin has come in. Axel and I raced each other back to the pack house.. and I walked in nearly three minutes before him. When he finally arrived, he was pulling leaves and pine needles out of his hair and clothes.. Falcon asked “what happened to you?!” And he glared at me “Luna cheats!” I rolled my eyes and shook my head “I didn’t cheat! I was playing an advantage! There’s a difference!” He growled “Parkouring off the tree and shoving off from my shoulders is cheating!!” I started laughing “Dude! You are built like a fucking mountain! Your legs are at my shoulders!! And it was your idea to race me! I simply used Your height to My advantage! How the hell was I to know you’d tumble headfirst into the cherry laurel shrubs?!” He snarls “Should have entered your mind when you thought using my head as a catapult that I might.. just might.. lose my balance?” I grinned from ear to ear “Nope! Never gave it a thought!”

Falcon started laughing “Can you two be serious for a few minutes?” And we both said “Awww.. do we have to?” together.. Brady shook his head and said “We ain’t ever gettin’ these youngens growed Pa!” And we all laughed. I mumbled “Dork!”

Falcon tells us to settle down “The trackers confirmed the Culvers are there.. there is also, about 300 fighters there. They overheard a conversation that Alpha Renaldo will be joining them some time tonight. There is evidence they are definitely planning an attack.. now… I want to hear your ideas. Do we wait and handle the attack as it comes.. or do we bring the fight to them?”

Anna says.. with no hesitation “ We bring the fight to them! If we wait for the attack here.. we put our people at risk and that is unacceptable! I say we go in covertly.. in teams of four. Destroy their weapons stash.. their communications system.. there’s no way they share a mindlink.. they aren’t pack! We eliminate their lookouts..sentries.. and guards. Then we march straight to the cabin.. demanding they turn themselves in to face council judgement! When they refuse..we wait for them to attack us! Then we wipe them out. I call dibs on Emmett!”

Axel laughs “Our bloodthirsty Luna calls dibs on the guy she wants to kill! We’re going to have such fun retelling our stories at family reunions!” Brady busts out laughing.. “Can you hear it? Y’all remember that one time, Luna called dibs just before she ripped that guys arms off and beat him to death? Fun times!” Everybody laughed and I mimbled ‘sure laugh! I called dibs because he’s a douchenozzle who deserves to die! Shouldn’t have said dibs! Should have just ripped his throat out and said Oops. Everybody not even notice that shit then!’ Falcon nuzzles my neck and says “Out Loud thought, baby” and I replied “Don’t fucking care!!”

I said “Well.. y’all have my input.. let me know what you decide” and walked out to the kitchen… I always bake when I need to calm my mind. That motherfucker murdered my parents.. planned on killing me.. and apparently calling dibs is taboo. I see snickerdoodles in my future. Hah! Reckon that makes me psychic