howled.
‘I wanted it to be true from the first time I
saw you. Your markings are beautiful, white with a black star and black socks ,’ he told me.
Kai was my mate. I could feel it now, the
rightness of it. My wolf was pleased and my human side didn’t have time to
process it. I heard a painful howl behind me and turned to see a wolf with
glaring black eyes. Sadie. My wolf recognized her. She ran off through the
woods without waiting for the pack. I felt sorry for her. Kai nipped my leg and
I jumped over him and began to run. ‘ Chase,’ my wolf said. Kai took off
after me, grinning. The rest of the pack was at our heels. I could feel them. ‘ Pack.
Run.’ I pushed myself faster, harder. Kai was right next to me.
‘You’re fast like me,’ he said. I pushed faster delighting
in the feeling of my body, then I circled around to meet up with the pack.
A small, reddish wolf with two white spots on
her back pounced on me playfully, yipping. Emma. My wolf nuzzled her and then I
noticed Devon circling Kai. They seemed to be talking. Devon’s markings were
the exact opposite of Emma’s. He was stark white with two reddish spots on his
back.
‘You found your mate!’ Emma’s voice said. I froze startled. ‘ The
pack can communicate through the pack bond while in wolf form.’
‘Oh, cool.’ I tried.
A medium-sized tawny wolf with a white
paintbrush tail and a thin, white line along his back, came up to me. Akash, my
pack sense told me. He nipped my left paw and then took off running. My wolf
yipped and ran after him. ‘ Chase.’
One second I was chasing him and the next I
was slammed with a vision. Like a movie screen playing in my head. I could feel
my legs running, but I couldn’t see Akash or the forest in front of me. I saw
Sadie in human form, in a grove; the downtown Seattle space needle peeked out
of the skyline behind her. She then changed into her wolf. She was a large,
female wolf with brown and reddish markings. A wolf pack came out of the
clearing and a wolf with the opposite markings to Sadie howled and sprinted
towards her. They nipped each other running in circles. Then I was shown Sadie
looking at Kai. He nodded. She was saying goodbye.
Then the vision was gone. Akash and Kai were
in front of me whining in anxiety. ‘ I said are you okay? Can you hear me,
Aurora ?’ Kai asked .
‘Maybe she’s having a seizure. I read about
staring seizures once,’ Akash added.
I shook my head to clear it. ‘ Not a
seizure, a vision.’ I walked over to Kai to reassure his wolf I was okay.
I licked his muzzle and then replayed my vision for him in my thoughts. His
wolf’s eyes glowed and his muzzle opened. He was panting.
‘I know what you are. There are stories about
your kind,’ he said.
‘My kind ,’ I thought.
‘You’re a Matefinder. The most sought after,
the most…hunted .’ At
this, his wolf tipped his head back and howled. My fur rose up and my ears were
stiff.
The other wolves ran to him to see what was
wrong. ‘ Alpha, Alpha .’ I could hear their concern. Jake brushed my
shoulder as he passed me and it happened again! I no longer saw the pack in
front of me. I was pulled into a vision. I saw Jake, then I was shown a
hospital sign. ‘ Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Scottsdale, AZ.’ Then the
room #314 flashed in my mind. It was like I was walking into the room, lying upon
the bed was a frail, skinny female. She was sleeping.
A nurse walked in with a doctor and they
whispered. “Her white blood cell count is not good.