The Wolf In Me

Mei's POV

I was sitting down on a wooden garden bench, reading a book called An Unexpected Kind Of love which I have been consumed in for a while. The breeze was delicately touching my warm cheeks, feeling the heat of the sun against my skin. Mason, now five years old was playing with a few other kids a few meters away from my sight.

Luka went for a spot check with Jake like they do every day in wolf form whilst they discuss activities, training, gatherings and some stuff that are necessary for the pack to keep it entertained. Lylah and Nelly left for a few weeks to meet with some witches, in the hopes to rebuild a strong coven as they have had in the past. Everything has been quiet for years now but yesterday Luka and Jake have discovered a freshly dead body of a human, left abandoned in the middle of the forest. I've got a hunch about it and since then I felt restless, always making sure Mason was by my side.

As I was back gaping at the book, I felt a hand over my shoulder that startled me.

"Oh, Melody. I didn't feel you coming."

She smiled at me and sat down on the empty part of the bench observing the opened book.

"The last time I read a book was that demon spell book we took from the library."

She sighed and rested herself against the backside of the bench, moving her face towards the brightness of the sun. Closing her eyes, she smiled, absorbing herself into the moment. "Since then, everything got so quiet, it's almost boring I can say."

I closed the book and looked at her intently, observing every corner of her face.

"Boring is good when you have a five-year-old son and another on the way," I mumbled, looking down at my belly.

She stared at me for a second, thinking I was joking.

"What? Are you serious?" She asked squeakily.

"I was about to tell you the same thing about me! I'm expecting too," I half gasped and laughed as we locked into an embrace, screaming with joy.

Luka's POV

"F**k man, another one," I muttered, turning myself back into human form.

I was down on one knee hovering over the dead naked female body. Jake turned her around, seeing if any of us would identify her. He shook his head and looked at me. "She might be one of us, but not form our pack," I said, covering her body with a blanket that was under her.

"Maybe a rouge?" He asked, looking up at me.

I shrugged my shoulders, still fixing the blanket over her. I sighed as I observed the surroundings, in the hopes that I would find a clue. Sure enough, there were a pair of human footprints pointing out the direction from where the woman came from. Following the tracks in the soil, I realised that I was right. She was a wolf and it seemed like she was running in wolf form before she turned into human form and died at the spot.

"No bruises, definitely alone since we can only see one set of footprints, but.... she was running from something for sure," I observed, moving my fingers softly on one footprint, thinking and imagining what she was running from.

Mind linking Mei, I sent for Melody to come and assist us with her ability as a witch. We waited silently for her to arrive, wearing the spare clothes we brought with us.

"Melody," Jake yelled as we watched her approaching from afar.

I tied my shoelace and stood up to find her taking the last few steps towards us.

"Mei said you needed my help," she said, turning her gaze at the dead body.

"Oh. You found another one?"

Leaning down by the body, Melody closed the young woman's blue eyes, sighing as a gesture of sadness towards the misfortune.

"I am guessing you want me to find out what happened to her, right?"

She looked at her with a sad expression, asking with a brittle voice.

"We need to know who did this and what for. They might be doing this as a threat towards our pack, maybe our kind, or it could have possibly been an unfortunate accident, which I doubt very much considering that this is the second time finding a body laid so close to our territory. Something or someone is responsible for this and we need to act quickly before its too late," I explained to her, showing my urgency. With a nod, she focused, with her eyes closed, and hands hovering over the body, trying to find a source of energy from the lifeless woman.

Melody's POV

With my eyes closed, I tried to find a connection that could bring my back into this blonde woman's recent past. I mumbled in prayer to the moon goddess to send me some energy to gather myself and get this over and done with. Her body was already stinking, which only means that she has been dead for at least two days, possibly more and her eyes were turning whiter too.

My body started to feel numb as I pushed further and further to get some answers but with one last heavy breath I felt myself getting dizzy, and my body weakened.

"I'm sorry.." I whispered, before falling onto darkness.

When I woke up I found myself in the pack's hospital room, connected to a drip. Jake was by my side wearing a worried face that slightly changed as soon as I turned my head towards him, barely opening my eyes.

"Phew, Mel, you gave me a fright."

He breathed, holding one hand over my head.

"What happened to you out there?" I grunted and pushed myself up with his assistance, resting against the headboard.

"I'm pregnant Jake. I think my body cannot do magic until the baby is born," I uttered, smiling at him as he looked astounded by the news.

"For real? Are you kidding me? So, that means... I will be a dad in nine months!" He asked croakily, holding himself from crying as he cackled.

I nodded and chuckled, realizing how much things will soon change for us.

As I started to feel better, I stood up from the bed and both Jake and I walked to our bedroom where I took the opportunity to rest further before I had to make my way back to the body to try to figure out what happened to the poor young woman. Surely I needed help to get some answers through magic but I was the only witch to be in the packhouse for the time being, so I was stuck with my options. Whilst biting my inner side of my cheeks, I kept thinking of a few options, hoping a good plan would come up. Suddenly I received a call from an old friend and that was the time when a plan hit me.

"Oh, hi! How are you, my dear? Yes, it has been a while. How is everyone?"

Jake's POV

I have just opened the shower cubicle when I heard Melody talk to someone in our bedroom. Wrapping a white towel around my waist I opened the door, water dripping from my hair and skin. She turned her gaze at me, noticing a grin on her face like she got the best news of her life.

"Can't wait to meet! Alright then, I will be expecting you to come by later then. Yes, bye for now."

She hung up, placed her cell phone next on her bedside table and looked up at me smiling like she has won the lottery.

"Oh my, my! From where should I start? From drooling over the view just in front of me, or explaining what the call was about? Hmm, you look so hot baby," she placed the tip of her index finger over her plump lips as she looked at me with fiery eyes.

My heart could not resist the way she stared at my soaked body and I could feel my wolf's excitement from within my chest.

"Let's just start with priority number one, shall we?" I said in a smoky manner.

"Ah, I wonder what priority number one would be."

She moved closer to me and let her fingers draw lines against my bare chest, moving slowly down to my abs and the one thing that was hiding under the towel. Feeling her cold finger over there, I pushed her roughly back on the bed, exposing my full body, letting the towel fall on the floor by the bed. I gripped her legs tightly, moving them apart to allow enough space for my waist to get in between to reach her parted lips, ready for our tongues to intertwine. The more I heard her struggling to breathe through our intense emotions, the more I felt the need to get into her. My index finger was now working its way to her soft spot, moving it gently, watching and listening to her react. This was it! I could not resist any longer, and so I pressed the tip of my d**k into her cave. We both moaned as we felt the shock of the intensity hitting us, and for a moment I stood still, trying to get myself together before moving forward with it.

"What are you waiting for? Get on with it," she breathed, pressing her fingers around my a*s, encouraging me to proceed.

I grinned for a moment then as I looked deep into her eyes with an intensity I pushed myself further into her. Tilting her head back with passion, I noticed a vain in her neck sticking out sexily as she moaned, quivering under my body. I pushed myself in and out of her with desire towards her, like she has cast a love spell of some sort until we both c****d concurrently.

We spread our naked bodies on the bed by each other's side trying to catch our breaths back before I decided I needed a shower.

"I smell of stench," I chuckled, lifting myself from the bed, walking straight into the shower.

He came to me quietly, joining me for a warm, fresh wash, enjoying each other's smiles as we got ready for bed.

"I've got some good news," I started, turning myself to Jake's sleeping side.

He frowned, concentrating on what I was about to say as my eyes looked at him intently.

"A friend of mine is coming to help us find out who or what is behind the murders of the two bodies that were found in the woods. You can trust her. She is like a sister to me and I'm sure she will do her best to help," I explained cautiously, trying to avoid telling him too much about this woman.

"Who is she?" He asked now channelling my anxiety through our mating bond.

I looked down, knowing that I cannot hide my feelings from him, even if I wanted to, and as much as I didn't want to tell him the truth, it was a must to do so.