Chapter Four


    ISABELLA''S POV


    For the next few days, I watched him. Thane never spoke a word to me, and I wonder if he had forgotten everything because I hadn''t.


    I didn''t exactly lie to the Luna, but I wasn''t telling the truth either. I did remember a part of my life. A part where ''He'' was my everything. SOME YEARS AGO...


    I had found an abandoned house, right in the middle of the woods. It was the perfect ce. Here I wouldn''t be encroaching on any pds; no one would ever be able to find me.


    I was a runaway wolf. I had left home one day and never returned; my parents might believe that I died; I didn''t think they would cry over my death. To them, I was already dead. I had an illness, one we all knew would kill me in the end, and maybe that''s why I ran away. I wanted to live life to the fullest with the little time I had left.


    anyone,


    I''ve always loved nature, so it was no shocker that I ended up in a house surrounded by trees and nature''s wildest animals. I wasn''t alone; no, I never really had so I never knew what the feeling was like, but everything changed the moment I perceived the most beautiful scent I had ever inhaled my whole life.


    I knew what this was; I had read about it in the books. I was always a sucker for romance books, and maybe because I believed I would never experience that in my very short life. I had already made a decision many years ago. I knew I was going to die, so there was no need to put someone in the misery that follows after one loses


    his mate.


    That scent would lead me to him-my mate Every instinct in me told me to move towards it. I was going to be happy, and for the first time in my life, I wanted it so badly. It took everything in me to turn in the opposite direction and run.


    That should have been the end; he should have gone and never came back, but that wasn''t the case. He returned every single day, waiting; he stayed for hours, and all those times, I stayed away.


    I never saw his face, but I spent my night imagining what he would look like, and the next day, when he came, I made a very stupid move. I followed the scent, and


    finally... I saw him.


    My imagination did him no justice. None at all. He was the most handsome man I


    Chapter Four


    had ever seen; he had brown hair and beautiful amber eyes. I couldn''t move; it''s like my whole world came to a stop and it was just the both of us. I was well hidden, but somehow he managed to spot me. His gaze on me snapped me out of my trance, and I ran, just as I always did, but this time he followed.


    When I thought I had outrun him, I felt a firm grip around my waist; instinctively, I struggled, but he was stronger than me.


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    "I won''t hurt you."


    "Let me go!" I cried out, and he did.


    "Your voice..." he began. "It''s beautiful."


    "Stay away from me." I said, but before I could try running again, he caught me once


    more.


    "Don''t you feel it?" he questioned.


    "Feel what?"


    I did feel it; his touch alone was electrifying, igniting feelings in me that I had never thought I could have.


    "You are my mate." He says, confident.


    "No, I am not" I insisted.


    ""You don''t have to lie."


    "I am not lying; I don''t know you, and you are hurting me; let go!"


    He finally did let go. "What''s your name?" he asked, and I looked him in the eye. I could tell from his aura that he carried Alpha blood in him, the more reason I should stay away from him, and yet I heard myself speak up. "Be." With that, I ran; this time he didn''t follow.