HOWLER

Chapter 27: What is heard can't be unheard

Daniel POV

My exhausting pants overwhelm me as my hands fall to my knees. I look back, chest pounding to see Alice far behind.

'She didn't run with me!', my eyebrows furrow before I decide to lay down on a nearby rock to wait for her.

'Hey, maybe I should mind-link Austry', a small smile spread on my face. My eyes close as I sit quietly, trying to focus my mind to open the link. The process is honestly freaky , my ears can pinpoint sounds if I concentrate my attention to it like the whooshing of the trees and Alice's steps, I guess it's a werewolf thing.

'Austry, you there?', I ask with excitement. I sit there expecting to hear her reply, my eyes are close as my breathing slowly goes back to normal. Time passes. My eyes slowly open as I feel a wave of disappointment come into me but I immediately shook off the feeling, 'Maybe she will reply later on..'.

Leave crushing footsteps slowly get louder as I smirk, sitting up from laying down.

"Finally you caught up", I turn to my left to see Alice stretching upward yawning.

She looks at me before rolling her eyes. She completely ignores my question but I didn't expect an answer, that's just how she is. She's the type who is silent but secretly very caring, she just got very sharp edges. Trust me, very sharp edges.

I lazily get up and walk toward the pack.

"Are you going to follow me now?", I ask pouting purposely.

She laughs sarcastically, "If you don't run then I will".

I shake my head, walking into the pack.

"There are many people out today", Alice says plainly, scanning the area. The walkway is crowded with buff men with tattoos and braided beards.

"Yup. But seems like we just walked into the criminal bar in that movie...Oh! Tangled!", I say smiling widely.

Alice scrunches her face, giving me a look of disbelief, "You watched a princess movie.." she says raising her eyebrow at me.

"W-what no!!! I watched it because, ugh, my mom!", I shout back panicking to make an excuse. My cheeks were getting hot as she stared at me with a dissatisfied expression.

"Hey! Alice! Daniel! Over here!", Curler shouts as I immediately exhale a sigh of relief.

'Curler you're a lifesaver!!!', I flicked my invisible tear from my eyes.

We scout around until a white light shimmers through the crowd.

"Walk toward the light, Alice", I poked Alice, cheesily smiling at her.

She punches me on my shoulder, "No".

"Oh there you guys are? Oh snap, Cynthia!!!!", he shouts into the crowd.

"Move out the way all of you now!", a growl came from the other side. I look around the viking men to see horrified faces as they scatter to choose a side of the pack quickly. Cynthia's long braid whips from side to side as her fluffy orange tail drags on the ground as she huffs. She walks toward us, her eyebrows furrowed together and her arms crossed in front of her chest.

She sighs, "What do you want Curler? How can I help you?", she smiles brightly.

My eyes widen as I look at her and back at the men who demanded to move, 'Talk about whoa'.

"Can you get these rags off thy dear friends of mine", then he says in a hush voice, "They are the new additions to the pack and part of the 'plan' Steven spoke with us seven days ago", he straighten up his back making him look tough.