was a four-lane catastrophe waiting to happen. I couldn’t heal the humans, so no one had better be injured or hurt in what could very well count as us participating in vehicular manslaughter.
Of course, it was all my fault.
I sighed. Cars screeched to a stop, pulling off to the shoulders, and I winced in abject horror as they somehow managed not to hit each other. I covered my mouth in awe. The universe had just smiled at us. No one was hurt, no cars had crashed, and it really did look like random wolves were all over the road.
I ran. If anyone noticed, I hoped it wouldn’t be for very long. My hands burned. The Loup needed me, and thanks to these amazing people, I could help them. Anton was right behind me. We probably looked like a lunatic couple running with the wolves, or maybe they would think we had something to do with rounding them up. It didn’t matter. I was going to disappear into the woods on the other side of the highway, and no one would ever know what happened to me.
It didn’t take long with traffic stopped, and I was soon where I needed to be.
Anton followed close but didn’t interfere with me. I was grateful for his company. And there was the Loup. He waited like he’d known I would come, and maybe he did. They reached out to me along our psychic link and called for help. I could do no less than help them.
But I was at risk of their madness harming me physically every time I did. I had to be cautious and smart about this, or I was going to have to heal from injury. I was tough and strong, but I’d been through a lot lately. Even at my young age, I wasn’t sure how much more I could take.
“What are you doing out here?”
It tilted its head, looking mangled and sick. It broke my heart. I used to be scared of Loups, but these days, they were the lesser of all the concerns I had. This was something I knew how to do.
“Did you know I would come? You did, didn’t you? Even I don’t know where I am, but you did somehow.” I walked toward him. “And I’m going to make you feel better. If you come at me violently, this man behind me, who happens to be one of my mates, is going to hurt you. So control yourself.”
I hoped he would listen. Placing my hands on him was an act of faith, but then again, so was my entire existence these days. I had to believe that we’d be okay. It was all about my faith in the idea that we had a real place in the world that we belonged here. That breeding ourselves out wouldn’t and couldn’t work for us
That we were meant to be here, and I’d come when I did into these abilities to save us. I didn’t feel like a savior, and I had no god complex. But I had to believe that I was meant for this, or why was it me? Something about me was right for this job.
I sent my energy to him. His madness swirled around me but didn’t infect my soul. He wasn’t a hard fix. Not when I’d had to bring back so many from Ross’ hell. This was just a run of the mill Loup. Probably some poor soul who was lost because there weren’t any Omegas around. We helped keep order in the pack, because when we weren’t there, things and people went askew. So all I had to do was see to it that Ross was killed, and then there would be more Omegas born, and in about eighteen years, I could take a break.
Shuddering at the length of time it was going to take, I almost dropped my hands. It was amazing that I could think at all during this time. When I’d first started doing this, it had been really difficult, like I was going to pass out, as though I couldn’t endure it. Well, it was nice to know I was getting stronger.
He righted inside, giving me the madness, letting it go. Wasn’t that what we all really needed to do when it came down to it? We needed to release what kept us from being our best selves?
The Loup jerked as he let go of his burdens and gave them to me. I stepped back. Anton placed