"Would you just talk to me Emma, I am sorry, there was no other way!" Max is standing in our bedroom doorway, pleading with me.
"There is always another way Max" I spit back.
Max had taken away my only family.
My sister.
Max had been away in meetings with the other human village leaders all week, when he returned he tells me and my sister, MY sister, that she must marry the mountain village leader and leave me, our home, to be with him.
I didn't like it, not one bit, Max knows exactly how I feel about that piece of shit.
He is an awful man, we all knew he beat his first wife, the one that is now missing, she probably fed herself to the wolf's, anything had to be better then living with that brute.
"Tell me Emma, tell me what you would have me do" Max says.
"Refuse him" I say.
"We have been through this Emma, we cannot afford a war with Luke, we would lose, the packs are closing in, we need his help, his men."
"So my sister, the only family I have left, the kindest, most vulnerable person in the village has to go live with that monster, because you don't have the balls to tell him no?!" I am mad he can't do it, he can't take her away from me, not Selina.
He sits next to me on our bed, his head in his palms.
"I am sorry this hurts you Emma, trust me I am, but its the only way, besides Selina is........diffrent."
"Don't you dare Max" I warn
"You know it Emma, she doesn't look like most humans, she has dark hair, olive skin, Emma she looks like one of them" he replies.
"She is not a monster Max, she is gentle, sweet, she is to soft to hurt anyone" I growl.
"She has to go Emma, my word is final." He turns and leaves me alone......and angry.
I head out to the training grounds, I need to blow off some steam.
I grab my bow and some arrows, normal targets have become to easy for me to hit, I can hit a bullseye ten out of ten times so I had the village mechanic make up some moving targets.
I hit the first target in between the eyes, the second in the heart with ease.
It's dark when I finish up training, I head to the house I share with Max and other important members of the village, most of them on the concil.
The concil were a group of humans that made any and all decisions about the shapeshifters, I had wanted to join the concil for many years, but unfortunately I have been rejected everytime, probably because the concil consist of men and I am a women, I think its because secretly they are threatened by me, I've killed more wolf's then any of them.
I reach the kitchen and pull out some leftovers, taking it to my room with me, I would not be dinning with Max tonight, he could suffer for awhile, I am still mad at him, tomorrow she will be gone, my beautiful sister gone.
I have just washed when Max comes bursting into the room, he looks pissed.
"WHERE IS SHE EMMA!"
I roll my eyes, he has lost his mind.
"Who" I ask.
"Cut the crap Emma, where is she?"
"I assure you Max I have no idea what you are talking about, now if you would kindly leave, I am still not speaking to you."
He stands there, still scowling at me, his arms folded across his chest.
"Where is Selina, Emma" he says.
Now I am listening, I stand, ready to run, to find her.
"She is not in her hut?" I ask
"No Emma she is not, she went out the gates earlier today, the guards said she never came back when they shut them at dusk" he explains.
"She wouldn't runaway Max, she is terrified of them, you know she hates the wolf's, she wouldn't risk running into them."
He studies my face for a moment as I think, she is always back before the gates close, always, she isn't like me, she is timid, I don't think she has ever held a weapon.
"They must of taken her Emma, I am sorry" he lowers his head.
The realization hit me, the truth of his words, the wolf's had taken her and once they took our kind, they were never seen again.....just like my mother.
"I am going to look for her". I say as I grab my red hooded cape off the bed.
"Emma don't be crazy, it's dark, they are out there".
"I don't care" I reply as I fly down the stairs.
I am almost out the door when I hit a wall, a solid mass....Luke.
"Christ Luke, watch where you are going, get out of the way" I say.
"Where do you think you are going women" he ask.
"They took her Luke, they took your bride, the wolf's took her" I say.
"Lucky I am here then isn't it, let the men work, go upstairs, brush your hair, whatever it is you females do." He says calmly.
"Don't you dare patronize me Luke, havnt you already lost a wife, and I am to trust you to find her, I don't think so". I say as I push past him.
"One-day Emma I will put you in your place, someone has to." He snickers.
"Touch me and I will gut you." I say as I fly out the door.
