Past Decoded: A Dark Past book by Flicka Of The Night (short books to read txt) 📕

The wind hit her full in the face. It was fifteen degrees outside. She couldn’t believe this was the farthest she could get from the Trestery Pack lands for sixty bucks. The bus stop was crowded with people trying to keep their body temperature up in the freezing weather. She raised her head slightly taking in a deep breath of air. There was no trace of wolf around. She shook her hair out shadowing her face just in case someone was here that recognized her. She had finally dyed her hair a deep black hiding the original color. She took a deep breath of the piney air and started to walk away from the bus station and into the small part of town where she could find a job to work at for the next few weeks. “Ok, sixty buck got me six hundred miles so one hundred and more can get me a thousand and more miles away,” she murmured to herself making sure her calculations were right. She froze for a second as she opened the door to one of the many cafes hiring on the block. But as soon as the she started to look around the feeling disappeared. She shook herself for being so skittish. She walked over to the lady in a black and green apron and looked around one last time. “Um, excuse me mam,” she whispered holding her hand up slightly to get the girls attention. The girl looked at her with a raised eyebrow and nodded. “Yes, what is it sugar,” she whispered a heavy accent over laying some of the things she had said. “Um, I saw you had a help wanted sign in your window, and well I need a job, but I mean I just really need it for a few weeks, cause I have to be able to pay for a place to stay and everything,” she chirped in a very high voice. “You’re not from around these parts are you, new to town,” the lady looked her full on now. “Ya kinda obvious hu,” she laughed silently. “Ya, but hay you could work for a few weeks and see how that turns out,” the girl said handing a green and black apron over the counter to her. “Thanks, so I guess this means I start today,” she laughed as she wrapped the thing around her waist and pushed her black hair into a ponytail. “Ya, well really it’s a test, run were open for three more hours and that’s when the people pour in, so if you make it today come around six tomorrow for the night shift,” she said shrugging and whipping out a glass.

“Ok, that’s fine,” she said looking on wondering if she was going to last the next few hours. She set her stuff in the cubby under the bar. She started taking orders and as the girl had said before it got crazy. People had the tables filled and the counter blocked waiting for their coffee, coco, and or beer. A half hour before the whole ordeal was over seven guys walk in together. There aura screamed power as they walked through the crowed. “I’d like mocha, an Espresso, and five Mocha Lattes, thanks and make it in a hurry,” said the one in front of all the others. He had pitch black hair and startling silver eyes, but the one thing that hit her hardest was his scent. It was wolf.

Supida

, she scolded herself as she wrote down the order and rushed to the back. “Um, you know I really need to find a motel before it gets too late, do you mind if I leave a little early,” she said as she looked the girl making the drinks in the eyes. She raised one eyebrow and nodded. “Wait on the last one you got and you can leave, you did very good, if you need you got the job,” the girl said as she hurriedly made the drinks. They were balanced on a tray as she saw they had grabbed one of the last tables available. She was half way there when some idet pushed her back and the drinks turned over on her covering her in the smell of coffee, “Crap,” she snarled. She grabbed the guy by the jacket as he tried to just keep going. “Hay, you need to apologize to me, and the nice guys whose drinks are going to be late because of you,” she growled slowly at him. She saw shock roll threw his eyes as he rushed out a apology. She walked back to bar and made the drinks again even though she was covered in the last batch no one could have had more balance then her as she quickly placed the drinks down and started to walk away. But it was a second two late. One of the guys had taken a deep breath. The coffee should of covered her scent but apparently only vinegar helped that. She winced as she heard a snarl rip from there throats as she grabbed her stuff and walked out of the place hitting the cold air was horrible. It was cold and she was still covered in coffee so it only made her scent even more recognizable.

As soon as she hit the street she ran for the bus station the only place she could find to hide. But before she got even half way there a sickening howl rolled through the night. It silenced any thought of escape quickly. “No,” she wailed inwardly as she saw the bus station a second before something collided with her. “NO, please,” she whimpered as she put her hands up to block her neck from any deadly hits. But all that happened is a sharp nose pushing against her neck a second before a howl rolled through the animal’s throat. Then as she looked up she saw a dark grey wolf pinning her to the ground. I could take him out in a second. Growled her inner wolf, but she pushed her down. They were surrounded in seconds. It was indeed the guys from the café. They looked pissed off and the one on top of her leapt away and ran for the trees coming back a few seconds later with cloths on. The black haired guy that had been telling her his order a few seconds ago glared at her with unleashed anger.

“Did you really think you could walk onto my packs territory without being found, or making it somewhere we couldn’t find you, BITCH,” he growled. The comment struck a tender nerve. “I didn’t know there were any wolves here, I’m sorry Ill be going, I haven’t been here more than a few hours,” she whimpered not letting herself get into any more trouble then she really needed. “Well, that really doesn’t seem to matter, now dose it pup,” he snapped his fingers and the guys flacking him grabbed her by the arms and dragged her onto her feet. One of her knees felt out of place. But the pain was tolerable. She winced as he got in her face and growled. “My alpha is gonna want to have a word with you,” he growled as he turned his back on her. She knew what was going to happen. A wolf that purposely crossed onto another’s territory was either made to join the pack or killed for his or her deed. “Dont let me folgen dort Tod, in den ewigen Schlaf,” she murmured. Don’t let me fallow there path.

The ride there was horrible. Their grip on her arms was going to leave nasty bruises and the silent glares and the feel of their fury and hostility was so strong she was almost choking on it. She knew she was shacking from fear and the need to fight back. Being who she was she really didn’t want to sit there like a good captive. She wanted to make it as hard as she could on them to keep her steady. But she held it back knowing it wouldn’t be good if they tore her apart before she had regained any of the strength she had. Also if they planned to kill her she would fight back. She stiffened her spin and shut her eyes, thinking about when everything was so much simpler.

It was a warm day in winter, there wasn’t any snow on the ground because well its Texas it doesn’t snow in Texas like that in the northern states. A smaller version of her ran beside someone that looked like a copy of her but in a male’s body. They were laughing and tumbling in the grass as wolves there was no need for disguise or for running. It was just her and her twin brother Rave, “Come get me Ral,” he barked as he ran back towards the compound, where all the other wolves were. Where there pack lived and stayed most of the time. But a few seconds before they made it there, there were screams and howls. She stopped but her brother kept running he was slightly deaf, but could hear if you yelled loud enough. “NO, RAVE,” but it was too late, two wolves came out of no were there muzzles already streaked with the blood of her pack, of her family, and now her brother, she shrunk into the brush to hide fear running ramped threw her body freezing her small frame. They didn’t see her or really didn’t care because all she could hear were her brother’s screams as they torn him apart. Sorrow threatened to overcome her as she ran, she never looked back her body could only go so far before everything finally hit her…..

She jerked awake in the car a silent scream threatening to come out of her mouth. She shook herself as they stopped in front of a place that was huge it had many other houses around it but the center building was what caught everyone’s eyes. She was jerked out of the vehicle and pushed forwards. She yelped as she landed on her knee wrong. She looked around and saw that many eyes were focused on her as she walked forwards between two of the guys. She wanted to run and hide to be invisible instead of facing an angry pack of wolves.

She walked into the compound. Many of the wolves already inside stared, some in curiosity, some in anger, and others in fear. “Marcy, go get Alpha Ker,” snarled the black haired man that had been the only one talking sense she had seen these seven wolves. Well four the other three were not amongst them. A girl with light brown hair and a mousy appearance nodded and scurried away. That’s the only way to describe the way she ran up the stairs like a pack of rabid badgers were after her. After almost ten minutes of standing there her knee was screaming in protest as she tried to roll her weight to the other foot. She winced and bit her lip stopping the moan of pain. As she reopened her eyes she saw the girl coming back with a man about a year or two older then herself, with the darkest brown hair she had ever seen. His gaze looked over the people in his mist, and nearly locked gazes with a few but when most of the conversations stopped he finally asked the black haired guy, “SO Dust, I see you have brought back something more than just a bunch of coffees and tired pack mates, who is this?” he whispered in a silky voice. It rolled lazily threw the crowd