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chapter 4

Rainbow finishes with my hair and shares a smile with Jeremy. "Darlin, I have outdone myself," says Rainbow beaming at Jeremy while sharing a smile. I open my eyes and look up self in the mirror.

Oh my god, wow.

I watched as Rainbow dropped my fluffy curls around my face that were once blonde and was now a gorgeous shade of copper, Bringing out the specks of dark green in my eyes.

"Wow," says Jeremy, his mouth dropping open.

"damn right, wow," says RainbowRainbow taking off my cape and brushing the hair off of me.

We say goodbye to RainbowRainbow and drive home. It didn't take long before we pulled up to the house; I noticed a small, neatly wrapped cloth package on the step. I step out of the car, and Jeremy grabs a few bags; I stop by the door to pick up the small box and unlock the door. I gasp and drop the package, shattering glass around my feet. Panic came over me.

Jeremy comes running over from the car, trying to figure out what has spooked me. He bends down and picks up the frame, Pulling at the cloth to see the last picture of my pack and me that we had taken the morning of my 15th birthday. The day Alpha ridden killed them. Someone had taken something sharp, scraped away the eyes of my pack and my father, and smeared blood over my smiling 15-year-old self.

"That motherfucker," He says under his breath. He looks up and sees what caused the panic to run through me. The living room is trashed, glass smashed everywhere, and blood smeared on the wall writing mongrel and rouge.

"What a fucking motherfucker!" he screams before looking at me; surprisingly, the sobs didn't start right away, I stood there looking at the writing for the longest time, and when it hit, it hit hard. Through the tears streaming down my eyes, I knew my eyes were turning a piercing yellow; I felt my fangs start to emerge and the burn in my skin as the nails pierced my palms.

Jeremy started to drag me towards the car so the neighbors wouldn't see.

Jeremy strapped me into the car, stood outside, and began dialing on his phone; I couldn't hear what he was saying but could see he was angrily shouting down the phone. His eyes began turning back from bright red eyes to his natural brown eyes.

"Bastard, that fucking bastard… I'm going to cut off his balls and feed them to him, and then I'm going to kill him with my bare hands, fucking bastard." He says, getting into the car and kissing me gently on the forehead.

Suddenly the anger passed, and the wolf went back inside, and the sadness hit me with giant, body-shaking sobs; gasping for breaths between them, my whole frame jerked violently with the force of my grief. The tears won't stop coming, and the crying is getting louder.

I have no idea how long we were in the car, but when we stopped, I looked up briefly when I felt strong arms wrap around me and hook under my legs, lifting me out of the vehicle. Resting my head on Johnny's chest, I let him carry me into a house. Walking into a small room, someone shut the door behind him, and I felt him sit down, keeping me close to his body.

It's moments like this when the only one that can make me feel safe is johnny.

If anyone could understand where I was in my head right now, it was johnny. Part of the reason our bond was so strong was that we had a similar situation. About a year after I had met johnny, he sat me down and explained that, unfortunately, he couldn't save his family when another pack attacked. He couldn't protect his sisters when the attack happened as he was overseas fighting in a war. When he met me, he said his first thought was how much I reminded him of his beloved sisters. That wasn't easy for him to tell me, but it explained why his wolf had come out when he saw us beaten, bruised, and broken.

He decided then that he would be both Jeremy and my protector; he's been protecting us ever since.

"Shhh shh shh, it's alright, mark my fucking words; they will not touch you. Do you hear me? I promise you are safe." His fierce voice rumbles in my ears.

He means it; I know that. Johnny would do anything to protect his family.

"I'll find him; I've got a friend who just moved to town, Jackson; he's been more bodyguard and muscle. He's been out west for a few years. He's an Ex-marine, a proper badass fucker. I don't want you to even think about it." johnny says, tightening his arms around me in a protective way.

I nodded into his tear-stained chest.

With plans for the night squashed.

Johnny later settles down with us to watch movies; He leans down, kissing Jeremy before plopping onto the sofa with us; I pop a chocolate into my mouth before washing it down with the beer johnny had brought over from the fridge.

I couldn't help but panic inside; they had found me; they had been in my home and destroyed the last happy memory with my dad.

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