Chapter 43 - Protecting the ones we love.

Blanca

“Blanca, just listen … You are not safe at the moment …” Carlo started and I could see the frustration when he pulled his fingers through his hair, but I didn’t care! I was furious!

“NO! You listen.” I glared at him. “You promised me that I wouldn’t even know the guards were there, but three of them were right outside my bedroom door! Don’t you think if three guards stand outside my class that someone is going to notice something?! Carlo, do you even realize that I’m a damn werewolf and I can look after myself?!” He rolled his eyes.

“Why do you always have to make life so difficult?” Carlo basically fell down on the couch and sighed.

“ME?!” Was he actually being serious?! “I’m not the one overreacting!” I threw my hands in the air. It suddenly felt as if the air in the room got too thin. I needed to get out of the pack house and just run! I needed to feel the dirt under my paws and the wind in my fur, but that little voice way back in my mind told me now was not the right time. If I ran out of there now, I would be running right into the arms of those bastards! I was still in shock that Ezra could do this to me. I broke his heart, but that didn’t … Tears stung the back of my eyes as I felt Carlo’s hand touching mine. He pulled me onto his lap, and stroked my hair.

“Blanca, I know we got off to a rocky start, but you are everything to me. I don’t know what I would do if I lost you. Okay, so I overreacted, but I wouldn’t survive it if these people took you.” I didn’t know what to say or do.

“We can’t have three guards outside my class, Carlo. What about the humans?” I was actually beginning to think I shouldn’t even go to school.

“I will speak to the principal and they won’t all be standing outside your classroom. They will patrol the grounds.” Carlo tucked a stray piece of hair behind my ear. I knew deep down he wouldn’t make it obvious that I was being protected. I was just incredibly nervous. There was just a lot more at stake. I knew my life could be in danger … Who the hell was I kidding? My life was in danger, more than it normally was.

I nodded. I couldn’t stop Carlo from protecting me. If I was all on my own, even being a werewolf, I wouldn’t be able to protect myself against a group. Why the hell do these kinds of people always come out in numbers?! Why didn’t they have the guts to face you one on one? I rolled my eyes at my own thoughts. Of course, life wouldn’t be fair. Especially not mine!

These kinds of people would always use whatever they had that would give them the advantage! Which fool would bring a knife to a gun fight kind of thing? I was again reminded how shocked I was that Ezra did this. I realized that I probably never knew him as well as I did. Then again, I had known Carlo all my life, and he still surprised me.

“It’s going to be okay.” Carlo’s voice pierced my thoughts and I felt the tears when he stroked them off my cheeks. I hadn’t even noticed I was crying. I looked at my watch and realized we were late for school! It felt as if my life had suddenly turned into chaos, but I went with it. The last thing Carlo and my guards needed right now was for me to be difficult, and distract them.

For the first time ever, I rode in one of the black pack SUVs with Carlo to my right, his Beta in the driver’s seat and one of my gammas beside Carlo’s Beta. Behind us there was a second SUV. I thought it would look strange, but then again, the other packs went to school with their entourages! When we arrived, Lilith was standing on the grass talking to one of the girls in our class. I caught her trying not to look our way, but not being able to help herself.

I also saw the pain in her eyes and it killed me, but I couldn’t walk over there and talk to her. What was I going to say? Oh, yeah, I’m a werewolf and I have gangsters coming to kidnap me?! I shook my head as Carlo slipped his arm around my waist. He arranged a meeting with the principal for us before class and I tried to smile at him.

“Well, yes, you would do that, wouldn’t you?” The principal frowned. He was one of us, and he knew how dangerous our lives could become. “Look, why don’t you just stay at home? I can make sure you get the work every day and I will bring the exam papers to you.” He frowned and I knew why he didn’t want that kind of danger near the school, but why did I have to give up any part of my life because Ezra was a damn idiot?!

“No! I am going to finish my senior year exactly the same way as all the other students. Why do I have to be punished?!” The principal sighed and nodded. None of this was fair. To anyone. The principal had to advise the other packs that more of my guards would be in neutral territory, but he couldn’t see them having a problem with it. All Alpha’s became very protective when it came to their mates, and the others knew that.

With all the arrangements finally sorted out with the principal, we finally went to class. I kept looking at the door where I could see the back of one of my guards and it broke my heart. The other two were posted at the ends of the passages and four more were patrolling the outer border of the school property. Our pack was on high alert at home just in case those idiots thought they could take us on.