HIS SALVATION

Chapter 22

"Let the bough break, let it come down crashing

Let the sun fade out to a dark sky

I can't say I'd even notice it was absent

'Cause I could live by the light in your eyes

I'll unfold before you

Would have strung together

The very first words of a lifelong love letter

Tell the world that we finally got it all right

I choose you

I will become yours and you will become mine

I choose You,

[...]

We are not perfect we'll learn from our mistakes

And as long as it takes I will prove my love to you

I am not scared of the elements I am underprepared,

But I am willing

And even better

I get to be the other half of you"

~ Sara Bareilles. 'I choose You'~

***

Trees shattering.

Rocking ground fracturing under his feet.

Soft moonlight on the branches.

    Pouring rain hitting the ground and erasing their footprints.

"Where the fuck is he?!" Seth snarls.

In the distance, an earsplitting howl shatters the calm, immediately answered by a chorus of lupine cries, and Godric sucks in a sharp breath, a growl scurrying up his throat along with blood and bile.

Dark, severe hardened lines paint the Alpha King's face, and his eyes stay trained across the darkened land on the hunt as the Pack's warrior tears through the forest, searching for the intruder.

His ears thread through the noise of the forest, through the pouring rain and the harsh breath of the wolves around him, trying to find the sound of another heartbeat, another running figure.

But nothing is there.

Nothing except a constant urge to run the other way.

"MOTHERFUCKER!" Godric's bellow of frustration rolls through the trees, echoing the thunder and making it sound like a mere whisper, "Stop."

    Like a snapshot, the cacophony of errant thoughts and running paws ends as all the wolves stop, every last one of them turning with rapt attention to their King, frozen in his tracks.

Tilting his head to the side, Godric cuts off the connection between him and the warriors running at his side. Multiples blurred scenery, one in each direction, accompanied by their thoughts disappear, and the Lycan scans the area with his own eyes.