"We are going to figure this out. Don't you worry. We are going to fire this out. Do you hear me? Fucking Cruella bitch is not going to get away with this. She can't just fucking take you with her and keep you as a slave because she wants to? That's inhumane ! Sam baby girl we got this! If I have to gut her I will."
Cam is pacing the room back and forth, fury in her eyes. I'm blankly staring at the wall. I feel….. nothing. numb. I can't feel anything. It's over. Everything I worked for. My degrees, the money saved up, everything. Trying to leave to have a better life and that's it. All gone because of Serephina. Because she wants to prove, prove Goddess hell I don't even know what she wants to prove. Why is she so angry? Why does she hate me so much?
"No." I whisper but shifters can hear. We have great hearing. Cam heard me. I'm sure.
"What? Don't give up on me now girl. You can't give up on me. Sam. You can't. After everything we've been through. You can't. You can't leave me too okay!" She's crying.
Too? What does she mean by too, who left her? Gin? Her mom? She died in the fire, she didn't leave.
"Cam" I reached for her hand.
"No. She left. She could have walked out with us but she stayed to hold the door open. I know it's selfish of me to think that because she did help us get out along with your parents but…. but SHE COULD HAVE CHOOSEN ME!" The tears are streaming down her face. Sobbing uncontrollably. I don't know what to say. I understand her pain, my parents died too that night. "She could have chosen to leave with me. Now you have to choose too because damnit you cant leave me here alone with my dad. He's great and all but he's always sad and I can't deal with that moppy shit all day." She wipes her tears away. I hug her not knowing what else to do.
"Okay. We will figure something out." I whisper. What?! I don't know. Goodness, what a mess. Why is this my life?
"Listen, I have some money saved up. We can run away."
"No." I said quickly.
"I'm not going to implicate you too. If I get caught we will both be whipped. I have money too. I'll go. Tomorrow. During the ball everyone will be occupied. No one will know. We will stay in touch okay? I'll stay near the human city. I've been reading in one of the medical tomes about herbs that can conceal. The tome is old. I found it in archives pretty sure no one had read it in centuries. But it talks about some herbs that can conceal even scents. Maybe I can make it. Conceal my scent in the human city. Okay? We will be okay. I won't leave you. You're my sister Cam. I love you." I hugged her tighter.
"Shit you got me all crying here." We laughed.
That night we skipped dinner and ate a snack I already had in my room. We watched trashy TV and laughed. When it hit midnight and it was time for the pack run. I stayed behind perusal but Cam took a bag with a set of clothes, cash and the medical tome I spoke about earlier. She hid it in the woods behind the back lawn that faces the dining hall, the one behind the great garden for me. That's where I will escape from. If all goes well, I'll be in the human city tomorrow starting my life.
Emma whimpers. Although she knows it's for the best.
A wolf without a pack is a rouge.