Chapter 177
Ben and I sat in the mess hall together but we got there late so a lot of people were finishing up and they were leaving.
“Lilly. You shouldn’t have to put up with this. It’s the equivalent of living with an abusive parent.” Ben said.
“Ben. Even if I did try to leave, I won’t be able to. They’ll always find me. They will look for me because they’ve invested too much into me.” I said.
“I know somewhere safe where we can go. They’ll never find you there.”
“If you take off with me, then no one you know will be safe. Trust me.”
“No. You need to trust me. Trust me to take care of you.” He said.
“Why do you care so much?” I asked.
“Because I love you and I hate what they are doing to you.” He said.
“It’ll pass. I learnt a long time ago not to complain. Everything always passes.” I said.
“I hope so. Because I don’t want to have to kill the bastard.” He said.
“Well, don’t do that. Because you will just end up in the brig.” I said.
“I know. Listen, another team came back today after going after a pack. It’s the same story. The pack was evacuated. Completely empty.” Ben said.
“How’s that possible?”
“I don’t know. But someone is tipping them off and pretty soon we are all going to be under the microscope. Which means, we have to be more careful than ever.” Ben explained.
“Yeah. Absolutely. As much as I love sneaking out with you, maybe we should give it a rest for a bit.” I said.
“It sounds like a good idea. They’ve got people outside the base to see if there are hideouts anywhere. To see if wolves are watching us.” Ben said.
That made sense. They were trying to figure out why all of these packs were empty.
I didn’t even know why the hell these packs were empty. It was puzzling me and I didn’t know who could be tipping them off.
“It doesn’t matter. I know that the Captain will get to the bottom of it.” Ben said But I just nodded at him, still thinking about all these stranges things going on. “What is it?” He asked.
“Well, if they are evacuating wolf packs. What’s to say they aren’t going to attack us here. I mean, it’s an army base but only a handful of us know about wolves. The rest are just military. They aren’t Hunters and they dont know how
kill
werewolves.” I said.
I seemed to get Ben thinking as well. He wasn’t sure about it either. Because there
was nothing stopping them from attacking us.
If they wanted to, then they could.
They are obviously very good at what they do. They get out before we get there, which means they know that we’re coming and they are long gone. How do we really know that they aren’t watching us?
Those men that are out in the forest don’t mean shit. I have studied wolves longer than anyone else here and I know what they are capable of. I know their abilities. They’re hearing and eyesight.
They could be a couple of miles away and we’d never know it.
When we walked out of the mess hall, we noticed that it was a lot brighter outside than usual.
They had all the lights on in the base and spot lights looking out around the forest. They also had more people up in the towers on patrol, keeping an eye out.
Ben and I were walking back to the bunk house when I saw Justin standing across the field talking to a few other people. He looked at us but I just looked away and kept walking with Ben.
I had nothing to say to him and I didn’t want him to think it was a good idea to start training right now.
I showered and got ready for bed and Ben was sitting on his bed next to me and
Jesse was on the bed on the other side of me.
“How are you going with everything Lilly?” Jesse asked.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Justin. He’s being a bit of a dick.” Jesse said.
“I can handle Justin. He’ll get over his problem eventually.” I said.
“Well, he’s definitely pissed at you about something.” Eric said, walking over to us
and joining the conversation.