03. Tracking

"Where you headed?"

The cop snapped his finger getting hold of Rani's attention.

She couldn't stop thinking about that dark blue wolf with silver glowing eyes. She could still feel its hot lick on her. She found it surprising that it didn't kill her, yet it killed the cop when it escaped the store. Not to mention the other people inside the store.

"Hmm?" She finally snapped out of her thoughts. She looked back at the cop who was wearing dark aviators and had on a badge. He was a Texas ranger.

"Where you headed?" The ranger asked again.

To meet my doom, Rani secretly thought.

"Mexico, to meet my aunt," Rani replied more assertively this time.

The cop nodded checking her I.D. after he had stopped her for going too fast on the road.

"You're in an awful rush to get there? You sure you're ok?” He asked out of concern.

"I'm fine," Rani replied and the officer nodded giving her a final warning and let her go.

Rani started up her ride and went on her way.

Halfway through her journey, her phone buzzed.

It was an unknown caller.

Rani put her Bluetooth on and answered the call.

"Hello?"

"How far have you reached?"

Chills ran down her spine as she recognised the voice of the caller.

It was non other than Carlito.

The rogue that was supposedly meant to protect her, now that her uncle was in jail.

The sun had gone down and she was still miles away from the border.

"I've passed by Blue Valley town, I'm on highway 42." She said after passing a sign.

"Was there any trouble on the road?" He asked curiously.

Her mind flashed back to the robbery. The guy in the suit and the wolf attacked and killed almost everyone in the store.

"I ran into trouble 4 hours ago."

"What kind of trouble?"

Pretty brown eyes and a very hungry killer wolf, named Achilles?

"Look I'm on my way, I'll be there in the next 24 hours."

A mild chuckle escaped his lips.

"You're just like Jon, trying to change the subject. Well, sweetheart. Not with this wolf."

His tone of voice sounded a little ticked off. Rani gulped nervously as he continued.

"What kind of trouble did you run into peaches?"

Peaches?! Rani refrained from scoffing. She quickly told him there was a 'stick up' at the store and thankfully she made it out alive, thanks to the wolves.

"Did you manage to see what the wolves looked like?"

Quite vividly, Rani couldn't forget, even if she tried. Especially the one that licked her cheek.

"One was deep blue and had silver eyes and the other guy that turned into his beast was deep red with..."

"Red eyes?" Carlito finished what she was about to say.

There was a long pause of silence until she heard him sigh heavily.

"You're definitely sure you saw the dark blue one?"

"Yes, he caused quite a chaos in store before the other turned."

Carlito growled in disbelief. Rani was full of questions but refrained from asking about the wolves, which Carlito clearly knew about.

"Rani, you're going to pull into the nearest motel. My handler will come and get you."

"Handler? Who’s that your wingman?" Rani joked to clear the tension.

"He’s my beta peaches." Carlito replied finding her quite amusing.

That's exactly why Rani didn't want another wolf. She'd been lucky to escape the store alive, and quite frankly she’s had enough of wolves for one day.

"No. Absolutely not, I’m not going to be comfortable with that arrangement. There’s no need to send your handler Carlito. Look, I'll have the goods to you by tomorrow."

She heard a strange sound of a whip in the background and looked troubled.

Carlito, chuckled deeply making Rani gulp nervously.

“I’ll give you credit that you’re making your journey to see me all alone. That’s mighty brave of you sweetheart. But here’s the thing peaches. You're being hunted by the Torretos. It’s not safe for you to travel on your own to get to me."

A wild chill travelled down her spine.

"Th..The..The Torretos? The guys that uncle Jon stole from?!"

Impossible.

“How are you so sure that it was them?”

“Are you doubting me?” Another harsh whip was heard this time a man groaned out of pain-making.

“Nn...No sir.” She could practically hear him smiling when she replied back in obedience.

"It will be wise for you to listen to me since they're no doubt coming for you again. The red wolf that you ran into is non-other than Damon Terroto. He knows you have the diamonds and guess what peaches, if the robbers weren’t there, he’d definitely have taken you by now. Let me guess, did he approach you and say ‘I’ve seen you before?’ " Carlito asked.

“Yeah?”

“Well congratulations you just met Damon Terroto.”

“You sound like you know him?”

“I used to be his beta many moons ago. I know what he’s like peaches, and trust me, he and his crazy brother are not going to stop chasing after you, until they get what they want. And this time peaches, if they catch you, they won’t spare you alive.”

A wild chill ran down her spine.

Whatthecrazyhellllll!!!!

"Great." Rani managed to say in her troubled voice. She was so f^cked if they caught her.

No wonder that prick asked her earlier 'Have we met before?'

"How the hell do they know who I am?"

Carlito sipped his martini, as his men in the background carried on whipping the fool that happened to be a spy from another pack.

"They got to Luther. Jon has asked me to protect you. So I'm sending you Vincent, your handler."

Vincent?

"Wait, how will I know it's him?"

"He's a tall guy, who will be wearing a dark suit and glasses."

Rani almost scoffed.

"Glasses? Don't you guys have hd vision?"

Carlito chuckled.

"Get to a motel that's coming up on the next intersection, it's called Palm Tree motel and wait for Vincent peaches." He spoke strictly not answering her previous question. Of course, they all had hd vision. Vincent purely wore them out of fun to psyche the humans out.

"Wait how do you know where I am?"

Instead of a whip, a terrible sound of a man screaming in the background made Rani nervous. Sounds like he was being tortured badly.

"GPS. Oh and another thing. Don’t run from me sweetheart, remember you have an uncle to save. So be a good girl and come with my handler Vincent before things get ugly. Oh one more thing, you better have those diamonds, because if you don't..."

The sound of the man crying was heard followed by another sound of a loud strong whip.

"You'll personally answer to me peaches." She heard him then punch a guy and growl at him

‘Who do you work for!’

Carlito cut the call, making Rani trickle with sweat drops. She was being hunted by the Alphas and she had no idea what her 'Handler' really looked like, and she hated the fact that Carlito was tracking her every move.

Glasses huh?

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On the road.

{Three cars behind a clueless Rani.}

The Torretos kept their distance and followed the girl discreetly.

"Achilles is awake?" Damon asked.

Hector nodded his head whilst keeping an eye on Rani's beat-up honda civic car.

"How? I thought that Carlito put him in a deep coma spell inside of you?"

Achilles (Hector’s inner wolf) was now back and conscious inside of Hector’s soul.

A: Carlito did what?!

H: You didn’t know?

Achilles's memory was fuzzy.

A: How long had I been out?

H: Two hundred and thirty years.

A: I’m going to kill that guy!

Achilles growled angrily.

"Well, he's wide awake thanks to her scent," Hector concluded keeping his very wolf at bay inside of him. He was still getting used to the new era.

"Wait that girl's scent woke him up?" Damon asked finding that quite fascinating.

Hector nodded and couldn't help but keep seeing images of her, thanks to Achilles.

"Where do you think she's going? I mean we've found out that Jon took her after her adoptive parents passed away. She has no other relatives in Mexico unless she's headed to a friend?"

H: Or a boyfriend?

A: Hmm, better hope it’s just a friend.

Achilles gladly grinned evilly. For Rani was quite important to them. If she had a boyfriend, he’d need to pray for Achilles not to make him the meal of the day.

Damon was curious about this too.

"It could be a friend, boyfriend or maybe it could be one of our old enemies."

The car carried on and Hector made plans to find out where his feisty girl was headed.

Soon after, they saw her pulling into an off-road. They followed her car and were surprised to see her pulling into a motel.

The wolves pulled in later after her and observed her from a distance in their car.

She pulled out her dark purple duffle bag and headed off into the reception area.

Checking in.

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