Camellia wake up as her usual. Nothing different on her day to day life. She walk out of her bedroom to the bathroom that she share with her parents. Wash her face and brush her teeth. After that, the family of three have some small chit-chatting before everyone on them left to do their daily task at hand. It goes the same to Camellia. She do her daily routine at home before she left for school. As soon as she close and lock the front door Jessica call her loudly as she could. She always mess with Camellia as if he friend is a deaf.
Camellia proceed to walk to school with her chattering friend. Only after awhile walking while listening to Jessica, she feels like they being watch. But by who? Camellia turn her body to look around but she did not see anything suspicious. Nothing weird. Only some sound come from the breeze hit the leaves. Her heart thumping as if she just running away from being chase by wild dogs.
"Jess, do you feels like something wrong around us?"
"Lia, what do you mean? Feel what? What are you talking about?"
"Something like we are being stalked by someone?"
"No. I don't feel anything. Why? Is there anything weird?"
"Yeah. I think so. But I'm not really sure. "
"No… Lia, stop. You are making me nervous over nothing. Stop being weird and acting like a madman." Said Jessica at the same time turn her head around in her.
"Fine. Just walk faster or we will be late and I will leave you here alone. Come on."
All the way to school, they both continue talking about their homework from yesterday that hard to understand and need extra help from each other. The girls attend their class obediently and work hard in every lesson held at the school until the school end. On their way back to home, Camellia have the same feeling from that morning. She turn and look around. Look for everywhere but found nothing. At the end, she just dismiss that weird feeling to avoid making her friend afraid and talk non-sense to her.
Later in the evening, Camellia make her way up the mountain again to look for rare and expensive herbs. She want to have enough money before the end of her school day in which left like more or less three more month. She want to reduce spending too much time outside later when the time to have the final examination. So, she is determine to make it work somehow. She really need to spend doing revision nearing the time to nail the scholarship no matter what.
Camellia walk around mindlessly around the mountain. She never care about her surrounding very much lately. She just feel safe there and it only happen since the first day she meet the wolf. She really miss the wolf even though it is only two days since the last time she saw him. She pry and hope it always stay healthy and stay far away from any danger. Camellia really want to meet the wolf again. But of course not as a meal. But as a friend.
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After three days stalking his mate, Dylan have to leave the human country and go back to his kingdom. He, himself not really sure for how many days he left his kingdom border. His people must be worry about him. He can't mind-link anyone as soon as he left the border of his kingdom. So it really hard for him to let them know his well-being all this time. He just want to spend some of his time with his newly found mate but his have a lot of responsibility at hand. He can't abandon everything for long. Or else the kingdom will be in chaos.
All these time, since he come back to his conscious, Dylan had been stalked his mate. Never miss a single minute. He watch her back every way she take in the mountain, afraid of something bad happen to her all the time. He follow her in the dark at the same time protect her from any danger while she crouching and picking and search for herbs she need.
Dylan really want to take his mate out of the poverty and current life. It make his heart hurt a lot seeing her working hard every day to make a living. She need to get up early in the morning even on weekend and plucked some herbs to sell at the pharmacy. Her lifestyle really show that she is a simple minded person and doesn't show her greed. She will be a perfect leader and an understanding mother of their future pups.
"Urghh… How I wish I can stay with you every single day in our life. But I need to leave now. Just wait for me. I will come back later to bring you back to my kingdom. Our kingdom. It will be only you and me. I will love you with all my heart. Just wait for a little bit."
"Dylan. Are you crazy to leave her here? All alone at that? Living in poverty? I want her. I want her right now. Right this moment. It will be impossible to leave her here."
"Be patient for a bit. We will come back later to bring her back with us. We need to handle our kingdom first. We need to make it free from any war and a safe place to stay."
"Fine. Do it fast. Don't delay it much longer. I can't wait for when the time come."
"Yeah, I will. No worries. I know the real traitor situation at the border. So, it will not take too much time to handle them once and for all. Just wait and see how I will fix them, the traitors. It will be the end of their bloodline. I will make their descendant vanish from the Earth."
After done negotiate and persuade Max, Dylan shift into his wolf form. Dylan and Max bid their farewell from afar to their mate. As soon as the bone breaking and reshape, Max take over to control the body to run according to Dylan's instruction. He follow every path that will lead them to the border. They use the shadow of trees that show up due to the morning sunlight.