NightLock
Chapter 9
Tyler's p.o.v
"It's been three d.amn days!!! Why isn't she waking up!" I yelled at Cody who just stared out the window from where we sat in Star's carefully painted bed room. Three days had passed since Star shoved me out of the way and took the fatal bite to the neck that was aimed at me. She had healed, obviously, she had been a mess when I ran into the house with her. Her clothes had been shredded by Devan's sharp claws when he latched onto what should have been my neck. My sister, Jasmine, came in and brushed the tangles from her hair and changed her clothes to one of her father's old T-shirts and let Cody and I back in. Devan wouldn't come near her room, or rather the entire second floor, if he wanted something he jumped from the third floor, where he has slept in the small guest room there since his bed room is on the second floor, onto the old trampoline in the backyard below and then went where he needed or got what he wanted from the first floor. "Tyler calm down it happens when something shocks her Devan attacking shocked her brain and forced her into sleep. This happened when she saw Mama and Daddy shot down right in front of her by a hunter that was targeting her." Cody said still gazing out onto the snow covered yard like it held every answer in the world.
"Wait...what??? Why would they target her, she was five then...who would kill a five year old little girl?" I asked shocked that someone would ever try to hurt the one girl who thought I was worth enough to pull me from my dark hell of life at Uncle Roger's and Aunt Donna's and to save John and Jasmine too. The one girl that, well, that I fell deeply in love with from the moment I opened my eyes to see her ice blue eyes filled with worry gazing down on me what seemed like years ago but was truly only about two weeks. She ran through a blizzard with me on her back, healed wounds I had, took away scars that haunted my mind in nightmares, rescued my younger siblings, she gave us all a second chance...she couldn't leave me now...she just can't.
"Our parents were the strongest Alpha's in the world many wanted them dead especially when Star was born, she has the mark of a true Alpha and the daughter of the two strongest Alpha's in the world so many attempts were made to make our parents step down from Alpha threats to Star. They died doin' the one thing they swore they'd always do, protect their only daughter Midnight Starsong. They passed we took their promise upon ourselves and protected little Star with all we had we trained her combat with out younger cousins after pack training. She is all we have left nothing is gonna take her away from us." Cody's voice broke through my thoughts. The sun was setting now, he's get up, kiss Star's forhead and go to his room for the night, and that's what he did. Since I'd been here I've been in Star's room so after sunset I'd gently kiss her lips, whisper a soft "I love you", phase, and curl up along side her and if I'm lucky peacefully sleep until morning.
~The Next Morning~
Star's p.o.v
My eyelids fluttered open to mid-morning light filtering in from my large window across my bed. I slowly rose up into a sitting position just as Tyler's eyes opened after sleeping through the night, peacefully it seemed. He hadn't looked my way yet so he didn't see me awake and sitting up until after he had phased back and stretched out yawning. When he finally saw me his eyes widened and he closed them tightly and shook his head side to side and opened his eyes to mae sure he wasn't just dreaming. He realized I wasn't a figment of his imagination and with tears flowing unnoticed down his cheeks he whispered, "You woke up...thank God you woke up!" with that he pulled me to him and hugged me tightly where soon I was gasping for breath. He loosed his grip just enough for me to breath and yelled loud enough to be heard even outside, "She's awake!!!!!!!!!" what shocked him after that was the first one into my bedroom was Devan who instantly pulled me from Tyler's arms and hugged me tightly sobbing into my shoulder whispering "I'm so sorry" repeatedly. "Bubba...Boo it's okay, I'm okay, shhhh it's okay, bubba, it's okay it was an accident" I whispered trying to console him as sobs continued to rack his body. He kept sobbing into my shoulder hugging me tighter once he realized I forgave him which to me there was nothing at all to forgive it was all just an accident. He finally calmed down and stopped crying, he released me when next thing I knew there was Cody and I was crused against his chest him hugging me like I was the only thing that kept him alive. For about the next half hour I barely breathed since then every one was tightly hugging me. They finally all walked out of my room, leaving me and Tyler alone again.
I had barely taken a step towards my bed to lay down when he pulled me against him and kissed me.
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