Fox returned with the first aid kit, giving Harley an blood eye glare as he dropped it into Harley’s hand. Harley simply rolled his eyes and turned to the girl instead only to flinch in surprise when she as staring at him with wide anticipating eyes.
“Are you okay?” He asked again as he noticed her slightly moister eyes, staring strongly into his eyes, as though she has staring at her last bit of hope.
When she didn’t really give an answer, Harley instead glanced down at her shoulders, noticing the harsh deep cuts on them almost as though she either jumps into a rose bush or was dangerously whipped.
He reached to the pink pulsing skin below the cut, only to have her flinch in pain when his fingers pessedt against it.
“that’s a lot deeper than it looks, huh?” he asked before squatting to the ground and placed the kit in front of him, opening it in an instant and rampaging through the supplies.
“You know,” Ace suddenly appeared beside Harley while staring at the woman in front of him. “I thought you looked awfully familiar.” A grin spread across his face as the woman widened her eyes in recognition.
“Ace!?” her voice broke out as she took in Ace’s appearance. She instantly threw herself forward with arms open wide. She wrapped her arms around his neck, causing him to stumble back a bit when she threw herself. “you found a pack already?”
“Hope’s pack.” He chuckled as he pointed towards Hope who blinked towards the woman and smiled with a small wave after some seconds. “why are you out here… looking like that?”
“I ran away.” She sighed out as she leaned away from him and stood back. “I never thought Zack was someone I hardly even know.” She chuckled uneasily then glanced down towards Harley who was trying to thread a medical needle.
“what happened?” he asked as he folded his arm to his chest.
“After you left, Zack had changed into someone he wasn’t… no, not someone, something.” She sighed out shakily, though despite the sadness in her voice, her voice still sounded melodic and soft.
A slight feeling of insecuring creeped over Hope as she glazed her eyes from the woman’s head down to her smooth petite shoulders, down to her slender slim arms to her small waist and round hips, then to her tall slender legs.
She was indeed taller than Hope but shorter than Harley and Ace combined. She wouldn’t be surprised though, since it seemed as though she was from the same pack as Ace.
“I was forced to marry Zack and become his Luna.” She continued with a deep frown as she wrapped her arms around her shoulders. “but after you kind of… changed his face, he became the true monster he was and would always place all his anger on me. Since me and you used to be very close friends, he would torture me for it until I couldn’t take any more of it. He threatened to kill me the first time I tried to run away. Then the night we were supposed to make a child together, I refused, so he whipedt the heck out of me and I decided to run that night, I didn’t care if I would get killed doing it. So here I am. I kind of got lost and got pretty hungry once the sun rose up, then I saw a van and thought they were humans. That’s why I took the courage to steal something but I guess I was wrong….” She awkwardly looked away as she pouted her cheeks childishly.
“you ran into the wrong pack.” Ace chuckled out. “they kill for stealing-,”
“We don’t do that.” Harley hissed as he got up from the ground and glared towards Ace who chuckled out and forcedly wrapped his arms around his neck, causing Harley to chock from the sudden action. “this is Harley, the beta and bestfriend to my girlfriend.”
“Girlfriend?” she asked as she automatically glanced towards Hope who glanced to the ground with warm cheeks. “she’s very pretty.”
Hope pressed her lips together as she felt her cheeks warm up from embarrassment as everyone’s eyes, including Fox’s, landed on her.
“she’s-ouch….” She flinched as she held onto her shoulder, suddenly feeling the entire pain shoot at her shoulder with the deep cuts.
“You need to get that treated fast.” Harley suggested as he held onto her hand, getting Ace to grin out menacingly.
A plot creeped into his mind.
“I’ll leave you two to it.” He chuckled as he waved and stepped back.
Harley stared as Ace walked away, almost unable to ease his suspiciousion that he was up to something and yet he didn’t know what it was.
“I can treat you better in the van where there isn’t much dust around.” Harley said as he grabbed his first aid kit and held onto her wrist as he led the way to the van. “how long where your wounds open for?”
“Around… seven…. Twelve… hours?” she asked as she glanced up at a cloud as she tried to think of how long it might have actually taken since she escaped. “they aren’t from the whips… I fell from a steep and a branch kind of got in the way and scratched at me with some spikes.” Harley flinched at the scene he just imagined as he stopped by the van and let go of her shoulder. “as for my knees, I fell from the mansion window and kind of slipped so he has this back garden with tiny sand and rocks covering the ground. For my dress….” She glanced down at her tattered dress. “yeah… I ran through a rose bush on the way here.”
“You must have had a really hard time.” He chuckled as he went onto his knees and began to clean her knees and bruised ankles. “so, you ran from your mate?”
“he was really harsh-,” she flinched as he patted the spirited cotton ball on her bruises, causing her to ‘yelp’ in pain.
“sorry.” He chuckled out as he glanced up at her. “this will have to sting for a while longer, or else you’ll get really sick.”
“It’s okay.” She chuckled as she felt her cheeks warm up slightly as she glanced down at him. He smiled slightly as they stared longer into each other’s eyes before he slowly glanced down to her bruises. She bit onto her lower lip as she suddenly felt butterflies linger her stomach. “um…. Do you have a mate?” she asked as she stared hopefully at Harley who seemed to care about her a lot despite just meeting her.
Ever since she was married to Zack, he did nothing but torture her throughout and it made her believe there was no such thing as true love. But suddenly having a man care so much about her made her heart flatter.
“no.” he simply said as a frown made its way to his lips as he kept his head low and his face away from her. “The woman I love loves another man.” He said quietly and she pressed her lips together a she clenched onto her dress.
“I know we just met but…” she pouted her lips as she glanced elsewhere. “I believe in soulmates and I think you are…” Harley widened his eyes in complete shock, completely taken aback.