My Hunted Mate

Corinna

The further away from the house that I got, the more my heart sank, by time I'd reached the apple orchard I felt as though it now found a permeant place in my stomach but I didn't stop running.

Dashing through the forest, I swerve in and out of the trees only slowing when I caught a scent. A very weird scent, but one that was familiar to me from when I first escaped my pack. A hunter, actually hunters, tonnes of them.

Being cautious, I follow the scents until I find myself hiding in bushes watching as at least fifty hunters wander around out the front of a big cabin. It seemed half of them were staying in the cabin while the rest camped out in tents on the land in front of it, keeping myself fully aware of my surroundings, I begin to move from my spot around the perimeter.

When I get to the back of the cabin I discover a small storage shed that had two hunters with guns standing guard outside it, I think back to Malakai telling me about hunters possibly kidnapping one of the vampire's in his clan and realise if they were going to be keeping her anywhere, it would be in there.

Not giving myself a chance to think myself out of it, I silently creep forward toward to two hunters who talk between themselves, completely unaware of my presence. It takes me seconds to tear the two of them apart and shift back, I use all my strength to kick open the door to find a black haired girl, who looks like she couldn't possibly be past her teens and is the spitting image of Josephine.

My breathing slightly accelerates at the thought of her but I ignore the flashes of her face I'd gotten from under the water earlier in the night and run over to the girl who is hanging from the ceiling on chains and has a gag around her mouth that seems to be soaked in something that is burning into her skin, I rip it off her straight away making her whimper.

" I'm sorry about that. " I whisper.

" Who the hell are you? " The girl narrows her green eyes at me, she is definitely related to Josephine.

" My name is Corinna. I'm gonna get you out of here okay? " I whisper to her.

to weigh her options then

look at the chains carefully before reaching my hand up and touching them, instantly I feel the energy humming through them. They're spelled... I've never met a witch who would be willing to help

free herself. The chains break from the bolts on the ceiling as soon as

problem, now let's get the hell out of here. " I smile, but it drops the minute we step outside only to bump into another two hunters that have just found

is no element of surprise, it's a little more difficult but I take them down in seconds once more.

wipe the blood from around my mouth until I feel it's gone, I wander back out to where Olive is waiting for me. She looks at me in confusion

of here and back to your clan. Your sister is looking for

with me? Are you gonna do something? What are you

tonight. I'm not coming with you and I'm gonna deal with these hunters.

" But.. You- "

do need a favour before you go. " I cut her off, she frowns at me but nods anyway. " I need you to bite me and I need it to

in the hell would I do that? "

I explain, it seems to click for

closer to me, placing one hand on my right shoulder and another on the left side of my head, she tugs at my hair making me

" She whispers, then

so before she pulls back, I hold out my arms and she does the same twice on