Chapter Ten

I slowly start to feel my body again to discover I'm laying on the floor, a hint of confusion takes over my senses. As I become more with it I discover that as I've said, I was on the floor but my head wasn't. It didn't feel like the ground but someone's lap, who's lap could I be laying in? And more to the fact, why am I laying in their lap? My eyes slowly open where it takes a few seconds for my eyes to adjust, before I discover who's lap I'm laying in, Cody's. His worried face was looking down at me with his hand running through my hair, sparks just spread wherever he would touch. "You don't know how great it is to see your eyes open" he tells me relief filling his face, I was still pretty out of it but was slowly coming around. "What happened?" I ask my head still on his lap, honestly, I didn't want to move until I had no other choice to. "I came to thank you for helping me that night, but when I saw you, you were covered in blood and passed out" he explains which makes memories of what happened flood my brain, maybe I shouldn't have left my arm for that long, in this case ingenious was not bliss. "Oh yeah, I got tackled by a police officer" I say trying to sit up but felt lightheaded, probably from blood loss "probably wasn't the smartest idea, I couldn't just let those police officers kill those girls" I say looking up at his face, he just smiles down at me as I spoke. "Those girls will be so thankful that you did what you did" he smiles which causes me to smile along with him, that's all I really wanted to happen. "They don't deserve to be killed just because of who they're mated to, but I still couldn't change my dads mind about keeping them out" I sigh a little annoyed at myself, I could have put up more of a fight but in my defence, I was in so much pain. "Hey it isn't your fault, you done enough by helping the girls escape, without you they would probably have been killed by now" Cody says locking eyes with me, as always I get lost in his eyes for what felt like forever. Once I finally snap out of whatever trace I was in, I slowly rise to my feet with Cody's help. Once I was steady on my feet I take a look down at my arm, it had a huge white bandage covering the whole of my arm. "You patched me up" I smile up at Cody, who had also gotten to his feet standing there with a smile. "You helped me the other night, it was my turn to help you" he smiles which also makes me smile but then a question comes to mind, how does he know all about the girls? This town is the type of place where everyone knows everyone, also with my dad being the lead officer of the police force, I basically know everybody. Yet I didn't know Cody existed until he appeared behind my house, now he knows all about the girls and what was going to happen to them. It might seem like a minor detail and something that doesn't really matter, but I can't actually get thought out of my head. Yes he might be from another town but why would he be here, also the nearest town isn't for maybe 50 miles from here. Cody touching my arm snaps me out of my thoughts, oh I must have really got lost in my thoughts. I was about to ask him the question that I'd been thinking about, but as I look up at him the question just left my mind completely. "I wish I could stay here and chat but I need to go, but I was thinking about taking you to get some lunch sometime" he smiles being the first to talk after minutes of silence, wait is he asking me out?! Okay Erika be cool about this. "That sounds like it would be fun, but there's rules around town right now which might make it difficult, I want to! It's just I don't know how" I say realising the stupid dictator like rules we're living under right now, all at the hands of my own dad. "Don't you worry about that I will handle it all, I will be back here tomorrow for our lunch date" he smiles placing a soft kiss on my hand before hopping my garden fence, he turns around sending me a wink before walking up the hill. I stand there with a smile on face looking where he just left, I've never felt this way towards anyone ever before. I've only had two encounters with Cody and both times one of us has had to patch the other one up, but I can't help but feel this strange but at the same time amazing pull towards him. I've only had one previous boyfriend which didn't end too well, but even when I was with him I never felt these type of feelings towards him. But how do I know Cody would want to try things out with me? Maybe he's just doing all this because he feels like he has to due to me helping him. Before I could dwell more on my thoughts, I hear someone calling my name from the house. I sigh turning back towards the house picking my coat up as I went, when I reach the door I spot my dad walking around the kitchen. He soon clocks me and looks down at my blooded coat and my bandaged arm, I knew if I didn't explain what happened in a few seconds he'd go into panic mode. "This was at the hands of your officer, it's fine I got help" I say dumping my ruined coat on the floor, it sucks as I actually really liked that coat "why are you home so early and where is Reece?" I ask looking around the house a little, I hope he didn't get caught helping Martha escape. "I asked Reece to get some supplies you might need while we have a talk" he says taking his jacket off, why would I need supplies? He sits down at the kitchen table taking a look at one of the chairs, I walk over also taking a seat getting rather nervous at what he wanted to talk about. Maybe he found out what I did to help Martha, I can't be the only one that hates when people say we need to talk, I start rethinking everything I've done in life! "I've been thinking about what you said and you're right, you gave me the information and I've just taken it and not given you any say" he explains which causes shock to just fill my face, I was not expecting that! "So here I am, you can tell me what you think should be done and I'll explain why it might not be possible" he says pulling his notebook out opening it, he looks up at me waiting for me to start talking. "You already know what I'm about to say, you can't keep those girls away from their families and threaten to kill them if they try!" I exclaim once again feeling passionate about the matter, I don't know why the topic of werewolves gets my back up so much. "Yes, I have already told you the reasoning behind that decision, we can't have werewolves walking in and out of this town whenever they please" he interjects also passionate about keeping the girls out "before you say that the wolves have their mates now, remember the initial attack on the town! They did that for no apparent reason before they found their mates" he says which did shut me up at little, yeah it's hard to defend something when they did attack first for reasons we don't know yet. "Okay I'm with you on that, but I know you want answers right?" I ask looking up at my dad, he nods his head but was a little suspicious "than you need to talk Alpha, you must know what one of those are from my notes but he makes the decisions, so if you want to know what the purpose behind the attack was, you need to talk him and you might be able to discuss what's going to happen for you to keep the peace" I say which does make him start to quickly write in a notebook, he might actually start to listen to me. "But how would we start communication with the Alpha?" He asks which was a question I was unsure about, when researching there was no number to contact the Alpha! "We need to get in contact with someone that could send the Alpha a message, to tell him that we want a civil meeting to discuss what's been happening, why it's happening and what's gonna happen in the future" I say walking around trying to rack my brain, my mind kept going back to Martha but I was still unsure how to get in contact with her! "We could send a few of our men to the border, we've seen a bunch of people there patrolling the place" he says which does start to make sense in my mind, could our borderline be interfering with there's "I can see your brain working" my dad laughs sitting back in his chair, that's the first time I've saw him laugh or even smile since the attack. "Okay I don't know if this was in the notebooks that I sent you, but werewolves are very territorial, if you cross their border you'll probably be instantly taken out" I start to explain but he looks rather confused, I take his notebook turning the page and start to draw a diagram "now let's say our border is here and theirs is here, we could have been unknowingly getting too close to their border where they felt threatened, maybe that's why they attacked!" I say the puzzle pieces now starting to click in my mind, that is the only thing that would make sense to me! "But how are we going to resolve that issue, we don't know where their border starts or where they think ours ends?!" He asks opening his arms up, once again I had to come up with the answer. "Again that's something you need to talk with the Alpha about, we somehow have to send a message to him" I say sitting back down on my chair, I haven't thought this much since school it feels like. "It's great to be on the same team again, we can get so much more down" he smiles from across the table, I send him a smile back agreeing. I should have realised at the time that we weren't on the same team.