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We just walked around in the forest for a long time, taking breaks from time to time and eating a few small things from the big backpack.

Instead of large meals, which I had expected, there were many smaller cans, the content of which was more like a snack and you would need two to three to get full. With Tyler it would probably be at least twice as much.

There were very different things, but mainly things with meat.

We even passed a small creek through which we walked barefoot and with our pants rolled up, as the water wasn't even up to my knees.

We stayed for a while in places we liked, and I now understood very well why Tyler liked these kinds of trips.

"Do we want to camp here for the night?" Tyler finally asked me after we had been on the road for a while.

We had just reached a more sheltered spot where the trees were a little denser and the crowns almost completely blocked our view of the sky.

I just shrugged my shoulders, I could probably walk a little further, but I was already pretty tired from all the outdoor exercise, but I didn't know if this was a good place to sleep, Tyler had to decide for better or for worse

. Although he has probably already done so, since he put down his backpack and immediately set about setting up a small camp here.

Before I could make myself of any use, however, Tyler stopped me. "Come on Lily, you can sit over here. I'll take care of everything, after all it was my idea to come here into the forest.", he said and pointed to a fallen tree trunk, on which I should probably sit. I didn't really like the whole thing. I

could Don't let Tyler do everything by himself and just watch him, right?

But he took care of everything so quickly that within five minutes everything was basically ready.He

had set us up with blankets for a place to sleep, a little bit away from it fireplace and was about to light a fire with wood that I didn't even know when he had collected it.

Once again I realized that werewolves are just way faster than humans.

We lay side by side on the blanket and Tyler shared some childhood anecdotes about what it was like growing up at the Ridel.

Tyler almost seemed to want to convince me how wrong my picture of life in the pack is and that through my experiences, from my human perspective, I probably had a rather negative idea of ​​my future life, which was not correct.

At least Tyler took it that way and wasn't that wrong, at least from my perspective.

My impressions really weren't the best.

This life in the pack, which was still alien to me, was also suspect to me.

Although I probably just didn't have the experience in the pack to be able to form a justified opinion, since I hardly got to know any people in my entire time with Tyler.

Meanwhile, I was getting more and more tired.

During a story about a trip with his siblings, I finally closed my eyes.

The last thing I heard was a crack before unbelievable pain shot through my shoulder.

It felt so unbelievable and I opened my mouth in a silent scream.

I tried to escape the pain, could only see fur out of the corner of my eye.

Tyler! The bite!

It crossed my mind.

He just bit me...

It hurt so bad and tears were streaming down my face.

After what felt like an eternity, the pain subsided and Tyler probably moved away from me.

I heard a crack again.

"Don't worry Lily, it'll hurt less." He spoke softly to me and hugged me while the pain prevented almost any movement on my part.

It was an incredibly debilitating pain that would not subside for what is estimated to be five minutes. Tyler was claiming the opposite by the meter, but how was he supposed to know? After all, he hadn't been bitten.

Is that supposed to be his great plan now, so I'm less afraid? Maybe I wasn't exactly a neutral person on the subject, even if I was able to think surprisingly clearly, but the whole thing didn't seem to be fully thought through to me.

"Shhh, all right Lily. It has even stopped bleeding. I'll just put a large plaster on it so that dirt doesn't get in unnecessarily, even if my saliva disinfects it and should prevent infection."

With some strange contortions, he grabbed his bag and rummaged around in it. Shortly afterwards he probably had that too I found the band-aid I was looking for and stuck it over the bite wound, after which he just pulled me closer to him again and rocked me in his arms, probably with the intention of comforting me.

"We're going to be on our way back to our future pack. Thanks to the bite, you are now absolutely safe in the pack. Injuring a bitten mate is one of the greatest crimes a pack can commit. You can have more contact with the pack and get to know them, make new friends and we'll have Luke take another look at your neck and assess your chances of being able to talk again after the second bite." He blew a small kiss on

me cheek and stood up with me in his arms, still sniffling but had stopped crying by now.

Tyler just left our stuff here in the woods and just made his way back through the woods.

He was going very fast, but tried to keep me as calm as possible.

The forest passed me very quickly, at least for a human being.

I would actually have preferred it if Tyler was as far away from me as possible, but he only pulled me closer to him while running and literally clasped me in his arms.

The pain was a little less now, but it increased every time I moved the affected side of the shoulder and neck even slightly.

Oh how I wanted to hurl all possible and impossible insults at that werewolf of all people.

He knew full well that I didn't want the bite. Tyler did it against my will. But he was also probably aware of my past. The doctor in the hospital had only told him

that... He hadn't sounded so understanding and Tyler had been very kind and nice to me for so long, apart from this short phase here...

And now with that Bite.

The betrayal that I felt it was hurt almost as much as the actual bite itself.

I had trusted him.

Damn it! If I was honest with myself, I even fell in love with this monster, this werewolf.

Honestly, I was hoping to spend a nice few days here with Tyler without worrying too much about all the pack, alpha, werewolf stuff.

Was I really that naive or had Tyler fooled me so badly?

It was probably both, after all I had probably asked myself both several times by now.

But even if I came to a definitive conclusion on this question, what good would that do me?

I still wouldn't get away from Tyler, and deep down in my heart I didn't want to.