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Chapter 3
- Sleeping Beauty -

-Demarco-

*unedited*
Should I be mad that they didn't complete their task? Honestly, I probably should, but I'm not.

If you want something to be done correctly than the only way to guarantee it's done right is by doing it yourself.

Lately I've been hard on the boys. I've been extremely demanding of their time and energy and I've started to recent feel guilty.

Patrick has a baby girl on the way. Jordan had his own mini family to care for. Cleon has his mate and even though Denziel and Oscar have yet to find their mates, like myself, that doesn't mean they don't have lives of their own.

It's just that ever since I took this unoccupied land north of my territory to father expand I've been coming across issues. Issues as in unwanted trespassers and rogues lingering to close to this new land.

Overall, I've been very paranoid about this new territory and have been putting extra patrol on the northern boarder. Whenever they get a glimpse of a trespasser or rogue, they personally alter me so I can handle it for good.

That's what happened last night and that's why I had to kill that girl...or at least try killing her.

I made my way through some crappy neighborhood and to the apartment buildings that I've sent the boys out to clear. They were suppose to go there and make it look like the girl had disappear while gathering as much information about her as possible.

The fact that she's living and breathing was more then enough proof that she wasn't just a normal human.

Everything that I knew about this girl cane from her backpack that I took from her last night. Inside a pair of roller skates, a uniform from a diner and a cheap per paid phone with 5 contacts inside.

The 5 contacts that she had were Drew, Mr. Jackson, Nola, Regina and TJ. There were no text messages.

I took my time driving to the apartment and go there in 20 minutes. The building looked old, and ran down.

I parked my car next to Cleon's and entered the building. No one was in sight other than a couple of druggies passed out in the lobby area.

Finding the stairwell, I took the stairs two at a time before reaching the fourth floor and walking down to apartment C.

I didn't bother to knock, just walked right in.

As expected the guys were waiting for me. They all looked nervous and on edge. Patrick was sitting on the small sofa next to Denziel who had his head leaning against the sofa starring at the ceiling. Oscar leaned on the far wall, far away from me. While Cleon sat on the edge of the coffee table and Jordan sat on the windowsill.

Jordan was the first one to speak up "We thought she died, we checked her pulse and everything and there wasn't any. We don't know how she was able to survive."

It's six in the morning and all I want to do is rest. I had a rough night already and I didn't need more problem then the ones I had. But Alpha duties calls.

"Does anyone else have anything more to say?" I asked referring to the silent ones. My brother didn't even bother looking at me he just kept on starring at the ceiling. Patrick looked at me but then looked away quickly making brief eye contact with Cleon. Oscar just didn't say anything but he was bold enough to actually look me in the eyes.

Silence fill the air, no one said anything. I know all of them are tired, we've all been together handle duties for the pack for the past 12 hours straight.

Maybe once this little fresco is over, I'll give them some much needed time off.

"I'm not mad," I said calmly. "I'm just upset you didn't get the job done properly." They gave one another a confused look, probably because they did not expect such a mellow Demarco especially during this Full Moon Phase.

"Now where is she?" I asked. They all pointed down a small hallway.

"She's sleeping but she looks sick" Patrick spoke out.

"Well she's probably sick from being drowned in a cold lake, dumb ass" Cleon said to Patrick.

They begun bickering but I didn't mind it, I was already on my way down the hall completely checking them out. The room was very small, and there lying on the twin sized bed was our sleeping beauty.

Her chocolate brown hair was fanned out on the pillow and her face was drained of color except for her bright red nose. Her lips were a nude color and slightly apart as she lightly breathed. The sheets were halfway off her body, revealing a thin over sized white t-shirt that slightly exposed her round brown nipples giving me the impression that she didn't bother to wear a bra to bed.

I have to admit, she's beautiful...even if she's sick. But my intuition was right last night when my wolf told me she wasn't what she seemed. And once I find out what she is exactly, I'll have to kill her.

She knows too much about us and after what she saw last night she'll have questions that we won't be able to answer and I definitely can't have her running to the cops.

I took the baby sized tranquilizer that I took from my medicine cabin before coming here and injected it in the side of her neck. She fussed in her sleep slightly before, falling completely limp now in a deeper sleep. I couldn't risk her waking up before I was able to take her out her apartment.

"Oscar, Cleon and Denziel, go through her draws and closet and gather all her personal belongings. Patrick I want you find anything important like medication, birth certificates or any sort of identification. Jordan you're coming to my house with me and can you call Lisa. Tell her to meet us at my house".

"Your house?" Jordan echoed, with his eyebrows raised.

"Yes, my house" I snapped causing to look at me more questionably. "Get to work" I snapped again, this time snapping them out of their question filled trans.

"Yes Alpha" they said in unison as they all got to work immediately raiding the apartment.

I sighed deeply. "My name is Demarco not Alpha" I added, a little annoyed. They all ignored me, not commenting.

Jordan stood near the doorway, already on his phone talking to Lisa, our head pack doctor and his sister-in-law. Ready to leave, I now focused my attention to the sleeping beauty. I wrapped the sheets around her small body and slowly picked her up into my arms.

She curled up to my side instinctively, with her head snug up into my chest as her body involvetarily let out a cough.

Patrick was right, she was very sick but one thing that stood out was her scent. She smelt like mangos and fresh warm vanilla, her scent was mouth watering.

It was the first time I noticed her smell and it had me in a trans, until Jordan nudged me. "You ready to go?"

I looked to the other guys who were watching me, noticing my delay. I quickly composed myself.

"I want this place abandoned in an hour."

It's a good thing that it was early morning, meaning that we were able to leave her apartment building without being noticed. I easily slid her small frame into the back seat while Jordan and took the passenger seat and I drove.

Our drive was quiet, but the curiosity got the best of Jordan.

"What are you going to do to her?"

"Kill her eventually, once I find out what I want to know" I said focusing on the road. "There's no way she's human".

He didn't say anything else for the rest of the ride over to my house and once I had the car in park that's when he finally spoke again. "Maybe we should just leave her alone. She already lives in a beat up neighborhood, almost died last night and now she's going to think she's been kidnapped by her murderers. This doesn't feel right Demarco and you know it."

"Don't tell me how I feel" I growled at him.

Jordan looked at me as if he were silently challenging me. After a few silent seconds he opened the car door to get out. "The new moon is maybe making you act like this but this is a new low for you Demarco and I'm saying that as your best friend and Beta."

Jordan slammed the car door behind him, before venturing off into the house.

His action only fueled a dimmed fire within me. He's never challenged when it came to my actions as an Alpha...or a friend. Don't get me wrong he's always been honest with me, this was different.

Why does it feel like he was challenging me now?

I could feel my claws already extending and I tried my best to keep my wolf inside. I didn't like the challenge not at all, and not from my Beta especially. We'll have to have a talk about this later.

I removed the sleeping beauty from the backseat and kicked the door close with my foot. As soon as she was in my arms once again, her scent took over my senses and she curled up into my chest and weakly grabbed onto my hoodie causing me to stay as still as possible.

The tranquilizer was wearing off.

At least Jordan was nice enough to leave the front door slightly open for me and all I had to do was kick I closed.

Jordan was once again on his phone was he watched me take her upstairs and down the hall to one of the guest bedrooms.

I laid her on the bed, and instinctively she frowned and grabbed onto a near by pillow for comfort.

She's a clingy sleeper.

I didn't leave right away, instead I stayed and observed her for a little longer. What could she be? Who was she? And her scent...why am I now noticing it?

A small wave of guilt hit me. Maybe once I found out she was alive, I should've left her alone. But there was something more to her that she wasn't telling us and I can't quite put my finger on it.

But no matter what she ends up being, I'll have to kill her afterwards, to make sure that my packs safe remains. She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, and I can't risk letting her go back out into society knowing about me...us...or the pack.

The more I stared at her the more questions formulated in my brain.

How did a young girl end up living in a place that god damn awful? It's actually surprising that she wasn't killed before I even had the pleasure of running to her last night.

I hate to do what I have to do to her but she definitely can't live now.

Hmm, I wonder what her name could be?

My mind now went on a tangent of names, trying to give her a name that suited her but I came up with nothing that quite matched her.

"Demarco"

"Yes?" I didn't realize that I've been in a trans once again. I blame it on my lack of sleep.

Lisa stood at the door with her duffel bag and both her hands on her hips. "Whoa, what happened here?"

She immediately passed me and went straight to the sleeping beauty, assessing her from head to toe and taking out her gear from her bag.

"She was in an accident" I smoothly lied, not really knowing why I had to. "We found her at the lake".

"Who is she?" Lisa questioned, checking her pulses.

"I'm not exactly sure yet".

Lisa now ignored me, moving around the room touching and fiddling with our sleeping beauty as she slept. Lisa was in her own world, trying to figure out what was going on with her new patient.

"If you need me I'll be downstairs with Jordan" I said but she completely ignored me again.

Jordan sat at the counter, deep in thought before I entered the kitchen. He was persistent and wasted no time by say...

"What are you planning on doing to her once you find out why she didn't die?" Jordan asked watching me go to the other side of the counter.

I couldn't help the wicked smile that came upon my face. "Like I said earlier, I'm going to kill her. I thought we had this conversation already Jordan."

He shook his head, anger radiating off of him. A look of disguised and pity too over his features.

"Do you have something to fucking say?!" I spat out at him.

"Demarco, you're better than this meaning that you can't and won't sink this low. It's the New Moon that's making you so impulsive and out of control. We may not know the first thing about her but she does deserve to die even if there's something odd about her. She young and just looking at the way she lives already tells you she has a tuff enough life to deal with."

Jordan's words touched me. No I'm not kidding they really did, but who the hell am I to care about some little girl? "Listen here Jordan, I appreciate you looking out for me and what not but this is something that you have no say in. From now on she's my business and if I want to kill her I will." To show him that this conversation was over I turned my back to him making my way to the fridge.

"Listen to me for one second Demarco!" Jordan yelled and I instantly growled at him.

"Are you challenging your Alpha!" It was a question but in my mind it was more like a statement.

"I'm not challenging you Demarco, not one bit" he sighed, exhausted from the conversation. "I'm telling you this as a friend that what's going through your head right now about that girl is wrong. She's young, she lives a hard life, she almost died, she sick now and now you've just basically kidnapped her when she probably thought this was all over. She's innocent and she doesn't deserve this."

I rolled my eyes at Jordan he's basically telling me same shit over and over again. "Clearly you're not going to listen to me" Jordan laughed humorlessly.

I chuckled before pulling a bottle of water out of the fridge for both of us. "You just caught on to that buddy?" I threw one at him and he caught it in the air.

He stayed silent as he just gripped his water and watch me drink mines. Jordan was frustrate with me, how couldn't he. I'm not going to lie and say that I'm not hard headed because I am and everyone knows it. So our stare fight continued and I wasn't up for losing, even when there were sounds of cars in the driveway and shuffling at the door. Like always I won, when Jordan looked away to look at the boys walking through the back door.

"We got all her stuff, it isn't much but it was all that she had there" Oscar said dragging a suitcase in the back door. Behind him was Cleon, Denziel and Patrick.

"Take it up to the room next door from mine, that's where she'll be staying."

Oscar started heading out of the kitchen with Cleon behind him and Patrick. "Aye Captain" Patrick added before he was out of sigh.

"Have anything else you want to say to me now that you're my conscious?" I asked sarcastically. I know I should be taking what he says seriously because he's my best friend, he's the only person that tells me I'm wrong when everyone else is too scared to tell me so. That's why he's my best friend because no matter what power I had over him he always says what's on his mind but at this point I couldn't take him seriously.

I was ticking him off with my smirks and sarcasm and I could tell because he kept clenching and unclenching his fist and his jaw keep tighten and loosing. "Since you won't listen to me then can you at least do me a favor?" he asked seriously.

"It's the least I could do since I haven't been listening to your ongoing bullshit."

"Can you at least think about it for longer? A couple of days or so, maybe a week, just until the New Moon Phase is over. I don't want you doing something now that you might regret in the future. I just have this strong gut feeling that we shouldn't do anything to harm her." His words we're calm and this time they actually got to me, and not in a joking way. Not many people look out for me, I only have my family and the boys but Jordan was always there looking out for me 24/7.

"I don't make mistakes and I don't have regrets Jordan, but I guess that's the least I could do......for you."

He seem to become slightly relaxed now that I agreed to his terms. Why did he even care? Why does anyone care for that matter? She was just some random girl, I'm sure if it were any other girl they wouldn't spare her a second glance but what makes sleeping beauty so special?"

Before I could ask Jordan anything the boys came back downstairs making their presents known. "So what are we talking about now?" Denziel asked.

"You guys should go home and catch up on some sleep. I want you all back here at five".

"It's about time!" Patrick cheered as him and Oscar literally raced to the front door.

I laughed at the duo, "that kind of hurts".

"Well your very needed bro, I'll be sleeping the the guest room" Denziel said, heading upstairs to make myself at home.

"The big bad Alpha will get over it" Cleon laughed while both him and Jordan headed out together.

I watched everyone drive out my driveway and head home, and as soon as I was about to close the front door Lisa appeared.

"Demarco I'm heading out but I want you to promise me to take care of that cutie pie upstairs. She has pneumonia and it should go away in two weeks tops."

"I can do that"

"She woke up briefly" I raised an eyebrow curious, "but was too tired to hold a conversation so she fell back asleep. She's going to need a lot of rest and nutrition, keep her warm at all times and only give her food like oatmeal, soup and tea. Also...." I cut her off.

"That's a lot to remember" I laughed opening the door wide for her.

"It's a good thing I made a list" Lisa smiles before handing her the check list. "I'll be back later to check on her" Lisa said before heading to her car to go to work at the pack clinic.

Closing the door, I took a look at the list before  folding it and putting it in my pocket. Looking at the thing was giving her a headache and all I needed right now was sleep.

Giving little thought to where my feet were taking me, I found myself back in the guest room where sleeping beauty was sleeping.

Gave her one last look before closing the door and making my way to my own room.

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