So long. I have been running for so long. Blood is dripping down my side thickly, my breathing was becoming laboured as I urged my legs to continued to move. The sound of paws chasing me was all that filled my hearing alone with the constant thrumming of my overactive heart.

As I continued to run I could feel blood slowly begin to make its way up my throat and slowly trickle our mouth, yet I continued to push myself further. Dots began to form in my vision as I try to dodge the trees, occasionally scrapping against one.

'Echo, I can hold us any longer.' Cana spoke weakly in my head. The only thing currently keeping us both up right was our will to live. We cannot died before we found our fated one.

'Just a little longer, .Cana.' I begged her as I continued to push myself faster, my destination: The Thorn Blood pack. Fair enough they are known as the most lethal and largest pack, but not once has anyone heard of them harming a lone wolf. Their territory is the perfect security from the rouges currently chasing me.

' Echo.' Cana whimpered with a whine as the smell around me changed in an instant and finally I knew we had entered the packs territory. Finally I began to slow down as I stumble towards what looked to be a small lake. My legs collapsed at the waters edge and my body began to shift back into my human form. I whimpered as my side ached in pain which only seemed to bleed more. I lay on my side now clutching my side as I dragged my weak body towards the water and tried to cleanse the wound. It was only then I realised how mortal it was. It stretched from just under my right breast all the way down to the left of my waist. There was no way I would make it through the night with out medical attention. My body was then drained of energy and my muscles feel limp. I watched the rippling water lap over the shore gently and peacefully.

" It's coming from over here!" A voice called in the distance. My mind was alert but I could not function my body to move.

" It's a lone wolf and by the smell of it they are wounded." Another voice called even closer than before. I wanted to run, my mind was tell me to take flight, but my bones and muscles refused to move. I let out a whimper of both pain and fear at the growing sounds. "Over here! I see someone laying at the lake!" A voice yelled out as footsteps sounded closer and closer to me. Then I smelt it, with a gust of air a scent was carried to my nose. It's wondrous smell of a log fire and spice had my heart flutter and butterflies erupt in my stomach.

" Do you smell that? It's like fresh roses." A deep voice rattled dangerously through the air sending shivers through my weakening body.

" Alpha!" A voice called out and I know felt someone stop behind my and roll my body over out the water. I whimpered in pain as my eyes fell on to a handsome looking man who could be no older than 23, his blond her hung over his worried looking blue eyes.

" Do not worry, lone wolf. You will be safe here." He whispered to me, I could only look at him with fearful eyes as I lay naked as the day I was born. Just the a deep throaty growl emitted through the air causing the blond man to tense before standing up and backing away.

'Mate' Cana whispered in my head as a man came into our view he was tall and extremely well built with black short hair and a stubble of a beard. But he one thing that stood out the most, was his static blue eyes that held a hint of violet withing them. The whole world seemed go disappear from me as we stared at each other.

" Mate." He spoke lowly so that the other men around him could hear. My breathing hitched as blood pooled in my throat causing me to choke and rip my gaze away from my mate and to the sky.

'At least we got to see our mate.' Cana whispered in my mind sounding weak but happy and content.

" Mate? What's wrong?" A worried voice sounded gently to my ears as everything seemed to blur and dull away. Blood began to splatter out of my mouth as I tried to clear my throat. I felt my body being pick up and then a rush of hear filled me. I know from the feeling of safety I was in my mates arms as he ran somewhere I do not know.

"Please stay with me. I need you, princess. Please don't go." He called to me as he continued to run with my naked form limp in his arms, my blood no doubt staining his clothes.

I could hear him continue to mutter away words to me as they became distance was my body became numb. The only thing I could hear was the slowing beat of my heart. My eyes closed to black as I listen to my heart slow down until there was nothing but my mate screaming.