hyperventilate. I pleaded with her. “Please, don't do it, Lena. I don't care. I don't want any of this if I can't have you!”
“Josiah, we need to slow this down. This thing that's between us needs to come to a halt. We need to re-evaluate what we’re doing.”
And that is where my brain stopped. That is where my fight of fight went into overdrive. There was no fucking way I was going to hear anymore of this .
I choose flight.
I got up off the bed and went to the living room. I paced around the house and I felt as if my heart was going to come out of my chest. FUCKING TOMMY! You took the one thing in this world that meant the most to me!
I opened the door and it was sunnier than hell. I didn’t care, I was going to find myself a werewolf, and he was going to have to pay for his transgressions. I transitioned into the great white eagle and flew into the southern California sky.
Chapter Fourteen
I flew as high as I could. I don't care anymore; this entire thing is so fucked up. How did this happen? The only reason I left was to be able to help all of us. Not to be betrayed and deceived by people I loved the most. I flew high in the sky, almost to the point where I was having a hard time breathing in the atmosphere, but I didn't care. I kept going higher and higher. I just didn't care anymore. I wanted to go far away from here and forget about all of this. I was so angry at Tommy, and the more I thought about it, the more I wanted him to pay. I didn’t like feeling this way. I didn’t like wanting vengeance, but that was what I was left with. He crossed the line!
But trying to find a werewolf roaming the earth in a place as populated as southern California would be like finding a needle in a haystack. One thing I did know for sure; he wasn’t this high up in the sky. I decided I was done flying to the moon and I’d better return to earth.
I was going to find Tommy. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with him. I wanted to shake and smack him around and ask him why he would do this to me.I would have never crossed that line, no matter what I had felt. That was all there was to it.
If Tommy was currently transitioned into the werewolf, he could hear my voice if I spoke to him. So that was exactly what I tried to do. “Tommy, where are you?” I said in my mind.
I listened in my head and heard nothing back. I began flying to the earth and gliding across the Pacific Ocean. “Tommy,” I thought again, “Are you there? Can you hear me?”
“I can hear you.”
I heard a voice! “Tommy, where are you?”
“I'm over here. Keep going straight.”
“Where are you?”
“Over here, Josiah.” Now the voice didn't sound like Tommy. A matter of fact it, didn't sound like a man's voice at all.
“Lead me to you?” I replied.
“Come and find me.”
That time, the voice was clear as day, and it wasn't Tommy's voice. It was definitely a woman's voice. Now, I was completely confused. “Where are you?” I asked.
“Keep coming up the coast towards the land,” the voice said.
“Can you see me?” I asked.
“Yes, and you’re beautiful.”
“Who are you?”
“Come and find me.”
“How can I? All I see is ocean.”
“Keep going north! You’re going to run into the Long Beach pier. I'll meet you on the pier at Seventh Street.”
Who was this?
I recognized the voice. I couldn't think who it could be. I looked ahead and now I could see land ahead of me. I was approaching the Long Beach pier. “Where are you?” I asked again.
“I'm over here on the pier. Can't you see me?”
I was looking for a woman and there wasn’t one anywhere. “No, I can't see you.”
“Look to the north of the pier, Josiah.”
Whoever it was, knew my name. I looked to the north end of the pier and there she was. I was looking for the wrong species. There at the end of the pier was the most gorgeous white hawk I had ever laid my eyes on. She was the one from my vision and was absolutely spectacular.
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