A reminder to an old friend

There was a loud knock on the door and both Kristen and Achilles freaked out. They both looked at the door immediately with tense looks.

"Can I come in?" The sound of Zale's voice floated to their ears. "Oh sh!t!" Achil cursed. They were panicking.

"What do we do?" she asked quietly. "I don't know," he whispered back.

"Achilles?" They heard Zale's voice again.

"Yes?" he finally responded. "I need to speak to you so can I come in?" Achilles frantically lifted her from his lap and signaled her to hide. "Give me a moment. I'm naked right now."

Kristen's mouth fell open at what he said. He shrugged as if he didn't care.

"Oh my... TMI Achilles, we talked about this. You didn't have to tell me that." Zale sounded like Achilles did this one too many times.

"Where do I hide?" Kristen asked. Achilles thought about it for a second and then he said. "The closet, go." Kristen rushed to the closet while he rapidly put on some pants he had laying around. He quickly headed to the door and opened it.

"Hi." he greeted. Zale furrowed his brows. "Are you ok? You took a bit longer?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm alright. Just got out of the shower." "Your hair is not even wet?"

Achilles touched his head and realized that his hair was indeed dry.

"Oh, I didn't wash it." "Ok, where's Kristen?" Zale questioned while peeking a little into his room. Achilles knew he had to be quick so he wouldn't seem like he was lying.

"Bathroom. She's been in there for like 45 minutes." Achilles said. "But didn't you just get out of the shower?"

It was at this morning that he knew he fucked up.

"Didn't you say you wanted to speak with me?" Achilles smartly changed the subject.

"Y-yeah it's about Kristen," Zake said and let himself into Achilles' room.

They both sat on the bed to talk.

"Ok, so what about her?" Achilles started their conversation. "It's about what Myles said earlier." Achilles immediately rolled his eyes. "Just listen to me, Achilles." "Alright go on."

"So remember when Myles said that the only person that could have turned her was Helix," "Yeah, yeah?" "I have a theory. What if Helix did this because of the long-time family feud you've had just to get revenge?"

"But we don't know if he did it," Achilles said. "Come on Achilles, Who else could have done it? You and I both know that he's the only living Alpha in the area. You won't find any other pack for about a 68.9-mile radius." Zale reasoned out.

"Very well so what you're saying is that Helix is the only possible suspect and he probably did it for revenge and if that's true, then she's part of his pack." "Exactly Achilles and that is nowhere near good."

Achilles stood up and raked his hair in frustration. Zale looked at him and they made eye contact.

"Also the rule states that every pack member regardless of their position is drawn to their alpha and their pack." "So she's one way or the other going to join them," Achilles said. "No matter how far we keep her from them," Zale continued his sentence.

"A perfect revenge scheme." "That's right." They talked back and forth until Achilles went silent.

"This means I can't protect her," Achilles said. Zale stood up too and touched his shoulder. "Unfortunately."

"But this is only a theory, we don't know for sure right?" "That's the only possibility, Achilles." Achilles took a deep breath and then said, "I'll ask her if she could give me more information about what happened." "Yes that would be good we need to find out."

Zale was about to leave but he stopped when Achilles spoke again.

"Can you go back to the hotel to pick up Kristen's things?" he asked. "Uh... sure." Zale bowed slightly and finally left.

Kristen came out of the closet a couple of seconds after she heard the door close. She saw the look on his face as he assumed that she had heard their conversation.

"Are you ok?" She asked him. "Yes of course. Are you?" he asked her too. She simply nodded.

"Kris dear, I need to ask you something." She nodded again and she sat on the bed next to him.

"What is it?"

"It's about that night. I need you to tell me everything that happened. Like who did this to you, can you describe him or do you even know his name? You know things like that." Achilles said. "But first, maybe put on clothes. You're pretty distracting." he smiled. She now looked down and she realized she was still naked.

"Holy sh!t, I forgot."

She scurried to her feet and went to the bathroom. She came out with a white bathrobe on. She sat back down and looked straight at him.

"So do you remember anything from that night?" he asked. She looked down for a bit.

"Yeah but I don't wanna talk about it," she replied. He sucked his teeth and brushed his hair.

"Please Kris, it's really important that you tell. If I find out who did this to you, It would be better." "I just said I don't wanna talk about it Achil!"

He took her hand and kissed it.

"I understand, love but not giving me information is only going to make it worse. Please, just a description." Achilles urged. He knew it was hard for her to talk about cos it was sort of traumatic but he needs to know.

"It was a man. He was tall, had black long hair, and only had ripped shorts on. He said his name, was H-he..."

"Helix?" He interrupted her. She tilted her head sideways. "Yeah. He said it was just a reminder to an old friend. Is he your friend?"

"If he were my friend then he wouldn't do this to you. That evil bastard I'm going to kill him!"