Noah's Vision

!!Two Years After She Ran Away!!

Noah's POV:

After I watched Raph cripple, me and Jo got him laid down. He was writhing in pain. It was horrible to watch.

Once he seemed to calm down a little bit, I followed Jo out of the tent. He looked at me briefly, wary of what he was about to say.

"Just spit it out. What's happening?" I yelled in a whisper.

Jo looked back at me again, this time with sad eyes.

"Phoenix, well... she is with another man." He said delicately, looking in the other direction. 

I paused.

I mean, I knew what he was saying, but it seemed so unlike her I had to hear it from his own mouth.

"With another man?" He looked at me, knowing that I knew, and retorted. "Yes Noah, she is sleeping with another man, or she was earlier."

He looked over to Raph's tent after seeing my face go grim.

I didn't even have words. It would be a lie to say that I didn't still love this woman, but I still felt horrible for Raph.

He was clearly getting the short end of the stick on this one I thought to myself before a thought came to my mind.

"Wait, Jo, does that mean she feels every time that he... Ya know?" I quipped, slightly irritated and feeling less bad for the guy.

He wasn't exactly hiding the fact that he had been sleeping around the last year or so.

"No, see, Raph accepted his bond with Phoenix, but Phoenix, she hadn't yet accepted her bond with him. The ties don't flow in both directions," he explained, and the pain for him returned.

Damn, poor guy, I muttered under my breath. 

I looked up, realizing Jo had continued walking forward. I jogged for a moment, quickly catching up to him with another question.

"Man, when are you going to tell me what I am? I know you know something." Irritation is obviously stirring at the surface of my question.

"I can't say, Noah." He paused in his tracks, looking at me briefly before leaning in.

"Just know, when the time comes that you must know, you will know." I rolled my eyes; Jo was always so damn cryptic like he held secrets that had to be protected. 

I could now control my visions or at least, seek out specific ones. It was easier to focus on Phoenix as I had been doing this without realizing it since I was a kid, but I could still focus on other people as well.

I had a keen sense for when a threat was near, better than an Alpha or a Beta, and it had come in handy in the few battles The Western Wolf Pack had in the last few years. I trained now among the other wolves, although only in my human form.

My strength had tripled, and I was now considered an equal among them, even without a wolf. 

I was now sitting at the bank of one of the nearby rivers, thinking about what had happened to Raph and what Jo had said. I stared into the river, lost in my thoughts, as a glow emerged from it. It was purple and slowly became brighter as I looked closer.

My brain went foggy, and I felt my body hit the ground before an image became clear. 

It was Phoenix.

Her blood-red hair spread wildly across the bed and pillows. A glimmer caught my eye.

Her locket was tossed off the side of the bed on the floor.

I zoned back into the image, trying to pull out of it to see more of her surroundings.

A man, ugh, he was naked. I rolled my eyes internally; he walked over to the bed as she smiled at him. I shook my head, pulling further out.

There were trees everywhere. She was somewhere in a forest when I noticed a few trees amid all the green. Pink leaves, a tree that only grew in the eastern colonies.

I felt my excitement as I realized we had finally gotten a clue when the vision rapidly pulled back into Phoenix on the bed. This man was putting the locket back around her neck, and it was all a blur around her again—just her beautiful figure wrapped up in silky sheets. 

I hated what I had seen, but seeing her smile was good. It flooded me with relief in a weird way. I had needed this confirmation of her safety for two years now.

She was okay.

I lurched forward catching my breath. As soon as I gained my bearings, I ran toward Raph's tent.

We really needed this clue, and he probably needed it more than anyone.