Chapter 4 She Is

• Lawson still remembered the fateful day when a stranger had brought his brother crying. The smell of marijuana, blood and sex had invaded his nostrils as the sobbing wolf had rushed at him in a sea of trembling. His clothes were dirty and torn and there was a bruise on his left cheek. Blood was drying on the edge of her split lip.
• “Kenny, what does this mean? What happened? Who is he?" the wolf hugged his sobbing brother, worry gnawing at him.
• “Brother, help me, Raven, it's Raven's fault he caused all this. Why did he do this to me? Why?" his smaller body trembled and shook so much it hurt.
• Lawson grabbed Kenny's shoulders and pulled him apart.
• “Be clearer," he said, "that couldn't be happening. Thousands of ideas ran through his head, but none that Raven was the cause, she wasn't like that, unless he had been so blind that she was his mate and hadn't seen the truth of it.
• Raven drugged me, her friends beat me up, almost raped me brother and threatened me. She was upset, she said she wanted to end something, but I don't know why. I treated her so well, but she, she, I don't understand why she hates me” he sobbed” If it wasn't for this soul who saved me now I wouldn't know what to do with my life” He buried his face against his older brother's chest trembling as tears stained his shirt.
• “I'm sorry," Lawson also trembled at the shock of what he was hearing, "If I had acted sooner, this wouldn't have happened," the guilt was beginning to stir inside him. Perhaps she had done all that because... they had kissed. Because she was interested in him, not his younger brother, because she had asked him to break up with him.
• He still couldn't process it.
• “What do you know," Kenny shouted at him.
• Lawson didn't know what to answer. It wasn't like he could say what had happened between Raven and him.
• “For a while now, Raven has been mistreating him," the man who called himself a savior spoke for the first time, "She wouldn't return his calls, said she was busy. She even punched him in the face once because he wouldn't leave her. It wouldn't be the first time I got in the way so she wouldn't hurt him.
• Lawson bit his lip. Yes, he remembered when his brother had come in with a good slap across the face. It was two days later that Raven and he'd had some intimacy in his room. He hadn't heard from her after that.
• God, the whole thing was a disgrace.
• “Thank you for taking care of him," he said to the man, hugging his younger brother more comfortingly. He must have felt devastated, as he was not used to rejection. This was his first time. And so was he. He felt his chest hurt hearing all that.
• “It's nothing," the stranger smiled.
• After that day, Lawson kept thinking about the subject and the hurt to his brother. Kenny seemed to be off in his own world, spending a lot of time out of the house, coming home drunk. He even started using drugs and had to be committed to a clinic against his will, but soon after his release he relapsed again. Those were hard years for his family. Kenny was never the same. Only after the fifth year did he get back on track, although Lawson knew that he was using drugs, drinking, and sneaking around with women from time to time. They never touched the subject of Raven again.
• But Lawson wasn't going to leave it at that. His brother's life had fallen apart because of her and he hated more and more having kissed and been captivated by the she”wolf. Knowing she was his mate now made him sick to his stomach and he prayed every night that it was a sick joke. He hated her, yes, very much. For being the promoter of the destruction of his family's happiness.
• And even though their paths had not met again no matter how hard he looked for her, the idea of destroying her at any cost had not left his head. Even if his instinct told him that she was his other half. He wanted her to suffer the same as them, but he found that she had disappeared, as if the earth had swallowed him up.
• It had been 7 years since the incident. He was now 29, but every day the heat of being able to come and quell the hatred inside him burned inside him and grew day by day.
• But now, and by the looks of it, fate had sided with him.
• “Not that it was so impressive," he said aloud without realizing it.
• “What did you say, recruit?" the general shouted from the platform and everyone looked at him with a dumbfounded expression.
• He had screwed up, damned wolfishly developed ear. But why not play along, after all, none of those present seemed pleased with their new teacher. Least of all him. What better time to embarrass her and begin his revenge.
• “I say that our new teacher is not strong enough to even withstand a blow from us, she would break that skinny body of hers. Can't you see. She's outnumbered and out”muscled. She's not even scary”
• “Insolent..." The general's face turned red and he bared his fangs. He was sure they were saying that because they didn't have her as close as he was in a cold sweat from her aura. He would not be ashamed to say he was afraid of her.
• The Commander stopped him again.
• Without a word Raven walked to the edge of the dais and launched herself the five feet she was five feet high to fall with the elegance of a she-wolf behind her prey. The thick cloak of the same wine red color as her uniform fell over her back to her knees settling on her shoulders as she stood up straight. The recruits swallowed dryly. Now they could feel it. The atmosphere around them was stronger and denser now that he was at their level even when it didn't reach their chins for many.
• “Let's test your theory, recruit," her voice was huskier, more mature, drier than in the past. No hint of emotion.
• And the insolent woman pretended not to know him, which infuriated Lawson even more. He hadn't seen her walk around his house, for quite some time for pleasure, nor eaten at his table in the evenings, nor stayed up watching movies with him as he fought over which was the best to watch, or what they did most, spend time playing games.
• He let out a laugh, gritting his teeth indignantly.
• “With pleasure.
• The three soldiers before him ran along with the others giving him space. This would be a good show of shame for the new teacher. He didn't care that she was a she”wolf, that she was his mate. She was precisely that she”wolf, the one he hated with every fiber of his being.
• Lawson walked with a determined stride forward and when he was a few feet away he raised his arm with all the strength and spite of years stored up to strike Raven's young face, but only found himself flying through the air and falling backwards knocking himself out on the ground. The pain that spread through his body left him unable to get up, barely moving or breathing.
• He looked, with difficulty, at the other astonished recruits who backed away avoiding getting involved and then focused on the woman standing next to him. She let go of his arm, which fell to the ground with a dull sound, and looked at him with cold, distant eyes. Without a trace of that glow that he knew so well and that he had not been able to forget in those 7 years that had passed.
• “I will only say one thing, for you and the others, and I hope it will be clear to you for as long as we are going to be working together," she knelt down to be closer to him so that it would be clear what she was going to tell him. She squinted her eyes under the long dark lashes” Dog that barks... doesn't bite, so close your muzzle”.