Free Heart of the Unknown Alpha by Rae Scott Page A

anything had been bothering him lately. HA! Bothering him? Well unless you counted a beautiful little auburn haired bright blue eyed girl he couldn’t figure out or get out of his mind something bothering him.. he was just fine.
    He was just on the verge of sleep when he heard it. A soft musical voice calling his name.
    “Darian..Darian get up.”
    He opened his eyes looking around the room. With only a shaft of moonlight lighting the room he looked into the darkness yet found no one.. “Who is there?”
    The shaft of moonlight caught his eye as it shimmered
    “Darian, you have to get up. Hurry Darian, Hurry before it’s to late.” The voice was now urgent and insistent.
    He narrowed his eyes at the light, he had heard tales but they were children’s stories. Weren’t they? “Lluna?”
    “Yes Darian. You must get up. Go to the lake before it’s to late. Go. Hurry!”
    Darian swung his legs from the bed, trying to make sense of what was going on. “The lake? What lake? Lluna what is going on?”
    “Darian you must hurry. She is in the lake now. Hurry! Before it is to late.” The disembodied voice was starting to get more desperate.
    Darian’s heart began to pound, his wolf now wide awake was anxiously pacing. She? Who was she? Unless Lluna meant…  “Lluna?” His voice was now laced with worry. The lake was pretty far from his home, if Aryana was in trouble he wouldn’t make it in time. How to get there?
    “Run Darian, Run like the wind.”
    Darian watched as the shimmer disappeared. Aryana, something was wrong with Aryana. She was at the lake, he had to get to the lake. Running out his back door he started shifting before he had even gone 2 steps, by the time he had gone 5 he was in full shift and running as fast as his paws could take him towards the lake near where Aryana had found him.
    His lungs burned as he ran, his heart pounded, blood rushing through his ears. He flew over branches and rocks, never breaking stride his paws barely touching the ground. One thought kept racing through his mind Aryana was in trouble, Aryana needed him. 
    Finally he reached the clearing and Aryana’s SUV. Looking around the clearing he saw nothing amiss right away, but he didn’t see Aryana either. Sniffing around the SUV he rounded the back to find her clothing by the driver’s door, sniffing the ground around them trying to find a clue of where she had gone he caught a whiff of salt and that unique scent that was Aryana.  He followed her scent to the water. What was it she had said about coming up here? Something about when she was upset?
    Suddenly he saw it. There in the middle of the deepest part of the lake illuminated by a bright reflection of the moon a black solid mass beneath the water with something pale beneath. SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!!! Aryana was in the water!
    Backing up a few steps he took a running leap changing back to human before he hit the water… He swam deep long strokes to get to her. She had already sunk beneath the waves by the time he had gotten to where he had seen her hair in the moonlight. 
                  Taking a large breathe he dived. The water was dark and murky. He frantically searched trying to find her groping blindly in the darkness. Lluna help me save her, she doesn’t deserve to die! He pleaded.
                  Miraculously the moonlight suddenly pierced the darkness. There, there she was! He quickly swam up to her, pressing his mouth to hers trying to force air from his mouth into hers. He got no response. Surface! Gotta get her to dry land . Wrapping his powerful arm around her waist he hauled them both up to the surface.
    Breaking the water he glanced at her face, her lips were tinged blue and she wasn’t breathing.  How long had she been down there? He swam as fast as he could to the shore, pulling her along with him.  As soon as his feet touched bottom he lifted her in his arms and walked the rest of the way.
    Laying her down in the soft grass he