The Transfer novel Chapter 21

"This bear hunt is my favourite time of the year. It's just before all the bears go into hibernation. So they're really fat and easy to take down. It's the best," Lila said as we walked. I raised my eyebrows at her as her belly rumbled loudly. She giggled and shrugged at me.

We set down the gear in front of us with the rest of the stuff and we both exhaled deeply. My wolf was giddy with certain for the day. We couldn't wait to sink our teeth into a nice, fat bear.

It was the day we were finally leaving for the bear hunt. There was a large group of us all going. I knew most people that were coming, but there were some that I was unfamiliar with.

All my friends were coming, as well as Liam and Alfie. Even Ezra was dragging his ass along with us despite the amount of complaining he did while we finalised this trip.

"I'm so excited that you get to come this year. Brayleigh doesn't go and I always end up tagging around Liam or Lucas and Leon. They're so boring," Lila complained as we stood together. I smiled at her.

"Aren't you just the sweetest?" I rolled my eyes at her playfully. She giggled and poked her tongue out at me. I felt an arm around my shoulders and looked back. It was Lucas.

"You're both so small. I'm sure there's a height limit that you have to beat to be able to come on this hunt," Lucas teased, making Lila growl. I scoffed at him and elbowed him hard in the gut. He winced and rubbed the spot when I hit him.

"You're mean. I hope you know that," he told me. Lila and I both laughed.

"Yeah, I know. It keeps me awake at night," I retorted. Lucas rolled his eyes at me and I heard a loud growl from behind us. I turned around to face a pissed off looking Liam.

Lucas groaned and took his arm away from me. Liam instantly looked less angry. "She's mine. Give it a break."

Lucas looked at him with a scowl whilst I stared at him intensely. My heart stammered against my chest as Liam looked at me. He winked and then walked past us to attend to the final organisations before we left.

"Awe! That was so cute," Lila awed at me. She grabbed my arm and grinned at me before pulling me into a tight hug. Next to us, Lucas scoffed.

"So she can go near you but I can't? I call bullshit!" Lucas hissed angrily. Lila giggled as she pulled away and flipped off her brother. Leon appeared with another guy by his side, as well as Kade.

I smiled at Kade and Leon and then looked closely at this stranger. He was tall. Taller than all the guys here. He towered over me like a freaking building. He ran his hand through his brown hair and smiled at me.

My wolf sniffed at him. We didn't feel threatened, so we let down our walls and decided to be nice.

"Alison, this is Quo. He's cool, I guess," Leon said, jokingly. I smiled and Quo nudged Lucas with his elbow. He smiled anyway and held his hand out to me.

"It's so nice to finally meet the girl who is keeping our main man in line," Quo said with a smile that made me feel welcomed. I knew that this male wasn't a threat.

I shook his hand. He had a firm grip that could probably crush the bones in my hand to dust.

"Oh, I met Veronica last night, by the way," I announce to my friends. They all raised their their eyebrows at me and even Quo looked a little shocked.

They'd seemed real worked up about Veronica when they told me about her. I guessed it would be important to mention that I had met her.

"What? What the hell happened?" Lila exclaimed loudly. We all looked around for any sight of the family that we despised. When we found nothing, I cleared my throat.

"She asked him to go to her house for dinner. Kept asking him about soup. I was right there too!" I hissed out. Leon snorted and Lucas held his stomach as he laughed.

"Potato and leak soup?" Lucas asked me. I frowned and him and nodded. Lila groaned from next to me. I looked to her as she shook her head and sighed.

"She knows that potato and leak soup is his favourite. She tries to bribe him with it. He'll do quite literally anything for a good potato and leak soup," Lila explained to me. I felt a pang of jealousy in my gut and tried to push it aside. I hoped that she wasn't coming on this hunt with us.

"Well, I must be real important because he turned her down and stayed with me instead," I said as I crossed my arms, proud. My wolf yipped and twirled around. We were both happy that our male turned down this female for us.

"Of course you're important. I'd be very worried if he had gone with her for the soup," Kade snorted. He rolled his eyes and I shrugged as I heard someone clear their throat.

I turned around and saw Liam standing out the front of the crowd of people. There were quite a few people here. I was confused on how so many of us were going to kill ourselves a bear.

Were there that many bears?

"Alright, let's not waste time and get straight into it. We won't be doing any hunting today. We will be moving up east to find an area to camp. We already have several people who have already made their way up that way to scout areas for good places for us to start the hunt tomorrow," Liam explained to everyone. I swooned over the way he spoke. He was definitely a leader. It shocked me how good he was at this.

Everyone listened to him.

My beast purred. She liked that our male was such a leader. She liked that he was a strong Alpha.