Zach smiled and ran his hand thru her hair gently as he spoke softly.<br/>"I'll not ever seek to hurt you. I'll do my utmost best to take the best care of you. If I ever hurt you, tell me and I'll try to make amends. But don't ever think not even once of going back to your old life. You won't be allowed to do so. I may not be able to stop you but the alpha and Damien will give me what help I need. They may even advise me how to make you a bit happy. Most of your happiness will have to come from within yourself and if you decide to be happy."<br/>Zach leaned down and gave his female a soft kiss on her cheek.<br/><br/>"Is the estate large? And why are you  taking me away for? You do know that I owe you my life" Jewel looked up into his eyes in wonder. She haddn't really realize what Damien had said about mates or living on the estate.<br/><br/>Far out in the country was a young teenage boy looking under the hood of an old renovated school bus. he was on the short side so was standing in a short ladder. He was tugging on a piece of broken fan belt.<br/>"Mum, I found the problem. The fan belt broke on us. Now what can we do? The luck of the Irish is against us once again....."<br/><br/>Kathyleene got out of the bus and went around to the front of the bus. Her long silver hair swung about in a high ponytail as she moved gracefully. she stood by the teen who held out the broken belt.<br/>"Eh...it seems to be why this old bus was overheating on us, doesn't it? S'pose we will have to either hoof it back to town or wait for someone to give us a lift, huh Sean? Well, which will it be, son?" kathyleene looked at her son who figured out what she already knew on his own. She has had a rough life raising a male pup on her own but more now than ever he needed a male father figure in his life. Unfortunately, not a normal male father either. His werewolf father was killed in a hunt when he was just 5. She barely escaped with her young son and the clothes on their backs.<br/>Sean looked at the offending broken fan belt and shrugged as he brushed his long hair out of his face. His pony tail was not very neat since he was asleep when Mum asked him to check out the engine.<br/>"Seems to be 6 on one hand and a half dozen on the other. More importantly is do we even have the money for a new belt?"<br/><br/>"I do still have a bit put back yet but not much, that I will admit. We need to find a new home and soon for more reasons than one. Your schooling has been sorely neglected even tho we do home schooling online. I need to find a decent job. We will soon need something more than this old bus to live in. " Kathyleene spoke nothing but the honest truth. She has heard of where someone used old panty hose as a fan belt. Could they do the same?<br/>"Once I heard tale of where a person used a pair of pantyhose as a belt until they got to the nearest town. Want to try to fashion a belt out of a pair?" she suggested.<br/><br/>"I s'pose that it wouldn't hurt to try that first if you have an old pair to spare." Sean looked up at his mother with a smile.<br/>"I do believe I do, son. let me go get them and you can see what you can do to make us a fan belt." Kathyleene smiled as she left to go find the oldest pair of pantyhose that she had.