Melvin slides toward his broken mask and put it back to his face as if nothing happened. He never said a single word. Not even a simple hi or hello. And his expression never changes either. Right after putting on his half-faced mask, he turned around back to me. "Melvin, please, stop! This isn't you." I tried to convince him while buying enough time for the wounds in my chest to heal. "Don't waste your words, Karen. I highly suggest you focus on killing the love of your life. Because if you are not going to kill him now, he will to you." As soon as the wounds in my chest finally healed, I stood firm again and growled at Melvin. At the same time, I was thinking about how to beat him without us getting hurt. Beating him until he gets unconscious is at the top of my plan at the moment. But how am I supposed to do that? The rest of the men in masks have their eyes on my every move. "Melvin, wake up!" I exclaimed. And I stood my ground, my own glowing eyes focu
"Wait... you haven't answered my question yet, Karen. Are you that man in the mask that I hit with my car was Melvin?" Simon insisted as if he can still accept the truth. "Yes, it was Melvin Parker that we know of," Jelian replied on my behalf. And I almost forgot that we have them in the backseat of Simon's car. "We don't know how, but, those men in masks have something to do with it." Julian added, "They experimented with him just like the others they captured." Simon and I curved our brows in unison. Then I glanced back to the rearview mirror, back to Melvin and those two men in masks. However, I could no longer see them chasing us. "But I thought they were only doing their experiments on the humans and turning them into monsters?" Simon continued. "But Melvin... they turned him into a human?" A part of me suddenly felt jealous of Melvin. I once told him that I wanted to become a human if given the chance there will be a cure to get rid of the monsters insid
"Thank you, Karen," Jackson replied. Perhaps he already noticed that Alex and his vampire friends are not aware of what he did to Melvin. Simon and I haven't told them yet. And we will keep it that way. But, eventually, they will uncover Jackson's mask. After all, Alex and his friends were vampires. "Anyway, we still have our classes in a few minutes," Alex said. "See you later, Ms. Karen." "See you later," I replied with a smile on my face. "Don't forget what Simon asked, later, okay?" Right after that, As Alex and I parted ways, I could not help but feel a sense of urgency. We did not get the chance to discuss everything they need to know about the plan to save Melvin due to Jackson's unexpected appearance. My wolf already learned its lesson not to trust Jackson and considered him our enemy. Taking him out of the picture is the best and right thing to do if we want our plan to be a success. As Jackson and I entered the classroom, my wolf sensed a heavy s
"What about Melvin? We should do something to get him back." I insisted as I tried to remove Simon's hands away from me but his grip was harder than I expected. "Believe me, I know that, Karen," Simon replied. "But today is not the best time to get him back. We need a plan." As soon as we got out of the school exit, Simon grabbed the phone from his pocket and dialed someone while his left hand remained clamped with mine. Apart from us, hundreds, if not thousands of students were also in a race upon reaching the school's exit. Cars, including police patrols and ambulances, were stuck in the middle of the road because the road was swamped with running humans. So I shortly glanced back to the road we took, back to the rugby field. But I don't see Melvin or those men in masks anymore. "Where are you?" Simon asked the second his call was answered. "We already got out of the school, Simon. We don't want to get hurt you know." Alex was on the other line of the ph
"Do you think your plan on separating Melvin from those men in masks is going to work?" Jennie broke the silence between us in her car. At our battle against Melvin, my wolf noticed that those men in masks were all humans. And as a human, Simon agreed that they also have their weaknesses. We plan to use that to our advantage to get Melvin away from them. Since we have no idea how many of them are in that masks, the rugby boys offered to extend help. They played a very important part in achieving our goal. For what is worth, Simon and I manage to clear their thoughts about Melvin being the antagonist of our story. But in order to do that, I dragged Jackson's name to the case. "Why?" Simon replied. "Do you have something better in mind? You were there at the meeting but you barely said a word." "Nah, I don't want to be chased out from the store just like you guys did to Jackson," Jennie said back. "I know you all doubted my dad's sincerity. But I can't blame you
"We are not here for that, Mr. James." I cut him in the middle of his long and nonsense speech. He keeps on explaining things about his work in the laboratory and how he applied them to the school as the owner. None of them was even related to the incident that happened recently as though he was trying to avert our mindsets. Either way, it doesn't change the fact that Melvin and I are still suspicious of him. Diverting things only prove to me that he was hiding something from us. Something that he doesn't want to be caught. "We are here to ask for the list of the monsters you have in the laboratory underneath our school." I continued. "I don't know if you are aware of what was going on in your school but all your monsters got escaped. And yet you're here hidden in this laboratory." Jennie and Simon exchanged glances. Even his very own daughter nodded in agreement as though she was supporting my claims. "We need the file. Just the file for us to know everything
"All right. Thanks for filling us up, dude." Simon heaved an abrupt sigh before clapping Joseh's shoulders. Determination started to light his mood. "Let's start discussing our plan." He then handed us one by one a piece of paper. "Those were the list of the monsters whom Mr. James and his scientists kept in his laboratory underneath our school for months now. All thanks to our friends, Melvin and Karen for capturing them for us." he continued. "If not because of them, perhaps some of us would not be here right now." Undeniably, I felt overwhelmed by Simon's statement. I did not do much about capturing those monsters yet he still gives me the credit to it. It all thanks to Melvin. Simon and some of our friends have been part of those missions, successful ones, to be precise. He was too humble not to mention his name. "Let's begin with the number one on the list." Simon continued. "The Chimera." As far as I could remember, the Chimera was the first monster those men in
"Are you guys just going to look at us?" Simon's dad asked, his voice was a bit rough which caused us startled even more. "Help us with the snacks." Joseph and Glester immediately came to the rescue. Glester grabbed the pouch from Simon's dad filled with food packs while Joseph assisted Simon's mom in distributing the bottled water to us. Still, all of us remained silent when we just lied to Simon's parents that we doing some school project in their warehouse. "Anyway, we heard that the school was in chaos right now. Is this what are you guys discussing?" Simon's mom continued. "Aren't you all supposed to stay away from the school?" My wolf cannot blame them to feel terrified or worried for their son's safety. After all, Simon's rich parents are both humans. And both of them are still unaware of Simon's secret. I'm not even sure if he already considered telling them the truth. But eventually, they will know the truth. "It was tragic. Deaths are increasing." I r