Chapter 4

I woke up on a bouncy comfortable bed, I was covered with a silky comforter, and my eyes started to slowly open till slightly hazy, once my eyes cleared; they started to adjust to the brightness of the room.

"What happened?" I mumbled to myself as I touched my forehead, it was burning, and I’m will be having the worst kind of headache. I squeezed my eye shut gently messaging my temples.

Bad day, worse headache. What did you expect, Maya?

As I turned around, I had a clear view of my environment; it was different, diverse, and most importantly, it was strange; strangely beautiful.

Am I in a stranger’s room?

Oh no, this is bad, this is way too bad.

I jumped out of bed almost as if I was bitten to get off it. My eyes glistened with fear when I realized that I wasn’t at home and I’m not talking about the home where Victoria and I stay, but I’m talking about the home where the humans are. I am in a stranger’s house on the werewolf land.

Holy shit! I think I’m gonna puck……no, I’m gonna die…

Think Maya, think…..What are you going to do?

My mind starts to pound with billions of questions. Questions like who brought me here? What do they want to do with me? Did they find out that I’m a human? And most importantly, are they planning on killing me?

Oh my gosh!

I gulped at my thought, they are definitely going to kill if not, then they wouldn’t bring me here. I can’t die now, I didn’t come here to die.

My mind still pondering with assumptions, I couldn’t help but assume how I got here because I do remember the time when I was arguing with a man, and then all of a sudden, I fainted. Speaking of arguing, did that man kidnap me?

No! No! No!

That can’t be possible, he won’t just kidnap me like that……but he could if he had found out that I’m a human.

This is the end for you, Maya.

I feel my stomach dropping and my mind encircling to one conclusion; run, run, just run. I have to run away because anyone finds me or even thinks of killing me, Victoria was right about them, the people are lunatics, barbaric, and murderers.

I took my time to look around the room, in search of the exit door. My gaze caught on a door which made a smile appear on my face but then the smile vanished when I gazed at another door and the door next to it.

What kind of room has three different doors?

That question was the first to pop into my head but the important question was; why unearth will a werewolf have a room in the first place, they aren’t humans so they should stop acting like one.

I walked over to the first door, and placed my hand on the doorknob, silently praying for it to be the existing door.

Please be the existing door, please…..

As I turned the knob open, I groaned in annoyance; it was the bathroom, a lavish bathroom, actually. I took a step past it and got to the next door which was just a step away from it.

There we go again. I breathed out. Please be the existing door, please…..

I turned the knob open and to my disappointment, it wasn’t the exit door but it was through a room, in other words, a closet. I have never seen a real closet before, I have only seen it in movies. And to be honest, I have never in my life seen this many clothes before, it was so nice. I have always dreamt of having a closet of my own. I walked into the closet completely forgetting my aim to get out of the house.

"Oh wow," I say as I spotted a very beautiful cardigan. I take it off the shelf. This cardigan looks just like mine only that the color is different, it’s twice the size of mine, it doesn’t have loss thread at the end of it, it’s not faded and it says 'I hate this world'

As I kept the cardigan back on the shelf, I continued to stroll around the closet.

"What are you doing?" I hear a deep yet firm voice say behind me making me jump out of my thoughts.

I flinched but didn’t turn around. It’s not like I was scared of the voice but indeed, I was scared to turn around and face my kidnapper as I know he is the only one that will walk up to me like that.

"Are you trying to steal my clothes?" He asks, his voice still sounding calm

I closed my eyes and took a long deep breath. I have to face whoever it is. I can’t be weak, I came here for my mother and I have to seek revenge for her before I leave. I am scared of no one, I have to fight back when they attack. I am Maya, I may not know everything about myself but now that I’m here, I will find out more about myself. I’m not scared of anything.

I tell myself that but I know I wasn’t going to buy it. Yes, I came here for revenge but will I be able to seek it? Will I be able to find that bloody monster and kill him?

I took a deep breath and slowly turn around, I may be armless but I’m not stupid, if I want to do what I got to do, I have to be strong.

I felt very stupid as I thought of all this motivation for just turning around to face a man whose voice doesn’t seem to scare me at all. Am I that of a scary cat?

As I finally turned around to face him, I raise my chin and have a look at his face. I could feel myself getting wet just by looking at his face.

"What-"

"No!" I cut him off "No, do not even start with your talks, do not." I tell him and he looks at me with an eyebrow risen if he doesn’t know what I’m talking about.

"Troubling that little girl is one thing, arguing with me for something you know you did and it’s wrong is another but kidnapping me for standing up for that girl is way out of the box," I yell pointing at him

He slightly slaps my finger away from pointing at him. I gasped, trying to rethink what he just did, it didn’t hurt me at all but it was disrespectful. Very tactless.

"How dare you!" I say following him out of the closet and into the room

"First you tell me one thing, why did you kidnap me and bring me here and what are you planning on doing with me?" I ask

He sits at the edge of the bed and looks at me.

"Don’t you think I would have done everything I wanted to do with you long before you woke up?" He responds, smirking

"Wh-what did y-you do?" I ramble thinking of so many things he could have done to me when I was unconscious.

"What do you think?" He winks at me, smirking.

I feel like ripping that gorgeous smirk off his face and just shattering it into pieces. I gulped the range in me as what was on my mind was only one thing; does he know that I’m a human?

"Do you know?" I ask

"That you are a virgin?" He replies and stands up and begins walking toward me.

"What? N-no, I am not, a v-virgin." I say taking steps backward as he continues to walk toward me.

I keep walking backward till my back reaches the wall. He stood a fingertip away from me and I lower my head to look at the ground in order not to look him in the eyes.

"If you’re not then why are you so concerned about it?" He huskily asks

I feel his warm breath brush across my face and the smell of peppermint which sent chills down my body.

"I am not a vir-" I paused as I felt a strange urgency in me.

He gently lifts my chin to face him and asks "Are you scared of me?" He stares into my eyes and then gazes down at my lips.

For the very first time in my life, I am standing this close to a man, who is a werewolf and I didn’t feel scared, I didn’t feel threatened. I felt like I was standing in the field of dandelions, I felt an urge toward him. As his gaze lowers to my lips, I somehow wanted him to kiss me, I know it’s weird and stupid but I felt that way. Maybe it’s because I have never kissed anyone before or maybe it’s because he is right, I’m a virgin and I have these irritating tingles in me.

"No, I don’t," I answer his question

He smirks and moves away from me "Well you should, if you know what’s good for you." He says

I gulped the lump in my throat feeling a sudden rush of air that passed through my body "W-why should I, because you kidnapped me?" I ask

"For the sake of God, stop thin-" He paused as someone knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" He asked

"It’s me, Ryle," The voice behind the door says

"Ryle" I whisper to myself.

I can’t believe Ryle is here for me. My heart was calm but instantly bombed when the door pushed open and Ryle was told not to enter the room by him, I wonder what his name is. He shoots a death glare at me before heading to the door, his hand was on the doorknob as he spoke to Ryle.

No way, I can’t just let Ryle leave without him knowing I am here, I have to do something about it. Before I could utter a word, he moves away from the door and Ryle walked into the room.

"Are you okay?" Ryle asks as he walks over to me.

I nod "Yes."

Ryle turns his gaze to him and says "Thank you, Alpha Ashton."

Why is Ryle thanking him?

As I walked toward the door with Ryle, he spoke "Don’t be fooled thinking that kidnapped you, because you aren’t worth my time."

I turn my gaze to him, frowning, and was shocked.

Because I’m not worth his time? Who the hell does he think he is?

Once I hear him slam the door shut, I ask Ryle "Who is he?"

"Ashton, he is the highest-ranking werewolf in town, he is the Alpha"

"Ohh!" I say putting two in two together. I’m guessing that being the Alpha makes him think that he can do whatever he wants.

Ruthless asshole!