Werewolves?

Her shoulders relaxed as they let go of their tense state. Not having anything else in mind other than doubt and conflict she slipped out of the bed and headed for the restroom. But she didn’t leave before giving another complicated look towards the bed.

Unlike back at her house where the whole family shared a single washroom, in this mansion, every room had its separate one.

‘Quite the luxury if someone were to ask me.’

She sipped into it pulling the door and splashed some water on her face at the washbasin. Her eyes fell on her reflection in the mirror.

Her long hair flowed like a river on her shoulders and her long eyelashes were enough to make her friends jealous. But alas her long eyelashes were the only feature she took pride in. Other than that her facial features were pretty average. She had beautiful structured lips but they were a little pale but she managed with lipstick. But unlike her bestie, her face wasn’t chiselled.

That was not to say that she wasn’t tall. She had a model height of 5’8’’ but alas her curves don’t stand out much.

“Am I not pretty enough? Is that why he was not interested?” She couldn’t help but feel a bit insecure. Her supposed groom was damn insensitive and did not even care about her turmoil.

Even if she was considered pretty average in her appearance she had never felt insecure before. Her parents and a certain someone had always treated her as if she were a beautiful angel.

Evelyn sighed as she looked down. For some reason, she was staring at the base of the washroom. Her mood was down and so was her head.

It was then…

A strange circle with strange geometrical shapes around it appeared below her feet. It had the mark of the sun at the dead centre.

Her eyes shot wide.

“What is this?”

She had never seen something like this before. She blinked rapidly hoping that it would disappear the next moment and was just her delusion. But unlike her expectations, the circle only shone brighter and brighter with a golden hue.

She stepped back out of fright.

*Bam*

Her back collided with something in this air. She felt herself colliding with an invisible barrier. For some reason, she couldn’t get outside of the circle!

“Help!” She screamed but there was no one to respond. It was as if her voice itself couldn’t pass that very barrier.

Today was not a good day. She was a series of negative experiences one after the other. From nervousness to sadness and now it had turned to pure fear! She screamed and cried for help but to no avail.

The lights grew brighter and brighter as slowly it wrapped her up. She couldn’t even see her own lower body.

*Bam* *Bam* *Bam*

She began hitting the barrier with her hands as if she was heavily knocking on a closed door. She gave it all of her strength but the barrier didn’t collapse.

“Help!” She was in tears, she was scared but to no avail. The whole golden light wrapped her up to the very brim! As the light reached her eyes she realized how intense its glory was. Its very intensity caused her to lose consciousness.

***

*Sprinkle*

Water was sprinkled on her face probably to wake her up.

“Mhm,” she squeaked. It was indeed a sprinkle and not the bucket of water that her mother is used to pouring on her. She had always been a heavy sleeper.

She rubbed her eyes.

“Please Mom a little bit more,” she whispered but then the deep voice of man resounded in her ears.

“Your mom is not here, Evelyn” His voice, though deep and coarse, was sweet at the same time.

‘Steve?’ she thought. ‘Yes, I got married and all, aren’t I?’

Last night was so uneventful that she had forgotten that she actually got married.

Evelyn opened her eyes to have a look at his face but to her horror, it was someone else! He had a mask on him with the mark of a circular hole in the mask over one eye and a crescent-shaped hole on the other. He had brown skin and he was wearing a black shirt.

She turned around to have a look and she found herself lying on the floor of a ballroom. A chandelier hanging above. Some distance away there was even a buffet for the guests. The ballroom had majestic windows that went up to a few feet and also well decorated with wall with air conditioners lining up cooling the room.

But that was not all.

“Oooooooooooooooowhoo!!!”

“Woohooooooo”

She turned around only to have her eyes shoot open. The drowsiness from her sleep was completely gone as she was on high alert.

She saw men changing into wolves as they made howling sounds. They couldn’t contain their happiness anymore and their inner wolves had taken over them as they howled to their joy.

Her besties words resounded in her mind once again.

‘All men are the same. They are wolves in sheep’s skin’

Is that what she meant by that? Evelyn thought. She had always felt that it had a symbolic meaning rather than a physical one!

“Werewolves?” she whispered. Her face was panic-stricken and endowed with awe all at the same time. What were werewolves to her? Fantasy creatures? But according to the dictionary fantasy should not be reality. If they are fantasy creatures, why do they exist!

It was then that another man neatly dressed in a white shirt behind him came forward.

“Congratulations Alpha Ken, the summoning was successful. You have shown again how much of a boon you are to the werewolf race.”

“Indeed it was,” Though he did reply to the man, he was disrespectful in a way. As he was by no means moving his gaze away from Evelyn. It was as if it was stuck on her wanting to suck her in.

The other man frowned only for it to disappear at the next moment as he shrugged.