Escape.

Iris P.O.V

Luckily for me, I was able to escape through the window without sustaining any injury. The only pain I felt was when I fell to the ground, making a thud on the ground. 

"Arrrghh!" I groaned in pain with my teeth gritted while leaping on a foot as I ran towards the parking lot hurriedly.

I kept looking behind me to be sure that my parents hadn't realized that I had left the room and was about to leave the house for good. 

I couldn't just decipher how my father would use me as an exchange for a deal that he made with the said moon goddess. 

I wasn’t trying to be ungrateful about his sacrifice or anything but the more I think about it, he could have just let me die. He could have just let me die if he knew that I was the price he was going to pay.

I couldn’t just wrap my head around the fact that my parents wanted me to marry a werewolf because of a promise that my father made in the past.

Why did I have to suffer for something that I knew nothing of?

It was more like I was being punished for something that I knew nothing off.

When my mates would be enjoying the varieties and necessities of life, I would be stuck to a werewolf who could kill me off in seconds.

Were my parents truly my biological parents? Because I doubt that any parents who hold genuine love and affection towards their child would allow anything bad to happen to them.

I got into the car and placed my head on the driving wheel, muttering words of prayer. 

This was the first time that I would actually think of trying to run away from home and I was really scared and nervous because I wasn't sure about the danger that I would be meeting outside but one thing I knew was that it was far better than getting married to someone that you barely knew.

Weren't werewolves supposed to be nothing but myths? How could one exist for real?

I started the car's ignition and drove out of the compound at full speed.

I didn't know where I was going and I knew that going to my friend's house was surely going to be a minus. It was more like turning yourself in to the police. My parents would surely find me if I stayed over at my friend's house because they knew all my friends well.

The worst of it all was that I wasn't with cash, my credit cards and my phone. How would I survive in this damn world?

Assuming I had cash with me, I would have been able to reserve a room for myself in a hotel and stay there for some weeks before deciding on the next plan of action.

The next plan of action was to flee the country and leave my parent's to suffer the consequences of their action.

It was not like it was my fault, it was their fault and most especially, it was my father's fault.

After pondering where to go, I decided to go to a particular field where homeless people lived. 

I would rather live like that than to be married!

I kept driving around the city, enjoying the cool wind that whipped some strands of hair on my face. The way the wind whistled in my ear made it feel like I regained freedom.

The euphoria that I felt inside of me disappeared later on. Tears glistened in my eyes as I recollected the conversation that I had with my parents earlier. 

Never in my life have I envisioned that my perfect life could be turned upside down within the blink of an eye. If anyone had told me that my parents made that devastating promise to the said moon goddess, I would have never believed them and would have cut my friendship with them.

   Tears began to fall down my eyes like a free fall as I drove to nowhere.

It was getting dark now and I could see the moon peering out of the clouds while I stared at its beauty in awe.

All of a sudden, my car started to move in a rickety manner before breaking down in the middle of the road.

I hissed out loudly as I got out of the car, opening the car bonnet to see what I could fix but I was unable to place my hands on anything.

Just as I was about to turn around and scream for help, I was taken aback when I noticed that I was in a remote area surrounded by a dilapidated building and I spotted a ramshackle car from afar. 

Cold shivers ran through my spine as I looked around me. I was so lost in thought that I didn't know when I drove into this abandoned area that gave me creeps. Cold air gushed through my skin and I could feel goosebumps all over my skin as I quivered in fear. 

It was already late and if I was grateful for one thing, I was grateful for the full moon whose light shone all over the area. I was scared to my bones because I didn't really know what to do! 

As I pondered on my next line of action, I heard a rustle on the dried leaves that littered the ground.

"W-Who is there?" I stuttered in fright. 

  After the rustle on the leaves, I heard a growl that made me jump in fright. As I rushed towards my car to seek shelter from whatever was about to attack me, a wolf jumped out of the thick bushes and before I knew it, I was surrounded by wolves who growled as they circled round me.

At that moment, I knew it was my end. I was running from a werewolf, only to fall in the hands of a more ferocious beast who could tear me into pieces in a second.

I picked a stick and tried to scare them off but they came closer to me the more I tried.

"Help!" I screamed as my voice came back as echoes in my ear.

"Somebody please help me!" I screamed again, squeezing my eyes shut.

 All of a sudden I felt a dark aura around me and it further aroused my suspicion when the wolves began to howl but they didn't retract their steps. My eyelids flickered as I opened my eyes and I almost jumped in fright when I saw the reflection of someone's shadow on the ground. I titled my head slowly as my fingers trembled in fear. 

My heart almost exploded when I saw that someone was standing behind me. I turned around with fright but I couldn't see his face because of the hat he was wearing.

His eyes, however, gleamed in the darkness like sapphires.

He took a step forward while I had my gaze fixed on him. He stood rigid beneath the moonlight, with his eyes squeezed shut. When he opened his eyes again, his sapphire eyes turned white while my eyes grew wide in shock. I rubbed my eyes to be sure that I was seeing right.

Suddenly, his knees reversed direction and I could hear something like the cracking of a bone. His fingers grew into long claws and his teeth into fangs, white hair sprout out of his skin and his face contorted to a wolf’s muscle. 

His clothes tore off his body as his muscles kept increasing in size till it felt like he towered over me.

He turned into a wolf! He was a freaking werewolf! 

He let out a huge growl that shook the area and the next thing that I could hear were the flapping of wings from the birds that hovered around the sky.

I couldn’t believe that I was running from the whole idea of getting married to a werewolf and here I was, behind a werewolf. Or was I dreaming?

I must be having a nightmare! It can only be a nightmare!

Why was my life suddenly taking another direction? This wasn’t what I wanted for myself and why was everything currently surrounding my life just about wolves and werewolves?

My eyes sight were fuzzy as I felt a sharp pain in my head, before I knew it, I had collapsed to the ground out of shock.