The rain tapered off slowly as Miguel Hughes wined up the car's window while stealing a glance at his wife, Eva Hughes, who slowly rubbed her hand slowly on her belly before leaning back on the chair with the seat belts wrapped around her.
The sound of the wind whispering through the trees and the high pitched beep sound from the tree frog filled the night as they drove through the deserted road in the forest.
Eva Hughes protested on passing through that road because of the scary tales that she had heard about the road. She had heard about the robbers and the scary creatures that lurked around the road at night. There was also the myth that whoever went into the forest at night never came back alive.
But here she was, having a drive with her husband in the mysterious forest.
"I can't wait for the baby to come, I am so excited for her birth," Miguel squeaked in excitement as he focused on the drive.
"Me too! That isn't the only thing that I am excited about though," Eva replied, with her hands still placed on her belly.
"Really? Tell me"
"I am excited about who our child would resemble the most. You or me?" Eva chuckled, reaching her hands for the bottle of water as she gulped it down slowly.
"Of course it would be me! My genes are going to be predominant," Miguel joked.
"Thank the Lord, our baby is going to be coming soon. Should we place a bet to see who the baby looks like the most?" She gave him a grin. "If I win the bet, we will be going on a trip to Singapore."
"Singapore?"
"Yes, what are you going to bet with?"
"Eva, if I win the bet, you would be giving me a Piano," Miguel said.
"So do we have a deal?"
"Yes! Deal," Miguel opened his palm, while Eva placed her hand on it as they both squeezed hands tightly.
Miguel inserted a song cassette and increased the volume as they both sang along to the song that blasted from the speakers.
Eva felt the baby move around inside of her and she screamed in excitement, gesturing to Miguel to see the baby's movement.
She removed her seatbelt, pulled her top up as the baby moved around in her stomach. That was the one of the best things that would ever happen to her.
A bright smile creased on his face and before he knew it, tears twinkled in his eyes as he saw their baby move inside her belly.
If not for the fact that they were on a deserted road, he would put the car to a halt and rest his head on Eva's belly so that he could feel the movement of their child.
It was a happy, sweet moment for the couple.
All of a sudden, an antelope suddenly ran out of the thick forest, jumping right in front of the car. Miguel lost control of the car as the car rotated on its own till the car's trunk hit an huge tree, breaking the front window of the car with the inside of the car littered with shattered pieces of glasses.
Eva hit her head on the dashboard as blood trickled down her face while Miguel lost consciousness for some minutes.
Something that looked like a mist covered the whole forest. After some minutes, Miguel regained consciousness. His eyes were squeezed shut as he struggled to get out of the car.
When he got out of the car, he staggered towards the passenger's seat that Eva was sitting at. He knocked on the window for her to come outside but he didn't get any response from her. His fear increased as he forced the door open while pulling her outside the car, placing her body on the wet leaves that littered the ground.
When Miguel saw the blood on her face, he let out a loud scream that sounded back as echoes in his ears. He quickly checked her pulse and that was when he realized that Eva was gone.
"No!" He screamed, sitting on the bare floor while placing her head on his laps.
The memories of how Eva warned him against passing the deserted road in the forest came rushing through his head like a flood. "Eva please wake up. You were right, I should have listened to you."
After trying to bring her back to life through CPR, then Miguel realized that she was gone and he was sure that the baby was gone too.
He let out a cry in the middle of the thick forest, begging the deities for help. "Please help my wife and my child, if there is a deity, please help."
Suddenly, the rain that had eased off, plummeted down to the ground while he wrapped his hands around Eva's body with his hand on her stomach.
Amidst his tears, Miguel felt a cover over his head and when he raised his head up, he saw an umbrella over his head with a woman who looked intimidating staring down at him.
He shrieked in fear on seeing the young woman who had long white hair and white eyebrows. Her lips were heart shaped and she was incredibly beautiful.
"W-Who are you?" Miguel stuttered, running his eyes around the woman.
The woman just stared at Eva's face, ignoring Miguel's questions. Then she darted her eyes off to her protruded stomach. "What exactly do you need my help with?" She knew what he wanted but decided that it was best to hear it from him.
"W-Who are you?" Miguel repeated again.
"You called for a deity and I appeared here. I am the moon goddess. I would ask you for the last time, what do you need my help with?"
Miguel stared at her right in the face, she had a cold expression on her face and her eyes gleamed in the darkness like all the lode stars were gathered inside.
"Please bring back my wife and my daughter. They are my world, there's nothing that I could absolutely do without them. Please save them." He pleaded, going on with his instincts even though he still had a feeling of doubt about the woman who claimed to be the moon goddess.
"I would give in to your request but you also have to give something in return."
"I would do anything that you want, please save my wife and my daughter," Miguel pleaded, rubbing his hands together.
"Miguel Hughes, do you promise that when I revive your wife and your daughter, when your daughter clocks 20 years of age, you would make her get married to a werewolf?"
Miguel was shocked with the fact that she knew his name and he was more shocked with her request but he would do anything to bring his wife and daughter back to life.
"I promise to make my daughter get married to a werewolf when she clocks 20." He breathed. Thunder rumbled in the sky as soon as he made that statement.
The moon goddess crouched down next to Eva's lifeless body and placed her hand on her head before rubbing her belly with her delicate hands. She squeezed her eyes shut and mumbled some incoherent words that Miguel couldn't decode. As soon as she removed her hands from Eva's stomach, there wasn't any reaction from Eva whatsoever.
Miguel's brows furrowed in confusion as he glanced back and forth at the moon goddess and Eva. She stared at Eva's face and Miguel was starting to think that the moon goddess was fake or trying to play with his emotions.
He was about to ask about the reason why Eva wasn't responding to her touch until her eyes flicked open and she let out a sneeze.
His eyes widened as he stared at the miraculous moment that happened before him.
"Thank you, Thank you." He squeaked with delight.
"It's done! Don't forget your promise, I would remind you a day before she clocks 20." The moon goddess sauntered deep into the forest.
Iris P.O.VI sat in front of the mirror as I smothered coconut oil on my hair before brushing through it with a hairbrush.I stared at myself in the mirror and for the first time in my life, I wondered who had the same face as me in my family lineage because I neither looked like my mom or dad. They once told me about how they usually argued about who I would look like between the two of them and I ended up dashing their hopes by not resembling either of them.They also joked about how I ruined the bet they had by coming out different.Apart from my mom and dad who were both browned hair, I had a vulcanite black hair that always fell on my back, a dainty nose complemented with rapture blue eyes that glittered like shooting stars. I was quite popular at school and around the neighborhood because of my looks.While others admired me and always praised me, some people thought that I was proud and would usually say demeaning and condescending words about me.I didn't really care abou
Iris P.O.VLuckily 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 be
Dylan’s P.O.VAfter scaring the wolves that tried to attack the girl, I changed back into my human form and my eyes strayed towards the dainty figure that collapsed on the floor. I crouched down next to her while the moonlight reflected on her face, her vulcanite black hair almost covered half of her face. I removed the hair that was all over her face with my fingers brushing through her face in the process. On a normal night, if someone had fainted I would have left them there till they recuperated on their own but I developed a great urge to look at this lady's face. There was nothing special about her face, the only thing I found attractive about her were her long languid eyelashes of velvet-black. "Should I save her or should I leave her here?" I pondered deeply on it with my eyes fixated on her. The first time I transformed before an old woman was when I went to a small town for a mission that the moon goddess assigned to me, she was thrown into a state of shock and when she
Iris P.O. VI scrunched up my eyes because of the bright light that slipped through my eyelids that flickered continuously.A pungent smell overwhelmed me, assaulting and invading all my senses. The blinding lights were starting to subside, causing me to squint my eyes until I could have a clearer image of where I was. When the blurred images in my head cleared, then I realized where I was. I was at the hospital.How I got here and how long I have been here was something I couldn't wrap my head around though.Then slowly, the memories rushed through my head like a flood. From what I could recollect, I ran away from home then I found myself in a desolate area filled with dilapidated buildings. I was almost attacked by a wolf then.......I gasped when I remembered the man whose eyes gleamed like sapphires, the beauty his eyes entailed were mesmerizing until he transformed into a wolf. Cold shivers ran down my spine as the memories of my knight in shining armor occupied my thoughts.Th
Dylan's P.O.V. Screams and shouts were coming from the outside. My guess was right, the woman that I was supposed to get married to didn't know anything prior to marriage before. With the way she protested, I guessed she was also clearly against the union. The way she screamed for help was starting to infuriate me but she could scream all she wanted because no one was going to hear her inside the middle of this thick forest. My servants rushed towards the door, trying to calm the woman who was threatening to rain hail and brimstones if her parents didn't take her home immediately. I leaned back in on my chair, adjusting my glasses, with my eyes fixated on the newspaper. I had no interest in pacifying my soon to be bride but the noise and screams was something that I wouldn't tolerate. The dogs in the compound kept barking at her and I was taken aback when she barked back at them. It was something that I wasn't expecting at all. "You want to get me married to a beast
Iris's P.O.VNever in my wildest imaginations have I ever imagined about getting married at such an early age. When my mate's would be living life, I would be wallowing in grief and despair of being stuck in a marriage that I never wanted. I lowered my head, thinking about how my life was ruined. A great tremor overtook me and before I knew it,hot torrents of grief coursed down my face. My eyes bled with pain as my bottom lip quivered but I wouldn't allow my shoulders drop in defeat.I could still escape the horrible life that I was about to be forced in but how to escape was what i didn't know how to do. I stood up from the bed and went to the window to see if I would be able to escape but there was no way I could escape without being caught because armed men were stationed everywhere. There was no use in trying to run away because I would surely get caught. As I was about to give up in defeat, a thought popped up in my head!"What if I try to do things that would irritate t
IRIS. "DEAR WIFE, WELCOME TO HELL!" "NO!" Even as the words felt like they were being shouted in my head, I let out a scream and jolted awake. Welcome to hell? It couldn't be! There was no way I had married that monster of an animal who regarded himself as a man. "No," I whimpered, letting the tears flow freely, knowing that no matter how many times I wished it was not true, no matter how much I tried to live in the denial of the very words that binded us as a couple, the words were truly uttered, and there was nothing to change that. The fact that the man had even gone as far as making the way like every normal human wedding I had ever witnessed spoke volume. I was given out to a monster by my parents already. Speaking of parents, I didn't want to think about mine. At least, not yet. Not until I figured out a way to get out of the mess they thought to drag me into when I had absolutely no clue why or when they were making it. For now, I needed to figure out what I was going to
IRIS. The battle of stare lasted for over a minute. At some point, I became afraid, thinking about how I had put the woman on the spot when she was only trying to be nice to me. "Giselle, I–" The door opened abruptly, cutting off my apology. I watched as the kind and worried look on Giselle's face dropped, quickly replaced by an informidable one before she turned to look at whoever the intruder was. "What insolent act is that?!" She barked at the newcomer. I leaned to a side so I could see who it was. I frowned when I saw a young girl of no more than twelve lowered her head. Whether it was from respect for Giselle or fear of her, I couldn't tell. "The Luna... I was just trying... trying..." "For goddess's sake, Clarise, stop trying. How many tines have I told you that?" Even though Giselle's voice was stern, she didn't sound as awful as some of my teachers from school. "I just wanted to make sure the Luna was okay." The girl called Clarise said solemnly. "It's okay, Giselle.