Chapter 3: All The Rumors Are True

Dominica Verda P.O.V

Her phone ringtone blasted yet again from her car snapping her out of her battle with the deer. Sighing out in frustration she screams out to the deer like it could listen..

"STAY!"She orders as she goes back to her car to grab her phone.

It sang Rumors by lizzo feat cardi bi. She walked to her car, her sneakers scrunching on the floor, She felt numb from the cold as if she’d been drugged and was pushing against its effects. 

She slipped her hand at the window of her car to pick up her phone. It was her secretary calling again...

"Katie Katie. You do always have bad timing"She bites out harshly as she then turned to glare at the deer that almost nearly cost her a life. Surprising the deer had ran off, she bent down to search for the deer staring around looking for it to curse at the creature but it seems to have ran off.

"Great. Don't let me bump into you again because if I do you'll be barbequed on my grill"She screeches out her voice echoing in the dark of the woods and the birds chirping away at the sound of her voice...

She suddenly winces as she felt a Sharp pain in her shoulder, she probably hit it when she had been pulled in by force to an abrupt stop .

Stupid deer!

Her head and body suddenly feeling fatigue, Shit!

She definitely can't fall asleep in the middle of nowhere, she probably will be crushed by a car or truck. It's all because of that stupid deer she thought to herself grimacing.. as she goes to sit near a tree. If not for the deer, the crash wouldn't have happened, the spinning and turning, and then fatigue… it then hit her..

She rushed to her car searching to see if there were any marks or scratchs on it. She then spotted a tiny long line beneath the front of the car..

"NO, NO, NO"She howls out frustratedly..

"This can't be happening? I just got you, I can lose you too"She sobs out in pain as she stared at her car. Her blood boiling as she was ready to strangle the damn deer..

She let's out a slow, slow sob as the pain of her car being scratched hit her and the pain of her shoulder got to her...

Crap, Sue her. If you think she's vain and only cares about herself, her pets and her babies which are her sports cars.

Her shoulder is wrong. It felt wrong, and things definitely isn't going as she planned. The only thing that has successfully carried Dominica Verda is planning, after experiencing the tragedy she had to undergo at a tender age. She decided to have a plan for herself and life, by this time in her schedule she should be home in her robes with a glass of wine in her hand receiving a conference call from her executive manager from Hong Kong.

Her phone stopped ringing, then picked up once again. She finally picked Katie's incoming call..

"You do know you have the tendency of always calling at the wrong time. It's called bad timing Katie"She bites out annoyed and harshly...

Sheesh poor Katie, she does have the worst timing. An angry Dominica means bad luck. If she's having a bad time or bad day and you're unfortunate enough to bump into her she's going to make sure you too experience a bad day or give you a resounding scolding just like she did with the deer...

Too bad Katie isn't as lucky as the deer that ran at the first sight of escape!!

"Am sorry Ma'am"Katie says apologetically at the other end of the phone. She probably must have noticed just how angry Dominica sounds..

"You're Sorry? It was your stupid call that even caused this mess. You just had to call me, so it couldn't wait huh"Dominica says..

"What should I do to fix it?"Katie suddenly asks, Katie has been dominica's Secretary for over six years now. Dominica may be speaking rudely to her but she actually respects and treasures her but sometimes her mood and anger gets the best of her and Katie understands her since they've been working together for quite sometime now. Besides Katie was the only one who stayed, no one wants to work under a bitchy teenager who talks to them like they're trash..

"Call the tolling company and get me an helicopter. That deer ruined my mood and I don't think I want to stay in blue bridge this week, I'll be flying to hong Kong to oversee some things with the executive Manager. Am sending my location so you better don't make me wait except you would love to see the cops scrapping away the remains of my shattered skull on the floor"Dominica says dryly to Katie..

"Already on it, just give me 30 minutes. I'll send the tolling team to retrieve your car and the helicopter will be prepped for your trip to hong Kong"Katie replies swiftly..

"Good. This is why I like you, you're so smart. Please make it quick the trees here are staring at me like they want to fuck me!"Dominica says dryly before dropping the call...

Did I also forget to mention she's rude, foul-mouthed, harsh and mannerless!!!

Yeap that's Dominica Verda for you...

Okay I know Dominica is sounding like a bitch but before we blame her for being a villain we all are aware she was a lonely child and suffered in the hands of death taking away her only parents and having an uncle that fought her over her own father's properties so I can't say I blame her for being mean, or evil or bitchy. It's all an armour she used to protect herself from this cruel world. .

But all the same she's still a bitch!

Dominica's heart is beating fast and her shoulders are sour and aching from the pain. She tried to flex the muscles in her shoulders but she cried out in shock and distraught, as panic in its purest form seized her at the tiniest movement she made in her shoulder region..

Dominica moved to lay on one of the trees. She reached out with her good arm and pulled herself forward. Her arm trembled, her side ached but she pulled forward nonetheless, and when the upper half of her body was resting on the tree bark she laid on her back and rested. Staring up at the moon and those tiny, tiny stars decorating the dark blue sky..

The stars winking and twinkling!!

"Don't wink at me, you won't have my head like you did with my parents"She says drowsily suddenly feeling tired as her eyes begins to drip slowly she heard a rustling in woods...

"If you're back for more screaming I don't have any strength left in me, so just be on your way while am still being nice"She calls out probably thinking the deer is back once more..

The rustling got louder, "Get the fuck away from me, I'm not hungry yet and I haven't tasted deer meat but if you're so eager to get close to me I could try eating you without grilling"She says sighing out..

She put her phone in her pocket and used her good arm to haul herself back up. As the rustling grew louder and louder, the birds chirping and flying away as the forest grows quite only the loud rustling and the noises of the birds and crows could be heard.... 

"Great if you're so eager to die, I'll kill you"Dominica says through gritted teeth as she walks up to her car dragging her feet and arm to get her Gun. As a woman who lives alone and has been alone for a long time, it would be odd if she dosen't know how to protect herself now wouldn't it!

There's no way she'll lie on the ground like some sacrificial lamb or offering for anyone, she then faced the forest, thankfully she had picked the right hand gun/ revolver to move around with. Choosing the right handgun and ammunition for her needs had been difficult. Handguns come in many varieties with a seemingly endless array of ammunition options. She also considered her body and hand size, before you start wondering why she has a gun..

It's legal to own a gun now and besides with the brutal killings in their town. Do you expect Dominica to believe it's some kind of demon or beast doing the killings?

It's definitely some jobless human who has so much hate for the world than she did. So if the fucker does turn up she'll be the one to kill him and end the exaggerated nightmare that's eroding her town!!

She tracks the incoming sounds from the forest so closely, with her hands on her gun , keeping her fingers outside the trigger guard, extended straight and flat on the side of the gun. She opened her dominant hand to expose the webbing between her index finger and thumb. Taking the pistol in her other working hand. She first checked if it was loaded and then her hand was back in the grip (handle) of the pistol into the web of her dominant hand. With her thumb on one side of the grip, and her finger just below the trigger guard. Just when she was about to pull the trigger a man stepped from the foliage, and not the deer she was expecting to see..

Bollocks!!!

She sighs out in relief, thankful she hadn't followed her instinct in shooting at the bushes.. 

She's also relieved to see it's a person, maybe she could catch a ride with him..

Although there's one weird thing, he wasn't fully clothed and he came out from the same thick woods people were scared to enter..

The same said woods the beast came from!!

Strange? Dominica thought to herself as she surveyed and observed the stranger in her midst. Even as he stepped onto the road, she could see his jaw shifting from wide and pierced to that of a beautiful human jaw, his canines slipping from his lips, and his eyes striking and iridescently glowing.

He paused and stared at her and breathed in deeply, those stunning eyes draping over her like no one else had.

Oh Crap...

Spoiler alert, there's no serial killer!

Shit!

Dominica thought to herself as she just tried to comprehend what she just saw a wolf turning into a man?

So the beast is what, real? No serial killers?

So what? The beast can morph into humans too and they can pretend to be humans too??

Suddenly he ran up to her, Dominica Verda just stood staring at the strange creature approaching her like it grew a second head.  

Oh well serial killer or no serial killers!!

That doesn't change the rule she made, she's still killing it...

Immediately she took her gun and pulled the trigger....

“No,” he said, his eyes turning to slits as he saw her pull the trigger.. immediately he stepped back still standing strong as he stared at her with a hurt and broken look..

"Dude you staring at me like that won't change a thing. This life isn't fair, it's kill or be killed"She says tactfully as she pulled the trigger once again three more times. The man falls to his feet staring at her wide eyes...

Biting her lips Dominica walked over to his body as she stared down at him sulking..

"You were a handsome one, but there can't be two people with dark minds in this town. There's only space for one"She whispers giggling as she watches blood gushing out of the bullet wounds..

She bends and places a sweet and short kiss on his lips saying...

"Go in peace compadre"

Her phone blares out yet again and she moves to pick it up, walking away from the body..

"Forget about the helicopter Katie. I think I can survive walking to my house"Dominica says as she walked away from the mess she created with her gun in her hand...

While in the woods, others emerged in the dark and they were wolves, they howled and these were the real beasts with lips pulled back, snarling as they watched how their supposed Luna and queen shot their Alpha..