Chapter 14

Alison’s POV

They stopped at Vandyke’s house, not a hospital like I had expected them to. When I saw the building, no one had to tell me it was his. It was massive, like four houses merged together, yet he was single, and Cory didn’t even live with him. Poor guy.

I was the first to climb down wondering what the guards were going to do next, they also climbed down and brought his stretcher out, then just like that they set him down in the driveway, dressed his wound, and bandaged it - no hospital.

I watched in disbelief as he sat down, though under anaesthesia, gave orders like he hadn’t been shot. Who was this guy? Was he not rather… weird? Who was he?

I watched as they placed a sling over his shoulder and then he got up like it was all alright. He swaggered to the entrance and then stopped and turned around,

“First aid lady! Come here!” he called out to me, then proceeded to enter the building. I followed him and one of his guards into the house.

“Follow me.” He instructed me again as if I already wasn’t doing that.

The guard stopped but I continued till we were up the stairs and at his bedroom door. He bent down till he was on face level with me,

“Do you know what you did was dangerous? There was a shooting! You should have stayed down. Why did you come to me without thinking? What if they shot you?”

“I.. I was…” I had no reasonable explanation for what I did. It was on impulse, I was seeing my revenge experiment slip through my fingers right before my eyes. What was I supposed to do?

“I was trying to save you because… I…”

Before I could land, he straightened up and took a few steps back. It looked like he was going to fall so I rushed to help but he didn’t lose his balance.

He chuckled, “These people gave me way too much anesthesia.” He sat on the bed with a thud. Then suddenly he pulled me closer till I was a hair’s breadth away from him.

“Why did you come to me? Did they send you?” His grip on me tightened.

“Who? I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I began to struggle to break free but this guy was super strong. Nobody has had such a strong grip on me like this before.

“Those bullets. They were meant for me, right? Because they had silver in them.” He said tightening his grip on my arm even more.

“Silver? What the hell was he talking about?” I began to whimper in pain. Who was this man and what trouble had I gotten myself into?

“It’s me, Alison. Don’t you recognize me?” I asked.

“Al who?”

“Alison Quinn, a couple of weeks ago we met…”

He flung me on the bed and bent on all fours like a wild animal. The hairs on my body stood up and I could feel the goosebumps cover my body. Alison do something! I was shouting to myself but what could I do? This man was strong, and not in his right mind, he was going to kill me before I could do anything. He was acting like a wild animal that had caught its prey.

I sat up and shifted away from him but he kept crawling and I could swear that I felt an animal’s presence in the room. He didn’t look away, he just kept coming straight at me. I didn’t know what to do, I had to think pretty fast, I sat there helplessly as he pounced on me then without properly thinking about it, I kissed him.

Yes, I did, maybe that would tame him. Even wild animals can be tamed right? So I pressed my lips to his and kissed him passionately, it stopped him for a few seconds, he didn’t do anything he just relaxed as my lips caressed his.

Then he kissed back, it was soft at first, then it got heated, he started to rip off my first aid apron, then he sniffed me. Then nodded,

“Ah, human.” Then he lay down quietly beside me, not saying a word but his eyes were wide open. What did he mean by human? What was going on? I was at all levels of scared and confused that I couldn’t get up and run so I sat there crying. Thinking about all the guards in the house that would prevent me from leaving.

As I was crying my eyes out he patted my knee gently, still lying there with his eyes open.

“I won’t hurt you. I won’t hurt you.” He whispered over and over.

I nodded and wiped my tears waiting for him to sleep so I could escape. The yearn for revenge had once more eluded me, I just wanted to be out of there.

His eyes finally closed and I put myself together and tiptoed to the door and soon I was out of there. I walked down a long hallway and then down some stairs and I was back in the parlour, I opened the main door and there was a thick tall guy at the exit.

“You can’t leave now.”

“Why not?” I stubbornly asked him.

“It’s getting late, it’s not safe out there.” He replied.

“It’s not safe in here either.” I snapped back. “Let me go or else I will call the police.”

That seemed to work because he stepped out of my way and backed off. I stepped onto the streets and started my journey, but I didn’t even know where I was going.

I hadn’t really been to Moonlight County; it seemed like an isolated town somehow. It was close and yet far if you get what I mean.

As I walked through the groves, I could sense that I was being followed, I turned around and saw a wolf, I paused and froze; A wolf? What was one doing here? Oh god! This was the end of me!