Chapter 4

Her head aches. She opened her eyes. She was full of shock after realizing that she was not in the forest anymore but in a strange room.

“What the hell? This is crazy! I am no longer in the forest and I am not in my room!”

The last thing she remembered was the happening in the forest. A man spying around punched her and that caused her to lose her senses. . Now that she has a clue, she stood up and walked closely to the front of the mirror.

She looked around the room after assuring that she looks presentable despite her own fashioned cloth. Jelca forced herself to remember this room but everything she saw was totally foreign in her eyes. The smell was not familiar also.

She tied her hair before she decided to go outside to see who owns the room.

Jelca was totally amused regarding the view. The living room was clean and the surrounding is peaceful.

From being amused, her emotion changed to anger. How couldn't she be angry if the man on the sofa punched her that way? That hurts. That definitely hurts her. That punch even made her fall asleep for many hours.

She sighed. She walked carefully and slow off to the man. She wants to slap and sue the man to death because of what that man did. She was about to reach for the man's neck when the man opened his eyes and caught Jelca's wrist.

“G-Goddamn,” Jelca muttered.

Everything happened too fast. She can't even breathe about the act that the man did. The man grabbed her wrist and he turned to make Jelca's back rest on the sofa.

Jelca blinked. Her heart beats faster. This is unusual and it feels totally strange for her.

“Good morning, miss,” said the man.

Jelca's face turned red after hearing the man's husky and sexy voice. That voice shivered her soul.

Jelca gathered strength to push the man. “Stay away from me, mister!”

She was not too strong to make the man stay away from her. The man even made a half smile to tease Jelca. She hates it. The more she looks on to him, the more her heart beats faster than the average.

“D-Do you think I am kidding? I-I said, s-stay away from me, m-mister?”

The man let go of a small laugh. He winked and it made Jelca's heart beat abnormal. She cannot even describe if it was beating or what. This is strange. It feels like the man devours every single piece of her. Her system was now corrupted by this man's sexiness who was above her.

“What if I won't? What will you do?” the man asked her with his damn sexy and hot voice.

She cannot afford not to stare at the man's eyes. The alluring eyes of the man were making its way to improve the woman beneath him.

“P-Please, if I offended you earlier or what... forgive me. I didn't mean to startle you,” she said.

The man laughed again. Jelca just looked at the man. Her mind was troubling to know what was with the man and why he was doing this to her.

Her mouth slightly opened when she heard the voice of her friend, Merfie, in her mind. She shook her head as she contradicts about her thought. Her mind says that this man would be her Alpha and she was his Luna. Fuck the thought!

“L-Let me go,” her trembling lips said.

The man licked his lower lip and bit it after. He brought his face even nearer to Jelca's. Jelca wished to be buried in the core of this foam if that is possible. She was a virgin and this man was like attempting to kiss her.

“I will let you go in one condition, miss,” he said.

Jelca closed her eyes. She will take the risk whatever condition was it. All she wanted now was to be freed under this man's body.

“What's your name?” the man seriously asked.

She almost laugh loud but she controlled herself. Her fright was gone and replaced by an outrageous fun. Yes. He was silently making fun of this man above her.

“Really? Is that your condition?” she asked the man.

“Yes. Tell me your name and I will let you go,” he replied.

Jelca Breathe. “Jelca. Jelca Stewart.”

The man stood up. Jelca sighed before sitting properly above the sofa.

“Your name is beautiful and it reflects your face and appearance, Miss Stewart.”

Jelca turned red after hearing that. She was never praised before. This man called her name beautiful and saw her beauty.

“Well, Mister—?”

“Bryco. Bryco Wolfords,” he continued.

“W-What? R-Really!?”

“Why!?”

“You are the owner and the founder of the most prestigious university in the city. Aren't you!?”

“No one else,” the man confirmed.

She just swallowed. The man who was on top of her earlier was the man who owns the university where she goes. Not only that, but this man was so famous within and across the city. She heard so much about him and she couldn't believe that she was talking with him right now inside his unit.

“Oh, come on, mister. I cannot just believe you because you told me that you are Mister Wolfords,” she said.

The man shook his head. He grabbed his wallet and took a card from it.

“Do you have a phone with you?”

“I lost it. And even though I had, for sure, it was dropped after you punched me,” she said.

“Look.” He gave the card to Jelca.

Jelca saw everything that provides factual information that this man wasn't telling lies.

“S-Sorry, Mister Wolfords,” she said.

“Nothing to be sorry about, Miss Stewart. I was the one who hurt you. So, I would like to ask you for dinner tomorrow as a peace offering,” Mister Wolfords said.

She aimed to hear the man's words again for assurance that she was not hallucinating. This man was a well-known man in their city and an owner of the university where she studies, and she's asking her for dinner.

“Wait, Mister Wolfords, am I not dreaming? Did you really mention dinner tomorrow?”

“You heard it right.”

The man left her. She can't even say a word. Now, she was wandering inside the man's unit. There are several paintings hung on the wall but a certain painting caught her attention. A family of... wolves.

She raised her hand and her fingers linger above the surface of a wolf that seemed to be their king. She was nervous while feeling an unusual energy from the painting.

“He is the Alpha.”

Her fingers stopped from moving after hearing a familiar voice. She heard about the word. She wondered now what was the role of the one she saw last night. Is he an Alpha too? Jelca realized that the one he encountered stood like the wolf in the painting. He looks strong and undeniably gorgeous in their kind.

“A-Are they real?” she asked even though she was sure that werewolves are real.

She heard how the steps of the man goes her way. The man stood beside her.

“It is how you believe something. If you believe on them, then they are real. If you don't, then they are not,” Mister Wolfords said meaningfully.

“I-I don't b-believe on them before. B-But, I saw one. H-He was strong and dangerous,” she said. She also confirmed it by discovering that she was one of them.

“Let us not talk about them. You know ahm...that paintings were hung there because of the novel I've read before,” he said. “Let's go to the dining area. I can sense that you are hungry,” Mister Wolfords said.

She stare at the painting for more seconds. She made a sigh. She hopes that she just had a nightmare last night and everything wasn't real. She feels that her whole life changed because of that hair-raising moment. Discovering that she's a werewolf isn't easy to forget too.

She frowned before she walked where the dining area was.

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After taking meal, Jelca decided to go home. Up until now, she couldn't imagine that she talked with that man. All the women in the city dreamed about that man and she couldn't believe that of all women, it was her who was being asked for dinner by that man.

“Do not expect more about that. He just want to ask sorry in that way, Jelca. Mister Wolfords won't like you. He is Mister Wolfords and you are just a useless student in his university,” she reminded herself. “You are a werewolf and he is not. And that made what you think difficult to be true.”

She was heading to Saint Luke Village right now. Along her trip way home, she was thinking about many things. All the happenings last night until this morning hunts her mind.

She saw a werewolf. She transformed into a wolf for a moment and after a while she found herself naked and all her clothes were torn apart and scattered on the ground.. She was punched by Mister Wolfords and that strength isn't normal. What Mister Wolfords a human? Or that man was like her and the one she saw last night under the round moon?

After having a ride, she walked to their home. The silence in their house isn't new for her. She was walking in the living room and her eyes were looking around searching for anyone.

“I'm home! Mama! Papa! Kate,” she called them all.

No one was answering and it makes her irritated. She goes upstairs and she stops in the middle after hearing growls from somewhere inside their house.

She searched and she decided to look at the loud sounds in her parents room. As she opened the door she startled and realized that maybe she heard wrong.

“I-I am sorry, Mama, Papa. I-I thought th-there was a-a wolf inside a-and— God! You should lock the door when you are doing something!” she said.

She caught her parents naked and hugged each other that's why she acted this way.

After a few minutes, her parents stood in front of her. They were looking at her.

“We didn't do what you think, Jelca. We were arguing because you weren't home!”

Her eyebrows almost met each other. “Oh, really? If that is so then can you please wear something before arguing with each other?”

“Where have you been all this time, Jelca?”

“Why, Papa? Do you expect me to stay inside this house after witnessing all the strangest things I've ever seen all my life? I saw a monster and you told me to stop talking about that because I was hallucinating! I saw how Kate's face bleeds and after a few seconds she was healed already! I-I saw myself in a different visual of it—a wolf! I am asking questions and no one answers me! No one is telling me about the truth I want to know,” she said.

Even she confirmed it all she was still in a denial stage about the things that happened.

Because of a heavy feeling, her eyes produced healthy tears and those tears travelled down her face.

“We are just trying to protect you, Jelca!” her mother said.

“From what? From who? You're protecting from the things I do not know? What the hell!? Am I a princess that is soon to be Queen so you have to keep me safe until I will be crowned?”

“Don't you dare yell again to my parents, Jelca!” Kate interrupted.

The three of them throw their stare at Kate who's coming in their direction.

“Kate!” her parents stopped Kate.

Kate made a sudden move that caused Jelca in shock. She saw how Kate transformed into a wolf. Her sister turned to a beautiful white wolf. She covered her mouth by her hands. She can't breathe now. She heard her heart raced with its own beat. All of them are wolves.

“W-What's the meaning of this?” she asked them.

Kate growled and suddenly become a human again. Her sister reached her torn cloth and covered her front.

“Kate, why did you do that!?” her father screams.

“Do what, Papa?” Kate laughed. “I am tired of this all! Pretending that we are human just to keep that woman safe is too much! I'm tired of keeping away the truth from that woman!”

She couldn't imagine that Kate could scold her that way. She was took care by Kate since they were children. She grows up with Kate and she never expected the words that Kate had said.

“Kate, it's not the right time! It's not the right time to tell her,” her mother said.

She saw the tension in the face of her family. She was eager to know the whole truth now even though it will hurt her more than this.

“W-What's about me?”

“You—!”

“You are just an adopted child, Jelca. But nonetheless, we never see you as a different creature from us. We are hiding this all from you because we are afraid that you'll get involved in the war that is coming,” her father said.

She gave them a hurtful smile.

“I thought everything was my hallucinations, Papa. I thought that werewolves are like fairytales that won't come to be real. But, w-what's going on here? You lie to me! All our lives are lies!”

Her mother came to her and reached for her hands. “We lied to you because that is the least we can do to protect you from the hurtful things behind the human world, Jelca. Yes, you are an adopted child but we never see you as one. I-I treasure you like Kate who I carried in my womb. You are my daughter. We are your family.”

She felt betrayed. Even how many times would they explain, it won't change the fact that they lied to her.

She thought of not asking things anymore. Being answered seemed to be hurtful. She should have not asked about werewolves.

“E-Excuse me,” she said before she went to her room.

She locked the door and then she buried her face on the fluffy and soft pillow above her bed. She wants to sleep again and she hopes that after sleeping, she will wake up from this nightmare.