Chapter 5: You're My Mate

DAHLIA

I gnashed my teeth in anger as I kicked him again, which made him scream. I watched him with cold eyes, he was begging me to spare his life.

Beg? Spare his life? You must be kidding me.

When he almost took away my father's life and even made my father disabled, did he apologize? Was he guilty of what he'd done? No! All he thought was for himself!

He happily even manipulated me in my past life to sign the documents that my father transferred all the inheritance to me. He even tried to kill me.

When I told this man to spare my life... I even begged him to just lock me up and just let my parents go, but did this son of a bitch listen to my plea?

He didn't. It was a good thing my parents woke up from reality and saw what Uncle Ben was trying to do and save me from his hands. 

I clicked my tongue when I saw him crawling to get away from me and even tried to scream for help, but because we are in the forest at night, no one was around because we are a bit far away from the town, which is why no one would see us. No one will know. 

Do they think I will waste the second life that god gave to me?

I grabbed my Uncle's hair and forced him to look at me. Tears started to fall down his cheeks, but I didn't mind it. Rather, I happily smiled at him as I took out the few medicines inside my bag.

“Uncle Ben, do you recognize what this is?” I softly asked as I let him see the medicine bottle he had given to me.

I saw his eyes sink upon seeing such familiar medicine.

“W-What...”

I didn't let him finish his words and forcibly opened his mouth, making him struggle to break free. I didn't let him get the chance to do so and opened mercilessly and poured the contents of the bottle inside his mouth. 

“N-No....uhh...”

After I poured the contents of the bottle into his mouth, I stepped back and watched him coldly. I glanced at the bottle in my hands and crushed it with my bare hands to destroy the evidence.

Seeing the red liquid out of my hand, made me sigh in relief. It was all thanks to this pain that I was able to wake myself up from madness. 

“Grr...”

I watched him calmly as he was growling and howling from the pain. He was starting to lose control of himself, and slowly his gray fur was visible on his skin until he successfully transformed into a wolf.

However, he was different from an ordinary werewolf. His body was much bigger than a werewolf and his eyes were black. There was no pupil in his eyes and saliva was dripping down from his mouth. Even his claws were sharp as knives.

As expected, this type of poison could make someone lose their sanity. They would completely become a threat to the werewolves and humans, especially since their bodies were bigger than the ordinary werewolves, because of their strength and ability. They also strengthened and, lastly, they had no self-awareness. In other words, they would be in their attack state. They would attack and kill every single living being that is near them.

This is what my father suffered in the past and it was a good thing that we locked him up in the basement, although my mother and my state were badly terrible.

It was also because of that that the rumor became powerful. They kept calling us either a curse or a demon, especially since Vivian was the one who took the lead to spread the rumor under the guidance of Uncle Ben, who wanted to destroy us.

Although my father hasn't killed anyone since he was locked in the basement when he was in his delirious state, some people kept on saying that my father had killed someone.

If someone died in the town, they would blame my father.

This led to my parents' depression.

When I came back from school, they were already dead. I still don't know the cause of it, but I'll make sure to kill the one who did that to my parents!

I coldly watched Uncle Ben, who was now transformed into a monster. He kept on roaring, growling, and emitting such killing intent, making the living beings in the forest, and flying away from fear.

It seemed that he noticed my presence.

I took a heavy breath before I put myself in my vulnerable state. Tears started to fall down my cheeks as I ran away while screaming for help.

“HELP! HELP ME!”

The monster was following me from behind as he kept on growling at me.

I couldn't help but scream when I felt sharp claws manage to wound me on my back. I couldn't help but hiss from irritation.

I clenched my fist as I ran as fast as I could toward the town while screaming for help.

“PLEASE HELP ME! H-HELP!” I was huffing while screaming at the top of my lungs. 

However, it seemed that someone had heard my scream and they immediately lent me a hand. It was a group of people who seemed to be patrolling the town and when they noticed me, they protected me from the thing behind me.

“Are you okay?” One of the female patroller asked while looking at me with worry in her eyes.

My whole body was trembling as I let out a soft hum while enduring the pain.

However, when someone saw my back, they couldn't help but gasp at the large wound made from claws.

“She's losing blood! Quick! Call the ambulance!” One of them immediately reacted while he transformed into its werewolf state, and was ready to attack the large werewolf if it dared to enter the town. 

The female in front of me took out her phone and immediately dialed for an ambulance. After that, she tried to help me stop the blood from gushing out.

“Damn, damn! What the hell was that monster?!” One of the men exclaimed in anger.

I pursed my lips and weakly spoke. “T-That w-was my Uncle...”

Hearing my words, they looked at me with frowns waiting for me to continue my words.

“A-After I left the school, he suddenly grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the forest, then he started to beat me out of nowhere... he kept on telling me that my father should be dead... out of a sudden, he became like that...” I choked on my tears as my whole body was trembling.

I bit my lower lip as pain flashed on my face.

When they heard my words, they couldn't help but let out a muffle of curses.

“He must be insane! He might have already been inflicted by demons. That's why he became like that!” One of the men gnashed his teeth in anger.

I pursed my lips and didn't say anything. My head was throbbing and I could feel my vision slowly becoming blurred.

I felt someone tap my shoulder lightly. “Don't worry, you're safe now. I already contacted the ambulance for you and also contacted the Armed Forces. They will be on their way to taking down this monster. This is not your Uncle anymore.” 

It was the female patroller who consoled me.

I squeeze out a smile despite being dizzy.

By the time I lost my unconscious, I smelled such a familiar and nostalgic scent that tightly wrapped me in their arms.

When I woke up, a white ceiling was visible to my eyes. I glanced to my left side and saw the IV drip. I let out a heavy sigh as I tried to sit on the hospital bed, only to find out that my body was completely numb.

“Are you awake?”

I stiffened when I heard such a familiar yet hateful voice.

I looked to my right side and saw him. 

“P-Prof... what are you doing here?” I managed to squeeze a smile despite the fact that my blood was boiling when I looked at him.

Kaleid looked at me without emotion on his face and answered, “Of course, I'm here to visit my student.”

Oh.

“I'm sorry for the inconvenience, Prof. I'm okay now,” I said with a polite tone.

My words are translated as ‘You don't need to visit me, Prof. I'm okay now, so you can leave.’

However, he seemed not to notice the meaning of my words and coldly reminded me.

“I already called your parents, they will be here.” 

I took the glass of water that was on the table and nodded my head at his words.

“Thank you, Prof.” I calmly said as I drank the water from the glass.

“No need for thanks. You're my mate after all.”

*Puff*

I spat out the water on his face and looked at him with widened eyes.

My whole body was trembling from disbelief.

“WHAT?!”