Chapter 25: Living a Nightmare

Chapter 25: Living a Nightmare

Abhay’s P.O.V

I woke up on my bed in cold sweat, my head throbbing, and my mind a jumbled mess of thoughts and emotions.

“What?” I croaked, looking around the familiar yet unfamiliar room from my childhood, and it took me a good few minutes before realization dawned on me that I was no longer in the blood soaked sands of Gujarat where I had witnessed the unthinkable.

Instead, I was in my parent’s house, in my childhood room and I was safe.

“Was it…all a nightmare?” I could hardly get the words past my throat, but even as I said it, I knew that I was only trying to fool myself into thinking that I wasn’t living in a nightmare where humans could turn into wolves…and I’d fallen for a woman who had ripped apart and killed several falcons, that had then turned into men…

Ever since that morning a month ago, when my life had turned upside down, I had been living in my parent’s house, hoping that it would give me some kind of a temporary respite from the nightma