7: The red eyed monster

Vee’s POV

What the fuck has Vera gotten me into?

It was as though so many bad things were happening to me all at once and there was nothing I could do to save myself.

First Valkor threatens to turn I and Vera into prostitutes, then I get thrown into a windowless van by a different group of men, I got shot at, got saved by a giant monster with glowering red eyes, then got carried by a beautiful man with the coldest pair of green eyes I ever saw and when I finally got a big break to get back home and save my sister before Valkor lays his filthy hands on her, I get kidnapped by three, hefty strangers.

I can’t even catch a break!

My shoulder hurt and I was bleeding all over the place. But my captors couldn't careless. Two men held me at either side of my shoulder. Dragging me along like I was a common criminal.

The third guy with an ugly scar running across his face, led the way through the dark forest.

The worst of all these, was that I had no idea where I was, who any of these men were or what the fuck they wanted with me.

“Please let me go,” I cried out for the umpteenth time.

And just like every other time I cried out, they ignored me and continued walking as fast as possible, like they were running away from something. Or someone.

I had seen them looking back on several intervals and pulling out guns whenever they heard sounds coming from the forest.

I don’t think they were part of the first group that kidnapped me.

Could they be Valkor’s men and are here to take me back because of their money? If they were, I am not sure if I should be relieved to see them or not. It had to be better than those other guys that tried to shoot me.

There was something lethal about they first group that made me very uneasy and that black beast that attacked my shooter…. I was better off with Valkor. Assuming these are Valkor’s men.

I could barely keep my eyes open as the pain in my shoulder had metastasized, spiraling through my entire body.

“She is slowing us down,” the guy holding my injured arm growled, "we should leave her."

“We are taking her and that is final. If Adonis wants her then she must be important. Alpha Vico would need her for….”

A deep growl reverberated through the forest. The men holding me immediately let go, my body hit the ground with a thud, sending crippling pain searing through my body. A sharp cry escaped my lips as I clutched my injured hand.

“Shut up bitch!” the guy with the ugly scar barked at me, while darting his gun in different directions.

The fear on their faces was almost palatable. Whatever they were running from had to be very monstrous!

I wanted to take advantage of how distracted they were and crawl away, but the crippling pain would not let me move. I managed to push myself up and crawled behind one of the trees.

That was until I saw it.

The same pair of bloodshot red eyes dashing towards us from the woods.

They men started firing and I just hid away, burying my face into my thighs and waiting for it to be all over.

Screams and slashing sounds filled the cold night air, followed by shooting and a deadly growling sound.

Then it was all over.

I made to sneak a peek when the sound of breaking bones resounded. I latched my hands over my mouth, stifling the scream that rose up my throat. Tears streamed down my cheeks as I pressed my eyelids shut.

This was the end for me.

The monster wound swallow me whole in a few seconds and it would all be over. Tiny specs of gratitude rose to my chest. My sufferings and constant struggle and fear of helplessness would all be over soon. And Vera….

“Next time, I will kill you myself,” a familiar, angry voice spat.

I opened my eyes and was face to face with an alabaster, muscular penis. Nothing like any penis I have ever seen before. Not that I have ever seen a real life, grown man penis. Having to work hard to provide for my sister and myself, left me with little time for relationships or hookups.

“Up here!” he growled.

I turned red in embarrassment and glanced up to the icy, green eyes from earlier.

A warm feeling immediately flooded my body, a kind of painful longing filling my chest. How could I feeling this way for a stranger.

And more importantly, where was the beast?

I leaned over, my eyes darting around in search of the beast, but it was gone. The only evidence that I had not imagined the beast was the trail of three dead bodies it left behind.

“Did you see the beast?” I asked weakly.

He just grunted and picked me up, cradling me in his arms as though I was a light feather. “The only beast you have to worry about, is me.”

I was too weak to respond. I only managed to keep my eyes open for fear that the beast would reappear if I close my eyes.

I did not trust this green eyed man either, but this was the second time in a day he was carried me to safety. I might as well trust him for tonight. By tomorrow, I will have to find another way to escape. I just hope it would not be too late for Vera by then.

For the rest of the quiet walk back, I drifted in and out of consciousness.

The next I reopened my eyes, Helga was hunched over me, with her kind eyes smiling at me. I was thankful for whatever it was she gave me that numbed the crippling pain, but I was too hazy to form actual words to thank her or even make a sensible statement.

I could barely keep my eyes open.

Just before I lost consciousness, I saw the green eyes in a corner, with his hands folded over his chest. He looked worried. No angry. I wasn’t sure.

“Would you let her go?” I thought I heard Helga ask.

“No. She is my prisoner.”

Darkness.