Chapter 6 - Sarah

This last sentence made me smile, how sweet. He was right, I would be safer with him rather than alone. But I’m not five years old, I can take care of myself, right? I mean it’s not like I really knew how to fight. But there’s nothing at my apartment threatening me. Even if I felt frightened, I wanted to get home tonight. I will see him tomorrow anyways, I thought to myself.

I wrote to him, “Well I want to get stuff at my apartment, and get my head together on everything that’s happening, so I think I’ll get home instead for tonight. I’ll think about you for sure, we can see each other tomorrow.”

This time a few minutes passed before I received a reply, and I was getting a little worried if he was going to respond or not.

“Okay baby, then let me walk with you to the subway before you leave at the end of your day. I want to kiss you goodnight.”

I couldn’t hold a smile at that thought.

“Of course, I wouldn’t miss that for anything! I’ll get by your office when I’m about to leave.”

And then I went on to do the rest of my work for the day, my thoughts still lingering on Sam.

Five o’clock was coming by and my work was done. Zach was away from his desk; a meeting he told me earlier. It wouldn’t be long, he said, but he still wasn’t back. I guess I should just go get Sam then. I left Zach a note on his desk saying that I was going home.

Then I picked up my stuff and went to Sam’s office. But to my surprise, he wasn’t there. I turned to someone who was working nearby, asking if he knew where he was, but he didn’t. Well, I guess I’ll be walking alone to the subway then. I went down the elevator and got to the interior parking lot. Surprisingly, there was not a lot of people by, even though it was not long after five.

As I neared the end of the parking lot, I was alone. I was walking and I could hear my footsteps resonating around me. I was beginning to feel a little uneasy, the hair behind the back of my neck rising. I picked up the pace a little but suddenly, a man came out of nowhere in front of me. He had a knife in his hand and had a devilish smile on his face.

“Hey there pretty,” he said, “I’m going to enjoy this.”

I tried to turn around to run away but saw that two men were already closing in on behind me.

Panic was starting to fill me, and my heartbeat had increased a lot. All of a sudden, I thought back to yesterday’s note, “You’re next.” Was this related? I knew how to fight a little, but three against me. I’m not going to win! Why couldn’t Sam be at his office when I left? This wouldn’t have happened if he had been there.

The men started to close in on me. Before I had a chance to run away, one of the men behind me grabbed my arms. I tried to break free from his grasp, but he just held me tighter. I turned to the man in front of me to see him laugh and advance with the knife at me.

He got closer to me, licking his lips. He grabbed my chin with his hand and said, “Well, I’m supposed to kill you, but it doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun before, doesn’t it?”

I felt like vomiting at the thought of being close to this guy.

“That’s never going to happen,” I told him with a defiant look.

“You bitch!” He answered as he hit me in the face strong enough for my head to turn to the left.

When I looked back up to him, I could see the fury in his eyes. “That’s it,” I thought. “This is how it’s going to end; he’s going to kill me.”

Holding up the tears that wanted to roll down from my eyes, I thought about Sam. How I wish that I could see him at least one last time!

“Sam, if only you were there to save me!” I thought.

And then, all the sudden, I heard Sam speak to me in my head; “Hold on, I’m coming.”

Was I going crazy?

A few seconds after, a big black wolf came running, growling angrily. He jumped on the man in front of me and bit him on the neck, making him drop the knife on the floor. Then I heard footsteps behind me. The man behind me let go of my arms.

As soon as I got free, I turned around and saw Zach, fighting on the guys that were behind me. I got a few feet away, to get out of the fight and just watched, too scared to do anything.

The black wolf was biting and scratching the first man so hard, there was blood everywhere on the floor. Finally, the man collapsed on the floor and the wolf turned to help Zach. When the two men saw the wolf approach, they decided to run away.

At first, I thought maybe the wolf would go running after them, but he didn’t. He turned to look at me and started to walk my way. That was the most imposing wolf I had ever seen. I was scared, seeing what it did to the man that attacked me. But there was something about this wolf’s eyes that made me relax. Those green eyes looked so much like Sam’s. And then I heard in my head “Don’t be scared Sarah. It’s me.”

How could it be? I couldn’t believe it, and yet, for the second time I’ve heard Sam speak to me in my head. And now I swear that this wolf was speaking through my mind and telling me that he was Sam. Not really knowing if I was going crazy or not, I looked at Zach with incredulous eyes.

“Is it possible?” I asked, “Can it be Sam?”

Zach smiled at me “So you do hear him,” he answered. “It is true then; you truly are his mate.”

I didn’t really know what to answer to that.

“Mate? What do you mean?” 

The wolf came to me and laid at my feet, resting his head on my lap. I gently pet the wolf on the head, its fur was so soft. The wolf closed his eyes at the touch.

Zach continued, “Sam and I, and a lot of people working here are lycanthropes. Which means we can sometime transform into wolves.

We’ve been living amongst humans for quite a long time, hiding our identity.

Every wolf has a mate, his other half. We do not choose our mate, it’s the moon goddess who blesses us with a mate. When a wolf finds its mate, a bond forms between the two of them and as the bond becomes stronger, they develop the ability to talk to each other through their minds and even sometimes read their thoughts.”

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. So, it was true! I truly did hear him talk to me through my mind. I wasn’t going crazy, which is kind of a relief.

“How do you become wolves?” I asked, “How long do you stay a wolf? Is it with the full moon or something?”

Zach laughed at my question.

“No, that’s just stories told in the movies. We can turn into a wolf whenever we want to. But sometimes, when our emotions are too strong, then we can’t control the wolf and it comes out by itself.

That’s what happened to Sam when we were in a meeting. He heard you say that you were going to die and that you wished he were there to save you. He went wild and changed into a wolf, coming to save you immediately.”

Zach stopped and threw a bag of clothes beside me. When I looked, Sam was sitting on the floor in a human form, naked. I blushed at this sight and turned my head. He took the bag and began to dress himself up.

“It’s not really practical when we change into a wolf because of our emotions,” Sam started.

“You don’t have time to think about it and get undressed and then your clothes get ripped up by the change. Plus, we usually try to change when no one is looking, to hide ourselves from humans, not to scare them.

Fortunately, only wolves were present in the meeting when I changed.”