CHAPTER 2: Curiosity Brings Trouble

AURORA-

“What pack are you?” he spoke with his manly voice and I got startled, this wasn’t the question I expected from him, I don’t even know what he meant or was he treating me like an object?

“P--- pack? W--- what are you talking about?” I spoke gathering all the courage I had, his tough voice alone was enough to make me go weak. He stared at me for a while judging my whole body and I didn’t know what he was doing.

He grew nearer and brought his face close to my neck, his rough fingers moved my hair back putting them behind my ear and slowly ran his fingers through them.

He leaned forward towards my neck and I clenched my fists in nervousness, I squinted my eyes not knowing what was he doing as what I did wasn’t a huge crime that he would assault me.

He sniffed my neck for a second and moved back abruptly, I saw a sly smile on his face and he kept on staring at me while I didn’t have the nerve to look at him. I've never felt so ambiguous and vague while he was acting as if he got something useful.

It took me a minute or so to come back to my senses and he placed his hands on his waist slightly ridiculing me, he was looking down on me and I didn’t know the reason behind it.

“What a jerk” I spoke and walked past him in anger, if I would stay near him another second, I might lose it and punch him. No one ever made me this angry as for the first time that I wanted to beat the shit out of someone.

How dare he touch me and then look down on me, who the hell was he? It felt like I was being challenged and my life was at stake, I wanted to show him his place and got curious even more to know about his identity.

“See you again, princess” he shouted through the corridor as I walked away from him. I had to know everything about this guy, but most importantly, why was he calling me princess? What’s the relation? Does he know anything about my father? I regret not knowing the answers of the question arising in my mind since birth as now, I know nothing.

If only I tried to dig a little deeper, I would’ve learnt something about him. It isn’t late though, and an unbothered human like me turned into a detective.

An uncurious person like me, who always ignored the fishy things of her father became snoopy just because of a scent, I was waiting for him at the door and skipped all my classes just to learn his whereabouts.

I finally saw him leaving in the evening, and kept on following his trail until he sat down in his car and drove off.

“Aurora, where are you going?” I heard Steffi calling for me from behind as I sat in my car, she was my best friend who was whipped over every handsome man in the world but never actually dated anyone, like me.

“To kill a bastard” I spoke and pressed on the accelerator in attempt to drive fast, no man in the world has ever made my heart pound and made me angry like this since I learnt a thing or two about love and hatred.

But this guy made me feel like a girl with emotions just from a mere scent? In no world I would’ve let it slide, I wanted to go to the roots of it and know the reasons behind it.

I was behind him and to be honest, I've never followed anyone so this was thrilling for me, but I was also nervous about getting caught. If my dad gets to know about this I’ll be grounded, but gladly today is ‘that day of the month’ and they are leaving so, it won’t be a problem for me.

I kept on driving until he pressed on the brakes and stopped his car in front of a huge house, I wanted to know what that scent was which kept on pulling me towards him, and wouldn’t give up anytime soon before I get the answers of all my questions.

He got down from his car and walked inside, I was extra cautious as I couldn’t afford getting caught the second time. His scent brought me here, but I started questioning my decision as I acted repulsive and now have knocked the door of brawls and snags.

I lost him but found his address and there was no point of backing off when I've arrived here. I had to sneak inside without getting caught and this was something I've never done before.

I looked around to find any way that could help me get inside but found nothing as I only saw bunch of people walking around. It was getting dark now and I had to reach home, it’s enough for today and no one became a detective on their first day so I better be home.

I started walking towards my car in order to leave but heard a loud howling that shook my insides, it wasn’t a remote area but somehow felt like I was in the middle of a forest.

I turned towards the sound but found no one behind me, I gulped in dread and again walked towards his residence, it was empty as if the people around me vanished into thin air because they were here seconds ago.

It was more like an invitation as I couldn’t stop my steps from moving inside the house after seeing the way empty, the more I thought about him the faster I walked and found myself inside a huge mansion with no one around.

The howling didn’t stop which only made my mind grow curious as I wanted to go in the depth of it. Why would I be hearing loud growl out of nowhere? Is it--- is it a dog? Is he hurt? This was the only thing I could think of.

I walked inside carefully but found nothing, everything became even more suspicious because I was sure, I watched him walk inside and it’s impossible for him to be absent as I didn’t see him leaving the mansion after that.

I followed another howl from an arbitrary direction and walked towards the yard, the faint sounds of bones cracking became louder as my eyes saw the most unbelievable thing.

The tales meant for stories aren’t supposed to happen in real life, the Aladdin doesn’t really exist in reality and neither do w---- werewolves. I knew nothing about them and even started to forget my own identity in fear.

My hands started shivering as the men in front of me went through enormous pain while turning into a beast, the sound of their bones cracking into several pieces was heard to such an extent that I couldn’t focus on anything else, I started feeling pain inside my body just by looking at them.

Such an unbelievable sight, that no one wants to encounter, it made me close my eyes in terror and I hid behind a pole not knowing how to save myself from the chaos around me.

Why am I even here? Why was I attracted to that scent of a werewolf? Nothing made sense and I started doubting my existence, it wasn’t something I see in an everyday life and tackling it alone seemed like an impossible bore.

Where should I go? I’ll be dead if I get caught not to mention how ruthless the guy from my university seemed. “What pack are you?” now I understood what he meant by this.

“Where’s dad?” I heard a familiar voice from the middle of the crowd and saw a familiar structure walking like a king among them. He walked and stood right in front while, I placed my hand on my chest which was beating rapidly in fear.

“Mr. Alaric had gone in the woods” someone from the crowd replied and I again heard the cracking of bones which made me squint my eyes in terror. Sweat started trickling down from my forehead and my paced heart had no intention of going back to normal.

I gave it a thought and realized, Alaric was the man my dad and Fenrir were talking about. How are they related to this world? ‘That day of the month’ means this? No, it doesn’t, right?

Several questions arose in my mind and my unbothered mind, who always wanted to stay away from dad’s secrets suddenly grew inquisitive to know everything he’s been hiding.

It isn’t possible that my dad would be having a meeting with bunch of hungry animals every month. It just doesn’t make sense and I couldn’t think about anything else, weird thoughts began hindering my mind, I don’t want to be here, I don’t want to know anything about this guy or the scent that attracted me, make me forget everything as if it never really happened.

“You have the nerve to peep on the night walkers?” I heard a voice right behind my ear and realized that I was caught. Somehow this man managed to see me and I don’t know what to do next.