ARABELLA POVHe jumped into the car. I drove into the small lane in front of me, with absolutely no destination in mind. I thought of a lot of things when the black cars behind me started a hot pursuit when they saw that I had taken them hostage. Thankfully, the windows on my cars were all tinted so they wouldn’t easily see the person behind the wheel. Matter of fact, they didn’t even need to see me as they weren’t in front of me. Now that this was a single lane with two forests at each side, we were at an advantage and also a disadvantage. First, they would follow every little step we take, and they won’t have to follow the forest—unless one of them suddenly jumps out of the car, turns into a wolf, and gives me a serious pursuit.Okay, that’s two disadvantages instead. What was the good thing in snatching up a possible convict? Gosh, if they catch me in this situation—“What have you gotten us into?!” Lily yelled beside me. “We could have just left him there and not attracted an extr
MIA POV I stabbed my cutlery knife into my pork. Rhys sat opposite me, steadily enjoying his lunch of pork and potatoes. Rhys specifically asked for this food and had the maid make it extra cheesy. This was his go-to food whenever he was in a good mood. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that he was in a good mood; it’s been two days since I last caught him with Emma. This being the second day, I’m sure he was just reliving it like it was today. Sure, he hadn’t gone out since then, but who knows what they would be discussing in private. I stabbed my meat over and over again. If this was Emma’s face, I’d happily stab into it until the little holes I created on her face started to bleed profusely. I relaxed my face and posture. I need to remain calm and collected because if I wasn’t I’d burst out in anger and all schemes would go to waste. Rhys didn’t need to know that anything was wrong with me, or that I’d discovered his big secrets. I relaxed my hold on my knife and raised the meat to
RHYS POV The ride to Emma’s house was silent. Craig sat in my front passenger seat, making an important call to the rest of the guards to put an eye out for Walters. He looked calm, yet spoke with an urgent, desperate, tone. I wondered if he was anxious as I was to discover if Emma really did have a hand in this. Regardless of my deep trust for Walters, if he wanted to escape, he had every chance to. The 12 hour grace I gave him was more than enough to get called on for being favorable to others and not the rest. If he wanted to escape, should he have attempted it earlier even though there was no way he could have succeeded? Was it a last minute decision? And what did Emma have to do with this anyways? A thought clicked into my head. Yeah right, she had plenty of things to do with it. First of all, how did she become friends with Mia so fast? The way Mia has integrated her into our family was quite interesting. Mia was the most difficult person I know when it comes to friends, so did
ARABELLA POV I looked around my house, surprised at my new visitors. No, scratch that, I was nothing near surprised. I was actually kind of infuriated that they were in here, with my children. Delinda and Declan stood up from where they sat on the floor, but they remained there upon seeing my dark mood. “Do you always do this, walk into someone’s home unannounced?” I asked with gritted teeth. Craig started to speak but Rhys stepped forward instead, subtly shutting him up. With their body language and the way Craig immediately understood and laid back, I knew something was up that they weren’t telling me. What were they doing here? Had they found out and were trying to do something to me? “We were just passing by and I wanted to see you,” Rhys lied smoothly. “I wanted to make sure you know that tomorrow is the day for the opening.” “The opening?” I asked, distracted. “Yes. You know, the whole drugs thing that we need to introduce to the public? It is tomorrow, isn’t it?” “Yes,”
ARABELLA POVI stared after her, wondering what she meant by that statement she just made. I know it’s about Rhys, but this somehow emboldened my suspicion that she was the one in the garden that day. It had to be her since she was making snide remarks to me just now. At the same time, I really don’t have the energy to waste on her. They were already clamoring for my name on stage and I really needed to get these drugs up there and booming.“Take these to the stage,” I said to the two handlemen. “Can the both of you assist in doing this, please?”They both came forward and started to tow the table of drugs to the stage, each of them at each head of the table. One of the nurses in the hospital raised the flap of the tent and smiled encouragingly at them. When they took it to the stage, I took long and deep breaths to prepare myself. It’s not every day one goes out to talk to others and convince them to use their bodies and receive foreign objects for their good. When I got to the sta
Everything around me was happening so fast. I felt stuck in a particular place, watching the scene unfold before me. There’s no way the woman would have morphed into a wolf, I made sure of that. I ran series of tests, I swear, and now no one’s going to really believe me. I’m sure they think I’m some silly doctor who’s come to the pack to finish them off, disregarding the previous help that I had rendered them on the past. However, I could not read anyone thoughts so I don’t know what they’re thinking. I only heard loud noises and expressions around me, everyone looking shocked and scared and uncertain of what to do.“She’s going to kill that child!” Someone screamed.The scream pierced into my mind. I looked to the direction of the little girl who was standing in the way of the wolf, only to see that Rhys jumped just at the right minute and tackled the wolf to the floor. I gasped, then straightened because I had somehow found myself on the floor.“Rhys!” I heard Mia scream in the ba
ARABELLA POVI walked out of the ER and went directly to my office. I wasn’t interested in seeing anyone talk about the prospect of the patient who was just hospitalized. All I wanted to do right now was rest. I even had to tell the nurses to do that part as my head was spinning and I just wanted some time to recover from the day’s event. However, different thoughts kept coming to my head. As I placed my head on the desk and tried to doze off a bit, my mind wandered back to the scene when the woman had asked that she take her own pills there. Why hadn’t she taken it home like the others wanted to, why there? What the hell happened to the drugs? Why did it react like that and why did it all feel so wrong? Oh, I had so many, so many questions that felt like I was chasing the dark end. But how can this be? I was so confused and lost that I didn’t even know how to react.Oh dear goddess, please lead me, guide me.Damn, I feel like crying. I never imagined that my day would be ruined this
ARABELLA POVThe nurse standing before me looked away. I don’t blame her one bit. Not everyone would be inclined to offer themselves up as a test subject when seeing that the previous tests had reacted badly in the other person. Still, I needed to prove my theory right. Someone was setting it up, but whom? No one had access to the drugs except the nurse guard that I kept in charge, and she was staring right at me.“Are we going to do the test or not?” Dr. Edward prompted.Sighing, I took one of the tablets on the table. They were sectioned into two parts; the ones that were here and the ones that I had taken outside to share. I liked that Nancy had carefully differentiated the two, so at least I could know where the fault was coming from.I went to one of the lab subjects we have in the hospital, which so happened to be in the storage room but behind a door. I opened the door and brought out a cage containing a rat. We have plenty of them for newbie doctors who want to do experiments