Chapter 3

Mary's P.O.V

I woke up way before we arrived at the bed and breakfast last night.

I just saw how worried dad was and how not worried his eyes were when he saw me sleeping and save so I pretended to sleep all the way there.

I don't know who these bad men are and daddy doesn't want to tell me the story but when I see how afraid dad is that makes me really scared because dad is this big tough man and him being scared means that the bad men have to be even bigger and badder than daddy.

I was kinda scared when he got out of the car after he stopped and left me alone in the car to go into the store but I'm a big girl and that means I can't be scared of stuff like this. I have asked daddy if I could train with him but he said that I am still to young for all of that and that when the time comes he will start my training.

I really try and be the best girl I can be as to not put any extra stress and worry towards dad because he already has.

Sometimes it isn't as easy because he doesn't explain most things and thinks I don't see but I do and this makes me really do try my best.

I got scared again last night when I woke up from that same nightmare that I have been having ever since I can remember.

I haven't told dad about the nightmare because I can't really remember most of it when I wake up and again I don't want to worry him.

I couldn't get back to sleep and decided to get up and maybe ask dad to make me some warm honey milk and maybe tuck me in again but I found that dad wasn't with me in the room again. I got up and called out for him but couldn't find him anywhere and decided to have a look out of the window because maybe he would just be outside getting some fresh air.

What I saw scared me. There was this huge wolf or bear or whatever standing there looking for something.

I didn't want to draw the attention of the wolf but I also didn't want to look away. I felt that I couldn't look away.

The wolf was just so majestic and dare I say beautiful. I know I should have been scared out of my mind because this beast could easily attack and kill me on the spot without much or even any effort but I kind of felt safe in his presence.

I was mesmerized.

I wanted to stay and watch what the wolf would do, so I went to gather my favourite blanky and sat on the window bench thing wrapped like a burrito in my blanky.

For a while it looked like the wolf was just hiding or searching for something and then as if he was satisfied run off into the woods away and out of my sight.

I didn't want to go back to bed because I wanted to watch the wolf, not that I think that I would be able to sleep while knowing that there is a wolf outside and with daddy not being here I am all alone.

So I sat and waited for the wolf to return. Got up a few times to go to the bathroom and get some snacks and cooldrink but mostly just sat and waited.

I was starting to feel overly tired and yawning a little later on.

Still I did not move because I wanted to see the wolf again.

It was much later and my eyes were starting to fall shut when out of the corner of my eye I saw that the wolf was back again searching in the same spot where he had been before he had run off.

This time he grabbed something and put it down in front of him again.

I blinked and in that time the wolf had left and in its place was a human.

I couldn't see good because the person's back was to me but by the short hair I could see that it was a man.

Fully dressed now the man turned around and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

There in the place of the wolf was Daddy.

He wasn't here with me because he was in the woods being a wolf but that would mean all the stories he was telling me about werewolves and vampires and all those folklore must be true because how else am I supposed to understand that one minute there was a wolf, I blinked and then there stood dad.

Not knowing what to make of this I decided that for the time being I wouldn't ask dad or tell him anything. At least until I have either seen it again or have more proof on this because this could also be because I'm so sleepy that I am seeing stuff that shouldn't be there.

I quickly got up and back to bed trying to keep my eyes closed and pretend that I am asleep when daddy comes back to the room.

I don't know if I should be afraid of him or if I should not be afraid of him?

I felt safe with his wolf's presence in the forest and I have always felt safe in dad's presence so I doubt that I should be feeling afraid of him at this stage.

I mean he has never hurt me before and has always been so sweet and loving towards me so I doubt he will start hurting me now.

Soon enough I heard the click of the door and daddy's heavy footsteps coming into the room. I tried to keep my eyes closed and lay as still as possible so he doesn't suspect a thing but I must admit that I was kind of scared when I heard him coming closer to my side of the bed and that made the playing to be asleep a little harder.

I don't think he suspects because he kissed me on the forehead and tucked me more into the blanky than I already was.

After that he got his laptop and started working on the couch and in that time I must have fallen asleep again because when I woke up it was already morning and sunny.

Daddy was in bed and everything was as it was last night, making me wonder if last night was just a bad dream and if it really did happen at all?

Seems to me that that is what I will need to be finding out now