Darren shot his head forward and stared at Kyley with a dumbfounded expression. He opened his mouth to speak but he had no idea what to say.
" I saw the dining earlier and I think it would be the best place to eat this meal. Besides, I don't think I can climb back up the stairs just yet, and I don't want you carrying me. I wanna start walking on my own from now on" Kyley rambled on in a low tone, finding an excuse after another. She just didn't want to go eat alone in boredom up in her room. Darren hearing this stared at her for a while before shaking his head. He rubbed his temple in thought for a while then sighed. " Fine." " The dining it is" He turned around and dished both his and Kyley's food, then placed it in a large tray and said to Kyley as he headed out of the kitchen. " Let's go." Kyley nodded her head and slowly stood to follow behind Darren. Getting to the small dining hall that was next to the living room. Kyley had only taken a glance at the dining hall most of the times that she passed by the living room, but finally getting there, she was appalled by its elegant setting and decor that seemed to be inspired by nature itself. The long charming mahogany table surrounded by wooden chairs with plush seats was nestled near a fireplace that crackled softly in the background, creating an inviting sensation to sit and dine on it. The lights in the lamp on the walls danced and bounced softly, casting a gentle glow over the rustic surrounding and mixed with the slight light of morning that shone in through the window covered by the white curtains. Darren walked towards the table unperturbed and placed the tray on the table. He then stood aside to help Kyley pull a chair. " Thanks" Kyley pursed her lips and hopped in to seat in the chair as she said. Darren nodded his head and placed Kyley's plate directly before her, allowing the delicious aroma to waft its way up to her nostrils. He placed the cutleries by her plate and said. " I'll go get us some water" Darren said and went back to the kitchen. He grabbed two bottles of water and two glass cups to drink them with before returning to the dining table to place one each before Kyley. " Thank you" Kyley said timidly. Darren just nodded his head and moved to take the seat directly opposite Kyley's with his plate in hand. After settling down, Darren held his palm together and closed his eyes to bless his food before starting to eat. Kyley who had begun eating couldn't help but look at Darren weirdly. Curious, she couldn't help but ask." What was that?" Kyley had lived here life in a secluded end of a town where the Moonblood pack residence was. She had never seen anyone do that before eating their food before and it was strange to her. " Hmm? I blessed my food. It's nothing really, just a custom I grew up with" Darren said dismissively. " By the way, I see you can move your hands freely and eat by yourself now" Darren added. Kyley creased her gaze at Darren for a moment, obviously not satisfied with his dismissive remark about the blessing thingy. She wondered just what kind of upbringing he had ' Is he raised by a priest?' Those where the only people Kyley knew who did such things. However, she didn't linger on it. " Yes. Thanks to you, my wounds are healing faster than I could ever imagine. This way, I might really leave for the city in few weeks to come" Kyley said. Darren nodded his head and dug in his food. He asked shortly after " Speaking of the city, have you got some relative over there?" Darren knew it was stupid to ask, but he still had to ask. After all, he needed to drop her off in safe hands. Only then would he be able to rest easy. Despite the fact that he still had certain questions as to why he'd spared her life back then while in a state where he normally wouldn't have spared anyone's life, Darren still thought that perhaps this was a chance to redeem himself. Being an accursed being, Darren would be able to carry on knowing he'd at least saved a life. " No I don't." However, hearing Kyley's words he couldn't help but be put in great shock and surprise. Darren paused on his hands that he raised the fork with to eat and stared at Kyley incredulously. As though he had misheard what she'd said just now, he waited for a long while for her to reiterate her statement. " Thankfully, I have you to take me" Kyley shrugged happily and continued with her meal. Silence reigned for a while as Darren put down his fork and knife and cupped his upper lip with a finger in thought. ' If she knows no one in the city, doesn't that mean she'll be alone. That's crazy! Does she have an idea what life in the city is like?' Darren was baffled as to what had Kyley so assured that the city was her safest bet. ' Well, it's better than staying here with me' He concluded. " Kyley, have you ever been to the city?" Darren asked after a while as he picked up his fork and knife to continue with his meal. Kyley looked up and looked at Darren as though he were asking the obvious. " No I haven't. But Sam told me it's way safer over there than in the Moonblood pack residence." ' Just as I'd thought. Wait...' " Sam?" Darren frowned as he asked. " Yeah, she's like, the only one who has been kind to me in the whole of the Moonblood pack. She even helped me escape. I wonder how she's doing..." Kyley responded swiftly. She didn't hesitate to tell Darren things anymore as she'd come to see him as someone he could tell her stuffs to and trust. After all, her safety was in his hands. " Hmm" Darren hummed in thought. ' Poor girl, she must have suffered a lot to even think that the city was better than her life in the Moonblood pack, its quite pitiful. " This Sam. Just who is she to you?" Darren asked after a while. He wondered if they were relatives. Kyley paused for a second as her expression darkened. Nonetheless," She is Jason's lover but she's more of a friend to me" Kyley said with a grim face. Darren hearing this couldn't help but feel upset to the stomach. Just what sort of crazy being was this Jason of a dude? He'd heard from Kyley in the past few days when they would speak about her relationship with Jason. He was supposed to be his mate, however, for some reason, he hated her so much that he made her life so miserable. ' Just because she's powerless and weak?' Darren couldn't stand the thought of anyone doing that. He felt that Kyley was a very kind and intelligent person, she didn't deserve to go through any of what Jason put her through. " Kyley" Darren called and asked the question that he'd been keeping himself from asking for a long time now. " Where are your parents?" Kyley raised her gaze to meet Darren's. Her face contorted bitterly being reminded about them. She lowered her head in sorrow as she said in a dispirited tone. " They're dead. Ever since I was 7" Darren felt bad for asking, after seeing Kyley's mood. " I'm sorry," he put down his fork and apologized with his gaze lowered. He already thought that this was the case, however, he still had to know. Kyley just shook her head and stared at her meal. She'd lost appetite and was not in the mood to eat anymore as several memories from her past resurfaced in her mind. She couldn't push them off of her mind try as much as she could. " Listen, Kyley. I know I said this countless times over and over again before but rest assured, I'll take you to the cities when your wounfs are healed. So do not worry about anything okay?" Darren consoled in a soothing voice. Kyley looked up to him and nodded her head, she didn't doubt that Darren didn't mean any of his words. " I'm done" She said pointing at the meal before her on the table. " Mm. Leave it, once I'm done I'll take it along with mine" Darren said, however, just as he was about to continue with his meal, a thought surged in his mind. Seeing the slight dark spots and dry rashes on Kyley's face, he couldn't help but smile wryly and add " On the other hand, why don't you use the shower?" Ever since he'd brought her in, she hadn't had the liberty of taking a clean bath due to her condition. Although Darren wiped her face and arms with a towel and warm water, it still couldn't match that of a clean bath. And the spots on her face made this evident. Kyley frowned hearing this and couldn't help but take a sniff at herself to see if she was smelling. For some reason, she felt annoyed and embarrassed at Darren's words and it hurt her. " I'll go get you a towel and something to wear" Darren said and quickly escaped the scene. He'd seen the annoyed look on Kyley's face and he didn't mean to come on to her as rude, but it had to be said that she needed a bath. Taking offense or not, she needed it. " Come upstairs with me. " He said as he walked towards the stairs. Kyley, still with an annoyed frown, stood from the dining table and followed behind Darren. " Once you're done bathing, I'll attend to your wounds." Darren half-turned and stated as he climbed the stairs. Kyley was still pissed off at Darren and couldn't help but pout. However, she couldn't deny the fact that she needed a bath either. She just didn't like that Darren was the one to point this out to her. ...Handing her a towel along with a shirt and a pair of shorts that belonged to him, Darren was surprised when Kyley snatched it from him and stomped her feet as she walked into the bathroom. Slam!Darren watched this with his mouth slightly agape on surprise. Sometimes, Kyley's actions were so random one of these days that he couldn't match it with the same shy, reserved, and timid werewolf that he used to know her to be. She had become a totally different person!Nonetheless, Darren only heaved a deep sigh and shook his head before continuing downstairs to finish his meal. Once he was done with his meal, he picked up both his plate and Kyley's and went to clean them in the kitchen. Thereafter, he returned to the living room to relax on the couch after the sumptuous breakfast. ' I hope she fits in those shirt and shorts...' As he lay on his back and stared at the exposed beams above, Darren's thought wandered to Kyley. He'd only realized that Kyley didn't have clothes to wear when he
" You may lay yourself down while I get ready" Darren informed in a serious tone just as they got into the room. Kyley nodded her head at him and moved to do just as he said. She proceeded towards the bed and gently lay herself down.Darren didn't linger around either as he moved to the drawers in the corner and began rummaging through them, picking up the things he needed to tend to Kyley's wounds. Kyley watched Darren all the while as searched through the drawers with a serious expression. Soon, Darren turned around with a bundle of bandage, a tweezer, a pack of wool and a dressing film in hand and walked towards the bed where Kyley was. " Let me see?" Once he sat by the bed and placed the things in his hand on the bedside table, he asked. His tone was calm and solemn as he faced Kyley still with a serious expression.Kyley nodded severally and reached to lift up her shirt, revealing her soaked-up bandaged wound to the side of her stomach. It looked a bit of a mess.Darren crease
From his husky tone and languid expression, one could tell that Darren had just got up from bed. He was obviously having a good crash and Kyley had just ruined it.He was only putting on a pair of pants and his muscly hairy chest was bare. Darren placed one of his thick arms on the wall and opened the door with the other. Kyley was stomped at the sight of his gorgeous body and her eyes widened fixatedly on him, subconsciously taking in every bit of detail about his toned muscular body, and trying hard to resist the urge to touch them. She was left stomped and speechless at this sudden sight of him.Before long, she batted her eyelids to regain her thoughts and instantly looked away. Kyley remembering that Darren had asked him a question opened her mouth to speak but her mind was blank! Darren s suddenly appearance in this irresistible state had left her thoughtless. Grrr!Kyley almost ran away when she heard the sound of her stomach grumbling. She looked at Darren in shock as if to
Kyley was left speechless and just stared at the floorboard. She didn't want to keep Darren staying up and at the same time, she couldn't go against his will. " Come on" Darren walked over and headed to the dining, urging Kyley to come along. Kyley had no choice but to follow him to the dining. However, " D-Darren..."Kyley called out to him with her gaze still lowered, she felt strange after calling his name. It had I be since it was the first time he'd be calling him by his name. Nonetheless, Darren has already turned around with a raised brow as if to ask if anything was the matter. Kyley pushed the thought about calling his name for the first time aside for now and raise her gaze to look at him, " I really can eat alone upstairs and you can go back to bed. You've already been kind enough to me, and I don't want to ask too much from you or overdo it" Kyley ended up lowering her gaze as she said in a timid tone. She couldn't face him while saying such emotionally gravitating word
Kyley was left speechless and just stared at the floorboard. She didn't want to keep Darren staying up and at the same time, she couldn't go against his will. " Come on" Darren walked over and headed to the dining, urging Kyley to come along. Kyley had no choice but to follow him to the dining. However, " D-Darren..."Kyley called out to him with her gaze still lowered, she felt strange after calling his name. It had I be since it was the first time he'd be calling him by his name. Nonetheless, Darren has already turned around with a raised brow as if to ask if anything was the matter. Kyley pushed the thought about calling his name for the first time aside for now and raise her gaze to look at him, " I really can eat alone upstairs and you can go back to bed. You've already been kind enough to me, and I don't want to ask too much from you or overdo it" Kyley ended up lowering her gaze as she said in a timid tone. She couldn't face him while saying such emotionally gravitating word
The cold wind that blasted past my face had me gasping hardly to catch my breath as I fled away from the world of horror behind me. Despite the tightness in my lungs, I never stopped my hind and fore limbs from lunging forward in a swift dash towards the unknown, as I knew this was all the chance I had.'Anything, anything at all!...' I was beyond desperate to escape. The pain from all that I had gone through in the hands of my cruel mate hit even harder now than when I had suffered it. My sight became blurry and I could feel slight wetness at the corners of my eyes but I couldn't care any less at the moment. All I wanted now was to get away from it all and erase everything from my memory.The ghastly bruises and cuts that slashed deep through my furs were nothing to make me stop even though it hurts. I knew that, soon enough, the whole pack will be after me. I had no destination, nor did I know where I was headed as I ran through the dark woods full of mist that spread far ahead unde
"Hah! Hah! Hah!" I panted uncontrollably as I ran on all fours with everything I had. The rustling sounds of the dried-up leaves and the snapping of the twigs, as well as the growls I could hear all around indicated just how close they were to me now. For the past thirty minutes or so, I had done nothing else but run, and run, or otherwise bear the risk of suffering a fate even worse than I had experienced in the past. I knew I wasn't going to get death even if I wanted it. Jason would never relent until he's exacted his revenge for what I'd done. And I feared that'd be the last of me. I was already on the brink of going insane from the previous tortures.The sound of my heart beating right in my ears wasn't anywhere close enough to the feeling of dread that enshrouded my being. I could feel my furs standing on end cautiously and brushing against the cold wind. The feeling of a hundred ants crawling on my skin was nothing but a subconscious reaction of my body to fear and pressure that
Kyley's POVI fluttered my eyes open unconsciously to meet the sight of a strange room. For a while, I was thoughtless and felt no memory of who I was. Not until my conscience kicked in. I opened my eyes a little wider subconsciously as I remembered the last thing I saw before I... 'What!?... I, didn't die?' I was surprised as I was certain that I had seen the monster killing everyone of the pack who were there in the woods, mercilessly. The memory of the horrid iron smell of blood made my nose sting. Nonetheless, It seemed I have survived. But...'Just how. And... where am I?' I couldn't help but take a look around the room which had quite the traditional setting. I could tell from the wooden structure of the room that I wasn't anywhere in the cities that Sam had showed me before. The buildings were a lot more sophisticated and had much more intricate interior design from what I knew. This place, however, seemed a lot more like...'Oh no!!..' The thought of having been taken back to