Kyley looked between the bed and Darren, her entire being still shivering in fear and anxiety.
" Will you?" Darren asked, pointing towards the bed with his gaze. The expression on his face made it obvious just how furious he was. ' He's gonna treat my wounds? Not harm me?' Kyley was confused and didn't know whether to believe Darren. ' Nonetheless, there was nothing to do but play it calm and by his rules' Kyley decided to listen to Darren for now. There was no way she could escape now anyway. " O-okay" Kyley nodded nervously. She slowly and cautiously got back in bed, her gaze moving to watch Darren with every move she made. Darren exhaled heavily and walked over to the bedside, he placed the needle holder down and revealed the suture needle and thread that he'd held in his palm the whole time. Kyley looked at this and couldn't help but grow tense. Darren tied the thread to the needle and raised his fierce gaze to look at Kyley. " Show me your wounds!" Darren ordered in a stern tone. Kyley nodded meekly. She slowly removed the hand she held her wound with and lifted her shirt to reveal the ghastly wound on her side. It was a pallid dark bloody lesion tear. Darren frowned a bit at the sight of this, conveying his concern. However, he picked up the needle holder and started stitching up Kyley's wounds with the suture needle right away. Twitch! " Aah!" Kyley grimaced and let out painful gasps as the needle pierced into and out of her skin. Her face paled both from having lost too much blood, as well as from the pain she suffered at the moment. Naturally, Darren was supposed to give Kyley some anesthesia before stitching her up. However, Kyley wasn't a normal being. Besides, Darren lacked the luxury of time. This was 'a stitch in time' situation, and he could only bet on Kyley's supernatural tolerance to sustain. The frown on Darren's face was still deep as he stitched Kyley's wounds using the needle holder to pick as he sewed the wound close with the suture needle and thread. Save for the occasional soft grunts and whimpers that Kyley would let out during the process, silence reigned over the room all through. The room grew tense by the minute, as both Kyley and Darren were in dire situations. The former was in severe pain and required immediate treatment, while the latter struggled with internal conflicts that only he knew about at the moment. When Darren was done with the stitching, he wiped the sweat off his forehead and rose quickly to grab the bluish-gooey medicine that he'd left stop the drawer in the corner. He returned to Kyley's side and bent to apply the medicine. However, he realized that her wounds had too many blood stains that needed to be cleaned first. Darren searched around for what to wipe the blood with. However, left without an option, he quickly tore whatever was left of his cloth, revealing his toned muscular torso. He used the piece of cloth to clean the bloodstains around Kyley's wounds. Without warning, he applied the medicine to the wounds. " Tsss!" Kyley hissed and couldn't help but kick her head back, gritting her teeth hard. Her face was covered in sweat and her expression contorted into that of agony as she felt a sizzling sensation burn around her wounds. However, she soon relaxed when a cold sensation seethed her wounds; an effect of the bluish-gooey medicine that Darren applied on her wounds. A while after, Darren patched up the wound using bandage afterwards. When he was done, he didn't wait around and just stormed out of the room. Slam! Kyley who had begun to relax, and felt her pain slowly relieving couldn't help but be jolted by the sudden bang of the door. Still confused, Kyley fell into a silent thought about what had just happened. ... Darren continued on his storm with his brows furrowed. He was genuinely furious and was holding back his anger as much as he could at the moment. The way he clenched his fists besides him as he stomped towards his room made it evident that if he'd spent a minute more with Kyley, he would have lost it. ' What the heck is wrong with her?' Darren thought as he walked into his room. Bang! He slammed the door behind him and grabbed a towel before heading out the room once again. He walked towards the door at the rear end of the hallway, stomping his feet on the floor while still deep in thought. ' She must have hit her head, to be honest. Why'd she suddenly start throwing things at me like that? Besides, is that lady trying to kill herself!? Those wounds were dangerous, and even strange is how she slept with such ghastly wounds! Is she crazy!? Darren pondered in shock and confusion. He'd been able to piece together the incident that led to Kyley being in her current state. However, he still didn't know just what was on Kyley's mind nor why she'd done what she did. ' She must have fallen off the stairs and reopened those wounds. Must have been a hard fall even for her. But... Just why and how?' Darren was confused. He couldn't help but stop to think for a bit. He understood she must have slept from exhaustion and whatnot. Besides, her tolerance to pain must have aided a considerable amount. If not, Darren couldn't even imagine anyone normal to sleep through such pain. " Crazy? Or perhaps... Suicidal?" He muttered thoughtfully. Darren knew that Kyley having fallen off the stairs like that could only be an accident, however, he could only come up.with such thoughts considering how Kyley had reacted when he tried to help her with her wounds. Of course, Darren came up with the conclusion that she fell off the stairs and held on to that for now. Although, he still wasn't certain what had happened. It could still be that Kyley had been attacked but managed to hold her ground against the enemy, though wounded. He knew he probably should have asked, but back then just wasn't the right moment to do such a thing. Darren looked down at his bloodied hands and couldn't help but shake his head. He heaved a deep sigh not knowing what to think of anymore. He headed into the bathroom and shut the door behind him. The bathroom was quite spacious, allowing the huge bathtub to fit in while leaving enough space to move around. Darren hung the towel by the wall and unzipped what was left of his pants. Thud! He walked into the bathtub and turned the knob handle of the shower to switch it on. Splish!! Coldly seething water gushed out of the shower and rained on Darren who grabbed a soap bar to clean himself with. Splish! Splash! While taking a bath, Darren fell in thought once again. ' I should ask her about what had happened later...' Darren having relaxed a bit started to think clearly. He realized he still wasn't aware of Kyley's situation and should probably get her to open up. ' But... I should probably apologize first' He scratched his forehead and smiled wryly when it occured to him that he could've treated Kyley better than how he'd yelled at her and grabbed her by the arm. Although Darren did it as a necessary means to stop Kyley from throwing a fit, he must still confess that he had done so out of anger and was in no position to have treated her that way. " Haah!" Darren heaved a deep sigh. Ever since he'd met Kyley, he'd been having to think alot and consider the right way to relate to people once again. Something he hadn't done in... Well, not this frequently. Darren sighed and switched off the shower. He stepped out to grab the towel and wiped off the droplets of water on him before wrapping it around his waist. He bent to pick up the torn piece of pant and walked out the bathroom, heading back to his room. Darren threw the pant to a corner and went towards his closet to grab something to clothe himself with. He picked a simple dark blue T-shirt and a pair of jean to match. When he was done dressing himself up, he brushed through his hair with his fingers and headed out the room. ' She should feel more relieved and hopefully able to talk now' He thought as he walked along the hallway towards Kyley's room. His room and Kyley's was on the same floor- the second floor. However, Darren stopped when he passed by the stairs. ' That's quite a bloody mess, literally. I'd be in big trouble if anyone were to come in and meet the sight of that. Not that it'll ever happen, but... I have to clean that, right?' He thought as he stared with a disgruntled expression at the trail of dry blood all over the staircase and the floor. ...Kyley stared at the wooden ceiling beams that added a rustic feel to the room's aesthetics, while still deep in thought about what had happened earlier." Show me your wounds!" Darren's stern face appeared in her mind as he yelled at her over and over again. Her pain had significantly reduced after Darren had attended to her wounds. However, Kyley still didn't know how to feel about it. The fear and anxiety in her heart still remained, and her body would shudder every now and then.Her trauma had kicked in.Kyley felt like a trapped mouse, waiting to be slaughtered. She was wounded and had nowhere to go. She couldn't help but curse her ill-fate.' Why do I always have to go through this?' Tears threatened to break out of her eyes. Kyley was hurt, in pain, and was mentally exhausted- she's collapsing. She could barely hold on to the last bit of sanity left within her, Kyley believed she would soon lose it. And Darren was probably the last straw.' Darren...' Kyley didn't know just wha
" I didn't mean to hurt you or anything, but you were throwing things at me and making it difficult for me to tend to your wounds. So I had to force you to stop throwing a fit. Sorry if I made you feel some sort of way" Darren slowly recounted, choosing his words carefully. Darren didn't want her to think he was calling her crazy. It was obvious that he believed the pain from her wounds was what made Kyley react as aggressively as she did earlier. He understood, and he wanted her to know he really did. Silence reigned over in the room for a long while. Kyley didn't respond to Darren's apology, she just lowered her gaze in thought.' He is genuinely apologizing?' Kyley repeated in her mind, over and over again as though she were trying to remind herself that this was real. Kyley had never been apologized to by anyone. Never! And hearing Darren apologize to her made her feel some kind of way. ' Moreso, he actually cares' Kyley could tell from the sincerity in his tone that Darren mea
'Huh?' Kyley thought she heard him wrong. " Oh! I have an idea. Give me a second" Darren said and turned around to leave the room. However, he grabbed the wooden bucket and mop stick before leaving the room entirely.' Huh?' Kyley was even more confused. She watched his back with a stupendous expression as he walked out the room. Did he really just asked if she wanted to go outside? Kyley was left baffled. Just what was Darren thinking? Soon, Darren returned to the room while Kyley was still deep in her thought. The latter raised her gaze and was shocked to see Darren row in a wheelchair." I've had to use it in the past, plenty of times" He said with a small grin. Kyley gasped in shock hearing this and she instantly expressed hesitation. Just what did he mean by having used the wheelchair plenty of times? It sounded a bit creepy " O-of course, I've used it myself is what I meant" Darren clarified seeing the look of contempt on Kyley's face. He smiled wryly realizing his mistake.
Kyley looked at Darren for the longest while, confused as to what he meant with his words. The evocative expression on his face made her rather curious as to something." Why?" She asked.Darren switched his gaze to Kyley and raised a brow. " Why do I feel this way?" Darren wasn't sure of what Kyley was asking." Why did you move out here in the middle of the woods?" Kyley rephrased her question. It was something that baffled her ever since, and it shaped her image of Darren being undeserving of trust. After all, who in their right mind lived in the depths of the wood all alone? It just didn't make sense no matter how much she tried to look past it." That's a long story. I'll tell you when it's right time to do so. But... Just know it wasn't by my own decision." Darren said with a bitter smile. How could he blurt out that he'd moved all the way out here because he was cursed? He was trying to win her trust here, not scare her. Kyley would definitely jump out of the wheelchair and fle
In the residence of the Moonblood pack, Jason stood by the window with his arms crossed behind him. He looked outside to watch as his betas brought in the Stingfang pack members who'd been held captive by the Moonblood pack. Jason's gaze was resolute and condescendingly stern. Being at the rear end of the town and secluded, whatever was done in the Moonblood pack residence was hidden away from prying eyes.And thus, no one complained as the captives were pushed into a large building that seemed like some sort of warehouse. Although the structure appeared weathered and old, it blended perfectly with the surrounding as many other buildings in the residence weren't too far from being the same. Save for Jason's house which was a bit more modern, most of the other houses gave off a countryside vibe.Being a cold cruel leader, Jason looking down at the growth of his pack with a stoic expression made everyone reverent of their duties. They operated with due diligence. Having no idea as to
Paige who had been hiding by the entrance hall, opened her mouth wide in shock and gasped hearing Ivan's words. ' To think he's really found that bitch!... Talk about being unfortunate' Paige was devastated at the fact that her chance to redeem herself with Jason was gone, just like that." Where are they now?" She heard Jason ask and couldn't help but give up on her thought and focus on listening in on the conversation even more. " The traitor was spotted in Portico city. He is wounded and is now looking to find help and heal. Caleb Last saw him entering some local pub. Yoldes' palm it was called..." Ivan recounted slowly.' To think that fool has gone that far...' Jason creased his gaze and rubbed his chin in thought for a second before asking. " And Kyley?" " ... I found her myself..." Ivan didn't let up the chance to boast of his achievement. After all, it was a rare opportunity that every other pack member had been hoping to grab so as to impress Jason. However, he didn't was
" Do you not wish to come near me?" She heard Jason ask and immediately shook her head." N-no! I mean Yes! I mean..." Paige was confused as to.what to say. It really was happening, Jason was going to claim her as his!Paige swallowed nervously and decided to take a bold step. She walked slowly and nervously towards Jason until she was standing just a few inches away from him. Jason rose in his seat, standing in his full length and towering above Paige. This left her appalled and overwhelmed, so much that she couldn't help but let out a nervous gasp.Jason raised his hands and gently reached to wrap his fingers around Paige's neck. The latter shuddered at the subtle touch and rolled her eyes up feeling the pleasuring sensation wash through her. Paige found herself in a state of ecstasy at that touch alone. Her heart thrummed faster and faster and she felt it would explode at this rate. So long, it's been so long that she'd fantasized about this moment. And now it was finally happeni
What do you mean?" Alphonse frowned. The old man didn't respond for a while and just shook his head. " The city is a dangerous place for our kind these days, and this shelter is the only hope at survival." " I'm not certain if you've come across one of those human hunters. They are everywhere in the city nowadays, and those dastardly kids who let their feral desires rule them are the reason behind human raising a counter against our kind." The old man sighed. " We can only be grateful to kind Samaritans such as the Luna of the pack, who's quite successful and is a philanthropist towards her race. Seeing her kind being persecuted, she made this safe haven for helpless ones like me and you. It's that simple" " ..." Alphonse was left speechless. He couldn't believe Nicole had done this for no reason other than it being out of kindness and compassion towards the werewolf race. It was quite a pitiful life that werewolves lived. Cursed with feral desires and tendency to shape shif