Chapter 7: Surviving

The wolves' footsteps are heard closer and closer, while Helmut tries to stop what his body is doing on its own. Aitana, observing the hatred in his gaze, begins to cry and tremble.

"I assure you, if you let me go, I won't appear in front of you again. Just please, don't hurt me. I'm only nineteen years old. I have many things I want to experience, many things except death. 

>> Please don't kill me, it was a mistake to believe that fairy tales come true, but I've learned my lesson, so please spare my life, and let me go.” Aitana says in the middle of crying."

Three of the wolves appear and pounce on Helmut, as they try to control their boss's ferocity. Immediately, Aitana runs to the nearest tree and using her experience climbing very fast trees, climbs to the highest and safest part while the wolves try to control their boss.

Distressed and with the rain leaving her unable to see very far, she begs for her now husband to disappear completely. But, as she tries to hide with the thin branches, she sees the alpha's red eyes, staring at her.

"Did you think that climbing up here would save you?" asks Helmut grabbing Aitana by the collar and lifting her on the ground.

"Let go of me, please." says Aitana trying to get away from him. But, as he is about to snap her neck, she hits him hard and he loses his balance and they both fall out of the tree. 

Aitana regrets dying so young as she waits for the impact. But what she feels is a furry cushion cushioning her fall. Distressed, she looks at the man who immediately stops looking like a wolf, to look like a human,

Looking around her, she notices that everyone is unconscious and immediately gets up ready to flee, however, guilt invades her and before leaving, she returns to Helmut's body and without being able to see that he is breathing, she brings her lips close to help him breathe.

The contact of her lips makes Helmut open his eyes and the red color slowly disappears as well as the black veins around his eyes. Aitana oblivious to what was happening, begins to make compressions on Helmut's chest, and then confirms that he is breathing.

"This is my payment for keeping him from dying by falling from that height, even though that was your fault" says Aitana wiping her mouth and getting up ready to run away. 

However, it is enough just to stand up, to see the man who just a short while ago looked like he won't breathe, grab her by the neck and without some kind of remorse, glue his lips to hers in a kiss that, unlike giving her air, stole them both.

"What the hell is this animal doing, am I that unlucky to meet two perverts in one night? - Aitana asks herself mentally while her cursed husband, makes her retreat to the bark of a tree, where he does not stop kissing her. 

The ferocity with which he kisses her lips, shows pure desire and it could even be said that this is the man that Aitana wished to see in him and that now, he was giving it to her in a fiery way that exceeded her expectations.

But, the excitement was short-lived, when Helmut pulled his lips away from her, so searchingly, that he ended up breaking Aitana's lips, who stifled a pitiful moan as she felt the pain.

"Why...?" Aitana was about to claim him for the attack, but, when she saw how the man struggled not to transform, she preferred to remain silent. 

She didn't know why she couldn't control his transformation, but, because of the suffering she saw in him and the anger, she didn't dare to ask him. So, imploring her good luck, she waited for him to move away and slowly began to move to the exit.

Helmut, struggling not to lose his sanity, held his head, hoping it wouldn't happen. Desperately, he looked around and watched as the woman he had married looked at him in fear as she backed away.

"I can't kill you. I can't do it," whispers Helmut before getting lost in the forest.

Aitana could not believe what was happening. But, hearing his cold words before he left, her legs that she had struggled to move lost their strength and she fell to the ground, overwhelmed by what she had experienced.

"How is it possible that this is happening?" whispers Aitana in a whisper. 

Feeling lost and not knowing what to do, she circled her legs and clung to them as if that made her invisible. Nothing she had read in her romance books, gave her a clue as to what all this might mean and so, she felt completely lost.

On the other hand, the wolves who served Helmut and had tried to stop him were slowly waking up from an experience that almost cost them their lives. Dyder, one of those who led the search, gets up from the ground and the first thing he sees is Aitana crying.

'She's still alive, that's a good sign' Dyder whispers mentally.

With his body aching, he approaches the girl who, although looking in his direction, hadn't noticed that someone had gotten up. His thoughts travel faster than light, because, he had experienced so many things in one night, he couldn't get out of his amazement.

"Miss, are you all right?" asks Dyder and that's when Aitana looks up so calmly, it's surprising.

"I... I don't know. I really don't know if I'm okay or I'm getting to a point where I'm disintegrating, and I don't notice it" Aitana whispers in a whisper.

"I'll take her to her room" says Dyder.

"No, I don't want to go back to that place. Let me go, before he comes back and kills me."

Dyder remembered the initial plan and nodding, helped lift Aitana, while informing his people of their location, so they could help them get off the island they were on.

"We'll take her to safety, don't worry about a future attack for now" Dyder says and that doesn't alleviate Aitana's concern much.

Aitana, leaves wishing she was not going back to the place where her dreams were not fulfilled, but nightmares she had forgotten were. With her legs trembling, she left wishing soon to get out of the hell she had walked voluntarily and blindfolded. 

What concerned the others, however, was whether he would survive Helmut's curse. Surviving the night, was a crucial thing for the pack who were imploring for their chief to be cured.

"What will happen to Helmut?" asks Aitana remembering the pain in his eyes.

"He'll show up in the morning. If he gets away from the island, he'll be back in the morning, when the moon doesn't affect him so much."

"What does that mean, is there anything to explain what happened?" asks Aitana and no one dares to speak, increasing her curiosity.