Chapter 36
EMMA
“Hey.” The voice that I hear is distant and 1 groan as I push my head to the other side. “Hey. Wake up. Emma. Emmal” My lashes flutter, and I blink my eyes at the surroundings. The features of a car come to view before I turn my head and Will is staring at me.
Í sit up against my seat and rub my eyes. “Sorry. I dozed off”
“It’s alright. We’re here.” He says before pushing back his head through the opened door and I look out the window to my side. My brows furrow at the emptiness that surrounds us before I climb out of the car. My eyes run across the space and all in sight are mountains–tall hill after hill.
Will is getting our bags out of the trunk with Doctor lan masing to himself as he rests against the front of the car and I walk to Will. “Hey. Where
“One of my secret hideouts. Thought it’d be perfect for the mission since there’s no one around” He explains, and I nod as I glance around again. He’s right. There’s nothing in view other than those mountains and the tall trees on the other side. In the middle of them stands a house—in a small modern but and I’m guessing that’s where we’ll be staying
“I can help,” I sell Will when I look to see him carrying all the bags and he shakes his head. “No, just grab my phone from the car and get tan.” 1 hum: and watch the veins stretching across his long arms before I push my feet forward I grab his phone from the driver’s seat before I move to the front of the car, where the doctor is scribbling some stuff in his note. “What are you doing?”
“Oh. Emma” He looks back at me and throws me a smile before his gaze shifts back to the book. “Jotting down more stuff about our creature.”
I nod as I peer over his shoulder at the writings on the paper. They’re all confusing, so I step back and ask instead. “How did you know it’s
Kanima?”
Doctor Fan drops his pen and turns to me. “The Alpha told me he had scaly skin when you saw him again?” I nod in confirmation and he continues. “And yellow eyes. Putting together his poisonous claws and immense strength, 1 knew it was a Kanima. Only a Kanima fits those descriptions”
“How’in Kanima created?”
“Normally, it happens when a human body rejects a werewolf’s bite. They aren’t able to morph into a wolf, so they shapeshift into that vile creature insteadTM
“So someone is going around giving humanis bries?” I lift a brow and Doctor lan chuckles. He turns back to grab his book, then he places a hand on the small of my back, dragging me along as he moves from the car. “I said normally–I didn’t say that’s the only way it can happen”
My curiosity piques further at his words and his hand drops from my back as we stride down the leveled ground to the house in sight. “A Kanima can also be created by a witch, but the witch has to be incredibly powerful as Kanimas are one of the strongest supernumural creatures” He explains
we walk to the duor
“Boring, isn’t it” He laughs and I shake my head as I push the door open. “No. I’m intrigued. I tell him and we walk into the house. Will is standing in the middle of the room with the bags in front of him and he turns at our presence.
“We only have two rooms. He provides and Doctor lan is quick to say, “You can take one each. I’ll stay here”
“No,” Will says as he dusts his hands. “I’ll take here. You and Emma can have a room each”
I part my lips to speak, but the doctor beats me to it “Are you sure, Alpha? I’m totally fine with staying-
“I’m sure. I don’t sleep much.” He cuts in before lan can finish and silence stretches as we stare at each other. My gare falls on Will, but he looks away and clears his digoat. “So what do we have on the…”
The Kanima“The doctor offers and steps forward. He throws his bag on the sofa sisting in the room before taking the space. “I was just telling Emma a Kanima can also be made. Though we don’t know if the one we want to catch is a result of a failed transformation or a product of a witch.”
“How’s that important! Will asks and lan says, “If someone created the Kanima, then it means the Kanima isn’t the problem. Whoever is controlling it is. Which means someone unknown wards Emma for whatsoever reason. Both gazes fall to me after his words, and 1 shift on my as I swallow through the tightness of my throat.
“We’ll find out whoever it is Will’s eyes are on me when he speaks, as though he’s comforting me and telling me not to be afraid. I throw him a sețiile, and he nods before he looks away. “We just have to catch the creature first. What are its weaknessrit”
We don’t have nauch Because of its strength and quick healing abilities, bullets won’t take him down and no, you shouldn’t wrestle hins either.“1 form you’ve seen unnd now bun’t his complete one.”
“You mean he can be more powerful?” I ask, and the doctor looks at me as he nods. My breath lutches and my heart pounds. I don’t want to be afraid, but I can’t help the uneasiness that grips me as my nails stab into my hands.
“The only way we can win is by clapping its head off, and that means killing him”
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“Then we’d never know who’s the one controlling it–the master Will chirps in and tan says, “That’s correct. The only way we’d be able to hold it down without killing it is with mountain ash”
“We can get that.” Will bluris “We have to be prepared since we don’t know when he’d show up. I’ll go find some in
omne mountain ash and your t sente in” He glances between us and when Doctor lan nods, he pats his back before walking out of the house.
I meet lan’s eyes before I go after Will. He’s walking to his car and I rush forward.
Will raises a brow when I stop before him, and I lift his phone. “Forgot this.”
“Thank you.” He takes the phone from me and throws it in his pocket. He stares at me with a questioning look when I don’t move, and 1 let out an awkward chuckle. “I just thought you might need a hand. Should I follow you? I won’t be a-”
“No.” He interrupts before I can finish, and I’m taken aback by his brisk rejection. “I won’t take long Stay with lan and get some rest. You can conk something if you get hungry too, there are foodstuff’s in the refrigerator”
“1” he doesn’t stop to listen to anything else I have to say and my chest is heavy as I watch him walk away, going toward the mountain–the further be disappears, the more my heart sinks. I thought we were okay. Why’s he suddenly being distant again?
I swallow the bile in my throat and walk back to the house.
I glance at the doctor on the sofa immersed in his writings before I walk to where my bag sits. I curse when the handle slips from my grasp ast attempt to lift it. I try again and when it does the same thing, 1 kick at the leather like a fucking child.
But it isn’t the bag I’m annoyed at It’s him and his fucking mood swings? One moment he wants to kiss me, and the other moment he wants nothing to do with me. One second he’s buried between my thighs and the next second, he acts like he’s irritated by my sight.
“He cares about you.” I lift my head at his voice and the doctor is staring at me. When I don’t speak, he tips his head in a direction. “The Alpha, [ mean. He cares about you.”
“I wouldn’t go as far as that I chuckle as I finally ft the bag off the floor, only for it to drop from my hold in the next second when Tan asks, “You like him, don’t you?”
Goddess. Am I being too obvious that everyone is saying that? First, Ryan. Now the doctor?
“He’s my stepbrother. Of course, I like him.” I tell him as I brush my curls from my face and he shakes his head as he rises from his seat. “Not in a platonic way. You like him truly like him. In a way a female likes a male.”
I turn away from his burning gaze and stammer. “I don’t know what you’re talking about”
“It’s alright to like him. It’s not like you’re of the same blood” He chuckles as he steps in front of me and when I look at him, his mouth is coiled in
“How did you
“Know that you like him?” He finishes, and when I nod, he throws his left shoulder up. It’s just apparent. Plus, I caught you two kissing”
My eyes widen and he only laughs at my expression as he turns to fall back on the sofa. Was it a few days back? Five or sixt I can’t remember, but it was in the hallway. It was dark and I couldn’t make out who you were at first, but after he left and you just stood there flustered, I saw your face
He’s referring to the moment I told Will about my innocence and he walked away
Heat spreads to my checks, and I drop my head as I fondle with my shirt. “I didn’t think–I didn’t realize we were caught.”
“Not caught. Lips are sealed here.” He makes a motion of drawing a zipper over his mouth when I lift my gaze and I laugh at his shocking playfulness. “Thank you. Doctor”
“Please. Just call me lan” He says with a wave and I cackle, “Alright, Ian”
“Perfect.” He winks and I shake my head as I lift my bag. “I’ll be in this room,” I tell him and he hums, his attention falling back to his notepad while I walk into the room, taking the one to the left.
The sparc is neither too wide nor no compressed. There’s a bed big enough for my frame at the end of the room and at the foot of the bed is a swing chair that hangs from the ceiling. There’s a closet by the side of the bed and I step ahead to leave my hug there before dropping on the bed with my hands spread apart.
He takes over my thoughts like he always does as sleep seizes my
my consetouness,
I’m running again. Through a dark forest.
I’m in a white dress and the edge is smudged with the dirt from the inaddy ground I step on. I don’t have my shoes on and my heart is beating fast ‘an I rush through the woods, the leaves crunching beneath my feet as I step over logs of wood and slide between irres
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I can neither see what’s ahead of me nor what’s chasing me. I just keep running because I know something is hot on my tail–something scary. Something dangerous and dark. Something that hills my body with chilk. Something that feels like death.
Iery when I trip over a branch, and I fall to the ground. The mud splashes on my face, dirtying my white dress as my chest hits the ground and I wince as I try to get up. Before I can, my hair is yanked from behind and I gasp as my body lifts into the air,
1 dangle in the space and throw my hands over my head. “Who–who are you? What do you want? WHO ARE YOU?” I scream in agony as tears roll down my cheeks and I get nothing in response other than the blast of wind that blows through the dark forest.
Then I feel in. I see nothing, but I sense it as it comes close to my face and I choke as a force close around my throat, tightening the flesh and making it hard to breathe.
-Who–who are
“Daughter Of Selene!” The words thunder across the forest before a hand thrusts mo my chest and squeezes my heart. Blood sputters from my mouth and my head drops,
My eyes nap open, and my breathing is labored as sweat drips from my forehead.
1 bold a hand to my chest before looking to the side; only to scream when I see a shadow looming over me,
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