Arabe paced around the small room. She peered outside the window and let out a sigh as she was greeted with total darkness.


    ze didn’t arrive yet. She couldn’t reach him as well.


    She ced her hand on her thumping chest as more howls sounded from near where she was. It was weird, but she felt something awful was about to happen.


    She didn’t know what it was, and her intuition never failed her.N?vel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive ? material.


    However, she doubted she’d escape whatever wasing. ze had foolishly locked her in, and he hadn’t returned.


    She might as well be prey to the predator she was getting apprehensive about.


    Arabe picked up her phone and typed on it; she read the message again before sending it to ze. She had sent hundred of the same message, but she hadn’t gotten a positive response.


    The message was; Call me when you see this and get your fucking ass back here. We need to leave!


    She doubted he would reply to the one she had just sent.


    Perhaps, he was busy, she pondered, sitting on the bed.


    sping her face in her palms, she let out a groan. “That jerk. How can he leave me in the middle of nowhere?!” She red at nothing in particr, and as if to answer her question, a growl sounded.


    Arabe frowned, and she listened as she heard the growl again. It was from outside.


    She stood to her feet and stealthily walked to the window. She gripped the first-aid box, made with steel, to m into whoever it was in case she was attacked.


    Her breath lodged in her throat as she peered out of the window, and she yelped as her face collided with arge dog.


    “What the hell?!” Arabe eximed, gripping her pounding chest.


    It growled, and she doubted it was a dog. It was just like the ones she had seen several times, and no dog would be around at this time of the day in the middle of nowhere.


    And surely none would look her straight in the eyes as though it was promising to kill her when she stepped out of the room.


    It disappeared, and she heaved a breath.


    Arabe jumped as something rammed into the door. She believed it was the animal. The relief that surged into her before turned into trepidation.


    She gasped, staring at the door while reaching for her phone on the bed.


    “Please, pick up!” She cried into the phone as she ced it on her ear.


    Arabe shivered. It was not because of the cold air that suddenly drifted into the room; it was because of what was going to happen to her the next minute if the animal seeded in breaking the door.


    Shit! She’d be dead even before ze came. Tears shimmered in her eyes as she thought of how her life went from bad to good and then to worse suddenly.


    She was going to die, just like her father.


    She’d never know of her mother. Goodness, although she didn’t know who the bitch that left her was, Arabe at least wanted her to see that she was doing better without her.


    Now, there was no way she’d meet her. She doubted her mother would want to know who she was either.


    “ze!” She yelled as the call went to an automated message. “I’m going to di…”


    Arabe was yet toplete her voice message when she heard ze’s voice. But not only that, the animal had broken the door and looked at her in the eyes.


    She had reached him, but it might as well be herst night.


    Tears streamed down Arabe’s face as she gripped the phone tighter in her trembling hands.


    “ze…” She stuttered. “I-I…”


    ze frowned. His mind was foggy as he had just woken up. He groaned as the muscle at the back of his neck ached, and he kneaded it before concentrating on what Arabe was saying.


    He couldn’t make out any words aside from his name, which she had called out in a stutter.


    He heardboured breathing and something else… He sensed fear.


    ze winced as he sat up. He hadn’t healed as he assumed, but he was doing better. “What’s going on?”


    “You promised to be here!” She shouted.


    “I’m sorry, I… ” ze didn’t get toplete his statement as she snapped at him again.


    “I’ll be gone, and I sure hope you are happy.” Arabe sniffled.


    He realised she was crying and he sat up straight. “What do you mean you’ll be gone? I told you not to leave the room in the letter I dropped. Besides, it was locked. Did you break yourself out?!”


    A few minutes ago, he heard about where he locked Arabe. It was a territory for rogue werewolves.


    They were always there to terrorise poor people and other supernatural creatures.


    It wasn’t only werewolf rogues that were present; the bad eggs in other supernatural beings were also there. But werewolf rogues were the dominant ones.


    And he had wanted to save her, but somehow he had gotten weak and knocked out cold. He wondered if it was from the injury or if Thalia had added something else to the injections she had administered to him.


    “I didn’t leave; it came to me.”


    ze didn’t understand what she meant at; first; it was after hearing the fear in her trembling voice as well as the hidden plea for him to get to her as soon as possible that made him snap out of the daze he was in.


    “Hold on!” ze started to say, but the line already went dead.


    ze cursed, sitting up. The pain at his side was fast forgotten as he pulled on a clean cloth before darting out the door.


    *****


    Arabe swallowed the lump in her throat as she let the phone tter. Today was her end. She was sure of that.


    Even as ze told her he wasing for her, she doubted he would meet her alive or, worse, be able to resurrect her after the animal was done with her.


    Arabe jumped to her feet as it sprang towards her. She didn’t know the force that propelled her forward, but she was sure whatever it was didn’t want her to give up easily.


    It wanted her to fight back.


    Arabe gripped the club beside her and tightened her hands on it.


    As if the animal knew what she intended to do, it let out a growl and leapt into the air.


    Arabe swung without thinking. Then she yelled and lurched back as the club connected with the face of the animal.


    It fell to the ground and jerked up back.


    “Shit, it’s strong.” She murmured, her eyes trained on it as it prepared to attack again.


    Arabe didn’t know how long it was, but she kept attacking it and sometimes missed the attack. Yet, that didn’t stop her.


    Eventually, thest blow she gave to the animal made it fall to the ground.


    Arabe let out a staggering breath. Her eyes shut and opened as she heard more howl.


    Was moreing?


    She had barely killed the one on the floor, and more were on their way. Shit, she might not be lucky.


    Arabe stared at the scratch the werewolf had inflicted on her; it was fast bing purple on her wrist, and she felt a burning sensation. She wobbled to the door, gripped the doorknob and her eyes rounded as she saw two more of the same creature.


    Not just two, she counted ten altogether, and they wereing at her.


    Fuck, she was doomed; that was the only thought that stayed in her head as they sprinted towards her.