As his vision slowly came into concentration Jacob tried to get up but his body refused to budge. The first thing that he saw was the ceiling art of a black wolf howling at the moon. And around the the wolf was stars that seemed to decorate it. He tried to make sense of what was happening.
The last thing that he could remember was a bright light before the pain began and everything went black. The sound of the door opening caught his attention and he turned his eyes towards the direction. A young woman, maybe in her thirties approached him and two more followed her.
"Oh, you are finally up young lord." The surprised lady said. Her eyes gleamed as she scrutinized him.
"Who are you?" Jacob whispered more than said. But she actually heard it.
"Oh I'm just a maid in this house young Lord. No need to mind me. I shall be in charge of making sure that you are okay."
"Where am I?" Jacob asked now worried that he might still be in the state of darkness.'What happened to the wolf?' he thought. He did not say it out loud because he is afraid that he might be hallucinating.
"At Rocheport at the Pride mansion young master." She answered enthusiastically.
How he got here?He had absolutely no idea. She then beckons the other girls to come closer. Then she starts ordering both of them in a hush voice.
Jacob tries to get up causing severe pain in his entire body. His action caught the lady's attention and she quickly rushed over to him. With a smile on her face she leans in and helps Jacob up.
"Master Helix said that the pain will slowly go away." She said trying to reassure him. But who is Helix? He was getting more confused with no one to give him answers to his questions.
"I am now going to change your dressings."She said and the other two maids quickly come forward with a bucket of water and a tray with medical supplies.
"You should avoid moving too much. You are injured after all young master." Why was someone he did not know care about him? She slowly began to undo the bandages around his chest and his eyes met hers. She was not a guy but she was pretty.
His eyes wondered off again as he tried to understand his situation. The room did not have much. But all that were in it were high class. The chair in the corner near the book case looked expensive. There was a bottle of vodka on the window. He wondered if it would fall and break.
"I am almost done patching you up young master!" The lady chimed as she did the finishing touches to the newly done bandage.
The door opens and the first thing he sees is brunette hair well styled. The next thing that he saw was a man. He was handsome. Really handsome. His plain white shirt against expectations gave his body features more space to shine. A chiseled chin with slightly almond shaped eyes. His eyes were green with a hint of grey in them and one can clearly see that the shirt was not doing a good job hiding his muscles.
The Maids quickly bow down and avoid the mans eyes.
"Well looks like the heavens are on your side. You lucky rascal!You did indeed survive!" The man marveled in amazement. However Jacob was very wary of him. Maybe it was the way his eyes seem to be saying the opposite of what his mouth spilled. Or maybe the way those same eyes look at him like he was an experiment waiting to be poked and done.
So Jacob remained silent not saying anything. His eyes remained still. He was already used to such scornful eyes. It wasn't the first time that he went through something like that. He had grown up seeing them.
"You are nothing but a disgrace!The demon himself!" His father would shout.
"I wish you were never born...." His mother would weep. He even lost the ability to feel fear. That was why he ran away from the orphanage in the first place. To defy the shackles that held him down and forge his own path. Even if it was gruesome or ended in the gutter. At least he would have made the choice himself.
"You don't speak?" The man asked as if amused by the little creature in front of him.
"Now now. Don't be shy. You can talk to me." Th man urged as he put on a mocking smile.
"Fuck off..." Jacob muttered. But what the man did next came as a surprise to him. The man burst out laughing.
"Looks like we got ourselves a piece of shit!" The man said as he continued laughing. Piece of shit? Jacob realised that he hadn't heard such words in a while. Not since he was locked in solitude by the matron for two moths before he escaped. 'What date is it' Jacob asked himself.
"Helix is gonna love you." The laughing man said before leaving. The maids who were bowing hurriedly went next to Jacob and began scolding him.
"How could you do that! That is the main master!" One cried.
"We could have died!" The other joined in. They did not stop until the lady ordered them to shut up.
"You should rest young master." She said before she ordered the other two to follow her out of the room.
'I forgot to ask her her name.' Jacob finally realised but the lady was far gone.
He slowly laid back in bed and stared at the ceiling. The wolf drawn in the ceiling was similar to the one he saw in his dreams. But they are slightly different. The one on the ceiling had grey eyes and the one in his dreams has red eyes.
His eyes slowly got heavy and as sleep came to him he began remembering some memories.
"Aren't you disgusted by yourself!" His father screamed as he hit him right across the face.
There he was again. He knelt at the alter step. Behind his father was the statue of Mary and Jesus on the cross. It was his daily routine. His father would alway bring him to this room that was in the basement of the house. Here he would try to beat out the 'devil' in him and send him the right way.
His father strongly held the whip in his hand hit Jacob continuously with it.He would not stop until he saw blood flow from the unconscious Jacob. After that he would bandage him up pretty neatly, make him fill his stomach with food then sent straight to bed.
His heavy lids slowly closed then opened again. He was tired. How long was he staring at the drawing? He had no idea. Thirty minutes? One hour? He could not tell.He hears the door open again and he gets up to see who it is.
"It's you." Jacob said as he saw the lady who changed his bandages.
"I have a name you know." She said as she pouted. Jacob who was actually curious about her name asked and she smiled brightly at him. It was as if she herself was shining like the stars.
"My name is Ezra."
"Like the bible?" Jacob asked fascinated.
"Yup. Like the Bible.I thought you would want some company so i decided to come around." She jovially said before sitting next to Jacob without even asking him. Honestly he didn't care. He was after all lonely. The silence was slowly eating away at him and maybe she could help him.
"Who was the man that came in here?" Jacob asked breaking the ice of silence between them. He could not get over the man's eyes.
"Oh, he is the owner of the mansion. The rumour in the mansion is that the family is a branch of a famous royal family!"
"Like the British or what?"
"They never specified. However i don't like the master much. I like the second master more. The first master is always sleeping with us maids."
"Wait, he molests you guys?"
"Oh no no no!He just flirts and seduces us. "
"That is not good. "
"But young master if you think about i, isn't it our fault. We are the ones who fall for him."
"I think living freely is better than falling in love. I would chose death over love." Jacob said, now fully awake.
For a while the room went silent.
"It is sad that i have to kill you. I am bonding with you well."
"Too bad you have to.... wait...hold on!" SHwoo. The blade misses Jacob by an inch. Something had pulled him back.But then he suddenly realised that nothing pulled. When he tried to lean away his body reacted pulling him back!His hands then move on their own and try to catch Ezra but misses her by an inch!His whole body was out of his control.
"I guess even baby were-dire wolves are dang..ugh!" She stops talking and looks down at her stomach. A hand was through it! Ezra drops down as blood gushed from the hole in her stomach. Shocked Jacob looked up and his eyes met a pair of red eyes glowing fiercely. His black hair glimmering and his hand filled with blood.
"Welcome back from the dead."The man congratulates as he wiped the blood on his shirt.
"If i was a moment late you would be dead dear son." The man said and he smiled the most evil smile Jacob had seen in his whole life.