Chapter 2
(Day 2)
I felt I had a terrible dream: a stream of blood gushed out of my mouth, my eyes and my nose. I fell to the ground, surrounded by a dead darkness and silence, and a snow-white wolf stood in front of me, dripping the blood from its paws into my mouth ...
The light broke the open drapes and lit up my eyelids, I slowly opened my eyes, fearing I would be in heaven already. I saw my beloved pink blanket covering my body, a funny picture of me and Zelda on the bedside table. Everything was so familiar; I was in my own home indeed.
I let out a sigh of relief and remembered the dream again, horrible but real. I subconsciously moved my fingers and feet and felt them. This reassured me that I was fine, it was just a dream.
I tried to get up but found a man's hairy arm resting on me. I turned my head and a topless man with curly brown hair was sleeping soundly next to me.
"Ah!" I screamed, rolling out of bed onto the floor in a flash.
The man opened his eyes and grumbled, "Quiet, I finally got a good night's sleep." Then closed his eyes again.
Some fragments of last night flashed in my mind: I was drinking at the bar with three gigolos, then two more gigolos came, and then I was brought home by these two.
I looked down and realized that I was wearing nothing inside my pyjamas, and a cold sweat broke out behind me. I was drunken promiscuity and had lost my virginity! I got up from the floor and swung my fist at the man on the bed.
"Asshole, you took advantage of me, I can sue you for rape." I yelled at him.
"What are you yelling about! You were drugged at the bar last night, and if I hadn't saved you, you wouldn't know how many times you've been raped now." He pushed me away, got up from the bed and snorted.
I froze and how could I not remember that I was drugged? I then realized that he was standing in front of me wearing only boxers, firm and massive pecs, with obvious lines of abs and two long legs, simply sexier than a lingerie model.
I blushed and swallowed, "Put your clothes on first, and I'll deal with you later." I whispered:
"You threw up all over me last night, these are stinking, and I have no clothes to wear." He snorted.
His words made me vaguely remember my crazy behaviours last night when I thought of him as my boyfriend, and I blushed even more. "I didn't say anything, did I?" I asked guiltily.
"You said a lot, but don't worry, I won't take advantage of a woman who talks about other man," he said snappily. Relief flooded over me at hearing him say that.
"Do you know that you have poison in your body?" he asked.
Ah? I felt baffled, how come I didn't feel anything? I was just about to ask him when my phone rang, I saw that it was Zelda calling, and then I looked at the phone screen and tons of her messages: Dory, where are you, why do you not return my calls?
I was afraid to answer the phone and it stopped ringing for a while. I then remembered that Zelda and I had planned to go back to Night-fall Pack to see my parents today. I panicked, if Zelda saw a naked man in my house now, I would be so ashamed.
Rather than answer him, I quickly rummaged my closet and pulled out a free t-shirt that I got from an event, I remembered it was XXL.
"You put it on and leave quickly, my sister is coming." I handed him the white t-shirt and urged him to go.
He put the white t-shirt over his body, loose and oversized, and tied into a crop, he looked very funny. But no pants yet! I hastily took out a bath towel, let him wrap it around his waist, and pushed him out.
I pushed the man to the door, he suddenly turned around as if he had something to say: "You ..."
I remembered, shit! he is a gigolo and accompanied me all night, I have not paid him!
I hurriedly took out my wallet and shoved all the bills inside into his hand, "I'll give you all the cash, you can leave now."
After saying that, I pushed him out and closed the door.
I exhaled and ran to the bathroom, which was a mess. I threw all the clothes on the floor into the trash bin, when the doorbell rang, and it was Zelda who arrived.
"Dory, where did you go last night? I didn't see you when I got back from the phone, and I couldn't get in touch with you all night, you had me worried sick." Zelda asked with a worried look on her face as soon as she came in.
"Why are you asking me, you were out for ages and didn't come back, I was almost set up by those three gigolos." I rolled my eyes at her and pretended to be angry.
"Dory, I am so sorry, it's my fault, you know my good friend Lily and her parents had a fight and she was very upset, so we talked a little longer. Nothing happened to you last night, right?" Zelda took my hand and apologized.
"No, I was drunk and had a bad headache, so I went home and went to bed straight away, that's why I didn't see the text you sent." I lied to her.
"Let's get going, it's already 10:30." Zelda didn't seem to doubt my words as she looked at her watch and urged me to hurry.
We both left my apartment in a hurry and drove to Night-fall Pack.
GIAPABNTA Kingdom consists of twelve packs. Night-fall Pack and Dark Moon Pack are adjacent to each other, both are relatively weak packs, so we always have an alliance: through marriage to make two packs alliance, together to resist the attack of more powerful packs.
Our pack is in a remote area of the GIAPABNTA Kingdom, Gold Heart Pack is the center of the kingdom, and it took us 5 to 6 hours to drive back.
"Dory, I see you don't look well, so I'll drive today, you can rest in the back." Zelda opened the door and went to the driver's seat.
"Zelda, you're so sweet." I nodded gratefully.
I sat back, put on my seat belt, leaned my head against the window and closed my eyes, I felt terribly worn out, I had a kind of surreal feeling about what had happened from last night to this morning, it was a bit like being a born again after a lifetime.
My mother died only a week after I was born. My mother, Lilian, was my father's original mate, and his fated mate. I don't know much about my mother. My father told me that my mother was an orphan and he and my mother fell in love at first sight at a dance.
Then a week after my mother gave birth to me, our pack was hit by a very serious fire that killed her. My father seemed reluctant to talk about my mother's past, and I didn't want to upset him, so I rarely asked if he didn't talk about it.
But I was lucky because shortly after my mother died, my father married Zoe, my stepmother, who later gave birth to Zelda, and Mum Zoe doted on me and was never biased, indeed, her bias was towards me.
From childhood to adulthood, Mum Zoe always let me pick the food, toys and beautiful clothes first. Whenever my father scolded me for my bad test scores, it was Mum Zoe who defended me. When I was lazy and didn't go to school, it was Mum Zoe who covered for me.
No wonder Zelda complains that I seem to be the one Mum Zoe gave birth to. But Zelda only says that in jest, she's never serious. Although I am half a year older than her, as werewolves are usually pregnant from 3 to 6 months, she is like a sister to me. She is very considerate and gives way to me in every way.
Zelda is smart, beautiful, and got into the most prestigious Western Bridge University, the same university Jacob went to, with the top grades in our pack.
When I thought of Jacob, I felt a pang in my heart. Although I found out that he cheated on me, I had loved him for more than ten years and now I still couldn't let go of him. I couldn't figure out why he would say such cruel things to me.
The car should have entered the woods and I felt it lurching and I began to drift off to sleep. I dreamed that I was naked and being held in a man's arms and kissed, and then I dreamed that I was caressing this man's naked, toned chest...
"Wake up, we're home! You're having an erotic dream! Your face is so red!" Zelda teased me as she pushed me.
I opened my eyes and saw that our car was just parked in front of our house.
"No, I just feel so hot." I quickly wiped the saliva from my mouth and got out of the car to walk with Zelda towards home.
I was surprised that before when we came home, Mum Zoe was already at the door to greet us when the car pulled up to the house. But this time, we all went to the door, and Mum Zoe did not come out.
I rang the doorbell and soon the door opened, and it was Dad who opened the door.
"Dad, I really missed you." I hugged my dad and greeted him with a cheeky smile.
Instead of getting a hug from dad, I suddenly felt myself being pushed away and then a loud slap on my face, "You bitch, you've disgraced me!" Dad roared at me.
Sparks were flying in front of my eyes, and my face felt hot and sore. What was going on?
"Dad, we just got back, what's wrong?" Zelda pulled me behind her and asked Dad.
"Your sister ran to a bar last night and had gigolos on drugs, now the internet is full of pictures of her at the bar last night, being groped by men, getting high, even sluttier than a whore!" Dad growled.
The more Dad said, the angrier he got, he pushed Zelda away and swung his fist at me, cursing under his breath, "Bitch. I'll kill you! "
My mind went blank: How could someone has caught me on camera? What should I do?
"Edward, stop fighting and calm down. It's better for Dory to go outside and hide now, or the paparazzi will know she's back and things will get even worse." Mum Zoe ran over to pull Dad away and held him back.
"Dory, I packed some of your clothes and your favourite chocolate cookies for you, go stay outside for a few days and I'll call you back when things calm down." She handed me a backpack and winked at me.
I took the backpack and Zelda tossed me the car keys, which I took and rushed out of the house.
"Get the hell out of here and don't come back!" my father yelled behind me.