*Id Like to thank my proofreader Jennifer K. for cleaning up my spelling We both had similar thoughts on putting two chapters together so that's what I did here, it might be awhile before posting again but... Enjoy? (:
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Markus's words rang out in my head over and over again. "He hurts you again; I make his heart mine too, for dinner." Did he mean he'd kill Drew? Or just rough him up? I sat in the store parking lot, my mind lost. My mind wandered back to the night of the car crash, when my mother was passed out against the steering wheel. The way the blood trickled down her forehead. I cringed hoping the memory wouldn't continue but my head never listened.
"Mommy!" I cried out, "wake up, PLEASE!" my dainty little 8-year-old hands shaking her shoulders from the back seat. Growls and howls emerged from the rural woods outside; something had jumped in front of the car earlier. Mom had skidded out of the way trying to avoid it and hit a nearby tree head on. "Mommy!" I continued to cry out. The tears now streaming down my face, her eye's flickered.
"Shhhh, it's ok baby..." Her low voice came in from up front, trying to keep her grunts of pain little enough so I couldn't hear her struggle.
I continued to whimper hoping that the call I had made earlier to the police had worked and that they were on their way. All I had been able to give them was the name of the street sign I saw ahead of us, to my luck the operator that answered my call didn't live far from the street I had named and she knew exactly where I was. But the growls, were getting closer "Mommy..." She quickly hushed me and adjusted herself so she could see me one last time through the rear-view mirror.
"Mommy wants you to do something for her, ok?" I shook my head quickly wiping away my tears. "I'm going to need you to curl up in a ball on the floor of the car and take the special blanket I made you for your birthday and put it over you, ok?"
"But mo-" "Patricia Lee, do it now." Her voice firm and demanding, I scurried down onto the floor with my knees in my chest, I then reached out and felt for my plush blanket. I quickly tugged at it when I felt the thread of the embroidered wolf on the corner graze my fingers; I covered my whole body with it like momma had asked. The growls seemed to surround the car now, "Did you call for help like I taught you to do when mommy or yourself gets a boo boo?"
"Yes ma'am" I said starting to get scared from the ongoing howls, the noise of metal being ripped filled my ears and there was something else on the roof.
"You can't have her!" my mother's voice came out angry, but still I could tell she had been crying when she spoke, the way she pushed the pain out of her speech, that was the last thing I heard before the growl and her screeching out. The sounds of sirens filled my head, the police officer tugged at my leg tenderly through the blanket, "Sweetie, it's ok now you can come out" she pulled me into her arms softly holding my head into her shoulder as she backed out of the car. "Keep your eyes closed for me honey" she whispered.
I did so, that was until she got involved in a conversation with another officer, "I've never seen anything like it" he said.
Her hand dropped from my head, she hadn't noticed she'd let go from habit, that's when I took the opportunity to see what the male officer was talking about. The car door to my mother's side was ripped off completely, with paw prints all on the hood, trunk and roof. But the one thing that caught my eye was the blood stained driver's seat were my mother once sat, my throat tightened and my eyes over flowed with tears "Where's my mommy?" I cried out.
The officer then nudged my head back into her shoulder and ran to the police car in a hurry. I should have kept them closed, I thought as I sat in my car, now 23 but yet I can always remember that night like it was yesterday. How my grandmother cried every night after taking in the constant reminder of her deceased daughter. Not living long enough to watch her grandchild fall in love with the man, who she now knew to be a monster, during her vulnerable years of high school.
"I'm hungry, get home" said the text I had just received from Drew, I wiped my eyes and started the car to head home. "Sorry, the service lines there were ridiculous." He nodded and kept looking at the TV. I went into the kitchen and started things up, I didn't even notice how late I had gotten back until I looked up and saw that it was completely dark out. "Oh wow" I mumbled to myself, "Can someone say, the latest dinner ever?" Drew's voice rang out from the door way with light laugher as he pulled out his chair to the table.
I smiled quickly back over my shoulder at him and continued fixing his plate, that's when I felt his fingertips slide up my shirt. No, please no. "Come here" he whispered, while gently tugging me away from the stove. What? The other bitch you're fucking said you couldn't come over tonight? You haven't touched me in over 6 months, why now?
He pulled up my shirt just enough to kiss below my belly button, I tensed as he unbuttoned my jeans, "Your dinners going to get cold, I know how much you hate it when it's cold, you should start." He tugged my pants just below my butt and pulled me closer kneading my ass like it was dough while kissing me through my panties "I'm working on getting my dinner warm right now".
I could feel his lips stretch into a smile as I realized that the text he'd sent me was a sexual reference, he could care less about the food I'd just prepared for him. I looked into the living room away from him trying to settle my sick stomach, that's when I saw it, small globe's glowing yellow, the light from the lamp reflecting off its savage wolf eyes, its ivory teeth glistening as it snarled at me through the floor length windows.
"Oh my god" I let out, stunned by what I was seeing, "I'm getting their baby, be patient" he said pulling my panties aside; I quickly smacked his hand away and turned his head to let him see for himself. The wolf then growled at him as Drew made eye contact, the metallic silver hair rising on its back, its snarl and growl loud enough to vibrate the glass windows.
I pulled my pants back up and stood back behind Drew who was just as stunned as I was, because it wasn't looking at me, but at him and he knew it just as well as I did. Then just like that it ran off into the hills, following the creature's lead I ran up the stairs shaking in my skin from what I'd just saw. A scramble of words repeating themselves through my head "You might be with him, but you belong to me"... "You can't have her"..."He hurts you again; I make his heart mine too, for dinner."
