REIGN OF THE HYBRID; RULER OF ADVERSITY

Chapter 8

There was no other way but to give up. He was not immune to fire, even God had to believe Leon tried his best. In her death, he just realized he was starting to like her. His secretive life was coming to an end since she showed up, he wanted to open up to her, love and take care of her like family. Because she was not just another freak to him, Aubrey was a girl of her dreams he couldn't admit it earlier. He thought it was too soon and they had just known each other for a week but now his other nature, the strong need for violence personality was somehow agreeing with him. Leon wept bitterly he had decide to take a vigil beside her remains and call the police later. But something wasn't adding up, the hunters they killed. He couldn't see their bodies anywhere. Leon looked around just to be sure, there was no scent of any human being around, apart from the smell of ammonia. He was not dumb, ammonia was a good cleaning agent especially for people who want to cover their tracks, hide their DNA from a crime scene. So she buried them before someone burned her inside the cabin? He thought looking around. But who burned her? Who else knew they were there apart from Fabian and Mary? Leon was about to morph at will and run through the woods to confront them when he heard a howl. His heart skipped a beat.

"That must be her", He said out loud and morphed following the scent and the sound.

He felt free running in the woods, bushes brushing past his grey fur, his eyesight clear than it was during the day and he was running miles without fatigue. There was no hitch in his strides, No pain his hip like he used to have while cycling to college. He was happy, so happy that he released a howl of his own. Leon was sure she heard him. When they met, Aubrey was lying there breathing heavily. She was wounded and not healing. In a scuffle with Maya, now resting at the bottom of a water fall, the smart female berserker hunter got her somehow. Aubrey never felt the pain that moment until she caught Leon’s scent. They all shifted into humans, Leon Carried her in his arms and ran back to the cabin panting, their car had survived. Cautiously he lay her on the grass showing little concern about her nudity. He ripped the door of the car and went straight to the dashboard, a first aid kit was lying there. Exactly what he needed. They had carried some scotch for entertainment purposes. He used the scotch to sterilize his hands, thanks to the movies he had watched, using a pair of sterilized scissors he tentatively scooped out the silver bullets lodged in her frail gut. Leon stopped to look at them before he kept them and dressed the wound with bandage. She was lucky the bullets had not bruised any vital organs. Or he just didn't know that she shot herself, Maya never had a chance of getting revenge whatsoever. Slowly she started healing and opening her eyes, Leon smiled at her.

She coughed lazily, "You saved me"

Leon just nodded, "save your breath and heal I almost lost you"

She smiled back at him and attempted to sit up, Leon helped her up until she could sit supported by his arms.

"What if I told you there is a way you can make heal faster ", she said her eyes lighting up.

Leon looked at her in surprise, "And what's that?”

She caressed his cheeks, Leon closed his eyes turned away. His wolf wanted to come out and take her there and then. Aubrey grabbed his chi, plastered her lips into his. He couldn't resist the urge, Leon grabbed her waist still kissing her. He checked her wounds they were healed, permission to go through with what he had always wanted. He rolled over such that she was on top of him, their gonads feeling the heat they were both emitting. Aubrey tucked her messed up hair and bent over a little, her sharp n****e's threatening to burrow tiny holes into his chest area. She kisses him once and paused to admire his handsome face shining in the moonlight, Leon took her hands into his and pulled her closer both of them busting into laughter. She raised her abdomen a little and connected his massive c**k into position, they all moaned in pleasure as he got deep inside of her. So deep that her wolf growled and her claws we're almost ripping his heart out of his chest. Leon was simultaneously bleeding and healing before he even realized. He swiftly turned her over on her back and his c**k still in position, Aubrey’s legs were entangled around his waist as he stroked her rhythmically, slow strokes with glowing eye contact and every deep stroke felt like his cork was driving out all the air from her chest in one massive whoop. She moaned and growled in pleasure her right paw on his shoulder the other one embedded in the ground. Leon was just getting started, he turned her sideways her body lying in recovery position. Raised her leg slightly above his thigh and penetrated her from behind. Thach God she was flexible enough to turn her abdomen and kiss him.

*****

His family had gone to sleep. Fabian was left in the living room worried. Before she hung up on him, Aubrey sounded scared like someone had ambushed her. He couldn’t get sleep, Aubrey was like a daughter to him and he could go to the ends of the world to ensure her safety.

He took a sip of his drink as the phone rang from the other end of the line ", James my friend I have a favor to ask of you as a friend not a sheriff”

The sheriff chuckled ", what is it my friend it’s so late"

Fabian sighed in relief "I told you about a friends daughter am hosting, I think something has happened to her in our old cabin around skyview forest"

"Ooh my God Fabian why didn't you say something, there have been reports of fire from the same my boys are on it", James assured with concern.

"Update me on anything", Fabian said and hung up.

Guilt was co dining him. He could have stopped her from going at night with that lonesome boy. His hope was clinging on Maya and Rob, maybe they saved her from the fire. There was a chance. Poor Fabian was consumed by sleep on his coach with a bottle of scotch beside him.

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Lying came easy to him. James always had lie ready to sooth those who were suffering for his help. But this time it was different. Fabian was like best friend and despite that he rarely asked for favors from him. His friend could get arrested for parking on the wrong Lane and not call him for a quick way out. The reports of fire outbreak from Fabians cabin had got to his desk an hour before he even called him. Yet he pretended and lied about his boys being on it. The truth was James was scared to send them to the dreadful forest at night and he couldn't put their friendship into jeopardy.

"Get me two officers, carry the big guns we are going to the cabin", James ordered dressing up. He was already in bed but duty calls especially when it’s a friend who never asks for anything.

The officer on duty was surprised by the turn of events, "Are you sure sir, skyview forest at nigh is a hakiri"

"It’s an order Joe!” James barked running down his staircase with his gun and bullet proof vest.

"Okay sir", Joe said and hung up.

James dressed up in his bullet proof vest and got into his car. He keyed in the ignition and sped off to the station. It was the right thing to do. One hand on the wheel the other one on the walkie talkie.

"I want every cop on his way towards the station now we have an emergency"

Mentioning sky view forest could have lowered the turn up so he kept quiet about. If he was going to succeed he needed all hands on deck and that included everybody. James called his professor friend, Jefferson.

He picked right away "I could use the silver bullets meet me at the station something has happened to Fabian’s daughter in the woods and I have a bad feeling it’s the wolves"

Jefferson yawned, “on it see you in a few"

When he got to the station, all the cops were there including Professor Jefferson with uncountable rounds of silver bullets, garlic powder and wolfsbane. They were going for a hunt, a blood birth in the forest. Lucky for them there were only two humans in the forest madly making love to each other beside the burnt cabin.

******

Leon was lying naked on his back, Aubrey’s head on his right breast. Playing with each other’s fingers. Basking in the glow of the moon, Goosebumps on their bodies due to the midnight cold. Leon ruffled hid hands into her hair, kissed her on the forehead and went to look for some clothes. Aubrey admired his male stripper physique as he walked away in long strides. She bit her lower lip and ran towards him. There was no way she was letting him out of her sight. Aubrey jumped on his back and he supported her wit his arms, turned around to kids her. They found clothes helped each other to dress up.

"So are we gonna like stay out here all night?” Leon inquired going Aubrey with her boots.

"Of course yes unless you want us to go back home", Aubrey said looking at him confound.

"I think we should go, I have a secret way to get inside my room without Maya and Rob realizing ", Leon said his hands on her shoulders

On the mention of Rob and Maya her heart started beating faster but she managed to hide her guilt by kissing him passionately.

"Am sure they won't let's go", Aubrey said getting in the driver’s seat.

A simple principle saved them that day. Aubrey had sworn not to use the same road to and from at night. So instead of taking the short cut they used while coming to the cabin she used the longer one. To buy her more time to think about proposing her plan to Leon and getting comfy with her life of secrets. She was sure no one saw her murder his only remaining relatives yet again she knew he had to know they died one way or another. Lucky for her cases of disappearance were rampant in skyview, in fact they only gave it a week to forget about it especially when someone was snooping around around the forest. James on the other side was out for blood, anger and vengeance was blocking his judgment. In a move to prove his loyalty to his friend, he also helped cover one the biggest mystery in his town by not following a simple principle, in any search parties, people spread out to cover more ground. They don't follow each other around on a short cut road like a swarm of safari ants. Whose prayer did God get first? The cold blooded vicious she wolf who murdered her boyfriend's guardians or a lying cop who was just trying to help out his friend who rarely asked for favours? Time will tell, Leon crept in the house with Aubrey behind him, smiling gleefully on how he had managed to play a trick on them, stupid he was his ears never caught their heartbeats or he was just mad in love and celebrating losing his virginity to one of his kind under the moonlight they were cursed to. What better feeling than that? Leon slept holding her in his arms except that she was not asleep. James on the other hand found a burning cabin with no sign of Aubrey just claws on the ground, no tattered clothes and sure as hell no sign of dead bodies poor James was just looking for the right thing in the wrong place.