The Runaway Huntress

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 5

        "Mine."

         Melisca gulped, as if the most powerful presence she'd ever felt, hadn't scared her enough. Hearing that word is beyond all the threats, fears, and danger she had encountered in the last five years since her father had passed away.

       Blood turned to freezing liquid circulating in her system  as the blazing air got caught up in her lungs. The sensation inside her is a burning iceberg.

       The wind just gone, the buzzing of the streets, the beeping of cars and angry sirens of trucks went unheard. Can't even feel if her heart is still beating, might as well her life had stopped then.

       No. She denied. Catching up her breath, though she was just standing there, petrified.

       No. This could not be happening. Not now. She had closed her eyes, the wolf in her slipping out.

       No. She can control this.

       She doesn't want a mate. She doesn't need one. Not in this time of the year. Not in this decade. Not until she had accomplished her mission.

       Please not now. I'm begging you. Just not in this era.

       His energy is binding her, engulfing her body to move, to be by his side at once, suffocating the air around her.

       "Hey, Lorwey, why are you just standing there?" Called Ben, an officer who's on duty. He passed by her as he looked at her comically for she's standing there with eyes closed.

       Yeah, right. Why am I just standing here? She repeated, asking herself also when instead she should get lost.

        Blinking her eyes open, her fists clenching and unclenching. Needed that blood to circulate around her body, especially to her brain.

       She had to get away, now. But how? Think. Think of something, anything! Act normal, don't panic. Heck! She hadn't acted panicked, yet her consciousness had shut down for a while.

       Walk, take a step. She instructed herself.

       Melisca started moving her feet forward. Her aim for now is to get inside the headquarters. Praying on her mind that he wouldn't just appear before her.

       Please, please, please don't come near me. Repeating that mantra, every step she's taking feels like there's a large boulder chained to her feet. An invisible air drawing her to him, sucking her own energy.

       No. The pull, she has to fight it.

       When finally inside, she blew out an air that she had held in her lungs. Then as if on cue, she went straight ahead to the back exit of the building. People in the office threw her a quizzing glance.

       Forget the letter, never mind the questioning, just get the hell out here. Just be gone, Melisca! Urging herself to move faster.

      Flapping the back door open, the dark trees that lead to the mountain forest made her stop. High wired fences separated the two land boundaries.

      "Damn it." She hissed. The loud banging of her heart didn't help her any for she can't make up her own thoughts.

       She started climbing the barrier, getting some cuts on her hands, the tiny bits of pain didn't bother her. It adds up to her desperation to fled away. Jumping on the ground, she launched on a sprint directly. The pitch-black expanse, not a problem in her vision, clear as daylight, she could see in the darkest of the night.