Oblivion

Chapter 11

Val's POV

I was sitting at the table having my dinner, which was especially prepared for me since I am the only one who eats real food and not blood. Ryan was sitting opposite to me with a glass of red liquid. It was kind of disturbing to eat with a sight of some drinking blood in front of you, but I managed to ignore it. We haven't really talked after our little encounter back then.

I finished my dinner and put away my plate in the sink. I was wondering what would I do now, I certainly wasn't sleepy at all, its when I saw Ryan walking towards the castle's main door. I went up to him and asked "Your Highness, may I accompany you, if you don't mind that is. I really don't have anything to do here." He stared at me amused as if he was finding it interesting. "Well, I was going for patrolling around the forest. I don't see any reason as to why I should deny your request. So you can come with me." He replied and I gave him a wide smile.

We went out and proceeded towards the stable, Ryan brought out two horses and asked me to ride one. I looked at him wide eyed. "I-I thought we would be walking. I don't know how to ride a horse." I said nervously and he laughed at me. He actually laughed, genuinely!! And God was it beautiful.
What shut up Val..!!

"Well in that case, I guess you have to ride with me." He said once he finished laughing. I mumbled a small okay. And he got on the back of one of the horses and helped me up. I sat behind him, with my legs on one side of the horse due to the dress I was wearing. He then kicked the horse so that it would start moving and it did. At first he was slow but suddenly he started gaining speed. I thought I would fall so I wrapped my arms around Ryan's waist tightly with a yelp escaping my lips. "Relax, it isn't that bad." He said noticing my discomfort. After some time I came to ease and loosened my grip around him.

I looked at the view in front of me and it was quite amazing, although all I saw was trees and mountains but it was looking fabulous in the faint moonlight. It brought a small smile on my face. It was soothing. "Its beautiful, yeah!" Ryan said. "Yes, indeed." I replied. "Patrolling is an excuse, I come for riding everyday to get away from the world for some time.'' He confessed. I didn't know what to say so I just nodded and hummed. I was actually enjoying his company.

All of a sudden there were some noises of rattling of bushes and someone running. We snapped our heads towards the noise and and a huge animal pounced upon us from the bushes, which caused us to fall off of the horse. As i turned my head to look at it, I noticed that the animal was a werewolf. He was even bigger than the one I encountered before, his eyes were full of some kind of emotion, which I can't put my finger on. It was continuously starring at me like I did something bad to him. It got me petrified. Suddenly he leapt on me and I let out a blood curdling scream. I waited for its the impact to come but it never did. I saw that Ryan was struggling to keep it away from killing me. He threw the wolf with all his strength and it smacked right into the tree.

In a blink of an eye I was in Ryan's arms and he was running towards the castle. He was so fast that I couldn't see anything around us, except for fast moving trees, my head was spinning. We reached at the castle and he put me down. I was still shaken up from what just happened. Ryan escorted me to my room and said "Stay inside your room until I call you out." I just stared at him, frightened. He sighed "It's okay, I will make sure nothing like that happens again. It was my mistake, I should have known they would attack you. But don't worry you are safe in here." He lead me inside the room and left after closing the door behind him.

I went to my bed and lied down staring at the ceiling, trying to wrap my head around the previous events. I had many questions in my mind, why did those werewolves attacked me? Ryan was also present there but the wolf didn't attacked him. What makes me the main target?? And what did Ryan meant when he said that he should have known that they would attack me?

We have got some serious talking to do. There is something he isn't telling me.

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