BLUE
She wasn’t supposed to find out, at least not this way. We had already discussed how to tell her who we were before she discovered it herself, but things didn’t turn out the way we wanted. She got wind of it before we had the chance to do that.
And that was the fucking guards’ fault. We warned them four days ago not to show up unannounced because of our Bunny, but they damned hell had to do it.
The moment we heard her scream, we turned, our heads whipping towards her so fast, that we were lucky we didn’t get whiplash.
I gulped, my eyes widening in fear when I realized what had just happened. Our Bunny had not only seen us in our changed state but saw us in our worst. Fuck. This wasn’t good. Not at all.
“Shit!” I growled as I raced for the stairs, with Fred close behind, discarding the dead guard. The kneeling one would have to wait for the verdict to come for him.
“How the fuck didn’t we hear her coming?” I looked back at Fred, whose expression mirrored the one on my face. He was trying to rile in his emotions while looking like he would raze the house should it come to that.
When we got to her door, I cleared my throat before I knocked. “Bunny?” I called out in my super calm voice, the one I always used with her. Well, except for our intimate time. I used it to ease her fear, knowing how terrified she was about what she saw.
“Do you think she will open the door?” Fred asked, looking worried. “Didn’t you see the look on her face? I doubt she would want anything to do with us.”
“Shut up!” I growled at him while knocking on the door. “Bunny? Please let us in.”
It was funny, though. We both knew we could break through the door with just a thought, but there was no way we would be doing that, not with how terrified she looked.
Doing that wouldn’t help our case at all. If anything, it might send her into a dark part, a place we might not get her from.
“She’s pacing the room,” Fred whispered, looking at me with a puzzled expression. “Isn’t she supposed to be huddled in a corner, scared out of her wits?”
“Do you want that?” I glared, banging loudly on the door.
“I love it when people fear me, but I don’t like the thoughts of our Bunny being scared of me,” he responded, sighing. “This is the first time I didn’t want to be a terror to someone.”
“Same.” Groaning, I continued to knock on the door, hoping she would open up to us. So we could explain what she saw. The last thing we wanted was to have her fear us.
“We -” Fred frowned, looking behind us.
I didn’t need to know why he paused because we both screamed, “Bella!” At the same time.
“Fuck that stupid gate!” I cussed under my breath as we changed course, running down the stairs and out of the house.
Fred ran after me as we raced towards her car. Our minds were so muddled that we couldn’t keep track of her scent until it was too late. We came upon her car, but there was no one in there. Our Bunny had escaped.
“Shit!” Fred growled, looking around the deserted road.
Pinching the bridge of my nose, I looked up. The darkness loomed like a pool of black ink, sad and devoid of any moon. It was as if the world could feel our sadness. The silence weighed down on us like a blanket soaked in water.
Sighing, I took a step towards her car, and stopped, frowning. “Do you smell that?” I asked, sniffing the air.
“Smell what?” He frowned, as he sniffed the air, and his eyes widened as it dawned in realization. “A bloody werewolf,” he growled, matching my dark scowl.
“Yup, a bloody one.” Nodding, I looked around, to gauge the direction of the scent. “Do you think he’s with our Bunny?”
“I believe so. There’s a faint smell in the air. I bet it is hers,” Fred whispered. “It’s hers,” he added, this time with conviction.
“We have got to find him.” Not waiting for him, I took off, racing deep into the woods. The werewolf’s scent was pungent in the air, so it was easy for me to keep track of it.
The farther we ran, the more convinced we became of our Bunny’s whereabouts. The werewolf seemed to have concealed her scent, which was why it was difficult for us to track her.
“This would have been easier if we had marked her,” Fred growled through our bond.
“If only we told her who we were, nothing of this sort would have happened. Think of how to approach her and forget about the mistakes we made,” I hissed.
“I know.” Nodding, he picked up his pace, running faster than he had ever done, and I followed suit.
Had it not been for the issue at hand, we would have had so much fun running through the forest, feeling the wisps of air on our backs and getting belted by leaves. It would have been a damned wonderful experience.
We got to the place within minutes. It was a deserted part of the forest, with an old-looking house which looked so out of place in the middle of the forest. I doubt most humans knew there was a house in the forest. I bet none of them had ever gone this far to know about it.
“She’s in there,” Fred said, convinced. “Though her scent is faint in the air, I can’t be wrong.”
I didn’t wait for him to say more as I raced towards the house, breaking down the door. Close to the building, it wasn’t difficult to identify what it was used for. The smell in the air was filled with blood, tobacco, and urine.
Times like this were when I mourned my species. With our sensitive noses, the smell was intensified ten times.
“Fucking hell,” Fred scrunched his nose. “What the hell is this place?”
“You should know that by now,” murmuring, I walked deeper into the house, noting how deserted it was. Either the werewolf that brought our bunny here was working solo, or this could be an ambush.
Pfft.
These werewolves don’t seem to learn their lessons. This wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. Though it wasn’t in the human world. It happened in our kingdom, three days after the death of our parents.