Abe, a weird and short werewolf novel

Abbygail’s point of view:

“Good morning, beautiful.” Scott said as I turned myself around, waking up with his arms around my body.

What we did with each other, yesterday evening, had been a huge step for me. I had felt really amazing, and strongly taken care of by him, that I almost couldn’t believe this to be true. It was almost as if I was waiting for something bad to happen, for him to reject me, cheat on me, use me, whatever… But so far, he didn’t show the red flags, that I so stupidly ignored with my ex.

But even though he didn’t show any red flags, I’m still so afraid…

My insomnia had kept me awake most of the time last night, giving me enough time to think about everything.

“Stop overthinking everything.” He whispered while putting some curls out of my face.

“How do you know I do that?”

“Because you get these cute little wrinkles above your eyes when you do.” He replied and touched that spot on my face, trying to rub out those wrinkles.

I sighed deeply, content with his touches, but still insecure.

“Could you please pinch me?” I asked him, lowering my head and leaning it against his chest.

“Give me your hand.” He said and I did. I was expecting him to pinch me there, but he just took it and put it on his warm chest, right above his heart. “I’m real, remember? You don’t need to be pinched to know I am real.”

I sniffed and sobbed at which he sat himself up, leaning against the headboard of the bed and then he picked me up and straddled me on his lap.

“Unless those are happy tears, I don’t want to see them.” He said and rubbed my cheeks, getting rid of the tears. “Well, are they?” He asked.

“Yes, they are happy tears.” I chuckled.

“Good, because I’m not going to hurt you.” He smiled and pulled me against his chest.

“Yesterday, you were talking about the werewolf ceremony, what is that?” I asked him.

“That’s where we could make love for the first time, for real, in front of every single pack member.” He simply said, as if it’s the most mundain thing in the world!

“What? No! I’m not going to have sex with you, while everyone is watching!” I yelled appalled at which Scott suddenly started to laugh out loud.

“Nobody will see you but me. It will be a in a bed, surrounded by curtains, don’t worry.”

“But they will still hear us!”

“Honey, it’s not that you were really quiet, in the office yesterday, were you?” He looked at me, with a twinkle in his eyes. “Besides, us werewolves have improved hearing, it wouldn’t matter where in this house we would be having sex, they will still hear us.” He shrugged.

“Really?” I asked, cheeks red as beets!

He nodded and I tried to hide my face against his chest, but that appeared fruitless as he just kept laughing and pulling me up to face him. Eventually, I took hold of the blankets and sat in the middle of the bed, hiding underneath the blanket, making a little tent for myself.

“Cute little cuddly bear?” He asked for attention, still laughing as he sat outside my makeshift tent.

“No!” I replied, but the laughing only increased.

“I thought you weren’t a prude?”

“Apparently, I have my limits!” I retorted.

Suddenly I heard the drawer of the nightstand open up, at which Scott took something and shoved it underneath the blanket, against my feet.

“No, cheese-onion chips aren’t going to work!”

“Then I’ll just take them back.” He said and pushed his hand in my tent to grab the bag again.

But the yellow bag looked so awfully delicious, that I just snapped it away from him, holding it in my arms. “Mine!” I said and he chuckled again.

“As you are mine.” He said while quickly pulling the blanket away and launching himself on top of me. He pinned my hands above my head and I squealed in pleasure. But then he threatened to tickle me, using his other hand to tease my sides.

“No! No! AHHH!!” I screamed. “Stop! Okay! I’ll do it!” I laughed and begged.

He suddenly let me go and looked at me with a bewildered face. “What did you just say?”

“That I’ll be joining you in the mating ceremony.” I clearly said.

“Abby, that’s not something you should say lightly. I mean, I don’t want anything else, but you would be leaving your life behind, not returning to the way you have been living before. Besides, you’d have your obligations here, as a Luna, as a protector to your pack, together with me. Is that what you really want?”

I thought about what he said for a moment, but there wasn’t anything more that I was so sure about. He stepped off of me, making it possible for me to sit up, just like him and I started talking.

“I know we know each other for only a couple of weeks, but you don’t know what I have been through.” I sighed, mulling over the fact that I should tell him everything, or not.

“At a young age, I have been plastered by disaster after disaster, where my tormenting parents luckily gotten arrested for the child abuse towards me. Then, after living in several orphanages, where no one picked me because I was ‘too smart for my age’, I had decided to live my own life. I figured out I was pretty good with computers, and so I started my online business, where I accepted projects that I could work on from home.” I started my story, where he could ask questions later and I would fill in the details, should he want them. But he was quietly listening to what I had to tell.

“When I turned twenty-two, I had made my first million.” I continued and his mouth dropped. “Shush, let me talk.” I chuckled.

“But when I got too happy about it, partying in a bar, I met the guy that had been so kind, yet so cruel. Looking back, I had been naive, not wanting to see the way he gaslighted me. But, soon enough I couldn’t stand the way he used me anymore, so I wanted to leave. He said he understood what I was going through and wanted to throw a going-away party for me, as a way of saying sorry. At the time he assured me that it was perfectly normal, and who was I to know any different, right? So, he even let me decorate the house for this upcoming party, let me arrange the food and drinks, all in perfect detail… Only to humiliate me in front of all the invited people.” I stopped to take a breath and Scott took me in his arms.

“You don’t have to tell me.” He said.

“But that’s the point! I do have to tell you! I want you to know that you are so much better than him. That you are the complete opposite!” I cried.

“In the middle of the living room, he tore my dress apart, called me names, fat-shamed me… and eventually, raped me under all these watching eyes. I can still remember the way they all laughed, cheered and enjoyed the party! No one did a thing to help me! No one!” I yelled and cried while Scott held me tight, even tighter than he did before. “And afterwards the bastard had thrown me in a cell, keeping me there for weeks! If it weren’t for my friend Harley and for me to catch the first chance I got of getting out, I would still be there!”

He growled in anger, roaring and grinding his teeth! And when I looked up, his eyes had turned black, his wolf had taken over.

“What is his name?” He asked me filled with foulness lacing his voice.

“He is too dangerous! Besides, I’m with you now! You are nothing like him!” I tried, but Scott growled again. “Dominic Petrov.” I whispered, and he let me go, ran out of the room and straight out of the house.

I sat there, confused, frightened, numb…

I don’t know how many minutes had passed, but I could feel that someone was holding me, trying to shake me awake, back to my senses. But it wouldn’t work. I was just too afraid… Afraid of Scott doing something dangerous and that I might lose him.

“Where is he going?” Linda’s voice suddenly made sense, and I blinked my eyes.

“Dominic Petrov.”

“What?! How do you know that name?!” She asked me angrily.

“He’s the one… the one that… you know…”

“Fuck! This can’t be happening! Quickly, come with me!” She said, being the one that didn’t make sense to me right now.

I put on some sweatpants and a sweater from Scott and followed Linda out of the mansion. She then transformed her hand into a claw and without explaining anything to me, she sliced the palm of my hand! Blood trickled on the floor and I yelped in pain.

“Why did you do that?!”

“You are the only one that can bring him back now! Call him!” She said and pointed to the forest.

I did as she told me to and gave it all I got. “SCOOTTT!!” I yelled as loud as I could, fisting my hand and letting the blood run out of me faster, encouraging the blood flow Linda had created. I had figured that since Scott is an Alpha, he should be able to smell the blood, even from a distance, which would lure him back to me.

A loud howl was heard in the thicket and the rustling of trees and breaking of branches followed soon after. But then, as if my eyes deceived me, a massive black wolf ran out of the treeline. Hurrying himself to me as fast as he could.

But I wasn’t afraid. In fact, I walked towards him, meeting his wolf in the middle of the open field of grass. “I’m alright, but I need you.” I said as he licked my hand, quickly closing the wound with his saliva.

I opened and closed my hand a couple of times, making sure I have healed again, and then paid my attention to the black appearance in front of me. “You are beautiful.” I said as I stroked his fur with my hands. For a few moments, all sadness and bad memories washed away, because what was happening right now, feeling nothing but wonder, overruled everything else.

I walked around him, to see what he looked like from all sides, softly letting my fingers slide in the thick fur, relishing the softness that hid underneath. Scott turned his head to see what I was doing and I reached for his nose and ears, scratching it gently, at which he contently growled.

“Can I watch you change back?” I asked him, and he nodded.

Slowly, the fur on his body retracted, the tail grew back in his spine, claws turned back into nails, and eventually his snout turned back into his face. He stood in front of me, naked as the day he was born, gloriously lit under the full moon. Breathing heavy, still not completely calmed down from his discovery, but at least the worst had dissipated.

“Dominic Petrov…” He whispered and I gestured for him to hold me, to seek his anchor in me. “That asshole is the leader of our enemy. He is the Alpha of the werewolf rogue pack. He is the reason why I needed a new security system.”