Chapter Six
"You don't have to carry me all the way inside. I can manage on my own from the stairs." She hastily said. Aom can feel his tight grip around her thighs. His heart was calm but his walk was not. Each steps he took, the branches went crackling. "You can put me down now." She plead again as soon as the cabin were visible to their eyes.
"I'll put you down when I feel like it."
How much longer should I pretend to have a twisted ankle?? Her heart started to race and she feel her body temperature heated.
"What the hell are you doing? Stop poking me with your elbow!"
"I told you to put me down..." She continued to do again against his hard muscle chest.
"How about I just drop you now?" His fingers twist and about to release her so her but can taste the ground until --
"Don't!" She scream and hold on to his neck tightly.
"Can you scream any louder?! He screamed back with a half smirk.
"You're an animal... you know that!" Aom hiss. Why? Why oh why?!!
They were steps away from the front door when he felt his muscles twitching. Oh Shit. Not now. Not when I'm about to have some fun.
She didn't know what to do so when they pass the pole near the doorway, she reached for it.
"What the hell are you doing again?" His patience is running low especially when the beast is emerging. "Let it go."
Aom smirk. "You can put me down. I can limp myself inside. It's not like I can run anywhere with a broken ankle."
Errrr...this goddamn girl!!!! He put her down and waited for her to get inside before locking up. Quickly, he jog through the dark forest. The blood in his vein was pumping at lightening speed. Any seconds now, his clothes will turn into shreds. Any humans or things would not escape death....
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-Flashback-
It was raining hard when he entered his darken house. He didn't know where else to go. It had only been a week since his mother's death.
He walked up the stairs to his mother's room where her ashes were kept. As soon as he open the door, the strong smell of candles and incent filled his nose. Aum closed the door and kneel in front of Mrs. A smiling picture.
"Mother, what has happen to me?" His hands were shaking and his voice started to crack. "What have become of me? Please mother, what is wrong with me?!" He continued talking to his mother ashes about how one minute he was out camping with his friend around the campfire and then the next minute, his body started to transformed into something he had no control off. He could feel his muscle ripping throughout his entire body and the thirst to kill became urgent. When he regain conscious, it was dawn and he was lying next to his friend's dead body. After an hour spent lying on the floor, weeping and feeling tremendously sorrow for himself and for his dead friend, his old nanny entered the room.
"Young master." She say softly then quickly walked over to comfort him. She pick up his head and rest it against her lap, patting it gently. "Why are you here with such sorrow?"
Aum wipe his wet eyes. "I want my mother. I want answers."
"Shhh... what's wrong? talk to me."
He shove her hand away and got up. "You can't help me. Only mother can."
"have something bad happened? "
As he was about to leave, the old nanny grab his arm and held it firmly. "Please tell me what's wrong. Are you in danger of something? Did someone did something to you?"
"I told yo already. You can't help me. No one can help me." Aum brush her hand to the side and walk away.
"Is it the curse?"
Aum stop and turn to face her. "What curse?"
The old nanny body freeze as she clutch her hands together to keep it from shaking.
Silence. "I asked what curse?!" He grab her arm and began shaking it. "Do you know something I don't know? Do you know why I'm turning into a beast?!" his voice ridged.
The old nanny eyes filled with warm tears. She was afraid this would happen after Mrs. A death. "When your father came to seek your mother hand in marriage... he promised your grandmother to loved your mother and cherish her until death separates them. Your mother failed to tell your father about the curse that lived in her family for generations because she didn't think your father would be unfaithful. It's a curse that no one dare to ignite caused by infidelity. It will only go after the bloodline of sons."
Aum ears were stun. Curse. "How can the curse be broken?"
The old lady begin to weep and shake her head. "I wish I knew young master."
Aum stumble back a few step. Could this be his life forever as a beast??
Since that hell day, he left the military academy and seek a life in the forest where no one dare to entered. The beast live inside him and would come out at night as he pleases so therefore, if this is what life will be like for him.... he might as well take a prisoner to share the ride. And the lucky prisoner happened to be his father whore daughter.