I Reject a Lycan For a Rogue

Chapter Six.

Aiden’s POV

A huge Lycan passes via me speeding away. Oh no, I think they have found me. But how, I have managed to stay away from them for almost four years now. How come they are still looking for me? I decide to follow it slowly behind, I need to know where the Lycan is going. I try to run behind it, but it's way much faster than me. I don’t want to die, even though I am stuck in this form, it's better this way than death. I escaped death once, and now I will do what I possibly can to escape it again.

Before I know it, I am stumbling upon a small hill, due to the sudden impact I fall pretty bad, and I land on a small tree with sharp branches, and it stabs me right on my side. I black out for a moment due to the sudden pain erupting from my abdomen. Now I am definitely going to die today. I try to stand up, but I cannot, the pain is unbearable. Unfortunately, the sharp branch that stabs me, gets out when I move a little. It was the only thing preventing me from bleeding out. Now my life is over, I will die all alone in these woods which have been my house for the past three years of my life. I will leave no legacy behind because it was robbed from me ever since I was such a child. Everything was snatched away from me, my parents, my home, even my freedom. Why do people have to be this greedy? I will die in this form, no one will ever know because no one remembers me. Even my own best friend didn’t even make an effort to find me. He just looked at me when they were ganging up on me, it’s like he was enjoying himself.

I was really hurt by his behavior, he was my only friend, and he was to be my right-hand man. But he betrayed me, and I was left with absolutely nothing. I was left even without clothes, I was banished and named a rogue. They even conspired to have me in this form, I can only transform to my human form only during the full moon.

I start groaning as the pain increases, I can feel my blood oozing from my wound. I feel as if I will pass out. This is the end of me for sure. The pain becomes more and more unbearable, I let out a loud howl to mark my end. I feel someone lean on me, am I dreaming or what. I open my eyes to seeing a totally naked girl right in front of me. She mumbles about something, but I cannot hear it, my hearing powers have faded almost completely nowadays. I have been growing weaker and weaker each and every day. She sits beside me for a while then leaves, she left me here to die all alone. She could have just sat with me here, at least. But is she really here, or am I hallucinating due to the loss of blood. I don’t know what reality is now. However after sometime, I feel someone carrying me. Am I already dead, maybe it’s the angels carrying me, but why do I feel the excruciating pain?

I open my eyes and see that it’s the same girl, so I am still alive. She has a weird expression on her face, it looks like pity. But I for one knows how people behave, always conniving. So, I cannot trust her this easy, and she must be so strong to carry me with so much ease. She places me on something soft, at least she is treating me with some decency. She takes good care of me, she dresses my wound. I feel the blood stop flowing.

But then she says something about being a princess, that’s when I realize that her scent is royal. She is a royal. I look at her, disgusting, so she came here, and she is pretending to care for me. I know she is going to turn me in. was she the Lycan I saw earlier? Oh no, I fell right into her trap. I try to get away from her, but the pain stops me. I need to stop trying to stand up so that my healing process can begin. The sooner I get better is the soon I can get away from her. She starts to call me an odd name, Woffy, I don’t even like it. It’s horrible, but what do I do, if I could speak, then I would have stopped her and told her my name, Aiden Wyatt. But I can’t since I am reduced to my form against my will.

She covers me with something, I feel warm enough to sleep, but the pain becomes unbearable, it’s like it comes like contractions. At some time, it becomes so serious that I black out. When I open my eyes again, I find her staring at me, sometimes I find her wiping my head with water. If it is pretense, then she must be awarded for it because she is excellent. I almost believe that she cares for me genuinely.

The next time I open my eyes, it's morning. Thank goodness I made it, the pain is still there, but I can bear it now. I am starving, my stomach rumbles. I have been having so much trouble eating of late. It’s like every organ is betraying me. My hearing, my sight, my health. Everything is going against me. When I came here years ago, I was only fifteen, and very strong. But now, I can’t even run a long distance.

The Lycan Princess smiles when I open my eyes. If it weren’t for the nature of her visit to me, then I would have found that smile, charming. Although no, I find it repulsive since it is coming from a traitor.

The annoying girl leaves to look for food, I guess because she says something about food. I am happy she is going away, now it’s my chance to escape from her. I just want to get away from her. I don’t even know her intentions towards me. Maybe she is just pretending to care for me. What if she has a hidden agenda? What if they sent her to take me? I can’t let them find me because they once said to me that if they ever find me, then that will be my last day on earth. I don’t want to die, despite the horrible life I am living. A life of a rogue isn’t a life at all. But there is hope in life, who knows, I might even get to have my revenge someday.

I try to stand up, but my legs give in, I cannot bear the pain at all. I guess my wound is still fresh. Darn it, what do I do now. Before I can decide, I see her coming from afar. At least she has wrapped a cloth around her breast and waist. But the waist cloth is barely covering anything. I can see everything from where I am lying. I decide to look away, despite her being the enemy, it’s not right for me to stare at her body. It’s not me, and besides I am not interested in seeing her body.

I hear her mention my name with an excited tone in her voice. I decide to pretend to be dead to see if she really cares.

Her reaction is another thing, why does it seem so real? What if I am wrong about her?

“Why moon goddess, why.” She says as she breaks down and starts to cry. Part of me is hurt by her tears, I feel like I want to stand up and console her. What a weird feeling. I turn my head to her side and I make a small noise to show that I am okay. I feel so guilty for making her cry. If I become this way, what will be the different between me and the monsters who ruined my life?

“Oh, Woffy, you are alright, you really scared me. Please don't do that to me again.” She sounds so relieved, she hugs me for a small while. I feel warmth radiate through my body as our skin come into contact with each other. But then my stomach rumbles again, making her stand up in a hurry. I get a chance to look at her properly, she is tall, not so tall though and her hair is blonde. There is sadness in her light blue eyes, it’s so visible that even though I don’t know her, I can notice it.

“Don’t worry food is here, someone laid a trap, and we got this.” She shows me a big rabbit. That’s when I realize we are in my house, not really a house, though. It’s the place I call home, this is where I have been living for the past three years.

And the trap that caught the rabbit, is mine.