My Ex Got a Slap, I Got a Shifter

An Enemy

Helena snapped from her daze when she saw the man walking towards her. She tried to keep her eyes on the man's face, but her gaze kept glancing down.

Why is it so long and ginormous? Helena swallowed and brainwashed her eyes to look somewhere else. And how did a big wolf become a human? Did she really die, or was she just schizophrenic?

The man saw her reaction and flicked his fingers, his once naked body was now fully clothed with long, black robes like what you see in aristocratic movies.

“I've been waiting for you for 20 years, my Luna,” the man spoke, staring intently at Helena.

Helena, whose eyes had been intensely staring at a tree nearby, subconsciously turned towards the man. She was bewildered as she pointed at herself.

“Me? Your Luna? What is a Luna? And how did you change your clothes so fast?”

Helena asked, dumbfounded. Were her eyes pranking her?

“You are my Luna. The Alpha's fated mate, my destined one.” The man's voice was deep, vibrating in the quiet forest.

Without waiting for Helena to reply, the man scooped her up, making Helena scream and struggle.

“No— wait! Put me down first and let's talk calmly!” Helena tried reasoning with the guy.

The man didn't even bother looking at her and just said, “We can't be late. Today's our wedding.”

“What?! Wedding?! Are you crazy? Put me down now! You stinky man!” Helena punched the man on his chest and ended up hurting her skin instead.

Damn. Is this guy made of stone? Why is it so hard?

Cain Allard stared at the woman in his arms who was busy struggling. She was so light, beautiful, and smelled so nice. He had been waiting for her for 20 years. His destined one, the one who would sit beside him ruling their pack.

“Don't struggle, my Luna. I will explain everything to you later. Now, can we go back to the pack territory before the sun sets because it's dangerous here.”

As if on cue, Helena heard a loud roar not very far away from them, making her tremble and shout with fright.

“Ah!” Helena shouted and instinctively hugged the man's neck for comfort.

“Let's leave now!” Helena said.

She couldn't afford to die again, though she didn't even know if she was still really alive.

Cain Allard didn't answer Helena's words, he smelled an odor not far from them. “It's too late, the enemy's here already.”

Helena, who was busy hugging the man and secretly feeling his muscles, paused and stared straight at the man's face.

“Enemy? What enemy? Is your enemy deadly?”

Helena felt scared and subconsciously looked for her phone to call for help when she remembered her phone was still dead.

She turned it on again, hoping for some miracle. Just as she was losing hope, her phone suddenly turned on. But instead of the usual introduction, her phone was now emitting a red color.

The tiny screen flashed a blinding crimson, pulsing rapidly like a tiny siren in the palm of her hand. Helena stared at it, her brain stalling for a second before a cold sweat broke out across the back of her neck. That was definitely not a normal notification.

“What is wrong with this piece of junk?” Helena muttered under her breath, tapping frantically against the black glass.

Before she could even figure out what app was glitching out, the phone vibrated so violently in her grip that she almost dropped it on the forest floor. A strange, metallic voice that sounded completely synthetic echoed straight from the internal speaker, bypassing her volume settings entirely.

Warning. Unauthorized territory breach detected within five meters. Hostile entities approaching rapidly.

Helena stopped struggling against Cain completely, her eyes wide as saucers as she stared down at the screen. “Did... did my phone just talk to me? And since when do I have an app that detects hostile entities? Is this a prank? Did Tiffany download something weird before I left the house?”

Cain did not look surprised at all. In fact, his body grew instantly rigid beneath her hands, his muscles tightening like coiled steel as his golden amber eyes shifted toward the dark thicket on their left. The playful, breathless tone he used a moment ago vanished, replaced by an icy, deadly calm.

“Hold onto me and do not let go, no matter what happens,” Cain ordered, his voice dropping an octave into a low, rumbling growl that vibrated straight through Helena's chest.

“Wait, hold on a minute! What about my phone? And what about those guys you called enemies?” Helena complained, feeling entirely out of her depth. She had just dealt with a cheating ex-husband, slapped a guy in a parking lot, gotten hit by a moving vehicle, and now she was being carried around a weird forest by a guy who used to be a furry animal. Adding a talking glitchy phone to the mix was simply crossing the line. “I want to go home! My mom is probably freaking out, and my lawyer still hasn't filed the paperwork for Noah's lawsuit!”

“There is no home to go back to right now, Helena,” Cain snapped back quietly, his gaze locked onto the shadows between the massive trunks ahead. “Your old life ended the moment you stepped foot into this territory.”

Before Helena could scream at him for being ridiculously dramatic, a low, guttural snarl cut through the air, vibrating the ground beneath their feet. It wasn't just one sound; it was a chorus of growls coming from multiple directions at once, closing in fast like a pack of hunting wolves cornering their prey.

The red light on her phone screen suddenly stopped pulsing and flashed a solid, blinding crimson word right across the display: EVACUATE.

Then, the screen went completely black.

Before Helena could even press the power button again, a massive shadow lunged from the darkness directly toward them, its glowing yellow eyes locked dead onto hers.