White Fur

Chapter 9

Skyler’s POV

READER WARNING: The next chapter could be disturbing for some readers. Please read on with caution.

I couldn’t wait anymore I needed to move. I swung my right arm landing a punch on 2’s face. It wasn’t strong enough to knock him out or anything but it was enough to let me get by. I sprinted towards 1 and raised the pepper spray up. I was about to press the button but I didn’t account for 2 to recover so fast. He grabbed my left wrist tightly and slammed it against the brick wall. I could feel my bones break as I dropped my pepper spray on the ground.

“You b***h, I wasn’t going to hurt you but now I’m going to enjoy hurting you.” He slammed my left wrist against the wall again. If it wasn’t broken before, it definitely was now. I yelped out in pain from my wrist. It hurt so much but I had to keep fighting.

I pulled my right leg back and kicked 2 right in the crotch. He buckled over in pain but he blocked my path to the right. So I charged at 1 hoping my speed would be enough to push him out of the way. I managed to slam past him.

I took two more strides only to be yanked back by my ponytail and thrown to the ground by 3. Before I could get back up, he delivered a kick straight to my ribs which knocked the wind out of me. As I struggled to catch my breath, 4 came over he wrapped my hair around his hand and hoisted me up for the fuming 2 that was heading my way.

“You f*****g b***h, I’m going to teach you some f*****g manners.” That’s when he sent his fist flying towards my face. I tried to dodge it but 4 kept my head in place. The punch landed on the right side of my face. My ears started ringing but I could hear 2’s laughter. I saw 1 get closer and before I could react he slapped my left cheek cutting open my bottom lip due to the rings on his finger. I could taste the blood in my mouth.

4 released his grip on me, thinking I was unconscious and that I’d fall right over. I used all the strength I had to try to land another kick on any one of them but I had no luck this time. 3 swiftly grabbed me by the throat and slammed me against the wall that was the dead end I faced earlier. His grip on my throat tightened making it hard for me to breath. I gasped for air, my hands frantically trying to loosen his grip but I could feel my strength fading.

“She seems more compliant now boss. Would you like to go first?” 3 grinned at 2. I could see 2’s malicious smile with its missing teeth. He picked up the bottle that 4 put on the ground and took a big sip. He then took out a knife from his back pocket.

“I would, but first she’s still wearing too much clothing.” With his knife he cut off the shirt that I carefully picked to impress Kanto if he stopped by the festival. Tears started to form in my eyes. I tried again to wiggle my way out of 3’s grip but 1’s quick but strong punch to my ribs stopped that. I spit out the blood that filled in my mouth.

“It would be a pity to slice up such a beauty as yourself.” 2 took the knife and was dragging it across my now almost bare torso, my bra was the only thing preventing me from being completely topless. More tears started to form which made all the men laugh. “But if you keep moving around, I’ll have no choice.”

“I love it when they cry” 4 said his eyes were full of lust. “I still think she’s wearing too much clothing boss. What do you think?”

“I agree, let remove these next shall we.” 2 dragged his knife lower towards the top of my jeans. I wanted to squirm but 1 grabbed both sides of my hips and firmly held them against the wall. I could feel my minimal amounts of strength disappearing. I needed to get out of here, I need help. My eyes searched frantically for a window with a light on or someone walking by, but I knew this block was largely abandoned. I was losing hope.

2 used his knife to cut my jeans and yanked them off my legs. This caused me to start crying in a panic. I started to scream at the top of my lungs hoping for a miracle. But no one heard, the monsters just laughed.

“Awww she thinks someone will hear her. To bad no one can.” 3 teased as he tightened his grip around my throat to silence the scream. Tears kept streaming down my face and I was having difficulty breathing. I knew I’d pass out soon, and those monsters would be able to do anything they wanted to do to me. And I have a terrible feeling that these monsters don’t leave their victims alive for very long after they have used them. I needed to escape but it was 1 against 4 and I didn’t have the strength to fight them all.

I’m sorry Kanto, I should have taken a taxi home or made Andrea drive me home or had you pick me up at the festival. I wish I could have gone on our date, I was really looking forward to it. Thank you for making me feel this way about someone again. I’m sorry I couldn’t take up all your time like you wanted me to. I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry.

I heard 2 unzip his pants and start to breath heavily. All I could do was look up at the sky. I didn’t want to be here. I just wanted to have a happy life. That’s why I came to the city, to find my happiness, this is not how I thought it would end.

“Time to show this b***h who’s boss.” 2 stepped closer, I closed my eyes pressing the remaining tears out. I could feel his hand start at my breast and slide down my body towards my underwear. But then he stopped and removed his hand.

I opened my eyes to see all four men staring at a figure a couple feet away. I couldn’t fully make out the person, but this guy was bigger than 3 in both height and muscles. That’s when I heard a voice that sounded familiar.

“Let her go. NOW!” The voice growled so loudly I thought I heard the windows rattle.

“Psh.” 2 waved the person off with his knife, then turned to 1 and 4 “Go take care of him while I take care of her.”

Before 1 and 4 could even move, the person dashed towards us. He grabbed 4 by the back of the neck, and one swift move lifted 4 over his head and slammed him into the ground so hard there was now a ditch. How the hell did that happen?

3 let go of me to turn and face his attacker. I fell to the ground coughing trying to catch my breath. My savior grabbed 3’s arm with one hand and snapped it like it was a twig. Is that even humanly possible? 3 yelled in pain but was quickly silence by this mystery person. I kept trying to get a good look at the man who stopped these monsters but he was too fast.

1 tried to lunge at the man, but he throw him so hard into the brick wall that he sent 1 through the wall. I’m serious, this brick wall now had a hole in it leading to the inside of the building. Who the hell was this person? I tried to further inspect what just happened but 2 grabbed me by the hair, yanked me to my wobbly feet and put his knife to my throat.

“I don’t know what you are but if you want her to live you’re going to let me go.” His voice was shaking with fear. I could feel the cold blade against my skin and I felt a little trickle run down my neck.

“Let her go now!” The growl rumbled in the alley way. That’s when I realized I’ve heard that growl before.

It was Kanto. I couldn’t see clearly before but as my vision improved with each breath I could see it was him. His dark brown hair was ruffled, he was wearing a black suit with a white button up shirt which now had a couple drops of blood on it, his jacket had a rip in it now. Tears formed in my eyes again realizing that this is what he was going to wear on our date. His fists were clenched, his jaw was tight, his eyebrows were scrunched together. But what scared me the most was his eyes, his usually soft hazel eyes were replaced with the dark hazel ones I’ve seen before but only for a second. Something was happening to Kanto, something terrifying.

Kanto took a step towards me but 2 pressed the blade harder against my skin making me bleed more. “I’ll kill her if you make another move. Get back.”

Kanto was seething with anger but he obeyed. 2 started to shuffle by Kanto, I hated being used as a hostage. I needed to do something to make sure this guy didn’t get away. We were almost fully passed Kanto when I felt 2 lighten the pressure of the blade on my neck. Now was my chance.

With my right arm, I used all my remaining strength to elbow 2 as hard as I possibly could in the ribs. He reacted just enough to let me get out of his grip. I jumped and fell to the ground, landing on my knees and elbows Without hesitation, Kanto took the opportunity to punch 2 right in the jaw. It was so powerful that I saw some of 2’s silver teeth fly out of his mouth. Kanto then pick 2 up by the shoulders and threw him down the alley at the brick wall my back was up against a minute ago. 2 didn’t get up, all four men were lying unconscious in the alley way. Kanto just stood there staring at the men like he was debating whether or not to let them live. He didn’t seem like himself, I needed to do something.

“Kanto?” My voice was so hoarse that his name barely escaped my lips. He didn’t budge. I started to try to stand up and I tried to call his name again “Kanto?”

This time Kanto snapped his head toward me trying to get up. I was almost fully up when I started feeling dizzy and nauseous. My legs gave out but I didn’t hit the ground, I was embraced by a pair of warm arms. I focused my attention on Kanto and saw his eyes were hazel again but had tears in them. He removed his jacket and wrapped me in it.

“Skyler. Skyler please stay with me. It’s going to be ok.” His voice was panicked as he pleaded. I lifted up my hand and placed it on his cheeks.

“Are you ok?” I whispered to him.

“What?” He eyebrows were scrunched together again. So I repeated my question.

“Are you ok?” I tried to smile but I was loosing the momentary strength I regained, the adrenaline was starting to wear off.

“No, I’m not ok.” He was still panicked. He moved one of his hands to brush some of my hair out of my face. As he was moving the strands towards the back of my head, I felt a sharp pain. I winced and Kanto removed his hand from the back of my head. Kanto’s eyes went wide, that’s when we both noticed the blood on his hand.

“If you’re not ok, we should probably get you to a doctor, let me grab my stuff and we can go.” I breathlessly laughed at my poorly timed joke. I looked for Kanto’s reaction but everything went black for a second. When my vision returned I could see Kanto’s face turn to one of seriousness.

“I already have a doctor going to your apartment. That’s where we are going now.” Before I could say anything, Kanto scooped me up in his arms like I weighed nothing. He walked to grab my bag, my now cut up top and my destroyed jeans. I felt tears come to my eyes again reflecting on how close the danger was when I got another look at all the damage Kanto did. I was extremely lucky that he was here but how could he have done all this? Even on steroids no human could do something like this. His strength and his speed didn’t make sense. Then when he was just standing there something felt…off… I don’t know how to explain it he just didn’t seem like the Kanto I knew. I had so many questions swirling in my head. But everything was going fuzzy. Then everything went black. When I opened my eyes again we were at the front door of my apartment building.

“408, apartment 408.” I whispered. Everything hurt, I would have cried out in pain if I was even strong enough to do that. All I could manage to do was shed tears. Kanto quickly entered the building, found the key for the second door and heading towards the elevator. That’s when I fell into the blackness again.

When I started to regain consciousness, I felt warmth. I felt something soft underneath me but warmth was coming from my right arm. My eyes refused to open yet. As I started to regain my senses I could hear two voices.

“If she’s fine the why isn’t she waking up.” That was Kanto I could tell, that’s probably why my arm feels warm. It’s because of him.

“Alpha, everyone responses to trauma differently. She’s fine and should wake up soon.” I didn’t recognize this voice. Why was he calling Kanto Alpha? “You just need to be patient. Also you could probably use some rest too.”

Kanto just growled at the voice. What was with all the growling? The questions I had earlier started swirling in my head again and that triggered pain to kick in. I let out a small groan. I felt Kanto shift his position.

“Skyler?” He whispered softly and gently. I felt him pet my hair back from my face as I willed my eyes to blink open. I squinted trying to adjust to the light. Once my eyes adjusted, I saw that I was in my apartment, in my bed, while Kanto pulled up a chair by my side. Kanto had a worried expression on his face. I noticed I was in one of my oversized sweatshirts and I could feel the pj pants on my legs. I groaned again but this time I tried to push myself up.

“Woah there Miss Skyler, you don’t want to make things worse. You’ve been out of it for a couple of hours, you need to take it easy” An older gentleman that I didn’t see earlier stepped toward the other side of the bed to help me. He looked to be in his late 40s maybe early 50s. I could tell he used to be one of those big tough guys based on his height and build but with age that deteriorated. He had light brown hair with strands of silver reflecting his age. He had a kind smile and dark green eyes. I wanted to ask who he was but I didn’t have to. “I’m Dr. Miguel Garcia, I work for Mr. Boterea. I hope it’s ok, I made sure everything was ok.”

“You had a laceration on the back of your head which I stitched up and should be fine in a couple of days. You had some bruising on the rib cage, but nothing fractured or broken.” I’m shocked more things weren’t wrong but when I looked over at Kanto his expression screamed guilt and anger. “Same goes for your face, mostly just bruises that should clear up soon too. Unfortunately the main damage happened to your wrist. It was pretty badly broken but I managed to put a cast on it and it should actually be fine in a couple days.”

“Wait. A couple days for a broken wrist to heal? Are you really a doctor? It should be more like months?” Dr. Garcia glanced at Kanto who glared back, it was like they were having a conversation with just their looks. I decided to break the tension and put on a smile. “Thank you doctor for all your help.”

Dr. Garcia moved his gaze from Kanto to me and gave me a smile. “I’m just happy you’re alright Miss Skyler. But can you do me a favor?”

I was confused because I don’t know what I could possibly do for him. I don’t even know how I’m going to pay him for this treatment, I probably owe him thousands of favors.

“Can you make sure Kanto gets some rest? He doesn’t listen to me.” Seeing the doctor treat Kanto like a pouty teenager made me laugh. I could feel Kanto relax when he heard me so I nodded my head for the doctor.

“Alright then I’ll take my leave, goodbye Miss Skyler make sure you get plenty of rest, drink lots of water and eat big meals. I’ll see you later Al— Mr. Boterea.” He bowed as he snuck out the door away from Kanto’s death glare. When the door clicked closed, Kanto turned his angry demeanor towards me replacing the scowl with a look of worry.

“Your doctor is crazy if he thinks I’ll be all fixed up by the end of the week.” I tried to lighten the mood a bit, I could see Kanto relax. He resumed stroking my hair and just staring at me. I got a good look at him, his hair was more tousled than before and his eyes looked tired.

Wait a minute his eyes! What the hell happened that night? I remember everything but if I say it out loud he might think I’m crazy. But I need answers, things were just not making sense.

“So ‘Alpha’.” I heard the doctor call him that and I feel like it was connected. It definitely was because it caught Kanto off guard. “What happened last night?”