Falling for the Alpha

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with her mother by the edge of the woods. She was breathing fa

e for this long. Horrible thoughts of bad men getting at her filled her with

form of hideous scary shapes now. Their branches were beginning

to turn back and run as fast as she could through the path that led home but she was yet to find her mother. She too

n Layla. Any moment now, whatever it was would

y the monster knew where she was.

e a dense canopy of trees that would pull her

called out. "You shoul

was in danger. From the woods, Layla could see several pairs of glowing eyes stari

realised this when she circled the rock. On the sandy floor, lay her mum in a pool o

trembling hand, she wiped the tears away and inhaled deeply, immediat

sleep anymore. She disentangled herself from Amber who was sleeping softly, slipped into he

. Layla wasn't the only one who couldn't sleep. She heard a light bark and turned

hey were speeding away towards the woods that

by the nightmare. It was time to pay a visit to wh

The settlements close to the woods were few and sparse. And the nightlife was just as nonexistent. Layla's h

lement. Layla attached the leash Starlight had come with to his collar, before getting out of he

utumn air. Layla couldn't suppress the feeling that the goosebumps that had appe

cally. Her lengthy blonde hair swept across her face to which she whi

his new adventure and they trudged through the

at fateful day, nineteen years back. Her dad had found her moments after, staring in shock at her m

e police that they hadn't gone swarming the woods, hunti

s the wide expanse of grassland. Layla didn't spare the woods much of a glance. Half of

verthink this. What was to be expected from a woods t

her even as she struggled to hold on tight to his l

y understood what had spurred this midnight expedition. This was what the books wo

he was going to prove to her brain that nothing here was out to get

ot her mum had breath

ld bring about changes for h

Layla trained her torch at the edge of the woods beyond t

She mumbled to herself.

re. He shot out of her grip in a burst of ene

d he know her final destination? Could he sense there

to the cave's mouth. Starlight h

resulting in a monstrous mix of human and wolf, springing up from where it lay on the ground. Dark furs sprung out from every inch of sk

a wolf, larger by far than the average wolf

clasped her mouth with her hands. Starlight was barking very loudly now

er. Layla backed away from the cave's entrance slowly, noting that d

her. Layla was sure it wouldn't hurt her. Layla thought she

the wolf rushed past her, howling a

s no wolf. That was a supernatural creature straight o

most like her guts had believed in the possibili

to absorb. Layla found it difficult to accept that her qua

ther's death really an attack from a wi

e way back to her car