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younger.
    He’s just
toying with you ,
a voice cried inside me. He doesn’t think you’re beautiful. He’s just saying
that to get under your skin.
    And you’re
not beautiful anyway, are you?
    “Shut up,” I
said out loud. I moved back to where I’d left my drink and picked it up.
    Turning now
to the balcony, I was given the fright of my life as I saw the young man who
had led the chase against us, standing there, staring directly at me.
    His green
eyes blazing.
    “Aiden,” I
whispered. “Aiden!”
    The man’s
friend, now helmetless appeared behind him. He had a less attractive, rounder
face.
    The first man
pulled a black pistol from his pocket and tapped the glass with it.
    “Let me in,”
he demanded.

 
    CHAPTER
TWELVE
     
     
    I was paralyzed. Completely terrified
and cold.
    “AIDEN!” I
shouted from the top of my lungs.
    The man
looked right at me, and shook his head. “You’re finished now.”
    He pointed
the gun at the window and fired a bullet into it.
    I dropped to
the floor and remained there as the glass shattered and he pushed through the
remaining fragments with his arms.
    His companion
joined him as they entered the house, both walking slowly towards me.
    The first man
stopped where I lay and pointed the gun at me.
    “Where is
he?” he asked.
    Before I
could answer, our attention was redirected to the stairs Aiden had gone down.
From the darkness, a pair of wide open, shimmering blue eyes moved slowly
through the darkness.
    A low growl
came from the bottom of the creature’s throat.
    “Oh my God!”
I shrieked. “What is that thing?”
    The first man
turned to his companion. “I think he wants to fight.”
    The companion
nodded.
    He then,
inexplicably morphed into the body of a wolf, and charged directly at the
creature at the stairs.
    I must be
dreaming. I’m hallucinating or something. He put something in my drink. This
isn’t real it can’t –
    A giant bear
ripped up from the stairs swinging his arms out to fend off the attacking wolf.
    The wolf
climbed on top of his lumbering mass and bit at his neck. The bear’s claws
grasped hold of him and threw him – so hard he flew over our heads and
shattered the window behind us, falling into the driveway outside.
    The bear then
omitted a thunderous roar at the first man who had his gun trained on me.
    “Come on,
Aiden,” he said. “Another step and I’ll blow her brains out.”
    The bear
lowered his hands.
    Then he
looked at me.
    Those
blinking, familiar eyes.
    With a surge
of resilience, I smashed my heels into the back of the gunman’s legs, causing
him to cry out in pain.
    As he fell to
the floor next to me, the gun still firmly in his hand, I saw the dark
emergence of the bear’s wide body descending upon both of us, with a deafening
crash.
    My body was
knocked right across the kitchen, and my head smashed into one of the
cupboards. It caused my eyes to immediately well up in pain.
    I watched as
the man tried to sit up and the bear just kept hitting him. Over and over
again.
    Once
satisfied, the bear picked him up by the throat and sent him flying out the
same broken window his friend had gone out.
    I looked at
the bear, wincing in terror.
    “Aiden,” I
tried calling. “Aiden where are you? Save me…”
    The bear
looked at me, a disturbingly confused expression its face.
    Then it back
away and descended towards the stairs to the front door.
    After a
moment of silence, I heard the it open and shut.
    I reached up
to the counter to pull myself up and then looked outside to where they had
fallen.

 
    CHAPTER
THIRTEEN
     
     
    There was no sign of the bear. It was
as if he had completely vanished.
    Aiden emerged
to the bodies of not one, but two wolves now, lying in the rubble. He stood
over them, looking down.
    I didn’t
understand it.
    How did he
get there?
    “Who betrayed
me?” Aiden suddenly shouted at them. “Tell me who it was!”
    He picked up
a nearby stick and started hitting them with it.
    Only one of
the wolves