Chapter 5 NO.5

My stomach tied a knot, after feeling his breath over behind my ear. A part of me wanted to run back to where the beast growled from, another part of me wished that I had never left home.

Because whoever was standing behind me exuded a cold aura and demeanor that doesn't feel right for a reason.

My eyes grew wide when I saw the men that jumped out of the thick bushes, they were all wearing black and they were incredibly good-looking.

I could swear that what scared me was a wolf but how it turned out to be humans was something I couldn't fathom.

All of a sudden, I could feel the man behind me wrap his hands around my waist. My knees weakened and it felt like every piece of me was crumbling down.

When I felt his hands around my waist, the only thought that popped up inside my head was that I was about to be kidnapped by human traffickers.

I mustered every strength in me and attempted to raise my leg to kick him in the leg but when I tried to raise my leg, it felt like my soul went out of my body.

I titled to look at the man who stood behind me. My mouth was fully agape, his eyes glimmered beneath the moonlight like the brightest emerald. His jawline was so sharp that it looked like it was crafted by a master craftsman.

The more I stared into his eyes, the more it looked like I was about to be bewitched. His eyes sparkled with mirth and he seemed like he was created from a caste different than mine, he had an androgynous look that was uncommon.

The beauty that he radiated was something that I had never seen before. I would say that he was perfect.

"W-Who are you?" I stuttered with my eyes fixated on him.

He shook his head and brought out a picture from the pocket of the jacket he was wearing. He glanced back and forth at the picture and me, his eyebrows arched in confusion. He took a clearer look at me before averting his gaze back to the picture.

"Is it just me or your picture looks better than you?" He remarked, throwing me into confusion.

"What do you mean?" I asked as he ignored my question and made eye contact with someone standing behind me.

"You are Irene?"

I hesitated to tell him that I was Irene at first because everything looked really suspicious but I nodded to being Irene.

"Yes, Irene"

"If I may ask, why did you run away from me? What's my soon to be wife doing in the middle of the forest?"

Then slowly, it dawned on me that the man I was standing right in front of was the man who tried to waive off my father's debt by using me in exchange for his debt.

Before I could run, someone carried me from behind and my eyesight was starting to get blurred.

Slowly, everything went pitch black and that was the last thing that I could remember.