Chapter 131

131-I Am One Of Them As she raised her claw to hit me, she stopped and pushed back. A screeching roar heaved across her lips as she stum- bled back. The moment she skipped steps and backed away, I saw Akin standing with a big iron axe in his hand.

He had struck her with the iron, but that only injured her enough to make her step away from me. She retreated quick- ly, her eyes showing green sparkles in them. Helel ran after us and threw the chain around her neck, but she had already ap- proached me again. Zane was attacking her while in his wolf form.

It was then that Akin rushed between us again, and this time he aimed for her heart. Gwen had a few second’s advan- tage, but watching him get between us distracted her. She let out a whimpering, roaring sound, but that didn’t help Akin change his mind. My vision was blurry, but I saw Akin throw. the axe at her, and it struck her in the heart. Her roars turned louder, and her body lost its balance. Since she was already in iron chains, she couldn’t even transition back.

She stepped back and squirmed, howling in pain, before her body landed on the ground with a thud.

Her eyes were still open, Akin’s image sparkling in the reflection when she shed a tear. A green shining pearl escaped her eyes before they shut close.

Akin was only wearing black shorts. All the scratches on his body were bleeding like crazy. I wished to get up and give him a hug, but I wasn’t in that state. Zane was beginning to shift back to his human form by then.

“Beatrice!” Helel, who had tied her in the chains, sprinted in my direction and carried me in his arms without giving it a second thought. The way his heart was pounding to the point that I could feel it from inside his chest was evidence that he was truly worried for me.

“I am going to take her to the hospital,” Helel yelled. “Call Maddox and ask him to visit me in the hospital.” He continued to yell at Akin, who hadn’t moved a muscle since he killed her.

It was weird that she died from an iron axe, but that’s why Helel had to wrap her in chains. The chains were preventing her from waking up again.

Helel put me in his car and drove like crazy to the hospital.

“What are you doing to do w—ith Gwen? She will wake up the instant the chains are gone,” I whispered with difficulty, worried for Akin. It mustn’t have been easy for him to kill the girl he was interested in with his own hands.

“We will cage her in the mountains. There are many prison caves that prevent the deadly creatures from ever coming out. Since she is in her dragon form, it is better that we don’t remove the chains and drag her into a cave and leave her there until we find a weapon to finish her once and for all.” Helel said, his hand holding my hand while he held the steer- ing in his other hand.

“What about Akin? Do you think his heart will melt for her?” I asked, feeling my body turn weak and lose its strength.

“Akin would never welcome a weredragon in our land,” Helel answered. “If we had left her alive for a few more min- utes, she would have transitioned to her weredragon form, and then it would have been much harder for us to chain her. You know the full form only remains for a few minutes, right? So Akin did the right thing,” Helel said. “Akin would have nev- let her stay even if she wasn’t the mistress of the dooms-er day. He doesn’t like weredragons, as whenever they have come, they have caused chaos.

He hates those creatures, and so do we all, brothers. And you shouldn’t worry about any- thing. Just rest, your healing is our main priority right now,” Helel uttered, and I nodded to him.

It seemed like all the worries were over. We can go back to our lives and continue living freely now. My eyes seemed heavy as I closed them, but then I heard Ace wake up.

‘Don’t worry, you will heal,’ she said, and terror struck me.

Shit!

Fighting Gwen was the only thing I had on my mind the whole day. So much that I forgot to take the evening pill. I wouldn’t say I forgot. I thought I would take it later, but now that I was slowly succumbing to a deep slumber, I feared I wouldn’t wake up to take the pill, and the night would arrive with him following my scent.

Too late for all those thoughts because I couldn’t even speak a word as I was on the verge of passing out now.

‘I can sense it already. It’s coming for us,’ Ace let out a lit- tle maniacal laugh and it was then I understood. She was nev- er on my side.

‘We must escape i—t,” I requested in an utter.

‘No! We must not! How can you not want it? Don’t you see what happened to Gwen when she lost her pendant?’ As Ace hissed at my response, my body shuddered.

‘What do you mean by that?’ I asked, feeling light as Helel lifted me in his arms and carried me out of the car. I had my eyes closed by then.

‘Do you know who is coming for us?’ I questioned Ace, and after a few seconds of silence, she responded.

‘My freedom!’ she answered, shocking me.

‘What? I don’t understand. What have I been running from?’ I inquired in a panicked tone.

‘Our beloved pendant! You sweet weredragon!’

‘Now that I have tasted the freedom of the day and night, you cannot stop me with those stupid pills anymore. Very soon! We will have our pendant, and then you will not have to worry about taking pills and keeping me hidden anymore,’ That was all I heard before I passed out entirely.