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What happen to Adam, did something happen to Sam or Jerry?
I called Samantha and she answered with a sleepy voice, saying I was for waking her so early and asked if she knew where Adam and Hunter were.
“Hi, Sam, good morning, pretty, sorry for waking you up so early, Hunter left a note saying he had a serious problems to solve with Adam, is something happening that I don’t know?”
Samantha answered with a worried voice:
“For what I can see, yes, I think they are hiding something from both of us. Since yesterday I’ve been a bit annoyed. Adam was all mysteries talking to Kayden and uncle Quinn, as soon as he gets home I’ll want to know what’s going on.”
I hang up even more worried, as soon as I finished having breakfast, I got a call from Malcolm telling me he’ll be back to New York in the afternoon and he’ll keep me informed as soon as he finds out more about the employees hired by Manfred. Before hanging up, I asked him to accompany to the land, I wanted to see with my own eyes the reason of so many hirings.
“Malcolm, I wanted to take advantage that you’re here and ask you to go with me to the land, I want to get to know these employees and know why they were hired.”
Malcolm accepted to go with me and we scheduled it for leaving the house in half an hour.
“It’s alright, Maggie, I’ll take you there, it’s better like this, at least I’ll return to New York with all solved. Can I get you there in half an hour?”
“Yeah, fine by me. Thanks, bye.”
I put on a white mesh dress, long and comfortable, I put on my boots and as we had settled, Malcolm arrives before half an hour to get me, I got my purse and accommodated myself in the car.
The road was terrible, and I thank God Malcolm’s car is a 4x4 jeep, if it had been one of these fancy sedans, it would have got stuck on the middle of this road full of wholes.
The GPS performed a huge miracle in helping us to get to this place in the end of the world and as soon as I see those huge palm trees and the cave above a rock, the images of this place come to my mind in flashes. I remember mom bringing me here to picnics by the river, I remember the feeling of freedom and joy I had by running beside I huge wild dog that always kept me company when I used to come here with mom. The feeling of being home, of completeness I felt by running around this land. Malcolm stops the car with a unusual break and therefore I situate myself, I lose my voice taken by the panic that invades me and paralyzes my body. In the middle of the road I see dad desperately fighting with a huge wolf, he draws a gun and hits the animal with two shots, even though hurt, the animal opens it’s mouth and bites dad on the neck and shakes his body, throwing him far away. I open the car door to the road, hearing Malcolm’s screams at me to return. Right ahead Mr Quinn drags to the edge of the road and falls by a rock, hurt.
I run towards dad’s body and the wounded wolf, ignoring Malcolm’s yells to me to return to the car. The sound of shots got nearer and nearer, Malcolm closes the windows as fast as a rocket and reverses it, running desperately.
Dad’s throat is open, tore by the bites, his lifeless eyes stared me. I feel his entire body shaking, I cry and scream in a historic fit. He’s dead, dead by that miserable animal. I get a huge rock and get near the agonizing wolf, when I’m about to smash its head, its entire body contorces itself in a compulsive attack, my eyes become wide open when I see in front of me, its furs give space to a human skin, its wolfish traces transform as if magic in the face of a man. He recoils the bloody body completely naked, when I face his eyes I see that’s Hunter’s uncle, Mr Ronan.
How is it possible? Seeing dad’s death in front of me most certainly got me out of my mind, I’m having hallucinations, I close my eyes trying to wake myself from this reverie and by opening it again, Mr Roan breaths hardly, sweating buckets and spiting blood. He was shot twice, once in the torso and once in the abdomen, I throw the rock aside and crouch leaning over him, saying words to the wind, as if I was praying insanely.
“How is it possible? You are the wolf? Why you killed him? Why?”
He pulled me by the neck of the dress, with his bloody hands and said in a low voice, gaging sometimes because of the blood coming out of his mouth.
“He killed my son, your father, a demon, an animal. Adam, Hunter will die... Jake, my son, come get me!!!”
Mr Ronan turned his eyes and bent his body back, sighing smoothly right after. Dead, God, he and my father are dead. He and that wolf, both, are the same. I blink with my eyes blurry by the tears and my heart beats uncontrollably seeing the mortal fight approaching where I am. Four wolves attack each other, growling and grunting in a scary way and three men tried to hit two of the wolves hitting them with sickles. The animals attacked the three man and tore their flesh in an accurate blow. One of the men had his arms torn apart from his body and the other two are bitten and thrown like rag dolls on the ground. After attacking and killing three other men, two of the wolves run away and the other two, a brown wolf and a black one like the night, walked by the road, slowly coming towards me.
They are going to devour me, for a few long seconds the image of that black wolf that I saved its life returns to my mind. A throbbing pain hits my belly, I recoil in the middle of the road in fetal position, I think of Hunter, how much I love him and I couldn’t say goodbye, I think of my children that didn’t get a chance to be born, I think and my body doesn’t feel anything else. I slowly open my eyes and see Mr Quinn crouching down beside me and these bloody wolves get near, I close my eyes and my mind blacks out.