Big Bad Wolfie novel Chapter 60

Before I take down any pack though, we have to not die.

Which will probably prove to be quite the challenge.

I already have a really bad feeling about this.

But it's hybrids. The source of all my nightmares. My childhood tormentors. One of the only things in this world I truly fear. What did I expect?

Sunshine and rainbows?

(A/N: And so starts the writer's block that's the reason this chapter is late)

As we continued to walk I tried to get a grip on my heart beat. I know everyone can hear it ready to beat out of my chest.

"How ya doing, Maria?" Cali came up next to me. "Your heart's beating pretty fast."

I'm assuming she's asking to throw it in my face, but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.

"You're not scared or anything, right?" She laughed a little too hard for it to be real.

Never mind then.

"Haha," I fake laughed along, "I don't get the joke, but I'm fine, thanks for asking," I returned the favor by smiling a little too wide.

She pursed her lips but kept quiet.

I don't remember her being this salty towards everyone. Maybe it's just the stress of being on this mission that's —

"WATCH OUT!"

I froze after my head snapped to the source of the voice — because I have impeccable survival instincts — and watched in horror what happened less than a tenth of a second after.

An arrow, presumably covered in deadly poison, flew in slow motion directly towards Brandon.

Luckily, his reaction to 'WATCH OUT!' was much better than mine, and he jumped at the sound of Happy's voice and out of the way of the arrow.

And now it's hurdling towards me.

Should I catch it or move?

I don't think anyone's behind me. Cali is to my left and Wolfie is behind me but to my right.

Mmm. . . But it's aimed at the heart so if I don't move fast enough it will graze my arm and that'll hurt like a mother trucker.

What if I did like a matrix move —

"Maria!" Wolfie yelled as he yanked me out of the way of the flying arrow.

Dang it, missed opportunity to do something cool.

Wolfie held me to his chest and frantically checked my face for injuries, "Are you all right?!"

I had to try so hard to keep the corners of my lips from quirking up. He's so cute when he's concerned about me. "Don't worry, the bow doesn't make the arrow fly nearly as fast as they can throw a knife, I was gonna dodge it."

"Well you took too long," he glared at me.

"Could you two get off each other and help us!" Rose hollered. "I know there's all that, like, sexual tension or whatever, but we're literally in the middle of fighting hybrids."

"Gah!" She screamed as she stabbed a hybrid attacking Brandon.

"F**k each other later!" She hissed.

I snorted, "Sorry," and detached myself from Wolfie, purposely not checking to see his reaction to her crude statement.

We moved through the forest quite a bit fighting these two hybrids, and the deeper we got, the more excited the butterflies in my stomach got.

I have a bad feeling about where these hybrids are trying to herd us.

They took longer to kill than the last group, and by the end of the fight there was a top of a building peaking out of the trees.

Holy crap this is happening.

"Look," Stephan pointed at the part of the base we could see. "They were leading us here!"

"Why would they do that?" Brandon frowned.

Closer to backup.

"So that if they couldn't kill us, their little friends could," Rose glared at the building.

Yeah that.

I can practically smell everyone's agitation as we reluctantly inch closer to the base, but I know everyone else's scent couldn't be half as bad as my own.

My stomach feels like I just swallowed a hornets' nest.

But that's nothing compared to how I feel when the whole front of the building comes into view from behind the trees.

F*ck.

F*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck.

Why this base?

I start to have the familiar feeling of my throat closing and my heart beat slowing.

No, no, no, don't freak out.

Don't.

Freak.

Out. . .

F*CK!

I'm freaking out!

Why did it have to be this facility?

Why this one?!

Why me?!

I thought they —

"Maria! Can you hear me?!" Someone screamed in my face.

"No!" I screamed back.

I thought they destroyed this place.

After they rescued me, after they won the battle, the war! I thought they destroyed it.

So why the f*ck am I standing in front of it?!

"I thought they destroyed this place," someone whispered. I think it was Rose.

"Yeah! Me too!" I blew up.

Strong arms wrapped around my waist and it calmed me a fraction.

Too bad that doesn't mean much, since I'm losing my sh*t.

F*ck!

"Maria, please! Calm down. You're gonna hyperventilate." Wolfie tightened his grip on me as he frantically spoke.

Don't you think I've done this enough times to know that?!

I slammed my eyes shut and tried to breathe evenly.

In. . . out. . .

In. .out

In, out

Inout

In

In,in,in,in,in.

It's not working!

I smell hybrids. I smell fear. I smell blood!