Alpha Damien's Trouble Maker (by Ruby Anne) novel Chapter 189

Chapter 189

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I moved without thinking, my body acting faster than my thoughts as I leapt over a fallen log and kept running, my steps light and precise as I wove through the dense forest, careful not to waste even a second of time or a drop of energy. I did not know if I could outrun that thing behind me, but I knew one thing with absolute certainty, I was not the kind of person who would stand still and wait for death to catch up to her. That had never been my style, and it never would be.

In my mind, Mira’s voice echoed, calm but laced with curiosity. Are you really going to run? Don’t you think you should try to understand what it wants?’

A breathless laugh almost escaped me at her words.

Understand it? That sounded like something a naive protagonist in a story would do, someone who believed everything in the world had a reason that would somehow work in their favor. was not that kind of person, and I had lived far too many lives to entertain such foolishness.

What if I stopped to understand it, and it decided to kill me on the spot, or worse, take over my body? No, I was not taking that risk. I preferred the simplest solution, the most efficient one If running increased my chances of survival, then I would run without hesitation. It really was that simple.

When a massive tree blocked my path, I did not slow down. I planted my foot against the trunk, pushed myself upward, grabbed onto a thick branch, and swung over before landing smoothly on the other side, continuing forward without breaking my rhythm. Ever since that black mist appeared, I had not encountered any other creatures, and that alone was unsettling. It was as if everything else in the forest had sensed it and fled, or worse, were too afraid to even exist in its

presence.

I was just about to turn into another clearing when my instincts screamed at me, forcing my body to halt as I jumped back without hesitation. Something massive landed right where I would have stepped next.

I lifted my gaze and found myself staring at a monster that looked like it had been stitched together, its head resembling that of a lion while its body carried the hulking mass of a bear. It let out a deafening roar the moment it spotted me, its eyes locking onto mine with murderous intent as it charged forward without a second of hesitation.

I sighed, irritation flickering through me as I prepared to deal with yet another inconvenience, my body already shifting into motion to take it down quickly and move on. But before I could even act, something else appeared.

A dark, shifting presence slid between me and the monster, forcing me to stop abruptl widening despite myself.

It caught up.

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The black mist stood there, if it could even be called standing, its form twisting and writhing in a way that made it impossible to fully comprehend. The monster in front of it froze instantly, its massive body trembling as if every instinct it had was screaming at it to run,

The mist spoke, its voice low, raspy, and inhuman, as if it was dragging each word from the depths of something ancient. “You dare touch what I have set my eyes on? You must be courting death.”

The creature tried to retreat, its survival instincts finally taking over, but it was too late. The mist moved faster than anything I had seen before, wrapping around the monster before it could even take a full step away. In a matter of seconds, its form twisted and reshaped, mimicking the creature it had just captured, except this version was larger, darker, and far more terrifying.

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