Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 89

Chapter 89: 89-Stealing Chances And Death

Clementine:

We walked around for a few minutes, but this time we didn’t head toward the woods. We knew the parents wouldn’t have gone there, there’s no way the mothers would think to hide in such a dangerous place. Or so we thought.

As soon as we stepped onto a road, I noticed the other squads following us. At that point, everyone looked suspicious, just staring at each other. I didn’t even know what was happening. I think they were trying to stay close so that if one of us found a baby, they could snatch it. And of course, none of us would be heartless enough to risk hurting a baby by trying to take it back.

"In the end, it might even come down to squad mates turning on each other," Haiden said as he looked around. I saw him narrow his eyes at something in the distance. The road only goes two ways, forward or back.

"Let’s go," Haiden said, gently tapping my elbow. We started walking the opposite way while the others kept going forward. But some of them noticed and began following us. It was exhausting. And the silence as they trailed behind was even louder. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

About an hour into the walk, we finally came across the first house. It was painted completely yellow with red doors.

"Isn’t this the one Lenora was talking about?" Yorick said.

They had told us during the boarding that we’d know we were heading the right way if we saw this exact house. It was small but two stories tall. They said the border started with the woods, then led into this small village. It was a sign we were getting deeper into the northern area.

My eyes scanned the place anxiously. Bloodstains covered the ground, doors, and yellow walls, the contrast making it even more terrifying.

Before we could head toward the house, a Green Squad member ran past and bumped into me. I almost fell, but Yorick grabbed my arm to steady me.

The guy ran up to the porch, then turned to smirk at us.

"Green Squad takes over this house," he announced.

We narrowed our eyes as more of his squad formed a circle around the house.

"Yeah, we saw it first," one of the girls yelled to support the guy.

I raised my hand to signal my squadmates not to make any sudden moves. There was something else I noticed about the creature, it didn’t have eyes. My squadmates stared back at me, confused, but at least they had stopped moving.

That’s when the creature started walking toward the front porch. The door was already open. It stepped outside, finally coming into full view. I heard gasps from the green squadmates. I raised my hand and waved to get their attention, then slowly lowered it and put a finger to my lips to hush them.

We watched as the creature approached the body. It didn’t touch it. Instead, it kept its neck low to the ground, almost like it was sniffing the blood and locating its target. Then it moved toward the stairs, following the blood trail until it reached the severed head.

That’s when it started to feed.

Seeing Markus’ eyes still open while the creature ate his head made me feel like I was going to gag. I think everyone thought about running to put distance between them and this monster, but we didn’t know how strong it was. It could be fast, maybe even faster than anything we’d seen. There could be more of them nearby.

Just as that thought hit me, I slowly turned to my left, and saw another creature’s neck peeking out from behind the house, only a few feet away from where I stood.