Cursed By Fate

Jack quickly recalibrated the crossbow pulling the string back and fixed in the second laced arrow . He fired the second shot, this time hitting Carl’s thigh and bringing him down on one knee. “Nice shot old man.” Lyon cheered him on as he watched the scary beast man become weakened.

“Eyes sharp and stay focused. We’re not done yet. ” Jack snapped at him. As he took aim for the final shot, he observed Laura standing in front of Carl blocking his view for a clean shot. Tears rolled down her cheeks but she didn’t flinch even with a crossbow pointed at her. “This is for your own good Laura.”Jack yelled at her.

“And how would you know what is good for me ? ” She screamed still sobbing.”your father would have hated to see you with one of their kind.” Jack said as he lowered the cross bow. “Thanks to you he’s not here, so please don’t take away the only person l love who’s still alive ” Laura pleaded.

Lyon stepped down from the vehicle as he noticed his uncle was caught between finishing the kill and sparing Carl’s life. And it was all because of a lady he didn’t know nor care about.

He upholstered his pistol and pointed it at Laura. “Get away from the wolf or I’ll shoot ” Lyon yelled. Just then , John came out from behind Laura and without hesitation fired his shotgun at the truck.

Both hunters ducked beneath their doors. “What the hell Uncle Jack!” Lyon exclaimed .”Keep your cool, he’s just trying to scare us, he ain’t no killer.”

But Lyon was too furious, being shot at seemed to have triggered something sinister in him. He returned fire and hit John’s wife Caroline who was watching all the chaos through the window.

John helped Laura pull Carl inside and shut the door. Carl was too weak as the poison had started to slow his heart rate, and there was the issue of the blood loss from the arrow piercings.

“Caroline, get me a towel quick ” John screamed and he struggled to pull out the arrow lodged in Carl’s thigh. His groaning was unbearable for Laura so she rushed to grab a towel and that’s when she found Caroline lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

Laura came back to the living room shaking. The words refused to leave her lips. John turned from Carl momentarily and asked ,” Where is she ? we need towels quickly, he’s not healing fast enough.” He said. A quick pause and observation allowed him to see something was obviously wrong.

He dashed to the next room to find his wife on the floor with with blood gushing out from the side of her stomach. One of the bullets Lyon fired had hit her. “Caroline ! Caroline!!” John called her name fearing the worst. He bent his head so as to listen if she was still breathing.

His eyes widened as he could hear her breath faintly. He put his hand below her shoulders and the other underneath both knees and lifted her off the ground . “Go help Caroline, I’ll be fine .” Carl said faintly to Laura. His body began to expel the poison slowly but enough to start his regenerative healing.

Laura was boiling on the inside, not only had Jack caused the death of her father, but came all the way to where she lived to kill her boyfriend, and to complete the trifecta he caused Caroline to get shot. In her mind, Jack was the source of her losing the people she loved and she had to put and end to it .

Meanwhile , on the outside , Jack was livid “I told you he wasn’t planning on killing us, what in that damn head of yours told you to shoot?” Jack asked his nephew. Lyon turned to his uncle to give an answer and in that small space of time , Laura came out guns blazing as she fired two rounds at the truck with John’s shotgun.

“You’re not taking another person from me ” she said as she cocked it for the recoil. As she fired another round John walked slowly behind her. Trying to make it to his car. In that state , he didn’t care about being hit. All he needed was to to get Caroline into the car so he could get her to the local clinic.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

Luckily for Jack and Lyon , the gun jammed. As she struggled to pull it back, Lyon raised his head from where he took cover and aimed his pistol at her. “Don’t be stupid, let’s get the hell out of here “Jack said in such a loud manner, Laura heard.

Lyon took to the words of his uncle and got into the driver’s seat, still maintaining caution as he ducked behind the dashboard.”Get in” he yelled at Jack as he turned the key and started the ignition.

He revved the engine and with his foot pressed hard on the throttle, he reversed the truck until he was out of Laura’s range of fire. He did a quick 180 turn and drove off as fast as he could.

Laura put the shot gun down and turned to see Carl struggling to get up. She hurriedly went to his aid and put his arm around her shoulder to support him. John was too far paranoid to take notice of them as he drove past them and sped off towards the dirt road that led to the high way.

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The pack was just about to leave the compound when Elijah said “Were not sure where he went to, nor are we sure if we can track him all the way there.”

The Alpha’s spy did not like the fact that Elijah was second-guessing his decision, but it seemed too plausible to deny or refuse. “So what do you suggest?” He asked Elijah with a scowl.

“We make this compound our kill box. If we can lay the perfect ambush, all we have to do is wait, and he’ll never see us coming.”