Seventy-One…

Seventy-One: The Hunger

There’s a switch between Aubrey’s POV and Kat’s POV in the first segment.

Warning: contains nudity, sexual content, violence.

Aubrey steered the car around a curve.

She’d attempted to hurry in case Hunter and Kat tried anything, but there was too much shit to get at the store.

Of course she could’ve waited until the next day to shop, but she’d already went a whole week without laundry soap.

The car pulled into the driveway. Aubrey rushed into the house cradling several bags of groceries.

It was quiet. Too quiet.

She tossed the detergent onto the kitchen counter, left half the items in their bags. Then she sprinted into the living room.

Relief swept over her.

“How was your treatment?” Aubrey asked. For some strange reason the television was muted.

“My treatment went… great.”

But wow, Kat thought. I’m so sore I can barely walk, and it’s not from Dr. Logan poking my stomach.

There’s more to love than screwing your brains out…

Hunter had said that weeks earlier, but now that was precisely what he and Kat were doing.

Screwing their brains out.

Hunter pressed Kat against the boulder. With her legs around his thighs, he roughly made love to her.

Then he held her as they lingered alongside the lake. The morning horizon reflected upon its rippling surface.

“Better get home,” he said in a throaty whisper. “Mommy’s going to spank you.”

“Why don’t you spank me?” she asked.

He laughed.

Meanwhile…

Reznik asked about his brother Jakub.

“Jakub was a bad seed,” Vaclav said looking away.

“We never saw eye to eye on anything. It was always like that, even when he was a child.”

“Where is Jakub now?”

“I really don’t know. Last I saw him, he was in France.”

Silence ensued.

“What would you do if he ever came back?” Reznik finally asked.

“Kill him.”

“I’m always here to help, Dad.” Reznik chuckled.

“Indeed.”

“So… wanna go kill some Dempires?”

“Does a bear shit in the woods?”

Kat and Hunter mingled at their old meeting spot on the mountain.

She ran her fingers through his dark hair while straddling him.

Hunter shifted and moved beneath her. His hard-on tented his jeans.

Caressing her left thigh, he peered between her legs. Kat’s breathing quickened.

“You’re pregnant,” he said. “I can tell by the warmth of your body, and the rapid beating of your heart.”

Seized by disbelief, thoughts raced through her mind. Could she be pregnant? If so, she’d only be a few weeks along.

What would her parents think? What would they do to Hunter? The implications were frightening, but at the same time thrilling.

She wanted Hunter’s baby. Just the thought made her smile.

Hunter, the naughty guy he was, had impregnated her on purpose.

The big, bad wolf wanted to spawn cute little puppies.

Kat lay on her bedroom floor listening to music.

Lost in a reverie, she sat upright.

Hunter seemed to suspect her of seeing someone else. The other day he asked if she was ‘cheating’ on him, but mentioned it in a joking way.

He also joked about following her sometime to make sure she wasn’t meeting anyone on the sly.

She thought of Omega.

Torn Between Two Lovers played on the sound system.

She hadn’t seen Omega in a while. Guilt rose within her. She had to see him, tell him about Hunter. Tell him it’s over.

It was decided.

Kat left the house and strode toward her meeting spot with Omega.

But he wasn’t there.

Did he leave? Did he go back to Shadowvale?

Footsteps shuffled behind her.

It was cold. Goosebumps erupted beneath her jacket and across her legs.

Omega called her name.

She turned.

“I wanted to be your first.”

“Then you already know?”

He nodded.

“I’m so sorry, Omega.”

“Do you love him?”

“Yeah.”

“Can I at least kiss you one last time before you dump me?”

“Of course.” She smiled, her heart breaking for him.

They walked to the edge of the woods.

“Bye, angel face.”

Before she could even reply, he smothered her lips with a kiss.

She didn’t feel Hunter’s presence.

But he was there…

watching and waiting.

The wolf within him reared up.

“H—Hunter?”

Exuding an ungodly howl, he spun Omega around and went for his throat.

Crimson spurted as Hunter’s incisors ripped at Omega’s flesh.

Omega flopped back.

“Noooooooooooo!” Kat cried.

Omega slumped to the ground.

Hunter fell on top of him, yanked out a knife and hacked off his head.

“Hunter! Why…”

Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why. 

He stood up and wiped the blood from his lips.

Kat clutched her chest, choked back tears. Those tears soon emerged and trickled down her face.

She glared up at Hunter.

“I thought he was hurting you,” he said. “I had to kill him.”

“BULLSHIT!”

“Just go away,” she sobbed. “Leave me alone.”

Kat continued to softly cry, while Hunter spun around and left.

She was alone with Omega’s body.

Why, Hunter? Why did you hurt him? What’s wrong with you? Is this really how you’re going to be from now on, so jealous and possessive you’d be willing to kill anyone who dares touch me?

Just because I’m pregnant with your baby doesn’t mean you own me. It doesn’t give you the right to be a monster.

Thanks for reading, and sorry about Hunter’s ‘temper tantrum’. I have a bad habit of having my characters do very bad things… don’t hate me. >_>  Hunter did it because he’s desperate to hold onto Kat. He doesn’t want to lose Kat in the same way he lost Aubrey (to another vampire).