The Love of a Lycan

Chapter 548 - WORSE SITUATION

"Hope, are you alright?!" Ian asked frantically, he and Ethan moved closer to her, but not that close to touch the silver bars. "—it's okay, take it easy… take it easy…" he cooed her.

Both of them didn't know what else to say except some empty encouraging words.

"Are you okay now?" Ethan asked again when Hope had stopped throwing up.

"No…" Hope brushed away her hair from her sweaty forehead. "I am not okay," she said sullenly. Her hands and whole body was trembling.

"I am sorry Hope, you have to do this…" Ethan and Ian grimaced, saying the same thing.

Hope didn't say anything, she wiped her sweat and tears before she took a deep breath to calm her thumping heart and raging stomach, in case she would throw up again after seeing the gruesome scene for the second time.

Slowly, Hope turned her head and, first, spotted the white beast, who was lying on the ground. Despite he had not yet moved an inch since he closed his eyes, the rose and fell of his chest was the only indication that he was still alive.

Stilled her heart for the heart-wrenching battlefield that caused by the same beast, Hope's eyes moved from the beast to the scene after him.

Hope thought, no matter how many times she watched this kind of scene on the movies, she would never get used to this in real life. Her legs threatened to give up when she tried to stand up. Then, her back hit the cage behind her, and the siblings patted her shoulder through the bars, risking themselves touching the silver.

"Take your time Hope, take your time," Ethan spoke in his best reassuring tone. They couldn't rush her or else, she would have another mental breakdown at that very moment.

"I couldn't believe it… Kace had done this…" Hope stammered. She forced herself to see, to see the massacre before her eyes. She swallowed hard as if there was a palm size stone was shoving down her throat.

"He did it to help us… it's his natural instinct to protect you…" Ethan gave an understanding to Hope.

"I know…" Hope nodded slowly. She knew the reason behind the beast's act, but knowing it didn't reduce the fear that gripped her heart.

"How about Lana? She is not awaken yet?" Hope glanced at the female werewolf, who was still lying unconscious.

"No, she is not." Ian frowned. "It would take a longer time than we expected for her to regain her consciousness I guess…" Lana's condition alone was weird.

When the siblings had woken up way long before, the girl still didn't give any sign that she would wake up anytime soon.

Hope needed another ten minutes to calm herself and mustered her courage to take one step at time.

Seeing this from afar was already a challenge for her quivering heart, not to mention she had to walk among this disturbing scene to look for the key, which she didn't even have any idea where to start to look for it.

Hope licked her dry lips and clenched her fist, she approached the first man that Kace had killed. The man who stood next to her when the beast set himself free. historical

Hope covered her mouth when another wave of nausea hit her asshe closed her eyes upon seeing the unsightly dead body. Poor man…

Biting her tongue, Hope opened her eyes and they were blazed with determination. At this rate, the sun would have set before she could find that key and by then she there would be nothing to illuminate her surroundings. She had to move fast.

The orange light from the twilight sky was the only light that could help her in this almost impossible mission. Thus, she didn't have time to whine or being scared, their situation didn't allow her to do so.

She needed the siblings out from that cage and helped her to bring Kace away, to get themselves out of this situation, real fast.

With that new courage, Hope moved from another appalling dead body to the other. Triedto not think too much about this and just moved as fast as she could.

Yet, that key was nowhere to be found.

"Where is that key!?" Hope was mad to herself, she was getting frustrated when there was only a little bit glim of light left from the sunset behind the horizon. "I CAN'T FIND THE KEY!" Hope shouted at Ethan and Ian out of her desperation.

Every time she looked at her hand, she was akin to someone who was wearing red gloves, they were trembling as if she was a ninety-nine-year-old grandma.

Ethan and Ian looked at each other and grimaced. What could they do from that cage except encouraging her?

"Keep looking, you will find it in one of that men's pocket!" Ian said.

"Try to look inside the carriage!" Ethan said suggesting that maybe they put it there. There were three carriages there, one of them was the carriage where Hope had been sleeping on.

"Oh." That idea had not crossed her mind. Didn't want to waste any more time, she rushed towards the first carriage near her. Hope's figure disappeared behind the carriage.

"What should we do now?" Ian shifted his eyes from the massacre and looked at Lana, "Why hasn't she regained consciousness yet?"

"I don't know…" Ethan sighed, but his eyes still focused on their surroundings and at the beast, which hadn't move after he killed all those hunters. Finally, the wounds and the exhaustion took a toll on him.

"Do you know where Lidya is?" Ian asked randomly.

Ethan rolled his eyes. "How am I supposed to know that?" he was annoyed.

"I know, I know… I just need something to talk about. I can't take this silent well." Ian shivered when the night wind blew past his body.

"Oh, no!" Ethan's breathe hitched as his eyes widened in fear.He thought that the situation would not get worse than this, the universe proved him wrong.

"What? What happened?" Ian immediately turned his body. At first, he didn't know what Ethan was seeing, but then he saw it too. "Oh, crap!" he cursed under his breath.

"Hope! Get out from there!" Ethan shouted frantically.