Derik was quite for a moment, and then he said “why would I believe anything you have said?”
“…because another body would be found lying on the street if we don’t find them fast and stop them.”
Just then Derik’s phone buzzed in his pocket, he took it out then looked over it. “It’s a text from William -he is reminding me about the meeting which will commence in about an hour… I better hurry up to meet him.”
“And Derik one more thing…” Kevin called out to him before he stepped out of the door “…what you know about me, don’t mention it to anyone.”
“I better not regret this.” Derik said then walked out of the house in a hurry.
* *
Kevin had spent the last couple of minute opening doors wondering which room was Natasha’s. He then came upon a door with a pink sticker of a guitar stamped on it. He was sure it was her room.
Kevin gently slide the door open. It was the third door he had opened. He then poked his head into the room. Finally he had found Natasha. She was standing looking out the window.
“What do you want?” she asked without turning to look at him.
“How did you…”
“Your body scent…” she quickly answered him “…it gets strong when you are close.”
She just stood there by the window, the sun rays fell on her skin making them radiant. She asked again “what do you want?”
“I came to make sure you are ok before I leave.”
“I am fine.” She answered immediately “…you can go now.” She didn’t even turn to look at him.
She heard the door closed. She was sure he had gone, she could swear it. She wiped the tears rolling down her eye.
When she turned around, she found herself wrapped in Kevin’s arm. She didn’t hide her surprise. She quickly cleaned her tears in her silk dress.
“What are you doing here?” she said in a teary voice. Her voice had fail her.
She quickly tried to hide her face from him but he stopped her. He cupped both his hands around her jaw then he looked into her teary eye. All he could see in her eye was the sincere love she had for him. He felt his heart crumbled.
He stared at her wet lips, they were trembling. He fought against the desire to kiss her but the bitter passion to taste her lip overwhelmed him and he swiftly surrendered to the sweet ecstasy of love and then lowered his head.
He pressed his lips onto hers, heat rushed through his body. The desire he had always been fighting finally sufficed. He finally stopped fighting it and just let everything else go.
Nothing else mattered…
For the first time in eighteen years Kevin felt peace. Natasha pressed her hands against his chest gently pushing him away but he wouldn’t let go. Her strength failed her. Her hands dropped weakly.
She tried to move away but her body wasn’t obeying her. She gently closed eye and let him kiss her. She surrendered to the sweat passion of his embrace.
For a long second, they both stood in each other’s in a protracted kiss. Suddenly, the painful images of T-Rex torturing Loretta crept over his mind and he slowly started to hesitate. He slowly began to break the kiss but Natasha tightened her grip around his neck.
“Kevin please…” Natasha begged in a whispering voice “…don’t fight it.”
She needed him now more than ever. Natasha jumped over him and then kissed him hungrily. Kevin rubbed her back passionately as she let him kiss her.
He felt a cold shiver go down his spin and a burning desire to rip her apart began to build up within him. He tried to stop himself from going any further, but his own body turned against him.
He ripped her dress open and ran his hands around her bare back. Her naked breast pressed against his chest. He kissed her neck. Tasha threw her head backward in pure pleasure. Her hands were over his head.
Kevin threw her on the bed and then quickly got on top. He removed her dress until she was completely naked on the bed. He suddenly stopped to stare at her with bitter passion. Her eyes locked with his. She could see his deepest fear through his eyes. She pulled him unto herself.
“Get your hands on me.” She said in a low sensual voice while she lay back.
Kevin lowered his head and then kissed her. His hands cup both her breast, then he gave her a little squeeze. The esthesis of his hot wet lips against her hard nipple flooded her nerves with an endless pleasure.
His fingertip ran over her nipple sending a tingling sensation throughout her body. Natasha moaned in pleasure.
Kevin gently kissed her neck, then he worked his way down to her stomach, he licked her belly button.
Working his way down her body, he placed his hands on her thigh. She felt the heat from his breath just below her. He sticks out his tongue to have a sensual taste. Her hips bucked against his tongue. Her whole body moved in exotic pleasure as he licked her. Her moan was getting louder.
He unbuttoned his jean, and then he fell on her. Natasha gasped as she felt him going into her. The pain tore through her pleasure. She was lost in the sweet ecstasy of lust…
Derik drove into a long convention hall beside the police department. He took out his phone to confirm it was the address William had texted to him earlier.
Taking a glance at the building, he was sure this was it. He walked past the security guards standing outside the hall into an open crowd of people seated in an orderly arrangement.
He marveled at how big the whole place was. The whole place was packed with uniform men and women of the armed force. Some were on a different security uniform.
Looking up at the podium in front of the crowd, he saw William addressing the many crowd -and next to him was TCU’s president, Sir Lawrence Linus who was placed in the middle.
Close beside him was a Hugh muscular dark skin soldier wearing a dark glass and chewing gum. He had a flagitious look on his face as he stare towards the crowd from his dark glasses. He had an M16A1 gun strapped to his shoulder. All the agents and police force of the threat control unit were all present.
Derik walked through the numerous crowd of police officers to get to the front row so he could he could hear what William was saying.
“…and this shifter no longer hid in the shadow, they are no longer afraid of us as we are of them.” William roared so he could be heard by everyone. “…They are now getting bold. Few days ago, Mrs. Eulich, a lab assistant at franks laboratory underwent a genetic transmutation process to posses the physical features of a shifter. The aim of this was so she be one of them in other for us to understand how they behave. Mrs. Eulich was genetic transmuted to assist in the hunt for these shifters, but she was killed by one of them before we could get her out on the field …another little girl suffered brutal torture in the hands of these shifters few hours after Mrs. Eulich death. Again, early hours of this morning one of our agents, Sergeant Scott found five bodies lying on the streets of this city. They were said to have been tortured and brutally murdered by a shifter. A kidnap attempt was also made on my daughter few days ago by one of these shifters but thanks to the timely intervention of one of our agents here…” William paused and then looked over at Derik seated at the front row “…my daughter is safe.” He concluded.
There was a loud applause from the crowd as William returned to his seat.
Lawrence took the micro phone from William, Derik heard him speak for the first time, “Some of you already know me, but for the benefit of those who doesn’t …my name is Lawrence Linus, a retired SIAS Official in fallout city and I was recently invited to this city by your mayor, mayor Ramsey to lead this taskforce and bring down the every single shifter here in the city. As your vice-president over here had mentioned, the shifters poses a threat to this beautiful city and to every citizens living in it. That is why I have decided to take this mission personal. So am announcing to you all that starting from tomorrow morning I shall be embarking on home to home visitation of every single household in this city to have them interrogated and believe me, I never
make mistakes in my line of work. No shifter shall pass me unnoticed.” Lawrence then ended his speech looking directly at Derik in a way that bothered him.
“Here is my word of advice to every shifter still present here in the city…” again Lawrence looked into Derik’s eye in a way that made him feel uncomfortable “…leave this city before I come fish you out from your homes.”
The whole hall was totally quite when he stopped talking, then suddenly there was an outburst of cheers and a loud applause. Derik stood up and walked back into the crowd out of the building. Lawrence followed him with his eyes. He wore a cocky smile as he watched Derik leave the hall.
Derik quickly got into the rest room and locked the doors. He looked over at his reflection on the big mirror that hung on the wall. It was then he noticed his chest was heaving from breathing rapidly. Something about the way Lawrence looked at him had worried him.
Derik felt a slight pain from the stab wound T-Rex had left on his chest. He let out a loud groan as he held out his chest in pain.
He then removed his shirt slowly. Then he rubbed his hands over the bandage that had been tied over his chest. He took them out slowly.
He ran the tip of his finger over the open wounds on his chest. He let out a groan when he felt that sharp pain again.
Suddenly his eye color deepened. Furs grew out of his skin. His nails grew longer and stronger into claws and his teeth were now fang. His body structure grew incredibly larger and He was now a transformed beast.
Derik stared at his reflection on what he had become. The hairs on his body had covered the wound on his chest.
The hairs on his skin slowly began to return back in and his claws disappeared. His eye color then returned back to normal. Within a few second, he was back to human.
He then rubbed his hands over his chest, the stab wounds had completely disappeared. His finger tips ran freely over his smooth chest.
He suddenly stopped when he heard a loud knock on door. Derik hurriedly put his shirt on and then he threw the bandages into the waste bin.
Gently opening the locks and sliding the door open, he was surprised when he saw Lawrence standing just outside. The dark skin soldier was waiting behind him.
An automatic fake smile egressed Derik’s face as he quickly apologized “…sorry I took so long.”
The old man wasn’t moved by his fake attitude “you must be Derik…” Lawrence said.
“…that’s correct sir.” Derik said maintaining the smiles on his face. “It is a pleasure to meet you.”
“…I wish I could say the same.”
Derik’s face suddenly folded in a confounding frown.
“William has mentioned a lot about you to me…” Lawrence spoke in a husky voice. “William also mentioned that you were stabbed on the chest while trying to defend his daughter, that was over a week ago correct?”
“Yes sire”
“…and now you’re back to sound health.” A smirk then appeared on Lawrence’s face. “Remarkable!”
Now getting uncomfortable around Lawrence, Derik said “sir, if you don’t mind I beg to leave now there is something I need to catch up on.”
“Feel free please…” he finally offered him a smile.
“-and one more thing sir… that was a great speech you gave in there.” Derik said.
Lawrence nodded at him with a smile “…the hunt has already begun.” Then Derik left.
The serious look on Lawrence’s face returned as he turned to face the dark skinned soldier waiting behind him
“Send words to the vice-president, tell him I have caught a shifter on the taskforce and we need to exterminate him as soon as possible.”
Lawrence’s eye followed Derik as he watched him leave in his car. He went into the restroom and then noticed the bandages inside the waste bin, a cocky smile crossed his lips.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A JOURNEY TO THE PAST
The sunlight rays poured into Natasha’s room through light curtain covering her windows.
It was a hot afternoon.
Natasha woke up opening her eyes gently to an empty bed. Kevin was gone…
Natasha let out a disappointing sigh.
She walked up to the window to adjust the curtains. She suddenly found herself thinking over the pleasure she had with him moments ago.
A bright smile appeared on her face as she threw herself on the bed, looking up at the ceiling. She hugged her pillow tight and then she chuckled.
A little paper fell from her pillow. She then picked it up. She turned it to see what was written on it.
…it wasn’t meant to go this far, I swear. Stay away from me.
–a message from Kevin. It was a warning Natasha hadn’t expected.
The world around her slowed. Tears spilled over her cheek. She felt a sudden heaviness in her heart. The tears rolled down her eyes and dropped onto the note. She looked over the note again, her vision blurred by the tears in her eyes.
She sat at the edge of her bed reminiscing over how foolish she had been for thinking they were finally going to be together. She squeezed the note in her hands.
She walked over to the mirror that hung on the wall right beside her bed. She threw the note into the waste bin and then stared at her pathetic reflection for a while.
She was mad at him, for being so cute and making her fall for him even when she had swore to herself she would never let a guy hurt her. She began to think of the reasons why he was doing this.
She let out a loud angry scream as she smashed her fist into the mirror. It cracked into a thousand pieces leaving a stain of her blood on it. She gasped when she saw cut on her finger. She was hurt.
Kevin drove home that hot afternoon in kern’s car. When he got into the house, he found Cedric sitting on the coach. All his attention was fixed on a magazine he was reading.
He quietly shut the door and then when walked past him to his room.
“Where have you been?” Cedric called out to him without taking his eye from the magazine. Kevin stopped in his path, and then looked over at Cedric.
“You didn’t come home last night…” Cedric finally took his eye of the magazine and then fixed his gaze up at Kevin. “Why?”
“…there was something I needed to take care of.” Kevin answered innocently.
“…you mean this…” Cedric threw the magazine on the table right in front of Kevin. Kevin looked over it. His eye widened at the headline on the magazine.
Five street walkers brutally murdered by a shifter.
Kevin went numb right after.
“Why did you do it?” Cedric asked.
“What do you mean why did I do it.” Kevin waved his hands around angrily. “…does guys are maniacs, sex predators and drug addicts. Do you know the number of women out there who’d fallen victims to these guys?”
“That’s why we have the police in the city –leave them to do their job.” Cedric sassed.
“Those guys messed with someone I care about, so I did the cops a favor by taking them down.”
“Did you stop for a moment to think what your actions might do to us…?” Cedric mused. “Now because of what you have done, they will intensify effort to find us and put an end to all of us here in this city.”
Cedric then stood up and walked to him. “Do you really want to be burnt alive if you are found?”
After a long silence between them, Kevin said “one of them already knows what I am.”
“What?” Cedric exclaimed “…how did you let that happen?”
“His name’s Derik and he happened to be a really smart guy.”
“Then we need to do what must be done quickly before it’s too late.”
“No!” Kevin immediately rebuke him “We are not going to kill him… That’s not what we are, we do not kill people. Besides he’d promised not to tell anyone. I need him right now to find out something for me.”
“You even asked for his help?” Cedric barked out -his voice getting increasingly higher. “…you
are willing to risk your neck for this guy?”
Kevin spoke in a whispering tone “c’mon, lower your voice before someone hears us. There is something I need to tell you and promise me you are not going to talk to anyone about it.”
“What’s this thing you want me to keep a secret?”
“…just Promise me you won’t tell a single soul about it.”
Cedric exhaled deeply “ok, I promise.”
Kevin came really close to him and spoke out in a really low tune. “…there is this secret shifter society called Beocraft. I asked Derik to find out what this society is all about.”
“Beocraft…” Cedric said suddenly raising his brow.
His mood became foul. “How did you find out about Beocraft?” his voice sounded dangerously low. “Kevin, have you been sneaking into my room?” he looked over at Kevin with fury.
“No!” Kevin quickly denied looking totally confused at Cedric and how he had suddenly reacted.
“How did you find out about Beocraft…” Cedric squeezed his shirt dragging him close “…who told you about it”
Cedric acted in a manner that scared Kevin. Kevin saw how pissed off Cedric looked at him, he immediately answered him out of fear “Leonard… his name is Leonard. He was the detective working on my case right after T-Rex killed Loretta. He made me promise him not to tell anyone about it.” Kevin quavered.
Cedric then let go of him and then walked away. Kevin’s chest was heaving rapidly as he gaze at Cedric with a puzzled look.
“You knew Beocraft?” Kevin looked over him, confused.
He couldn’t understand why Cedric suddenly acted hostilely towards him after he’d brought the subject about Beocraft to him.
Kevin’s mouth was left opened in shocked when he suddenly realized something.
“You are one of them, aren’t you?”
Kevin swallowed hard -his throat burn. He felt a cold chill go down his spine.
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