A New World

Ashley. I recoiled from Ryder, my legs moving backwards until my spine hit the wall and I couldn’t get any further away from him. “What are you?” the question slipped from my lips. My body trembled from the shock, my mind unable to process what I had just witnessed go down right here in front of me. There was a dead body in my living room. There had been inhumanly large wolves vacating the space earlier. Ryder was not human, that much I could confirm. The murderous men earlier had talked about vampires. And werewolves. Surely, Ryder wasn’t a werewolf. That was simply ridiculous. Werewolves weren’t real. My mouth opened and closed as I expelled a shaky breath. I repeated the notion a few times, unable to form any other words as I gaped at the very naked man in front of me. The same man who not moments prior was a wolf. Despite all the chaos and of how unreal all of this appeared to me, one thing I did acknowledge was; Ryder did save my life just now. If he hadn’t shown up, I’d be dead.