Bride To The Island Wolf novel Chapter 5

Avril tossed and turned on the rough surface. She rubbed her leg against a sharp rock and felt the pain in her head. She woke up and groaned. Her body was sore.

She sighed and sat up then looked at her bleeding leg.

“uhhh! Another injury” she grunted and rubbed the sides of the wound to ease the pain.

She was in a cave and the beach was right in front of them. She could see the waves and hear the howling wind but couldn't feel it because it didn't enter into the cave.

“but how did I get here?” she asked herself. She remembered waking up on the sand shore but that was all she remembered.

She gathered up all her energy and stood up on her feet. She took few steps then remembered what she saw. She froze and held her breath.

“that wasn't real, right?” she asked rhetorically

she mumbled and walked out of the cave. She looked around and could only see sea gulls and other birds on the beach.

“but how did I get into the cave? I remember lying by the sea” she thought

She looked back at the cave and then at the sea. Something didn't feel right. She took slow strides towards the rocky part of the beach in other to figure out where she had laid. She was looking straight ahead all these while and only looked down when she reached the rocky area. Coincidentally, she was standing at the exact spot she lay. She looked down and saw her body print on the sand and the waves were coming up on it so only half of it showed.

“I was lying here. So how did I get there? The monster part was a dream so how did I leave this place?”

Her eyes caught an imprint on the sad just beside her legs. She looked and her eyes widened in horror and bewilderment. It was a huge footprint. Not of a human but an animal. A huge animal.

“oh my God! Oh my God! No!” she exclaimed as she staggered back into the water. She looked ahead and saw the footprint moving up and into the cave. The cave she had woken up from. The cave she just walked out from. That same cave. But how did she not see the footprint? Just how?

Avril stood there shuddering and loosing all her mind. A real monster. What she saw was real. She was so loosing her mind.

She looked down at the footprint again and knelt beside it to examine it. She gulped down when she saw how big it was now that she was closer to it. It was about the size of two of her palms staying side by side on the sand. Little wonder it shook the ground when it walked earlier.

The footprint had claw marks. Very sharp claws that dug into the earth deeply. The footprint looked like that of a dog. Like a paw. Only bigger and modified.

Cold chills ran round Avril's body. Goosebumps appeared all over her and her teeth began to chatter. She was in it for trouble. She never imagined dying in such a brutal way. As dinner for a non human.

“oh no! This is not happening” “staying on the ship would have been better. Being sold as a slave would have been better” she cried

She looked around for any sign of the monster. Everywhere was empty and quiet except for the normal beach noise.

Avril began to walk away. Walking the opposite direction of the cave and the foot marks that led to it. Anywhere she didn't see its footprint, there she went. She kept walking and looking back until she got really tired and hungry. She groaned and sat on the sand, watching the waves. Her life began to reflect on her mind

She was always unlucky. All her life, she never felt extreme joy. She loved her parents even though they hardly provided for her. It wasn't that they didn't want to, it was just that they didn't have to. They tried their best to make her eat at least twice a day. That is breakfast and dinner. Their only food was rice and fish. And that was only when they got them as payment

She cried as she saw the roaring waves. She wished they could just swallow her and save her the pain of either starving to death on a deserted island or being served as dinner to a monster.