The Outcast Hybrid Luna novel Chapter 1

Scarlett's POV

'Please. ' I hoarsely whispered, attempting to raise my shaky hands to block the first splatter of rain. It started like a whisper, but soon it was falling down on me intensely. A sheet of heavy dark clouds had since occluded the moon and the stars. As the drops increased, I pushed myself faster, my body sliding on the wet grass. I whimpered yet again, the large bite on my heel stinging as the cold water poured down on me.

'Please.' I was all alone, but I still had a shimmer of ephemeral hope inside of me. My enfeebled hands clutched on the slippery grass, while I used the only strength I had left to push my entire body forward. I struggled to stretch my numb fingers, but they put up a little resistance. I couldn't see clearly, not because of the down pour, or the darkness but because my eye lids struggled to stay open in the dark. My head pounded with every little movement, the extreme ache dizzying me.

I tried harder, to pull myself from the grass covered road side, to find shelter under the woods on either side of the gravel road. Despite the murk of the rainy evening, I was able to make blurry figures of the trees as they swayed in the unforgiving wind. Small pebbles scraped across my exposing skin, making me hiss as some cut on the existing wounds.

'H-e-l-p. ' The word stuck on my throat, forcing me to cough the words up with extra force. I couldn't even recognize my own voice under the sound of the pelting drops. It was indistinct, tremulous and croaky. My hair was sticking all over my face, soaked and dripping. My teeth rattled against each other, while every part of my body burned with cold.

I could see myself getting closer and closer to the first line of trees. The rain blew into the eyes, nose and mouth, but in the forest I knew its fall was broken by the trees. Then I heard it, a rumbling engine over the sound of the curtain of the water drops. The flicker of optimism grew in a second, shining a little bit brighter.

'But what if it's them? ' I mumbled to myself, a gulp of saliva going down past my throat. I couldn't let them see me, I had come too far to lose my freedom yet again. There was no way I could make it to the line of trees before the vehicle came into view, I was finished.

My head turned, looking at either direction of the road. I lost temporarily my view on where I was headed, including the slope that could have been very easily avoided. The last thing I saw before my body was pulled downwards was the flash of headlights and the shiny rain drops under the yellow light.

I knew I was screaming when my throat burned as my body was thrashed against hard objects. My eyes were tightly closed, but my hands tried clutching on anything to slow down the rolling. I thought I was going to die and so I braced myself for the worse. Then I felt it, electricity coursing all over my head as if it had been wired.

My eyes didn't open again. Just like that, my hope had been shattered. I could feel it, the heaviness inside my head and entire body. I could feel myself being lulled into sleep, but before I slipped into it totally, I felt a feather light touch over my eyes, trying to pry them open. I could have sworn I heard a man's voice before everything went black.

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Pounding pain ground in my temples and across my forehead.

I could make out voices around me even though my eyes remained closed. I tried moving my hands but they wouldn't budge. My legs felt like they had been glued on the hard surface that my body lay on.

'She looks harmless. ' The statement was hushed but it left my ears ringing. I attempted to lift up my hands yet again, to cover them, to massage my temples that were making it hard for my eyes to open.

'Rogues are never harmless. ' The other voice was firm, with a hint of disgust in it.

'Look at her Jasper! she can barely move. She might be an outcast but those bite marks show exactly how vulnerable she is. ' My fingers twitched as the speed of my blood running in my vessels increased.

'The marks don't mean a thing Thierry!' I swallowed saliva yet again, the liquid going over my dry throat. Where the hell was I? Why couldn't I move my body? Who were those...

'Sshh, calm down beautiful. ' A voice soothed somewhere around where I was, followed by a gentle touch over my head. It cut off my thoughts, my body enjoying the movements of the fingers over my head.

'Get away from that piece of trash Thierry! ' Just like that my eyes flew open, only for them to shut reflexively in fear of the light.

'Open them beautiful. ' This voice coerced me, I didn't know why but it's tone made me feel safe. So I opened them again, this time round slowly, adjusting to the light. The first thing I noticed was the face hovering over my own. I would have let out a loud scream, had I not heard people conversing before.

'There you go. ' The man's mouth curved as his lips stretched, revealing straight teeth with dimples on either side of his cheeks. There was something about him that calmed my racing heart beat. An indescribable warmth that enveloped me when I noticed the twinkle in his hazel almond shaped eyes.

'Who the fuck are you? ' I flinched at the voice, the ringing in my ears coming back full force.