chapter 7 Troy steel

Troy steel point of view

I hate it when I get this dream it's like it jinxs my day , I wipe away my sweats using my jumper I had dumped on the lamp by my bed, it's terrible I don't even know when it started all I know I have this dream like forever and it doesn't leave me sane for the rest of the day

Looking at the time on my phone passing through my texts and missed calls .I call my assistant Lydia who picks up after two rings I believe she is awake by now she picks up shouting at her daughters to do something Am too tired to hear it properly

" good morning sir" her voice sounding tired

" hey Lydia cancel my appointments today and if possible rest today"

" yes sir , thank you so much Mr steel "

I know she needs the rest and so do I after having that shifty nightmare I won't concentrate very well without further conversation I hang up .

That's how we handle each other me and my secretary she never asks I never ask that's how we roll

Lying back on my bed again , literally scared of going back to sleep now probably I need to do some hunting it helps let some steam .

Wearing the same jumper I used to wipe sweats off I put on some shorts get ready for my hunt .

I like running barefeet it makes me feel the cold ground plus it awakens my mind

My glasshouse is surrounded with woods almost behind the white mountains. It was my mothers shell house she loved more than our dads house and I prefer here more than my main house besides it helps to inspire me and make different jewelry am a jeweler a very successful one a talent passed on from my mother still.

Running while feeling the cold breeze on my face it's like an embrace from the wind , I fasten my pace not feeling that thorns that prick me or the branches that have fallen on the grounds I love this it's one thing I always look forward to do the smell of leaves and the fear that some wolf is going to come after me

One of my colleagues once said I might have some disorder that makes me isolate myself probably why my partner. Lucy dumped me we dated from high school till we graduated then I asked her to live with me in my pent house in the city she hated this one whenever we came here she we always had a fight and she hated me coming here alone so I closed it almost selling it off to one of my colleagues but I couldn't let go of my moms only memory to anyone I love it i improved something's but left the cholocote vine covering most of it I only let the garden trim it it makes me feel like I live under a tree

I know the woods very well except a few and I always set my traps here in every corner I believe will be profitable for me waking up everyday curious of which animal I have trapped a skill I got from my father and I don't get why my mother hated it so much that she would lock herself in her room not letting my dad in and when she came out she would not look at me the same way . Stoping and leaning on a tree to catch my breathe probably take a look at my surroundings and memorize the beauty before me then check on my traps

I walk towards my traps today I guess it's not my lucky day there's literally nothing.

As am covering the trap with leaves things my father taught me , I hear a noise I can't tell is it a wolf have I caught a wolf in my traps I used to hunt them with a gun but one time I shot a wolf and I had my nightmares almost every time I close my eyes . I like there skin sometimes it's hobby I don't like but I can't let go

I hear the noise again this time it doesn't sound like it's a wolfs I need to get down there but I don't set traps that side it's too dark there and I always get panic attacks when am that side .

This time I can tell it's a person screaming I fasten my pace dodging the woods the person beaten by some wolf or wolf animal down here could it be a snake knocking myself on a root

" shit " I hate when that happens , it makes regret why did bring my shoes

Limping while running I get to some kind away of river and before it lies a girl so pale white covered in her white hair screaming in pain lying naked taking a closer look her leg is trapped in a iron jaw trap getting back to my sense I work on the trap , shit it cut too deep it going to be extra painful when I pull it out since Iam good at it I loosen that screws trapping her foot carefully that jaws of the trap all rusted still deep in her fresh which lols so fragile I pray she doesn't loose her foot. She has not yet lifted her face to face me still her long hair covers her face and her bark I need her to be strong when I pull the trap apart I need her to look at me or something smoothing her hair from her face to behind her ear fringing a little wen I touch her but I guess she is in too much pain to stop me from touching her i lift her head to look at me she screams again I only hold her face in my hands

Oh she is so beautiful shes like an angel her brows are white too with pink lips even with her tears staining her face and her mucus coming from her nose it's so slender she looks at me now her eyes so blue she's like the only light in these woods .

Shit I need to work fast I need her to be strong because the next step is going to be painful

" I need you to be strong , Iam going to do something it's going to be painful okay " She says nothing only wailing while looking into my eyes

After ensuring her she calm now she bites her lower lip probably to be strong there's so much blood everywhere I pull the trap apart metal jaws parting from her I feel like vomiting at this sight

she screams so loud blood gushes from her foot probably due too much pain she faints pulling off my jumper I tear it apart despite it being thick I tie the piece from it on her foot to stop further bleeding. Hovering over her tiny body I check for her breathe to check wether she is alive sighing in relief when her hear breathe

I lift her in my arms then wince in pain remembering I also have a minor injury is probably going to slow me down I curse myself for not bringing a phone running with her in my arms forgetting the pain in my toe that's probably bleeding mme out thorns pricking my bare upper body

I will never be able to forgive myself if she dies in my arms never it will probably be the new nightmare that will haunt me now I'm sighting my glass house the only house around so no will help now except me.

Opening my door with one arm she is not yet conscious I need to find some kind of first aid before I lose her laying her on the ground realizing now that indeed she is naked I don't want to think about how beautiful her body is I pick my shirt from the ground of my living room dress her then run to my room to pick a short for her and a first aid kit I did running back to her dressing her with shorts I untie the cloth from her wound shit this looks basically bad it's like her foot is almost off running to pick a bottle of spirits from my wine collection a bottle fall piecing my foot I don't feel the pain I have a dying woman in my house that's what matters

Pouring the spirits on her injury this would have been painful if she was conscious to prevent the rust from causing further damage. Tying a bandage to stop bleeding there's so much blood she literally laying in her pool of blood staring tying tight, getting my car keys and phone I need a fast car amongst my cars picking a key for my Bugatti one to make it on time .

Lifting her and I put her in the other seat connecting to my Bluetooth I tell my car to call Emma a friend of mine a doctor

" hey Emma am insome kind of big

emergency I need some nurses on standby I have someone who has probably lost a lot of blood I will be there in a few "

Fastening her seat belt I brush my hands on her thigh it's cold shit she getting cold which is not a good sighn. I start my car driving so fast it's good thing whitenmountains has no traffic jam otherwise it would have turned into long story

Sighting the hospital I park right infront of it by the doors open automatically I rush to the other side to get her out lifting her in my arms cursing as I spot that the bandage is all red now nurses all come rushing in with a wheeled stretcher a Male nurse Carrie's her from my arms they lay her on the stretcher wheeling her inside the outside am almost having a panic attack right now holding a fist on my mouth to catch my breathe getting my sense back I rush after them , it's funny how am so concerned about this stranger it's like I can feel

Her pain .

I curse my self for hunting if anything happens to this woman I will neverforgive myself.