Office Romance with a Werewolf

weee wooo

weee wooo 

There's still a faint sound of a siren that is roaming around the area, but it only passes by around where Nida is hiding. 

Some hunters had already checked on the corn field, but they eventually left the area once they couldn't see the wolf, even though Nida was right in front of their noses.

Nida simply crouched and hid deep within the tall stalks of corn in the field.

"When am I going to transform back to normal?" She asked, trembling as she stared at her paws. 

"Will I be back when the sun goes up?"

Nida raised her head and peered at the still bright full moon.

It's only passed midnight, and if she really is going to be back at dawn, she still needs to wait for a couple of hours. 

"Is this Mila's doing? What does she want?"

She became suspicious of the majestic wolf god.

"If this was really her doing..." 

She didn't finish her words, but the anger in her eyes looked up at the full moon as she clenched her fist tightly, showing how much anger she was directing towards whoever may have given her this nightmare.

sssss ssssss sssss 

Only the wind became the sound of the area.

The area was now clear and quiet, but she didn't dare go out yet. She remained crouching and didn't drop her guard for even a second.

She bites her lower lip to maintain her focus and control her breathing so as not to make any obvious sound.

Her tears finally stop and her expression seems to calm down. Even though her body doesn't stop trembling ever since she got back in control of her body.

"Is he okay? Did he survive? " She was reminded of Randell. 

His shoulders were deeply wounded and he also received different injuries throughout his body from her werewolf attack.

However, more than the physical wounds that she inflicted, she fears more how the wolf attack will affect him mentally.

"No. He will be fine if he survives his wounds. His family is different from mine. He will be fine."

Nida was mentally wounded for a decade, not because of the wolf attack alone. She was traumatized by the near-death experience and also tormented by the people around her after she survived the attack.

"Wait. What if Randell also couldn't control himself when he first had his berserk transformation? What if he was trapped inside his own body and couldn't do anything? What if no one sided with him as well?"

Nida thought of many what-ifs as she thought of Randell's point of view when he became a werewolf ten years ago.

"Mila, are you showing me how Randell felt when she was about to kill me?" 

She touched her chest with her trembling hands. 

"Are you making me understand him by showing me?"

She then grabbed her fur in frustration and tears flowed down her cheeks once again. 

"This illusion is so fucking realistic! I even killed humans!"

She aggressively pulled out her fur as she was reminded of all the killing she had unwillingly done.

"What is the sense of all this? We were fine as humans! Why do we have to get involved with werewolves?"

She continues to pull out her fur while crying. The silver fur flew up together with the breeze that became like snow in the middle of the corn field.

....

Time passed, and the sun that she was waiting for had risen.

The golden stalks of the corn field reflected the warm and fresh light of the sunrise, but there was one dark thing in the middle of the golden field.

It was Nida.

Nida didn't sleep even a second. Her eyes seem to be dead; she is just blankly staring at the sunrise with her dry mouth slightly open.

She remains crouching down and keeps her aggressive pulling of her fur so that some of her fur is scattered around the ground and the stalks. 

Nida is slowly going back to her human form, but she remains crouching and not moving.

Her breasts are now exposed due to the removal of her fur, and her remaining ripped and stretched dress only wraps around her hips, barely covering her private part.

Her bloodshot eyes and pale complexion made her look more like a zombie than a human.

ha ha ha ha 

She laughed in a bland manner.

The warmth of the sun has finally snapped her out of a daze, and now she is laughing like a robot.

"What should I do next?" she asked herself as she slowly started to stand up.

Bam!

She fell flat on the ground almost instantly the moment she stood up.

She doesn't feel physically exhausted, but it is her mind that is not working properly anymore.

Ha ha ha ha 

There it goes again — Her bland laughter that you can't tell if it is laughter or a cry.

"Did I just forget to stand on two legs? Should I start walking on all fours?"

She tried to stand up again and walked through the corn field, staggering, until she reached a corn mill. There she found some workers' clothes left unattended, and then she stole the clothes and boots.

She went out to the highway and tried to ask random cars for a ride.

She looks terrible, more like a crazy girl who is into drugs.

Due to her appearance, cars refuse to give her a ride or to at least stop and check on her.

She just kept her arm forward as she got tired of effortfully asking for a ride.

"What happened to you, miss? You looked terrible."

A six-wheeler truck stopped in front of her, and an old man in his 50s asked her with concern.

"Manong. Can you give me a ride?" she asked.

"Where are you going?"

"I live at the Calauag apartment. Can you give me a ride there?"

"I won't be going there but—." The old man looked at her from head to toe. "It's better to bring you to the hospital, young lady."

"Thank you for your concern, Manong, but I want to go home and sleep. I am fine. I just lack sleep."

"You just lack sleep?" The old man didn't believe her, as he genuinely wanted to help. "Okay, I'll take you home, but you should tell me if you change your mind and want to go to the hospital instead." 

"Thank you, manong," she replied monotonously, even though she wanted to thank him more, she lacks the will to do so and remains lifeless.

"Good morning news at DzWg! headline!"

The old man was about to change the channel to music FM to lift the mood of his passenger, but she gestured to him not to switch the channel out.

Nida wanted to know what happened to all of her victims.

"A wolf appeared in the middle of the open lot where the outdoor movie theater was taking place last night at 9 p.m. It killed 32 moviegoers and injured another 25 moviegoers and theater staff. The authorities speculate that the wolf came from the nearby forest and was said to have crossed the high walls in search of food. The Binard states have been cutting down forests to turn them into subdivisions. It has become an issue that many organizations are pointing their finger as to why the wolf has gone out of its normal habitat..."

"How the hell did they come up with that idea overnight?" she commented after she heard the news. 

"Oh poor wolf, tsk tsk." The old man commented that made Nida look at the driving old man with confusion.

"poor? who?"

"The wolf is such a pitiful being. He went out of the forest because humans keep stealing their forest away."

"He killed many people. Didn't you hear the news? He killed 32!"

"Why won't you look at the wolf perspective as well? What if the poor thing was too scared as well and all he did was to protect himself." 

"No. She just went on a rampage. " She mumbled that the old man's bad hearing could not hear.

"What is it?"

"Nothing. How many hours do we need to travel?" She asked instead.

Randell and Nida drove out of the city for two hours to reach the zoo, but since she ran away as a wolf, she doesn't know how far she went with her werewolves legs.

"more or less twenty minutes."

"Twenty?"

"Yes, you can take a nap."

'I run that far?'

She was surprised at her werewolf self for running a great distance in a short time.

"Please wake me up."

"Sure."

Nida observed the driving old man first, assessing if she could let her guard down, then fell asleep.

.....

"Young lady, we were here. Where is your apartment?"

Nida slowly opened her eyes and felt more exhausted than ever. She feels like she didn't take a nap at all. It was like she had just closed her eyes for a moment, and now the old man was waking her up too soon.

"Huh, we are here?"

She rubbed her eyes as she got up and looked at the familiar neighborhood. 

"You really take me home, Manong."

"Hmm? Why is this the wrong address?"

"No Manong, that one is my apartment." She pointed to her place, and the old man drove his truck closer to the house.

"Wait for me, Manong. I'll get my money."

"Oh no. No need. Just be safe, young lady."

"but,"

"I'm fine. Rest up and be well." 

The old man said goodbye to her. Nida thanked the old man for his kindness, and then she finally went inside to her apartment. She went straight to her bathroom and turned on the shower to clean herself.

She poured a lot of soap and shampoo all over her body and roughly rubbed her skin.

She's not only cleaning the dried blood and dirt all over her body; she also wants to clean her sin.

AAAAAAAAAAAA

She screamed under the shower and repeatedly washed herself until she felt her skin as if it was burning.

knock, knock, knock,

bang bang bang bang

She paused from harshly cleaning herself when she heard a loud knock at her door that soon turned into a bang.

She just wrapped herself in a towel and walked out of the bathroom, still dripping wet.

"Who is that?"

She asked when she got to see the door.

"This is the police! We came here in regards to the wolf attack."

She froze after hearing the police state their intention.

"What do you think you're doing? Why announce it to the wolf? You must catch her!"

She dropped her towel once she heard Randell's voice.

"H-he brought the police here?"