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Aisha's expression went pinched as her breathing went heavy.

She didn't know if they had scammed her or not.

Standing in front of her was Lord Lycano.

As far as she could recall, their last encounter was very uncomfortable.

But she didn't want to let them know how nervous she felt at that moment.

She tilted her head and asked Lord Lycano directly, "Greetings, my lord. What are you doing here?"

Aisha bowed down to him since he was also a respected Lord in that place.

A burst of laughter escaped from Lord Lycano's throat.. "I think I should be the one who should ask that question. What are you doing here, female human?"

Aisha's forehead scrunched up and darted her attention to Lysa.

Lysa's eyes were shining bright as she gazed at Lord Lycano.

Lysa must have sensed Aisha's apprehension that she spoke up. "I brought her here, my lord. I believe she is also looking for the same thing that I have looked for."

Lord Lycano's wolfish eyes glimmered at Lysa's statement.

"You have come to the right place, my lady. I could give you anything you want and more," he uttered in a gruff voice.

Then he drew near to Aisha, making her step back.

But Lord Lycano kept on coming near her. Her hands went clammy as she continued to scuffle backward.

Lord Lycano was making her very, very, very uneasy right now.

To her dread, her back has already hit the wall.

A corner of Lord Lycano's lips lifted in triumph.

"Do you know that wolves like it more when their prey tries to escape from them?" he antagonized her even more.

He even licked his lower lips and bit it as he gazed at her like she was some delicious meal, making Aisha gulp a lump in her throat.

Aisha's heart wants to get out of her rib cage at that moment.

Quickly, her eyes shut tight as she screamed, "I'm not Little Red Riding Hood!"

Lord Lycano seemed to be taken aback at her reaction. "Little Red Riding Hood?"

Aisha opened her eyes again and saw Lord Lycano's confused face. It seemed like it worked, and he was deviated from eating her, so she continued her rant while slowly shuffling sidewards to the door.

"Well, you know. There's this story in our land about a girl who wears a red cape. And the wolf tried to eat her," she blabbed on.

Lord Lycano's lips curled up as if he was amused at what she was saying. "Did he do it?" he asked her.

"Um, I think so. He pretended to be her grandmother," she retold. To her delight, she was already near the door.

She was readying herself to run to it when Lord Lycano spoke up again. "I see. That's an interesting story. But do you really think that I am going to eat you?"

Aisha's eyes that were fixed on the door suddenly shifted to Lord Lycano.

He was handsome in his own way, with his unruly curly black hair, his dark eyebrows and freshly cut mustache and beard. He would be mistaken for a hot rebel in her previous world.

"Are you not? In my world, werewolves were said to be savage beasts that crazily tear people's flesh apart," Aisha confirmed to him.

"I am not from the First Generation. I can control myself even when I'm with a warm-blooded creature," He crossed his arms over his broad chest and put his feet in a wide stance.

Then he continued to speak, "Not all vile-looking creatures are innately evil. And not all likable creatures are inherently good, either." With the tone of his voice, Aisha seemed to hit a weak spot in him.

Aisha felt her heart soften a little for him. It feels like he has a sort of a sad story, too, as he drew in a deep breath and glanced away.

"Forgive me, my lord. I didn't intend to say that. I don't know that there was a first and second or third generation of werewolves. I should have not discriminated against you. I'm sorry, too, on behalf of all the human races who have judged your clan like that," Aisha bowed to him.

She continued to rattle on. "And you are right. You are not one of them," Aisha said sincerely, making Lord Lycano stare at her with his eyes wide open.

Unlike before when they seemed to be intimidating her, now it looked like they were softer and seemed to be asserting her sincerity.

"Yeah, you should have gobbled me up the first time, right? But you conversed with me like you are doing now. You're sort of a human in some way. Just the bully type," Aisha chuckled in a goofy way at him, hoping it would lift his mood.

She was still feeling uncomfortable. But the tension seemed to have lifted.

Lord Lycano also had a shift of mood, as he was now smiling in a nice kind of way and gazing at her differently.

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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.