Lil Redding-Hood and the Big, Bad, Wolf by Elizabeth A. Reeves

Author:Elizabeth A. Reeves [Reeves, Elizabeth A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Hunter’s text did not make sense.

What was I supposed to make of this? I would assume that he was playing some sort of mean-spirited joke on me, but he’d already accused me of doing the same thing to him.

Unless that was the plan all along?

Had Hunter and Orion set me up for some sort of prank? Was I going to find my gullible face plastered over social media with people from all the worlds laughing at my stupidity?

Deep in my heart, I couldn’t believe it.

Or maybe I simply didn’t want to believe it.

I couldn’t have misjudged Hunter that much. Could I have?

Had I made some mistake? Maybe I hadn’t seen Orion. Maybe it had been someone else. I could have gotten confused. I could have…

Made up an identical twin to Hunter that I didn’t know existed and know that his name was Orion, even though no one ever mentioned him or that he had ever existed?

Five years he had been a wolf.

And I knew I’d seen him last night.

I don’t know what to say, I texted to Hunter. I know what I saw. I don’t have an explanation. I’m going to talk to my aunt, OK? Maybe she can explain what’s happening.

Stars, I wanted him to believe me. I wanted this to all be some simple little mistake. I wanted to get things back to where they had been last night.

Inside, I knew it could never go back to how it had been. Trust had been broken. We had cracked that layer of trust and questioning everything we had experienced.

Whether or not there was a good explanation for all of this, that euphoric, new, exciting veneer of a blossoming relationship had been tarnished.

It could maybe go on to something new, but we could never go back to how it had been.

Mistrust didn’t have to be real to do damage. There were plays about that. Othello, for one. Heck, randomly pick any of Shakespeare’s plays. Mistrust and misinformation were universal themes.

Hunter didn’t respond.

That didn’t make a difference at this point. I had already decided that I needed to talk to Cindy. She knew Hunter’s family. She had known them for a long time. She had to have some sort of insight into whether all of this was real or if it was a prank or if there was a rational reason for what I had seen and experienced.

Had my visits from Orion been communication with a spirit of some sort? I didn’t think so. His presence had been too physically domineering, too forceful to be that of a ghost or vision. He had been there. I was sure of that.

I had seen him. I had talked with him face to face.

I hadn’t liked him.

It couldn’t all be pretend or fake.

My reactions to him had been so visceral.

But I could come up with no explanation for how I could have talked to someone, argued with someone, who had, for all intents and purposes been dead for five years.

He was stuck in wolf form, so that erased the possibility of zombies.

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