A Prince for Little Red Riding Hood by Anna Katmore

Author:Anna Katmore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, fantasy, young adult, fairy tales, red riding hood, new adult, teen young adult, classic retells
Publisher: Anna Katmore

Chapter 9

Riley

“Jack! Leave the Puss alone!” Dang this rollicking Wolf. Dr. Jekyll’s serum really did what it promised. I rub my hands over my face and cut a helpless glance at the sky. If one whelp is this much work, now I understand why Mother Goat always looks so exhausted when she takes her seven kids to town.

As the cat screeches cease in the distance, I believe Jack chased the poor guy up a tree. Thank the fairies wolves can’t climb that well. Continuing on my way to Granny, I put my fingers between my lips and whistle sharply. “Jack! Come here, boy!”

After the next two whistles, the stray puppy finally emerges from the dark side of the forest, ambling toward me across the wood anemone with his nose in the flowers as if he needs to sniff his way back to me. “Did you give the poor cat a heart attack?” I ask rebukingly, folding my arms over my chest when he comes to a halt in front of my feet.

The Wolf pulls in his lolling tongue, and I swear his lips lift in a smirk.

“Instead of chasing clueless Fairyland inhabitants, you should try to change back before the Huntsman comes after you.”

The sandalwood-colored fur on his forehead crinkles in an uneasy frown. Through pursed lips, he lets out a yip. Then he squeezes his eyes closed and flattens his ears. I’m waiting for the big pop, but still, nothing happens. We both sigh, and he hangs his head in defeat.

“Nah, don’t worry,” I tell him and rub behind his ear because I know it’ll lift his mood again. “In a few hours, the spell should be over anyway. Do you know what the doctor also said while you were zonked out?” I start walking again. Jack curiously lifts his muzzle to me. “He’s confident the serum will affect you for quite a while. Like two weeks or something. Maybe even through the entire month. Which means, you won’t be troubled by the pull of the story any longer.”

At that news, he perks his ears. The hopeful gleam in his eyes is cute.

“Yeah, isn’t it great?” I move in front of the Wolf, taking a few steps backward, and smile down at him. “In that time, I’m sure to find Prince Right For Me, we’ll fall in love with each other, and once the story of Red Riding Hood is—” I hesitate and then start whispering, “B-R-O…” Warily, I quirk my eyebrows and finish my incomplete spelling by breaking an imaginary stick with my hands. “Then you won’t feel any kind of calling ever again and won’t have to lock yourself in other people’s dungeons anymore.”

It’s too risky to really speak the sentence out loud. There’s only one way to get out of a story, and that is by saying the words: “I’m breaking from my tale.” Nobody really knows what happens to Fairyland residents who have no story to tell anymore. But rumor has it, there’s a group of breakers dwelling on the outskirts of Oz.

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