Jasper's POV
My throat was aching for blood. The pain that it was creating made my body twitch. I knew my eyes were dark with hunger. I departed on my own for a while and keeping a low profile and hunting wasn't that hard.
I stopped abruptly when I smelled some hikers to my left. A smile spread across my face. I slowly walked towards the smell. Two hikers were setting up a tent.
"We should head back; we don't know what could be going on in this woods." The woman said. I could feel her worry and fear. It was so vivid.
"Don't worry, nothing is going to happen." The man said. She looked at him and he smiled at her. He on the other hand was full of lust. No love when he talked to her or butterflies when he saw her. He walked towards her. "Janice, this is Philadelphia, nothing is going to happen." He said hugging her. She looked weak and scared. She inspired something in me, like pity. Here she was in the woods with some guy that didn't even like her and she was about to get eaten.
"Leo, I'm scared. It's getting dark." She said in his chest.
"Babe, nothing is going to happen." He reaped. I suppressed a laugh. Nothing was going to happen, yea right. He took her chin up and started to lean in.
I took the moment and crunched. I let out a snarl and my instinct took over. My legs pushed me and in minutes Leo was in my hands. I took him out of her sight. He didn't even have time to scream, I already had my teeth in his neck. The blood went down my throat and the pain minimize. He was out of blood in seconds.
I let his body fall and looked back to the screaming girl in the tent. "Leo! Where are you? Stop playing with me!" she screaming. She kept turning around. Then her knees gave and she fell to the floor crying. "Leo! I'm scared…" she said as the tears came down her eyes. "I knew something would happen…" she sobbed.
She somehow intrigued me. I would have taken her but I didn't want to. My throat screamed me to take her. But somehow she reminded me of Charlotte. When she was scared and crying knowing she was going to die.
I took a step closer to her. Her head turn to my direction. "Who's there?" she asked.
I came into view. The only thing she could see was my shadow in this darkness but she was smart. She knew I was no good and no Leo. Her eyes bulged out and she started to breath really fast. "No, no! Don't come close! Get away!" she screamed and started to back up. "Please don't…" she sobbed. Her fear for her life took the best of me.
I looked at her. Her face matched her emotions. I couldn't do it. I was heartless but I know what its cruelness. "Go to your north in the morning." I whispered. She looked up at the sound of my voice. She looked surprised. I turned around and started to walk away.
"Thank you…" she whispered.
That was the first thank you that I had received for saving a life, and I could say that I felt less of a monster.