A storm brewing? Chapter 4

I feel the freezing cold wind blowing on my face masking my hearing making me feel disorientated, my hair untamed and wild due to the ferocious wind.

Softly pulling the rein to the right my horse obeys and races to the right to the forest so I can get out of the wind but this means I have to take the long way to Kate's through the forest.

As we approach the towering trees darkness hits me like a smack in the face I can barely see the trees ahead now my path isn't highlighted by the moon but the wind has ceased to a mild annoyance.

I can still faintly hear hooves galloping and they aren't my own, what the hell! They still haven't given up.

Ok think Ana think I need to escape whoever is behind me, maybe he was just out for a ride but then again no one goes out to this part of the wood where life and light is dead to all and all you can see is the hand in front of your face and you can only feel the shivers going down your spine.

I see a lake in front of me at the last minute and make a sharp turn to the right the person behind me must of see what I was doing as in seconds I hear the hooves of the horse behind thumping on the ground a noise I have come accustom to in the last few minutes.

Then suddenly a pack of wolves comes out of nowhere snarling and foaming at the mouth.

A big chunky wolf lunges intent on ripping my horses front left leg off, my horse rears and all while this is happening somehow I mange to notice that the other set of hooves has stopped, where? I don't know .

But as soon as I can comprehend this my horse goes into a frenzy of panic and bolts, I try to pull on the reins but that only makes the horse fight the bit more and run faster.

Next thing I know I'm weightless flying through the air and sent tumbling to the ground my limbs and hair sprawled all across the ground and an intense pain in my head like someone smashed a pot over my head.

My vision is blurrily I can see a shape that looks like a horse speeding off into the night.

DAMN that must have been my horse how will I get to Kate's now because I certainly can't walk with my vision blurred and the night air is only getting colder.

I check the rest of my body to see if I have any other injury's starting with my hands I plant them on the ground and start to push myself off the ground into an upright position surprisingly I managed it.

Right now to get up on my feet, I support myself on a tree branch and start to pull myself up; I then walk with shaky and weak legs in the direction my horse took a slight limp in my step.

Since my vision is blurred I can barely see anything and trip over a mossy rock and in the process sprain my ankle.

Pain radiates through my body "owwww!" I scream and then in realising what I have done my hand flies up to my mouth in shock, oh shit now you've do it Ana good job.

But it was too late as I feel a pull of electricity coming from behind me and then I hear a sound I was hoping not to hear.

The sound of someone dismounting their horse but I can barely see or hear them due to my fall and the fact that from what I can tell the rider and horse are fully armoured in black armour, my guess as to not give away their position.

I think the man is huge as I feel his breath above my head although I am laying on the earthy ground at the moment, as I look up I am stunned to see the man with grey eyes from my bedroom.

Oh right I must be dreaming in my blurry state, I close my eyes and count to ten maybe if I close my eyes he won't be there.

Nope he is still there and his grey eyes are staring at me intently, he reaches for my hand and kisses my knuckles so gently his lips were like a wisp of a warm touch on my numb hands; startled I pull my hand out of his grasp starting to back up when I feel a traitorous tree blocking my path.

I hear a low chuckle then hear Mr grey eyes stalking towards me his footsteps chilling my already frozen heart, upon reaching me he towers over my limp body and extends his hand when I don't take it because I don't know who he is he grabs my hand and starts to pull me up but I pull my hand out of his and try to start running but it more of a crawl then a run and then I hear it, his voice.

"oh no you don't I have spent far too long trying to get you to let you go now" his voice is like silk and deep rich chocolate but is far too close for my liking then I get grabbed from behind and in a last ditch effort to try to get free of him I start hitting his chest and screaming which turn into quiet sobs he just smirks and tightened his grip like a bower constrictor.

So I do the only thing I can think of play limp and whist he is moving me towards the horse I kicked him in the balls and hear a low growl in the back of his throat he then comments in a low menacing voice.

"You shouldn't have done that" and with that he lunges at me but somehow I manage to dodge and run as fast as I can which considering I have sprained my ankle and my vision is blurry my running isn't very fast.

For some reason I don't hear him behind me but I don't care I just keep on running through the sea of darkness until I hear a growling sound but the strange thing is I don't know where its coming from it sounded like its coming from all round me.

Then I see it a pair of green eyes, one pair, two pairs and three pairs, I see about ten pairs of eyes and then I hear his voice again cold and harsh like I have just disobeyed him.

"I wouldn't move if I were you, if you were to move I would have no control on what they do next"

The wolves slowly creep out of the darkness with teeth bared foam dripping from their mouths your heads hanging low haunches raised looking like they are about ready to pounce, I try not to make any sudden moves and then I feel him walking up behind me he goes to speak in my ear his breath tickling my neck.

"Do you know who I am? Because I know who you are Miss Steelridge" I can sense his smile on the back of my head and I decide in that moment to act docile towards him.

"No sir, and how do you know my name?" now he is in a full blown smirk and I take a step back and he scowls and nods at a wolf.

What the?

Next thing I know a wolf is snarling on top of me and I am struggling to move.

"Get this wolf off of me or so help me God!" I shout not caring about what he does.

"Well I guess now you see the time for acting polite is gone and I am sorry but if you keep trying to get away I guess I will just have to do this" he finishes his sentence just as he is tying the last knot on to my hands, what the hell! I must be really out of it not to notice that, well to be fair I can't even see his face.

Whilst I was thinking he must have been tying my legs because now I can't move and I am being slung over his shoulder, I start kicking and screaming but he just carries on walking to his horse.

This is it this is where I die, oh my God I am terrified I think I am hyper ventilating I can't breathe and then I feel myself drifting off...