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"Richard.. from the blue moon pack..!", He said with a slight smile on his face, staring at Emily who seems shocked at the words he spoke.

"Richard..! Blue moon pack..! It couldn't be", she said to herself as he staggered backwards, her right hand on her belly and the left using to cover her mouth which opened in shock.

This just couldn't be, she thought to herself as she looked at him, gaping in shock as she finally got the chance to see the man who seemed to be the most talked about in the entire werewolf world.

"What is it..?", He asked with a wrinkled face as he took some few steps closer towards her, puzzling the reason behind her shock and surprise.

He thought of it to be the first time she had set her eyes on him, too beautiful to have a wrinkled face and such the wrinkled face had drawn more of his attention.

But while he took some steps forward, she also took the same number of steps backwards, with fear and shock written all over her face.

But when he walked closer to her and stared into her eyes, he chuckled slightly and then proceeded into a slight laughter which made her to stop in her tracks and look at him with repugnance.

"Oh my my!", Richard cooed as he stopped straight on the ground, quickly switching his smiley and laughing face to his normal straight face, placing his two hands behind him.

Was there something around her which tickled his fancy? What seemed funny to him? She thought to herself as she took a quick look at her dress, hoping that made him laugh didn't come from her, or maybe it did come from her but she wasn't sure from which angle.

"Forgive me, my lady..!", He said as he gradually reduced his laughter, using his hands to clean off his wet eyes and kept his hands behind his back, and thereafter keeping his straight face.

"The stories are true..", Emily stammered to say while she thought of the things she was told.

All through the entire werewolf world, this Richard who stood before her had stories about himself travelled and spread round with different accounts from different people, but from the way he stood, and kept his normal straight face, she could tell he was comfortable with the stories which flew round.

What were the stories?

She heard about one of the sons of the Alpha of the blue moon pack whom everyone had judged from a little age, the one who was considered to either be cursed or maybe born with a power which seemed too much for a child of his age.

The stories of how he had killed two out of three bullies who attacked a young child of his age at a certain Brook, breaking their bones and biting them deeply at that very young age.

With more stories and rumours being spread, the straw which would break the camel's back would be the one which the entire werewolf world had heard of how he almost killed his blood related brother due to an argument which broke out between the both of them.

While many people who saw him called him a monster, not many could understand what he faced within, how those stories made him the vicious man he was at that moment.

"What did you hear..?", He asked coldly. He had this eager desire to let this glowing eyed lady tell him of the stories which she had heard for himself.

But even if he listened attentively to what she had to say, within him, he knew it wouldn't make a difference what people saw him as.

He looked at her with a smirk on his face, and her face which read fear and repugnance, these stories had made her have a disgusting taste for a being like him.

But the more he could read the expressions on her face and the ones written in her eyes, the more he found this lady interesting to study and he wouldn't let it all end.

But she stopped for a moment and took courage in herself, knowing that there was nothing to fear about the man in front of her.

But if he had heard these stories about himself, why would he want her to tell him what she thinks of him.

For a moment she could tell his ways weren't still not straight, and she would crash in the pathway he took her.

"Why asking..?", She said loudly due to the distance between them. Her voice was already cracking, and she swallowed more of her fear than the usual saliva and her face still wet from the tears and ths sweat.

"Why did you care..? Would it change the man you really are..?", She yelled out again, in the quiet night, where there were no extra sound apart from that which the leaves of the trees gave out due to the movement of the winds and that which they spoke.

"I would love to know what the beautiful lady thinks of the man who stands before her..", Richard said emphatically, his hands still behind his back while he stared at her from afar.

She was dumbfounded, her voice ceased for a moment as she looked at her hands, they were all sweaty and unstable, sniffling her nose, she had no choice but to say that which she was being told.

"They say you're a monster..!", She stammered to say, pointing fingers at him while she stepped backwards a bit.

"A monster..!", He acted a bit surprised as he raised his eyebrows and a smirk smile on his face when she spoke.

A monster! It sounded so hysterical to him, at that point he surpressed the laughter which tried forcing it's way out of his mouth.

His only response to the statement she uttered was just a bow to the ground, his gaze on the sands as he chuckled softly.

Raising his head towards the sky, he took a quick look at the full moon, its beauty and it's glory pierced through his overly clouded mind as he brought his head down slowly to Emily's face.

They locked eyes, staring at each other, surprisingly she was getting boldier as the moments passed but he couldn't help but admit within himself that she was an epitome of beauty indeed.

Her hair was slowly getting dry, and they became a bit wavy and unkempt, but her face still had sweat and tears beaded all over with her eyes still being a bit wet and red.

He smiled for a moment and with his cold drop voice, he asked her with a smile, "What is your name..?"

She stood still, still breathing enough air to relieve herself of the tension and the pressure which she felt before that moment, and then moving the muscles of her throat, her unstable fist were closing and opening rapidly as she then answered his question, "Emily.."

"My name is Emily..", she repeated her answer, using her hand to quickly take out the strands of hair which fell on her face.

The winds began to blow a bit roughly, blowing through her silky hair and touching her wet skin, while she still had her gaze on Richard.

"Emily...", He cooed the name with pleasure while his eyes ran down the beauty who stood in front of him and then said again, "That's a good name for a beautiful lady like you..".

Beautiful.! He just called her beautiful, and those words made her heart skip a beat, making her breathe a bit faster than usual, giving her this special feeling she couldn't explain to anyone.

"So Emily.. they said I'm a monster.", He said as he took some steps closer to her, taking each step steadily, his feet hitting the ground in an accurate number of time

Getting a bit close to her, he kept a straight face and then said again to her, "well apparently this monster save your life remember..?".

"I know that..", she fired back boldly, keeping a straight face and speaking those words to him with her eyes fixed on his face while the winds still moved calmly through her hair and her dress.

"But that doesn't mean I have to throw caution to the dust..!", She said again with her confidence raised up high.

"I can admit to you saving me, but I still have the right to think of what you truly are..!", She said again, stretching her body forward and then keeping it in it's usual position with a scorn on her face the entire time she spoke.

"Many people call me a monster, but few are left to see the kindness and the love which resides in my heart..!", He said again with his hands behind his back, taking a few steps backward while his gaze was still on Emily.

"Oh really huh..?!", Emily asked as she took gee steps forward towards him.

Reaching him she crossed her hand and placed them close to her bosoms with a straight face, a face which wore no emotions and asked him, "what about your brother..!".

"What did you hear about me and my brother..!", He said coldly with his gaze on her, being moved by her sudden confidence, he needed to know the rumours this beautiful lady who stood in front of him heard.

"They said you tried to kill him..!", Emily said as she dropped down her hands and looked to the ground, walking backwards slowly.

He grabbed her hand just before she took another move, his warm hands on hers, sending a weird sensation towards them both

What was happening? He had never had this kind of feeling before, he had never felt this weakened in his heart before, he had never been defeated by his emotions, because they were his strength for every second he lived on the Earth.

But why was this so strange? He had this connection, this urge to let his pain and frustration out to this lady he met few minutes ago, this urge to tell her everything he ever faced in the period of his life.

She lifted her eyes slowly, meeting this man stared at her with something which seemed to be emotional at some point, his hands were warm and comforting, and his eyes were perfect and calm unlike the previous times she looked at them..

"Can I explain everything to you..? Promise you would give me a chance..!", He asked softly with a tight but warm squeeze of her hands, and still staring at her, he watched as she nodded slowly, with the moon light shining on them both.