THE ISLAND WOLF - EPISODE 48

SIX MONTHS LATER

A man was running through the crowd in the market and pushing both people and things out of his way. He received a lot of yells and kicks, but he would stand up almost immediately, and run even faster. He was being pursued by two men and preferred to run forever, than to be caught by them.

“Get out of my way!” he screamed at a bunch of kids buying ice cream. They sauntered off and he dash through the spot they once we’re. He looked back and saw the men still running after him. He panted faster and took a turn into an empty alley. He scaled the fence and jumped into the other side. Blocks of houses were scattered there and he hid between them. The men jumped over the fence too but did not see him, even though he could see them. They looked around and decided to check around, but they passed the house he was hiding beside. He heaved a deep sigh and slid off.

The men, after searching fruitlessly, returned to the mansion to give the news to Avril. She was at her favorite spot, the garden, and she was playing cards with some men. She looked up and saw the two men approaching.
“Good news, or bad news?” she asked.
“Bad. The motherf.ucker escaped,” one of them gritted and sat on a bench.
“Hmm. I expected that. He’s a cunny one,” she said and bit her lower lip. Two of the men she was with at the table were smoking, the other two were drinking. She just had a toothpick poked in her mouth.

“Avril, what are you going to do now? Wait for your man?”
“Alejandro would kill him. I don’t want that,” she answered and dropped two cards down. The other players played while she looked at her fingers.
“I will just see him myself. Teach him a little lesson,” she added.
“Babe, I need your help,” one of the smoking men said. He was the one who first looked down on Avril that day he was about to kill those two men. And those two men were the ones running errands for her now. After they healed, they became her men, just as Alejandro ordered them.

“Nana, doesn’t want you. I told her already,” Avril said with an eyeroll.
“She’s just f.ucking with you. Nana likes me. Why can’t she just admit that?”
One of Avril’s men, Manny laughed.
“You’re head over heels in love with this bi.tch,” he mocked. Feliz glared at him and puffed out smoke from his mouth.
“He’s too evil to love, please. He just wants her arse,” Avril cooed and the men grunted in agreement.
“Nana’s got some fleshy arse, unlike yours,” Feliz said to Avril. The men laughed and teased Avril who wasn’t smiling.
“Stop it! Don’t mock me!” she yelled and banged her cards onto the table.
“Calm down, babe. Kidding. I’ll do anything to get your arse on my bed,” Feliz grinned and she scoffed.
“You wish,” she rolled her eyes. Her fingers unconsciously clasped over her wolf bracelet and played with the wolf heads. Feliz ran a hand through his hair and dragged in smoke.
He blew it over Avril’s face, as she was sitting beside him. She punched his neck and made him gag. He ran off the chair and went to cough a few steps away.

The others laughed at him. Avril got on her feet and walked into the house.

“What’s with her?” Bernardo asked. He was the other man allocated to Avril.
“She gets cranky whenever Alejandro’s out of town without a word from him,” Manny answered and pulled a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.
“I don’t blame her. It’s been two weeks already and she hasn’t even heard rumours about him. She’s scared as f.uck,” Bernardo chipped in and collected a stick of cigarette from Manny.

“Hey, you both will help me convince her to talk to her friend. I know that girl, she hasn’t said a word to Nana,” Feliz managed to say. He had coughed too much and his eyes were watery.
“Nope. Not while Alejandro’s out,” Manny said.