Chapter 13: Predator & Prey (3)
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Nova didn't get a chance to correct him. She asked what he was, not his name, before he lunged forward into a sprint, carrying her.
"P-put me down!" Nova exclaimed furiously that she was still being held in this embarrassing position. His arm was tight on her thighs, keeping her against him tightly.
Yoa didn't answer her as those thick legs bunched together again and he leapt effortlessly to a branch of one of the almighty trees.
"Yoa!" She gasped, her eyes widening as she held onto his waist tighter, the edges of her vision blurring with dizziness as she looked down from this height.
"Not safe," Yoa finally answered.
He leapt again, and Nova yelped, clutching hard at his firm muscles. She squeezed her eyes shut as his body moved beneath her, those powerful legs striding and leaping from tree branch to tree branch at a rapid rate.
"W-who...?" Her eyes snapped open to the deep, savage roar echoing among the trees. The forest had grown darker, shadows thickening like smoke, the only light spilling in through slithers of silver moonlight through the thick canopy.
Then she saw them.
Golden eyes gleamed from the underbrush—cold, unblinking, and far too close. Two jaguars exploded from the shadows in opposite directions, chasing after them, fluid and lethal.
Muscles rippled beneath fur the colour of fire and earth. They weren't just hunting.