ELARA POV
I stood right in front of the door, speechless. I couldn't even close it shut. What I saw was different. This was not in their documents, not in their files. Even though I had not been able to go through everything before signing, I still was not expecting to see something like this. I stood there for a while before finally closing the door. After all, this was a secret assignment. I would not want anybody to jeopardize it.
I walked closer to the figure and realized it was a man. Not just any man, but a handsome, gorgeous man. He was well-made in every part, with no flaws, yet he was bleeding, his hands chained, kneeling on the ground, with blood trickling from the corner of his lips. He looked at me and smiled.
"Another scientist. You are not going to break me no matter what," he said to me as I was taken aback.
"I'm not here to break you," I said, a bit shocked, unable to keep myself from stuttering. Despite how bold I tried to be, I wasn't that way at all.
"You are not here to break me. You are foolish to believe you won't do what Axiom Biotech wants you to do. I will not tell you a thing. Give up now, return your money, flee, and run for your life," he said to me as I laughed, dropping my folder on the table as I walked toward him.
Looking at him, I wanted to stare deep into his eyes and see what exactly I was trying to investigate. He was just a man, yet they had classified him as an animal. I am a veterinarian. There was no way I was going to be examining a man. He is not an animal, unless he is a killer, and that is not something I was meant to investigate or experiment on.
I bent down to his level, looking at him, as he immediately avoided my gaze.
"Don't start. Get up and leave. You are getting yourself tangled in something you don't want to go wrong," he said as I chuckled gently, trying to compose myself.
"I don't know who you are or why you are locked up here, and most especially why your case is a secret. But one thing I know for sure is that I am not here to break you. I am here to conduct an experiment, and besides, I don't know who you are, but you are here instead of an animal. It makes no sense, and I am going to do everything to make sure I make my superiors proud of me," I said and stood up as a growling sound erupted behind me.
I turned slowly as he was growling loudly. His eyes suddenly changed from light brown to a glowing yellow, like that of a cat. He hissed at me, trying to fight his way out of the chains. They immediately began to ring red.
"What are you?" I yelled, clutching my chest as I almost staggered to the ground.
Just then, the door opened and two hefty men rushed in with electric shock devices in their hands. They did not even behave as though I was in their presence as they immediately electrocuted him. He yelled loudly, shivering, as he still tried to fight them.
One of them picked up a hose and splashed water on him while the other electrocuted him. I watched the terror of the torture. This was not something a random human being could withstand. Anyone would have died at that moment.
I clutched my chest as I almost shouted for them to stop, but I had to hold it in. Whatever they were doing, they knew what they were doing. What if he was a terrorist whom they were trying to tame, and maybe because he was too powerful, they were calling him an animal?
They continued, and when they poured water on him for the third time, I couldn't hold it in anymore.
"Stop," I yelled as they looked at me. They dropped the bucket while he collapsed to the ground, still twitching. No sound, nothing from him, not even a flinch.
I rushed toward them, confused, trying to compose myself and suppress the fear that almost burst out of me.
"Why? Why are you caging him?" I questioned as one of them laughed.
"You don't know him. That's why your job is to experiment on him whenever he's awake. Ring the bell," they said and stormed off.
"For what?" I exclaimed as one of them stopped, turning to me with a grin on his face.
"Just ring the bell if you don't want to lose your life in this experiment," they said and then stormed off, leaving me alone with a lifeless, handsome, deadly man on the ground.
What was this supposed to mean? Why was I even involved in this job in the first place? Was this something I was not getting right?
Why would a perfectly healthy man be kept here? I badly wanted to investigate, to know what exactly was going on. But I knew my answers were in the huge document handed to me, the document I had signed. Without thinking otherwise, I went straight to my locker, brought out the book, and began to read through it, page after page, sitting alone in the company's library.
I opened one page after the other. And then I got to a place that shocked me, the words there written boldly: "Woah. What? Involved with a creature named Wolf? A myth, something of no existence."
I could not believe I had taken up an experiment involving something I had never accepted from the beginning of my career.