Crash-landed On An Island With Nine Beauties
Chapter 64

"Why is he not here yet?"

Mira asked. The girls were gathered outside the castle, towards the gate of the fenced area. They were facing the gate, looking at the endless stretch of the wood as though they were awaiting something or someone important.

"Could he possibly forget?"

Evelyn turned to Mira. Tendzel scoffed,

"How could he forget? Could he forget that he brought the idea, or that he had us worry about the plans of the celebration. Which part would he forget?"

"Irresponsible people even forget their names."

Laurette attacked.

"Isn't that too much, Laurette?"

Mira her sister scolded. Laurette rolled her eyes instead of responding.

"Is it only me, or did Laurette change overnight?"

Claire strayed off the point. Everyone turned to her.

"What do you mean? She's always been against Damien. She's like your second-in-command."

Tendzel countered.

"There's a different heat to her reaction. Oops, I forgot, y'all are too dumb to get the reference."

None of the girls took her seriously. They seemed to be acquainted with her nuance and her sassy manners.

"What do you say we do?"

Allison asked no one in precise. It seemed as though she was beginning to see the reason to ask instead of order around. This isn't Las Vegas, it's the jungle! "We can't just stand here all day."

Evelyn was impatient.

"Do we then wander into the woods aimlessly?"

Jada had another idea. Most of the girls shook their heads gently.

"I'll go check if the crossbows are in the other safehouse. One of you should go to his room."

Allison left at once for the safehouse. Evelyn had ran in the direction of the castle before any of the rest could make a turn.

Allison returned to the girls empty-headed. After a while, Evelyn also returned. Not only empty-headed but with fallen face. "The eager mistress was disappointed?"

Claire trolled. Evelyn pouted, rolling her eyes weakly at Claire who sneered.

"His room is locked."

The girls sighed. It seemed like all of them were clueless about what next to do.

"If we were able to replace the crossbows, we could had gone into the woods ourselves."

"How could he not return? I thought he said he wanted to work for a while."

There was an edge to Jada's voice. More like concern with a hint of anger.

"Y'all can keep waiting for him all I care. I would rather spend the day sleeping."

Claire turned to leave.

"Look!!!"

Laurette called, pointing past the girls. The girls looked quickly in the direction. The white wolf was walking towards the fence. "It's the wolf!!!"

Tension was building up amongst the girls. Someone like Evelyn was about to run away, Ayisha grabbed her arm. "Seriously? Shouldn't we get used to this already? Don't tell me that you want to run away again."

Allison stole the stance again. The girls reluctantly looked back to their front.

"Obviously it's been sent to come pick us."

"How can you be sure?"

For no reason, Claire attacked.

"So much for a person who's the wisest. What's there not to see?"

Jada snapped at Claire who was ready to take it on.

"You can stay here all you want. Yourself and your second-in-command."

Allison wasn't ready for the shit-show.

"Come girls."

She led the way. The wolf stopped few steps away from the gate. Two of the girls pushed the gate open and they walked out.

Seeing them, the wolf turned his back and started walking up the path.

"Can someone please tell it to run?"

Evelyn who was eager to meet Damien called. They had been walking for quite a while.

"It's she, dummy."

Laurette corrected. Claire was walking behind her. They decided to have a change of mind.

"Convince me that there's nothing going on between you and Damien?"

Claire caught up with Laurette, asking in whisper. The two girls were few steps behind the rest. So, they could have a discourse without the rest eavesdropping. "What are you talking about?"

Laurette stopped walking.

"It's true, isn't it? I could see the way he looked at you yesterday and the response."

Claire turned to her; she'd been facing her front all along.

"Don't tell me that you made out when you went to report the details of the events to him!!!"

Laurette's face broke into a gentle smile. She resumed walking.

"So it's true."

Laurette called over her head, and Claire tried to catch up.

"Are you repeating what I'd just said. Is that your own way of avoiding the topic?"

Laurette shot her a glare,

"I can't believe it. You've just been putting up a charade right?"

"What do you think you are doing?"

Claire was getting offended. Laurette was sure to keep track of the rest of the girls who were ahead of them. She didn't want to be left alone, lost in the woods with a sassy pair like Claire. "You like Damien, don't you?"

Laurette let the bomb out. Claire's eyes widened.

"Over my dead body. I don't even like him let alone --- love? Are you kidding me?"

Claire's voice was very loud while trying to defend herself.

"Then why should you worry about what I do? So what if I have something going on with Damien... Why should you be bothered? After all he's your worst enemy."

Claire chuckled,

"I was just surprised. I thought we were on the same page. I thought we were the only sane persons here who are not blinded by the urge to have sex... or impressed by what he has become. But I was wrong.' She pretended to be disappointed and increased her pace, leaving Laurette behind.

"Pray that I don't catch you red-handed. I'm not Mira who's good at ignoring. I would expose you to the rest. You know too well that I hate those who pretend."

Laurette didn't seem to be moved by Claire's show. Laurette ran past her to catch the rest of the girls.

"That bitch!!!"

Claire gritted her teeth. She looked to her side.

"Me, like Damien? Over my dead body. I can never!!!"

She made sure to convince herself before hurrying to catch up with the rest.

The girls arrived at a small open space in the woods. The wolf halted, then walked to Damien.

"I can't believe this."

Jada exclaimed. The girls all watched in surprise. Damien lying on the floor, at the base of a big tree, fast asleep.

"He was sleeping while we were worried? Really?"

"I just want to kick him to death."

Lisa had taken two steps before remembering that the wolf was standing next to him. She had a chance to think twice.

"Are we going to stand here and wait till he wakes up?"

Laurette shot.

"Do you have a better idea? How about to you talk to the wolf?"

Jada sneered at her. Laurette rolled her eyes. Point in time, Damien mumbled in his sleep then rolled to his side. His eyes slowly opened. He was struggling to seat up when the wolf jumped into the nearest shrubs and disappeared from sight.

The girls were so stunned.

"She doesn't want him to see her?"

Mira gaped at what had just happened.

"Awwn... how sweet and thoughtful."

Evelyn was being all mushy. Few others were impressed by the sight.

The noise coming from his front was enough to nudge Damien quickly into consciousness. His eyes widened when he saw the girls. He jumped up.

"Oh shit, I slept here?"

He couldn't quite believe himself. Looking up at the girls again, he noticed that they were all glaring at him.

THERE'S NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE.

He concluded. His surprised face tuned to an indifferent one in the blink of an eye.

"I'll be dividing you into two groups."

He started. Claire scoffed and called,

"I can't believe this!!! You are really not going to apologize?"

"No interrupting please."

Damien cut her short. She gaped, her lips paving like she wanted to take in a big meat.

"So, listen to the list as I --"

"Are you serious right now?"

Laurette cut him short, stepping forward.

[Ping! Queen's profile: Laurette Ayston. Allergy, bug. Could strip naked.]

"We waited for you over several minutes. We came all the way here to replace you sleeping. And now what? You'd ignore us? How crazy and illogical can you be?"

Damien turned away from the tree from which he had picked a bug while she was bickering. He put it up for her to see.

"What's that?"

She was bewildered at the sight.

"You were warned."

His last words as he took a step forward.

"Don't come any closer."

Her threat came to late. Damien zoomed like the wind in the eyes of all the girls and got to Laurette. He grabbed her head, pulled her cloth by the cleavages and dropped the bug there.

"A bug!!! A bug!!"

Laurette screamed, unable to bring herself to believing it.

"... take this off me... help me... please... help me..."

Laurette itched her body violently, ripping her cloth by the chest. She was jumping, and crying, doing all she could to get the bug off.

While the girls ran to her aid, Damien could use the distraction to bring out the Crossbows from the system store. He walked to the back of the big tree.

He took a look at the back again, Laurette was naked. Only panties on, she'd even ripped her bra off.

Damien looked coldly away.