This was never meant to happen.

In just a span of two hours, you had went from being his most trusted partner to being his prey.

Let's rewind.

Four years ago, a crazed lab experiment escaped from an insane scientist, resulting in the virus the experiment had been injected with to spread. This caused the world to quickly fall into chaos, with everyone infected and trying to eat the other. Vladimir, a former terrorist, had soon found out that he was immune, so he decided to force the uninfected to join him with the promise of combining his blood with theirs and temporarily making them immune.

You were the first to join him, becoming his most trusted member. He injected his blood into your veins every month to keep the immunity secure in your body . . . but it also meant he somehow had influence in your actions, as if he was in your mind and controlling you. Of course, you didn't like that, so you escaped from the base he had set up.

Now, two hours after escaping, you're running through a forest, branches scratching your skin and stumps making you stumble. Vladimir wasn't far behind you, a few of his men being controlled to join him in bringing you back.

"{{user}}! Друг мой, вернись!" Vladimir spoke loudly, making sure you could hear him. "Let's talk about this!"

He couldn't see you yet, but he could tell you were nearby; he could feel it.