Villainess is being pampered by her beast husbands
Chapter 65 --65

Chapter 65: Chapter-65

Veer didn’t respond. His eyes were still scanning the trees, fists clenched, body on alert.

Hidden behind a thick wall of brush, Kaya paused in her movement too, eyes narrowing as she felt the air shift.

From deep within the forest, the trees began to sway—not with the wind, but with force. Heavy. Rhythmic. Deliberate.

Thump. Thump. Crack.

Branches snapped like dry bones underfoot. The sound was getting closer.

A deep thunder rolled across the ground—not from the sky, but from the earth itself.

Kaya froze mid-step, eyes widening as the trembling grew stronger, louder, closer.

Then she saw it.

Charging through the distant treeline, like the forest itself had cracked open, came a massive herd. Not just elephants—beasts. Towering, prehistoric-looking creatures that made even the trees quake in their wake.

Mammathos.

The name slammed into her mind as instinct kicked in.

Larger than any normal elephant, these beasts had tusks the size of tree trunks, curved and sharpened by time and evolution. Their hides were armored with layers of thick, cracked skin. Dust and leaves clung to their feet as they stampeded forward, their trumpeting calls shaking the very air.

Kaya’s breath hitched.

If a snake in this world could become an anaconda... then this—this was what an elephant had evolved into.

She stood frozen for half a second, eyes locked on the chaos unraveling ahead.

The forest around her was in pure panic. Birds burst out of the trees in clouds of feathers. Foxes, boars, deer—everything that could run was running. The ground was being vacated like the land itself had declared war.

From her hiding spot, Kaya caught sight of Vayu and Veer both turning toward the stampede.

Even they looked rattled.

Kaya swallowed hard.

"Oh no..." she whispered under her breath, hand instinctively clutching the wild rabbit tucked in her coat.

Kaya’s mind raced, heart pounding so loud it almost drowned out the thunderous charge.

She didn’t have time.

If she didn’t move—right now—she’d be nothing more than a crushed meat patty under mammothos feet.

Her eyes darted across the terrain, desperate.

High or strong. Somewhere—anywhere—that wouldn’t collapse under ten tons of stomping fury.

She bolted to the right.

Branches slapped her face, brambles scratched her arms, but she didn’t care. The mammothos were charging straight through, wild and unrelenting. If she could just stay out of their path... if she could just hide—

And then she saw it.

A hollowed-out, massive tree trunk. Its roots were thick and gnarled, base wide enough to fit her entire body curled inside. Perfect.

But her hope was crushed a second later.

They were only five steps away now.

The ground trembled violently beneath her boots.

She grit her teeth, muttering under her breath,

"Now or never."

She threw herself forward.

No hesitation.

Her legs pushed off the ground with everything she had, the wind slicing past her ears as she dove for the hollow.

The thunder of the herd was deafening now—snapping trees, stomping earth, shaking the sky.

She barely made it.

The moment she squeezed into the hollow, her back scraped against the rough bark, and she hugged the wild rabbit tight against her chest. Dust filled her nose. She didn’t dare move.

Outside, chaos exploded.

Massive feet slammed down just outside the tree—one wrong angle, one misstep, and she’d be part of the forest floor forever.

She held her breath.

The mammothos were here.

The few minutes that followed felt like an eternity for Kaya.

Her heartbeat thundered in her chest, echoing in her ears like war drums. Her hands trembled—no, her entire body trembled. Just centimeters away from her hiding spot, massive mammothos thundered past, their feet shaking the earth so violently that even the hollow she hid in seemed to shiver.

Kaya pressed herself tighter into the rough bark, eyes wide. She could see their enormous feet—cracked, dust-covered, each step capable of crushing the world beneath them.

One wrong move.

One misplaced foot on this ancient tree.

And she’d be gone—just like that.

Time moved differently now.

Tick.

Tick.

Tick.

Each second stretched longer than the last, until it felt like the world had slowed down just to punish her.

And then... finally...

The last mammotho passed. A wave of sand and dust followed in its wake, swirling past the hollow. Kaya didn’t move—couldn’t. Not until the sound faded completely.

Only then did she inhale sharply, the breath ragged and loud in her ears.

Her chest rose and fell in heavy, trembling waves, lungs starved and muscles aching from tension.

In her arms, the wild rabbit—Cutie—pressed his tiny paw against her chest, as if to soothe her. She could feel his warmth, his tiny heartbeat steady against her own wild one.

Kaya let her head fall back for a second. Then, cautiously, she leaned forward, slowly inching toward the edge of the hollow. She poked her head out just enough to see.

Silence.

Eerie, unnatural silence—the kind that only comes after a storm rips through and leaves behind a stillness too heavy to trust.

The clearing was empty.

No more thunderous feet.

No birdsong.

Just dust, broken branches, and the lingering echo of survival.

Kaya scanned the sky, eyes sharp despite her exhaustion. The mammothos were gone... but the vultures might not be. Their sharp eyes, their knack for spotting the smallest movement—she couldn’t risk it. Not yet.

She ducked back inside the hollow.

The tree was old—dry, dusty, gnarled with age—but it had held strong. Big enough to shield her. And for now, it was home.

She didn’t plan to move until nightfall. Maybe not even then.

She had some dried food in her coat pocket. Nothing fancy—just enough to survive.

And if it took two days?

Three?

So be it.

She’d been through worse.

And she wasn’t about to die because she moved too soon.

Just as Kaya was about to breathe—just as her tense muscles began to loosen, thinking the worst had passed—

"Hssshhhk..."

A screech.

Sharp, shrill.

Her eyes flew open, her body stiffening again like a wound-up spring. The noise pierced through the forest air like a knife, vibrating through her skull.

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