Novels by E.B Starling

***FLASHBACK TO 3 MONTHS AGO******PHIL***“So Phil is leaving tomorrow, yes?” Toria asked as we ate at the dining table and I nodded. “Would he be coming back?” Young Freya asked and Olivia looked at me as she raised her spoon to her mouth. “I have to go home first, and things will be decided there, but I would love to be back here,” I said and she smiled, she’s the last kid and even though she’s now an adult, she still smiled and joked around like a little kid. We all continued our meal until a loud bang on the door came sending chills down everyone’s spine. Olivia quickly went to check the security cameras, but she fell to the ground immediately she saw what was happening, I left my meal and rushed to her side. “Ain’t Olivia?” I called, but she looked as though she’d seen a ghost, I turned to look at the security footage and what I saw scared the hell out of me, it was her husband, the one that was masked as Doctor Dale but his real name was Morgan. I took a step back, I was

***FLASHBACK TO 3 YEARS AGO******PHIL***“How do you know Doctor Dale?” Olivia asked as she rose to her feet, and began to pace around the room. “He worked on me, for five good years, I was sent here as the ambassador to Ventha, I met the president and—and I had coffee and I woke in this very tiny glass cube and had been concealed in it for over 5 years, till I was abandoned and left for dead and you found me,” I explained, everyone looked at me pitifully. “Phil, doctor Dale died 6 years ago, before you even came to Ventha, he committed suicide,” she said. “And how do you know this?” I asked and she began to sob and went to her sitting room shelf, then she picked up a frame. “Here,” she said handing it over to me, immediately, I stepped back, that’s him, the man that had tormented me for five years. “That’s him, that’s the doctor, he experimented on me for years, nonstop,” I said as I shifted back in fear, could I trust these people? There was Olivia in the photo frame, grinnin

***FLASHBACK TO 3 YEARS AGO******PHIL***I opened my eyes, but somehow, in a place that felt warm, like home. “He’s waking up,” I heard the voice of a lady say. Was I dead?Was this paradise? I thought but when my eyes fully opened and I saw where I was, I instantly knew I couldn’t be dead. “Can you talk?” A lady asked as she reviewed herself, standing right in front of me, and I nodded, hopefully, I could, I hadn’t tried. “I’m Olivia, my daughters rescued you from the roadside and saw you’re a wolf,” she said and I scurried up and snuggled to a side in fear. “It’s fine, we don’t hurt wolves, I’m one too, well, I’m wolfless, but my daughters have their wolves, so don’t worry, you’re safe here,” she said and I relaxed a bit, maybe I could trust her. “Now rest, you need all the rest you can get, you had a lot of wolfsbane in your system when we got you, we’ve tried purging it all, so I’m sure you feel very weak, your wolf is fighting to come back,” she said and I felt exactly as

***FLASHBACK TO 8 YEARS AGO******PHIL***My eyelids fluttered open, but I couldn’t see a thing, everywhere was dark, no windows, no lights or anything. What was happening? I thought but the last thing I remembered was taking tea. “You are awake,” a voice sounded in the room, from everywhere, my super wolf hearing driving me insane. What the hell was happening? “Where am I?” I yelled back, I wasn’t going to give up now or show fear, I couldn’t, I was raised by the oldest wolf of Ravenclaw, and I had a lot up my sleeves. Then the lights came on, and I saw where I was in, I was in a glass box and it only had space enough to accommodate me, a tiny translucent glass box. I crawled into the corner in fear, I had never been in such a small space. “Why? Are you scared little wolf?” The voice spoke into the microphone and again, I heard it everywhere, almost driving me mad. I tried to punch the glass open, but I couldn’t, my fist broke, had I lost my wolf abilities?” I fretted as held m

***CONTINUATION OF FLASHBACK TO 8 YEARS AGO******FIVE MONTHS AFTER YHE ENGAGEMENT PARTY******PHIL***“Pops?” I called, my face giving away all emotions I couldn’t speak out loud. “Yes boy, you have to do as the alpha says,” he said to me with finality in his voice, there’s nothing both of us could do, I was going to be shipped away to the human world as ambassador.“Can’t someone else go? My wedding is in two months,” I yelled as tears began to well up in my eyes, but I knew better than to cry, I’m a man and a man should never cry because of a woman, but the feeling I was feeling right now was away above any upbringing I received from pops. “You’ll be back in a month Philip, and I will be here, getting your wedding ready, nothing will go wrong, as long as you return when you’re supposed to,” Pops said, then he turned around and faced the window, he’d rather look out there and look into my face, I swallowed hard, knowing fully well there’s nothing I could do, my kingdom called and

***BACK TO THE PRESENT DAY IN CRESCENT PACK******KAYLA***I paced around my room, unsure how best to go forward from here, Sheila had been on my neck in the last few days we’d been together and I couldn’t reach Caleb and now, Carla was not okay, well not from the sound of her voice. Then I heard the door to my room opening and someone came right inside, a strange girl. “Who are you and what do you want?” I asked immediately, I wasn’t sure she was a maid since I’d never seen her but she was in the maid’s uniform. “Your Highness, lady Tina sent me here, I’m your new maid,” she explained and I nodded, oh yes I did need a personal maid, I remembered ordering Tina to get me one. “Are you new?” I asked and she nodded shyly, she was new and not even used to the castle yet. “Well, come on,” I said and she moved closer to me while “you’re to be with me at all times, you know that’s your job right? You don’t need to serve different royals or cook or do the laundry, all you have to do is o

***Amelia*** I woke up to the sound of noise, my head on a solid but smooth and warm hard wall, I could hear the beating of the heart of a human, and in a split second, the realization hit me, I was lying on Alexandra Gomez, I feared for my life as I jolted up from the bed and was welcomed with the smiling face of Evelyn, a surprised look of Simone and knowing look on Vinny's face, I saw two other pair of eyes, one from a young boy that looked as though he's fearful for my life and another from a beautiful short length brunette lady with brown eyes, she looked as though she's about to strangle me but was trying to keep it all in, in my half sleep state, I stood from the bed and I could have sworn I saw the look of disappointment on Alex's face as he looked at Vinny, but Vinny only shrugged, in less than ten seconds the duo must have had a full conversation without saying a word.As I stood, the room was in motion again as Simone started to move to the bed and Evelyn followed suit, fo

***Alex***My eyelid fluttered open, as it did, the events I last witnessed played in my head, we had gone for the meeting to dialogue with the Perez, but had been ambushed at the meeting point and had been shot. I groaned In my mind knowing fully well Vinny would be telling me "I told you so" When next he sees me conscious, he'd never let it rest, it'll be his majestic moment to shine.I felt a weight beside me on my bed and as I looked down, I saw my fragile angel sleeping right beside me, she must be so uncomfortable sleeping in a sure position, once again, I had made her suffer needlessly.She must hate me, I concluded in my mind.As I watched her sleep, soft locks of red curly hair tumbled across her face and I couldn't help but marvel at the beauty of it.As I reached out to stroke the locks back, she stirred in her sleep and I froze, luckily, she didn't wake up and I proceeded in my action, I stroked her hair back and she reacted by snuggling her head in more into the bed, she

***Amelia*** The whole room seemed to divert their gaze in my direction as my knife clattered on the floor, but for a minute, it lasted just for a minute. As Simone walked up to Vinny, I picked up the knife and poor onion from the floor. "Evelyn, Amelia, come along" Vinny barked the orders out of his throat. I placed the duo that had fallen back on the counter, and exchanged a questioning look as to why we were being called with Evelyn, she shrugged. "Have you ever been up there?" I asked Evelyn as we started walking right behind Simone who was now holding one of the first aid boxes from earlier. "No" she replied curtly. We walked to the elevator where Vinny stood impatiently waiting for us, as we stepped inside, he immediately pushed the button to the top floor, I had never been there, only heard rumors of the place and stood in the elevator waiting for it to stop, I pondered on what awaits us up there. The elevator stopped, and the door slowly opened revealing a grand

CHAPTER 4 ***Alex*** The encounter with the red haired girl Roger had dropped as payment left me thinking hard through the remainder of the week, I kept having flash backs of how she looked in the soft light of the night, her bright curly red hair tumbling down her shoulders in beautiful locks right to her waist line, her deep brown eyes that should have been a contrast to her wavy red hair but somehow fitted so perfectly it made me hard right at the sight of it, I remembered as her gown hung tight to her body and every curves as though she's born with it, and right now, as i watched her wash the dishes like I've done countless times through the week, i felt horrible for assigning such beaut to doing such a tedious task, I watched as she wiped off a trickle of sweat from her face with her hand, and as she washes the dishes, her locks of curls kept tumbling in her face, she kept pushing them back in place but the rebellious curls wouldn't stay, and in one swift motion, she packs them

CHAPTER 3 ***Amy*** After the encounter the last time on the day I got to the mansion, I didn't see Alex again, or let's say I couldn't, his place was high up and I worked below, the rest of the week went by slowly, and tediously, apart from always feeling like I was being watched but never seeing anyone watching me, I also had to work my ass off like never before as the kitchen was in charge of making the meals of the whole gang, or rather "family" as they often regard themselves, the house was a big house with about 27 rooms in total and maybe more since there was more to the mansion that what I could see in a week, as the newest addition in the kitchen, I was made wash the plates, deliver the meals and run a lot of errands, it's the hierarchy, and I was the last in the table called hierarchy. While working in the kitchen, I made beautiful acquaintances of course, the head chef, Simone, took me like her own daughter, every time I came in the kitchen, I couldn't help but notice he

Chapter 2 ***Amelia*** I woke up to the sound of a voice, talking in the room, but knowingly, I shut my eyes not opening them. "She is beautiful" I half heard a voice say, I could almost hear lust sounding in the voice that made the statement, "who knew something so beautiful could come out of someone so gruff like Roger" the voice added. Roger? My dad, they were talking about me. He was talking to someone else, my eyes were closed but I could feel the presence of another person in the room. "What do you think?" The voice continued, obviously talking to the other person who hadn't till now said a word, "The kitchens? Delivery? Or the bed?" The voice asked. Realization of what the voice was asking the person hit me, I was about to be designated into a work department in here, the kitchen must mean I tend to food duties, delivery I'm not so sure, working the beds must mean I'm to take care of the rooms, I concluded then tried opening my eyes a bit to check out what exactly was g

***FIANNA(KYLIE)***“Arghhhhhhhhhhhh,” I heard a loud groan, and my eyelids fluttered open before me was a man who was slowly changing, but only he wasn't shifting into the normal wolves I had seen. Another older man and two young ladies stood in one corner, holding onto one another as the sight before them scared the hell outta them just like it did me. “Look,” the man pointed in my direction, “she's fine and well,” he added. I looked at myself, I was in rags, definitely, not the boot-cut Jean and crop top I had been buried alive in by Thalia and Lucien, my body was covered in bruises where I sat beside a fireplace were some chains that seemed to have been taken off of me, I glanced at my hands and the purplish color confirmed my thoughts, the shackles had been taken off me. Still, in my reverie, I stood up on my feet, and adjacent to me was a window where the moon's rays shone through, I could see my reflection in the window glass, only, I was looking worse, like one of those tra

***CALEB***“WHAT THE HELL!” I exclaimed in shock as I placed my coffee mug on my central table. I keenly kept my eyes on the TV, watching the news report; my brother's fiancee and my mate had been found dead and buried in a shallow grave back in the Woodcreek mountain at the borders of Woodthorn. Grrrrrr Grrrrr! Grrrrr grrrr!! My phone rang. I picked up the phone with my eyes still glued to the TV and placed it in my ear. “WHAT are we gonna do now?” my best friend Kathy said into the phone in a hysterical tone. She must have seen the news; the only woman who could break my curse had been murdered. “I don't know, Kathy,” I said to the receiver as I bowed my head in frustration, taking my eyes off the TV. “you're gonna die, Caleb, oh my God,” I could hear her stomping her feet in her house from the phone; she was furiously pacing around. “We should have just kidnapped her when we had the chance when she was alive, we should have kidnapped her, and you should have marked her imme

***KYLIE***I felt my body being dragged on a rather not so smooth path as I slipped in and out of consciousness. “Should we leave her out here” I heard Thalia’s voice laced with fear ask. “We can't; it's cold here, and anyone could find her easily; we have to bury them here,” Lucien replied in a low tone. “could you grab those shovels we packed back at the house?” he asked Thalia. “Oh sure, where are they?” she asked. “in the car…” “You want me to walk back there, alone?” Thalia asked, in a tone louder than the one they've been conversing in. “Shushhhh, keep it down. Would you rather stay with a dead body in this dark forest alone?” Lucien asked, and after a while of not hearing Thalia’s reply, Lucien added, “I didn't think so, so kindly go back to the car and grab the shovels,” I heard the twigging of a branch as Thalia walked away from where we were, “and Thalia?,” Lucien called, and I saw her turn, though it was all blurry, “move fast, and carefully,” the hazy figure that I

***KYLIE***“I am not sure which to choose, they all look so beautiful,” I said as I stared into the pictures of available venues in my hands, grinning ear to ear. “You think you should consult with the groom? I thought you both were going to do this together,” our event planner, Lexi, said as she looked around the room of my home, definitely seeing if she could catch sight of my husband-to-be, Lucien. I blushed hard thinking about the last part. “oh, he has some issues he had to attend to last minute, you know what? Don't worry, I'm going to take these to him,” I said, placing my right hand on all the pictures in front of me, “and we'd be getting back to you, let's say tonight?” I added, and immediately, Lexi stood to her feet, and I did too, escorted her to the door as she exited my apartment, I locked the door, turned, and just grinned in excitement, everything was happening so fast, the same wolfless orphaned girl that was more of an outcast in Woodthorn was getting married to L