"Wow!" Damien exclaimed in wonder as the door opened when the elevator reached their destination. "I can't believe such a room has been existing all this while." Damien stepped out of the elevator, strutted to the center of the room, and turned around to get a better view of the room."Damien." Helia was terrified to see him."Don't worry. Your secret is safe with me. I'm great at keeping secrets," Damien said, knowing what she was concerned about."You told us everything your grandpa told you in a heartbeat," Helia reminded him. Helia did not believe he could keep the secret."That's because it was no secret.""Helia, leave the child alone. He had hidden us from his grandpa well. He deserves to know about this place," Brient said as he made his way to Damien."Nice uncle," Damien beamed as he looked up at Brient's face. "You know about this place too? This place is wonderful!""If you think this place is wonderful, then you haven't seen anything yet. This room is just the workshop o
Danica panicked. The spell she had put on Rendall had broken and he had found out her true intentions and very soon everyone would find out.‘No, I have to do something.’Danica's blouse was torn. The only thing that was covering her breast was her bra and there were bloody scratches on her breast. Rendall's nails had torn the skin. She tried to cover her breast with the torn cloth."I hate you," Rendall spat angrily. He pushed her from his way and got out of the bed and walked to the door and as he did, Helia let out a loud cry. Rendall turned to look at her. She sat up straight and was curled up on the bed and Rendall raised an eyebrow at her."My chest," she cried out. "My chest.""What's wrong with you?" Rendall asked."My chest," Danica cried out. After much consideration, Rendall walked over to her and sat on the edge of the bed. He tried to touch her but she slapped his hand away."Don't touch me!" Danica screamed and laughed sarcastically. "Don't touch me!""If this is a joke,
"Are you seriously leaving for Ocean Ville?" Rendall asked as he watched Brient arrange clothes in his bag."Nice uncle, please don't leave," Damien pleaded in a brittle voice."If you leave, I'd be all alone here. Helia hates me and Danica is being a bitch," Rendall lamented."I want to fix my love life. Fix yours," Brient said nonchalantly."So, you've agreed that you love Selene," Rendall teased and Damien giggled."Go away! If Helia sees me talking to you, she'd be mad at me," Brient said dryly and Rendall frowned."You know I did not rape Danica, right? You know Danica is just doing this to come between me and Helia, right?"Brient sighed. "I've known you long enough to know what you can and can't do. I know how Danica could be too. So, I think I have an inkling of who is saying the truth. If not, you'd have been dead by now. I would have killed you. Were-creatures of Khron have so much hatred for rapists so I have to warn you. You have to prove your innocence fast or you'd get in
"Now that I've known that you're innocent, I'm offering to help you prove your innocence to Helia."Rendall stood by his bed and watched Damien, who was sprawled on his bed."Why do you want to help me? What's in it for you?" Rendall stared at him with a puzzled look."Nothing. I just hate it when bad people win.""Oh! I see… ""You have a phone, right? You should have taken a recording of what she was saying.""My phone wasn't with me.""Tsk! Tsk!" Damien shook his head in disapproval. "Creepy uncle, you had lost a good chance to prove your innocence to Helia and I don't think she'd say anything the second time you go.""Are you sure you aren't an old man trapped in the body of a ten-year-old?" Rendall raised an eyebrow. The boy on his bed was too wise for his age."Exactly." Damien snapped his finger. "That's why you need me. Since I'm a child, Danica won't see me as someone who can double-cross her and would be less cautious with me.""Do you have a plan?""You were her childhood f
Helia and Damien gasped as Damien's grandfather slumped."I wonder what he was doing here?" Damien shrugged casually."Your grandfather saw us.""Don't worry. Just help me take him to his room. He'd be in a deep sleep for hours and when he wakes up, I would just tell him he was dreaming."Helia chuckled as they both stepped out of the elevator."And he'll believe you?""Why won't he?" Damien said confidently. "Just help me take him to his room and leave the rest to me. I know how to deal with my grandfather perfectly well."********************"Your grandfather had seen Helia?" Rendall frowned at Damien. He was sitting on the only chair in his room, eating dates like nothing big had happened. His grandfather had seen him and Helia walk out of an elevator that was not supposed to be in his underground and he was not bothered."Yes, he had but he's asleep now. When he wakes up, I'd fix everything," Damien answered nonchalantly."What are you doing here? Why aren't you with him now?""D
Helia found it difficult to breathe after reading what was written on the paper she was holding.Her strong grip on the paper weakened and it fell to the ground. Damien rushed to it, picked it up, and gasped."Your mother is a witch?" Damien could not absorb what was written on the paper."What?!" Damien turned around to see Rendall behind Danica. Rendall had made her kneel before him with her back facing him and the weight of his hands pressing down her shoulders.Helia stood on her feet and laughed sarcastically. "Did you see it? Did you see how they lied to me?""Helia," Rendall called out softly."They lied to me," Helia whispered. Her voice sounded strained. "I thought I knew the truth but they lied to me. Father lied to me. Mother— the one who I had thought was my mother—"Helia's voice trailed off. Loads of painful thoughts swirled around her brain. Helia's hand reached out to her head and she winced in pain as it did nothing to ease the pain she was in. She could feel her stre
Helia stared at the opened journal blankly. Before her eyes were words describing Danica's atrocities. These words were plastered on the pages before her for her to see and be tormented.Helia's face turned white as she flipped the page.‘I tricked the fool today.’ Helia gnashed her teeth as she read the first sentence of the page. ‘I made her make a love potion that will help me take her mate away. She would face the pain while I'd gain. Hehe! Hehe!’She scanned through the paragraphs and continued reading from where had caught her attention.‘I just tricked everyone into thinking that Rendall had raped me. That foolish mate of Rendall seriously does not deserve him. Even I, who is not his mate would never believe that Rendall can rape a girl. I'm the one who knows Rendall better so I'm the one who deserves him and I'd get him. The nitwit he calls his mate is helping me greatly.’"That bitch," Helia cursed in a whisper. A tear dropped as memories of how she had insulted Rendall flash
"I can't believe Selene got sold to the spirituals of Ocean Ville by her family," Helia said. "She thought Ocean Ville was her home. Too bad!"Damien watched Helia and Rendall through his tears as they checked their luggage to see if anything was missing."Please, don't leave," Damien pleaded. "This place is fantastic." Damien's grandfather looked around, not minding that Helia and Rendall were packing up."Grandpa," Damien held on to his grandpa's shirt and cried out, "please ask them to stay back.""If they want to leave, they can. Why should I stop them?" Damien's grandfather freed himself from Damien's grip and continued to feast his eyes on beautiful interior design."The witch must have put in a lot of magic to make this place this beautiful."Helia paused what she was doing and turned to the old man with a raised eyebrow. "How do you know m—" Helia grimaced as she realized what she was about to say. "How do you know Nyx was a witch?""She told my son. That was of course before
Helia watched in terror as the silver bullets moved toward Rendall. She closed her eyes and without thinking about it, she muttered words. Words which she had seen somewhere but could not place where.Energy radiated from her and immediately, she heard the bullet strike someone. She felt her heart freeze, hoping it was not what she thought. Hoping that whatever she had done had worked.Helia's eyes snapped open and when they did, they moved to Rendall, then to Alpha Janus and they dilated.The son stared at the father and the father stared back. One of them was on their knees, gasping for his last breath."F— father?" Rendall's voice quivered.Alpha Janus' head was bowed in shame."You tried to kill me?" Shock was written all over Rendall's face. He knew that his father was evil and despite the threats, he never really thought that his father could try to kill him."Save me.""I can't. If I could, I still wouldn't. You deserve what has befallen you," Rendall spat disdainfully.Helia s
"Rendall!" Helia called out as soon as she got into Rendall's room. Rendall was seated on his bed with worry etched on his face."Helia?"Rendall got up from his bed. He began to look around and Helia sighed."You can't see me, remember?" "Oh! You're right. You're under an invisibility spell. You were still in my father's room after I had left, right?""Yes.""And you heard Mr. Wilkinson and my father talk about me, right?""Yes.""What did they say?"Rendall's question was followed by a long silence."Your father. He is so—""Evil?""Evil is too weak to describe what he is. No offense, but I'd rather not have a father than have a father like yours.""I know right? So, what did he say?" Rendall asked and he raised an eyebrow as he heard her sigh again."We have to be cautious.""What did my father say?""That he'd kill you if he finds out that you're trying to trick him," Helia said and Rendall chuckled sarcastically."Well, I'm not surprised. He'd do anything for power. Do you hear
"Everything that happened, happened according to how it was fated to. All this happened for one result. The werewolves are getting punished for taking the land of the witches. The werelions are punished for not helping their neighbors." "How do we get out of her punishment?" Helia asked "That's for you both to figure out. You both have the knowledge you need to break the curse of Khron and Wulfe. You have to. It is your destiny to do so." "Since we are destined to save Wulfe and Khron, we'll do so, right?" Rendall asked and Alecto smiled. "We have destinies. We can also choose whether or not we want our destinies. You can choose to save the werewolves and werelions. You can also choose not to save the werewolves and the werelions," Alecto answered with a casual shrug and Helia and Alecto glanced at each other. "We have to take down both my father and Mr. Wilkinson," Rendall said and Helia scoffed. "Like you would really take down your father. You would surely betray us," Helia s
"Do you really have to go? Again?" Damien looked downcasted. "Please, don't leave. Stay a little longer." Helia and Rendall exchanged glances. They both looked sad too. "We have to go. We have a curse to break," Rendall explained and Damien looked up at him with his eyes glossed with tears. Rendall's heart melted at the sight and he took Damien into his arms and hugged him. "Aunt." Damien turned to Helia with his body still glued to that of Rendall. "Please hug me too." Helia opened her arms and Damien gestured for her to come closer instead. "But—" Damien's face fell, interrupting Helia's protest. She waved her hands in surrender and joined them. Rendall froze as her skin touched his. His heart began to flutter and so did Helia's. At that moment, they both realized that the rejection did not work. Damien smiled to himself when he saw them look at each other. He disengaged from the hug and as he did, Rendall and Helia were in each other's arms without Damien acting as a middl
Mr. Wilkinson smirked at Alpha Janus, brought another pair of eye contacts, and gave it to him."What do you think?" Mr. Wilkinson asked when Alpha Janus wore it and Alpha Janus looked at him."How do you use this? Can you hypnotize simply by looking a person in the eye or do you have to do something else?"Mr. Wilkinson raised an eyebrow as soon as he heard Alpha Janus' question and then he grinned. "Why are you trying to move faster than your shadow?"Alpha Janus was thrown off guard by Mr. Wilkinson's question before he quickly put himself together. "I'm just very curious, you know. I'd really love to know.""You seem—" Mr. Wilkinson's voice trailed off and Alpha Janus frowned.‘Just tell me how to freaking use the Gizmo, stupid human,’ Alpha Janus cursed in his mind."Your thoughts matter too. Just think about it while you lock eyes with whoever you want to hypnotize and boom, he or she would be.""We want to hypnotize every were-creature, remember? Would we begin to look everyone
"Werewolves and witches have a history?" Rendall was shocked."A painful one at that. Haven't you heard any folklore concerning it? Or at least a myth? You werewolves are good at telling fake stories anyways just for storytelling's sake."Rendall scoffed and looked back at the book. "Let's check out what is written in it. Do you think it's because of the history that Nyx cursed Wulfe too?""My mother did a great job by cursing the werewolves. I would have done the same," Helia said."Let's just check the book," Rendall said. He was tired of hearing Helia's complaints.She rolled her eyes, removed the book away from his face, and opened it."What's written in it?" Rendall joined her in checking the book and they both turned white as they flapped through the pages. The book was telling a story.It was a story of how the werewolves had forcefully taken the land of witches away from them.A long time ago, werewolves had no particular land. They formed packs that were ruled by an Alpha. A
"Please, don't send us away," Helia pleaded and Damien's grandfather scowled at her."Get out," he growled. "Daughter of a witch. Heaven knows if she's a witch like her mother. These things must exist in the genes. Your mother killed my only son and my daughter-in-law. I have almost nothing left. You probably want to take all I have away from me.""But—""If you don't leave now, I'd make sure I kill you with my own hands," Damien's grandfather threatened. "It will be fair enough anyways. Nyx kic cflled my son and I killed her daughter.""Sir, we—" "You're pushing me," he growled, interrupting Helia again."We're here because we need to break Nyx's curse," Rendall said quickly before he'd get interrupted by the old man."She cursed you?" "Yes, that wicked witch cursed the both of us and our families too," Rendall answered and Helia glared at him for calling her mother wicked."She did?" The old man's hard expression was beginning to melt."And a demon called Janus too. He is also cal
Helia closed her eyes. Her greatest nemesis had caught up with her without her seeing any way of getting out of it. So, Helia stood, expecting an impact.Suddenly, she heard the sound of a bullet striking flesh. Helia froze. She wondered where the bullet had struck. She wondered if she would die anytime soon. Helia placed her middle finger under her nose to know if she was still breathing. She was. She placed her hands on her chest. Her heartbeat was normal."Does death come this slowly?" Helia asked herself and immediately she felt something lift her. She snapped her eyes open and as she did, she screamed.Peering down at her was a blue-eyed white beast. She batted her lashes as it dawned on her that it was Rendall in his wolf form. She was in the arms of Conri, Rendall's wolf."From frying pan to fire," Helia muttered to herself. She looked away from his face to their surroundings and gasped. Lying on the floor were Alpha Janus and his warriors. They looked lifeless and Helia wond
"You're joking, right?" Rendall frowned as he heard Alecto's words."Joking? Should your father killing Alpha Leander surprise you? You of all people know the kind of person your father is.""But he promised me that he would not kill Leander and Ariela told me she did. Why would Ariela tell me she killed Alpha Leander when she did not.""He he. All I know is that your father has a hand in Helia's father's death.""How do you know the things you know? Who are you?""He he! You'd be the first were-creature to ask who I am. The rest assume they know but I can assure you that I'm not what they think I am.""Then, who are you?""You would know how with time," Alecto smirked. "All you have to know now is to go to the human world to Nyx's house.""Nyx's house? But we—""Helia is on her way there," Alecto chipped in and Rendall did not bother to argue again."Did my father really kill hers?" Rendall looked down at his feet and Alecto heaved a sigh."I warned you not to ask me that it'll hurt.