Running away so no one tries to strangle me after reading this chapter.
GAVRAEL ~ “I… I don’t hate you, Gav. I could never hate you. I just need you to do better, to be better.” Hearing her say she didn’t hate me was a relief. I may be a cold hearted bastard, but I didn’t want my mate to hate me. I wanted her love, even if I was incapable of loving her the way she deserved. “I am who I am, darling. And the only thing I want to change right now is the fact that I’m not inside you yet.” I replied to her as I ripped off her flimsy underwear and thrust into her. She felt so damn good, my eyes nearly rolled to the back of my head. “Gav… p.please. Let them… let them go.” How the fuck can she even think of something else when I’m balls deep inside her and can barely remember my own name? “If you can still speak of them while I’m fucking you, then I’m not doing a very good job of it.” I said as I ripped the front of her dress and grabbed one of her tits. I loved feeling them bounce every time I pulled out and thrust back in. “Gav…” “Fine, you infuriatin
UNKNOWN ~ My plan was going perfectly well till my cursed brother regained use of his full powers. He wasn’t supposed to have access to those powers, he was still weak. I grabbed the bars of the cell in anger and screamed as the silver burned my hands. I hate this fucking body, it was weak like all shifters. How could I be hurt by something as ordinary as silver. I should be a god. I possessed this body years ago in order to keep an eye on that stupid white wolf, knowing she would end us as my brother’s mate again. I would never understand why he chose to associate with these lesser species, much less fall in love with one and end up imprisoned for centuries for her sake. I told him that nothing good would come of him being with her, but he didn’t listen to me, he never listens to me. I was filled with immense joy when she turned on him. It was her that caused them to be reduced to this state, reduced to mere mortals. Sure they were shifters now, but to me, it was basically the s
ADAIRA~I died.My soul left the mortal world, I could feel it. Yet, I heard a voice not just call me, but a force pull me back away from the proverbial bright light you’re supposed to see after you die. But it wasn’t a light I was walking towards, it was a presence, a person. And I was so curious to find out who it was because it seemed so familiar, I could swear I was basically looking at a reflection of my own presence. I could see flashes of a past life… a full moon, a volcano, a lost mate, an exchange of powers, a war, a broken bond, a dark spell, a different time. It was like these were memories from my own head yet I had no knowledge of them and if I just stepped into the light I would regain them all and so much more. I could feel the power coming from it, and it felt as intimate as my own skin. This vast power was mine, I could feel it. The closer I got, the more I regained understanding of the life I lost, of who I was.But I was being compelled not to move further. It was
ADAIRA~I gasped as his eyes opened. For a split second, it was a mix of brown, red and gold, something that had never happened before. Then it became brown so fast that I wondered if I had just imagined it. But it didn’t matter at the moment, all that mattered right now was that he was alive and he was here with me.“Gav.” I called him as I wrapped my arms around him.He held me as well and moved me so instead of kneeling beside him on the bed, I was now straddling him with my knees on either side of him. One of his hands was on the back of my head while the other was around my waist, and my two hands were around his neck. For several seconds, we stayed like that, just enjoying each other’s presence and reeling fromthe effects of the last ten minutes.“I thought I lost you.” I whispered after a few minutes of silence.“I should be the one telling you that. You left me.”I heard the emotion in his voice as he said the last words. It hurt to no longer feel him as I used to, but I woul
ADAIRA~“You can’t be serious.” I said incredulously.I tried to move off him but he held me tighter, one hand with my hair now wrapped around it and the other still on my waist.“Do I in any way look like a jester to you?” He asked with a menacing growl as I was forced to look into his angry red eyes because of the tight grip he had on my hair.“Let go of me, you’re hurting me.” I said as I reached back to try to free myself from his grip.“How do you think I feel hearing my mate whom I nearly died trying to revive say she doesn’t want my mark? Do you think I feel happy?”I yelped as the hand he had on my waist grabbed my arms and held them both together in a firm grip behind my back. I struggled against him but he had me firmly pinned to him.“Let me go.” I said to him but it was like I never spoke.“How many times do I have to say it for you to understand that I will never let you go, in this life or the next. ” I replied to him.“What is your problem? I didn’t refuse your mark. I
GAVRAEL *** “I thought I lost you.” She said as I held her close. I was so relieved to feel her breath on my skin, her touch, the beat of her heart. But something was missing, I was just too distracted to immediately figure it out. “Gav, there are so many things we don’t know. Things we don’t understand. We need to find answers. My grandmother tried to warn me about this but I never really understood what she was trying to tell me till now. Did she ever tell you anything?” She asked me and I was confused. Why will her dead grandmother tell me anything? Had she seen the woman when her soul left her body and was now confusing the dead with the living? “Why will she tell me anything? I never met her. From what I know, she died long before I awakened.” I replied to her. “It’s a long story. My grandmother was alive until a while ago, you met her, talked to her. But after she died, she was somehow erased from everyone’s memory. What matters is that she was trying to tell me that we we
ADAIRA***“I am not a witch.” I said and he grabbed my throat.He was livid, his red irises burning with rage. Whenever he was like this, I could never get through to him.“Then what explanation do you have for what you just did?” He asked as he grabbed my hair.I tried to free myself but I couldn’t move, he was using his power on me. And I had no explanation for what just happened, I had no idea what I did or how I did it. Same way I had no idea what had tried to suck my soul from me and how he was even able to bring me back. There are so many strange things to consider, how did he expect me to have answers to this one.“I… d.don’t…”I could barely breathe so I don’t know how he expected me to reply to him. And without our bond, we couldn’t communicate through our minds.“Let’s go pay your parents a visit. If you don’t know, I’m sure they do. Or maybe you’ll tell me the truth when they’re close enough for me to snap their necks.” He said with a menacing growl and my eyes widened in
GAVRAEL***I could understand everything more clearly now. Adaira keeps denying that she’s a witch, but she has to be. There is no other explanation for her use of powers. I had mine because of my demon half, she must also be a hybrid. That was why she was fated to me, why her soul could match mine. Or maybe she wasn’t fated to me at all, maybe it was all a trick by one of her ancestors. If she won’t tell me the truth, I will get it out of her one way or the other. I had to know if what I felt for her was real, or if it was just an illusion planted in my mind by one of the sage wolves that cast my imprisonment spell. My rage was getting the better of me, but I needed it. She would only respond to force. Maybe I could trigger her powers again, force her to confess the truth to me. How could she so cruelly be a part of this? How did they even accomplish this? She hadn’t been born when they imprisoned me, how did they bind my soul to hers when she was centuries from being born? Shouldn’
EPILOGUE ~ Using up so much power drained both me and Gavrael, and we both passed out almost immediately after. We didn’t wake up till after two whole days because our bodies shut down to heal and recuperate. When we finally woke up, we discovered that using so much power had broken the hold of the third souls we each had. I no longer possessed Selene’s soul and Gavrael no longer possessed the soul of the demon king. Their essence had returned to the volcano realm after their souls split from ours. They couldn’t be killed, she was a goddess and he was a god, but it would take a long time for them to recreate a physical form. For now, I was just happy that we would no longer be the victims of an age long war. Then came another problem, the issue of Gavrael’s possessiveness. He was no longer under the control of the demon king, but now that he knew I was pregnant, his wolf was just as easily pissed off as he was before. It was usual for the mates of pregnant females to become very ter
GAVRAEL ~ He calls himself Zephyr, and seeing him manhandle my mate made me angry. But my anger wasn’t enough to break myself from his hold and regain control of my body. “Kill them all, I’ll deal with her. I could only watch as he took Adaira away from the battlefield, knowing that she was their only hope to win the battle against his beasts. “How does it feel having so much power but being unable to use it? You trapped me for centuries, took my memories, took my powers, kept me in this mortal body. This is just a slight taste of that. So tell me how it feels to hate what’s happening but not be able to do anything about it?” I could feel his amusement as she tried in vain to free herself from his grip. He was enjoying her struggles and her helplessness. I couldn’t even reach out to her to at least let her know that despite everything, I was still in here even if I’ve been pushed so far deep in my subconscious that I didn’t know the way out. But he had put an impenetrable barrie
ADAIRA ~ Gavrael is gone and there is no way for me to get to him. I wanted to use my powers to get across to the nether realm but Theia warned me not to do so because I would never be able to defeat him in his realm, he was stronger there. Our best chance of winning this battle is here in this realm, which means we have to wait for Gavrael’s return. By the looks of things, he would not be returning as my mate but as the demon king, with an army meant to obliterate us all. “There has to be something else we can do.” I said to Theia after waiting for an hour with no sign of Gavrael or any danger. My wolf was restless because my bond to Gavrael was so faint now that I had to search deep before I could feel it. I was terrified. What if the demon king somehow finds a way to sever our bond, how would I be able to reach my mate and bring him back? “You need to calm down. Your restlessness is affecting your pack. They’re already dreading the fight we all have coming, and they only stayed
GAVRAEL ~Heat, rage and pain. Those were the only emotions flowing through me at this moment. It was like my blood had been exchanged with lava and my head was being drilled open by a thousand nails. I felt the power of the full blood moon before it even rose and cast its reddish hue over the earth. This past week, I had to stay away from everyone except Adaira because I was losing my temper at the slightest provocation. I knew it was just because of what was coming that my restraint was shitty but at the same time, I couldn’t control myself which led to my isolation in order to protect everyone from me. Adaira was the only one whose presence I could tolerate even in those moments. And the second those rays of light from the full blood moon touched the earth, everything became worse.Heat, rage, pain. Nothing else mattered but these, and the demon whose soul was bound to me feasted on them delightfully. He was much stronger now and he was actively fighting me for control of my body.
ADAIRA~I was eating more than normal out of anxiety. It was still better than worrying myself to death and overthinking everything though. My sleeping schedule was also wack but that was understandable. The full blood moon would rise tomorrow night and I just couldn’t bring myself to sleep even if it still was hours away. My wolf on the other hand was calm and mostly silent. After the night of the pack bonding ceremony where we all shifted to wolf form and ran as one pack to strengthen the pack bonds, she hadn’t made a push to be set free which was unusual. Usually, if I stayed for more than two days without shifting, she would be angsty and restless, whining to be set free, and I would have to shift and run even if for a few minutes. But it’s been days without shifting and she was still calm, I had no idea why and I was too preoccupied with everything else happening to try and figure it out. Maybe she understood the complexity of the situation we were in and was just trying to help
ADAIRA ~ It took two days of mating almost all round the clock for my heat to die down and for the both of us to regain our senses. And as this problem was solved, another problem presented itself, our lives were just a myriad of problems nowadays but who’s counting. When we returned to the pack after my heat passed, almost all the other packs had come to join us, just two were left and they were expected to arrive in a few hours. But as I passed through the crowd, all the males were still attuned to my scent even though I was no longer in heat. Females were also drawn to my scent but it didn’t make them lust after me like it was confusing the males. It was a big problem because it was causing chaos and it was making everyone restless, and I had no idea why it was happening. In fact, it seemed to be even worse now than when I was actually in heat. Sage wolves had also been arriving from the human towns close by. They were wary but they were all put together in one house to await my
ADAIRA ~ Just as expected, the rest of the pack took the news of Sage wolves with varying degrees of disgust, shock and wariness. When we announced the merger into one mega pack, they were even more shocked and awed. There were obviously protests especially when we let them know that we planned to get messages across to Sage wolves in hiding and have them come here to join the pack. But we also explained the great danger that would be coming against us and that we would only be able to defeat them if we work together. Next we let anyone with ideas step forward and speak. There was so much to be done; clearing the surrounding forest for instance, so those that would come to join us would have room to build their own houses, plans to build another general pack house where meals can be taken by a larger group because eating together was a shifter custom meant to ensure the pack bonds remain strong, same as hunting in a group and running as a pack on some full moons. There would also be
ADAIRA~I moved closer and held Theia’s mother by the hand. I forced myself to relax and put every doubt out of my mind. If I could protect the whole pack with the barrier, this was nothing compared to that. I didn’t really know what to envision, last night, it had been easier to see a barrier forming in my mind just like Gavrael directed. But now, do I imagine her using powers? Or imagine me giving her powers?It turned out that I didn’t need to do all that. While holding her hands, I felt some sort of vacuum, a hole in her essence. A missing piece. I didn’t need anyone to tell me that that must be the part of her where her powers used to reside, all I needed to do was to fill it up. I reached out to her with my own essence and I vaguely heard her gasp as she was zapped with it. Her hands were released from mine as she crumpled to the floor and her husband rushed to make sure she was okay.I opened my eyes to see that she was faintly glowing for a few seconds before the glow died do
ADAIRA~I was getting weird looks from everyone that saw me today. After eating by midnight and talking for a while, Gavrael and I had gone back to bed to sleep and woke up after dawn but later than usual, we were entitled to sleeping in after everything that happened after all. But as we left the room to join the others for breakfast, everyone was either looking at me with awe or fear or both. I figured out why when Gaby walked closer to us to speak to me.”Ady, did you really… you know, do that stuff?” She asked.She seemed unsure of how to ask her question and if she should even ask it. I also didn’t understand what exactly she was talking about, so I asked.“What stuff?”“The warriors that fought with you, they showed all of us what you did. We weren’t there but we could see it from their minds. It still seems a bit hard to believe. You were flying or floating, I don’t know, and you were glowing, and there was so much light. And you burned the dead ones, none of the creatures cou