Damion, Tasha, and Evarius go back to the University while Tyrus takes his car that he had parked outside the city and leaves for Byfall County.Damion and Tasha go to her hostel to meet Lilia and Evarius goes back to wherever he lives. He had told Tasha to read through the book and see what she finds. As he had lived for two millennia, he knows Latin and is willing to help her whenever she needs it. Although, there are a lot of terms and the ways sentences have been written that he cannot decipher because it requires knowledge of magic which has somewhat different terminology. Tasha has been learning that through Anastasia’s books.They meet Lilia and tell her everything that had happened.“Oh my God!” Says Lilia “I am so glad none of you got fatally injured or worse...”“Looks like it was good that Evarius came with us after all,” says Damion.“Yes, it was. Have all your injuries healed?”“Yep. I am all fit now. I think a nice sleep would bring everything back to normal for me. I’ll
Tasha looks over at Lilia and sees that she is smiling.“What?” She asks her.“Nothing,” says Lilia, quickly composing her face into a more serious expression.Tasha narrows her eyes at her, and then Lilia says hastily, “Well, I was just wondering when are you going to ask Evarius about all this?”“When I see him next.”“On your next coffee date?” Lilia says, suppressing a smile.“They are not dates! I told you he just wants to keep an eye on me.”“Did he tell you that?”“No, but it’s obvious, isn’t it?”“Or maybe, he just likes you...”“Oh please,” Tasha says, rolling her eyes, but she can pretend in front of Lilia, not herself. She likes to hear that other people think he likes her. But she diverts attention from that and says, “Instead of cooking up stories for other people, why don’t you focus on your feelings for Damion.”This wipes the smile from Lilia’s face, and she says, “He won’t even talk to me properly. We haven’t had a one-on-one conversation since I asked Tyrus to the ba
“Why does it bother YOU, Damion?” Lilia continues, “What is it to you who I sleep with? We are friends, right? I am single and am allowed to fuck whoever I want!”“You are not my friend,” says Damion angrily, moving his hand through his hair, “and you never will be just my friend. Okay? I can’t do this best friend thing. I am sorry. I am sorry that- that I couldn’t help it and fucking fell in love with you!”They stare at each other with anger pulsating inside both of them, then Lilia says, “As if I fucking hate you,” and rushes in to kiss him. Damion moves his hands into Lilia’s hair as both of them kiss, pouring in the passion of all the angst and aggression. They kiss for a few minutes and then Lilia says, “If I had known that a conversation with you would lead to this, I would have done it a little sooner.”“Tell me about it,” says Damion, smiling.Damion lifts Lilia and she wraps her legs and arms around him. He navigates his way to the bedroom as they keep kissing. When they re
After being accosted by a vampire while trying to get the book, Carl had run off to the other side of the Island. He did not leave because he wanted to see what happened to Garrit and Luther. He waited for about half an hour, and when he thought that his son and the others might have now left, he went in search of his two accomplices. By that time, they had gained consciousness and control of themselves and were looking for him. When the three of them meet, they share the stories of what happened to each of them in detail. Luther had lain there on the ground after being hit by Damion, and when he gained consciousness he had found Garrit some distance away. Garrit told them how he freed himself from the hybrid and ran. Finally, Carl told them about his encounter, and his main point of discussion was the vampire who had saved Damion and then let Carl go. He could have easily killed him. Carl knows this. The vampire was too strong for him. But he didn’t, and he does not understand why. N
“I am staying over at Damion’s. Will tell you everything tomorrow!!!”When Tasha got this text from Lilia, she smiled and texted back, “Didn’t I say it won’t go downhill! Have fun!”After that, Tasha started reading the opus again. Over the last three days, she has been reading the book whenever she has time. It does not have too many pages, but the information on each page is extensive. It has taken Tasha time to get used to the writing style. But now, she can read it at a decent pace. She has already read through the details of the process that led to the formation of vampires. There are some details about werewolves too, but the book spells them differently. That’s why she had earlier thought that werewolves are not mentioned at all. However, even though werewolves are mentioned briefly, there is no mention of an incarnation ritual. No different spelling. Nothing about making a werewolf all-powerful, none at all. There are segments of some types of dark magic and sacrifices too, bu
Evarius is waiting just outside the university gate for Tasha. She had texted him in the morning saying she had completed the book and wanted to talk. Evarius is nervous about this meeting because if she has completed the book, he has no idea what she might or might not have understood. He feels that it would perhaps be easier if she grasps the gist herself rather than him having to explain it to her.After waiting for about five minutes, Evarius sees Tasha walking toward him wearing a light green full-sleeved deep square neck top and a high-waist slightly bell-bottomed dark blue jeans. She has tied her hair loosely, and a few strands are falling onto her face flowing in the light breeze. As she comes and stands in front of him saying hello, he has an urge to put the hair falling onto her face behind her ear. But he controls the urge to touch her and says, “Hi, how are you?”“Not very good. Let’s sit and talk, shall we?”Evarius notices that her voice is not as cheery as usual. It is
“We did volunteer in a way,” Evarius says, “because we didn’t understand what the hell was going on. I was eleven. My sister was nine. I was a witch myself, so I understood bits of it because I always observed whatever my mother did. But most of it, I did not understand. I think that the spell was so personal to her that she might have felt she needed someone she had a personal connection with. As for choosing herself, she would have never done that. What if something went wrong? I didn’t think of it that way at that time, obviously.”Tasha is disturbed by how a mother could put her own children at such risk and says, “What about your father? Didn’t he intervene or say something?”“Father had left because of mother’s erratic ways. He used to visit us now and then. But he wasn’t there at the time.”As Tasha listens to this she realizes something important and says, “You said you were eleven at the time, but you are surely not eleven now. Does that mean her first experiment didn’t work?
Evarius feels a wave of loathing every time he thinks about his mother now. It had been okay in the initial years, but now that he dislikes who he is so much, all he has for her is anger and hatred. He looks at Tasha and sees that she is looking at him rather cautiously. His anger might have shown on his face. He composes himself and gives her a little smile.“What happened after that? What did she do next?”“Nothing. My sister and I killed her.”“What!?”“We were driven mad with her experiments on us and the captivity, so when we got the chance, we killed her. To this day, I don’t know whether it was the right thing to do or not, and maybe I should, but I don’t regret it. She is the reason I am here at all and can’t even leave. She is the reason I am forced to be someone I don’t want to be...”*Tasha can see that he doesn’t like to talk about it, but she has to know. Unless she knows, she cannot make a decision. So, she says, “Tell me about the ritual in detail. What did she do exac