“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
Tasha is absolutely stunned by this piece of information. She is stunned to know what all you can do just because you’ve been around for more than twenty times longer than the average person.“So,” she says slowly, “there’s no such thing?”“No such thing. They are all just helping me die,” Evarius says, still looking amused.“And what about the sacrifices?”“What about them?”“I don’t have to sacrifice any werewolves to kill you, do I?”“I don’t see why you’ll have to. There’s nothing of that sort in the book, is it?”“No, there isn’t.”“Then, you don’t have to.”Tasha looks Evarius in the eye and knows that the moment has finally come where she has to address what has been bothering her since last night. She needs to know what he knows about it.“But,” she says slowly and carefully, “there is something else that I’ll have to sacrifice, isn’t it?”Evarius doesn’t reply instantly, but his posture and expression change. It becomes more rigid and for Tasha, this is enough to confirm her
When Lilia and Damion come home, Tasha is with them. She is going to stay the night because she has things to share and her parents are out of town for the weekend. But before any of that, Damion wants to talk to Brent and so he takes him aside.“How have you been?” Damion asks him.“Good. You?”“Good. More than good actually. I want to tell you something.”“Go ahead.”“The thing is that... um... Lilia and I are going out. I mean we are dating now.”“Oh.”“Yeah, I just wanted to be the one to tell you first because of your... well you know.”“I appreciate that and am happy for you mate. She is an amazing girl and if you two are happy, then it’s fine with me.”Damion looks at Brent carefully to see if he is actually okay with it or just pretending to be, but his reaction seems genuine. It isn’t over the top or too salty. It’s quite normal. Damion is relieved by Brent’s reaction because if he hadn’t been okay with it, it would have complicated things.“Right then,” says Damion, “now we
Six years later.“Tasha! Where are you?”Lilia is standing at the bottom of the stairs in a sea-glass green colored off-shoulder gown and looking up. She sees Esther stepping down the stairs in a halter neck gown of the same shade as hers.“Have you seen Tasha?” Lilia asks her.“She was with me like five minutes ago, and then she went downstairs.”Lilia groans.“I can’t see her anywhere.”“She’ll turn up,” Esther says, now climbing downstairs, “she is very excited for the day after all.”Lilia smiles, “Yeah, she is. I’ll check with the men. Maybe she is there. Does Sabina need anything else?”“Not for now. I just gave her her perfume of demand. She wants everything to be perfect! Honestly, I don’t blame her.”“Mumma.”A voice comes from their right, and they see a small blonde-haired girl in a light green frilled frock running towards them from the hall.“There you are!” Lilia exclaims. “I was looking for you everywhere. Where did you go?”“I was with Uncle Ty. He said he wanted to se
He is hoping that she will feel him and realize what he is trying to say. Should he close his eyes? But he doesn’t want to. He wants to keep looking at Tasha if things go the way he thinks they will.Just as he is looking at Tash, he sees a trickle of blood flow out from her nose. She is having a nosebleed.“Tasha!” He says.Sabina hears his voice and looks up to see what the matter is.“Are they doing something to her?” She asks in a horrified voice.“I don’t know,” Evarius says, panicking. “Hey, Tasha!”He shakes her, but it’s no use. It looks like she and the eight Junta witches that are still standing are having a battle inside this trance that they are in and it’s hurting Tasha. Evarius has no idea what to do. He places his hand again on Tasha’s and closes his eyes this time.*Tasha feels rather than sees Evarius enter this realm. She uses her other hand to force him out. She can do this without him. She knows what he is trying to do. She won’t allow it.“No,” she says in her mi
Relief courses through Tasha as she sees Lilia standing near the fire looking absolutely fine. She rushes over to her followed by Evarius.“Let’s leave,” Tasha says to Lilia.“I have been trying, but I can’t,” Lilia says pointing to the Head’s grip on her wrist. “It’s like she has an iron grip.“It's magic,” Tasha says and places her hand over the Junta lady’s.At first, Tasha can’t feel anything, but then it’s like she is being sucked into a different world and now she knows why the Junta can’t hear anything from outside because she can’t hear anything anymore either. But now she can see. She can see hundreds and hundreds of people lying on the floor slowly turning gray and Tasha realizes with a jolt that these are all the vampires that are dying. The younger ones first.Tasha focuses harder and now it’s like she is flipping through a book and in the next few pages, she finds a lot of other people of different ages clutching their chests. Dying. Among those people, she also sees hers
Tasha and her group move forward. They do not find any more werewolves in their way. Maybe they are fighting on the other side. When the very edge and can clearly see the cloaked witches standing in a circle Tasha says, “Okay, I need to break into the innermost circle. That’s where the real stuff is happening. The rest of the circles are for elevating the effectiveness of the spell.”“I think we should spread out and take on as many witches as we can without causing too much chaos,” says Evarius. “Otherwise, they will try to push us back like last time and it will complicate things. Although this time we have witches which is much better.”“Okay then,” let’s spread out. “We won’t be able to see each other. So, once you and your neighbors are in position, wait for ten seconds and then attack. This will ensure that we do it at the same time.”Everyone agrees with this idea and spreads it out. Evarius stands right beside Tasha. They wait for ten seconds and then Tasha places her hand on
Evarius is clenching his chest and breathing heavily. It feels like someone is stabbing him in the heart continuously.“What is happening? I don’t understand,” he can hear Tasha say, as if from a long distanceHe cannot speak for the pain that he is feeling and just as he feels that he is going to pass out from the pain, it starts reducing in intensity, and soon it is gone. He massages his chest, but it feels absolutely normal now. What the fuck was that?“Evarius,” Tasha says, on the verge of tears.“I am fine Tasha.”“What? No -““Yes. The pain is gone.”“But why did it come in the first place, that’s the question,” says one of the witches.“Exactly. What did it feel like?”Evarius explains it to them. The more he talks the more confused Tasha looks.“Nothing like this happened the last time,” she says, “Did it?”“No.”“Then why now? They are targeting my bloodline, but I don’t feel anything. This is just weird.”“But the Serafina line is related to vampires,” a witch suggests.“Yea
The sun has gone down the horizon and because it's a new moon, the night is very dark. Lilia has been brought out of the house and she sees that it’s not a small house, it’s actually a huge mansion. The junta has cleared the space for the ritual and other than cloaked figures, Lilia can spot some other people. This makes her wonder. Who are these people? All the time she has been with the Junta, she has only seen them in cloaks.She walks to stand in front of the fire beside the Head who gives her a little smile. The smile makes her otherwise rigid face softer and calms Lilia’s nerves.“How long will it take?” Lilia asks.“A few hours. It’s a long process. We will be done before dawn, I hope you have rested during the day.”Lilia nods.“Then, you’ll be fine,” the Head says.Lilia glances around the scene. There are a lot of people here. Much more than there were before. There is a lot more commotion and people are talking continuously and moving in and out of the house. It almost seem
The junta is gathered on the first floor of the mansion. This entire floor Carl has given to them for the time being. It is in the backroom on this floor that they have kept the binder. They don’t want Carl to get close to her before they have no choice.“I have given her the food,” Chiara tells Amyra.“How is she?”“She is fine. I told her she will be going home today and she looked happy with the prospect.”“Good. Now, we just need to make sure to get her out of this place before Carl lays his hands on her. Make sure that no matter what happens he can’t get to her. Once she is back home, we will place the spell that keeps Carl and his people away from her back and she will be safe.”“I will make sure that everything goes as planned,” Chiara says.“It should because if it does we will be able to correct the grave historical blunder that our ancestors had committed. We will finally be able to wash our hands off it.”Amyra turns around to look out of the window thinking about all the g
Carl, Luther, and Garrit and sitting with the Junta head. Her name is Amyra. They are discussing the arrangements that Carl has provided the Junta with and something else that he has found out recently.“Are your plans for the new moon set then?” Carl asks her.“We are almost done. We’ll be ready by then, don’t worry. We’ll be off your hands after that. You’ll get what you want.”“Which is the binder?”“The binder, yes.”“Good. But there is something else that I think you should take notice of.”“And what is that?”“The binder’s friends are in town again. Does this mean that they know she and you are here?”“How can I tell you that? This type of thing should be your concern. Anyway, I have no idea how they can possibly know that we are associating with you. We never associate with werewolves and vampires, or at least that’s what everyone believes.”“Right,” says Luther, “but let’s say they do know and they try to sabotage our plans. Will you help us fight them?”“Of course, we will. H
Everyone looks from Evarius to Sabina to Tasha in shock, but Tasha smiles because she knows that Sabina’s fainting means that it has worked.“What happened to her?” Tyrus asks, kneeling down beside her, looking scared.“She’ll be okay Ty and so will Evarius,” says Tasha. “Can you guys please carry them inside? Their bodies are going through a change and they might be down for some time.”Tyrus carries Sabina in and Damion and Brent carry Evarius. They place them on the two sofas and Tasha asks, “Did you guys feel something when Evarius fainted.”“Yes,” five of them say.“No,” says Damion.“Of course, you didn’t feel anything, D. You are a werewolf. The rest of you, what was it?”“A swooping gust of wind inside,” Esther says.“Yeah, like a blood rush,” says Nadia.“Does that mean it worked?” Brent asks.“In my humble opinion. It does.”“Is there any way to check?” Tyrus asks“Not really,” says Tasha, “at least nothing that I know of. But I am sure we will find something out once Sabina