Damion leaves Emily’s place after clearly discussing that their hookups would not lead to anything more. He wanted to be absolutely clear from the get-go so that it doesn’t get to the point where he has to compel her to forget.He walks through the town and his thoughts stray back to Lilia. He could have driven to Emily’s place, but he had chosen to come on foot because it was relaxing and he would have more time to reflect on things without other people interfering. Lilia had said nothing about their little encounter yesterday, so far. Either she has been trying to ignore it or she hasn’t had the chance to address it with so many people in the house.Damion enters a park, walks over to a swing, and sits down. He had not said anything to Lilia either. He didn’t know what to say or how to start. He had been purposely ignoring looking at her, lest his glances betray something he doesn’t want to come out. Maybe I should tell her that it was a moment of weakness and it meant nothing, he t
At about eight o’clock, Lilia sits in the car with Damion kissing Brent goodbye and waving to the rest of the people. Then, they start driving. Five minutes into the drive, Lilia says, “Damion, I wanted to talk to you about something.”Initially, Lilia had thought that she would talk to him once they reached the University campus, but then she decided that maybe it would be less awkward and difficult if Damion is not looking at her directly. Lilia looks at him and his eyes are fixed on the road.“Go ahead,” he says.“Um- I just wanted to clarify something.”This is more difficult than she had thought.“The thing is that yesterday night, about the same time that it’s now, what happened between us. I just wanted to say that it was an in-the-moment thing. It meant nothing. I hope you don’t think badly of me because of it.”*Damion had braced himself for everything Lilia had just said, but it still hurt. It hurt knowing that it did not mean anything to her. Keeping his voice as casual as
At the same time that Damion and Lilia are driving to the University and Brent, Esther, Adeline, and Tyrus are talking about mobile phones, Carl is pacing around his room with a glass of whisky in his hand. He is waiting for someone. It has been days since he has ventured out into the open. He has been holed up here in his more secluded residence for days. The failed attempt at kidnapping the binder had been a blow. He has been coming up with ways to get to her. Luther had mentioned to him how it could be done and yesterday he had gathered some information. He is waiting to share it with him.“Carl,” a voice calls him from the door. He sees Luther standing there in his usual hunter-like outfit with his statement knee-high boots.“My friend,” says Carl.The men hug, and then Carl asks him, “Are you sure, very sure, that if the girl comes to us herself, she would be able to reach us, and it wouldn’t harm us in any way.”Luther pours himself a drink from the bottle on the table and says,
Damion and Lilia are sitting on the bed in Damion’s apartment. They have placed a box of pizza between themselves and are holding a glass of wine each. A movie is playing on the television. They had eaten about half of the pizza when Damion cracked a joke on Lilia. She laughed and playfully swung her arm at him. He leaned back to avoid it and spilled the wine all over his t-shirt in the process.“Oh, I’m sorry,” Lilia says, still half laughing.“It’s okay I’ll just change.”He walks over to the cupboard and opens it, rummaging inside for a new t-shirt. He takes off the one he is wearing. Lilia can’t see him from the bed because he is hidden behind the cupboard’s door but there is a mirror right in the front where she can see his reflection. She notices his abs as he stretches to put the new t-shirt on. He looks extremely hot and attractive and she has a sudden urge to touch him. Lilia shakes her head and quickly turns her eyes back to the television screen as Damion closes the cupboar
Esther walks downstairs from her room and into the hall. She notices Adeline and Tyrus sitting side-by-side on the couch. On the table in front of them, there is a game of monopoly, and Tyrus is teaching Adeline how to play.“I didn’t think you would be such a savage businesswoman,” Tyrus says to her.Adeline laughs, hits him lightly on his arm, and then casually keeps one of her hands on his shoulder as she bends forward, closer to the board.Esther smiles looking at them. Tyrus is such a sweetheart, she thinks. He and Adeline had gelled together pretty well. Then, she remembers her rapport with Tyrus for the first few weeks in this house. She wonders if something of a similar nature is going on between Adeline and him now. The thought amuses her. She didn’t mind. Tyrus was a nice guy, and after everything Adeline has gone through, she deserves to have some fun.“Hey,” she hears Brent from behind her.“Hi!.”She notices that he is dressed in a formal-looking blue shirt and black pant
Lilia’s head is buzzing. She is sitting in class, but she is not paying attention to anything that the professor is saying. Her head is too full of Brent and Damion and all her feelings. She has been dating Brent for a couple of months now, and she likes him very much. She likes being with him, and she is attracted to him. A lot. Then, is it just attraction? Hadn’t Brent once mentioned that humans often felt infatuated by vampires? Was she just infatuated with him and not in love? No, that can’t be. Otherwise, she would have felt it from the very first day. She had felt attracted to him the first time she had seen him, for sure, but it was because he is an exceptionally handsome man, and it is hard not to notice that. Not because he is a vampire. If she had been infatuated with him, it wouldn’t have taken them over two years to start dating. The night she had attended homecoming with him was the night she had realized that she liked him more than a friend. But now she wonders, if she
As soon as Lilia and Brent enter the washroom, Brent locks the door. He pulls Lilia closer to him breathing in the scent of her soft perfume and says, “What do you want Lilia?”“You,” she breathes.“What do you want me to do to you?”“I want you to... fuck me.”Brent smiles lightly and then they start kissing each other fiercely. Their hands explore the other’s body. Lilia unbuttons his pants and pulls them down along with his underwear. Meanwhile, Brent slides his hand under her dress and pulls down her panties. They don’t take them off completely and Brent turns Lilia around. She bends down holding the large and eloquent basin for support. Brent rubs her vagina with his thumb and then with his penis, tempting her by saying, “You want it, do you, Lilia?”“Yes. Yes, I do.”He enters her and starts moving, first slowly and then faster. Lilia covers her mouth with her hands to stop herself from moaning too loudly.*Brent is moving inside her and she feels a build-up with every move. He
The next morning, Brent had to leave early. He has gone to meet someone, alerting them to the cause they are fighting for. Lilia, on the other hand, lays on the bed till much later. She has nothing very urgent to attend to, and her head has been feeling too heavy with all the emotions she has been trying to process. Finally, she gets off the bed thinking that she couldn’t lay there all day and some action might make her feel better.After brushing her teeth and freshening up, she looks around her room. It had been some time since she had done a thorough cleaning. It might make her feel in control of stuff. She eats some breakfast and then comes back up to her room to get to the cleaning.She dusts off the windows, vacuums the floor, and rearranges her books on the table. Then, she gets to the big Almirah, rearranging her clothes, keeping them in neater piles, and putting them on hangers. She empties the drawers and arranges her jewelry, pens, papers, diaries, photos, and documents pro
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