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
Lilia is standing at the doorway to Esther’s room looking at her.“I -,” she starts to say, but then stops because she has no idea what she should say. What could she say anyway: That this was the first time or it won’t happen again or she didn’t mean it to happen? All these things sound so feeble because this did happen. This happened and it shouldn’t have happened because she knows that it is wrong. Esther is right, Brent doesn’t deserve this. He has been so nice to her. So loving, so caring.“You don’t have to keep it to yourself, Esther,” Lilia says, “and I will not ask you to lie. I will tell Brent myself.”Esther nods.Lilia walks out of Esther’s room and goes downstairs and out of the house. She doesn’t know where she is going, but she can’t bear to just sit in the house.*Damion is standing absolutely still in the middle of Lilia’s room. He is finding it difficult to wrap his head around what just happened. Lilia had left seconds after Esther without saying a word. He didn’t
Lilia enters the house. Brent walks over to her immediately and kisses her.“How’s your day been?” he asks her.“Fine. Yours?”“It was pretty great. I didn’t expect much from the meeting, but it went quite well.”“That’s great,” Lilia says, feeling miserable with every passing second. Brent is in such a good mood. She doesn’t want to ruin it. But she will have to. She has no choice. Even if Esther had not walked in on her and Damion, she would have told Brent. She would not have been able to live with the guilt.Brent takes her hand. He is still talking about his day. Telling her about the vampires he had met. They start walking toward the stairs, and Lilia notices Esther looking at them. Lilia looks at her for a brief moment and then walks upstairs with Brent.Brent turns towards his room, but Lilia pulls him towards hers, so they go there. As they enter the room and close the door behind them, Brent comes closer to Lilia. He places a strand of hair falling onto her face behind her e
Esther, Adeline, Tyrus, Lilia, and Damion are all sitting in the hall since Brent punched Damion and left. They had discussed the details of everything that had happened. Everyone had told Lilia and Damion that it was such a stupid and pointless mistake. They had not denied it. Then, all of them had had some dinner and now they were back to the topic of Brent, Damion, and Lilia because it had been six hours and Brent had not returned. Tyrus had called and so had Lilia and Damion but he hadn’t answered any of their calls.“Maybe,” says Adeline, “he is waiting for all of us to go to bed so that he doesn’t have to talk to anyone and that’s why he would probably come late in the night.”“Probably,” says Damion, “Brent often retreats into his cocoon when he is sad.”“Then, should we stop waiting and leave him be instead?” asks Adeline.“I don’t know,” says Lilia, “we should at least be sure that he is alright.”“He is over a hundred and eighty,” says Tyrus, “I’m sure he can handle heartbre
“I got you something,” says Esther and takes out a blood bag from a tiny bag she had put down beside her. “I figured you might enjoy some nourishment.”“I surely would, thanks,” says Brent, taking the blood bag from her and opening it to take a sip. “I am still amazed that you managed to find me.”Esther smiles at him and then looks up at the sky saying, “It really is a beautiful view.”“Yeah.”They sit there in silence for a few minutes and then Esther asks, “How are you feeling, Brent?”“I’m okay.”She looks at him but he doesn’t. He keeps looking straight ahead.“I don’t think so,” says Esther “but if you don’t want to tell me, I understand.”There is silence for a few seconds and then Brent says, “I can’t believe it, although to others it may seem an obvious thing to have happened. Two good-looking young people. Why not?”“No, it’s not obvious. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it either.”“You saw it?” Brent asks in a surprised tone.“I walked in on them.”“Do you think that’s why
When Damion wakes up the next morning, it takes him a few seconds to realize why he is feeling so tense. He presses the palm of his hands over his eyes and the images of Lilia and Brent flash through his mind. He did not know whether Brent had returned home last night. Even if he had, he did not know how to approach him, what to say, or how to start the conversation.Damion gets off the bed and walks into the washroom. He wants to think about Lilia and the kiss and feel her and her lips, but he knew that he would not be able to relish the memories until he cleared things up with Brent. After freshening up, he goes out into the kitchen for breakfast. He sees Esther, Tyrus, and Adeline sitting there.“Good morning,” says Damion, “Did Brent come home last night.”“He did,” replies Esther.There is a pause in which Damion walks to the fridge for some juice and all the others follow his movements with their eyes.“So,” Tyrus addresses Damion, “you gonna apologize to him?”“Of course, I am
Damion doesn’t say anything immediately. He is touched by the fact that Brent believes he would not have sabotaged his relationship with Lilia just for the sake of sexual drive. It is true, he wouldn’t have. But still, it felt good to see Brent acknowledging it even though he had hurt him.“That doesn’t make it right,” Damion says.“No, it doesn’t.”“I- I don’t know when or how it happened. I was there with her. We used to spend a lot of time together...”“I understand, it’s hard to get to know Lilia that well and not fall for her.”“I’m sorry.”“You cannot control your feelings. You can control your actions and you did, to a large extent.”Damion doesn’t say anything, he had controlled his actions for a long time, but he still wished he had not given in to his feelings yesterday. He wanted things to go forward with Lilia, but not like this.Brent gets up and walks over to Damion. He places his hand on Damion’s shoulder and says, “If Lilia has feelings for you too and you two decide t
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