“Griffin! Where are you going?” Jett asked as I grabbed my weapons and pushed him out of my way and walked to the clearing.“Didn’t you just see what I saw?” I asked him as I turned around and glared at him.“Take a breath, brother, I know we saw someone that looks like her,” he said.“No, that was her! I don’t know how but that’s what I’m going to find out,” I said to him as I started walking again.“It’s not possible, we all saw her die Griffin, I was there with you, remember!” he said loudly.“I know what we saw, I’ve seen it every night for the past eight years!” I yelled at him.“And what about Sierra?” he asked me.“What about Sierra?” I yelled, “I don’t know what to think or feel but I have to find Samantha!”“Fine, but I’m coming with you,” he said.“Potestatiu solis et luna. Tellus, venti, aque, ignis,” I said as nature’s elements combined in my mind’s eye.“Aperta portal,” I said and the portal opened in front of us.We walked through the portal and stood outside the buildin
My sleep was restless and I struggled to stay asleep. Both of their scents haunted me and in the end it was Samantha’s scent that won. My door creaked open and I was awake instantly as her scent reached out to me in my room.“Griffin,” she whispered from the doorway and I sat up in my bed.“What’s wrong?” I asked her.She walked towards the bed and sat down in front of me. She looked wide awake as she tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear. I could smell the shampoo from her hair, she was so close to me as she leaned forward and kissed me.It was all too familiar, the way she grabbed my shirt in her hand and pulled me closer, her other hand around my neck and before I knew it she was straddling me. I opened my eyes and broke the kiss off and pushed her off me.“We can’t,” I said as she sat on the bed and looked at me.“Because you have her now?” she asked me bitterly.“Sam, it’s complicated,” I sighed.“Not really, Griff. I’ve waited eight years for you, praying you’d come to find
I regained consciousness and felt the searing pain in my back as someone cut me open and pressed down on my shoulder blades as I tried to move. I could feel the bullet being taken out and I had no idea where I was.“Stop moving you idiot, I’m trying to help you,” Octavia said.“Octavia?” I questioned.“Who else would be out here trying to save your sorry ass?” she asked me.I gritted my teeth as she dug the other two bullets out and I had clenched my jaw as she made the cuts where my body had healed over the bullets. I felt the relief as the bullets were taken out and my healing kicked in once again.“How did you find me?” I asked her.“Kane somehow spoke to me,” she said.She helped me into a sitting position as Kane licked over my wounds, helping to seal them. I’d been closer to death tonight than I had ever been before. She’d shot me in the back, Samantha had shot me. It was as if my mind couldn’t grasp that reality.“What happened?” Octavia asked me.“I was betrayed, just like you
“All rise,” the court officer called out and the door at the back opened and Judge William Harding stepped through and towards his bench.“You may all be seated now,” the same officer called out after the judge had taken his seat.He opened the file and read through it for a few minutes before looking up and closing it. He poured himself a glass of water and drank slowly from it, irritating me because I was ready to get this under way.“Let’s get this show on the road,” Judge Harding said and looked at Nathaniel. “The prosecution may start.”“Your Honour we’ve spoken at length to Darius White over the weekend and I believe that we have a plea deal on the table,” Nathaniel said and my head snapped up. I was sitting in the back row of the court room.“We have Your Honour,” Darius said.“Your Honour, may I approach?” I asked as I stood up and every head turned to look at me.“Mr. Woods, you may,” Judge Harding said.I picked up my brief case and walked towards the judge’s bench, followed
“Come on let’s go,” I said to Sierra as I picked my briefcase up and put the copies of the prosecution’s witness statements away.“Where are we going? I thought court’s finished for the day,” she said.“We’re going home,” I said to her.“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” she said.“We need to talk about everything at some point,” I said to her.“Can you please just give me time until after the trial?” she asked me.“If that’s what you want,” I said and walked away from her.I looked at the strange car parked in front of my garage and my heart hammered in my chest as I caught his scent. Fucking Jett and his big mouth. The door opened as I stepped onto the porch and he engulfed me in a hug, wrapping his arms around me tightly.“I had to come,” he said as he let go of me.“You shouldn’t have,” I said to him as I pushed past him and walked into my house.“Griff, don’t shut me out,” he said.“Why don’t you hate me?” I asked him.“I could never hate you,” he said.“You should, I do,” I sai
“All rise,” the court officer said loudly as Judge Harding took his seat and we all sat down again.“Mr. Bridges, I’ve reviewed all your evidence last night and I’ve decided that it’s not necessary to call those witnesses,” Judge Harding said, “does the prosecution have any more witnesses to call?”“No Your Honour, the evidence speaks for itself,” Nathaniel said.“Noted,” he said and looked at me, “the defense may start their case.”“Thank you Your Honour,” I said as I stood up, “the defense calls Dr. Gold for cross-examination.”Dr. Gold was led back into the courtroom and placed under oath again as she sat down in the witness box looking pristine and calm.“Dr. Gold, you see a lot of injuries don’t you?”“Yes, I do.”“How long have you been the Hastings pack doctor?” I asked her.“Eighteen years,” she said.“Did you do an autopsy on Jonas Lasing?” I asked.“No.”“Why not?”“The Alpha didn’t deem an autopsy necessary since we knew that he had been poisoned by wolfsbane,” she said.“B
“That was amazing!” Damon said as he followed me out of the court room and we headed to a restaurant down the street from the Council building.“Just doing my job,” I said.Sierra followed us into the restaurant and we got a table and sat down. The waitress handed us menus and I ordered coffee and waited for Damon and Sierra to also order their drinks.“This is Sierra by the way, and this is Damon, my father,” I said.“It’s very nice to meet you, Sierra,” Damon said as he shook her hand.“It’s nice to meet you too,” she said and smiled at him.“What other tricks do you have up your sleeve?” Damon asked me.“You’ll have to wait and see,” I said and smiled.“I guess I’ll have to attend court every day,” he said.“At least they know he was lying about me stealing information,” she said.“It’s not over yet Sierra, this just establishes distrust towards him, the jury will now think twice about everything he’s testified to,” I said to her.“I know but there’s still the wolfsbane and Jonas d
I had taken Sierra back to New York, she needed time and I gave it to her. She was young and she had her whole life ahead of her. She hadn’t outright rejected me again but neither did she accept the bond. Kane was restless and he told me I was an idiot for letting her go.I felt the bond, completely. I missed everything about her and I’d sit in front of my computer screens and search for images of her instead of searching for the hunters. She had stayed at the Council office for two more days before leaving.She had booked into a cheap motel and she was currently sitting in an interview where she had applied for the position as a receptionist for some architecture firm. She had no friends, no family, and she kept looking over her shoulder all the time.The other computer screen pinged and I focused my attention on it as another box popped open and Samantha’s image appeared on the screen. I could taste the bile in my mouth as I looked at her. This was the woman that I’d loved since I w