I just knew that Simon felt awkward because of the way he stiffened when I hugged him and how long it took him to start patting my back and telling me that it was alright even if he did not what was making me weep.I cried for a long time until the stone in my chest melted away and I could breathe freely. I eased away from Simon and he let me go. Embarrassment flooded me when I sat back against the headboard and concentrated on his face.“I’m sorry about that,” I sniffed.“Oh, it is no trouble. It was just a little strange,”He looked like he was not going to ask why I suddenly began to cry while he was telling me our family history but I felt like telling him.“You know,” I started, “Like every other werewolf I was super excited and looking forward to my eighteenth birthday. My eighteenth birthday was last year, my wolf awakened but I could never transform. I was scared that I would be wolfless forever and it was something I wanted to tell father and mother but I was scared about how
“I would really love to get to know the people that took care of my daughter all the years that I couldn’t.” My heart dropped to my stomach. My mother could not be introduced to my pack because I’ve been banished. I was nothing but a traitor to them. Though I wanted her to meet Joel who was one of the reasons I survived but that too was impossible. I wanted her to meet our old alpha, Levi’s father who found me at the pack’s border but he was dead. Something just have shown on my face because my mother said, “Ahh, Sophia, it is okay if you don’t want us to meet them. I understand that they see you as their child and you would not want them to feel anxious or anything. We won’t force you to do anything you don’t want to.”I shook my head to stop her, “It is not like I do not want type to meet them,” hell I don’t, “It is just that you cannot meet them,”“What do you mean?” My father asked.“What I mean is even if I want to introduce you to the one who found me, I cannot do that because
SAMANTHA For a moment, my world seemed to turn upside down. My calm demeanor and composed nature was shattered into a thousand agonizing pieces. My breath hitched in my throat, a strangled sob trying hard to escape. I couldn't believe my eyes. My fiance, the man I had come to love even though it started off as an arranged marriage, was in bed with my best friend. Zach had Clarence bent on all fours as he thrust hard into him and Clarence begged him to go harder. What was I witnessing? My legs went weak as tears streamed down my cheeks. How long have they been cheating behind my back? Their betrayal seared through me like a wildfire. “Zach…” I called out, my voice barely audible. My heart beat came faster and in pants and I could barely breathe but I couldn't break down completely in front of them. I won’t do it. Zachariah’s eyes, usually a warm shade of amber, were wide with shock as his face gradually turned pale. My teary eyes and his guilt-ridden eyes met.
QuinnThere was only one chair in my garden. One I use to sit when I needed to rest. I asked Madonna to sit in it but she refused and said if there was anyone who needed to bed seated, it was me. It made me suspect that whatever made her come to me after all these years apart, my mind would be blown.“I don’t know if you’ve heard anything. I cannot be too sure but BlackClaw pack has been taken under control by a vengeful witch,”“I’ve heard about it,” I released a deep sigh, “I was planning on contacting you because of it,”“You were?” She asked.“Yeah, I was going to do it yesterday but something came up. I was just thinking about it again when you appeared. It was almost as if thinking too much about you summoned you,”Madonna nodded as she began to pace in front of me. My sister was deeply troubled. Seems like what was going on in Ezra’s pack is more than what we’ve heard. My heart began to thud hard and fast against my rib cage as fear threatened to overwhelm me at the thought of
/-Melucia-/Blood, fire, Iron. Arrows.Screams disturbed the silent night as people ran helter-skelter, throwing balls of magic, in hopes of buying time. I saw wolves rip my people apart with their canines and tear open their stomachs with their claws. What would have been a peaceful night was adulterated with chaos. I didn't even have the time to reason how the wolves had been able to find our coven. All I knew was the air was polluted with poison and we needed to get out as soon as possible.“Enough!” I screamed, triggering a dune. The violent wave swept everyone within a ten-mile radius, and my body weakened momentarily. I took a look around. There was no attacker or victim. Everyone was on the floor now, some wounded and a few dead. I created a portal and hurried over to help a few of our people. I was hoping to buy us enough time for the remaining living witches to get out of there but then something struck me in the shoulder.It was an arrow, made of pure iron and it sent c
/-Melucia-/After accepting to his terms, he gave me a room in his wing. I was not to leave the room for any reason and I was appointed a personal maid to take care of me. Later that night, a maid came in to prepare for him. I didn't utter a word as she undressed me and prepared a jasmine bath. As I soaked in the water, I thought about the things that would happen tonight. As a priestess, I had never known any man, but today, I was going to lose my virginity to save my people. It made me anxious.Ezra was a very frightening man and I didn't know how he would react if I failed to please him.“Your shoulders are too tensed, my lady; you should relax,” the maid told me. It was shocking to hear a wolf speak so nicely to a witch. “I'm trying…” I told her, giving an awkward smile. After a few minutes, I decided to ask her. “Your Alpha… what kind of person is he?” “You mean Alpha Ezra?” She asked. “I can't really say. He has more of a mysterious personality. He can be extremely nice when
/-Melucia-/At the end of the fourth month, I had utterly resigned to my fate. Nine heads were already enough to crush whatever flicker of hope I had. However, the gods seemed to have seen my plight.My eyes watered as I stared at the doctor’s smiling face. “Congratulations, miss. You're one week pregnant!” He announced and I literally jumped off the bed in excitement.I was pregnant! Finally!After three months of unending violation and annihilation, I was going to give the cruel man a son. After being locked up in a room surrounded by iron bars with my only connection to the outside world as the windows, I was finally going to be free.My people were turned into slaves and although it was good to see them alive, the nine heads I have been forced to see haunted my dreams.It was a relief to see that all that was about to end. “Are you certain?” Ezra walked into the room. I shot him a glare. She was a doctor, why on earth wouldn't she be certain? He was just looking for a reason t
/-Ezra-/I sat at my desk, going over the reports for the day, but my mind kept drifting back to her. The witch. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get her out of my head. Melucia. Yes, our deal was done. I didn’t just have a son—I had two. That was all that mattered now. She was gone, and so were her people. She had been a breeder, nothing more. I couldn’t afford to think otherwise. I just hoped she wouldn’t cause any trouble for me. I pushed the reports aside with an exhausted sigh. Why couldn’t I stop this troubling feeling gnawing at me? Is it that I’ve made a mistake? Should I have kept her with me? I shook my head, reminding myself that I had made a deal to let her go. She had given me two sons—Axel and Dani. Now my focus needed to stay on them. Just then, a knock at the door pulled me out of my thoughts and I looked up. “Alpha,” the guard's voice came through. “You need to come outside. The sky... it’s bad.” “Bad?” I grunted before pushing the chair back, rising t
QuinnThere was only one chair in my garden. One I use to sit when I needed to rest. I asked Madonna to sit in it but she refused and said if there was anyone who needed to bed seated, it was me. It made me suspect that whatever made her come to me after all these years apart, my mind would be blown.“I don’t know if you’ve heard anything. I cannot be too sure but BlackClaw pack has been taken under control by a vengeful witch,”“I’ve heard about it,” I released a deep sigh, “I was planning on contacting you because of it,”“You were?” She asked.“Yeah, I was going to do it yesterday but something came up. I was just thinking about it again when you appeared. It was almost as if thinking too much about you summoned you,”Madonna nodded as she began to pace in front of me. My sister was deeply troubled. Seems like what was going on in Ezra’s pack is more than what we’ve heard. My heart began to thud hard and fast against my rib cage as fear threatened to overwhelm me at the thought of
SAMANTHA For a moment, my world seemed to turn upside down. My calm demeanor and composed nature was shattered into a thousand agonizing pieces. My breath hitched in my throat, a strangled sob trying hard to escape. I couldn't believe my eyes. My fiance, the man I had come to love even though it started off as an arranged marriage, was in bed with my best friend. Zach had Clarence bent on all fours as he thrust hard into him and Clarence begged him to go harder. What was I witnessing? My legs went weak as tears streamed down my cheeks. How long have they been cheating behind my back? Their betrayal seared through me like a wildfire. “Zach…” I called out, my voice barely audible. My heart beat came faster and in pants and I could barely breathe but I couldn't break down completely in front of them. I won’t do it. Zachariah’s eyes, usually a warm shade of amber, were wide with shock as his face gradually turned pale. My teary eyes and his guilt-ridden eyes met.
“I would really love to get to know the people that took care of my daughter all the years that I couldn’t.” My heart dropped to my stomach. My mother could not be introduced to my pack because I’ve been banished. I was nothing but a traitor to them. Though I wanted her to meet Joel who was one of the reasons I survived but that too was impossible. I wanted her to meet our old alpha, Levi’s father who found me at the pack’s border but he was dead. Something just have shown on my face because my mother said, “Ahh, Sophia, it is okay if you don’t want us to meet them. I understand that they see you as their child and you would not want them to feel anxious or anything. We won’t force you to do anything you don’t want to.”I shook my head to stop her, “It is not like I do not want type to meet them,” hell I don’t, “It is just that you cannot meet them,”“What do you mean?” My father asked.“What I mean is even if I want to introduce you to the one who found me, I cannot do that because
I just knew that Simon felt awkward because of the way he stiffened when I hugged him and how long it took him to start patting my back and telling me that it was alright even if he did not what was making me weep.I cried for a long time until the stone in my chest melted away and I could breathe freely. I eased away from Simon and he let me go. Embarrassment flooded me when I sat back against the headboard and concentrated on his face.“I’m sorry about that,” I sniffed.“Oh, it is no trouble. It was just a little strange,”He looked like he was not going to ask why I suddenly began to cry while he was telling me our family history but I felt like telling him.“You know,” I started, “Like every other werewolf I was super excited and looking forward to my eighteenth birthday. My eighteenth birthday was last year, my wolf awakened but I could never transform. I was scared that I would be wolfless forever and it was something I wanted to tell father and mother but I was scared about how
I don’t know when I slept off but I woke up to the feeling of someone caressing my cheek and pushing my hair out of my face. The first person that came to mind was my mother but then my mother’s palms were softer while this one was tougher and this person did not in any way smell like my mother. I wanted to jump into a sitting position but my body felt too heavy. I could only open my eyes, blinking gently to adjust to the darkness as I slowly pushed myself into a sitting position.The stranger must have noticed that I was awake with all my movement because they took their hand back.“Hey, you are awake?” It was a deep voice and it belonged to a man. “You were having a nightmare when I came in, I was just trying to soothe you back to sleep. I didn't mean to wake you up.”I blinked as I tried to focus on him to see who he was. He did not sound scared that he had been caught. I wondered who he was that he could walk into my bedroom in the middle of the night without fear.“Who are you?”
ANNABELLE It took a whole lot of time but in the end, I was able to locate a hospital and get a doctor who was down with a powerful migraine. The hospital was crowded with people who had rushed there to seek medical attention but since everyone was inflicted with one disease or the other, there was no doctor to help. I casted a spell the doctor and the migraine left him but only long enough for him to treat Dani. When the doctor recognized the kids and me, he tried to reach for his phone, to call who, I was unsure but I stopped him and threatened to kill him off if he tried any more stupid tricks. He finally settled down and treated Dani’s broken hand and wrapped it in a sling. I sat on a chair in the hospital room and tried my best to ignore the twins who were giving me death stares. I don’t know if we would ever be able to go back to how things used to be before I got my memories back but I’ll try my best. Even with the pain of his twisted hand, Dani refused to let me help him. A
ANNABELLEThe anger that’s gone down immediately sprang back up and I was tempted to lash out at them for picking their father over me once again but this time, I was levelheaded and was able to control myself better. I shut my eyes tight, willing myself to calm down so I don’t do anything I’d regret. I’ve done things I’m regretting already, it would be foolish to add more.“Your father is not coming to save you,”“Liar!” The both of them screamed at the same time.I inhaled a deep breath and released it after some time.“Okay, let me rephrase that. Your father don’t know where you are so he cannot save you,”“And how did that happen? Is it not because of you he does not know where we are?”“Yes and now, he’s preoccupied with other things, he does not have free time to look for the both of you so you have to let me take care of you,” Shit, that was a bad way to put it. Talking about their father like that won’t earn me any points. In fact, it would make me lose points if I still had
ANNABELLEThe realization that I was hurting my kids because of my anger and hatred hit me hard, cutting deeper than any physical wound ever could. His words, laced with a heartbreaking mix of accusation and despair, stirred a remorse so intense that it left me momentarily breathless. I was consumed by regret for allowing my anger and hate to blind and cause me to put a spell on the woman I left them with so that she would treat them like her slaves.“Dad was right not to forgive you the first time. He should’ve listened to his heart when you abandoned us in the middle of that highway like we meant nothing to you. But he did forgive you, because we wanted him to. We liked you. We hoped, even then, that maybe you’d come back and actually stay. We wanted you to be a part of our lives… we wanted you to become our mother.”His voice cracked under the weight of the storm of emotions building up inside him.“But instead, you betrayed us again. You kidnapped us. You handed us over to that ev
ANNABELLEI released Dani’s collar at the same time I backhanded him causing him to cry out. The slap sent him flying to the door of the woman’s house at the same time that Axel was coming out. Dani’s body hit Axel with full force and they both tumbled to the floor in a heap of messy limbs. The scene was not enough to satisfy the anger brewing just underneath my skin but it would do for now. I might be blinded by hate and anger but I was still his mother. I could not kill my spawn, now, could I?”I turned to the woman’s whose cries I’ve been ignoring since. She was sitting on the floor now, the hand that she’d raised to hit Dani was still hanging in the air but it was not looking normal anymore. The hand was slowly withering and now, it looked like that of an old woman. I cracked a smile, the anger in my chest reducing just a tiny bit at her suffering.“Release me at once!” She napped through tears and snot. Looks like someone who was a slow learner. She needed more lessons to know th