“Why are you here?” She spoke after a miserable few minutes of silence, she had found a band to tie her hair into a loose bun. She remained by the counter while he modeled, sexily, behind the couch, his hands on its headrest. “I need to talk to you.” He spoke smoothly, no trace of what had occurred almost twenty minutes ago in his voice. He was almost too calm for the fury he drove in her.“Talk? You needed to talk?” She threw her hands up then down, “oh yeah you need to talk, so why not barge into my home and be a dick. It’s almost like every time I’m around you I end up with one problem or the other.” Her voice was borderline cynical, “is there a reason you could not call? Or just find a way to let me know you were coming to ruin my peaceful fucking life again!”He shoved his weight from the couch, in the quickest strides, he crossed to stand in front of her, a short, habitual distance between them. She could smell the temper that sparked from his eyes, she’d never seen green on fi
What happened to him? “Oh, I didn’t know you had a brother.” It reminded her of so many things she didn’t know about him but she was determined to learn. Even though it had taken a soul harvesting woman to bring him back and her into his world, she was not going to be a burden, she would learn all she had to and be able to protect herself and her family. “Where you two close?”“Once.”“Do you have any other siblings?”“No.”She frowned at his one worded response, his brother felt like a trigger that returned him to cold and distant, “so I did something that may sound stupid.”That got his attention, “what?”She used her face to unlock a note on her phone, “I wrote a list of question I’d like to ask you about, you know, you and everything you are.”He drove with one hand, the other pinched his bottom lip, “that’s not stupid, weird maybe but not stupid.”He felt his wolf skip when she smiled at him, then groaned. “I know, I know. It’s very weird but I just didn’t want to forget as I was
War changes people, it was a known verity. Regardless of descent, it was a constant ill which consumed the zeal of the mind and ability to hope. But if there was life, they say, then well... And there was definitely life, Everest observed the weak and broken that strolled into the hold. Each with a small heap of belonging clutch to their sides, they came in packs, some alone and injured. There kids who strolled in with no parents and parents who crawled in, grieving lost children. It was a rueful sight. Everest knew a few of the people that stalked in, or he had known them. From the balcony where he watched, they resembled shells of former selves. Living only because death hadn’t come for them. The survivors would have been a good thing for the fight but they knew nothing. None of them knew why they had survived an attack that left no survivors. They remembered no detail of the attacks, not of who was responsible or what was causing werewolves to die in the ugliest way.The hold was
She shoved the book she held back to its line. His words weren’t the only thing that steered up the annoyance she felt in her throat, it was the way he had used something he knew she would love to get his way with whatever decision about her life that he didn’t think she had a say in. She felt manipulated even though it might be an exaggerated emotion. She snapped. “So you bring me here to make me feel comfortable and more Inclined to accept whatever it is you think I need.”“Yes.” He deadpanned without batting an eye. He rolled his arms into each other and shrugged, “and it’s what I know you need. You will be safer here.”Her anger clashed with his arrogance, “you’ve got to be kidding me with this bullshit.”“Does it look like I am?” She glared at him, no he didn’t look like he was kidding, in fact he had the guts to look irritated. “There is a war killing my kind and I have to protect and offer hope when I have no idea what the fuck is going on. I can’t do it right knowing you are b
The trees swept her cries through the silent woods and scattered birds that nested. It echoed through the walls of the mansion and into the field. Zipporah was caught in the middle of a darkness she couldn’t comprehend once again. Her fingers bled when she tugged with death’s hand on her throat. She felt hot tears pool through her cheeks, her voice was numb but her suffering continued. Her legs flapped and struggled to stop the pull, it did nothing for her but deepened the thorns of the hand made of wild roots into her skin. She gave up on trying to rip the hand away and dug her fingers on *ground that betrayed her.When a heavy clash resounded through the room, she thought the surface under her was about to cave into a quake. Gritting growls attacked the walls of the room again. The ceiling was made of glass and it showed her what it saw. Her eyes, shaded with tears, caught a flash of knives in the air. Her ears heightened to the sound of shattering wood and deafening growls. The mu
His first instinct was to haul her from whatever was causing so much agony. He got close to her and noticed her pull was towards a strange music object he didn’t recognize. But he could sense its vileness. His second instinct was the one he followed. He knifed his claws through wood and metal till it was nothing but pieces of nothing. Then he hauled her out of a room he wanted to burn to the ground.He fisted and released his knuckles several time as he stared at it. The evidence of his rage showed, he knew it would heal soon enough, he wished it would remain. A scar to remind him of his mistakes, not that he needed it to remember.He spied on nature as he retrieved his phone to call home. It rang thrice before Everest picked.“I figured you’ll be here by now.”“It happened again.” His voice held both anger and frustration. “They came for her right under my nose.”“Fuck. How is she?”“Weak. Confused.” He spoke quietly, afraid he would wake her. “She’s asleep now.”“What exactly happen
Zipporah could barely flex her fingers from how weak she felt, so her anger came unwanted as she could do nothing but jab an unbelievable look at the man spread seductively before her. The urge to climb him and slip her legs around his gripping thighs was at war with her brain which wanted to slap him silly till he understood that her say matters especially in decisions that affected her life.She shifted her behind away from his middle, setting a quick distance between them which Adam didn’t seem unpleased about. In fact he proceeded to rake his long legs off the bed and stretch them towards the door. She couldn’t believe him, he was about to walk out without a word. She tried to stand but her knees bucked her back to the bed. He stood at the door for a few seconds before a knock was heard and he opened to his butler. She rolled her eyes at herself, of course his magnificent hearing had heard whoever was coming before she did. She couldn’t hear what they were saying and Adam’s unres
She studied him, imagining him as a protector of thousands, she couldn’t stop herself from being impressed. “That sounds great.”“Yes but over the years we have had to protect ours first. We became easy access for rivals who were in disguise as settlers.”“The war made you become open again?” She muttered.“Yes it did.” He took a turn into a rough path which would lead him to a thinner highway. “But there, I’m sure you’d be safe. There are witches that. . .”If she had a drink in her mouth she would have spat it at him. “Witches? You mean like spells and magic?” Her shock was plastered golden on her face.“Yes, they have been our guide for ages. Every pack has a mage or a seer that stands as a healer, advisor or protector. It depends on the balance of the pack’s spirit.”Still not over another revelation, she managed to ask. “Can a pack have both?”“Yes but it’s rare as they serve different elements and spirits which can cause a rift in the pack. My pack have always used a seer but re