Natalia:I frowned in confusion at the heavy feeling that suddenly settled in my chest.My heart ached and for a second, it felt like it was being squeezed. My hands shook as I tried focusing on breathing calmly, my heart racing with each step I took to the meeting room to find my investors waiting for me.I had to fight back my shocked expression as I couldn’t find Blake anywhere, and seeming to understand my confusion, my secretary, Kylie, shook her head, letting me know that he wasn’t here yet. I sat on my chair, his chair left empty as I waited for the investors to start their representations. The door to the meeting opened, revealing Blake who smiled when he saw me. His eyes were cold and void of emotion, and I could swear that he let out a breath of relief upon seeing me “sorry for being late, I got caught in a little traffic” I could tell that he was lying, his eyes spoke what his mouth couldn’t, and seeing as he wasn’t looking at me; I knew that something was wrong. I stood
Blake:I ran my finger over my wife’s fingers as I waited for her response, and though I already knew my answers, I wanted her to voice them out. Her speaking would make this a lot easier on her, and judging by the fact that she knew that I was aware of things, it would just make it easier on her. But there was a weight that she was carrying that I no longer wanted her to hold on her own.“I want to hear you out, Nat. I know that I could easily hear your thoughts, but I want you to speak through this, I want you to let the pain out to me”She looked down at her lap as the two of us sat on our bed. Her hands shook as she debated on whether or not to speak, but I didn’t want her being afraid of me. I wanted her to be able to speak her mind up to me, not keep things inside her.“My grandfather is the grand element manipulator” she said avoiding my eyes “I need to go there to learn how to control my powers, learn how to use them, and he’s the one person who can help me. Otherwise…”“First
Natalia:I stared at the man who smiled at me, waiting for my reaction. His eyes were mischievous, devious, and if I wasn’t mistaken, even angry.The way he looked at Blake and I only made me regret coming here, mostly because I wasn’t even sure what to expect, but I surely didn’t expect this. The power that I felt radiating from this place made my heart race, and sensing my worry, Blake let out a low growl, growing protective over his mate.Knowing that we were just attacked by some fireball, I didn’t know what this man could be capable of. Hell, I didn’t trust what he would do, and I didn’t want to think of how he could harm both Blake and I. He looked around the place, waiting for me to acknowledge anything about it, but I couldn’t help but fear getting distracted.“You’re my grandfather?” I asked frowning at his behavior. The man opened his mouth to speak only for a voice to be cleared behind me, distracting us.“Now, now, Alcazar, I told you not to scare my granddaughter. You jus
Blake:I stared at my wife as she got ready. Her body was raging with fire as she stared at the clothes inside our closet.Her eyes avoided mine as she grew angrier with each passing second, and getting into her mind; I knew the reason behind both her anger and her confusion.“Nat, baby girl”“Don’t you, baby girl, me” Natalia said, stopping me. I laughed, shaking my head and wrapping my arms around her, stopping her from getting dressed. She wore black pants and her red lace bra as she searched for a loose top to wear, but I was more focused on the fact of wanting to hold her in my arms for a while, wanting her to calm down “you brought a bloody damn dragon to our bedroom, a man almost set the two of us on fire, claiming to be my grandfather only for another man to say that he was only ‘pretending’. What the bloody…?”“Okay…” I kissed her bare shoulder, stopping her from her wild rant, leaving wet kisses all the way up to her neck making her sigh as I reached her sweet spot. Slowly b
Natalia:Blake and I walked down the stairs, going back to see the family.My eyes widened in surprise when I saw that my grandfather was sitting in the living room. The man smiled, standing up and walking toward me. He extended his hand to me, shaking my hand. “I’m sorry, I thought you left”“I was going to, but judging by the fact that I saw Crystal being upset; I figured that staying a while longer would be a lot better than leaving. Plus, the two of us are going to need to talk”“We have nothing to talk about, at least, nothing that I want to know of” I said, glaring at the man. I knew that I needed to train with him, and I knew that building up as much as power would end up killing me. But the idea of training with a man who has been kept hidden from me throughout my whole life annoyed me, and the fact that he knew of my existence and never bothered trying to approach me was something that I couldn’t miss either. “You are angry with me”“I don’t know or care about you to be ang
Blake:My heart dropped to my stomach as I heard the man’s words leave his mouth.Natalia’s eyes dropped down to the dragon which was sitting in the middle of the room before she got up and extended a hand toward her. The dragon looked at Natalia for a second before Natalia nodded, allowing her to get on her hand. “Get out of our house and I never want to see you around our pack again” Natalia said coldly. Her grandfather’s eyes widened in surprise, and the fire inside the fireplace increased in size as he stood up, clearly annoyed by his granddaughter’s words.“I did not force him into doing what he wanted…”“Had it been for you, neither me nor my siblings would be alive right now. A cruel man who can kill his love for power…”“When power consumes you, and you know your responsibilities…”“Screw all the power in the world if it would kill me or my loved ones” she said, stopping him. The man’s eyes widened in surprise, his heart racing against his ribcage before he nodded, walking to
Natalia:I stared at my parents who sat in front of Blake and I. They forbade my siblings from approaching the living room, not wanting them to know that their older sister was there. It killed me to see that they didn’t want them around me, but I wasn’t going to complain about it now. I was going to be patient and I was going to wait for how things went before saying a word. My heart throbbed and despite having Blake by my side, I couldn’t help but feel weak as I felt my parents’ intense gaze on me.“What are you doing here, Natalia?” Mum finally asked, breaking the awkward silence “you threw your harsh words the last time we saw one another, and you made sure to insult us as your family, what else do you want to say?”“Why didn’t you tell me that you had to sacrifice yourself, a part of it at least, for my and mum’s sake?” I asked dad who kept his eyes on his lap. Blake wrapped his arm around me, pulling me to his chest to comfort me, assuring me that he was there for me. He moved
Blake:I stared at my wife who was laying on bed without saying a word. Her heart was racing despite her not moving, and seeing as the fireplace was lighting up and shutting off at a random pattern, I knew that it was due to her anger. I could tell that her mind was racing with a number of thoughts that broke both her and I, and giving her the privacy that she needed, I made sure not to intervene or read her mind so as to know what she was thinking. I walked to her side, sitting on the edge of the bed. I ran my finger over her shoulder, removing her hair from her shoulder and face, looking her in the eye. Natalia kept her eyes closed as she stopped her tears from falling, not wanting me to see her cry. “Nat, baby girl, you can’t block everything in” I whispered to her. Natalia hugged the blanket, pulling it over her face, hiding from me. I bit my bottom lip, slowly pulling the blanket from her face. I wrapped my arm around her, pulling me to my chest. A sob broke from her lips as s
Blake:I smiled as I wrapped my arm around my wife, guiding her toward the flower field just like the vision that I showed her.Though I had to admit, the last thing that I expected was for her to be pregnant or the two of us as injured, but I knew that it was now or never. And I wasn’t going to lose the chance to make her the happiest woman on the planet."You actually had them making the garden?” Natalia asked and I smiled before connecting my lips with hers. I bit her bottom lip, pulling it gently before resting my forehead against hers as I pulled away from the kiss. “I take it as a yes?”“A thousand times,” I said, watching as she turned around to look at the flowers. The smells of roses, lilies, orchids, and jasmines filled the air around us, and I couldn’t help the smile that formed on my lips when she turned around to face me as I kneeled down on one knee. It was something that I dreamed of, but I didn’t know how things were going to be. But I knew one thing, I wanted to be a
Natalia:I frowned as we entered the room to find Myla dead on the ground with a knife dug deep in her chest.“Blake?” I asked, voicing out of my confusion and he shook his head.“It was the right thing to do, and she would have done it to herself anyway.” He said, and I frowned in confusion. I got inside his head and my heart dropped as I heard and saw what he was referring to. “Blake, that means?” I asked and he shook his head.“I don’t know how accurate it is, but I know that things are going to be complicated from here.” He said, and I looked at Ryan who was quiet throughout the whole thing. I knew that him being the Alpha’s current beta, he would be lost in so many thoughts, but right now, we needed to know whether or not they needed our help. “They are in their graves…”“We are just going to have to dig them out,” Blake said, stopping me. He frowned as he looked at the door behind me and it wasn’t until screams echoed through the walls that I frowned. I went to rush toward the
Blake:My heart raced against my ribcage as different monitors kept beeping. I squeezed my eyes tightly before forcing them to open, reminding myself of my ability to use my motors.However, that didn’t go as well as I planned for it to as I found myself squinting my eyes shut, trying to avoid the light that was in the room.“Blake?” My mum’s voice filled my ears, and though I was hurt by her and dad, I couldn’t describe the pain that I felt because of them, I couldn’t help but feel thankful for her presence.“Natalia?” I said, shaking my head as I tried finding her. My heart raced and I couldn’t help but frown when I saw her laying beside me, her chest rising and falling with each breath that she took. She didn’t have an oxygen mask, unlike the one that I had, but I could see the bandages that were almost all over her body.“She is just asleep right now. The doctors have instructed that she gets as much rest as she can as she would need to regain her strength after what happened.” M
Natalia:My heart raced as I looked at the demon who formed in front of me.The fact that she was burning the room that was beside me, the room that had my mate inside, made my heart race. And that was something that I knew she was going to try and play with, my fear, anger, and worry. But that wasn’t something that I wanted to give her. “I do believe that it would make things faster if the two of you choose to give up.” She said, her voice sending chills down my spine as I looked at my mate who was trying to stay as far away from the fire. I tried controlling it, but nothing seemed to work. The fact that I knew that Jaiden, the man who was supposed to be my father, was fighting his own dad at the podium scared me. If anything, the fact that they were a father and son getting into this was something that broke me inside, but I knew now that no matter what I was going to say or what I was going to do, nothing would matter. It wasn’t even about me and my husband, these witches were ai
Blake:I growled as I saw my brother shifting, no longer able to contain himself as his instincts took over.The portals revealed the manipulators that were summoned by my wife, and I couldn’t help but find myself growing proud of her strength. To say the least, I knew that she was going to grow a lot stronger now that she knew who she was and what she was capable of.Drake let out a low growl, and I couldn’t help but recall the fact that the man wasn’t even in his head. Whatever was going on, I knew that the witches were having some sort of control on him, and though it pained me to consider, I knew that I had to end this one way or the other.Natalia looked at me and I nodded in assurance as I watched Crystal take flight. The fact that she fought against the control of the witch made me proud of how strong her bond grew with Natalia despite the short period.I took a step toward my brother, my stance ready for his attack as I saw Ariana and Riya, the two who pretended to be on our s
Natalia:My heart raced against my chest as I felt my dragon being close and yet so far to reach.I could tell that Crystal was here somewhere, I just didn’t know where she was.Blake wrapped his arm around my waist, pulling me closer to him as we entered the podium. No one really bothered to approach us, and I knew the reason; everyone now believed that we were either cursed, or they thought that they were going to watch us die.I looked at mum who was standing in the center of the podium along with Blake’s parents and the two of us frowned before being approached by them. Almost everyone else had their families waiting for them. Mum wrapped her arms around me, pulling me in for a hug before I could say a word, and though I didn’t understand her reason, I couldn’t help but feel my chest ache.This was the first hug that she has given me in years.She pulled away to look me in the eye before running her finger over my cheek, clearly in pain because of what was happening to me. Thoug
Blake:My chest ached as I found myself waking up beside my wife on a field of grass.Flowers were sprawled almost everywhere around us, and for a second, I could swear that I was back at the house, OUR garden. But I could also tell that it was different, this was a place that we knew, but it wasn’t ours, not yet anyway. Natalia frowned and shook her head in question before I got up from the floor. She sat up and pinched the bridge of her nose before turning to look at me. I watched as she stood up and looked around, taking the scene that was in front of her.Birds flew around and the sound of water could be heard from a distance, but I couldn’t catch a scent to let me know where I was, nor could I define the image that we were seeing. “Are you in my head again?” She asked, and I shook my head, making her frown. “Not that I know of,” I said, only to frown when I saw Alexander and Nikita standing in front of us. The two of us were wearing complete white outfits, my beauty wore a whi
Natalia:“How the fucking hell did you manage to get out of this one?” Riya asked, glaring at us. I smiled at the woman as my mate tightened his arm around me.To say that I was at peace was an understatement to what I was feeling. Hell, the man was not only giving me the love that I wanted and desired, but he was giving me the contentment that I knew I wouldn’t find elsewhere if their lives were taken for me to find it.“I believe that it doesn’t concern you, especially considering the fact that you too managed to pass.” Blake said, smiling at her. I knew that he was also feeling not only content, but at peace. His wolf has been purring lowly for my ears and I couldn’t help the smile that was plastered on my face regardless of how hard I tried wiping it off.Hell, as hard as this was, this day was the best of my life.“You two are playing the rules way too much for my liking.” Drake said, entering the hall where we were standing. Not even he could bother me tonight, that was one thi
Blake: I wrapped my arm around my mate once I’ve put my clothes back on, smirking at the fact that she managed to conceal my nudeness in front of the audience, not that it mattered to me anyway. It wasn’t like I would be having anything that they haven’t seen or don’t have, but it proved to me that she simply wanted the sight for her eyes. “Are you okay?” She asked, handing me a stone cup which she formed before filling it with pure water. I smiled and took a sip of it before handing her the cup to drink. She smiled at my concern and took a sip of it before handing it back to me. “You need it more than I do right now, and a sip is more than enough for me.” I kissed her forehead before drinking the rest of the water, not wanting to break her word before turning to the final round of the day. The Forest of Doom was engraved on the ground and both Natalia and I rolled our eyes as we read the words. The last thing that we needed right now was to deal with such a fact, and considering