39 – SURPRISE PULLREBEKKA“The med supplies in the alpha’s pack house are running low, when are you going to restock?”My eyes widened in a pleasant surprise when I heard the voice.Dr Purcell was in the office talking to one of the alpha’s emissaries and his door was slightly ajar so their conversation filtered out into the hallway that I was mopping.“Honestly Wilbur, we are pretty pressed for supplies here ourselves,” Dr Purcell was complaining.The emissary sighed, “Ever since the incident… the Luna has been adamant about having, basically, a fully functional clinic in her pack house. Wheeling her son all the way down here almost cost him his life, you know?”“I appreciate the Luna’s sentiment but right now, things are tight. We are expecting a shipment of supplies to come in soon enough, maybe then…”“You don’t understand what I am saying, do you Purcell?” the emissary cut him off. “All these excuses would not fly with the Luna. You know how she can be. Besides…” his voice dropp
40 – VIRGIN LIPSSTEPHANRebekka’s body felt tense and she was about to scream.My hand went quickly to her mouth and cupped it. “Shuuu,” I said close to her ear and then pulled back slightly and looked at her.Her eyes were wide with panic and then I saw recognition kick in and then her face flushed with surprise.I slowly took my hand away from her mouth.I was standing very close to her so I could feel her heavy breath on my face as she looked up to me, her eyes wide with joy, “Lord Stephan?”I leaned down and buried my lips in hers, my hand taking the side of her face and massaging her cheeks.Rebekka kissed me back, with almost as much passion as I kissed her.I could feel how much she missed me, the magnetism in our lips as they almost refused to separate.I broke off the kiss and then looked at her, I smiled.Her beautiful facial features broke into a smile too and her eyes lit up.I stroked her cheeks, “Come with me,” I said and pulled her by the hand.I was glad I came out wh
41 – ALLIESLADY CECILEI could see from the look on Baylor’s face, he was not one bit happy about the recent development.To have the wolf sitting in my chamber speaking his mind and expanding on his wish instead of on the chopping block must have been unbearable for him.I could understand how he felt, why could he not understand me?How could he not see that an alliance, if possible, would be in the benefit of our people. We would finally have a foothold with which we could use to fight for what rightfully belonged to us.Why was Baylor so narrow minded that he could not see as far ahead as I could?I studied the face of the wolf as he spoke, there was a renewed air of confidence around him as he spoke, it was almost like I enjoyed hearing the sound of his own voice.“I do not see any reason why we cannot work together,” he was saying.“For almost thirty years now, your kind has mercilessly pursued and killed us with impunity. How dare you stand before the supreme mother and talk o
42 – ROCKY STARTDAMONI could not believe it, I had done it, I had finally managed to convince Lady Cecile, the head witch, of my plan.Who knew that making the decision to frustrate Stephan would bring me one step closer to my grand goal in life?This was almost too good to be true, I fought to control the excitement that was building up within me.“We have a common enemy and his name is alpha Michael, the alpha of the half moon pack,” Lady Cecile was saying.“This war, all this carnage, he is responsible for it. There are no two ways about it, he must die!”I gnashed my teeth as I looked at her, “In order to become alpha, the current one must be dead, there is no other way to ascend the position, I agree.”“Good,” she nodded.She had stopped trying to pry into my mind and I was thankful for that. It had taken a lot of mental preparation to be able to resist her during our trial period.“I should be getting back now, my prolonged absence would raise some questions.” I said.Lady Cec
43 – STRIKE BACK… HARDThird Person POV Baylor stood there fuming watching Damon leave the hideout, in his mind, he could not understand why Lady Cecile went along with him.Why would she agree to form an alliance with a wolf? That was not what pissed him off the most, the most annoying thing was that when he protested a little, she sent him out.Lady Cecile had never done that before, she had always kept him by her side, but this time around, she kicked him out… because of a wolf.He gritted his teeth as he made the way back to her tent.This could not be allowed to stand, something needed to be done but first, before he summoned the witch council, he would allow Lady Cecile the chance to explain herself.He rapped at the door and then stepped inside, “Lady Cecile?”She was standing by a cauldron and making some enchantment to what looked like a piece of flesh.Baylor grimaced as he watched, the stench in the room was almost unbearable, it was a choking type of smell that almost mad
44 – THE CRONE AND THE BUTCHERThird Person POVThe council of witches consisted of ten of the highest ranking witches including the Mother Supreme – Lady Cecile.The other nine spots were occupied by three grand warlocks and six high witches.Of the grand warlocks, Baylor was the fiercest and the scariest and of the high witches, an old crone by the name of Shana was the most feared.Lady Cecile sat at the edge of the table and to her right was Baylor and to her left was Shana. The rest of the grand warlocks and high witches filled the other seats.There was absolute silence in the hall as all ten of them sat around the huge rectangle table that had a skull engraved on it.Lady Cecile had just informed them of the new alliance with Damon and everyone was processing the information.“Lady Cecile, your wisdom knows no bounds,” Shana said and bowed low. She was envious of Lady Cecile but at the same time she was too scared of her power to act rashly, she prayed to the ancestors and mino
45 – CUT INDAMON“What the hell happened? What were you doing? How did you let such a disaster happen on your watch?” Chief Tyrell exploded.I smirked as I studied the maps and animal hides hanging on the wall of his office.I was very happy to be back to the pack, I didn’t think that I had ever been this happy to come back here. Whether it was because I was free from that den of vipers or because I would get to see Rebekka again, I did not know.Maybe it was both but right now, Chief Tyrell was doing everything in his power to take my joy and excitement away.“Are you just going to stand there and ignore me? Speak!” He to growled.I finally looked at him, a nonchalant expression on my face, “I did exactly as you said.”“Excuse me?” he rose from his chair. “What the hell do you mean by that?”I shrugged, “Stephan split his team up… I could not be in two places at once so I decided to stay with the precious one. He came back in once piece, didn’t he?”“Don’t give me that crap!” Chief
46 – THIS TIME FOR REALSTEPHANA ray of sunshine filtered in through the thick curtains and poured on Rebekka’s arm. I lay behind her watching her sleep, her chest slowly rising and falling under the silk sheets.I sat up and ran my finger through my hair, so that happened?I got up and then looked over my shoulder at her again.Her hair was splayed all over her face and her legs were spread out under the sheets. The silk sheets hung like a fraction above her chest covering her naked body.I felt a powerful stir within me as I climbed back in bed with her and snuggled under the sheets, my hands reaching for her.Rebekka stirred in bed.My hands cupped her breast and squeezed it fondly as I planted kisses at her back.She moaned and writhed lazily as she awoke from her sleep.“Hey,” I said spooning up behind her, my hardness pressing into her bare bum.I felt her body stiffen as she became aware of her surroundings.“Lord Stephan…” she muttered as her hands flew to her chest to clasp
56 – A FUCKING CHANCEDAMON“Are we doing the teary approach now?” I said with a hint of sarcasm in my voice.“He broke up with me,” she sobbed and walked in, oblivious to what I was saying.“Sure, make yourself at home,” I said with a smirk and looked around, there didn’t seem to be anybody with her here this time.“Who’s he?”“Stephan,” she muttered and continued sobbing.“Ah,” I said to myself.Now it finally made sense, I should have known when I found out that she was the one that had a problem with Rebekka.When two women got into it, my best bet was that it was always over a man.Her man strayed away from her into the hands of another woman and somehow, it was the other woman’s fault and not her man’s fault, classic feminine logic. I closed the door and walked behind her, my eyes following the swaying of her hips as she made her way to one of my couches.I smacked my tongue, damn, Stephan sure was getting it good up there in the alpha pack house.“I didn’t think he would do su
55 – RED EYESDAMONFrom the second that Stephan stepped into the room my eyes had not left him.This was the motherfucker that put his paws on my woman. I stifled an angry growl that rose within me.“Do we have any news on their primary location? Or even a base that they operate out from?” he asked.I was surprised, he had the nerves to talk at a meeting like this, after his failure? And they were all listening to him?Was this some sort of sick joke?I wanted to protest, wanted to say something but the look on alpha Michael’s face stopped me.He was not looking at me but when I watched him from the corner of my eyes, I chill travelled down my spine.I just felt terrified of the man.Instinctively I knew it, I could misbehave before any of the high borns, even his son but alpha Michael? I could not dare try it.A surge of excitement washed over me as I broke my gaze from Stephan and looked at alpha Michael, a man I hated as much as I feared and respected, this, this is who I would su
54 – ANOTHER CHANCESTEPHANI left the Duncan pack house and began heading back home, the events replaying in my head.I didn’t like how it felt breaking up with Vanessa, she had been good to me, basically, everything that I needed in a woman but she was not the one that stirred my heart.She never really was, sure I had feelings for her but not to this extent, I had never felt this way before, this intense and thought defying pull to someone, that was how it was with Rebekka, how could I give that up?As terrible as it felt to break up with her, it needed to be done.“Let this just be between us, no one else has to know we are broken up, we will keep up public appearances.”Vanessa’s plea came back to me.I didn’t have a problem with this, in fact this was necessary and now in hindsight I was glad she was even open to it, it would prevent my family from being suspicious of me.I felt a strong urge to go and see Rebekka at the clinic, take her soft warm hands in mine and kiss her but
53 – DEAL’S OFFSTEPHAN“Which place would be better do you think? Hers or mine?”Claude’s eyebrows shot up, “You want to call her over to your place just to tell her that? You know what is always on her mind when you call her over, how do you think she will feel when she finds out that you want to end things?” He took another sip from his glass, “On top of that, she probably would be so emotionally distressed that she would leave crying and weeping, have you no soul Stephan?” “Alright, fine. I will go over to her place.”“You will go over to her place?” He repeated with exaggerated emphasis, “Dude, when last have you been to her place? You want to go where her father is and deliver such terrible news?” He shook his head, his eyes fixed on me.“Good goddess Claude!” I exclaimed.He shrugged, “Don’t shoot the messenger.”“You are acting like I am going to deliver a death notification.”“You might as well be doing that,” he emptied his glass and reached for the bottle again.“Now you
52 – STRANGE VISITORDAMONI pushed open the door to my cabin and wandered inside and went straight to the mini bar and took an unopened bottle of Scotch and set it down on the table before dropping into my seat.My knuckles were dripping blood along the polished wood floor all the way to where I was sitting.Hmmm, most of those people were not common thugs, I thought.The scarred man and a few others, yes but not all.I recognized their fighting style, those were guards assigned to high borns. What were some high born guards doing with some street thugs and coming to harass me on my way back home?Whoever it was that was after Rebekka and wanted to see me was a high born?Hmmm, this was getting interesting, here I was thinking they were all working for some local nobody, how wrong was I?I opened the bottle and took a swig directly from it. All I regretted was that I was not able to get to the scarred man before the Elite Guard garrison was drawn by the commotion outside and ended
51 – UNEXPECTED SQUABBLEDAMONI stepped into the Elite Guards garrison, my mood sour and angry.Nothing had gone according to plan. When I returned from the witches’ hideout, I felt like finally, everything was going to fall into place for me.Stephan would face some serious punishment for failing in his mission and Rebekka would fall right into my arms and we would begin her training in earnest.Nothing went according to my plan, because I returned late, I was the one that got reprimanded by Chief Tyrell, that sorry old man was giving me a headache instead of Stephan.Not only that, Rebekka had made out with Stephan… Stephan of all people. The son of a bitch that rejected her publicly and then called her a whore in my presence, that was who she decided to spread her legs for? I could not even believe it, I felt a wave of disappointment wash over me as I headed over to my station.“Damon,” a hoarse voice called out.I grimaced, I didn’t want to have to deal with Vane and his antics
50 – SCHEMESTHIRD PERSON POVLady Vanessa was not satisfied that she had done enough. Somehow she felt that something more could be done, if she was going to keep the heart of her lover and save her relationship, something more needed to be done.She could feel it in her bones, she felt scared… How could she? A high born is scared of a lowly nobody… How could Stephan do this to her?He did not find any of the other high born women to be infatuated by, it had to be a low born nobody? Why was he content in shaming her so?These thoughts and more ran through her mind as she nursed a cup of Tequila.She had already gone out of her way, lowered herself to the extent of working with thugs and lowly nobodies but that didn’t seem to be enough.The thugs beating up Rebekka was supposed to be the end of the matter. They were supposed to give her a thorough beating that she would not forget and when Stephan saw how bruised and messed up she was, he would leave Rebekka alone and focus on her.Bu
49 – DARK AND STORMYREBEKKAI felt like a deer caught in a strong beam of light, I just stood there frozen.It is as if my brain could not reconcile this angry, yelling Damon the charming devil that I had known all this while.It could not be me, Damon could not be screaming at me like this, he would never do a thing like that to me, I knew him, Damon was not like that, he would never do that, not to me.“Did I stutter?” his voice was menacingly low as he came forward again.His blue eyes burned brightly and with such ferocity I had no choice but to step back in fear.“It’s not what you think…” I said.What the hell was I even saying? Of course it was exactly what he thought but right now I was just looking for a way to calm his anger down.All I wanted was for him to give me a chance to explain, we could talk this out.My words only seemed to have the opposite effect on him.Damon’s eyes widened more, I didn’t even know that was possible.My heart was thumping in my chest as I stood
48 – BURNINGDAMONMy heart skipped a bit as I sat there staring at my arm that felt like it had just been cut to the bone, I didn’t know which one shocked me more, the fact that I had just experienced something this horrible, the content of the message I just received or the fact that someone was knocking at my door by this time.For a brief moment, I was frozen in a state of confusion, beads of sweat formed on my forehead as I looked from my arm to the door and then back at my hand again.The small timid knock sounded at the door again.I sniffled and caught a whiff of Rebekka’s scent and my heart fluttered, a feeling of anxiety washed over me.I looked at the bloodied message once more and it read: “We are responsible for the attack on the Leo envoy. Keep us informed of any action alpha Michael and his war council are going to take!”“Damn you Cecile!” I gritted under my teeth. Who did she think she was to order me like that?If I had known this was what the pound of flesh was for,