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
47 – DECISION, DECISIONREBEKKAI remembered quite vividly the route I took to get into Lord Stephan’s room, the secret corridor, the long dash across the courtyard, I retraced my step and as I did my heart was beating in my chest.If I was found out, what would that mean for me?I took another turn and came face to face with a pack guard.The look on his face turned to a scowl as we made eye contact, “Hey you, halt!” he commanded.I came to a complete stop, my heart jumping to my mouth. This was what I was afraid of, I didn’t even remember to ask Lord Stephan to escort me outside because of how much of a hurry I was in.He looked at me from head to toe, taking in my dressing, “What business do you have here?”I opened my mouth to reply but I was so scared, I didn’t even know what I wanted to say.“She is with me,” a voice answered from behind.The guard backed away then bowed, “Of course, Sir Claude.”My eyes widened, Sir Claude? Lord Stephan’s sworn brother?I turned around.Sir Cla
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,
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
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
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
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,