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
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
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
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
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
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
Chapter 1: Save Your Heir REBEKKAActivity was bustling in the clinic as I held my mop close to my chest and weaved through the crowd to make my way over to the bedside of one of the pack warriors who had just vomited blood on the tiled floor.I put the mop down and cleaned up the mess and was about rinsing it free when I heard my name.“Rebekka! Get over here!” Doctor Purcell yelled as he struggled to hold down a combative patient.I dropped the mop and the bucket and ran over to him, “Yes, Master!”“Hold him down, I need to pull out all these shards!” He commanded.The man on the table eyed me wickedly as I tried to hold his hands down by his side, with a little shake he sent me stumbling backwards and I fell to the floor.I wasn’t even strong enough to hold down an injured pack warrior.“Get out of the way, mutt!” a vicious voice called out to me.I stiffened and looked up, shifting out of the way quickly.The man that spoke to me, along with two other men, were covered in blood a
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,