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
57 – TWO STONES, FOUR BIRDSDAMON“So, are you going to help me?” I stirred and looked at Vanessa who was lying on my chest, tracing patterns on it and talking.I laid back down and sighed.This was a very good lay indeed, I might go as far as ranking it as great but it is over now. To think that Stephan was giving this up for Rebekka… Damn.But then, Vanessa was nowhere as special as Rebekka, that was even more of a reason why I could not let Stephan have her.“You suspected that she meant something to me yet you sent men after her and then poisoned her?” I said in a monotone voice.“That was before I knew she was with you,” she said. “Had I known, I never would have done that.”I sat up, pushing her away from me, “You should go now,” I said and got up, walking butt naked away from the couch and to the mini bar.Vanessa sat up too, she huddled her clothes into a bunch and covered her chest, “You are yet to give me an answer, you said you would do as I asked.”“Did it?” I replied car
58 – MANNING UPSTEPHANI leapt up in the air and spun around and landed heavily with my right foot, Claude rolled out of the way to avoid the hit and my heel made a spot in the thick ground.I rolled towards him, my hands balling into fists and I threw two quick punches, Claude wove this side and then the other as both punches missed him narrowly.Tired of striking and not being able to land a hit, I decided to change tactics. Being close enough, without warning, I leapt forward, driving my shoulder into his waist and catching him unawares.Claude was sent flying backwards and he landed heavily on his back. I did a front tumble and grabbed him by the neck before he could get back to his feet and then I raised my left hand up in the air, threatening to land a very powerful blow.Claude flashed his teeth in frustration and then raised both of his hands in surrender.I let go of his neck and he fell back down to the ground. I stood up and then bent down and lent him a hand.Claude took
59 – I GIVE YOU MY FLOWERSREBEKKADamon kissed me!What was I thinking? Why did I allow him to do that and get away with it?I was with Lord Stephan now, right?What was the whole point of going to Damon’s cabin all those nights ago? I was going to tell him that we could not continue what we had been doing because I was with Lord Stephan now.That night went very wrong and since then I had felt a knot in my stomach because of it. Damon had effectively ignored me since then, that was until yesterday when he showed up at the clinic out of the blue.It was also fortuitous that he came when Dr Purcell and Miss Kaitlin were not in, did he know?I shook my head as I lay in bed, I could not sleep, I kept rolling around and cuddling my pillow.Damon kissed me!What did that mean? What did he mean? Was that a ‘I have forgiven you’ type of kiss or… what exactly did it mean?“From now on, you are mine.”His words echoed in my head.I remembered the first time that we met at that cliff face.
60 – THE FUCKING PLANDAMONTo tell Lady Cecile or not to tell Lady Cecile, that was the question that I was turning around in my head.Soon Stephan would be stepping out of the pack again and going to Dragon’s Deep to look for a survivor. Was this information vital enough for me to endure serious pain cutting into my flesh to inform my new allies?I could not decide, I was still playing with the idea in my head as I sat in my small cubicle in the Elite Guard garrison.Stephan sure was getting bolder by the day. Gone were the days when all he ever did was hunt and party around the pack, now he was actually spearheading troops and making an impression on the members of the war council.Sure he was the heir to alpha Michael and naturally, everyone expected him to become the alpha when alpha Michael left to sleep in Lunar’s bosom but, I didn’t expect him to start getting all alpha-like and becoming capable so quickly.I sneered, he was starting to become a serious rival. If he succeeded
61 – TRYST IN THE STEAMREBEKKAThe steam was filling up the room from the hot water that was rushing down on my hair, I was so lost in the feel of the jet of water as it hit my skin and soaked into it.I closed my eyes and ran my hands through my hair as the wet hair stuck to my neck and the top of my back, I ran my hands over my face as I raised my face up so that the jet could hit me full on.The feel of the hot water trickling down my spine and across my breasts all the way down to my legs was absolutely refreshing.I didn’t get hot water like this back at the clinic, on the best day, the best I could hope for was lukewarm, this, this right here was exactly what I needed.I saw a bath too in the bathroom, maybe when I was done enjoying the shower, I would let myself soak for a couple of minutes before I got out.That would be the highlight of this treat. Who knew the next time I would get to enjoy all these? I needed to make the most of it now when I had the chance.I was so engro
62 – ENTER THE DRAGONSTEPHANThe five of us arrived at the outskirts of Dragon’s foot and a low ‘wow’ escaped my lips.The maps and the description from Claude that he said he heard from his father did not do this place justice at all.There was a narrow canyon leading down into the mouth of it but from where we were standing, what looked like the talons of a giant dragon spread out in front of us.“Dragon’s Foot,” Flint said, his eyes wide open as he looked at the colorful spread of vegetation and rocky outgrowth.“There has to be at least a hundred caves buried down in all that mess,” Hayes said.“Hundred? More like thousands, how the hell are we going to find one wolf in all that?” Louis asked.Hayes and Louis were the two news guys who replaced Danny and Trent who died during our last mission.I looked at both of them, “Take the flank,” I opened my rucksack and took out a copy of the map of Dragon’s foot and handed it to them.“See that spot?” I pointed at a section that was X’ed
83 – NOT PART OF THE PLANDAMON POVI yawned hungrily, “Let’s take a break guys.” “Damon, are you out of your mind?” Claude exploded and charged towards me.I raised up my hands in mock surrender, “Whoa, calm down tiger.”“Stephan is still out there, how can you be talking of taking a break?”“We have been searching nonstop for two days now, the men need the rest,” I said.“Oh please, you expect me to believe that you give a shit about your men?”My eyebrows widened, “I don’t know what gave you the impression.”Claude glared at me.“Hungry wolves are of no good to anyone, let the men have their break, after that, they would be all psyched and ready to continue searching for your best bud,” I grinned in his face.Claude fumed, “Fine,” he stormed off.I sneered as he walked off. If not for the current situation of my plan failing woefully and the alpha being on the warpath, I would not have to indulge the likes of Claude.After all, he was the one that lost Stephan in the first place,
82 – OUTBREAKREBEKKA POVMy eyelids fluttered open and the familiar ceiling and walls of the clinic room came into view. I blinked as I felt the soft rays of the sunlight filter through the curtains and hit me.What time was it? How long had I been out of it?I strained to sit up, my body felt very heavy like someone was sitting on my chest. I took my right hand to the side of my head and then brushed it over my face.Peeling faces, very crimson eyes!These two images flashed through my mind and I suddenly became alert, all the lethargy leaving me.I jumped to my feet and ran barefooted to the mirror at the side and looked into it, I let out a breath of relief.My eyes were back to the old nondescript color. But what happened? Last time, they were very crimson, just like…“Lord Stephan!” I yelped suddenly and then cupped my mouth, afraid that someone might have heard me.It was all coming back to me now, I had just escaped the thugs Lady Vanessa sent after me when I had some sort of
81 – PLAGUE CARRIERTHIRD PERSON POV“Make way for the Supreme Mother,” Baylor’s strained voice sounded from the entrance of the cave to the Witches’ headquarters.He had Lady Cecile’s right hand swung over his shoulder and he was half carrying, half dragging her as she could barely walk on her own.The rest of the warlocks and witches poured in with them, pushing back the eager and scared crowd that was beginning to gather.Lady Cecile still felt a trembling in her hand as her head hung low and was pounding like someone was using a mortar to strike relentlessly against it.She still could not believe what transpired, never in a million years did she think that she would run into alpha Michael herself. She came down there to supervise his demise but she never planned to actually face him.That was the whole point of a well calculated ambush. How did everything go wrong? Why didn’t Damon inform them that he was coming?Was he in on the whole plan? So many thoughts were running through
80 – CHIEFDAMON“I can’t believe that Chief is dead,” Vane said.I sneered as I looked at him from the side of my eyes, fucking kiss-ass. He never liked the old man for one day, why was he here pretending like he was hurt?“His weak ass should have retired months ago, he got what he wanted,” I said.Vane gave me a sharp look and then his face turned dark with a frown, he shook his head, “Could you not be a normal person for once? Would it kill you to show some sympathy?”I sneered in his face, “Would it kill you to stop pretending and kissing ass all the time? Could you not show your true self for once?”A low growl escaped Vane’s throat as he glared at me, I could see the visible effort he was putting in to control himself.“If I were you, I would be careful how I talked, the Chief is not around to keep you safe any longer,” he said and then looked away from me.I grinned, “That’s more like it, say things like you mean it, life’s more fun that way.” He looked back at me and then he
79 – SON OF THE ALPHA AND THE OLD CRONESTEPHANWas I seeing things or was the monstrous fleshless face smiling at me?“Pretty eyes….” Her scratching voice purred.I winced, my shoulder still burned from her first attack.Where the hell did the silver come from? I could not see it. Just a second ago, before her monstrous transformation, she licked her bloodied nails.If she scratched me with mere nails, I should have effortlessly healed from it but the fact that I wasn’t healing meant that she used silver. Where was it?If I didn’t know, I could not recklessly attack her again, I could end up dead. My heart was thumping in my chest, this was terrifying and at the same time exciting.As wolves, we loved to fight, it was our nature and ever since I was little, I had been fighting but as I grew older, the fights grew easier and easier until it didn’t feel like a fight anymore.That was why I was so stunned by Damon, he was the first wolf who I had ever met that was able to really hurt me
78 – VERY CRIMSON EYESREBEKKA“Ahh!” I let out a shrill scream as a face that looked like it was rotting right before my eyes appeared before me.The darkness had faded away and now what I was seeing was dust caught up in a gust of wind along with the inhuman face.My shoulder felt like it was on fire for some reason, all my senses seemed to suddenly be kicked into overdrive.The smell of blood as well as dirt and decay filled my nostrils and my ear could pick up the fierceness of the wind as well as a scathing voice that felt like it was scratching the insides of my skull.I was rolling on the floor of the marketplace, writhing and yelling and pulling out my hair.People passing by started to notice the commotion, at first they all avoided me and went along their normal business.I felt a long tear on my upper thigh and I let out another piercing scream, I could not see anything, it was all dusty and windy, with rocks and little pebbles flying all over the place.Then I heard the sc
77 – CASUALTY OF WARDAMON“Go round, make sure that there are no survivors,” Vane ordered the men.I stood there in the settling dust and smoke and scanned the area before me. It was littered with the corpses of both witches and Elite Guards.“How many casualties did we sustain?” Vane was asking one of the officers.I was just absent-mindedly paying attention to their conversation, my thoughts however were fixed on how alpha Michael had easily evaded my trap.Did he know? Once again I didn’t think so but then again, it was hard to explain what had just happened here.“Sire, no survivors and the Wolf Killer is not among the dead,” another officer reported.Baylor was not here… where could he be? Still with Lady Cecile if I was to guess, what about the Old Crone?Stephan had been sent after her. Did he succeed in getting her or was there still a chance that the ambush could happen?I realized that I was just doing wishful thinking to keep hope alive and I hated it. But I was not wrong,
76 – A FUCKING MONSTERSTEPHAN“What the hell did that bastard want this time around?” Claude asked as I reached him.I looked back over my shoulders and watched Damon walk away. I sighed, all I’ve wanted since he came here was to rock his jaw with my fist but I was scared of doing that in front of the alpha.Damon’s whole plan was to make me look bad in front of the alpha, I could not give him the satisfaction of success.“What else but to shoot his mouth off,” I said.“I don’t know why you tolerate him, if I were you, I would have fucked him up a long time ago,” Claude said.I chuckled and then became serious, “We have a new mission.”“Oh c’mon,” Claude threw up his hand in frustration. “Can’t we catch a break?”“It is from the alpha himself,” I looked at him.Claude stiffened and became serious as he met my gaze.“That’s what I thought… gather the rest of the squad immediately, I’ll brief them.”He ran off.Not long after that, Claude, Flint, Louis and Hayes were all gathered round
75 – HISTORYTHIRD PERSON POV“Lord, we could have at least gone with one of the commanders, preferably Damon,” Chief Tyrell said to alpha Michael.Alpha Michael rode on in silence, his mind was busy. If the Supreme Mother came out of hiding all the way to Dragon’s Foot then it was likely that she had somehow found out that he was here.If that was the case then allowing herself to be sighted was done to lure him into some sort of trap. If West was where she wanted him to go, the west was definitely where he would not go.It had been a long time since he had been out and actively involved in a hunt like this but his senses had not dulled one bit. He knew Dragon’s Foot better than most, he had explored the shit out of the place in his younger days.By studying the map, he had guessed where she could possibly be if her plan was indeed to set an ambush for him in the west.If the commanders were as good as Chief Tyrell hyped them up to be, they would have no problem handling the witches