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Acelin. Just as fast as the woman was behind me she released my hair. “Apologies, Acelin. That’s our mistake,” the man seemed to quiver now unable to meet Acelin’s gaze. His head was facing down to the ground. They were afraid of him, but why? He hadn’t taken his eyes of me and was now slowing making his way over. He searched my face with a furrowed brow, concern filling his eyes. My cheeks were flushed with frustration and anger his concern quickly turned into fury as he looked back to the culprits. “Scatter.” He said through a clenched jaw. The words came out of his mouth stern and cold and they scurried off like rats. “I hope they did not harm you, little one.” Towering over top of me he reached down brushing the back of his fingers against my warm cheeks. His cold touch sent a shiver down my spine and I knew my cheeks were a darker shade of red. “I’m okay.” “How did you - where did you” I stumbled over my words trying to gain composure, but cut me off. He shushed me with a f
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Everything was a blur. Acelin briskly accelerated forward with absurd speed that didn’t seem real. I didn’t understand what was happening. I knew I wasn’t drunk. Someone must have put something in my drink. What happened back there? That dark feeling was almost overpowering. My body shivered just thinking about it. I tightly gripped his shirt with one hand, the other was around his neck holding on for dear life. He had me scooped up against him and I could feel his tight grip like he would never let me go. My heart was beating so fast, pumping hard in my chest. I leaned my head against the area where Acelin’s heart should be unable to hold it up any longer, but I felt nothing. He had somehow managed to keep his composure and rhythm in check even while sprinting through the woods. What were we running from? How was he so fast? And why hadn’t we just taken my car?My head was spinning, clouded from all the questions. I could barely function. Acelin had been non-stop running for what
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It was like a needle prick, quick and I barely noticeable. A small drop of blood had formed in the spot then quickly dropped down the side of my thumb before landing into Acelin’s mouth. He jerked my hand away from him a second too late. “Araya, what did you”- his suddenly stopped in the middle of his sentence but I wasn’t paying attention to him. I had stuck my thumb in my mouth to help stop the bleeding thinking about what an idiot I was. Who does something like that?I glanced back to Acelin to see his eyes rolling back into his head, a sigh of pleasure escaping his mouth. When he opened them they were dark, midnight black again. I stepped backwards knowing this probably was not a good sign. His body tensed up, fists clenched. I could see the veins protruding from his forearms and neck. He was fighting something. “Your blood.” His voice was deeper now. Oh, shit. Definitely not good. “What’s going on? Are you okay?”“So sweet. I’m losing control. You need to get away from me. M
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Morning came too early. I had fallen in and out of sleep all night long, the memories of last night flooding my head. My eyes stuck to the ceiling as I relived those moments still in disbelief. I seriously could not believe this was my life. Aside from the obvious, some things Acelin said troubled me about Adrian. He said he was hiding something from me. I knew that much to be true, but there couldn’t be anything worse than being a vampire, though, right?The sudden realization almost stopped my heart. Oh, my God. What if he was a vampire too? Those words sounded unrealistic. That was not logically possible, was it? Now that I thought about it, there were some unexplained things that didn’t make sense with Adrian. He had been secretive before and the night at the restaurant was kind of weird, but I had never seen his eyes turn black and he never felt cold like Acelin. In fact, his body was always really warm. Acelin said they knew each other, but that didn’t mean they were friends.
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My feet moved through the forest. I looked back, barely dodging a tree branch as I searched for the predator that was chasing me. It seemed like I had been running forever. My breath was getting shallow as the cold air stabbed at my lungs. Had I gone far enough? I wasn’t sure. The creature seemed to have disappeared. Had I managed to escape? Finally, I came to a stop leaning against a tree trying to moderate my breathing. I grimaced at the pain brought on by the forcible deep breaths. The sound of a twig snapping caused me to jerk. Something was here. Fear crept from my stomach to my chest as I peered around the tree. A pair of golden eyes met mine. I was staring into the face of a big black wolf, one I had seen before. I felt his warm breath on my face. He snarled revealing his canines as saliva dripped from his mouth. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t scream. I was frozen. I closed my eyes in anticipation of the attack.“Araya. Araya.” A voice called out from a distance. “Are you okay?”
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I woke up wondering if it had all been a dream until I felt the knot on the back of my head. “Ouch.” I said out loud. I slightly massaged the spot and rolled over not wanting to get out of bed and be forced to face reality.What was I even doing here? Why had I not run away? This was way beyond giving someone a chance. All I wanted was to get over an ex and this was more than I had asked or bargained for. I didn’t know if I could even handle this mentally, and yet the thought of knowing what that meant, that Adrian would be gone from my life made my stomach knot up. Why did I care so much? I mean, yeah, we had great sex, but we’d only been on two official dates, one of which ended in him shifting into a werewolf.I let out a load groan of frustration unsure as to why I was so conflicted. The decision should be obvious. I needed to walk away and never look back from him and Acelin, but that would be easier said than done.A few more minutes went by, and I finally mustered the energy to
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That’s it? That was the big reveal? I couldn’t help but giggle at his words before I finally spoke. That seemed to be an odd way to describe our situation.“Huh? What’s that?” I asked. “‘Mate’ as in friend or ‘mate’ like a soulmate?” I finally asked him.There was no way it was the first one, but if it was the other, well, I wasn’t ready for that either. It was a lose-lose.There was a point in time I thought Tristan was my soulmate and that obviously didn’t work out. I scoffed at that thought. I didn’t want to be just his friend or his soulmate, but I would settle for a happy median, somewhere in between.“Yes, something like a soulmate, but more than that. It’s a strong connection and something that I have no control over. When a wolf finds their mate, they need that person. The connection makes you stronger, and it builds over time. It’s a fated bond.”Oh. So that’s probably what he had meant before when he asked if I believed some people were fated to be with one another and that
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I walked and walked until my feet started hurting and then I broke down and called a car. If I hadn’t been so stubborn Adrian would have done that for me, but I just needed to get away ASAP. I was completely aware of how indecisive and probably unfair I was being. A part of me wanted Adrian and everything he was, but then the other part needed a break, some space, just to be left alone not wanting anything to do with this. How could I want both at the same time? Even I knew I wasn’t making sense. What a real mess I had gotten myself into and, and what was worse, there was no one I could even talk to about it all. I hadn’t spoken to Trinity obviously since the night before and I wasn’t sure if I even wanted to. Were we just supposed to go back to being friends? Now that Adrian told me he had pretty much sent her to be my guard dog I questioned whether our friendship had even real. He was her alpha. She had to obey him. That was one thing I picked up about this whole ordeal. Even if
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The darkness bled into the light as my eyes scanned the empty, bright space that changed before my eyes. Call me Dorothy, because I definitely wasn’t in Kansas anymore.Was I dead? “No offense, but this is not what I was expecting heaven to look like,” I mumbled to myself because surely it wasn’t hell. There was no way, right?“You get your sense of humor from your father,” Someone laughed and I spun around. Not one, but three people stood before me, a man and two women. My feet moved on their own as I took a step towards them almost subconsciously. The man was young and handsome. The women were beautiful, one a bit older, but both with brown skin, long, thick hair, and gorgeous eyes. But I wasn’t surprised at their beauty. I’d seen them before… at least in pictures.“Antoinette and Angelique.” I whispered more to myself looking at them both respectively. The younger woman smiled widely, embracing me with her grace. My mother. Wow. She was so pretty. She opened her arms
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A menacing and triumphant smile spread across her lips. I wanted nothing more than to smack it right off her bitch ass face. But I didn’t care about my pride, the fact she thought she’d won, or anything else at that moment other than saving Adrian. “You are bound to the wolf and the vampire separately. You have two mates, it’s true, but now what is required is for the bond to be completed between you three. They must be tied to each other just as they are tied to you.”Wait, what? My head was too all over the place for this. Adrian and Acelin had to bond too? Why and how would that even happen? I was pretty sure they wouldn’t be down for that thinking about the way I’d bonded with them.My eyes went to Acelin in confusion wondering if he had any idea what she was saying. His brows furrowed and the crease between them deepened, which made me think he might.“Okay. I have heard enough. This witch is dead if she believes that” -- Acelin cut Onyx off pulling her to the side in a heated c
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“Stay close to me.” Acelin tugged me behind him. “No matter what. If for whatever reason I lose my hold on you or I need to use my hands, you grab on to me. I want to feel your body against mine at all times, stuck like glue. Climb onto my back if you must.” I struggled to hear his low whispers, but the last part made me smile. How he remained calm and composed, even able to crack a joke at a time like this, was beyond me. He wasn’t playing around, though. I knew he felt guilty that someone had lured me in by pretending to be him. So in case anything happened, he wanted me close so no one could get their hands on me again. We made our way through the dark building hugging the halls. Thankfully Acelin led, because I could barely see a thing. Of course vampires could see in the dark. The flooring felt like concrete, a bit damp and the air smelledk moldy. So we were underground, but where? Where had the lunatic witch brought us?“We need to find a quiet space. Zariah and
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Tears of anger pooled into my eyes and began to stream down my face. She was taunting me, almost as if she enjoyed it, and I hated her with everything in my being. How could someone be so evil? In the past, I may have threatened but when it came down to it, I’m not so sure I would really go through with it, but never had I wanted to kill another so much in my life. My face warmed, then my whole body. A layer of sweat formed from the tension. She still held my wrists down tightly and she was freaking strong. But I was pissed off, and suddenly a woman scorned. I struggled against her hold and the restraints at my ankles calling upon all my strength to break myself free. Fueled by complete rage, I screamed in pure anguish, something grown from anger, grief, and helplessness. Zariah’s body was flung away from me like a ragdoll slamming against the wall and onto the floor with a satisfying thud. I looked down at myself confused, unsure what kind of magic that was but I wouldn’
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Zariah stared down at me with narrowed eyes roaming over my body skeptically in contemplation. Then she turned, and for a moment I thought she was just going to walk out the door, leaving me alone. Instead, she grabbed a chair and sat it down right in front of me. “You ask a lot of questions, almost like a precocious child.”Yeah, yeah. So, I’d been told. “I can answer these questions if you really want to know. I can tell you how everything came to be, because none of it will matter in due time. But my question is are you ready for the truth, because I’m certain you won’t like what you learn.”Was I ready? Probably not. Did I really want to know about what truth she spoke of? Same answer. I already knew Zariah was capable of horrible things. And if in some crazy world she was as old as she claimed, she had time to commit other horrible things. But was it necessary? Yes. I didn’t want to know, I needed to. If I was going to be able to do anything to help, I had to figure out exactly
