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Say what now? Unable to let me leave. Was he joking? I looked at Acelin and he was wide-eyed with shock. Apparently he wasn’t joking. “Claudis, I can’t” -“Araya, do not.” Acelin spoke to me quietly shaking his head. Claudis had a stern, matter of fact look on his face now. All traces of his fake smile had now disappeared. Who did he think he was? He wasn’t my leader. There was no way he was going to keep me here against my will. “Only until we get these matters sorted out. I’m sure everything will be cleared up soon. You are important to my son, so no harm will come to you. But you will stay here until I am able to discern the issues at hand. All accommodations will be made for you. That is all.” His words were final. No room for discussion. He was dismissing us. “Yes, Father.” Acelin bowed. “Yes, Claudis,” I said through clenched teeth not taking my eyes off of his. He looked at me intrigued that I would test his order with a hint of defiance. I left the room following Acelin
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“Good morning.” The familiar voice seemed to be far away. I tried to open my eyes but the darkness wanted me still. “Morning? What time is it? It’s so dark.”“It is almost noon.” Acelin flipped on a light. “I have protective room darkening curtains. I cannot survive in sunlight, little one.”Oh. I should have known that. I couldn’t believe I slept that late, though. It was one of the best sleeps I’d had in a long time. I typically toss and turn, waking up multiples times, but I slept all the way through the morning. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. He was in the same spot I had fallen asleep in. Surely he hadn’t stayed like that the whole night. “Did you sleep okay?” I asked him quizzically. “I did. I slept perfectly just like this. You jerked in your sleep a few times when I attempted to move away, so I just stayed here beside you.”I stared at him somewhat shocked by that sentiment. He continued to show me his loving/caring side and it surprised me more and more. I moved away from
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I backed away from him trying to wrap my head around the words that just came from his mouth. Why was Claudis after me so bad? Both of those options were a lose/lose to me, as they both affected me and Adrian in a negative way. I had no idea what Claudis’ intentions were with him. Acelin said he wanted “an agreement,” but I didn’t trust that. It very well could be a trap. That option was just too risky, not just for him but possibly Trinity and their whole pack. I just could not allow that. The other option was I had to commit myself to Acelin and his coven. I wasn’t sure exactly how that would work, but I was pretty sure there would be no way for me and Adrian to continue our relationship, whatever that was exactly. How could I be loyal and committed to Acelin and his vampire coven while also be in bed with a werewolf, their sworn enemies? Yeah, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t going to fly with Claudis. The uneasiness in my stomach grew making me weak. I needed to sit down. I was beco
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“Hello, Did you hear me? I said who is Onyx?” I tugged on Acelin’s arm trying to get his attention. We were walking back to his room and he hadn’t said a word since Niko told us about dinner, and now he wasn’t responding to me. What was going on in his mind? Whoever this person was, it had him shook, and that worried the hell out of me.“I am sorry. I must have been in deep thought.” He paused and sighed before continuing. “Onyx is.. my sister.”His sister? That didn’t seem too bad. Why would he be so worried about his sister? She couldn’t be any worse that Claudis, could she?“I didn’t know you had a sister.”“I have many siblings, but Onyx is by far the most dangerous. She is the youngest of us all and most vicious. She is like my father’s personal attack dog. Where I handle the more diplomatic side of things as the future leader, she is a warrior and one of the strongest, if not the strongest, that we have. She has killed many wolves, vampires and others, and it is not just beca
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‘Breathe, Ray.’ I reminded myself. My heart was ready to pump out of my chest anticipating the worst-case scenario. It wouldn’t be very fitting of me to pass out before dinner, but I still didn’t understand the point of all of this. I had absolutely no appetite at this point. Maybe we would just have a stare-off instead of dinner.We arrived to the dinner hall sooner than I’d hoped. Acelin squeezed my arm, an attempt meant to calm me and remind me he was there, but it did little to help. I had already met Claudis and I wasn’t too concerned with him. But knowing how worried Acelin had been about me meeting Onyx scared me. How bad could she really be, though? He said she was younger than him and she wasn’t going to hurt me – well, I didn’t think so anyways.Oh, God. What if she was so crazy she would attacked me even against Claudis’ orders? No, that wouldn’t happen. There’s no way Acelin would allow me to come if that were a possibility. So what was he so worried about? I just needed to
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A small giggle left my mouth as I looked between the three people sitting around me assuming he was joking. Their serious and stern faces wiped the smile off my face quick. What? Witches? They were real? Of course they were. Why wouldn’t they be? Next I’d assume fairies, trolls, and dragons were too. But this wasn’t a joke. He was saying I was a witch. That didn’t make any sense. I was normal. I wasn’t a witch. His information had to be wrong or he was just trying to mess with my head. If that’s what this was all over, if he wanted to keep me here because he thought I was a witch, then I would be able to leave soon after all because I definitely was not. My parents were normal. My sister was normal. Everyone in my family was normal. Well, except my third cousin Robin. She was a little off, but definitely not in a witchy way. She was just weird. I looked at Acelin. He could barely meet my gaze. Why would he not tell me Claudis suspected this? He could have just asked and I would have
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“Oh, excuse me. I’m just heading back to my room.”I tried to squeeze by him with my head down, but he grabbed my wrist with enough force to halt me instantly.“What are you doing? Get the fuck off me!” But his grip just grew stronger. He leaned into me smelling my scent as others had done before. He wasn’t going to actually hurt me, right? I was under protection and surely he wouldn’t defy that. That’s what I told myself, but the look in his eyes made me second guess that. His malicious intent was almost palpable at this point and I watched as his eyes darkened. He opened his mouth revealing fangs. I tried to scream but he moved quickly covering my mouth.My eyes widened fear taking over my body. Acelin was just down the hall. If I could somehow find a way to make enough noise, he would have to hear me, but he had now turned me around me holding me tight against him preventing me from being able to move. Just as I was about to give up, suddenly I felt a cool breeze and out of nowh
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I groaned as I stretched my body and I realized I was still in Acelin’s arms. “Good morning, my little one.” He kissed the back of my shoulder and trailed his fingers down my side sending a shiver through me. My muscles were sore, a reminder from all the positions it had been in the night before. “Good morning.”I turned towards him and snuggled my face into his smooth chest thinking how nice it would be to stay like this all day. “Last night was..”“Perfect?” I asked completing his sentence as I pulled my head back searching for his eyes. “Perfect.” He smiled and he planted another kiss on my forehead before suddenly jumping up and reaching for my arms to pull me into the bathroom shower. We fought about the water temperature where I found out that apparently vampires don’t like heat very much since they are cold blooded by nature. I won, of course, turning the water to the hottest I could stand it and then proceeded to wash his back. He tried to object at first wanting to cater
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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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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
