CHLOEAnxiety and worry filled me like an ever present being, always at the core of my person. My worry for Mackenzie and Rachel amplified by multiple folds. Jane and I drove out of manhattan like two normal people just heading out of town. I couldn’t wait to call Rachel but Jane suggested I waited a little. Just when I thought I couldn’t take it anymore, Jane pulled over at a mini mart“We’ll get a burner phone so you can call Rachel, let her know you are okay, but you can’t tell her where you are.”I didn’t even know exactly where we were but I knew we were somewhere on the outskirts of Drewsy, the vast acres of trees that surrounded Drew
ChloeIt all happened so fast. After Mark killed Calvin, and declared that I was his mate. Vincent smiled a treacherous smile and roared to his wolves.“Attack!”The wolves on Vincent’s and Mark’s side of the circle began to transform as they ran at each other. They’d only gone a few steps when they all crashed to their knees, howling in pains unimaginable. A man could be seen slowly making his way towards us at the center with his hands held at his side. The look on his face was unmistakable. Utter disgust.“Now boys I know I did not consent to oversee this duel just to get front row seats to my nephews destroying the Pack their father died to protect.”I was stunned to watch this utmost display of power from Pascal. One of the pack elders. No one talks about his gifts. But now it’s clear why no
VINCENTIt was exhilarating to be able to openly antagonize Mark. He had been a thorn in my flesh since we were kids. I can almost still feel my claws raking through his underbelly and it was easily my most treasured memory ever. The pain of losing Calvin was a fair trade as far as I was concerned. With any luck, Mark would not come back from that but deep down I knew he was too stubborn and life was too unfair for that to happen.It was going to be light out soon. I could see the eastern skies lighting up with the sun in its wake right from my office.The door creaked open quite loudly, mirroring the emotions of whoever opened it
CHLOEMark was rough. He wasn’t like last night. He seemed like a hungry dog that tasted blood for the first time.He pinned me down to the desk with one hand on my neck and shoulder while the other hand wrapped around my waist and pulled me into him as hard as he could, which as a werewolf was really hard. Still I didn’t want him to stop. He didn’t want to either. We went on for hours.After we took a shower I got proper clothes while he went back to the library. He remained there for most of the days for reasons I did not fully understand. When I asked him, he didn’t seem to know either. I guess it was something sentimental. I didn’t want to di
MARKJane’s words made the hair at the back of my neck stand. As I tried to reconcile her words with what we had been taught as young cubs, comparing it to what I’d seen for myself in the last couple of years.“It’s been millennia since the packs have had any sort of civil war or infighting. The rituals were made to prevent it. For the strength of the Pack is in its unity. A Pack without the bond is as good as dead.”Even as I said these words from the Lupus Codex, I could feel the difference between what it said and our reality. Jane seemed to be staring at me as though she could see the inner workings of my mind. She strode ac
CHLOEI could almost see the veins pulsating in Mark’s arms and head. Being in the arms of a transformed werewolf who could snap my neck at any time scared me so much I couldn’t move. A chill was continually running up my spine and every joint in my body was frightened stiff. Still I was focused on Mark.Vincent’s effrontery infuriated him, even though there was an all out war between the both of them. I saw how fired he got when Vincent’s wolves first broke in. But it was different now. Seeing me in danger like this set something off in him like nothing before. His face was steely calm and his brow was furrowed and his upper lip twitched so slightly on the left side. His fingers were opened up and his claws were extending slowly. He looked like he
MARKNo. 1 Blackmouth avenue.That was the address in the book. The only writing in it we could make sense of .I drove in silence as Jane continued to scan through the little black book. She claimed to not have understood the writings but she kept scanning every page in the book very carefully. The only thing she could deduce was that it was an Ascension ritual, Forbidden magic that hasn’t been performed for centuries. If she had known Whatever that meant or anything else, she kept it to herself.My mind drifted back to Chloe. I thought about how we left and how she might have been feeling now and I gripped the stee
CHLOEI laid on the single bed with apprehension in my heart and yearning in my soul, actively worrying about things I couldn’t directly affect. Thoughts of Mackenzie, wracked me with emotions. And now Mark and my mom have gone headfirst into the unknown. It completely took me by surprise when the phone rang. I was tense but I moved towards the hotel phone and picked it.“Hello.” I said with my heart beating at an insane speed in my very ears.“Chloe? Is that you ? Thank God you are alright, is Jane there? How’s Mark?”Rachel’s voice reached my ears and I sobbed to hear her voice, it filled me with relief. But her rapid words came with an emergency that tensed me up as well.“Rachel we are fine, how are you guys? How’s Mackenzie?”She broke in tears and apologized barely coherently.“I am so sorry, Chloe. They attacked us at the Porters and took Mackenzie. I tried to stop them”, she sobbed, “I’m really sorry Chloe.”My blood ran cold as I heard one of the worst thing I could ever he