MIA“This is all your fault!” I stared at Leonard as he lunged toward me and I managed to move away from the way before his claws slashed my arm. “Ouch!” I exclaimed, holding my injured arm. “This wouldn't have happened if you had just come quietly!” he snapped, lunging at me again. “What is going on and why did I trace Javier to this place? He's not supposed to be here,” I asked, stepping out of the way again. “I don't think now is the time to fight, Leo, especially when Javier has little time left,” the doctor said. I frowned, “Little time? What does that mean?” Leo snarled at me, “Javier is dying.”“Dying? What do you mean by that? What did you do to him?” I yelled. I shifted into my wolf and lunged at Leo immediately. He could barely dodge my attack as I clawed at his shoulders. “Again this isn't the time to fight!” the doctor snapped. Scowling I shifted back to my human form as Leo glared at me. “Little slave has got some claws,” he mocked. “Come closer and I'll show
MIAI stared at Javier’s injured chest and I gasped. The place where my blood had trickled onto his injury was now healing itself. “What is going on?” I asked Leo, surprised. The injury stopped healing itself halfway when the blood I had trickled on his chest dried up. “I think your blood is healing him, Mia,” Leo replied with a shocked voice. I shook my head, “That's impossible.” “There's only one way to find out,” Leo said to me. I stared at Javier’s injury and sighed as I squeezed my injury and watched as the blood spilled onto him. “This is useless, I'm sure it's his werewolf abilities kicking in and healing him,” I said to Leo. Leo’s eyes widened with fascination as he smiled, “Hold that thought, darling, I'm very certain it's your blood doing the work.”My eyes widened in surprise as I saw my blood forming a knit-like shape on Javier’s chest before it immersed itself in his injury. “What the fuck is going on?” I asked, puzzled. Leo’s eyes were still wide with surprise
MIA“It's not happening!” I snapped at Leo. Leo sighed, running a hand through his hair, “Please, Mia, I could die if you don't do this.”I scoffed, “Why would you tell me that? Does it look like I care? If you die the world will be a better place.”“If I die the master will send a more villainous person than me and then you'd wish you had kept me,” Leo said.Javier stared at us, a confused look on his face, “The master? What master are you talking about, Leo? And what is this ‘it’s time’ you're saying?”Leo sighed as he stared at me and shook his head, “He's going to try and stop you.”“Damn right, I am,” Javier stated. “Mia think this thorough. Wouldn't it be better if I'm the anchor? At least you know I'd never do anything to hurt you or Javier,” Leo said. I nodded, he was right. He would never do anything to harm Javier and if he was going to harm me he would have done that but if he's replaced the new person can easily hurt Javier and everyone I care about within the blink of
MIAMy heart raced to my chest at the mention of my mother’s name and just like that every chitchat ceased. “What’s wrong with her?” I asked, opening the door and stepping out worriedly. Olivia smirked, “Nothing. She's sleeping like a baby, but I can't have you guys bickering over nothing for hours.”I growled at her, “What the hell is your problem?”“Say thank you,” she hissed at me, “I've just helped you get rid of whatever argument you guys may have been having back there.”I couldn't argue with her on that. At least her interruption got Javier to stop his incessant questions. I stared at Leo and he nodded, “We’ve got to go, Mia.”Javier stood protectively in front of me, “She’s not going anywhere with you.”Olivia rolled her eyes, “Ugh! This guy? How did you even survive?”Javier narrowed his eyes into slits as he stared at her, “Are you surprised I didn't die?”Olivia frowned, “Of course. That's why I stabbed your chest, I didn't want you to survive.”“What happened to you, Liv
MIAI stared at the sunken face and hollow eyes that were staring at me and I felt goosebumps crawling up my skin. “Who the hell are you?!” I blurted out, trying to hide the fear that was evident in my voice. “I'm your destiny and doom, Mia, pick your poison,” he answered in an eerie voice. It was a bit dark in this part of the woods and I couldn't see the man properly but I could have sworn that his face was an empty skeleton. I stared at Leo, but he was looking away clearly frightened. Could this be the master he told me about?“I don't like to be kept waiting, Mia,” his eerie voice sounded again, causing another wave of goosebumps. “What?” I was confused. Olivia’s evil laugh reached my ear as she walked up to me. “Did you come here willingly or were you forced, that's what he means,” she explained. I frowned, staring at her suspiciously. Even though she had just laughed at me she still explained what he meant. Could she be correct?By the way, the man stared at me expectant
MIA“Who are you?” The woman who looked exactly like Olivia stepped down from the podium and headed toward me while I took a step back as Olivia followed her with a smirk. “I don't believe we've been properly introduced, my name is Rylee, I'm Olivia’s aunty,” the woman smiled. The name clicked as I recalled what Bastien had told me a few days ago when I had my dream. “Rylee as in from my dream?” I asked her. She smiled and nodded, “From your vision, Mia, now you're catching up.”“What the hell are you doing here? And were you that bag of bones?” I asked, still confused. She nodded, “Yes, I was the bag of bones, courtesy of your mother.”My eyes widened at the mention of my mom, “My mom has nothing to do with this.”“I meant your real mother,” she smirked.“What do you know about my parents?” I asked her. “What do you mean by that?” she asked, trying to play innocent. “You seem to be the last person who was with my parents and you're the one who brought me to the place where I
MIA“Dad, are you gonna say something?” This was the fourth time Ivan was asking Bastien this question and yet he remained in a daze, not saying a word and staring into space. “Damn it, Bastien, get yourself together and tell us what we’re dealing with!” Javier snapped at him.I stared at Javier and felt terrible for Bastien. Now I understood why he was an unhappy man. His mate had cheated on him with his brother and brought a child into this world. Bastien was caring for that child and yet the child seemed to always find ways to fault him and hate him for things that weren't his fault. But at the same time I knew it wouldn't be any easier on Javier realizing that Leo who was the father of all things evil was his father. After how many years and no one told him. I stared at Ivan wondering why they didn't want to tell him. Even his own father Leo is worried about Javier getting the news. “Take it easy, Javier, he's still processing,” Ivan intervened. Javier frowned, “When did yo
MIABastien got up from his seat, a look of unfiltered horror on his face, “Rylee, this is unbelievable, how are you here?”Rylee cackled wickedly as she looked around the sitting room, “Is that how you say hello to an old friend whom you haven’t seen in a long time, Bastien?”“Impossible, you died, you are supposed to be dead.”“You should know, something as trivial as death cannot hold me back.”Ivan and Javier also had the same shocked looks on their faces, the resemblance between Rylee and Olivia was uncanny.Rylee and her entourage consisting of Olivia and Leo walked into Bastien’s house. Every one of us exchanged glances.Leo and Javier had a face-off with Javier looking ready to descend to violence at any time.Olivia glared at me and I returned the favor. I would love nothing more than to rip out her heart right now after the stunt she played with Javier but I stay calm. Ivan stepped in front of me, his protective instincts kicking it. The atmosphere in the room was very tens
MIAThe next few days were all dark and gloomy, we had won the war but the cost was heavy and it was felt by everyone of us, most of all was Javier.For the first few days, we just holed up in the isolated house that Leo had found and there we passed days as we all tried to come to terms with what had just happened. But today was the day, the day we said goodbye for good.Ivan and Leo had decided that we would all mourn our dead on the same day. Leo handled all the preparation, that was the least that he could do, he said.The first few days were the worst, Javier blamed himself for everything even though we told him that it was Rylee’s fault that he had that evil put in him in the first place and even though he knew this himself, he still blamed himself.How could he not? I sympathized with him and as he hurt, we hurt too. He killed Olivia and then also went ahead to kill Bastien when trying to kill my mom who was protecting him from killing his own brother.It was a very horrible ex
MIAWhat was going on? I was supposed to be dead was I not? Instead, everywhere seemed bright and happy.Not the dark and cold embrace of death that took hold of me earlier, what was going on? I could feel the sunlight on my face and I could hear birds chirping happily in the distance.My hands went to my chest, to where the blade was plunged into me, I felt around the skin frantic, there was no scar, no depression, no sign that I had sustained any injury of any kind at all.I opened my eyes and looked around, I had to blink to adjust my eyes to the brightness that was all around me.I was lying in a field and I was wearing a short rosy gown as opposed to the dark blouse and the tight jeans I had on when I was stabbed.I sat up, the grasses were about two feet high and they were swaying in the soft breeze that was blowing, it was all I could see for miles, a field covered in green grasses and hills all around.I got up and walked through the grasses bare-foot, there was just something
IVANWith Mia captured, it was different, we were able to track her thanks to her mother, things were happening so fast that it felt like I would not even be able to keep up.Mia had been sent away by her mother and then Javier had attacked us and defeated all of us easily, he was about to end my life, my brother, and that was when Olivia stepped in.Why did she step in? Maybe she felt responsible somehow and was trying to make amends but that didn't work, she just ended up getting killed by the man she called her bestie, it was tragic.Now we were all in Bastien's car heading towards the site of the ritual. Sarcana had been able to track Mia to where she was being held.All that was on my mind at this point was to kick down the front door and rush in to rescue her, but I knew deep down we didn't have the strength to stop our adversaries, we were most likely going for a suicide mission."How are we going to take down all those guys and free Mia?" Leo asked.That was when Sarca
JAVIEREverything was dark all around me, I was wrapped up in a cocoon of darkness and I did not know what was happening in the world around me.Then without any warning, a powerful shockwave hit me and put a crack in my cocoon, a ray of light filtered in and I reached for it immediately and tore at the cocoon until there was a hole big enough for me to climb through.It then felt like I was slowly rising to the surface after being submerged in a deep dark liquid for too long, it took me a while to fully return to my senses and when I did, I was overwhelmed and confused.The first thing I noticed was all the chanting and screaming, there were a lot of people around, wolves, I could tell and then something else, I could smell death in the air, vampires too.I had never been in the company of so many of them before then I locked eyes with Mia and I remembered what I had done to her.Not just to her, to Olivia, to my brother, to her mother, to Bastien, and Leo, oh my goodness, I was such
MIASo the ritual was going to happen in an hour, which meant that was exactly how long I had left to live. I turned my gaze to Javier with pleading and tears in my eyes.He just stood there like a robot or a statue, looking past me and not seeing anything at all.Was I really to take the words of the high priest Antonio? Was Javier lost to me? A part of me still felt that he was my last hope, that somehow he was the solution to solving the problem that was right in front of me.The wolf bane in my system made me suddenly groggy, I was afraid that if I fell asleep now, it would be my last slumber. I had to find a way to fight this feeling, I needed to be awake for my remaining time on the planet.The more that I tried to fight the sleep, the more it attacked me until I had no choice but to close my eyelids and succumb to it.As soon as my eyes closed, I realized that I was indeed in a vision. This one was different in the sense that it forced itself upon me, usually, when I fell aslee
MIA"How can you say such a thing about my mate, Javier? He is not cursed!" I countered the high priest Antonio."I did not mean to offend you, chosen one, I was just saying things as I saw it. Javier Romanov is cursed by the prophesy, he is the harbinger of doom and there is nothing you or anyone else can do to change that.""No, you are wrong, there is always a way and I will find it," I said stubbornly.The high priest shook his head at me, "There are far more precious things for the chosen one to be doing than fixating over a lost cause.""He is not a lost cause, stop calling him that."He got up from his meditative stance, "We have waited for the chosen one for a while now and here you are finally. You have a lot to learn, you need to learn how to use your powers to stop the forces of darkness that are converging. Only you can do it.""I don't care about any of that," I snapped, "I only care about saving Javier."Antonio sighed, "I have told you, it is a lost cause.""Then I have
IVANMy heart felt bad for Mia, having to swap her out in the middle of a serious fight like this but I was totally on board with my dad's reasoning.We could all think better and work better without Mia here, if she was not around for us to worry about, we could focus on the task of getting my brother back."Where did you send her?" I asked her mom."I..." Bastien cut her off."Don't tell him," he commanded."What? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" I said, anger rising in my chest."It's not what you think son, better if only she knew exactly where Mia is, for security reasons.""You think that I would rat out my mate's location if I get tortured or something like that?""You might not have a choice, Rylee is a powerful psychic. The only one among us here that can counter her mental prowess is Sarcana. So it is best if only she knew where Mia was and besides," he looked at Leo, "You might not rat her out but someone else here might.""Great, keep treating me like a criminal wh
MIAMy mother's words filled me with a sense of doom and gloom and made me sick to the stomach. How could she say something like that? Did she not know what Javier meant to me? How could she say that there was nothing we could do about it?We just got him back after he had been on the brink of death for so long, and now we were losing him again to some strange curse that I had never heard of.Was it not possible for us to catch a break? "Mom, c'mon, you can't say that there must be something we can do to help him."She shook her head sadly at me, "I am sorry dear but this situation is out of our hands, all we can do now is take precautions."Leo was not having any of that, "Maybe you might have hit your head a little too hard because I think you said that Javier cannot be helped. Or am I the one who did not hear you right?""I'm sorry, Leo, this is dark magic, there is no way out of it," Sarcana said to him. She was more apologetic than usual."Like hell, there is nothing we can do? W
JAVIERIt was a shock to me that I was standing right there, so close to her. I wanted to reach out and rip out her throat but my body would not let me do that.I cussed inwardly, this was bad, by the looks of things she was the one responsible for what was happening to me, if I could just take her out, the spell or whatever the hell this was would be broken.She was still smiling and had not yet answered the question I asked her earlier, I repeated it with much difficulty, the dark liquid that I was drowning in made talking very difficult.“What the fuck do you want from me?” I said baring my teeth.“There is no point in a puppet asking its master what the goals of the master are. Its job is just to obey wordlessly and move as the master pulls its string.” She said and laughed hoarsely.I took another step forward, “I am not your damn puppet you sick witch, tell me how to break this spell.”She stopped smiling and locked eyes with me, “Why the hell would I do something like that? I c