JAVIERI held Ivan back as he rushed toward the man standing in our sitting room, a sad smile playing on his lips. “Is that how you welcome your father, Ivan?” the man asked a twinge of sadness in his tone. “You're dead to me!” Ivan snarled at him. “That's not how you're supposed to address me, Ivan, control your temper,” he said. I scoffed, “You’ve got some nerve coming back here, old man, and who do you think you are to tell Ivan what he should feel and shouldn't?” “Let me go so he would know exactly how my temper is!” Ivan snarled, struggling in my grip. I refused to loosen my grip while our father stared at us with that sad smile. His blue eyes looked sharp and he still looked the same as he had looked three years ago.The day he walked away from us, I mused sadly. “Why did you come back here, huh?” I asked him, trying to calm my anger and hold Ivan. Ivan was the most upset and hurt by my father’s leaving. He left at the most crucial time of our life. He was the main reaso
MIA “You dare to raise your filthy hands on me?!” I thundered, fury flowing through my veins as I stared at the terrified man in front of me. I didn't know what made me feel this way but I could feel the power inside me. It felt like I was one with it and if I just reached inside to tap a little of it then I would be able to burn down his home. “What the hell are you?!” he gaped in horror. “She’s my ticket out of here and your doom,” Cassie’s voice sounded behind me. I stared at the terrified face of Leo and it gave me joy. The thought of seeing him suffer so fearfully when he made others feel the same was amazing it sickened me. “What are you?” he asked again, amazement, curiosity, and panic all in his eyes. ‘I believe Cassie said we are his doom,’ the familiar voice piqued up inside me. ‘What the hell are you and what the hell is going on?’ I asked in my mind even though I was still enjoying my power flowing through me. ‘It’s finally nice to meet you, Mia, I'm Lynn, your wo
BASTIEN“Are you sure about this, Sir?” Alfred had asked me three hours ago before I started coming here. “Yes,” I had answered with strong conviction. But now as I stood before the cold gaze of my two sons I couldn't help but wonder if perhaps I was making a mistake. ‘Maybe we should have stayed away,’ My wolf, Kol said sadly. ‘We didn't. There's no point crying over spilled milk,’ I snapped at him. Kol kept quiet and drifted away leaving me to face the scathing gaze of my children as they stared at me, wishing they could incinerate me with their stares. “What do you want?!” Ivan snarled at me. He was the most angry at me. He thought I had abandoned him and his mother and made him lose his mate but I had equally felt betrayed three years ago until I learned the truth. That truth is what I've come to reveal to them. “I present to you the new major shareholder of the Romania Enterprise and my boss, Mr. Bastien Romania,” Alfred announced. “What?!” Javier exclaimed, shocked. I
MIA“Is that how you acknowledge your rescue party?” I scoffed as I stared at Ivan who was sitting in the driver’s seat of the SUV, a crooked smile playing on his lips.“What are you doing here, Ivan?” I asked him, rolling my eyes.“Uh… Mia, do you know these people ’cause we could use some help right now,” Cassie stated in an alarming voice.Rolling my eyes at Ivan’s smirk, I opened the car door and entered with Cassie.“I thought you didn’t need my help,” Ivan smirked.“Get us out of here quickly,” I groaned.“What’s the magic word?” Ivan asked with a smirk.I could see Leo recovering from my assault on him. Gritting my teeth in annoyance I glared at him, “Please get us out of here!”“Good, Mia, that wasn’t so hard,” Ivan smirked before he drove off.“How did you know where I was?” I asked him.He shrugged, “We kinda realized you were in danger.”“Who’s we?” I asked.That’s when I noticed the person sitting behind us in the SUV. His face wasn’t familiar so I frowned.“Hello, I’m Al
MIA“Mom?!”I saw my mom sitting in a wheelchair just across the hospital road and a startled gasp left my lips.“No, Mia, you can't go there,” Ivan stated, blocking my path.A snarl left my lips as I glared at him, “That’s my mom! She's finally awake.”“But Leo will be looking for you in that hospital. We have to lay low here and wait for Javier to come get us,” Alfred said. “No! That's my mom who can explain everything that's happening to me,” I snapped. “But what about Leo?” Cassie squeaked out of fear. I felt a powerful feeling within me and I grinned, “I dare him to come find me.”Ivan looked startled as he glanced at me, “Oh dear.”Then I crossed the road just as the nurse was wheeling my mom back inside the hospital. “Mom!” I called out. The nurse stopped and my mom looked at me, a happy smile breaking on her face. “My little bird!” she exclaimed happily. I laughed, falling into her arms. I’d almost forgotten the name she normally calls me. “Mom, I missed you!” I cried.
MIA“Mia, come back!” my mom’s voice rang out in the hallway as I ran out of the room, my eyes filled with tears. “It can't be,” I kept muttering as I was running. Tears streamed down my cheeks as I blindly ran through the hallways, colliding with patients, doctors, and nurses. I didn't even care that Leo could be there or he could harm my mother – she just admitted that she wasn't, so what should I call her?‘You should have given her time to explain herself,’ Lynn whispered in my ears. ‘Shut up!’ I snapped at the voice in my mind.Tears streamed down my face, blurring my vision as I ran toward the small garden at the back of the hospital. If what my mom has just admitted to was correct then Javier and his brother were right and my entire existence has been a lie. I couldn't even begin to imagine where I would go from here. ‘Stop jumping to conclusions so quickly!’Lynn snapped in my head. I ignored her as I sat down on the bench, staring at the flowers around me. This was wher
JAVIERI woke up to the worried faces of my father and the doctor as I frowned and sat up on the desk I had been placed on. “What happened?” I asked, massaging my temples. My father heaved a sigh of relief and attempted to hug me. I gave him a scathing gaze and he seemed to realize what he had been about to do. “Sorry, I'm just glad you didn't die,” he smiled at me sheepishly. My eyes narrowed into slits as my gaze hardened, “Die? What is that supposed to mean?”My father shrugged and the doctor seemed reluctant to speak. I sighed and stood up from the table grabbing my shirt. They had stripped me of my shirt and Tuxedo when I woke up. “Where’s Ivan? Since nobody wants to tell me what the hell is going on I'm sure he can tell me,” I hissed in disbelief.“Son, calm down. You fainted and there's a chance you might pass out again,” my father finally spoke. I scoffed at him, “I don't have fainting spells, Dad. I'm a strong Alpha male, not a puny weakling.”My dad chuckled while the
JAVIERI stared at my father as a look of familiarity passed between him and Mia’s mother and a surprised look showed on his face. “By the goddess, Laura, you haven't aged a day!” my father exclaimed. I frowned, exchanging a surprised look with Mia before staring at my father, “Do you two know each other?” Bastien nodded, surprise mixed with disbelief on his face. “Yes, it was a long time ago.”“How long?” Mia asked, her curiosity piqued. “Twenty-one years ago and recently three years ago,” Mia’s mom, Laura answered. My frown deepened as I stared at Bastien, my brows furrowed in a frown, “Were you having an affair while Mom was fighting for her life?” “What? No, that's not what happened. I he…” Bastien interrupted Laura sharply, “There’s no need to revisit the past, Laura, we weren't having an affair and that's it.”“But your son just accused you of…”He interrupted her again, “They’ve accused me of worse. Don't worry, he’ll get over it.”“What's worse than being accused of hav
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