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A/N: THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO CYNTHIA WARD THANKS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMMENTS.IVAN“What do you mean by that, Leo?” I asked my father who was locked in with Leo.Leo sneered as he glared at Bastien, “Why don't you ask your father?”I stared at Bastien, bile rising in my throat as I shuddered to think about what I had heard earlier. “Dad, is there something you wanna tell me?” I asked him, hoping that he would say something and not what Leo had just said. “It doesn't have anything to do with you, Son,” he answered. Leo scoffed before I could react, a look of disbelief in his eyes. “I can't believe you're lying to your son too,” Leo scoffed at Bastien. I noticed the tension between them as Bastien snarled at him, seeming to lose his cool around him. “Get out, Leo! Or else I'll make you regret it,” Bastien snarled. Leo laughed mockingly, “Do whatever you want, Bastien, I’ll always be in the shadows waiting for the right time to surface.”Leo walked away from the hospi
MIA“What do you want to tell me, Sylvia?” I asked her. Sylvia was staring at Javier, a frown playing on her lips. “I don't think it’s advisable to discuss with him here,” she stated, referring to Javier.I frowned, personally, I didn't know a lot about Javier but considering he's just told me about his life three years ago I figured there wasn’t any harm in him being around. “I’ll go,” Javier stated, walking away. “No,” I shook my head, pulling him back, “It’s not necessary, Javier. Sylvia, you can say whatever you want with Javier here.”Sylvia didn't like it but she nodded and we sat down on the bench while she stood. “I just took your mom to her ward now and placed her on her treatment,” Sylvia started. I nodded, “Yeah? Is she alright?”Sylvia nodded, “She’s recovering faster than I would have thought.”“So what's the issue?” I asked, confused. “Your mom was with someone who she said is an old friend,” Sylvia said. I nodded, “Yes, it’s Javier’s father.”“Yes, I believe so.
MIAI stared at Sylvia as I wondered what she meant by her words, a frown etched on my face. “Adoption? Twenty-one years ago?” I asked, my brain working and trying to do the calculations. “Yes, and he looks the same,” Sylvia argued. I could see the look in Javier’s eyes even though he tried to pretend like he wasn't curious. “This doesn't prove anything, Sylvia,” he said to her. Sylvia scoffed, “I don’t know what your father is but I’d like it if he stopped visiting my patient. I don't know what he's up to and I want Laura to get well soon.”“Fine. I'll be sure to pass along your message,” Javier stated.Sylvia stared at me for a moment before she stomped away. I stared at Javier with a questioning look. “What does she mean by adoption?” I asked him. He shrugged, “I’m just hearing this for the first time.”“What are you going to do?” I asked. He sat down on the bench, his shoulders slumped as he gave me a defeated look. “Only your mom can give us answers,” he answered. “I do
JAVIERI stared at Bastien and Ivan, a frown forming on my lips as Ivan looked away from me. “What other secret are you hiding, Bastien?” I asked him. “Nothing that you should concern yourself with,” Bastien answered confidently. “What do you mean by that? Ivan, what was he discussing with you?” I asked, knowing that Ivan would never lie to me. “Leo said some mean things about Dad three years ago and he didn't want me to tell you,” Ivan answered. “Mean things? Does Leo even know him?” I asked, surprised. “It would seem so,” Ivan nodded. My head was spinning from the mind-blowing kiss I had just shared with Mia and my skin was still tingling as if it was on fire. I wasn't in the mood to deal with Bastien and his nonsense. I could feel my wolf howling with joy inside me and wanting me to mark her. I needed to be in a private place with Mia. “It’s nothing for you to concern yourself with…” Bastien was saying but I ignored him and grabbed Mia’s wrists. “Let’s go,” I said to her.
MIAI stood behind Javier, my chest heaving at the way I felt earlier before the doorbell interrupted our heart-to-heart conversation. “It's nice to see you again, Javier,” someone said when he opened the door. “Olivia!” Javier exclaimed before a bundle of red curls flopped into his arms, giggling as he laughed. ‘What the heck? Who's that?’ Lynn snarled. I felt my chest rise in anger as I wondered who had the nerve to hug my mate like that. Not like I've accepted him yet but we just finished making out a few minutes ago. “How is this possible?” Javier was asking. The redhead finally pulled away from him and I saw her. She left me speechless. The girl was drop-dead gorgeous. She had the most pretty red hair I've ever seen with shining blue eyes and a charming smile. Her figure was perfect. She was slim, tall, and slender with a long jaw, high cheekbone, and sparkling teeth. She was pouting now, accentuating her beautiful plump pink lips, her cheeks were naturally red and rosy and
LEONARDI snarled in anger as I entered my car and slammed the door shut. A scream rippled in my chest and it threatened to explode.“Alpha, may we leave now?” my guard asked me. I stared at the guard, my anger intensifying and I nodded, “Yes, let’s go.”He drove off while I kept brooding in silence. Why did Bastien have to always get what I wanted? I dialed the number on my call logs and a voice spoke up immediately.“Hello, I said only to call during an emergency,” the voice snapped over the phone. I growled, I was pretty upset and it wouldn't be good if he got on my bad side. “This is an emergency!” I snarled.“What do you want?” the voice asked. “I want to know exactly why you didn't tell me that Bastien survived the attack!” I snarled. There was a slight pause on the other end of the line before he replied. “I just found out,” he replied. “What are we going to do about this?” I asked him. “Let’s meet up at our usual spot,” he stated. “Fine,” I snapped, hanging up the ph
MIA“What the hell is going on here?” I asked again, glaring at the redhead. Olivia frowned as she stared at me, her smile fading slightly. She was dressed in a sexy bikini which showed off an awful part of her body causing me to scrunch up my face in jealousy and anger.“What is your problem? I'm trying to be nice,” she snapped at me, startling me. My face morphed into confusion as I stared at the evil smirk on her face. She had seemed so sweet earlier but now she seemed like a bitch. “Trying to be nice?” I found myself asking.She shrugged, “Yes. I'm not normally nice to girls who try to steal my man!”I scoffed, my eyes widening with surprise, “Your man?”Olivia rolled her eyes at me, walking around the room and picking up a perfume. “Oh come on, don't act dumb. You should have known by now that Javier belongs to me,” she grinned, spraying Javier’s perfume on her body. She inhaled deeply and a smile broke on her face, “I smell just like him.”A low growl left my lips as my eye
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