OLIVIAWhen my eyes fluttered open this morning, I felt a wave of desperation wash over me in bed. I could hardly get up or sit up, I just lay awake staring at the ceiling.My mind was still in crisis mode, I still had nightmares from what happened to me during my stay in the elder forest.Vivid images of the mist encircling me and the voice of Javier taunting me and calling me a coward, I shuddered in bed just recalling that nightmare.I sat up and shuffled my feet into my flip-flops. The voice of Javier was not wrong at all, I was a huge coward no matter how hard I looked at it or tried to deny it. At first, I was not fully on board with this after Rylee revived me.I was just a spy sent to Javier and Ivan, I still had a chance to turn again Rylee then and there, tell them what she was planning, and maybe together, we would have been able to stop her but I didn’t. I was too much of a coward to do that.Instead, I spied for her and let my envy of Mia poison my heart and my mind, and
JAVIER After the steamy scene with Mia, I took a quick bath, threw a suit on, and headed into the office. It had been a while since I had gotten any work done because of what had been going on in my personal life with Mia constantly being attacked and then the personal attack on myself from Olivia, finding out that Leo was my biological father amongst other things. The corporate side of things had taken the back bench, now was the time to get caught up with that side of things. We would be heading for Vegas any day now, I needed to get our affairs in order, sign was needed signing and give deals that were in the works the extra nudge that they needed to keep going smoothly. I didn’t stay long and when I got back, it was like de ja vu all over again, Mia was nowhere to be found. I already knew how this story went, Mia disappeared for a bit, and by the time we found her, she was caught up in one trouble or the other. I was beginning to have a knot in my stomach, I could smell
OLIVIAI took another cautious step forward. “It’s about Rylee and what she plans to do to…”Mia lurched at me with her claws extended and swiped at my neck viciously!She didn’t even give me a warning, she was going straight for the kill.I ducked back but I was not fast enough, the tip of her claws scraped some skin from my neck clean off but narrowly missed my jugular vein.I crashed with my back into a tree truck.“What the hell do you think you are doing? I didn’t come here to fight you,” I said.“Then that would make killing you easier,” she replied and came at me again.I had no choice, as much as I wanted to atone for what I had done, I was not about to just stand still and be mauled to death without putting up a fight.I extended my claws and prepared for battle, we both clashed and to my surprise, she was far stronger than I.That should not be possible, I had been a wolf longer, and I should have overpowered her with relative ease but instead, I found myself struggling to h
MIAFrom the moment that Olivia intruded on my quiet moment, I was filled with rage and anger, I wanted to tear her to pieces… the nerve of her to show up and claim that she was here to speak to me about Rylee as if I would fall for such an obvious plot.I tried immediately to kill her and my only regret was that I didn’t before Ivan and Javier showed up.At first, when they came, I was glad, ecstatic, against the tree of us, Olivia stood no chance, we were going to rip her limb from limb and send her head back in a box to her psycho aunt.Then Ivan and Javier separated the fight instead of joining in and then Javier seemed to be taking Olivia’s side.I could not understand what he was thinking at a time like this, he was supposed to be much madder than me, than Ivan. He was supposed to be the maddest person present but instead, he was the calmest and that made me angrier.Why was Javier not mad? Why was he not enraged seeing the face of that bitch, he should have wanted to tear her a
RYLEEAfter I met with Olivia, I left her to get ready for my next meeting. It was a good thing that Olivia was back to her right senses.I would have hated to do anything drastic to my family, hurting blood was never easy and I was glad that she did not force my hand.I signaled to one of my servants to get the car ready and he nodded.Today, Philip and I were going to make some arrangements and settle on some things to move our plans ahead… my body tingled with excitement at the prospect.Sarcana’s days were numbered and nothing made me happier than to be the one counting it down for her. She had better enjoy what little time she had with her daughter because it was not going to last.I walked past the housekeeper on my way out, “inform me when Olivia gets back, I have another errand for her.”The aging woman bowed curtly and I stepped outside into the waiting car.The driver closed the door and got into the front seat, “where to, boss?” he asked in his rich deep voice.“Drive until
MIA Hearing a knock at this precise moment with the type of conversation we had going on, was nerve-racking. From experience, anytime we received a knock like this, bad things followed. First, it was the knock we received and then I saw the vampire king in a cloak, and then I fainted and then there was the time when we received another knock and then the vampire king once again gained entrance into our house and knocked out my mates and then kidnapped Javier. I had a knot in my stomach as I looked at the door. I was not the only person that was tense… Olivia was gripping the edge of her seat, a look of terror clear on her face. She looked like she was about to take off at the sign of any clear danger. Javier was also weary, he was the closest to the door and I was pretty sure he just had the same memory flash that I did and knew what type of trouble we have had in the past from knocks like this. His body was tense and his stance told me that he was ready to fight or at the very l
LEONot getting a chance to speak to Javier after the whole incident was something that was getting on my nerves. Why did the boy have to be so stubborn? Could he not at least hear me out? I wondered.I barely got a good night's sleep. I was up early in the morning and brimming with purpose.As Bastien and I had discussed in his car with Sarcana the other day, I was going to keep playing Rylee and pretending to be her ally while gaining valuable information that I could relay back to Bastien and Co.I did not doubt that at this point, Rylee was back from the elder forest but I did not think a direct approach was going to be the best way to get information from her. Normally, she was secretive and suspicious by nature so if I showed up asking questions about her plans, she might begin to suspect something.The spy I had in her camp did not have any useful information for me except that since her return, she had been making moves that no one knew about. I needed to find out what those m
MIAThings were just getting more and more complicated by the hour, first, a man in a red cloth had appeared out of nowhere, and knocked on our door, and when we opened the door, my mom and Bastien bowed to him and then he delivered the letter and disappeared.Here we were still trying to get to the bottom of it when the door swung open again and Leo was there, panting. There was a look of apprehension on his face and before he even spoke, I knew he was going to be bearing bad news.“Bad news people, you need to get out of town, now and I mean now. There is no time to waste.”“What the hell are you talking about?” Javier asked dismissively, “We were just about to get Bastien and Sarcana to cough up another one of their secrets and here you are again.”“Whatever it is you want to hear from them, I can assure you, it can wait, mine can’t. Don’t even bother packing a bag, just get in your car and start driving… all of you. You need to be anywhere else but here. Leave before it is too lat
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