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
MIA“We are not going to answer that,” Ivan said backing away from the door.“Took the words right out of my mouth,” Javier said.“We are too late,” Leo said then cast an angry glance at Sarcana, “this is all your fault. If anything happens to Mia, you are to blame.”“Oh please don’t pretend like you are worried about Mia, right now. The only person you care about is yourself.”“Guys, what the hell are we going to do?” Olivia asked.She had been silent this whole time, shaking in fear and unable to speak and now she finally spoke, albeit in a tiny voice, like a scared little child.Leo looked surprised, I guessed with everything that was going on, she completely escaped his mind and he did not see her.“What the hell are you doing here?” he asked, his look went from surprised to cautious as it dawned on him what her presence here meant for his relationship with Rylee.“Don’t worry,” Olivia said reading the situation. “I won’t rat on you.”“Like I would trust the words of a rat,” he sa
MIA“It’s no use,” Leo said, “We are surrounded!”As I heard that I felt a bit of relief flood through me, I was going to fight after all, I was going to get my wish of staying with my mom."There is no escaping this now, we have to all fight," Leo said and looked at me with anger in his eyes. "All this could have been avoided if you and your mom had just been reasonable from the start. Can't believe that bull-headedness and a childish tantrum is why we are in this situation right now.""Don't matter how we got here, what matters is that we get out of it," Ivan said."How many attackers?" Javier asked."I could see about fifteen out back, who knows the number up front.""Shit, this is going to be tough," Javier admitted.A loud bang sounded on the back door and then came again more forcefully."They are trying to get in," Olivia said and went behind Leo."Do not count on me or any of the men to save you. You are going to have to fight for yourself. Everybody's attention is on saving M
JAVIERThere was no reprieve from the attacks, we bolted the doors and ran back to the living room and the whole place was a war zone.It was unbelievable that just moments ago, this place was a well-furnished living room, right now it looked the exact opposite.My eyes scanned the battlefield and we were not winning at all, Bastien and Sarcana had been pushed back and were still being heavily pressed by about eight attackers. there was still an army behind that hadn't moved an inch.They just stood there watching them struggle, trying to wear them out. When they spotted us, a tall huge man at the back ordered them to attack.I saw Mia's attacker, the man had a small rugged blade with him, and it wasn't coated with silver, I determined that Mia could easily handle him. I wasn't so lucky.The man who came after me was huge and he had a cutlass, the edges were all coated with silver and he looked at me like we had some serious beef from before when I had no idea who the guy was.I didn'
SARCANAI was starting to wonder if all this was my fault, why did I insist on staying behind when they tried to convince me to go? I was so blinded by my desire to avenge the death of my husband that I didn’t consider the fact that the wolf's attack would be this coordinated.Bastien and I had our hands full, there were eight attackers surrounding us and no way to flee. Not that I was planning on fleeing at that moment, I could only see revenge.Mia, her mates, Leo and Olivia came back to the sitting room, I assumed it was all because somehow the back way was blocked or not accessible.I still was not worried, Mia was strong enough to handle all the small fries, they did not seem like they seriously wanted to harm her, we still had the chance to win this fight, we just had to fight our way through this and we were home free.One of the eight attackers came at me and I slashed his throat with my claws before he could even carry out his attack. It had been a long time since I had fough
IVANThis was just like last time, like three years ago when I had watched my mate, Ella get killed in front of me.They said if we didn’t learn from history, we were doomed to repeat it, guess we didn’t learn from our mistakes because something similar was playing out in front of my eyes again.Last time, I lost my mate and my mom and in more ways than one, my dad too. This time, I was about to lose my brother. I could not let that happen.I got back up to my feet but the vampire king just kicked me down again. He grabbed me by the neck and lifted me in the air.I tried to claw at his face but he just flung me aside like I was garbage.I fell and rolled regained my balance and got to my feet.Everything was in an uproar; the fighting seemed to still be going on.Bastien was trying to fend off the rogue king but it was clear to see that his attention was not there in the battle, he kept casting sideways glances at Javier who lay face down on the floor, bleeding while Leo struggled to