MIA“Holy shit!” I gasped as I stared at the foot of my bed to see Cassie’s lifeless body. Her eyes were rolled back and her chest had been ripped open. A note was pinned to her now lifeless heart that was on her body. “You took something precious from me, I won't stop killing until I get it back.”I read out the note shaking with fear as Ivan stirred beside me and held my waist still feeling sleepy. “Another nightmare?” he asked, with a sleepy voice. “Yes and it became a reality,” I answered. Ivan rubbed his eyes before sitting up, “What do you mean?”I pointed at the dead body lying at the foot of my bed and Ivan gasped. “How did she get here? How could this have happened?” Ivan asked, standing up immediately and looking around. “What’s with all the fuss this morning?” Javier’s tired voice floated through the house as he walked toward us. “Watch out!” I exclaimed. He stopped and looked down when he saw the dead body and a startled gasp left his lips. “Where is Olivia?” he
MIA“You bastard! Where are you?” I snarled into the phone. Leo’s wicked chuckle drifted into my ear over the phone. “Oh sweet feisty slave, how I would enjoy taming you,” he chuckled. “You won't get within ten feet of me before I strangle you for killing Cassie,” I threatened. Leo laughed, “Yes, I know she was your favorite. You can still stop me, Mia.”“Why didn't you take me instead? Why did you have to kill her?” I snarled. Javier placed a soothing arm around my waist and I rested my head on his chest, holding back my tears. “It’s gonna be alright,” he whispered. “It’s not gonna be alright if I don't get what I want, Mia, this is merely a courteous call,” Leo snapped. “What do you want, Leo? You had every chance to take me so why didn't you?” I asked, still puzzled. “Do what needs to be done, Mia or more dead bodies will pile up for you,” he cackled before hanging up.“Something isn't right,” I stated, “Why didn't Leo take me when he had the chance?”“I think my father wi
MIA“I’m gonna kill him!” I snarled, heading for the door. Ivan was quick to stop me as he grabbed my waist attempting to calm me down. “Calm down, Mia, let’s talk about this,” he stated. I shook my head, “He had no right to go to that hospital. No fucking right at all.”“Why does it seem like your uncle is working with Leo and his people,” Bastien mused. I stopped for a moment to think and I frowned, “You don't possibly think that Howard is going to harm my mom right?”“What did the nurse say when you picked the call?” Ivan asked. “She said that my mom was temporarily discharged by her brother. My mom needed a change of scenery for a few days and Howard took her home. They only agreed to it because he's in the family’s record,” I answered. “What exactly do you want to do now? I think you're at a crossroads, Javier is in danger and your mom could be in danger,” Bastien asked. I nodded, “I know. I don't know what to do, Bastien, maybe I'll go see my mom first then Ivan will trac
JAVIER“You’re early.”I shifted into my human form as I stared at Leonard who was smirking and standing in front of his gate. “Why did you kill that girl?” I asked, a frown on my face. Leonard shrugged, “It’s fun.”My face hardened but I managed to restrain myself from snapping him into two. He was a sick psycho, how could he just decide killing someone was fun?“I have come to warn you to stay away from Mia,” I stated.Leonard laughed, “How pathetic are you? Do you think you'll walk out the same way by coming here?”I shrugged, “You don't want to test me, Leo. Stay away from my mate.”“Your mate is going to come crawling to me herself so you can stop trying to save her,” he sneered. I sighed, “What's your deal, Leo? I thought Bastien already straightened you out.”An angry look flashed across Leo’s face but then it disappeared immediately. “Bastien has nothing on me. Now, why don’t you come inside, let's wait for your mate,” Leo smiled. The urge to resist and smash his face in
LEONARD“I don't understand, didn't you say you wanted Javier to suffer for taking away your slave?” I glared at Olivia standing beside me as I felt an intense urge to squeeze the life out of her but doing that would render all the master’s plans useless and he would also know my secret. “Shut up!” I snapped through gritted teeth. Olivia looked away, a sullen look on her face as the doctors I called fussed over Javier’s prone body. “We need space, Mr. Leonard,” one of the doctors said. “Go away,” I snapped at Olivia. Olivia scoffed and walked out of the room, a furious look on her face. “And don't hurt anyone else!” I yelled after her. “You too, Mr. Leo,” the doctor said, “You need to leave.”I scoffed, “You’re kidding right?”The doctor shook his head, “We are trying to save his life.”“But I can't leave you alone with him. He's my… he's my son,” I cried. “We understand Mr. Leo, but seeing as you've refused to bring him to the hospital we need the room,” the doctor stated.
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
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