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
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'
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