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
SARCANAI watched Rylee retreat and then disappear into the night with Philip then Bastien called my attention to Javier, I wanted to go after them, go after the rogue king and get my daughter back but I knew that he was long gone, right now, what I could do was help Javier.I ran over, “move aside,” I said.They obeyed and gave me the space I needed to work.“Can you heal him?” Leo asked anxiously.“I’ll do my best,” I replied.“What does that mean? Is it a yes or a no?” he barked.Bastien placed a hand on his shoulder, “let her do her thing, Leo.”I ignored him, the cut was deep, and I was wondering what approach I could take to help Javier.I spread out her hands over the wound and began chanting words in a low tone. It had been a while since I had performed a healing spell, I wasn’t sure it was going to work but it was worth a try.It was an ancient healing spell I learned a long time ago, I started muttering the Latin words over and over again, “Aufer iniuriam, repone vitam et vi
RYLEEI saw Javier get struck down by the rogue king and I smiled, good riddance to another troublesome mutt.Suddenly, Leo yelled and ran towards him while Bastien proceeded to fend off the rogue king.I smiled again as I looked at Sarcana and saw the look of terror on her face, finally, we were back to facing each other one on one again.Now that Leo had left, I could go back to teaching her a lesson that she would not forget. It was our good fortunes that the rogue king came when he did.Philip and I were marching over to the penthouse to go retrieve Mia ourselves and punish that backstabbing good-for-nothing child, Olivia when he brought Mia to us.Had it not been for Javier and Sarcana showing up, we would have acquired Mia by now but not to worry, after we were done getting rid of them all, we would take Mia. I was going to kill everybody present – Javier, Ivan, Leo (Another backstabbing piece of shit), and lastly Bastien, that annoyingly clever wolf.Everyone but Sarcana was go
RYLEEThe atmosphere was tense in the warehouse in the lower district where we were surrounded by an army of wolves that seemed keen to take our head off.Philip called it a necessary precaution, I thought it was an ambush but it looked like I was wrong and he was right. The rogue king seemed to have indeed agreed to meet up in good faith and he was holding Mia somewhere we did not know about.There was the option of trying to get into his mind and find out where Mia was but I knew that it would not be easy to do that and he would probably notice the moment I tried and that could blow our chance. Now we had one task before us… find a way to convince him that it would be in his best interest to work together with us.“Maybe you did not hear me the first time, give me one good reason why I should work with the likes of you?” he repeated his question.Philip answered, “We go way back, Damien… you know I am good for my word. I promised you that I would take no action against you until I h
MIAI could tell I was not awake, at this point I had grown up to the level where I could tell if I was in a vision or not. This time, I was definitely in some sort of a vision.It was not like the normal vision that I was used to having, this one felt a bit different, it was almost like the type I got when I got stuck in the elder forest.For a moment, I thought that I was back there, that everything that had happened since was all an illusion generated by that heartless mist to torture me.Me escaping it, meeting my mother, escaping the elder forest, and finally freeing Ivan from his mind, the good times that came after that, and then finally, the attack on the penthouse, I had to question all of it, did that all happen or was it just a warped version of the future shown to me by the mist?I decided that it all did happen and indeed, I escaped the elder forest. If then, why did I have a similar type of vision?I saw a flash of my childhood when I was just an ordinary little girl wit
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