SCARLETT POVI let Lilith go and follow Tina inside. We head upstairs and into one of the bedrooms,“Your Highness, Scarlett, your mother can shift in the bathroom and have a shower. There is already a towel in there and I’m sure she will be able to find some clothes in the closet to wear.”“Thanks, Tina.”I make sure mother has everything she needs and then go look for Tina. I find her a couple of rooms down sitting on the bed with tears sliding down her cheeks. I make a soft noise to let her know I am here.“Tina? Are you okay?” I slowly move into the room and sit next to her on the bed.“Yeah, a lot has happened in such a short time, just like in this room.”She gets up and moves over to the window before continuing“No one but Stefan knows this, but after my mother was killed, my father only just managed to hang on to his sanity. He always said if it wasn’t for me and my brother, he would have ended his life following his mate. This is my room, I had lots of fun in this room growi
SCARLETT POVIt's been a couple of weeks since we returned. I have returned to my training and I keep myself as busy as possible helping where ever I can. Phoenix has been different since I have been back. He watches me constantly or has one of the guards doing it, but he will bearly touch me. He kisses me like he has to like he has no choice. There is no passion in them anymore.I am helping Theodore in the training field with some of the younger females. As I finish the session with them, I look to my left and see Phoenix. I pick up my towel and walk over to him; I flinch a little as he goes to wrap his arms around me, but he continues to pull me into a hard, dominant kiss. I return his kiss with just as much dominance, except mine includes the love I have for him. When he finally pulls back, he smiles like there is nothing wrong.“So, how is my Butterfly today?”“I am great. Father is starting to give me some of my more serious duties back again.”“Are you sure you are up to that?”
TERESA POV“Talking about rest, I think I might get some sleep,” Scarlett says as she lays back on the bed.“Okay, I am going to go and run these tests. I will come to check on you later.”I wait until her breathing evens out, showing that she has indeed fallen asleep. I get up and leave the room. As I head back to the hospital, I go over the different possibilities that could be causing what she is going through. Garlic can do a bit of damage to a vampire but it is not strong enough unless given in really large amounts to cause a vampire to go into hibernation, but then the vampire knows what is going on and it wouldn't affect her wolf.Then there was wolfsbane, but that would affect her wolf more than her vampire. There are only a few things that affect both species. The main one is silver. So for this to be affecting both her wolf and vampire I think someone gave her some silver and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in the blood bags she was given, it would be the only way she woul
SCARLETT POVI wake up, stretch and look around. Phoenix isn’t back from patrol yet, so I decide to go and find Teresa to see if she had an answer for me yet. I leave the room and bump into Teresa and Sebastian, which surprises me as Phoenix was running patrol with him.“Hi, guys! Seb, where is Nix? Wasn’t he doing patrol with you?”“Um... Yeah, we had patrol… But Nix… He um…!”“It's okay Seb, you don’t need to lie for him or say anything. I get it. Um... Teresa, what were my results?”“Well, it has come back that you are pregnant…”“Thank you. I thought I was.. and the other thing?”“It looks like you have been poisoned with silver… Because your wolf and vampire were weak to start with, it has put them into hibernation, but…”“But what? Teresa?”“Scarlett! With the amount of silver that is in your blood, it will make you a permanent human within the week and there is a possibility that it could cause you to have a miscarriage...”“How?? No, that’s okay. I know how! Thank you, Teresa.
PHOENIX POV“Sorry Butterfly, but I have patrol and so does Seb, so it seemed like the best time to get her to give you a check-up.”I give her a quick kiss and walk out the door. Sebastian smiles and follows.After seeing those dark bruises on her from our sparring session, we just had. I have also noticed some smaller bruises appear after she has finished her sessions with the young females. I know something isn’t right, and it hasn’t been since we bought her home. I think that Alpha did something to her other than touch her, but I just don’t know what. Hopefully, Teresa can help work it out, and then we can get the real Scarlett back.“Nix, what’s going on? We don’t have patrol. Why did you lie to Scar?”“I needed Terri to give her a check over and I knew she wouldn’t be honest if I was in the room.”I stop in the kitchen and sit at the counter before continuing,“I can barely sense her wolf or her vampire anymore. The mate bond seems to be there, but it is extremely weak. I don’t
PHOENIX POV I enter the ring and into position, Nathaniel starts off, and I block and counter with my own.“So, what did you want to know?”“Your gift. You have control of it, don’t you?”“Yes, I mastered control over it when I was young,”“Can you tell me about the connections between Scarlett and me?”“I could, but why should I?”I throw a few more combos at him with both punches and kicks as he blocks most of them.“Okay, I admit I have been less than good to your sister lately, but I want to make it up to her, please!”“Okay,”He steps back a little and looks at me. He then has this look of confusion across his face.“Other than a weak blood bond, you do not have a connection with Scarlett.”From his expression, I didn’t think I would like that answer.“What about you? What’s your connection like with her?”“I.. I.. Nooo,” he yells as he runs out of the ring. I follow close behind as he goes straight to Dominic's office.“Father!! Father!! Don’t move!!”“What?? What have I done n
CHARLOTTE POVI hear a lot of commotion going on around the castle, and I know most of it is to do with Scarlett. I have been watching her return to her duties as the vampire princess, but there is something about her that has changed. To everyone else, she is the same happy female, but I can see she is withdrawn and Phoenix is the same. They are perfect for each other. I have grown up with them together, and seeing them like this is just horrible and wrong.She looks at him with longing, like she used to when we were younger, knowing he was hers but was too young to be with him. He has just shut himself off completely, even when he looks at her, that love and longing that used to be in his eyes all the time is gone and when I see them touch, she flinches and he... Well, I don't know.I wanted to talk to my father about what is going on, but when I get to his office; I stop just outside the door as I hear voices,"Okay, that is enough, everyone. Nix! Nat! How about you two go and find
CHARLOTTE POV We exit the diner and head over to a group of trees nearby. I take off my clothes again and pass them to Scarlett, who puts them in her backpack while I shift. I shake out my fur once the shift is completed and move up to Scarlett. She kneels down and runs her fingers through my fur while she gives me a tight hug, which is like only a quarter of what it should be. Harmony and I try our sister connection. “Scar?? Can you hear us?”We pull back from Scarlett’s hug and look at her while we tilt our head to the side. She smiles weakly at us before saying,“I’m sorry Harmony, but I can’t hear you. Without Ruth, I don’t have the ability to talk to you. Come on, sis, let's head back to the castle.”Scarlett stands up and walks over to the motorbike that was missing from the garage. She gets on, starts it and then takes off in the direction of the castle. I jump into a jog and catch up to her. Even though I said to race, I keep my pace with her. Once we are back, we enter the
SCARLETT POVIt took me a long time to come to terms with Phoenix’s death, but if it wasn’t for H and Phoenix’s twins, I would have followed him. As I stand watching my three-year-old daughters Opal and River sleep H comes up behind me and wraps his arms around my waist and my big stomach, placing soft butterfly kisses along the back of my shoulder and up my neck until he gets to my ear and whispers “My princess, what are you thinking about? You are sending waves of sadness along the mate bond” I sigh and lean back into him as I answer, “I was just thinking about when I gave birth to these two and that I wouldn’t have continued on if you weren’t there. You never let me give up and you continued to love me even after we found out that Ruth didn’t survive the severing of the mate bond and that Cara had gone into permanent hibernation, making me a human.” “Scarlett, you were and are more to
H POVI have been watching over Scarlett for the last three weeks since I brought her here from the training field after the fight like I did when she was attacked in King Noah's territory. Everyone has come in at some stage. The King and Queen both come in at random times, both together and on their own, to check and sit with her.Doc Teresa comes in to make sure she is fine medically, giving her fluids and blood so we don't lose her that way, but she is not sure when she will or if she will ever wake up. Doc also confirmed to the King and Queen that Scarlett was indeed pregnant and carrying Phoenix's twins, my vampire didn't like that she was but we agreed that until we could get her to love us more, they would probably be the only thing that will keep her from following him.Tina comes in and sits with her the most. I think she has something she wants to share with her. Tina and Theodore had just left after spending an hour sitting next to her bed. I had just
( This is the start of the Alternative ending, and I will warn you that this chapter starts just over halfway through chapter 140, so yes there is some repeat but what is to follow is what would have happened if H and Wrath had decided not to accept Scarletts offer and had in fact carried out exactly what Scarlett was seeing in her vision. You do not need to read the next 3 chapters, including this one, as the series continues on from chapter 141.)H POVAs soon as Scarlett gets to the edge of the ring of people that are now watching us, I see the moment Phoenix's attention shifts off of me and he looks at her. I take advantage and punch him hard in the ribs, using my vampire for the first time in this fight.I break about four and fracture another two. I also make two cuts on his neck with my second hit, only just nicking his main artery. I could have killed him then, but he still has a little fight in him and I want to see what Scarlett will do now she i
SCARLETT POV I have been with H for seven months and while he had us travelling, he finally introduced me to his vampire Wrath, I managed to convince them to allow me to keep my babies, well at least have him not kill them before they are born. H even allowed me to go with him to one of the towns where I found two beautiful butterfly bracelets. They will expand as they get older so they can always wear them, I had an O engraved on one and an R engraved on the other I found out the day of the fight, the day I gave everything up to save Phoenix’s life, that I was pregnant again. I had just come from seeing Teresa. I was having twin daughters, and I was on my way to tell Phoenix the good news when I heard the commotion of the fight. My labour started not that long ago and H has gone to get the Doctor. No one in this clan knows who I am. They only know what H or Wrath has told them. As far as they know, we are mated lovers, but the babies aren’t his, as I was attacked just before our ma
H POVJust after I move my hand to her throat, I see a couple of the guards take a few steps closer to us, so I pull her tighter to me so I can whisper into her ear"Tell them all to back off and allow us to pass or I will not honour our deal and I will throw you and kill him.""Stand down and allow us to leave!" she says quietlyI knew Mike had to be here somewhere; he like me, had become Phoenix and Scarlett's personal guards, so where ever they went we went too. He takes a couple more steps forward as he says,"But your highness we can't allow him to leave with you...""You can and you must... Now please stand down!"Scarlett surprises me that she answered him without me telling her to. I watch as Mike nods to Scarlett and then to the other guards standing near us. They all step back. I lean my lips onto her shoulder and smile as I whisper,"Good girl, time to go!"I then move us slowly over to the edge of the woods, stop and move the arm I have around her waist, reach around to my
H POV It takes the sedative maker a week to get back to me saying my order will be arriving any day, that he had managed to make a serum that contained silver and wouldn't kill or knock out either a vampire or werewolf, it would just separate the vampire or werewolf from the human. The other good part about it is that it doesn't need to be injected. I can mix it with either his food, drink or even his blood and he wouldn't know the difference. The only problem I have at the moment is how to get just Phoenix to have it and not include Scarlett. A couple of days after I received the silver serum, an opportunity opened up for me to use it. I put half of the silver serum into a water bottle that was exactly the same as Phoenix's. I met up with Phoenix in the training field. I discreetly swap out his bottle and then enjoy a good sparring match with him. By the time we have finished, we are both breathing heavily and exhausted. I scull my water and I watch with a small smile as Phoenix
SCARLETT POVAfter my conversation with my father, I realize he is right. Phoenix would rather fight than let me go willingly. I decide to tell him everything and hopefully, it will give him some time to prepare himself for it. I go to our room, but it is empty. I smile and tap into Ruth's sense of smell and take a deep breath.I follow his scent back to Father's office and then over to Theodore's; I knock lightly on the door and smile as Tina looks up from some of Theodore's paperwork."So he has you doing the things he doesn't like doing, does he?""How do you know he doesn't like doing paperwork?""Because he used to get me to do it when I was old enough to read, write and understand what he needed done. Father was the same." I laugh and she joins me."So, what can I do for you?""Have you seen Nix?""Yeah, he came past a while ago, took something out of a drawer and then left...""Oh, okay, do you know where he was g
PHOENIX POVI felt the moment Scarlett carefully moved out of our bed, Soren was asleep, but I was not. I don't know what got into him. He has never been like that with our butterfly. He didn't even notice the change in her towards the end before he fell asleep, but I did. There is something very important and very serious that she is not telling us.Once she leaves the room, I get up, get dressed, and follow her. It doesn't surprise me when we end up at Dominic's office, as it was where she said she was going before Soren wanted her. I must remember to ask him what that was about once he wakes up again. I watch as Scarlett enters Dominic's office and wait for her to close the door. I move slowly and quietly to the door and just listen.I would give my life if I had to... Scarlett, what's this about?""I.. I.. I've been having a nightmare for about the last week and a half..""And what is this nightmare?""Phoenix is fighting the mystery male that attacked me...""Why would that be a
SCARLETT POVHe goes to answer, but I have had enough. I step back, straighten and hold up my hand as both Ruth and Cara take part control."Phoenix I may be your mate but I am also the Daughter of the Vampire King, so unless you want to have a word with my father about stopping my Royal duties just so that I am not in the company of other males then you take that up with him but know I will not forgive you for that if you do. As for now, Phoenix, you are dismissed! I will complete my Royal duties and meet you back at the castle!!!"I take a couple more steps back from him and yell,"MIKE!"It doesn't take long for Mike to enter the leader's office and bow"Yes, Your Highness?""Please escort Phoenix back to the castle...""What about you, Your Highness?""I still have business to finish here. Dismissed!" I then turn away from both Mike and Phoen