Who’s brave enough to tame Caryllix and put a leash around his neck? No one—at least not the ones that are not Heidi. Anything that dared to cross the line drawn by Hunter White, marked the beginning of their end. He was obsessive and ruthless, blinded by the shadows that clouded his mind. And as he demanded that Heidi be his wife, the latter little expected the experience to be an inferno in disguise, not until she started waking up to corpses laid at her feet. Hunter vowed to protect her, but he didn’t exactly say from what because, with the way Heidi saw it, she only needed protection from him. Heidi then resolved to bring back the Hunter she knew; the protective, ideal material of a romantic partner she fell in love with, meaning that she had to fight against his darkness to keep it from swallowing her too. However, when different events began to unfold, Heidi discovered a part of her that she didn’t know existed—a side that not only made her dangerous but made her entire existence too. It then dawned on her that she might be even more deadly than Hunter was.
View More“The review rating for White Group has been plummeting. The company is on the verge of collapsing. Something has to be done before that happens.”Silence. Hunter twirled a pen between his fingers.“Mr. White?”More silence. He had his mind on the brief session with Heidi hours ago—when he’d finally gotten to hold her in his arms after months of waiting. He’d drawn close to her, inch by inch, anticipating the moment when his lips would meet hers. How he’d wanted to take her right there and then, but the girl was fragile; too weak to handle his lust.He ended up putting her to sleep before flying back with her to Alloy City.“Mr. White.”Hunter’s eyes flickered to the lawyer sitting across from him. The latter, looking dapper, narrowed his eyes at him.“What were you saying?” Hunter muttered.“I just explained how you might go bankrupt at this very minute.” Hunter’s brows creased, then perked up when he registered the lawyer’s words.The man placed a tablet device on the desk and slid
He was remarkably tender with his actions, occasionally glancing at her countenance to check if she showed any signs of discomfort.As he added ointment, he continued with his speech. “It’s how this mark across my eye came about. Actually, it’s more than just being twins; we’re sort of bonded for life.”Heidi huffed in disbelief. Was the man telling some child tale to distract her from the wounds’ pain? If only he knew she didn’t feel a thing.Zavere noticed her reaction as he carefully stuck a bandage on each knee. “I swear. I’m not making this up. If Hunter dies, I die too,” he said with a chuckle.Heidi joined him in the chuckle. “Okay, now you’re making it up.”“I said I’m not.” He started rolling a gauze around her hands. “Do you think we twinned our right eyes, too?”Heidi’s chuckle died out as Zavere finished taking care of her wounds. He placed her hand atop the other and patted it. “There you go.”“Why didn’t you stop him when he was killing?” Heidi blurted, taking Zavere by
Heidi’s face twisted in agony, wincing, as she sat up on the bed. She screamed, her legs bent and arms stretched in front of her. The painful sensation pulsing beneath her skin was unbearable, her palms and knees burning as if greeted by fire.And the more she screamed, the more each pulse sent sharp stings up her limbs with an intensity that threatened to tear her limbs inside and out. Even breathing felt like torture.Zavere, hearing the screams, barged into the room and sat beside her on the bed. His hand gently wrapped her wrist while the other rested softly on her leg—a touch meant to snap her out of her turmoil.“Hey, hey, look at me,” he murmured in a low and soothing voice. Then he leaned closer and locked his eyes onto her teary ones. But the girl—screaming, freaking out, her vision blurred with tears—stared ahead of her without registering Zavere’s presence.In a swift motion, the man tenderly held her chin and turned her face toward him. “Hey, look into my eyes,” he urged;
Who would believe her if she told them what she had seen? That a man had single-handedly slaughtered so many at a time, including trained bodyguards. That he’d dug their hearts out, then incinerated the mansion to hide the evidence? It made no sense.Heidi began to regret coming to the station. She would have made it far from Hunter’s reach if she had thought to run instead.The man in question remained in her line of sight, only now he flexed a triumphant smirk at her. What in God’s name was he—the devil… a grim reaper?Suddenly, Heidi pushed up from her chair and made for the door.“Miss Heidi, where are you going?” the officer called after her. But she simply threw a dismissive wave and disappeared into the corridor.Her long, hurried paces echoed through the walls as she glanced nervously over her shoulders, conscious of being followed.When the pressure overwhelmed her and the unease seized her chest, Heidi broke into a run.Her breaths came in ragged gasps as she sprinted down t
The officer gestured for them to step forward while the others held back the crowd that attempted to follow suit.Once Heidi escaped the chaos outside, she let out a deep, shaky breath; while Luivanne guarded her to a bench and, seeing her pale and shaken, quickly fetched a bottle of water. Heidi snatched the bottle and devoured its contents with a few gulps before trying to catch her breath.Luivanne leaned down as he received the empty bottle from her.“Are you okay?” He asked but got no reaction from the girl.Instead, her gaze roamed the hall. She noticed rows of tables cluttered with paper files, officers sitting behind each table with their faces a mix of exhaustion and seriousness.One officer glanced up from his desk. Recognizing Heidi, he rose from his chair and walked over with an outstretched hand.“Miss Heidi White, right?” He asked as his stoic expression cracked with a smile.Heidi’s gaze hardened instantly. She didn’t like it when someone added ‘White’ to her name, as
Slowly, Magen stepped back, her wrinkled, frail hands clutching at the edges of her apron. Hunter cracked his neck before his eyes began to gleam with the predatory instinct of a being who’d toyed with death way too much.A smile tugged at the corners of his lips as he walked into the living area, approaching Magen, each footfall on the creaking wooden floor sounding like a death knell to the old lady.Now, she understood why the poor girl had been so traumatized, why she continued ranting about a threat that could reach even the depths of the earth.How did she not sooner realize it? That this man, this Hunter, was the very danger the girl had spoken of, the shadow lurking in the forest.“You said you were FBI,” Magen managed to choke out, and Hunter clicked his tongue.“How naïve.” He huffed. “This is the twenty-first century, granny. People lie.”With her aged heart pounding behind her ribs, Magen, even despite her sore bones, bolted to the kitchen. She groped for anything that co
The explosion had reduced the Whites' once deluxe mansion to a wasteland of ashes and crumbling debris.Hunter stepped into the wreckage, remnants crunching beneath his boots, chalk outlines on the floor marking spots where the bodies—now removed—once lain.He paused in the center of the blackened hall and looked around, noting how much the fire had ravaged the building, even almost bringing it to the ground.Everything that had once furnished the hall—chairs, tables, and many others—was gone, likely burnt beyond recognition and taken away for speculation. Hunter assumed the same fate had befallen every property in all the rooms in the mansion.Meanwhile, Zavere, ever so casual, made his way to the mansion’s main entrance and rang the bell.When the sound didn’t come after a few tries, he went behind the building to the hall’s entrance, where he met Hunter crouched down while using his index to wipe a spot on the soot-covered floor.“No one let me in, how rude!” Zavere grumbled as he c
“Heidi, dear. Are you quite alright?” Magen’s voice was soft and laced with concern.Heidi, however, remained still while staring into the woods. The old lady had to get up from the stool, her joints protesting as she approached the younger woman.She followed Heidi’s gaze to the forest. But all she saw were the starved trees with their stretched branches shaped as skeletons of emptiness and woe.“Is something there, dearest?” she asked, and Heidi whimpered, her eyes filled with a dread that seemed far too deep to touch.“Hunter,” she said in a whisper. “He’s standing right there, looking at me.”Magen frowned. In her eyes, there was no one in the landscape except for her, Heidi, the horses grazing lazily, the cats darting after unseen prey across the fields, and maybe a few birds too. But to Heidi’s, Hunter stood there, dark orbs fixed on her with a wolfish grin stretching his lips.“Come on, let’s go inside,” Magen coaxed as she held the girl's shoulders in an attempt to lead her to
‘Unlock the Kalviyre.’These words rang in her head, drowning out every other sound. Heidi watched the woman’s mouth moving without hearing the words; she didn’t care to read her lips either.Everything started to blur until the woman’s face faded to that of the old, wrinkled lady, who seemed genuinely concerned for the younger one.“Are you okay?” she asked softly, and Heidi jerked back to reality, looking around with eyes wide open. She barely registered the old woman’s presence and nearly stumbled on the latter if she didn’t hold tight onto the sink.She leaned over the sink to splash her face once more—this time with force, as if trying to shake off the lingering fog in her mind.The old lady stood patiently and let the girl have her moment. Then when Heidi rose to her full height, ready to speak up, she listened carefully.“I started having these weird dreams after I met Hunter…” Heidi began while looking into the mirror, noting how the bandage on her forehead had disfigured from
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