Part one. Get your popcorn, snacks, and glitter bombs ready.
IMEELA When I heard that the bastard was using Desiderium, I knew immediately what he had done to our people. They were my people, Jackson’s people, and our new coven’s people. Their suffering would not go unpunished. I really wished that I could take my sweet time and torture him for a century or two, but that was not in the cards of his particular fate. However, I would take immense pleasure in ripping the life from the man who took my family and coven’s lives. That might make me a horrible bitch, but I did not care one fucking bit. He deserved everything that he would be getting. Breathe in, breathe out, focus. Ha. If only it was that easy. ‘Focus on me then, beautiful.’ Zeus growled softly through the open link that the three of us agreed on. We needed constant communication so that our thoughts would flow from one mind to the other. That way we were on the same page. ‘Yes, my King,’ I purred to him. My three words caused him to growl again, but this time it was one of pleas
BRYNN ‘We are Vessels. Hear us roar!’ Moira chanted with a roar at the end. ‘That’s right, Little Wolf! Roar it out. Loki doesn’t know what awaits him.’ Zen growled lowly through our open link. ‘Let me incentivize you. Make this a fight to remember and you’ll get anything your heart desires.’ Those were the magic words. She was prancing around in my head, trying to figure out what she was going to choose. I felt her mischievousness and knew that she figured out what it was and was going to enjoy this. ‘Alright then.’ She smirked, laying herself out like royalty. ‘I want to be your Alpha for an entire week.’ That was an interesting desire. It was different for her to be Alpha than for me to be since it was the wolf side that our hierarchy came from. The Alphas were at the very top of the totem pole, the absolute epitome of power. An Alpha bowed to only one. Zen growled again, but it was one of desire now. That request had him feeling inquisitive and a bit turned on. ‘Hold up your
THEO I stood in the doorway, knowing that my mate had to be the one to fight him, and I would be nothing but a liability in there that could get her killed. However, I could not just let her face him without being able to keep my eyes on her. I agreed with Zen that they were definitely earning being called Alpha with the trash talk alone. If Brynn thought that she would not be getting a week of having the title of Alpha after this like Moira would then she was sadly mistaken. I was not certain what had happened when Hecate had touched her hand, but I had felt my mate’s power increase. That was even more apparent when she let out her Vessel aura. It had always been powerful, but it was even more powerful. It definitely added to her sexiness, but I kept my emotions in check because I did not want her to get aroused while fighting him because he would probably think that he had been the cause of it. Yeah, right. Bright white light exploded from her hand, momentarily blinding him. That
JACKSON ‘Coming to you, Jacksy. Ding dong the God is dead,’ Brynn chirped in my mind. I had absolutely no doubt that she would come out the victor, but I was still worried for her. I would have been a shit friend and brother had I not been worried at all. Thankfully, Theo and Brynn were wearing recording devices just like my mate and I were because I could not wait to watch that fight. Knowing Ms. Dorky, it would have been fairly fucking epic. Theo, Brynn, Pylorna, and two new vampires popped in. They were the ones that we had seen through the security camera in the forest discussing his sister being force-marked by Dickless Dexy. “We pledge ourselves to fight for our rightful Queen,” the brother said, and the other one mirrored his sentiment when they saw me staring at them. “Perhaps you can be of greater assistance than fighting. Hold on,” I said, casting behind them to decapitate one that was sneaking up to attack them. Then I dropped the cloak. “As I was saying, perhaps you ca
JACKSON I had not expected Hecate to bless me like that, but I truly and sincerely appreciated it. Also, knowing that the blessing would help identify threats meant everything because our lives, from this moment on, would be filled with danger. We were not just going to be leading this coven. Nope. We would be responsible for the entirety of the vampire species. It would be up to us to ensure that our people were held accountable for their actions and punish those who were at fault for whatever crimes they committed. Hecate hugged Imeela and thanked her once again for freeing her from the prison that she had been held in for all these years before she left. Recognition, shock, and horror flooded the bond. Imeela broke away from the group that we in the process of talking to and rushed off to a woman in the corner. I followed her because I had no idea what elicited those strong emotions. Imeela knelt down in front of a woman who looked to be my mother’s age. There were signs of se
IMEELA We got maybe two hours of sleep before Roman and Venus woke us up, telepathically relaying a situation that that we needed to deal with. Thankfully, they did just as we had asked them to and were keeping an eye on those who might need protection. Jackson and I took off in a sprint, following our Hellhounds. People were eying us, but we paid them no mind. My fury skyrocketed when I saw that a man had ripped a woman’s clothes right down the middle. Her eyes looked dead as if she had lost all hope and did not have it in her to keep fighting. Fuck that. I would fight for her until she could do it on her own, and then I would stand beside her and keep fighting. My aura wrapped around him and threw him against the wall. There was anger in his eyes as he tried to fight against my aura, but I did not even feel his resistance. “You have one chance to explain what’s going on here,” I stated as calmly as possible. My mates were just as furious and disgusted as I was right now. This
JACKSONI loved the way it sounded whenever I called her my Queen. She was that, even if she had not been born of a royal lineage. Imeela was my girl, my mate, and my Queen. Zeus felt the same exact way as well.‘You forgot to add my little biter to the list,’ he pointed out.He was right. She was also our little biter. Well, my little biter, just to keep the same sentiment going in the list. I knew that any thought of being Queen was squashed when the massacre happened. However, from the day that she decided to embrace her birthright, she had embraced it wholeheartedly. I had absolutely no doubt at all that she would make an amazing Queen who would not only embrace the role with everything in her but also bring great change during her reign.There were fifty of our Light Fae friends who would be staying here at the palace while we got everything situated. Then there were an additional fifty warriors from Valis’ coven who would be here for as long as we needed them. We also had our Ca
IMEELAZiyah had enlisted the help of scrubber Fae who thrived in keeping things clean. They were in absolute heaven when they came to the palace. Seventy-five of them decided to come and live here. They could change their sizes between typical human size and one foot tall. They also had wings so that they could reach the ceilings.This was where they found their happiness, so who were we to deny it to them?Ziyah had also been correct that their cousins would request residence in the forest. Fifty of them applied and were approved. Honestly, the surrounding woods had never looked quite as healthy or good as they do now. It was all thanks to the amazingly hard workers who resided on these premises.We had been at it for the past two weeks. None of us had shied away from the hard work.Transition was never easy, and we have had quite a few necessary instances of it. Luckily, idiots learned fairly quickly that we would not tolerate abuse of any kind. One guy might have had his dick rippe