It did not prepare me for the burning feeling that scolded my lips. I closed my eyes and pinched my lips together as I turned away from their embrace. My hand acted on its own as it covered my mouth to make the burning feeling go away. I felt Jason’s hand on my shoulder as he squeezed it. Slowly, the burn went away, and I had to blink back the tears that had formed. Not because I was sad, but because of how badly it hurt. “I never expected to see you here, Daxxy!” her black hair was pixie cut with jean shorts and a black flowy tank top. I could see her tattoo down her arm. It was a crest moon shaped dream catcher with lines down that ended into shapes of birds. If my education is correct, this should be the Black Hawk Coven.“I never figured I would be down here, but I am on business.” I heard Dax say before I turned around. “This is Ben, Samuel, Duke Jason and Pr-”“Warrior Princess Sara…” she finished for him. She kept her eyes on me as she walked up to me. “Nice to finally meet y
It was like I was watching my actions from above. My body moved of its own accord. The burning was growing deep within me. It wasn’t until I put on my hand on the handrail of the stairs that I noticed red lines developing on my skin. It was like a tattoo but red on my wrist and it was like a bird. I didn’t have time to really understand what it meant because the basement door opened up. Standing twenty feet in front of me was a vampire. I looked at him and he looked at me. Walking up the stairs to him, I let my aura out. His eyes opened wide as he realized who I was before he ran off. I didn’t even care. Everyone will soon be dead here. The pain in my body was overwhelming. Walking to the livingroom, I saw five vampires and a little girl that looked like Lilith’s twin. “Rose” “My sister sent you, did she?” She had a smirk on her face as she watched my movements.“Give me the necklace and I will leave you all alive.” All the vampires laughed, and Rose looked bored. She took her knee-
“We put a spell on the house. If we do not invite you, you basically get confused and turn around. If you want up on the house, it looks abandoned and if we invite you, you get to see the actual house.”“Well, a witch put the spell up for us. Don’t ask what we had to pay for that…” Gabrial laughed as Vincent shook his head. “That is unnerving…” Samuel said. “It takes some getting used to.” Vincent agreed. We walked in silence to the front of the house. The porch was massive, with five white columns fifty feet high. There was a seating area on the right that Vincent led us to. “I suppose I owe you a thank you.” Vincent started after we all took a seat. I was sitting in a single chair. Vincent and Gabrial took the love seat, Ben and Claudia took the porch swing, and Samuel and Dax took the couch. “Why’s that?” I asked. “You eliminated Rose. Well, you eliminated both sisters, so you really did us two favors.” “Continue…” I hated repeating myself.“Rose and Lilith have been trying
“I tried not to! She put a spell on me that made me forget myself! It wasn’t until we were done that I realized what I did. I would have killed her myself if Sarah didn’t do it!” “Do you realize the physical pain you just put her through? She has a fucking permanent branding of infidelity on her arm. Do you realize how many people will see that when she officially takes over? Every alpha will see that and know you cheated on her. Every alpha will now wonder if she isn’t worthy. If her mate didn’t want her, then she must be broken.”That thought honestly hadn’t crossed my mind until now. “I know a witch that might help with that. She could possibly remove it and she owes me a favor.” I heard Vincent add.“Why would you help us?” Jason asked.“Like I said, you did a favor for killing Rose and Lilith. Consider this as my repayment.”“Any tonight?” Jason asked.“This is for fun. We haven’t been clubbing in a long time!” Gabrial laughed. “I am warning you, Dax. Consider this a threat. If
I felt my jaw drop. Well shit. I guess my face is more familiar than I expected. “Nice to finally meet you. Is there somewhere more private we can talk?” “Follow me.” He said as he offered his arm to me. I took it and together we walked up the four flights of stairs. As soon as we walked into his office, the blasting music was completely gone. The room was very professional but pricey. Stark white carpet with dark brown leather furniture. His mahogany desk filled the whole one side of the office. Behind that, there were floor to ceiling windows overlooking the dance floor and pretty much the whole building. You could see that bars, the entryway and even the restrooms. Von caught me looking down at the dance floor. He had a perfect view of where I was. “It’s a two-way mirror.” “Perfect for watching.” I noted. I didn’t feel threatened, but I didn’t feel at ease either. Von was honestly very curious right now. “What do I owe this… untimely visit?” “I believe we have a mutual p
The birds were chirping as I groggily starting coming around. I slept like crap as I had a dream that the witch put a spell on me that caused me to stab myself in the heart. The sounds of a chair squeaking caught me off guard as I looked up to see Dax was sitting down, fully dressed in a new, all black jeans and shirt, sipping on coffee. Fucking morning people kill me. “Morning, sleeping beauty. Time to rise and shine. We have a long day ahead of us.” Dax said way too cheerfully. “I will throat punch you.” I said, as I yawned. “So violent.” He whispered as he walked away and poured me a cup of coffee. As he did that, I scooted back against the headboard and tried to force myself to wake up. Handing me the coffee, he sat down on the edge of the bed. “What time is it?” I asked. “Almost 9:30. You didn’t sleep good so I tried not to wake you.” “I see.” “Jason is up and around, Ben is… well, he had an argument with Claudia about what happened, so he never really went to bed. Sam
My whole body stiffened as I looked over at the door. An older version of Von walked in, but he had crimson red eyes. They seemed to look straight into my soul as I watched him sit down beside his son. “It is a pleasure to meet you, Acting Queen Sarah.” Von rolled his eyes at his father’s politeness. “My name is Silas and I am the Vampire King.” “Nice to meet you as well. This is Alpha Daxon, Duke Jason, Ben is next to Claudia and Samuel.” They each nodded as I called out their names. The plane started moving. I hated flying. My heart instantly started racing, so I felt myself being forced deeper and deeper into my seat. “I understand you are here about the witch’s son.” Silas acted like he wasn’t aware of my sudden anxiety. “Yes, sir.” I said through gritted teeth.“Not a fan of flying?” He laughed as the plane took flight and I was suddenly vertical.“I’m a wolf. We don’t fly.” I made the mistake of looking out the window and I saw the clouds under me.“Touche.” He snapped his f
It took us about fifteen minutes to get off the plane and make our way to my parent’s office. Silas and Von didn’t say anything about the Palace, but I watched them look around and take it all in. Just because we have money doesn’t mean we flaunt it. “We appreciate you bring Sarah back safely.” My mother started the meeting with a compliment. The meeting only involved of Dax, Silas, Von, my parents, and myself. Everyone else went back to bed. “No need to thank me. I did what I would hope any father would do for my own son. I appreciate you taking the time to meet with me on such short notice. This situation we are in is very dangerous.”“Yes, it is. What can you tell us about what is going on?” Mom asked. “Yes, I have told Princess Sarah some, but I will state everything again. Vampires and witches have an agreement or truce. We leave each other alone and mind our own business without getting into the others. This situation will mean breaking that truce, but if there was another wa
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Damian POVI watched her perfect ass walk to the bathroom. I had to hide a laugh as her legs were still shaking. I needed a minute. Sitting on the couch, my mind went over the last few hours. I wasn’t sure what happened but when I saw Dax’s ghost, my heart sank. Then he had the little boy but the worst part was that Sarah wasn’t shocked to see him. She knew he was there. She must have talked to him. I tried to keep the doubt from filling me that she would have chose him. “Damian.” A voice I thought I’d never hear again was clear as day.My head instantly shot up. I was in complete disbelief to see Dax standing in front of me. My mouth opened a few times but nothing came out.”Wa-”“The Moon Goddess is allowing me a five minute visit. I came to tell you that she is all yours. She has accepted I died and she loves you with her whole heart. I was never meant to live through this. This was always how it was suppose to work. She saved you as much as you saved her. It’s cruel how things end
Our bodies froze as I pushed the knife in until I felt his blood run down my hand. Twisting the knife counter clockwise at 90 degrees, I made sure he wouldn’t survive the tree days it would take to suck his soul out. “NO!!” Astra yelled out as she watched Grant fall off me, holding the knife. His eyes landed on her as blood seeped from his eyes, nose and mouth. Kicking him away from me, I grabbed my side breathing heavily. “Give it up. You are finished!” Astra’s eyes went straight back as she chanted something before lifting her head up and screamed. Black smoke formed between us as a sort of bird manifested in front of me. It looked like a Raven but beefed up. Maybe more like a dragon but either way, it’s beady red eyes were focused on me. I reacted on instinct as my shield went up right as it shot something white at me. It was like little daggers hitting my shield so hard that it caused me to fall to the ground, under the pressure. The creature didn’t stop it’s attack. T
I had no idea what to do. Running back into the hut, Maverick’s laugher became background noise. Sliding on my knees, I skidded to a stop, right in front of my mom. Her body was cold as ice. “MOM!” I yelled. Shaking her, she did not respond. I didn’t even think before pulling my hand back and slapping her arm across the face. Nothing. She didn’t move or even flinch as my hand made contact with her body. I looked frantically around, for anything to help. My eyes landed on Dax’s name. Glancing over quickly at Astra, she was still saying an chant. As quietly as I could, I tiptoed my way over to the shelf and uncorked Dax’s vial with shaking hands. The smoke shot out of it. Before it knew it, a ghostly figure that reselmed Dax stood in front of me. “You have to stop her!” Dax looked at me with urgency. “How? What do I do?” My heart ached for him. “I could knock the cauldron over but she could just pick it back up again!” “You can do this. You need to think. Your mother and you joined
Everything had darken as it looked like not a single ray of sun was hitting these trees. Cages of monkeys were hanging from the branches just above my head. They were thrashing around with a crazed look in their eyes. My heart kept breaking as we slowly walked deeper into the heinous environment. Baskets lined the path with a variety of items. Some where of insects and some where of different spices or herbs. The smell is what caused me the most discomfort. Rotten flesh or decaying fecal matter is so potent that I not even sure it will come out of these clothes. As the path opened up, there was three huts in a half circle at the end of the path. A firepit at in the middle with a cauldron resting on top of it. Purple smoke was going straight up through a small opening in the trees, creating a dome shape in the canopy. “Let’s continue the tour, shall we?” Maverick gestured to the first hut on the left. Glancing behind me, the trees had closed around the path we just took as it was no
Staying on my hands and knees, I slowly waved my arm out as I scooted forward. That stupid chair should be here, somewhere. Finally, my fingers grazed passed the cold metal as the boat shifted to the left. My stomach did a little twist that raised all the hairs on my body. I better not get sea sick in here! Picturing what the chair looked like, it would be easy to just melt the metal into one solid rod that I could sculpt. It was hard doing this in the dark but I was able to heat the metal up enough that the chair was now bent in a little cube. It was slow work for sure but using on hand, I was able to squeeze it together and pull out until it was shaped like a spear. While the metal was still hot, I extended my fingernail and started putting in grooves in a spiral down the rod so it looked like one giant drill bit. Unfortunately, I had to wait for it to cool before I could see if it was even going to work. With my other hand on the wall, I moved it around until I felt the crack of
“What is that?” Tom whispered quietly as he got close to examine the bite mark. “A vampire bite.” I said, casually. All three men and two wolves turned their head to look at me. “W-what?” Tom and Maverick asked at the same time. “She wouldn’t tell us what we wanted to know so we got…creative.” I shrugged. “By turning her into a vampire?” Tom asked. “One one vampire’s bite can make a change like this…” Maverick trailed off. “Winner winner, chicken dinner.” “You-you intentionally turned her into a vampire?” Tom asked, appalled. “Technically, no. Von is newly immortal and most not understand self control but my heart isn’t breaking for that bitch. I’ll kill her before her transformation is complete.” “Fucking ice princess….” Tom said as he pulled her shirt back down. “I’ll go get the food.” Maverick muttered as he walked into town. “Why ice princess?” I laughed as I walked to a tree and sat down. “You are literally choosing to be here. You could easily go invade her comp
“Shit!” Cynthia whispered as she pulled me to the floor. Should have known there was a security system. “Oh bummer…” I obviously faked concern. “What does Damian even see if you?” Cynthia said through clinched teeth. “Not much to look at and you have a mouth that gets you into trouble.” “Not sure what to tell you.” I smirked as the front door opened. “WHO’S IN HERE?” A voice boomed. The smell was human and as I peaked out from behind the clothes, he wasn’t going to chase us very far. Apparently, Cynthia made the same observation. As the police officer walked in, we made our way to the front. Sprinting quickly, we ran out the front door. “HEY! GET BACK HERE!” He bellowed. His breathing was already heavy as he exited the door. We were already in the woods and in a full sprint by the time he even hit the grass. “Burg… (deep breath) i-in progress… (deep breath) send-send help…” is all we heard. We were far enough that his voice became a whisper to us, but we kept running in case a d
“Not sure how to make that much clearer for you!” Cynthia looked at me with hate-filled eyes. It was all I could do to stare back. She had to find a human to sacrifice to prove her loyalty to Astra? Well shit. We weren’t going to fully break her. I doubt any amount of torturing will make her give us what we want. Maybe we can use this to our advantage? Von was looking at me, waiting for the go ahead, and Cynthia had put her head down as her breathing leveled out. “What are you thinking?” Damian mind-linked me. “She isn’t going to break. We are going about this wrong. It would be the same if I commanded you to not speak. You wouldn’t be physically able to say anything to whomever.” “Hmm.” “We need to change tactics. Let her think she is giving us bad information and use her to take us to them. We can’t wait for the eclipse. That’s too long if they have already cut mom and dad with the knife. Just follow my lead.” I said to Damian. I really hope this works. “What if I told you