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“What’s that?” I asked. “Astra needs to drink it.” The room went silent as the reality sank in. “Drink it?” Reed asked, shocked. “Yeah. The rocks are great and all, but I’m afraid it isn’t strong enough to hold her. I can keep her out of places, but to keep her in is another story. The only way I can be 100% certain it will force her to show herself is if she drinks it.” “And trapping her with the rocks isn’t an option?” I asked, just to make sure. “Not really. I mean, I made them to keep her out, not in. But it wouldn’t force her to show herself and we couldn’t kill her in she was in it and we were on the outside.” It made sense, but still a major bump in the road. “How are we going to get her to drink the potion?” “Maybe slip it in her tea?” Kelly offered. “That would work if she is drinking anything.” Reed added. “No, it won’t. She needs to drink it straight. We can’t mix it.” Mila said, a little more forcefully than needed. She was a little agitated. “Oh” Kelly said.
“I’m not really too worried. You know my skeletons, so it is what it is. I just need to know if I have a kid out there.” Damian was very irritated at the thought of not knowing. “I do, but I don’t exactly want to do this. That is what every mate dreams of, going down memory lane with his ex.” I said sarcastically as I stood up. “Don’t get up. Just ask a warrior to bring her to us. I rather you not walk about the palace trying to find her.” Damian came over and urged me to sit back down. “I’m not a glass doll.” Muttering under my breath, but he still heard me. However, I did as he wished and sat back down and relaxed into my chair. My ribs still hurt when I moved, so I did feel better. “Please locate Cynthia and have you brought to my office immediately.” I mind-linked the guards around the palace. No one actually verbally responded, but they got the message and I felt their acknowledgement though the link. “Send the message?” Damian asked as he pulled a chair to sit behind my
“Come on!” Damian said as he grabbed my hand and basically pulled me along with him. I barely felt my ribs as we flew up the stairs to the attic. “This way!” I yelled when we got to the landing. The attic was massive, as it was all unfinished and exposed. The only thing that made it inviting was the mini fridge that mom put in the corner of the room so she didn’t have to walk all the way downstairs to get water. The balcony door was shut. The lock wasn’t turned and there was a coolness to the air that made me feel like it had been opened. “I don’t see anything out of place.” Damian muttered as he examined the door. “Nooo…” I said slowly. It just didn’t feel right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Damian opened the door and made his way out onto the balcony. I watched him make his way over to the ledge and put his fingers in something before rubbing them together. “What’s this?” he asked as he came back a few minutes later to show me his fingers. There was a purple shimmery li
It was time for the ball and I had just finished peeling each damn protective piece off the tape. Sticking the damn pieces of fabric to my breast. Kelly had done my hair, so it was slicked back but still down with a loose curl. I had one diamond hair pin that was holding my hair back with half the can of hair spray. She did my eyes in a light, smokey eye style. I barely recognized myself as I looked at the final product. “You ready?” Damian called out. “Almost!” I yelled back. “Were are here!” I heard Brittany sing out loud. “Is she done yet?” “She hasn’t come out yet.” Damian grumbled. “Sarah! Get your perfect ass out here now!” Brittany demanded. “Fine!” I yelled. My nerves were filling my stomach with butterflies. I was worried about Damian’s reaction. I wanted him to like it, not that I would ever change because I loved it. Grabbing the skirt and opening the door, I made my way to the living room. My body froze as I stood in front of them for the first time, in my dress
Right when Damian stood up, Silas did, too. “I have prepared a variety of deserts! The servers will come by and allow you to choose what you like the best! Let the dance begin!” The lights went down deeper as the band started playing a song I didn’t recognize. “What would you like, Princess?” Damian grudgingly sat back down, adjusting himself. “Hmm, I’ll take the chocolate cake, please!” I said. The red velvet was tempting, but I was a sucker for chocolate. Damian got a lemon cheesecake looking thing. I was smiling as I was doing a little food dance when I caught Damian looking at me. “What?” “Happy?” He asked, half smirking at me. “Chocolate is my happy place.” “What about me?” He teased. “Different kind of happy. No, not happy, warmth.” “Warmth?” “You make me feel….” I started before I got interrupted. “Sarah! Let’s go dance!” Brittany yelled across as the music started really blaring. More and more people were out there, grinding on different people. Werewolves and vam
I watched as my parents walk up to Von and the girl. The smiles on their faces said they were happy, but their body language told a different story. After they shook hands, they talked for a few minutes. Dad kept his hand on mom’s lower back, but it looked more like he was trying to calm her down than anything. “Silas has to die in order for Von to take over… right?” Damian asked me quietly. “Um… I’m not really sure. I believe so.” We watched as more people came over and started speaking with them. “Why do you ask?” “He is just still pretty immature. With everything going on, I rather not have to work with him.” Damian muttered. My mother’s back straighten more, as I noticed her posture change. She wasn’t happy. Dad had removed his hand from her back and has placed both hands on his hips. Uh oh, not good. “Come on, we need to ge-” I started before my mother’s eyes started glowing green. Shit! Silas had instantly come over and stepped between Von and mom. He shot Von a glare be
“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
“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
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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