Davina I am extremely impressed with Maliyah’s skills. She really hasn’t been working with Aspen that long but he has done wonders in use a few short months. I am so proud of her and even more happy that she doesn’t need to rely on her powers to protect herself. I wouldn’t put it past the rogues to find a way to prevent her from using her powers or mine. Derek and I get the twins situated for the night before getting ready ourselves. I am in the showering rinsing out the shampoo when he joins me. He comes up behind me, kissing the back of my shoulder before moving to my neck. He grabs my breasts, teasing my nipples causing me to moan. “Mmm…Derek.” “Shhhh.” He continues kissing me before spinning me around, pinning me to the wall. He moves his mouth to my nipples teasing me and he continues lower until he reaches my clit. He puts my legs on his shoulders and lifts me up as he continues to tease me. I grab a fist full of his hair as I feel my core tighten. He abruptly stops and lo
Maliyah I am happy Aspen asked me to dance. I don’t know anyone else and it would’ve be boring standing by the wall all night. I’m sure uncle Owen and dad would asked me to dance but that’s embarrassing. I can’t believe I just performed in front of everyone. “I can’t believe you asked me to play in front of everyone,” I tease. “Well with everyone watching when I asked you wouldn’t be able to say no now would you?” “That is quite evil Aspen.” “I wanted to hear you play,” he replies. The song ends and one of the elves walks up to us. “Hey Maliyah, mind if I cut in Prince Aspen,” asks Drake. Drake is about a year older than me. “Not at all. I should ask my mother to dance anyway. You’ll be alright Maliyah,” Aspen asks. “Yeah I’ll be fine. Thank you.” Aspen heads back towards his mother and Drake places his hand on my waist. “How are you enjoying the ball,” I ask. “It's alright. This is not really my scene though, I'd rather be out in the woods. Oh I’m sorry, dancing is not my
Maliyah I can tell someone is here. I can hear pages of a book turning. My eyes flutter open and I raise my hand to the blinding light. I feel like I am going to be sick. I groan and lean over the side of the bed and vomit all over the floor. “Maliyah, it’s okay. You’re okay. You have a concussion and some broken ribs.” I look over and it’s Aspen. Great and I just vomited in front of him. I groan again holding my head. It’s killing me. “How long have I been out?” “Here drink this tea, it’ll help with your head pain. It’s been two days since the ball.” I look at him shocked. I can’t believe two days have gone by. I panic suddenly. “The twins?!” “They’re fine. They were not attacked. You were the objective. You fought well though. Had you not, you wouldn’t be with us right now.” “I lost though. Last thing I saw was you throwing some knives.” “One got away, the rest will never harm you again.” Meaning he killed them. I don’t feel too bad though for those that died. I throw th
Derek I wake up earlier than I normally do. I really am not looking forward to having to tell Owen about his sister. I hear Davina in the nursery. She must’ve not been able to sleep either. I get dressed and head to the nursery. Davina has both the twins up. Thierry is dressed and in the play area and Davina is finishing dressing Accalia before setting her down with Thierry. “Good morning love, how did you sleep?” “Not well, I kept getting up and checking on Maliyah to ensure she is still there. I’ve been scared I’ll walk into her room and she won’t be there.” “She’s here and alive. We will ensure it stays that way. You ready for today?” “No. He’s going to be so hurt Derek.” “I know. I have Aspen keeping Maliyah company today to distract her while we watch the video. He’s gonna take her to the library to read and paint.” “That’s good. She needs to rest still.” My mother walks in the room. “I’ll stay with the twins this morning. I’ve missed them and I really don’t want to be in
Davina As soon as the meeting ends I rush upstairs to my bathroom and vomit. Shit. This is not the time, I need to be able to shift to protect my children if needed. I cannot be pregnant. I flush the toilet and head to the sink to brush my teeth. I decide to check on Maliyah when I am greeted with Aspen outside my door. “Oh Aspen you startled me.” “Sorry Davina. Are you alright.” “Oh I’m fine. The video was harder to watch than I anticipated. Two shifters were killed. Derek wants to plan a rescue mission. Will the elves be able to assist in that?” “Of course but that is not what is troubling you, is it?” How does he know? “Please don’t say anything. There is so much death lately I don’t think anyone will be up for being happy about this pregnancy.” “I think that is exactly what everyone needs. A distraction from all this death. Something happy. But I won’t say anything. That is not my place.” “Thank you. How is Maliyah?” “She’s quiet. I may have trained her well but mentally
Derek Gabriel stands to run after Davina. I raise my hand to stop him. “Let her go Gabriel. Give her time to accept this. Maybe we can get further proof it’s him, though I really hope you are wrong.” “I hope I am wrong too Derek. I hope I am.” “Alright. Dimitri can you teleport and bring the warriors from the other packs? It’ll be quicker than my jet.” “Yes, I’ll send my daughter Anastasia to your pack Damon, Gabriel go to the flock and I’ll head your way Brian,” says Dimitri. “I’ll take this drawing to Aspen. See if he knew any other silver dragons with a scar like this. Get some rest everyone. We leave as soon as the coven finishes the potion. Shaun, you are welcome to a guest room. We could be leaving at any moment.” “Yes alpha,” he replies. Mark and Keila take their mates back to the guest rooms they’ve been staying at. I head upstairs to find my mate as well. I find her in our room vomiting in the bathroom. I rush to her side, holding her hair. “Are you okay? I can guess
Derek “Damn, Dimitri is there nothing you could’ve done to at least make it tastes somewhat alright?” I gag as I force myself to keep the contents down despite my stomachs protest. “I could’ve but that would’ve taken longer and I don’t think time is on our side.” He’s got a point and let it go. Dimitri, Anastasia and Gabriel chant two words. I recognize the first word but not the second. “Lanuae draconem.” I blink and find we are in the dragon realm. “Eyes and ears open people. Let’s assume they know we are here.” “Yes alpha,” reply the shifters. We take in our surroundings and us shifters immediately shift into our other forms. We can see better in the dark this way. Gabriel translates since only us shifters can speak to each other in this form. Gabriel and the others chant another spell and I can see their eyes glow. Must be something so they can see in the dark. We are well hidden in the woods. To the left is the lake from Maliyah’s drawing and on the far side of the lake i
“Derek,” says Dimitri to get my attention. “What did you find,” I ask as I walk over to the makeshift table he is at and see a map of the dragon realm. There are several x marks all over the map and there is a spot circled on the map that appears on that far side away from our location. “That is where the dragon palace was, here where they have circled is pretty close by the palace. They’re looking or found something important I believe. Maybe the dragon scale flower,” Dimitri replies. I put my paw on the map and Dimitri understands, rolling it up and stuffing it in his pocket. We are going to need that later. To the left of where we entered is the red door Maliyah drew. “Gabriel,” I say and he looks where I am headed. “That’s it isn’t? The door Maliyah drew.” “Yes Gabriel it is. Let’s get it open and get everyone out of here.” Gabriel gets ready to chant a spell to open the lock when we suddenly hear several growls and I see several shifters stalking towards us from another t
Maliyah“Maliyah, the guests are arriving!”“Coming mom!”I quickly finish doing my hair in a half up pony tail style and curl it before doing my make up. I can’t believe it’s been almost five years since the war ended and here we are, celebrating my sixteenth birthday. I stop by my nightstand with my sister’s picture and use my powers to make the flowers in the vase bloom again.“Happy birthday sis,” I whisper as I head for the door.I throw on my Ariat boots, hoping towards the door as I put on one at a time. I almost collide with my door trying to put on my last boot as I grab the handle to open the door only to end up running into Aspen. I nearly fall backwards onto the floor, but Aspen reaches out and catches my arm to steady me.
DavinaI wake with a start that it startles Derek. Sweat is dripping down my face as Derek gently cups my face.“What’s wrong love,” he says looking around the room for an intruder.“I got to say goodbye to Malayah,” I whisper. He looks at me confused.“Okay, but what has you so scared?”I turn to Derek, making sure he is listening carefully. Worry is evident on his face as I take deep breaths to calm my racing heart. I need someone else to know what she told me.“Malayah said, ‘Beware of the new comer, darkness will come for her’.”“What does that even mean?”“I don’t know. I don’t even know exactly who she was talking about, but I think it’s Maliyah. I think she was talking about Maliyah and whoever Maliyah saw in t
DavinaThe twins have fallen asleep, Thierry on Derek, Accalia on Calista and Aiden in my arms. Everyone begins going home and we had back into the pack house. We lay the kids down for bed as does Mark and Daniela. It’s nice to see the children together, safe and sound and back to what was once normal. Things may not go back to what they were but we can find a new normal for our family.The last thing I do is prepare a room for my mother with the help of Kat and Daniela. We put her next to Calista as they seem to have hit it off and have become fast friends. I am over the moon that I get to have this opportunity to get to know my mother and learn more about my family. There is so much I don’t know.With mom back in the picture, it seems to have changed things for Kat. Now that Kat has been spending time with our mother and her granddaughter
DavinaWhen we all heard Derek and Maliyah playing I immediately mind link the whole pack to meet at the memorial. Our family gathered at it’s entrance, tears forming in our eyes. I haven’t heard her play in a long time. As pack members began arriving I open the back doors so they can hear too and started passing out candles and lighting them. Once everyone has a candle, I teleport Maliyah and Derek next to the memorial and they don’t miss a note. Families begin stepping up to the memorial and placing beautiful flower arrangements at the base.Dimitri utters a spell under his breath and tells me the flowers will never die, they will remain frozen in time. Celestia and Calista help pass out the Chinese sky lanterns and pens so everyone can write a message or just the name of a loved one that has been lost. I make one for my uncle Gabriel and parents that raised me as they now have no one le
MaliyahI can’t believe what I woke up to. Dr. Smith has been examining me and taking MRI’s of my brain. I am still in shock at everything I am being told. Mom and dad tell me everything I appear to be forgetting. We take several breaks as I am constantly crying over things I have forgotten.I remember some of the information they are telling me but not all of it. After a while I did start to remember the day my sister died but it still doesn’t feel real. I don’t remember being in a coma before and waking up to having another little brother. Uncle Kale died as well as uncle Gabriel and I haven’t been able to accept that yet.Uncle Gabriel has been around all my life, even before I learned what I was. I never imagined I would have to live my life without him.“Ma
DavinaWe’ve been in the dragon realm for the past week; going back and forth to the forbidden realm to explore it more. We want to ensure we had all he details, which Dimitri has written down so we won’t ever forget this day we now call The Day of Retaliation. It’ll always be a day we will mourn as many loved ones were lost that day, but we fought back against my brother and won. I wish there would’ve been another way, but my brother was too far gone. Once we were sure we didn’t miss anything, Dimitri and his coven sealed the realm away forever. The shifter counsel all agreed that it will be against our laws to step foot into that realm so it was best to seal it away to stop temptation.The horse shifters have been learning about the human world as it has changed a lot than from what their ancestors had told them. Technology is a new thing for them and they will remain on bear
DavinaIt’s finally over. It’s been six years since Derek came into my life and my world was turned upside down. Six years after finding out I was not at all human. My heart mourns for those that I have lost in all that time. The parents that raised me, my uncle Gabriel, Thierry who was like a second uncle to me and my biological parents though I didn’t even know it yet.My heart hurts for my sister. She has been an empty shell since we killed Alastor. She remains at Kale’s side though his soul is no longer attached to his body. He’s gone and there is nothing I can really do to comfort her.“Mom, let’s get you something to eat and drink. Please,” begs River but Kat doesn’t respond.She continues to stare at his body and grasp his hand. I think
Davina The minute Maliyah became unconscious her swirl of power dissipated. I drop the sphere of wind and see the zombie creatures are dropping one by one. I rush to Maliyah’s side in a panic with Kat right at my heals. “Maliyah!” Her head is bleeding badly and she is not responding at all. I quickly teleport her to Dr. Smith. “What happened,” asks Dr. Smith. “She hit her head on a rock and I am afraid she used more power than she can handle.” Kat pulls me away from Maliyah to give Dr. Smith room to work and I reluctantly back away. “Davina!” I look up and see Mark and Derek running into the tent. I can feel he is just as scared as I am right now. “Thank Ryuu you are okay. What happened to Maliyah?”
Davina “Maliyah we need you,” I yell through the mind link. Kat and I are trying to finish this once and for all but we both know we won’t win without Maliyah. Alastor creates a sphere of wind around him, pushing Kat and I off of him. I quickly search the field for Maliyah and instantly see what she is doing. Her vision of Derek and Mark dying, it’s happening. “We need Maliyah,” says Kat through the link. “She is needed else where right now. We need to keep him distracted long enough for her to accomplish what is needed and return to us,” I reply. Kat doesn’t question what I mean. We trust each other completely and I know we can hold him off until Maliyah comes back. “You two are a thorn in my side. It’s time for me to be an only child,” growls out Alastor. I know we a