“Lux, we are losing too many men. I am not sure how much longer we can hold them off. If you are going to send her away you need to do it now,” says Thierry. I can see my parents are struggling with making a decision. “Celestia, it is time.” I can see my mother walking into the room carrying me. She is trying to hold back her tears. “Lux, I don’t think I can do it. She needs her parents”. “There is no guarantee we will walk away from this alive and if we are to ensure our lineage and her safety, we need to send her away," dad says firmly, trying hold back my own tears. He grabs me from my mother’s arms, staring at me. One of the warlocks entered the war room. “Sir, Daniel and Isla Ortiz are here”. “Send them in,” dad replies. I look to see my parents that raised me and tears fall from my eyes as they enter the room. My dad, Daniel, appeared to be injured and uncle Gabriel is helping him walk. “Daniel, it is time. Are you alright.” “I’ll be fine Lux. My leg is beyond repair wit
Derek I rush after Davina as she is throwing clothes on and is preparing to head out the door. What the hell happened last night. “Davina, what do you mean your brother. Alastor?” “Yes he killed my parents and he is after me now.” She stops in the middle of the hall and turns to face me. She grabs my hands and places the on her stomach. “What? Is something wrong with the baby?” “No not all,” she replies smiling. “My parents said it’s a boy.” She is smiling wide, staring at me waiting for a reaction. When it finally clicks I pick her up and spin her in a circle. “Really? A boy?” “Yes,” she giggles. I pull her into a deep kiss. Damn I love this woman. She pulls away sooner than I want and I whimper at her causing her to laugh again. “We need a warlock, Derek. We are going to sever Maliyah’s connection. I am not going to lose her too.” I stop her from turning away from to leave and use my fingers to pull her chin up to look at me. She has tears in her eyes. I know this is a d
“Thank you Aspen.” “Anytime Derek. I’ll stay with her. I know you need to update everyone on this meeting Davina had with her parents. I’ll call you should she wake up.” “Thank you Aspen,” says Davina. I take Davina by the hand and lead her to the nursery. “Before we do, I need to see our other kids. I feel like I haven’t been spending enough time with them.” “I agree Derek.” My mother is in the room playing with the mega blocks with the twins. Accalia is trying to stack them as high as they will go and Thierry is knocking them down causing Accalia to scream at her brother in frustration. I can’t help but laugh. They notice us and rung to us. “Mama,” says Thierry. “Dada,” says Accalia. I grab her as she reaches me and toss her in the air making her squeal with joy. “How is Maliyah,” asks my mother. “The connection has been severed. She is grieving. I can’t imagine what that feels like,” I tell her. “I can.” I stare at mother waiting for her to further explain. “I had a tw
Derek Two months have flown by. All has been quite. No attacks, no death but that also means no word on Malayah. Maliyah no longer has the connection to her sister so we don’t know whether she is alive or dead at this point. Davina remains optimistic that Malayah is still alive. Maliyah has been depressed. It’s like it was when Malayah first disappeared but worse. Maliyah is withering away before our eyes. She hardly eats, doesn’t read, doesn’t draw and refuses to go riding. Even Aspen hasn’t been able to get through to her. Davina and I are coming up on our one year anniversary but she doesn’t want to leave with the state Maliyah is in and I don’t blame her. Plus we are about two months away from the due date. Davina is currently napping. She’s been doing that a lot lately. I spend my days trying to stay ahead of my paperwork and checking on Maliyah. In between I ensure to spend time with the twins. They have become quite mobile and are trying to climb everything. Carrie Harrison’
“Daniela wait!” She stops at the second landing and stares at me with tears in her eyes. “What?” “How far along are you?” “How did you know?” “You don’t normally get upset during our spars and I’ve done a lot worse to him.” “Yeah, but he wasn’t trying to get himself killed those times either.” “He wants to see if he has the gene too. He was trying to trigger it.” “I just found out last week. I am sure I’m only two weeks at this point. He’s been so focused on everything but his family. Not that I don’t want to find Malayah too but I don’t want him to leave Jackson behind either. I didn’t know how to tell him or even know if he is going to be happy about it. This kid will be due around August.” “Then I am officially ordering him to take the week off. No company business, no search parties. Just family. Meaning you, Jackson and him. Well and the little one.” “Really?” “Really, we can manage without him for a week.” Daniela hugs me. “Thank you.” Mark comes running up the stairs
DavinaI am very happy Derek took the week off along with Owen and Mark. With no leads on Malayah and no attacks in months, there is nothing we can do. Everyone could use a little happiness for a while. I do my best to stay happy but that’s hard when we are missing a family member. I know Malayah is not dead I can feel it, but that also means she is suffering and I don’t like that either. I can feel Derek has fallen asleep already. His arm on top of me has gotten heavy and his breathing has deepened. I focus on his breathing and soon I drift off to sleep. I think I am asleep anyway. I am back in the garden in the dragon realm. I look around expecting to see my parents but it’s not them. “Do not be frightened of me Davina.”“Who are you?”“What does your heart tell you?”“Ryuu?” He has deep blue eyes and olive tone skin. He has long silver hair tied into a low ponytail. He is quite muscular with a strong jaw line. He’s not as tall as Derek but he’s definitely way taller than me.“Yes,
Derek This has been the best week and it was much needed. I think we all feel a bit better after spending much needed time with our families. I have been buried in this file all day. I have so much to catch up on. Dad seemed to have found a lot of information and not just on the lycan gene. He’s been looking into Ryuu’s family. He has a family tree with all the children from Kaida and their children’s children with the powers they each had. Besides Accalia there was only one other wolf with silver hair and she did possess every power of a dragon. This is amazing. Mark is reading through the book that was found in the safe. He’s deep into it just as I am with the files. “You alive over there,” I chuckle at Mark. He looks up at me and looks out the window. “I can’t believe these have been here the whole time and no one knew. Dad didn’t tell me about this safe.” “I know. It’s time for a break. I am starving, how about you?” “I can’t believe the morning has come and gone already.” H
Davina I am really excited that I can now control my power to grant abilities. Now we will have more of an advantage against our enemies. Now that Ryuu has told me what to pay attention to I should’ve known all along how to grant abilities. I feel this warmth around my heart when I think about what it is I want to happen. The warm travels out of me towards the person I am want to grant an ability. I see Calista walking towards us. Perfect. Now I can grant everyone the ability to use those force fields for protection. “What next love,” asks Derek. “I want to give you all the ability to create force fields for protection like I and Maliyah can. To protect yourself when in danger as well as each other. I think it’ll come in handy if we are ever attacked or are in battle.” “What do you need us to do,” asks Calista. “Just stand in a circle around me and place a hand on me.” “You want to do everyone at the same time,” Derek asks. “I gave the whole family the ability to be telepathic