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Khai's POV Three more days flicker by, leaving me in a trance of hazy sadness. Something feels off, and I can't quite put my fingers on the reason, but it feels as if the life is being sucked from deep within my soul. Could it be dread for the future? Or maybe dread for the past?? The lack of sleep is a probable cause because it isn't helping much, but I cannot convince my body to shut down, even if for a nano nap. It's stupid, really. My body does this sometimes. Refusing to sleep even when my body strictly needs it. Theo gave up his obstinant refusal to sleep, crashing in the yard at home as he watched some of his warriors play football in the yard. It was strange. I could feel his body shutting down. His wolf was recharging under the early evening moonlight, and he was dreaming, I think. That or I was hallucinating times of making out with Lilith myself. Anyway, three days. Seventy-two hours sat here within the trees, watching and waiting whilst simultaneously holding m
Lilith's POV A strange and unabating voice wakes me from my light slumber. It's not particularly saying many words, but it's happy nevertheless, and the aura accompanying the person is addictively more-ish. They seem blissfully unaware and happy, content with their surroundings which confounds me. Where are they? Are they close?? Their room seems dark, maybe with the ambience of red. Yes, yes, I can see what they can. It's as if they are sharing their secret with me. I wonder if they are another of the long line of children Damian keeps. I mean, they must be, to be around here. I lay silently for a while, soaking up their energy, afraid that they might go silent again if I spoke or tried to communicate. I need this, the happiness from an untainted person. I can't really explain with words how happy and content the being makes me feel by just sharing their... innocence. I think, perhaps, it's maybe because I'm alone and I hate being down here cold and hungry because I've co
Celeste's POV"Theseus? Are you home?" I holler out as I walk through the mansion we call our home.We live in the third realm, the god realm, where all gods and goddesses with immortality reside.We've lived a privileged life, but it wasn't always that way.I was an ordinary girl from a family with a mother and a father, and we lived a wild life out in the Canadian woodlands.We had distant witches' blood in our genetics, and my mother practised witchcraft despite not being a witch.My childhood was filled with my mother extracting the souls of one being and melding them with the soul of another, most experiments going wrong. Some were going right, but she never once made a being that lived long enough to count as a species. That's where my desire to make a wolf-shifter came from.One of my favourite books was about a wolf and his need to find a friend. I would read it every night.In the woodlands around us, we're packs of wild wolves that lived beside us humans, so that's how I sum
Khai's POV At precisely noon, they arrived exactly as Alfredo had suggested but what I find unusual is the fact that they had children, whom I had presumed were ready, with them. “What is this?” Theo hisses towards them and me simultaneously. One of the witches, a small girl that’s been alive for longer than once thought possible, turns his way. Her name is Penny, and she’s been around for more than one of Damian’s life cycles. She’s the one who started withdrawing children when she could, and I suppose without watching her do so, I would never have concluded that I needed to help. “It’s okay; he’s just wary. He’s worried about his pack.” “So he should be…” the other witch Sara whispers as she looks around us. Theo had Calley and Arlo go over to Lucas’s place, so the pack house was empty. Currently, it’s only me, Theo and his father on the property, but I can feel Lucas and Andy nearby. I presume for a just-incase moment. “Who are these?” I ask whilst taking a small toddler.
Lilith's POVMany influential people are sat around the dining room table dressed in expensive dresses and suits. Each with a face as straight as stone, and the atmosphere is rigid.Damian has me sitting beside him. His hand on my leg that's bouncing uncontrollably.I hate feeling him touch me, yet his touch is grounding. It's confounding, but I guess that's because I really don't want to upset him... yet.Many people have greeted me in passing, and I've not known many of them or their names, but one I do know is Leo.He's here sans Tabby, and he's dressed in an expensive slate suit. He takes the opportunity to come and say hello after Alpha Fredrickson, and his mate Luna Mina leaves us. He holds his hand out before him as he speaks."It's lovely to see you again," he greets Damian with a smile and a shake of his hand. Then he turns to me, and I panic. My heart racing, and my palms shaking.Will he show the hand I do not want to be known? Will he admit that we know one another?I look
Theo's POV Leo appeared in the yard late yesterday evening with Tabby unannounced. She was clinging to him with the small girl behind her, the same one that teleported them here last time. At first, I thought something was wrong, and I panicked, walking out to greet them, looking right at Tabby, expecting some sort of bad news. The news wasn’t bad, and it wasn’t good either, but it was news nonetheless. Leo explained that Damian was holding a dinner, one that I somehow hadn’t been invited to. I know that is a far cry to prove he doesn’t care that he has Lilith. I’ve been sitting on the very edge of my seat, wanting to trespass his borders to match my warriors to the bunkers Khai is adamant she is residing in. We could fight it out, assert our dominance and take our mate back, but Khai is refusing point blank to make any moves. Leaving us sitting ducks as to whether Lilith is Turkey okay or not. I’ve been relying on the mate bond these past few days, begging for the emotional
Theseus's POVIt's physically draining to keep myself invisible in this realm. I've never had a problem with practising this specific ability before, but I've been using it non-stop for a few days, so I'm tiring far sooner than I'd like.It's been aeons since I've walked among my people, or Celeste's, for that matter.There's the thing about being a god. Your life comes privileged and cursed.I've always said that we need to be with our people to know our people, but alas, gods are not known for being as one with their creations.It wasn't always this way for me. I once was a man like any of those around me now.I was a gifted witch with the ability to disappear and teleport.Apparently, my bloodline heritage had left me the inheritance of my kind.It would have been nice to know and have a heads-up that I would be left in charge of our kind for an eternity—stuck up there in the god realm watching over those who I create.That I would have needed to pledge my life to an eternity of s
Lilith's POV The evening had dragged past as I stood watching the women speak about everything and nothing and me... Everyone had noted the mark that evidentally sat on my neck, and I had wondered what exactly they had been interested in, why it was so magnificent to them. It wasn't until everyone had left and I was allowed to retire to my room, the one I have always stayed in... the one I showered that I had the chance to see what was so enthralling. I looked into the mirror, free of steam from the shower this time. My once burning purple mark was now a deep black trifecta. The mark makes a strange six-looped shape. Well, at least it isn't burning bright purple now... and saying that, as I look at myself, I notice my eyes, too, have changed back to my standard blue colour. I had gotten so used to seeing myself with purple-hued eyes that it must have escaped my notice this morning that they had indeed changed. I show again, letting the warmth of the water pelt my skin and