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Part Sixty-Seven
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2024-12-18 12:14:16
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Fire Part Sixty-Eight
I had no answers for Malachi. I felt dizzy, nauseous and for a split-second fear had a tight grip on me.“When you use death magic it drains your life force, like I said earlier, stupid, stupid, stupid. You’re not even completely healed from the shooting and you go and jump into the marina!” Jessica said annoyed.“I don’t feel so good,” I said to Malachi.“You’ll be fine in another few days, granted you don’t try to be a hero until then,” Jessica said to me as I felt faint. She drove up the driveway and parked Malachi’s car in the garage. Malachi had to help me get out of the car as the bullet wounds started to hurt again and my head was pounding.We walked into the kitchen, Malachi supporting my weight and holding me up since I could barely stand on my left leg where I’d been shot. Adara came down the stairs, still fully clothed even though it was past midnight. She’d been waiting up for us.“I thought you said you were fine!” She said when she saw me, blood had started to run down m
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I felt better after that shower and I shaved in front of the mirror. I dressed quietly in the dark of our room and closed the door behind me softly, not wanting to wake Adara yet. I stopped in the hallway and opened the nursery’s door.I walked inside their room and looked down at where Kai and Saga slept next to each other, holding hands. I smiled as I stroked each of their heads and walked downstairs after closing their door softly too. It was a feeling unlike anything else, watching my children sleep.I went to the kitchen to make coffee and I saw the divorce papers, still on the counter where I had left them. I took them with my coffee and went to the study, closing the door behind me. I sat down and moved the laptop into its correct position.Someone had used it and I moved the mouse and it opened on the print page. Malachi’s ticket to Mauritius stared back at me. I exited the browser and opened my council email. I typed in my password and I had five new emails from them.Four of
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Jessica came downstairs in her pajamas, her robe flapping as she walked into the kitchen and slumped down on a chair at the counter.“Morning,” Malachi and I said at the same time and she looked at us frowning.“Urgh, I can’t adult until I’ve had coffee,” she said and Malachi laughed as he made coffee for her.“You’re looking chipper today,” she said to me as she drank from her cup. Malachi was standing behind her and she was wearing an engagement ring.“Yup, feeling like myself again,” I said as I stood up and walked to the sliding doors. I stood in front of them and looked out at the garden. I knew exactly what I had to do, but doing it, that was another ballgame.“What’s going on with you?” Malachi asked me as he stood next to me.“I want to call a family meeting,” I said to him and walked outside. My phone rang, it was James.“Hi,” I said to him as I answered the phone.“I’m going with Shoran into surgery now, your phone’s been off this whole time!” James said, his voice uneven an
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I drove home slowly and parked in the garage again. I sat in the car thinking to myself when Adara opened my door and climbed on my lap, hugging me tightly. I hugged her back and my heart sank.I closed my eyes and I wanted to stay like that forever. I blocked out her emotions because they hurt too much. Her guilt was overwhelming but so was her love. I didn’t want to feel it because I was going to break her heart.“Aren’t you coming inside?” she asked with a smile as she hopped off and walked to the door. I unfastened the safety belt and climbed out. I leaned against the car and took a deep breath as I walked inside.Malachi and Jessica were sitting at the kitchen table and I pulled a chair out for Adara. “Sit,” I said and walked back to the kitchen.I placed the bottle on the table and got four glasses. I poured drinks for all of us and sat down at the head of the table as Adara frowned slightly. I always sat next to her. Malachi was also looking at me oddly and only Jessica was unf
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Her hurt and pain took a hold of me and it hurt. I blocked her emotions and followed her upstairs but I went into the nursery instead of following her into our bedroom. I hated myself for hurting her.Both babies were awake and I picked Kai up and hugged him to my chest as I closed my eyes. I changed him and then it was Saga’s turn. I changed her and she grabbed my face with both hands as we looked at each other. I placed her on the carpet in her sitting chair and got Kai. I sat on the carpet with them and we played and laughed.I looked up and Adara leaned against the door looking at us. “They missed you,” she said to me and I looked back at them.“I missed them as well.” I couldn’t look at her. Her face spoke of her pain and I hated that I was the one that had caused it. I had vowed never to hurt her. Was it still wrong if you did it for love? I didn’t have any answers.“I missed you too,” she said softly and walked downstairs.I put Kai back in their crib while I bathed and dressed
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Malachi watched Kiran’s retreating form. He had no idea what to say. They were all shocked as they remained sitting at the kitchen table. The previous night when Jessica had found the ring on his nightstand, she looked at him and slid it on her own finger.They’d discussed him finally moving in with her and he’d already packed all of his clothes. He’d planned on telling Kiran just before James had called and they’d all gone to the hospital to celebrate the birth.Now, everything just seemed confusing and not at all what he’d expected. This was a different Kiran than the one he’d embraced in Mauritius. Kiran’s eyes were cold, his mind empty and Malachi knew he’d been blocked out.“Okay, I’m just going to say it. What the hell just happened?” Jessica asked after ten minutes of silence.“He’s hurt and angry and I’m sure whatever he was going through these past two days has something to do with it,” Malachi said. He felt frustrated because Kiran was blocking him out.“I don’t want a divor
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Malachi gripped Jessica’s hips as she arched her back and he couldn’t help but stare at her. She was beautiful, passionate and she loved him. He didn’t deserve her love, but she gave everything of her to him.Her mind was a warped place to enter, her thoughts often disturbed and dark. He wouldn’t change a thing about her though. Being connected to her made him feel like the most powerful man alive.Her muscles clenched around his erection and he gritted his teeth. Jessica was home. His release came swiftly and her nails dug into his chest. She shuddered and he pulled her down against him, kissing her like it was the last time.“I love you, Jess,” he said.“I love you too, Malachi,” she said and kissed him again. “Let’s stay in bed all day and whenever I’m hungry you can feed me.”Malachi laughed as they shifted and lay side by side, her back pressed against his chest. He kissed the back of her head and closed his eyes. Jessica sighed her contentment and he tightened his arms around he
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At 6 p.m., Malachi drove home and sighed when he found the side door unlocked. She never locked the doors, no matter how many times he told her to. He stopped in the kitchen and looked at the empty sink and frowned.He hadn’t washed their breakfast dishes that morning and he headed up the stairs towards their bedroom where he found Jessica in front of her vanity where she applied a coat of mascara to her eyelashes.“What’s going on with you?” Jessica looked at him in the mirror. “You did the dishes.”Jessica sighed and turned on the vanity chair to look at him. Her mind was closed off once again as Malachi tried to search it. “I don’t see why you want to do the whole traditional wedding thing.”“You should have the big, fancy, white wedding.” Malachi sat down on the edge of the bed facing her and searched her eyes instead.“Who says I haven’t had the big, fancy, white wedding?”Malachi laughed. “You haven’t. Are you having second thoughts? Is this moving too fast for you?” Doubt had s
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Fire Epilogue
I sat down behind the desk and moved the mouse. The laptop came to life and I looked at it. I read the letter that I had written to Adara ten months earlier. Wow, I really did love her. I looked down and a huge wooden chest stood behind the desk. I wondered what was inside. I opened a drawer and there were cables and stationery, normal stuff you would find in a drawer.I tried the next one and it was locked. I looked at it and then felt beneath the desk where I sat, a few inches forward and took the key down from the magnet that was fastened there. How did I know that? I just knew there would be a key for this drawer. I unlocked it and pulled it open.It was full of A5 diaries, in numerical order, starting from 1994. I opened the first one and it was filled with my handwriting. I began to read it. It began when I was fifteen years old and it described my first teenage relationship. I skipped forward and read the last few pages. It was filled with wolf laws, training with Malachi, stor
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Malachi and I finished our coffee and sat staring at each other. It felt oddly comfortable to be sitting there with him. I could tell that he loved me fiercely because his eyes and his aura, that I could see, were soft.“Let’s take a walk,” Malachi said.I went upstairs and got dressed in my own jeans, boots, and a t-shirt. I grabbed a sweater that Adara had given me the night before and pulled it over my head. I went back downstairs and Malachi stood in front of the open sliding doors.I followed him outside and across the garden right into the forest. I looked around me, this was beautiful. We walked in silence until Malachi stopped in a clearing, it felt kind of magical and I felt silly for thinking that.“This is sacred ground to us. Ten months ago you fought against twelve witches right here,” Malachi walked over to another spot and knelt down on one knee. “Right here, this is where you disappeared right in front of our eyes. Your cloak transported you somewhere and we had no ide
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Adara walked back down the hallway and into the living room. There were pictures all over the walls and I stood in front of it and looked at them. I was in many of the photos and it was hard to look at them and not know when they were taken. I smiled a lot and I guessed I was happy with my previous life.“Cute kids,” I said as I looked at a canvas array of two babies.“They’re also yours,” Adara said to me and I looked at her in shock.“I have kids?” I asked her, stunned. She smiled as she walked forward.“This one is Kai, you chose his name, and this one here is Saga,” she said and I could see that she loved them very much.“How old are they?” I asked her.“One and a half, they could only crawl the last time you saw them,” she said and I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t remember them.“I think I should show you to a room and then tomorrow when Malachi comes back we can talk, I’m sure you have a hundred questions,” she said and I smiled at her. I followed her upstairs, my wife, mothe
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The jet landed and I opened my eyes. I felt better although I could still sleep. Everything felt like an awkward dream where you didn’t know you were dreaming. I kicked Josh’s leg and he woke up.“What’s up man, did we crash?” he asked and I laughed at him.“I think we’re in Seward,” I said to him as I looked out of the window.Malachi, Jessica and James had walked down the stairs and two cars stood waiting at the bottom of the stairs. Malachi’s Zeta, Quentin, was loading our duffel bags into the first SUV.“These guys travel in style,” Josh said and grinned at me. We walked off the jet and got into one of the SUV’s Malachi showed us. We were driving with James. Malachi and Jessica followed behind us.“So this is Seward, where I live?” I asked James and he nodded.“All our lives we’ve lived here, went to Seward High, graduated, then we went to college,” James said and Josh laughed.“Should have known your ass was educated,” he said as he looked out of the window. Malachi’s car overtoo
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I looked intently at Josh. Everything he said was true and a sudden idea occurred to me. I wasn’t going anywhere with these people alone.“Come with me then, help me figure this out. You have no pack, but you have me and I have a pack, a family, a home. I would never just leave you,” I said to him and he nodded at me.“Fine, let’s go ice-skating or shit,” he said and smiled at me.“I’ll go with you on one condition,” I said to Malachi.“Yes?” Malachi didn’t seem worried about my condition, he only wanted me to leave with them.“Josh goes with me, I’m not leaving him behind,” I said to Malachi and he nodded.“Of course. Gather whatever you want to take. Our flight back leaves in three hours,” he said.He walked towards the door holding Jessica’s hand. James turned to look at me and I could tell that he was sad. I could feel it deep within myself.“Do you feel that?” he asked me and I looked at him.“I feel your sadness,” I answered him.“That’s one of the things you can do. You can fee
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“We don’t care what you selling, bargaining or want. We ain’t interested,” Josh said as he closed the door behind me and stood next to me. I had an uneasy feeling about this and I was glad that I wasn’t alone.The older man looked at me with curiosity and I wondered what he wanted from me. His gray eyes seemed to search for something in mine and I couldn’t look away. It was almost like he was trying to read my mind.“He doesn’t recognize us,” the older man said to the younger man and woman with him.“Am I supposed to know who you are?” I asked the older man.The younger man stepped forward. His eyes held sadness and he looked intently into mine. He put both of his hands on my shoulders and squeezed lightly. It all felt too surreal like I was supposed to know him.“My name’s James,” he said and then he hugged me tightly. I just stood there with my arms by my sides not knowing what to do. He let go of me after a while, sighed deeply and then looked away.“I think you might have me confu
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It felt like I got tunnel vision until I could only see him, moving in the ring. I was focused and I saw the plan forming in his mind. He was going to move me until he had me on the ropes and then deliver his killer punch. I saw it happen in slow motion.“He’s going to come from the right and then the left, the punch to your jaw will be a right hook,” the voice said clearly in my head and I dropped my hands as I stood up right in shock. I couldn’t move my head as George’s fist hit me so hard I felt my jaw dislocate.I was on my back, coughing up blood and the crowd was going wild. Josh was right there by my head. “What the hell happened, why’d you drop your arms man?” He was yelling at me and the announcer bent over me.“Ten count then the fight continues, unless you tap out.” I shook my head and started to get up.I pushed my jawbone back into place and I felt it start to heal. I looked up at the Council members sitting there and somehow I knew that the older man was speaking to me i
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I stood in that back room and wondered about the Council member’s presence. Everything that Josh had told me about them was terrible. They were rich old men using the system to their advantage, getting rid of packs that irritated them and executing people as they saw fit.He wanted nothing to do with them and neither did I. I had enough things on my plate to worry about their presence. Josh and I weren’t interested in becoming Council Zetas, no matter what they offered us.I shook my head and I took my shirt and shoes off. I had to get my head in the game. Tonight’s fight would probably be the hardest one by the look of my opponent. He was ready for me. I closed my eyes and centered my energy.I saw the fight play off in my head, in slow motion, punch for punch, kick for kick. This guy was a street brawler, I decided. His punches would hurt and he could get a knockout on the jawline.He wasn’t fast but he was strong and usually won his fight after a few punches, where he would then sn
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Malachi walked down the hall, hoping that John wasn’t sending him another tribunal email. He was tired and he wanted to spend time at home. The kids were changing so much and every time he came back from a trip it felt like he’d missed something new they were doing.Adara was doing her best and she really was a terrific mother. Those two kids wanted for nothing. She read bedtime stories to them, told them stories about Kiran, they were healthy and well looked after.He could hear them all laughing in the sitting room as he closed the door to his study and switched the laptop on. He waited for it to switch on and then accessed his Council encrypted email and typed in his password.The email was from John with a video attached.“Malachi,I hope you’re sitting down while reading this. I received this video from a California Alpha, he always sends me these when new talent steps onto the scene for consideration as Council Zetas.Good luck,John”.Malachi frowned at first. They didn’t need
