“Yes?” Ethan was still holding the phone in his hand as he continued to wipe it carefully with the handkerchief he had in his hand, so he was able to answer the call even before the first ring ended. “May I ask who I am to find when I arrive at the door to ask for you?” Marlyn asked sheepishly. “I just realized I forgot to ask your name, sir….” “Just look for Ethan Black. They will lead you to me,” Ethan answered patiently. “Ethan Black, okay. Got it. I will be right there soon, Mister Black. Thank you,” Marlyn wrote a memo on a paper on his desk. If anything happens, his family would know where he last went that night and why. “I’m being paranoid,” Marlyn tapped his forehead as he hurriedly wrote his note down and called for a cab through an app he
“I have seen you here with your friend before….” Ethan casually started a conversation. He wanted to make Marlyn as comfortable around him as possible. “I heard you own this place… And that’s quite impressive… you must be pretty rich,” Marlyn was still a bit cautious, but he could also feel the good intentions in the guy, Ethan Black, as he seemed to speak without intimidating him in the process. “Well, the liquor business had been in my family for years, but the club was my first business with everything of my talents, and the invested amount was the earnings I got from working as a paid intern on my dad’s research team as the quality control manager for a year,” Ethan shared without hesitations. Marlyn was taken aback. He did not expect Ethan to give so much detail about his life and achievements. It made him think. “He is not the kind of man who would keep a girl captive. He couldn’t have Lexy with him, right?” Marlyn thought. He looked around. His eyes were searching for a
“Yeah… We’re almost like a family….” Marlyn answered casually, but he paused so suddenly. Marlyn realized he seemed to be telling so many things to this stranger. He restrained his tongue from blabbering. Marlyn bit his cheeks from inside his mouth. And scolded himself for being an idiot. Marlyn reminded himself of what reasons were he in the place right now. “Can I have my friend’s phone now?” Marlyn asked. He tried to hide his fear, and he thought he had managed to do so, but Ethan clearly noticed. “I won’t keep you too long in here, but can I offer you a ride home. I still have so many things to ask you about my baby girl, but it’s our first meeting. I don’t want to scare you,” Ethan said in his friendliest manner. “I would love to ask for your advice, suggestions, and anything to win my baby girl's heart," Ethan sounded desperate. “If you are honest with your intentions, I hope you understand that I will have to ask my friend about her opinion regarding the matter,” Marlyn sp
“You might find it hard to believe, but I am very grateful, and I already feel indebted to you for saying that,” Ethan said. Marlyn was once again stunned at how Ethan's mien conveyed emotions. The younger man softly smiled as he nodded to affirm Ethan's thankful words. “Let me just be clear, that I am going to do what I thought I should do because of my friend, Lexy, being involved in the topic,” Marlyn started. “I think I understand that, loud and clear,” Ethan replied readily. “And I am again grateful that you are such a loyal friend to her.” “But if she says she doesn't want to have anything to do with you, I wouldn't insist,” Marlyn added, clarifying his words. “I will respect your decision, but it doesn't mean I would stop trying,” Ethan replied casually. They arrived at the address Marlyn gave to the driver. But as Ethan had not given Marlyn the phone which belonged to Lexy, Marlyn extended his right hand with its palm open in front of Ethan. “Do you mind if I hand the p
Aldric reached out to Eleazar through their mind link. “Do you have any idea who can want to harm me? We are being followed,” the Lycan asked without beating around the bush.“My Prince, I have heard the King, your uncle, had sent a notice to every assassin who is willing to work with him to bring you to him, dead or alive,” Eleazar did just as Aldric. He did not try to conceal any information he had heard. “I was just about to tell you about it, too,” he added. “How does he know who I am. Even the fact that I am alive is quite questionable for him to know,” Ethan stated as he noticed. “I have heard from some hearsays that whoever on the throne will feel the threat of the true King to reappear and claim his seat. Since you have found your mate, the Prince’s royal presence must have been noticeable, and he is panicking, so he sent these orders to go after you. There are also witches working for the royals, which must have been the reason why they seem to know who to chase. I suggest
Ethan went down and blended with the crowd on the ground floor. Then he walked to the bar counter. Hanzel, his bartender, did not even recognize Ethan Black, his boss. Hanzel greeted the man as if he was his usual customer in the bar.“Hey, man! What can I offer you?” Hanzel asked as soon as Ethan approached his post. “Give me your most expensive shot,” Ethan smiled mischievously. Ethan wanted to give Hanzel a hint of who he was this way. But he was actually looking at the mirror behind Hanzel. He was checking if anyone was keenly looking at him. If Aldric were right to say that some of the people tailing them were witches, it wouldn’t be easy to lose and fool them like mundane beings. And he was right! A beautiful woman with platinum blonde hair in her early thirties wearing a black cotton shirt, leather pants, and jackets. She sat on the barstool next to Ethan’s and ordered her drinks with her body twisted to look at the bartender while she sat facing the dance floor. “Hi!” She
Ethan spent the night in his penthouse at the club again. He did not want to lead anyone further to his house by the lake. And he asked Ida and her friends for a few days to think things over. He admitted he was still in his baby steps on everything about his supernatural identity, and the woman who said she was a fae, an identity Ethan had no clue about, agreed. “What is a fae?” Ethan asked Aldric when they got their privacy. “A fae is what your human books call a fairy. Just like witches, which have the white and dark in kind, faes also have the pure-hearted and evil ones,” Aldric answered. “What did you see in her memory when I shook hands with the woman earlier?” Ethan asked again. “She was among the royals of her kind, but I wasn’t sure what title she holds exactly,” Aldric replied. “I could feel from the strong aura she possessed. That also means she might be more powerful than we can imagine,” the lycan added. Ethan sighed. He was not sure how to handle their situation. If
Tyler looked at his wife, Alona, for help. He could not dare check his daughter’s body, no matter if he was the father. She was an adult and a lady. It wasn’t appropriate. Not to forget, the daughter was refusing his idea to be checked. Tyler silently conveyed a message to his wife to do the task instead. “It’s okay, honey. I am sure Lexy had it covered,” Alona gently smiled at her husband. Tyler trusts his daughter. He believes everything she says. As a father, he lets his daughter build trustworthiness within her by making sure he takes her words into his heart whenever she says them. He has this rule in him that to let his daughter grow into the person she really wants to be, as a father, he is to be his daughter’s guide. A father who is there to remind her when she needs the reminder. A father who is by her side when she needs a companion, supporter, and anything she might need. Having faith and being faithful are among them. Tyler Roberts has the attitude and belief that if h
Soon after, Eula became ill. But she refused to recuperate and claimed she wished nature to take her as soon as possible, so she could join her son in the afterlife. As per Eula’s request, they did not insist she get treated but Aquila stood right by her side to make sure she did not suffer so much pain before she took her last breath. When Eula died, a vision appeared to Lexy saying that since Mauricio died without descendants, Borasco would soon be reborn to live a life he was promised by the Moon Goddess. It made Ethan and Lexy feel relieved to realize that fate had been guiding them all along. Things seemed to happen for their reason. Every dot found its lines and connected every event to realize whatever message they were brought forth. Aquila and Lisbon remained in the Kingdom to serve the King and Queen who promised to take over the throne officially when Lexy finishes her studies. And they now have a family of their own with triplets of two girls and one boy. They realized
The young couple did not dally. While the rest of the graduates were heading to restaurants with their family and loved ones to celebrate their graduations, Ethan and Lexy were heading to the hospital to see the obstetrician who assisted her during her first pregnancy more than two years ago. A doctor Freya Smith had introduced to them. “Babe, why didn’t we know if you are pregnant like Axel had said?” Ethan asked in disbelief as he drove the car to Doctor Naomi Vitto’s clinic. “I might have been so preoccupied with my studies that I did not seem to feel anything weird,” Lexy answered weakly. “I’m so sorry, Babe. But have you noticed anything new about me? I mean you have seen how tough it was for me, for us, when I have Axel, right?” Ethan fell into deep thought when he stopped at a red light and waited for the light to turn green. “If I am to compare what I thought I noticed new about you to what I have seen you’ve been through while having your first trimester with Axel, I can’
“Congratulations, babe!” “Congratulations, babe! Yay!!!! We made it!” Marlyn yelled excitedly as he embraced and lifted Lexy joyfully, only to sheepishly smile and apologized when he heard a growling man not so far away. Marlyn graduated from their four-year degree courses earlier than Lexy, but their friendship grew deeper as the years went by. Even if Marlyn was now practicing his profession by being the local vet in their town, he did not cut ties with Lexy, and with the Roberts family. He was there at every event that was celebrated in the Roberts family’s lives. Even that day Lexy met her parents after being in a coma state and after the wars which they had won against the rogues and the vampires. It turned out Alona was in the kitchen, not because she was preparing food, but because she had to let the Blacks know that the young couple had shown up and that the Blacks should come over to the Roberts to settle things as they have excitedly planned while waiting for Lexy and Eth
The family of three almost forgot that there was someone else beside them standing and with a mixture of an awkward and warm smile sporting his face, he sure looked like he did not mind being left behind. Ethan could feel the exact same emotion Lexy had in her heart so the man, as well as his lycan, knew their girl was just so caught up between the overwhelming joy of reuniting with her parents and the unspeakable relief that they were finally back from the land of the in-between. “Oh, what are we doing here at the door?” Alona asked while sniffling and chuckling. “We are also being so mean to our guest over here,” she added while wiping the tears on her face and fanned it with her hands as if drying her wet in tears face and smiled at Ethan kindly. “Lexy, sweetie….” the mother spoke gently to remind her daughter that she came with someone and the young lady seemed to have forgotten. Lexy let go of her embrace of her parents and stepped back to stand with Ethan. She clasped her hand
“I will also do my best to only let your tears fall out of joy in this lifetime and to the next. It might be challenging, but I will deal with it. I know I have so much to learn about being a man to a woman, a husband to a wife, a son to parents, or a father to a son or a daughter, or both and more, but I promise you, Alexandra Roberts Black, that with all my heart and soul, human and Lycan, every breath and every moment of my life, I will only love you and everyone you love. Your friends will be my friends, whoever you claim as your family will be mine to cherish and protect as well,” Ethan kneeled before Lexy who was now smiling and crying at the same time, nodding and sniffing, eyes blurred but floating in cloud nine because she could feel from every fiber of her being how sincere, true and utterly heartfelt were Ethan’s words. Lexy swallowed her spit, cleared her throat, and took a few big and deep breaths to calm herself. “You make me so happy….” Lexy said after a sniff. “So, v
Lexy felt excited to hear Ethan say they were about to see her parents. She did not avoid his offered bite of food from the tray he carried all the way up to their bedroom from the kitchen downstairs. Lexy did not let the man feed her alone, she also picked the spoon on the side of the tray and fed him. “I’d love to wake up with you like this every morning,” Ethan said with a beaming smile on his face as he wiped the smear of food on the side of Lexy’s lips. “Thank you, babe….”While Ethan was staying with Lexy to have their breakfast, Aldric told the two that he will be busy checking the surroundings on his own. It was a way for Aldric to keep in touch with the rest of the lycans in the palace to keep an eye on various things that he sees fit to give his attention to. He would raise his mind link barrier for his human not to get bothered with anything unnecessary and attend to their girl and mate. “Nah, I want a different way of expressing gratitude. But since we are going to see m
“Do you think it was a good idea?” Lexy asked as they luxuriate in the romantic privacy of their home. The couple found a very lovely spot in the forest overlooking the palace within the realm of the Lycan Kingdom. They both gave in to the idea of how they wanted the house built and they even made the house all by themselves as they both did not want their lovely nest to be known by anyone else. “I want to believe it is. Because with that strategy, I can spend time with you alone like this without the constant My King and My Queen here and there, Your Highness and Your Majesty any moment of the day. Ughhh! That just feels so bothersome when I can have you all for and all by myself, and likewise, you can have me and your mate all of the time!” Ethan answered as he attacked Lexy with tickles and kisses in her clothed with a seductive nighties’ body. “Ahhhhhhhh! Babe!?” Lexy shrieked as she felt the tickles run all over her body from the tip of her toes to the roots of her hair due to
A lot of them raised their hand. They were crying silently but heartbreakingly. Some of them killed their loved ones in order to respond to the nature of thirst for blood they felt the very first moment they were turned into vampires. Some were parents to their children and vice versa. One was a mother to her child, while others were a lover, a friend, a spouse, and many more. And their body still recognizes these grave mistakes that they could not help mourning deep within them. A part of them was still grieving, but they were sent to an unknown place to kill everyone in it, promising more blood to satiate their hunger, and they were like mad bulls who dived into the task without even the ability to check if what they were going to do would be safe or not. Lexy and Ethan were able to hear the cries of their silently weeping hearts. “Do you want to end this curse in your life?” Ethan asked. Ethan explained that their body was already dead, and there was no way they could turn back
The war ended with a glorious victory for the Lycan Kingdom. The High Priestess Aquila did not see miss witnessing what happened in the thick forest between the royal couple Lycan King and the young Grand White Witch. She just realized how protectively secured her spot was when she herself could not step out of the shield which was covering her concealed, unseen, and unnoticed by the vampires surrounding them. Aquila was astonished to realize that even with how high rankers the vampires that they were dealing with were, they failed to notice their presence until the couple showed themselves. And even though she was not as powerful as the young white witch was, they failed to detect her presence among them although she was not even another tree afar from where they had gathered to attack the King all at once. When they tried to overwhelm the Lycan King with their number, they approach and gather around one tree and but they realize it was not wise to do so as the lycan could, the vam