Neaera-“I think I have it under control enough to connect with everyone.” I said through our link and was surprised when it went through without difficulties.“You have no idea how happy I am to hear that.” He responded shortly after, with a bit of laughter in his voice.Wanting to share my good news with Stryker, I looked over at him as I opened my mind up to him as well. “I did it.”I knew I still had to figure out control on the empathy portion of things, but for the first time since I found out I was a hybrid, I felt relatively normal. I was happy about that, which was saying a lot when Stryker made the car swerve suddenly, and I didn’t get upset about him nearly wrecking my car.“Sorry.” He muttered, but a wide smile spread across his voice as he continued to speak, but only to me, by using our link through the mate bond. “Seriously?”“Seriously. How else would I be able to speak to you like this without touching you?” I teased, still using the link between us.He looked down at
Neaera-As I looked at Leo, standing next to Dimitri, a weird feeling fell over me. I couldn’t explain what it was, but it gave me goosebumps. There was something off with seeing Leo stand next to the man that says that he is my father.I hoped that when it was time to get him away from the enemy, there wouldn’t be any issues. As it stands, to get to Leo, I was going to need to go through Dimitri. After the last encounter I had with him, I wasn’t too sure if I could fight him and win.When I returned my attention to Dimitri, I kept myself from looking directly into his eyes. Whatever his ability was, Zach had warned me about looking into his eyes. Looking at his nose instead, I clenched my teeth, grinding them a few times before speaking.“The problem with vampires like you is that you have no honor.”“Who cares about things like honor, when you have power.” Dimitri scoffed. “Just as your friend Leo. He has witnessed what power can do for someone determined to rise to the top. I, well
Neaera-“Not so fast.” Dimitri said in a deep voice as he stopped my hand.His fingers were wrapped around my wrist, with the tips of my fingers barely touching his chest. I had thought I had him, but his movement had been so fast that I didn’t see it until he grabbed me. As quickly as he grabbed me, he stood up and twisted my arm behind my back.A loud popping noise resonated through the wind as my shoulder was dislocated. Pain shot through me so intensely that I nearly blacked out. Clenching my teeth, I did my best to remain conscious.“What is wrong Nea?” Stryker’s voice spoke inside my head.“I am fine.” I responded to him, doing my best to keep the pain out of the link.The last thing I needed was for him to fly off the wall and rush in when there was still a hint of wolfsbane in the air. It was mostly cleared out, but not enough for a werewolf not to be affected. Just a little longer and maybe we can get out of this.“The hell you are, I can feel your pain, but I don’t know what
Stryker-I knew this guy was insane, but this was on a whole different level. This was my first official encounter with him, and he was laughing like this was just some sort of joke to him. Delivering one last blow to his face, I stepped back as he clutched his stomach and laughed.“I am going to pee my pants from all this laughing.” Dimitri said between laughs.Stepping back, I looked over at Nea, who had also stopped attacking. We were getting nowhere with him, and we both understood it. Looking around I saw things were getting messy with everyone.A few of the vampires that we had brought with us were now dead, while the others were barely hanging on. When Leo had alerted Zach that the air was clear, we ran as fast as we could to get here. The others were waking up the pack members, but we weren’t going to last much longer if they didn’t get everyone on their feet soon.As the thought occurred to me, the doors to the school burst open and my pack members scattered around to attack
Neaera-Stryker led me to his bedroom and all I could think about was tasting his blood. Since he mentioned it, I thought of nothing else as we walked to the house. I didn’t really need it, but I wanted it more than I wanted to breathe.“Before I give you any blood, you need to promise that no matter what is going on, you will not block me anymore. It was different when you couldn’t control it, but I don’t like the feeling of being disconnected from you.” Stryker said the moment we entered his room and he shut the door.It took a second for me to register what he was saying. My mind was so focused on the beat of his heart and the beating of the pulse just under the surface of his artery. When it clicked that he had spoken, I had to focus on him and not on my lust for his blood.I needed to learn to get control over this side of me, or I was going to become the very thing I hated. Snapping out of it, I looked him in the eyes while letting down my mental block. It was still strange that
Neaera-Over the next three days, I focused mostly on getting my head right. Since I didn’t need to feed so soon after taking what I did from Stryker, I used the time to gain better control over my ability. I was surprised by how far I have come.Natalia had stayed behind to help me, and I could even consider us friends now. She didn’t stay inside the pack territory because most of the pack members had an issue with it. Instead, she and a few of the vampires that wanted to stay behind to help took over the cabin that the hybrids had stayed in for a bit.With Natalia’s help though, I was now able to use my empathic ability without as much pain. Sometimes it was a little overwhelming and did leave me with a migraine, but nothing I couldn’t handle. Today she was going to help me overcome my sickness from drinking out of a blood bag.Stryker didn’t know that I was planning to do it, because I didn’t want him to talk me out of it. After nearly killing him from taking too much blood, I knew
Neaera-We managed to get away from the pack without anyone asking any questions. Zach and Stryker had a phone conference with the Alpha King, so we had time to get out. I simply told them that I was going to work with Natalia and Kalea.When I had mentioned to Kalea about Natalia taking me somewhere, even though I didn’t know where she jumped at the chance. I realized as we were on our way to where we were going, I haven’t gone out with Kalea for anything like this.In all reality, I have never experienced a girl’s night. The only times I have spent time together with someone was when I was with Stryker and his friends. I was both excited and scared. Mostly scared as I didn’t know what to expect.I have asked Natalia many times where we were going, but she just told me to keep my panties on and let her drive. We were all piled into a small car, that one of the vampires had brought. I hadn’t wanted to take my car because it would have been too obvious.I did feel a little bad that I l
Neaera-Scanning the bar once again, I felt a sense of peace wash over me at seeing how everyone was getting along. Smiling to myself, I relaxed a little, thinking there was hope for our kind after all. Natalia patted my back and winked at me as she ordered two shots of something I have never heard of. “This is exactly what you needed,” Natalia said as the two shot glass with a dark red liquid slid across the bar to us. “What is this?” I asked, Natalia because the bartender walked away. “Don’t worry about it, just drink.” She motioned for me to pick up the shot glass as she picked up hers. “Bottoms up.” She said as she drank the liquid in one drink. Looking at the shot glass, I wasn’t sure if I should do it or not. It had a very strong alcohol odor to it and something that smelled familiar, but I couldn’t place the smell. Shrugging my shoulders, I lifted the glass to my lips and took it all in one swig. The liquid burned going down, but it felt so good. It was like an instant w