ELIZABETH
I can’t stop the scream as a very loud crack echoes through the basement from where I land on my ankle breaking it. Tears fill my eyes and I curl up as my hands go to my ankle only I soon have to move them as I am then kicked in the back. The force and the pain from the kick in the back has me uncurling and turning so that I am now lying on my back.
As soon as I turn over whoever it was that attacked me steps over and then sits on my chest, trapping my arms to my chest. I blink through the tears until the blurry figure that is sitting on me comes into focus. Nala smirks as she leans down placing her hands on either side of my head and growls.
“Keep your hands off him… He is mine.”
“W…who?”
Nala growls again, sits up a little and slaps me hard snapping my head to the side, she then grips my chin with her fingers making me look at her again. She then leans in close stopping her l
THIRD PERSON No matter what Nala did and how much Graves would have liked to take pleasure from her he would never touch her in that intimate way, knowing the penalty he would receive if he did, besides Graves has had his eyes set on another female since she was eleven years old and is now old enough to claim.Nala had thought that if she didn’t show that she was indeed conceiving from the Alpha Males over the years she would be able to convince her mother to let Graves try with her next heat which was due in a couple of weeks, around trading day. Knowing that if she didn’t produce an heir or at least a pregnancy this time her mother would then pass the Mane heir title to Kyria and there was no way she was letting a weak Omega like Kyria take her place and take control of the pride.A few days before their traditional trading day, Nala made her way to her mother's office hoping to talk to her mother once more. She stops short of the door when she hears her mother's voice followed by
GABRIELA FlashBack cont…Then when it kept disappearing and I knew that none of the supernaturals that were fighting on our side of the war had left the area my heart dropped. There was only one explanation and that was my mate was one of the enemy. Tears filled my eyes, as I was torn, my mate was one of the enemy…Would my family accept him?Would they shun me and make me leave?Would I have to reject him?Would I have to watch him die?As the last two questions filter through my head my heart shatters, Hanna howls and Mila hisses loudly at the thought of not being able to find out, let alone get to know who the Moon Goddess deemed as the other half of me.When the scent didn’t come again I watched the fighting for a little longer and then returned to the castle. I checked on everything that Mother and Father had told me to watch over and then got some rest. However,
GABRIELA Over the following years, I never forgot that scent as it continued to haunt me in my dreams. Hanna and Mila settled a little however they were a little harder to keep under control and I would have to let Hanna out for a run a lot more often than I used to just to curb the restlessness and extra energy that she seemed to have.Feeling that same build-up of restlessness and energy I push off of the railing, turning and walking back into and then through my chambers, down through the castle and out into the courtyard. I pull off the sundress I am wearing and shift, running into the forest allowing Hanna to take control.After returning from the long run I still don’t feel any better and I know that I can’t stay within the castle or kingdom any longer. I am not that much younger than Nathaniel, however, where he managed to leave and travel I have been stuck here. I don’t even know what I want to do with my life.My thoughts then shift to the smoke, ash and fresh rain scent th
NATHANIEL It didn’t surprise me when Gabriela came knocking on my office door. Hunter and Cole had felt the change in our little sister and the growing restlessness that was pulling at her. Gabriela was a lot like Charlotte, she was always in the background, always helping but never really getting a chance to be herself.I had thought of denying her permission to leave, knowing that even though the war with the S.D.E. had come to an end, we could feel that they were still a threat as they still had Romeo and we never found the human male or whoever it was behind it.However, I also knew that I couldn’t keep her locked up within the castle, everyone else had their assignments, things they did and a sense of belonging so I couldn’t really deny her the opportunity of finding that for herself.I also knew that if I allowed her to leave without some sort of protection then Mother and Father would be on my case before she could even leave my office. I sigh, I could have used the mind-link
VLAD As I sit in my office at my desk I look up and out of the window at the expanse of forest within view and hiss as I once again remember where I should be sitting now and that I’m not.However; After the failed war and my attempt at killing the Vampire King Dominic and taking his throne, I pulled all my loyal workers and followers from the Human government and moved them to my family’s castle within the confines of the forbidden mountains, where I could resume my plan of taking over the Vampire Kingdom.Once Prince Romeo had succumbed to the intense torture and brainwashing he was subjected to, I made him perform the ancient oath to tie not only his life but more importantly his Royal power to me, thinking that I was only a low-ranked King.I was no low-ranked Vampire king, but a powerful Royal Hybrid.I had known he was there but never fully there until Romeo completed the Oath and broke whatever was holding him back. It then didn’t take us long to merge and become like one and
ELIZABETH Kyria found me at the bottom of the stairs, she had wanted to go to our father but I knew that it wouldn’t make a difference as Nala was the next Mane and she would have been twisted anything I said so that I was punished for her beating me.It took nearly a week for my broken ribs and the bruises she caused to fade and completely heal. I never worked out why she was down in the basement, or if she had gone down into the dungeons connected to the basement.I am surprised that she has left me alone while I healed, it should have put me on alert as normally she wouldn’t let me fully heal enjoying adding to them. The week before trading day was normally the worst only stopping two days before so that the bruises could be covered easily.I shiver at the thought. I have always hated and feared trading day as it is just that. Representatives from other Prides within the area make their way through each Pride and trade, only it's not food or water or things but breedable females.
ELIZABETH My heart shattered at her softly spoken word, feeling slightly betrayed by her after everything we would do for each other a rumble vibrates through my chest as I say.“Yes, it is. It is the piece of paper you gave me before you went with Nala.”Dad looks at me and then back at Kyria and says.“Is this true?”“Yes, I gave her the list the kitchen gave me but the one I got and gave her didn’t have as many items on it.”His attention was back on me in a second and my eyes went wide again as I knew what he was thinking and my heart broke even more that it would even enter his thoughts. I slowly step back as I whisper.“No, no, no, no, no… I didn’t… Please, Dad, I wouldn’t…”“How many items were meant to be on the list, Kyria?” he hisses over his shoulder.“10.”“There’s 15 on this list. Elizabeth, care to explain?”I didn’t get to say anything as I snapped my eyes to Nala. She actually smirked and snickers and says in her most sweet and accusing tone.“She must have changed it
ELIZABETH I don’t know how long I was out or how long I had been hanging when I felt someone grab the back of my neck and then press what I gathered was their lips to mine. I whimper as pain shoots through me, I then shiver as he pulls back and whispers next to my ear.“No one will choose to take a thief, so my little runt you will be mine.”My heart sinks as I know that he is telling the truth, unless they decide to take me as a caged or chained breeder there is no way I am now leaving this Pride. My only hope now was to maybe try to run but if Mane Beatrice gives me to Graves then that could be close to if not totally impossible.Pain shoots through me again from where he is holding the back of my neck and the force he uses to kiss me before he disappears. I don’t bother to try to stop the tears that slip from the corner of my swollen eyes before I pass out again.I am startled into consciousness when a s