Charlotte POV.
I ran toward the wolf pack, I knew what Luna looked like in her wolf form, she was a blond wolf, small in size, and she looked like a golden retriever in size, so tiny, but she was also fast and smart, she's not the strongest wolf out there, but when she uses her brain she will beat them all up.
I found the pack, they were all jumping, yelping, howling, barking, they are a bunch of hooligans, but I'm here for my Luna, my family, I looked between them, wolves come in all shapes and forms, but none of them was small and blond, none of them was my Luna.They saw me coming toward them and started to bark at me, perfect, now if they could show me where Luna is, I'd be happy to leave them in peace, the biggest wolf, the cockiest one, looked like a jerk, I knew right away that he's the alpha, the jerk in charge, I couldn't hide the disgusted face I made, I hate him.
"I'm here to see Luna, and then I'll leave," I say standing in place, not moving, they are scary, and they scared me, but I won't show those emotions, I won't move until I get her.The alpha got closer to me, he was a giant, and he towered over me in his wolf form, he growled trying to scare me, to get me to run to the other side, but I wasn't moving, I waited for him to do the next move, scaring me isn't working, he should have a better plan or a second one.
"I want Luna, let me see her," I say, hiding the fear, but my voice shakes a bit, showing the real emotions that are going through my body. He chuckled, he laughed at me, and his whole body was shaking with the chuckle and the laugh he was laughing at me, at my fear, he pointed toward the space behind him and started walking, I guess he was going to tell me where Luna is after all.I followed the jerk alpha and he made me run after him, the rest of the pack keeping up with us, laughing at my misery as I almost fell more than once, he could be leading me to my death, he could be leading me inside of his territory only to kill me, but if he dares to do so, mom would know and then god help them all.
"Stop jerking me around alpha, you're just having fun having me run after you," I yelled angrily at the alpha he kept making me run after him and I started to get tired from the run.He looked at me and laughed again, this all was too entertaining for him, I groaned, waiting for him to show me where Luna was, or I'd find her on my own and I'd show him then. He pointed in another direction and started to slow down, he wasn't running anymore.
We were near another house, the backyard of a house, and I heard a noise, a very low noise, it sounded like an animal was dying, and my heart started to beat quickly with fear, I prayed to go and everything holy that it wasn't what I had in mind, I tried not to think about the case scenario, but it was close so very close to my mind.The alpha pointed to a small metal cage with another one of his chuckles, the one where he smiles evilly, I ran toward the cage and found a small golden wolf, small enough to be the size of a dog, hurt, injured and bloody. The cage was locked, so I used my magic to break the lock and opened it for the small wolf, she couldn't walk out, so she whined again, I pulled her out of the cage, and she lay on the ground, placing her bloody head on my lap. I petted her head, I kissed her bloody forehead hers, my poor Luna, she's hurt, I knew some healing spells, not many, but I tried to push my whole power, everything I had inside of me, I pushed it toward Luna, she took a breath, and then looked at me, she used all of her power and energy to shift to her human form,
Same position, bloody head in my lap, bruised, naked, she looked at me with sad eyes, I tried to push some more of my magic, but she wasn't going to survive, my magic could only do so much.
"Luna," I say my voice breaking, she's dying, they killed her. "Char-char, you came," she says grasping for air. "Mom and Olli think you gonna be okay, but I knew something was off," I say with tears going down my face. "You shouldn't have come," Luna says sounding broke. "I couldn't leave you behind," I say, I could never leave Luna, she's like a second mother to me."You need to leave," Luna says.
"What happened to you?" I ask her, more of my magic moving from my body to hers, to keep her awake and alive enough to talk to me, to tell me who was the reason she got hurt this badly. "Wolf life," she says with a shrug, she's an omega, used to be an omega and is always an omega, from the books I have read through the whole of the night, I knew that other members would hurt the omega just because."Luna..." I say shaking her awake, as she falls asleep in my arms.
"You have to leave Cha-char, now, you can't stay here, they'll hurt you. I love you, Princess," Luna says and her eyes are closed again, I pushed more magic but she was gone. "Luna...no, no! Luna! wake up, don't die on me," I say shaking her more vigorously now, but she was gone, my Luna.I heard the alpha and his followers laughing at pain and misery, I could hear them from behind me, they were all so happy at her death and at my pain, I was entertaining them, having a breakdown and they were laughing at us.
I looked up and saw the alpha, I saw the joy in his eyes, the glee of having killed her and hurting me, he looked like he wanted to talk, but since I'm not a wolf like him, I couldn't hear him, but using some magic would do the trick."Why did you do it?" I asked him, my voice breaking into a million pieces, he could tell how sad I was, how broken, how hurt from my voice alone.
'She was weak, now leave witch,' he says his voice cold and cruel, void of any emotion or feeling, he had nothing. "Why did you kill her? She didn't hurt anyone, she was my friend, she was my family," I cried, holding her cold body closer to my chest.'Because she was weak, the weak have no place in our pack,' the jerk alpha says in the same monotone voice, turning his back to me, ready to run off and kill his next victim.
I hugged Luna's body one last time, kissed the top of her head and stood up, she taught me to be loyal to my family, and she's part of my family, I looked at the alpha retrieving back, the jerk has killed her, he hurt my family, my second mother and he thinks he could just walk away like that.I felt my magic, a lot of magic going through my body, the magic was mixed with anger, I was furious, and that alpha was a dead alpha, I'm not going to let him walk away like that. I guided my magic, thinking of the darkest worst magic, I didn't know any spell strong enough to hurt him, but my dark thoughts were enough, the alpha turned to me with a growl, feeling the magic hitting him.
but that wasn't enough for me, he ran toward me but then fell down on the ground two steps in front of me, all I could think of was death, I wanted him dead, I could imagine my grip going around his heart and squeezing, I squeezed so hard his heart exploded. I saw the alpha fall down on the ground, dead, just like Luna, that should've been enough, but it wasn't he wasn't the only one who had hurt her, he wasn't the only cause that my second mother was dead.
The rest of the pack, they were just as guilty as him, I let my magic travel through me, it was the strongest I have ever felt my magic before, it wasn't just mine, it was mine and some more, I was borrowing power, maybe from the moon or the forest, it's a full moon night, and there's magic floating around.I gathered as much magic as my small body could handle and I killed them, the wolves, one by one, I would hold their hearts until they stopped beating the same way they had Luna's heart-stopping, it was revenge, sweet, cold revenge, Luna deserved better than this, and she earned to be revenged.
Once I was done with killing all thirty wolves, I sat down on the ground, my body was weak and shaking, I killed them, I did it for Luna, and I'm not sorry about it. I didn't have any more power or strength left inside of me to leave, to go back home, to call Mom or Olli to tell them the bad news, I was frozen in place, in the middle of the night, with only the moon as my source of light.
I felt something move behind me, did I forget a wolf? Did someone escape from my wrath, I looked behind me and saw someone moving, I didn't recognize them, they didn't give wolf vibes, so I yelled.
"Who's there?" I say. "You killed them all?" a guy's voice says coming toward me, I could see he was dressed in armour and a cape, he had a sword on his side, and he was beautiful. "Who are you?" I ask him."Tristan, at your service," he says bowing from the waist down.
"I'm Charlotte," I say, he told me his name and I told him mine. "What you did here, you had no permission," he says. "I didn't need permission," I answer him, revenge never comes with permission. "You killed a whole pack, you harvested the power of moon and forest, you can't do that," he says."I did it," I say with a shrug.
"Unfortunately Charlotte, you need to come with me now," he said and I laughed, I sounded like a lunatic, but after everything I had been through tonight, nothing was off limits for me anymore. "I'm going home," I answer Tristan ready to leave, starting to walk toward my home. "I'm sorry princess," he says, and then everything went dark.He called me princess which was weird, only Mom and Luna called me princess, Olli does it sometimes when he makes fun of me, but I had no idea who that guy was, or where he was taking me, I killed them, but it was revenge in our books, it's fair game, so no one could call me off for it
Charlotte POV. I woke up in a bed, as soon as I opened my eyes I knew it wasn't my bed, it felt weird and off, and I knew it wasn't mine, I looked around to see where I was, it was a bedroom with nothing to show to whom it belongs, it got nothing itemized, it felt like a bland guest room. I tried to remember the last thing that happened before I went to sleep, I remembered Luna and the fact that she died, tears started to fall down my face, but I wiped them away quickly, I remembered what happened afterwards as well. I killed the whole pack, and then Tristan came and said I didn't have permission to do what I did, and then nothing, that's how I ended up here, he must have brought me here. "Tristan," I yelled out loud, I didn't care about being careful, I wanted to know where I was, I needed to get back home. "You're awake," a new voice says, a woman comes and walks toward me, she has what looks like a maid outfit on, she looks at me, sees me awake and then walks out of the room l
Charlotte POV. "Let's go princess, quickly," Tristan says coming toward me, he takes hold of my hand and walks me out of the room before I can object or even get the chance to talk. "Tristan, what's going on?" I finally managed to say as we ran through the doors of the kingdom, maids bowed to us, and other guards looked at us with confusion, but we kept moving, until we got to a more private area, a place that didn't have the same feeling of being in the middle of a bee hive. "We're going somewhere safe, the queen has it out for you, we need to hide you," he says. "Let her come, Tristan, I'd love to have a bit of that bitch," I say stopping and looking at him with confidence, I'm the daughter of Madame Witch, I'm not one to be messed with. "Charlotte, you're young, you're powerful, but she's old, and she's filled with tricks, you can't stand up for her, she doesn't play fair and she's not scared of hitting you when you're not looking," he says. "Lovely, she sounds like a doll,"
Charlotte POV. "I don't have any clothes," I complained, I couldn't shower without my clothes, I then decided to add the suggestion of me getting home showering, and coming back. "I can't let you leave this realm, you'll be ruled out to be a traitor and they will kill you," he says making me groan. "You said you had the pictures from Luna's place, they all should know now that I killed them for a reason, I can't be a traitor," I groaned. "I do, but they need to see you, they need to say it out loud, she's innocent, now let's celebrate her," he said with a shake of his head. "What kind of law is that?" I ask him with a raised brow. "The law of the court, we do as they say, I know you don't agree with all of it, but we need to play according to their rules at least for a while," Tristan says. "I'm not going to stay here," I say, telling him, father or not, having half of my blood belonging to this place doesn't mean that I'm going to stay around here. "I know you won't, I'd advi
Charlotte POV. "Let's go princess," Tristan says taking me away from the ball, and from everyone else, he runs through the doors again, I don't understand why we keep on running, what's with him and making me run away, who was I even running away from?"Who are we running from?" I give in and ask him, I have the right to know who I'm running from."The queen, she's busy but won't be busy for too long, she's your biggest enemy in here and it's better to get you away before she could follow," he says, instead of going inside the rooms like we did yesterday, this time he dragged me out of the castle. Koko was waiting out there with a couple of bags in her arms, she looked worried and was looking around to make sure no one else could see us in here, standing in the middle of the night, out and away from the party. "Good job, Kaycee, this will be over soon, promise," Tristan assures her, taking the bags from her hands and starting to run again with the two of us running after him. He w
Charlotte POV. "Kids, I want you out of the house," Mom says to both of me and Oliver, I shrugged, I didn't mind or care about being kicked out of the house, not the first and won't be the last time she kicked us out when she needs to do some kind of work and jobs with people that are too dangerous for us to meet or see. "Gladly, I'm sleeping over at Tristan's place," I say happily, ready to leave, I got my overnight bag and left the house, I have learned to drive, and Tristan has gifted me a car, I don't have a small fast car like the one Olli drives. Tristan has gifted me a big SUV with tinted windows, the outside looked dark and scary, but the inside of the car, had some decoration put in by me, a driving wheel pink fluffy cover, the mats on the floor were pink, and I had a cat with big blue eyes hanging down from my mirror. I drove toward Tristan's place, he's not even staying in the fey lands, too worried that they would be watching me, or trying to gather information on me, h
Cassius POV. We don't pick how we are born, to whom, or why. We are just brought into this world, thrown head first and left to fend for ourselves, and then life goes up and down, we make do with the deal we were handed and make the best of it. That's how I saw life since the day I was born, my mother and father didn't care much for me, I was an accident to them, and seeing how I was born a vampire, accidents are very rare in our world, they were being extra clumsy and didn't pay much attention until they got me.Mother and father were some of the poorest vampires out there, they didn't work, they didn't care to work, and they didn't give a fuck about all the physical upgrades there were out in the world, all they cared about was feeding from the human blood, sometimes they'd feed from animals when too lazy to go out and hunt, which happened more often than not, the second thing they cared about was each other, they had a tone of sex, they were like rabbits high on cocaine, they woul
Cassius POV. "I'm the one in charge now," I tell the council walking into their meeting, they weren't expecting me, they were expecting my boss, my lord, the one who adopted me and cleaned me up, but that guy is dead, he's nine feet under just to make sure he won't be rising again. "You?" a voice asks me with disgust, most of them still hate me, a lot of people still hate me, but I'm the one in charge now. "Yes, me, the name is Cassius, I have killed Eliotte, and drank his blood," I say in a cold voice, standing in front of them, standing tall and proud, what happened back in the fey room was a massacre, we went to each other's neck, he kept trying to tell me that I owe him my life, and I told him that my life was over the day he took control of me and I'm taking back my control, I'm going to win this time. Killing him was hard, he threw one hell of a fight, and he wouldn't die easily, but I had him dead soon enough, after killing Elliot, I had to drink some of his blood, not a lo
Charlotte POV. I used my magic and made it move his clothes, and touch his hair, I had a big smile on my face as he was looking around, searching for the ghost, I didn't know the vampires were so scared of ghosts, but they are terrified, are they catholic too? I thought to myself with a chuckle. "Who's out there?" he called out loud, but I kept quiet, I stopped the laugh I had a very short and quiet laugh, and I dodged in the bushes to hide from him, he kept looking around, and I used some of my magic to make the trees move on the other side of me, just the opposite side. He walked over there and yelled who's there again, it was the stupidest question ever, would a ghost tell him it's me? That gave me an idea, I used a spell I don't use much, it's one mom taught me so I can mess with Oliver, I know it's weird mom teaching me spells to mess with my older brother, but he's such a prick he needs someone to mess with him. 'It's me,' a voice whispers right next to him, in his ear, I s
Charlotte POV. "Mom, my magic," I cried out to her, it's been four days and my magic was still gone, locked inside of me, refusing to come out, we have tried more than one spell, but all of them have left me hurt, injured, one of them almost killed me. "I know Charlotte, I'm trying," Mom says her eyes locked on her book, reading about magic being bounded, but I guessed the books didn't have the solution to my dilemma. "Mom, maybe she should be going to the fey realm," Olli suggests. "No, I'm not sending my daughter without the ability to defend herself," Mom says. "Mom, if I go there, I can talk to Tristan, or Uncle can help me, someone can help me," I said. "No, the queen still got it out for you," Mom objects. "Mom the queen is on trial, she can't touch me, and helping me would be on her side and not mine," I say to mom. "You can not go there Charlotte, don't even think about it," Mom objects again. "Mom, it's my magic we're talking about, we can't just do nothing, stay her
Cassius POV. I have passed from my realm, the one I'm used to, the one where I have some power, toward the fey realm, the only ones who have power over there are the fey and I had no power there, I have no connection, and I had no claims. I passed through a secret door, I didn't travel like the rest of the fey, the second they find me, or discover I have passed their border they will kill me or worse, it's said that death is mercy in the fey land.I didn't have anyone along with me, and I didn't want to ask anyone to put themselves in the way of danger the same way as me, people were loyal to me, but only I was loyal to Charlotte and had the urge to go save her, the rest didn't really care about the girl I'm dating. The fey land was similar to ours, it's made of trees and forest, the only difference is that the trees in the fey land would try to kill you, the birds would report back to their lords, and the ground would swallow and never let you go.I had no idea where to go, I didn
Cassius POV. I messaged I called, I was going insane, I had no idea where she was or why she stopped answering me, my princess, although I had no idea what kind of princess she was, and she said something about her mama dying, but she's the daughter of Myra, maybe she has another mother? I wanted to talk to her, I wanted to know what she was hiding from me, I thought we were moving forward in our relationship, and I thought we were going places, but I was left standing in front of a fey door, humiliated and told that my girlfriend has no boyfriend. So I called her again, but her phone went from missed calls and not answering me, to being out of service, I don't get what happened, we were okay last night, she was mad at her family, and then we had drinks, I didn't touch or hurt her, I made sure not to do anything that might offend her, drunk or not, no one wants to be offended by their said boyfriend. "Sir, you have visitors," Eve informs me. "And who might that be?" I ask her wit
Charlotte POV. "Your ribs are broken, your shoulder is dislocated, you are very dehydrated, and we're worried about a concussion," the doctor tells both me and my brother, the great news, but no news about my magic or what's going on with it. "What about my magic?" I groaned. "Excuse me?" the doctor says, he's just a human doctor, he won't be helping with my magic even if he tried to. "She meant her charm, will she be okay?" Oliver asks, trying to hide my question about my magic. "The ribs need a lot of rest, she'll feel fine soon, we have fixed her shoulder which too needs some rest, and for the dehydration, the IV has taken care of it," the doctor says trying to assure us that I'll be okay, but none of those mattered for me, what about my magic, my bones can heal they won't even take long to get better but my magic, I can't survive without it. "What about the concussion?" Olli asks him, I didn't feel like I had one, I don't even remember hitting my head, when did that happen?
Charlotte POV. "Girls," Oliver says opening the cab door, we have made it out alive, they have slowed down when we were near leaving their territory and land. "Olli," we both yelled running toward him, and hugging him tight, we were both terrified. "You shouldn't have sent her alone, she's just a child," I scold him, the bird was very young, even for a shifter, she's a baby. "I couldn't go in, this is a rescue mission, she did good," Oliver says holding her tight. "Yeah, if you say so," I say with a shrug, why was I so worried about them, they could deal with each other, I decided to get in Olli's car and wait for him to drive us home. "You're too far away from home," Olli says. "How far I am?" I ask him, finally laying back, my ribs were on fire. "You're on the Canadian border," he says and I look at him with wide eyes, we're so far away. "Wow," I say, and that was my only comment about the whole topic. "Are you okay Charlotte?" Owl asks from behind me, she must have notice
Charlotte POV. "Come on Mom, call, call," I whisper to myself, I'm eating my food, trying to gain my strength back while I have my eyes locked on the phone, when will she call?"We can go to my place, if the phone rings, we'll hear it," she says but I shook my head no, I wasn't going to risk it, what if she called and I didn't hear it?"We can stay here for a bit more," I say sipping my coffee, her mother was giving me side glares and side looks, and I pretended not to see them. "We need to leave, we need to leave, come on," Honey says all of a sudden standing up, standing in front of me hiding me with her small body. "Huh?" I say confused, who did walk in, why is she trying to hide me from them?"What are you doing here runt?" I heard a guy say, talking with Honey, towering over her. "I'm here to eat, mom said I can come to eat," Honey says, standing up to herself, trying to keep me hidden and I made sure to keep myself hidden, she's not that tall or large to help me hide, but I
Charlotte POV. "Princess, wake up, you need to wake up," she said and I groaned, I don't know where I have blacked out but I did, and now she's pulling me again, she's a short girl, and she has some strength in her but not enough to drag me along with her or carry me through, she was trying her best to pull me with not much progress. "I'm awake," I say, my head felt very heavy, and breathing was extremely difficult, but I did my best to keep going with her. She had a motorcycle hidden away in the trees, does she expect me to be able to ride it? I had a hard time breathing, let alone riding a motorcycle, she pushed me ahead, helping me sit sideways, she got in front of me, making my whole body lean against her back, and one of my arms pulled around her torso to keep me in place as she started the bike and rode away with the two of us. My main thought was don't fall over, if you fall your face will be broken in half, I loved my face, and I didn't want to end up with a broken skull or
Charlotte POV. The fucking queen had me falling asleep, I woke up again, and this time I had something around my arms and feet, I was bounded and thrown somewhere dark, and when I opened my eyes I saw nothing, there was darkness all around me, only god knows where the queen is taking me or how she's sending me away. I waited for the light to come back on, I tried to use my magic, but even my magic wasn't doing anything to the bonding they had around me, maybe it was spelt as well, maybe that's why I can't get it off. I waited and waited some more until finally, the light was turned on, and I saw where I was, I was in a small cage, a silver cage, I tried to push and move but the bond and the cage weren't giving up. "Look who we got here," a voice says coming toward me, I looked up from my position on the ground and saw a really tall guy walking toward me. "Who are you?" I asked him, I had no idea who he was or what I had done to him to have me thrown in a cage. "I'm your worst ni
Charlotte POV. Fighting with Mom wasn't enough, it had to get worse, everyone wanted to know who's the guy I was dating, and why am I dating him. They needed to know more information about my boyfriend while I didn't want to tell anyone about him, he's not even my boyfriend. "Things are different for you Charlotte," mom says but that only pissed me off, why are they different? "They aren't mother, I'm the same as any girl my age," I said back but she kept saying I didn't understand. "You won't tell me who my father was, you won't tell me about my father's past, and now you're saying I'm different, how?" I repeat my question. "I can't explain this to you, not now," she said and I had enough, I stormed out of the house, she never tells me the truth, she never talks the truth, the full honesty, it's always a lie or a secret with her, she never tells me the honest truth, never. I went to my car and drove toward Tristan's place, he's my best second choice, he's part of my family as w