KADENThe winds were not in our favor as we maneuvered our way through the forest trying to outsmart the guards that were still hunting us.It brought a lot of sand and rock, including still air, all over our face. Outsmarting the guards is not going to be easy. They know this forest better than us.“We just need to get to higher ground.” Grey said to me, like he could hear what I was thinking, “I don't think they would follow then.”“Okay.” I bent down and placed my hands on the ground. They were very quiet but also moving.“I should give it a try.” I heard Grey say.“You should stop talking so I will hear them better.” I replied. He didn't say another one but his breathing began heavy which was distracting me.“Grey–.”“It's just that you have been at it for quite a while, that's why I'm asking to take a turn.” He said.“How long?” I asked“Over half an hour.” He said.I groaned and stood up, “be my guest.” He bent down and looked at me, “I know you like things to be under your co
GREYI couldn't breath seeing Kadens blood all over him. The view of Octavia chest bleeding flashed before my eyes. It felt real just like the way it's real seeing Kadens blood gushing out of his body.I don't know why I'm still hung over that woman, she didn't save my life. She wanted me dead. Just because she moved the arrow to her chest. Doesn't change any of that.But somewhere inside me I still get PTSD about dying with an arrow in my chest. I only wish now I had listened to Kaden, when she said she could not be trusted.But I was blind by loyalty to her for saving my life that I didn't stop to think what if she was faking because she was faking.I lifted him up, “you need to try to stand, Kaden.” I said to him.He has lost a lot of blood and I could feel his pulse getting weaker.We were in the middle of the road and it's dark. A car could be coming and we wouldn't know.“We have to get to the wall.” I helped him stand and all his weight came on me.“How are you feeling?” I ask
GREY She gave a modified look, she was really embarrassed. She picked her clothes off one after the other and wore them without glancing at me. “I'm really sorry about that.” She said, still trying to look away, “it's been a while since I have seen a hot man.” She chuckled dryly. “It's cool.” I said to her, “I'm flattered though.” I smiled. “So tell me about her.” She said. “About who?” I asked her. “Your woman, or are you trying to embarrass me some more?” “Of course. Her name is Valerie. She was kidnapped.” I said to her. She gasped in fear, “that's terrible. You must be really scared for her.” She said. “I know I am, but it's better not to show it.” I said. “How so?” “People can read fear and so does the universe.” I told her. “Okay.” She gave a slight laughter, “how are you planning on rescuing her?” She asked. “It's a flower or a plant, forged with immortal blood it could be lethal to her kidnapper.” I told her. “So once your brother is okay to travel,
ANSELYou think for a bit that a vampire will have the strength or stamina to be the fastest in this whole damn woods but no, he got shot with a poisonous arrow.“Shit! Why didn't you run as fast as you could?” I cursed and asked at the same time.“Is this what I get for saving your ass?” He asked.It was getting harder to pull him on the ground at least he has the weight.He was right. As much as I hate him right now. He just saved my life and I own it to him.“Well, I'm going to save you now. I guess we will be even then.” I said to him.“Going to save me?” He asked, sounding confused, “haven't you saved me?”I stopped moving and quietly looked around. I seem to have lost track of our attackers.I looked at Scott, he was confused but it was coming from the pain in his arm due to the arrow.“We can't be out here. It's too open.” I said to him, it doesn't look like he is understanding me.“Come on.” I lifted him again and found a secluded place and laid him there.“How are you feeling
ANSELYou think for a bit that a vampire will have the strength or stamina to be the fastest in this whole damn woods but no, he got shot with a poisonous arrow.“Shit! Why didn't you run as fast as you could?” I cursed and asked at the same time.“Is this what I get for saving your ass?” He asked.It was getting harder to pull him on the ground at least he has the weight.He was right. As much as I hate him right now. He just saved my life and I own it to him.“Well, I'm going to save you now. I guess we will be even then.” I said to him.“Going to save me?” He asked, sounding confused, “haven't you saved me?”I stopped moving and quietly looked around. I seem to have lost track of our attackers.I looked at Scott, he was confused but it was coming from the pain in his arm due to the arrow.“We can't be out here. It's too open.” I said to him, it doesn't look like he is understanding me.“Come on.” I lifted him again and found a secluded place and laid him there.“How are you feeling
KADEN“Shit!” I cursed as I tried to keep up with Amelia. She seems to be landing anywhere her legs take her.I could feel my injury trying to escape from the band aid put on it. “Hmm.” I moaned in pain.“You need to take it easy, bro.” Grey said to me. “I know but we have to keep up with her.” I said to him.“But your injury—.”I cut him off, “I don't care. Let's hurry!” I shot at him. “It will be better if I can just change into my wolf.” I said out loud.“You can't?” Grey asked me and I growled at him. “Maybe we are just overreacting.” He said.“Overreacting? There is no such thing as overreacting—.” I saw an arrow coming straight at us.“Get down!” I yelled at Grey, pushing him against the floor.“What was that?” He asked, holding his head, the arrow flew through his hair and got stuck in a tree.“Now, do you think I'm overreacting?” I asked him.“Let's keep up then.” I said to him. We picked up the pace.We just kept running and running. There isn't a final destination but we ne
ANSELIt's been a few hours since Scott took the deer's blood and he has started to get better.“We should be on our way.” He said.“You are the one stopping us.” I smirked at him.“What about our truce?” He eyed me.“Don't push it.” I said to him, rolling my eyes.“I feel alright, I can't make it before nightfall.” He said, standing up.“Yes.” I said, surveying the environment for any threats, “getting there before nightfall is better.” “Let's go.” He said moving away from our position. “We should be careful. In case we encounter any threat.” He said.“Yeah,” I chuckled, “so we won't get shot with poisonous arrows.” I mocked him.He gave me a stink eye and I raised my hands up in surrender, “sorry, too soon.”“You are a jerk.” He said.“I know it's part of my personality.” I said to him. He just shook his head and went his way.We got to the park in silence, both of us on our own in our thoughts.My mind was just filled with a lot of ways I'm going to kill Egnar when I lay my eyes o
KADENWe have been traveling for several hours trying to get to Scott's secret house to get the old woman to add her spell to it.Meanwhile I have been trying to stay between Grey and Gerald but the latter seem to want to be in control of the situation.“How far is this place?” Amelia asked, looking at her size, you wouldn't know a girl like her would be linked to a guy like Gerald.“Not far. We are almost there.” I said to her.“That's what you said, two hours ago.” Gerald said.“Well, it will be a lot faster if we are driving.” I said to him.“No cars.” He said, “it's dangerous, the roads are dangerous.” he said “We are walking on the road!” I yelled at him.He charged towards me, “don't you dare yell at me.”Grey walked towards us and held his shoulder. “Take a step back away from my brother.” He saidGerald scoffed and walked away. “We need a vehicle and we need it now.” Grey said.“I know that, but there aren't any right now.” I said to him.“There is now.” he pointed to a nearby
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ValerieThe palace was filled with the sound of laughter and music. It had been years since we had conquered the people that almost ruined our lives, tried to kill us and also tear us apart. Today, we celebrated.Elara was eighteen.My baby- the little girl who had been taken, nearly lost, and fought for- was now a woman. And not just any woman. She was stronger, beautiful and much more powerful than she had been as a baby. And most importantly, she was loved. She was standing at the center of the hall, her beautiful golden eyes glowing under the light and her white gown cascading around her. I was standing at the balcony as I stared at her and made sure everything was going on right at the party. “You’re going to cry aren’t you?” A familiar voice asked. I turned around to see that it was Kaden and he wore a smug smirk on his face. “I’m not one to cry,” I replied him with a scoff“Now, you’re lying,” Grey said as he walked to stand beside me. “You cried when she turned ten.”“
ValerieThe battle was over.The war was won.And yet, the weight in my chest remained.We had survived. We had fought against powerful people that threatened to end life as we knew it, we had lost people but we still managed to come out victorious though injured and weak. I looked around at what remained from the intense fighting- the floor was stained with blood, broken and bloodied weapons were scattered all over the floor and then the bodies- they laid uncountable and badly battered as life had left them. So many bodies. Some were ours, but most belonged to the Revolutionaries who had dared to challenge us.And then there was Scott who had fought so hard to protect my daughter and kingdom. He had lost his father in the process. He was kneeling close to his father’s body, his body was tense and he was silent, an unreadable expression on his face as he stared at the lifeless body of the man who had protected him instead of leaving him to die. A true father. I wanted to comfort hi
ScottI couldn’t wrap my mind around anything that was going on. It was all a blur and I could see nothing but red. The shouts of battle as the triplets surged forward, the sound of sword against slow, claws tearing against flesh and the sound of bodies hitting the floor all faded into the background. All I could see was him. My father. His now lifeless body was laying on the floor, his once powerful and mighty body was nothing more than a dead body now. His blood stained the floor beneath him, it was dark- darker than a normal blood should be and it pooled all both of us and my body too as it polled beneath him also. His eyes that were once sharp, the same eyes that had intelligence, history and a lot of battles surging through them were now more than empty- lifeless. Gone.The father I had just begun to understand. The father who had saved me. The father I thought hated me- only to realize too late that he didn’t.He had never really hated me, he just didn’t know how to show
Valerie Elara cried in my arms, her little body trembling against my hold on her. Scott was still battling against them, stronger than Kaden, Ansel and Kaden while Skylar stood by the side, fear written all over her face, looking traumatized. Andrea and her second in command were no more fearful, instead they were angry as they looked at the floor that was soaked with the blood of their men.“Give the baby to me,” Andrea snarled, her voice as sharp as a razor. I held Elara tighter, stepping back instinctively. “Over my dead body.”He smirked. “That can be arranged.”Others were still fighting as she made her way to me. I barely had time to react when she reached for me, clawing at Elara. Her movement was fast- too fast. A low growl ripped past my lips before I could stop it as my wolf howled in anger. I wasn’t going to let her touch my baby. My body was burning as my wolf took over, my bones shifting and snapping out of place. My muscles stretched and my fur sprouted along my
Valerie Elara’s cry stopped me dead in my tracks as her cries pierced through the air, their grip on her tightening. The sliver blade of the dagger hovered dangerously close to her neck as it glinted under the bright moonlight. Everything inside me was burning and screaming at me. I had to save her.But I wasn’t fast enough.The moment I moved, the leader pressed the blade closer. “If you take one more step,” she said, her voice filled with warning as a cruel smile curled at her lips. “I’ll kill her and I’ll made sure it’s a slow and enjoyable death for me.”I froze in place, my heart racing and my nerves all over the place. Kaden and Ansel tensed up as they stood beside me with clenched hands and anger coursing through their bodies, barely able to control the frustration they were feeling. Grey on the other was shaking with a barely suppressed anger as he halted daggers at Andrea. The air was heavy and suffocating. Then, all of a sudden, something shifted. I heard a low and dee
Valerie Scott looked uncertain. His eyes glowered between us all, the expression on his face was unreadable as if he was having an internal battle with himself on what he had to do next. I could feel the tension that was radiating off Ansel, Kaden and Grey’s bodies. We were all ready to fight even if it was the last thing that we did but we were weak and we needed Scott to make a choice, we needed him to do something. The men and women of the revolution stood on the other side path there weapons and out and ready, waiting for either us or Scott to do something against what they wanted. Skylar was kneeling by Andrea’s legs, her jaw was clenching and tears were running down her face. I knew she was feeling stupid because Kaden had said they weren’t to be trusted and she hadn’t listened. She had been so stubborn and all of this was partially her fault. She was so desperate to have her family back that she forgot that no one was to be trusted. Scott let out a small sigh as he ran hi
Valerie“So how do we get there?” Grey asked, his voice filled with urgency.“That’s simple, this…” i trialed off before it turned to look at the woman. “I didn’t get your name, what name do you go by?”“My name is Andrea,” she replied with a tight smile and I nodded. “So as I was saying, since she knows the way to the vampire kingdom, we just have to follow behind her and pray we get there as fast as we can,” I explained and the guys nodded in approval while Skyler just looked at us indifferently. “So we go now? Without any plans of anything happens?” Ansel asked, the anger he was feeling evident in his voice. “Nothing is going to happen, Ansel,” Skylar said thejugj gritted teeth. “I already told you that there’s nothing to worry about. Just because you’re now finding out that Scott is a vampire doesn’t make him any different from the man that you’ve known since.”“Oh please, what if he’s about to show that he really ha-“ Ansel started but a look from me was wvkugh to shut him up.
Scott I walked out of my father’s presence and walked back to the maids to get the baby. I had thought that I was only going to be there for a few minutes before I headed back out and look for somewhere safe but there really wasn’t anywhere better than the heavily guarded estate of my father’s kingdom. But when my hand reached for the door knob, I stopped, realizing that I needed to take a shower and get my powers back if I really wanted to win this battle. The babies were with Raye- the maid that had brought me and my brother up and I was that they were in safe hands. I turned on my heels and headed towards the healers part the house. When I got there, her mouth fell open as she bombarded me with questions. “After years of you staying away from here, you come back with so many injuries and a weak body?” She asked as she ushered me to a sit by the corner of the room. “It’s not like I intentionally did this to myself,” I replied coldly but soon regretted it when I saw the look on