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
SkylarWe were still in the cave- the air damp and smelling of the residual magic from the time the girl had been glowing and speaking of words straight from whatever she got her magic from. She still refused to tell me her name or how powerful she was, she was now sitting across me on the cold stone floor and her little fingers were flipping through the ancient, falling apart pages of the oracle’s book. I wanted to ask her how she was with it when I saw the book burn in front of me but I knew that wasn’t important and when we were done with all of this, I could ask about it. I watched her silently as I wrapped my arms around myself, I had safely kept the vial and gave it to me in my pocket as my head swirled, trying to wrap my mind around what was happening and what had happened. I had nearly died- had been seconds away from execution- only to be pulled into this place by a girl who, by all accounts, shouldn’t have had the power to do so.But she had.And now, here we were.“You’re
ScottFor a second, I almost let it happen but I suddenly got a grip of myself and pushed her away. She moved away from me and the expression on her face was enough to tell me that she was hurt by my rejection She masked it well, her expression was unreadable and her lips were set in a thin line. But from the way her eye was twitching to the way she balled her fingers into fists tightly, her nails digging into her palm, almost drawing blood. Normally, I would have tried to say something to ease the thick tension that clouded up in the air but I didn’t and neither did she say anything relating to it. “You and the children can stay here for the next few days,” she finally spoke up, her voice clipped and void of any emotion. “You need to rest and the children need food. You’ll be safe here.”Safe.The word felt foreign, like someone that was impossible. Because I had never for once felt safe since the take over, and since the moment I ran away with the kids. I nodded, taking in her
ScottMy head was still spinning. Skylar was alive. Relief washed over me in waves and it battled against the confusion that I felt, the one eating at the edges of mind. A part of me wanted to believe it without having questions, to accept that Skylar truly had sent someone to help me, to lessen the burden I had to carry. But, the other part that had been betrayed, captured, hurt and nearly killed refused to let its guard down and I stared at the woman suspiciously. “What’s your name?” I asked her, my voice cold and void of any emotions. “And why would Skyler even send you to me?”“My name is Tori,” she replied, her smile unwavering. “And like I said earlier, Skylar sent me to come help you.”I studied her carefully and when she moved closer to me, I recoiled. She asked me to calm down and then she gave me a potion. She said it would cure me. I didn’t want to believe her but she had convinced me and I had taken it. It had taken the burning pain I was feeling away but I still didn
ScottI ran and ran until my legs begged me to stop and rest, but I didn’t listen. I couldn’t listen. Only one thing was on my mind and that was getting to a safe place far from where anyone could reach us. Out of nowhere, it started raining and I grew weary. That was the last thing that I wanted, it poured down heavily, my clothes clinging to me and making my wounds. My vision was blurry as the rain lashed against my face, entering into my eyes. I ran through the woods, muddy floor and I had no idea where I was going. Normally, I would have been healed, my wounds closed up and my body stronger no matter how much I had been running. But, every time I tried to focus and heal myself, I would feel nothing but excruciating pain. Vervain. When they had captured me and taken me back to their camp, they had injected me with it. The stupid poison was coursing through my veins and eating away at my essence like fire would burn up a paper. It was even worse because it wasn’t just little
SkylarI felt dizzy and the world spun around me. I barely had time to figure out what was going on or what had happened when I felt myself shift and my knees hit a cold and hard ground. I was supposed to be dead. I was this close to getting my head chopped off. The last thing I remembered was the guard with empty eyes raising a machete while Ramona and Coral watched me with amusement as I was about to be killed. I had accepted my fate because not only was I helpless, it was Grey who had asked for me to be killed but-Light. A light erupted, bright and blinding as it shone through the room, affecting me even more because it appeared so close to me. And now, I was here. A cave. The air was thick with the smell of moss and something I couldn’t quite place my hand on, the air was also moist and shadows were cast on the stone walls by the moonlight that shone into the tiny opening of the cave. A lantern was on but it was not bright and I blinked rapidly as I tried to figure out wh
KaidenI was in shock. Skylar was gone. One minute, she was kneeling in the middle of the hall, bleeding, wounded, her voice hoarse and broke as she begged Grey to tell them to stop. She was screaming, scared and trembling from all the exhaustion. Then in the next minute, as the guard raised the machete to behead her, a bright light shone through the room. And a figure emerged out of nothingness. It was the girl that had saved me- the one that had healed me and found a way to lessen the effect of the poison that had been given to me. The girl was facing away from us so I could see the look on her face. Coral looked surprised and so did Ramona- they had been looking for the girl and she had just appeared in front of them out of nowhere. Before I could figure out why she was here, she placed her hand on Skylar and they both disappeared. Gone. Like they had never been there in the first place. I stared at the empty space- the place she had once been, begging- and my body went ri
RamonaAfter Coral stalked away with a cold unreadable expression on her face after we had argued and I was left standing there confused. I didn’t understand why she looked at me like that. Like she was hurt that I had gone against her and she wanted to hurt me and draw my blood. I didn’t mean to go against her but, her saying I should stop my marriage to Grey was unbelievable. She knew this was what I had wanted for a very long time. I wouldn’t just throw all of it away because I wanted to please. Because Skylar had disappeared. We were in power now- in control, no one was going to win against us and I was sure we would find Skylar in no time. So, I didn’t know what the fuss was about. I dismissed everyone and stormed back to my room, not waiting for Grey to follow me. If he was really under my control, he would know what to do. Getting to my room, I slammed the door shut behind me. The sound of the door closing had echoed through the room and it felt like the walls were comin
CoralThe anger I felt was like none I had ever felt in the past. It burned hot, unrelenting and through my veins as it clawed its way to my chest like a beast that hungry blood, and would do anything to get it.Skylar was gone.Gone.Vanished before my very eyes like smoke in the wind.That girl—the one I had been desperately searching for had appeared out of nowhere, and in an instant, almost like she hadn’t appeared in the hall at all, she had stolen what was mine and had disappeared with it.And now, Skylar that was once wounded, bruised, and broken was no longer in the middle of the hall where I was getting the satisfaction of watching her bleed and beg in pain. My fists curled at my sides and turned away from the crowd towards Ramona, glaring daggers at her.“This is all your fault,” I gritted out through clenched teeth, my voice dangerously low and venomous. Ramona blinked, surprised but quickly regaining herself. She let out a scoff, rolling her eyes as she waved her hand i
ValerieI smiled in my head, satisfied when I saw that Coral was now plotting against Ramona. One thing about who has a thirst for power that wasn’t theirs or people who loved making people suffer was that they didn’t trust anyone- not even theirselves. And now that Coral had asked Ramona to do something not Ramona straight up rejecting and refusing to do it, Coral mind was made up that she was going to be eventually betrayed by Ramona. But my victory was bitter because even as I savored my success, I learned something else- something that made my insides burn.Ramona was planning her engagement to Grey and the thought of it alone made me sick.Even after all she had done, after taking away his free will, after turning him into her puppet- she still wanted more.She wanted to own him completely and I wanted to scream. To fight.To burn everything to the ground before I let her take him.But I couldn’t because I was nothing.An echo. A prisoner. A ghost trapped in my own body, curs