Kaden Both Grey and i tensed as Gerald pulled the knife and held it against Amelia’s throat, who was too shocked and tense to say anything. I knew this guy wasn’t a trustworthy person. This is what happens when you trust, and I do not trust. “None of you are having this knife. None.” He growled, the blade digging into Amelia’s throat close enough to make her wince in pain. Grey leg out a growl, ready to pounce on him but I stopped him just in his steps. “Don’t.” Gerald scoffed. “Yes better answer him, pup. Don’t you fucking try me or I will cut her head off this instant.” Grey let out a warning growl, but I stepped forward slowly. “Now buddy, don’t do anything stupid.” I calmly spoke, not wanting to cause any thing to make him do something we would all hate. He dug the knife deeper causing Amelia to cry out in pain. “Oh don’t you talk to me that way, and don’t you fucking tell me what to do. I’m the boss here. I tell people what to do, and I’m going to be in charge. Am
Scott As I hid there, behind the walls and watched as they hit Ansel, I wanted to help him. But I was injured, and I couldn’t risk being spotted. Werewolves despised Vampires. Kaden wasn’t one of the blind followers and that’s why we were friends. And Skylar too has never been a blind follower. I chuckled. The main reason I was doing all this. To save her. We didn’t work out, but she meant enough for me to get out of my long time vacation to help her. My fist tightened. I had to save them. Even if it was all for just a hug from her, I wanted that. To smell her scent again. I came back to the present, watching as they carried Scott away and began following them stealthily. That was one of a vampire’s characteristics. With my speed, I chased after the car through the alleyways, hiding from people and the guards as much as I could. I didn’t want to lose them, and in no time, I knew where they were headed, so I rushed ahead of them. Kaden’s pack home. Now heavily guar
Skylar The slap Egnar landed on my face rang a million times in my head. I gritted my teeth together, hating that he could control me. If he couldn’t, I would have ripped him apart a million years ago. “Stupid bitch. Haven’t I told you not to contribute to anything without my permission? You know how I have no tolerance for insolence!” I swallowed hard, and watched how they escorted Ansel out. He better have a plan because I cannot tolerate anymore of this. Miles was being bullied because of me. My heart sank at the thought. He didn’t deserve this. And Scott didn’t even show up. I shook my head. He couldn’t be bothered to even help me. He has always been selfish. That’s why I had to let him do the first time. Now I was with miles and I was happy until this happened. Egnar let out a laugh. “One of the stupid brothers is back home. Isn’t that amazing? Now they would be forced to come home and bring me that whore.” Fiona sighed and gave him a look. “Do you really need he
Scott They have discovered me, and now I was fast enough to run, but I chose not to. I was fast enough to kill and well, I did it. As they attacked, they ran to their deaths, with my speed, I attacked them as they attacked me, and shortly enough, I littered the hallways with bodies, the only thought in my head was rescuing Skylar. My heart ached with anticipation of seeing her, and I let out a shaky sigh. One of the things she wanted me to give up was killing, and I was literally going to show up with blood of a hundred guards on my hands, literally. The hallway was silent, too silent, only the sound of my feet stepping in the hall echoing back at me. I turned in my super hearing , and heard nothing. It was strange, did I kill everyone? Then I heard something. In the distance, I heard tropes of guards running and the sound of a helicopter hovering. I rushed to the balcony and surely enough, Egnar and the guards filled vehicles, and they seemed to be headed somewhere in a hear
Scott “Ansel should be in one of the cells under the house, but I don’t think it would be easy to access them. A lot of guards are stationed in front of the cells and they are the worst of them.” Skylar said as we walked towards the cells. I ignored the way her body curved as she walked in front of me. I ignored everything. I didn’t have the right to notice. Pushing the thought of her away, I focused on what she was saying. “To get in, we need a plan. A stable plan. We can’t just rush in there and hope we kill them before they kill us, Scott.” She gave me a glance, and I forced a smile which came out as a grimace. She let out a sigh. “I couldn’t wait for you to come back forever. Neither could fate.” Her words rang in my ear and I felt my fangs dig into my lips painfully. She was right. I could have chased after her. I could have promised to change, but I let her go. I chose this. Her eyes met mine, “I hope you meet someone who would love you more than I did-“ “No.”
Grey Octavia chuckled as we came running towards her with Amelia behind us, and two witches left Valerie and came to us, trying to stop us. One of them faced us and the other faces Amelia. The witch in front of us smirked, and rose her hand up, but Kaden leaped on her. She narrowly dodged his attack, and used her powers to push him back, but I didn’t relent as I waited for my turn to leap on her. But with a hand, she let out a blast of power and I felt my body fly and collide with a tree. The collision caused my body to ache, but I refused to stay down, Kaden’s voice coming into my head. “Get up, Grey. We can’t afford to lose now.” I struggled to my paws, my body screaming in protest. The witch Amelia was battling with was getting beaten by Amelia, but she was also powerful. I held my breath. Amelia would beat her. Octavia was still chuckling, clearly enjoying the spectacle. “How nice to see you fools try so hard to stop something that is bigger than you.” "Come
Valerie For hours, I was trapped in that void, the only thing I was hearing was the chants of the witches as they tried to unleash my last power. They trapped me in this void, and I couldn’t move, I couldn’t scream. I just waited for them to find out my power was unleashed. I had given up. I hid at the back of my mind, my heart breaking. If she was able to get my powers then that was the end of everything I’ve tried to stop. What was the use of stoping Egnar when someone just as bad was going to do the same? I felt something open, and I realized it was the dam of my powers that I forced to close. They were successful. I closed my eyes and a tear dropped from my eye and landed on my arm. I sobbed lightly. I let everyone down. Kaden warned me and I kept pushing him away and away and I let her deceive me all because I wanted a family. My chest burned with self hatred, and I sobbed away into the darkness, but a hand tenderly touched my shoulder. “Don’t blame yoursel
Scott Skylar was unsettled as she paced far away from the clinic where Ansel and I sat, and we brainstormed on how to stop her from self destructing. The only way out was Killing Egnar. That was the thing, we couldn’t hunt him down, not when Skylar was adamant on staying with Miles because she caused all this, her words, and we couldn’t leave Skylar to stop her from killing Miles and us, in an hour. We sat in silence, the only noice from the clinic and Skylar’s tiny feet pit patting on the floor as she viscously paced. “When I go berserk, kill me please.” She suddenly spoke, her eyes wide with plea. Ansel took one glance at her and said, “No.” She sighed, and nodded, turning to me. “Scottie?” My heart tugged at the use of her private name for me, but the thought of losing her physically hurt and I’d rather die instead. “I’d rather die, Sky.” Was all I muttered, and her eyes widened in realization. She knew that was true. I would never let anything happen to her. A
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