DAMON’S POV“How do you feel today?” I ask Morgana once she opens her eyes. She startles in surprise as she stares at me wide eyed. I know it’s creepy but I stayed next to her bed all night.“I feel the same.” She answers simply giving me a weird look. There’s still hate in her eyes when she looks at me. I wish I could replace the hate with something else, a different feeling.“How’s your head?” I ask her.“You don’t have to pretend to care anymore. I’m not dead so you don’t have to feel guilty for what your brother did.” Morgana says turning her gaze away from me.“I’m not pretending. I-““Damon!” Ryder suddenly barges into my room making me cut my sentence short. I look at him with surprise and dash towards him. He shouldn’t be back so soon. They only left for the search yesterday.“What are you doing here Ryder? What happened?” I ask him with worry. He's sweaty and he looks like he’s been running a marathon.“It’s Reece.” He mention’s Reece’s name and my eyes nearly pop out of thei
MORGANA’S POV“Ryder will look after you for as long as I’m gone. You’ll be safe with him.” He tells me in an attempt to console me. His eyes are soft in a way I’m not used to. It almost looks like he doesn’t want to leave.Personally, I don’t want him to leave either. Not because I enjoy his company but because I think I can be safe with him. He’s been here with me ever since Colton beat me up, making sure I’m safe and comfortable. I have no idea why he’s being so kind though. I know he doesn’t care about me and nothing is going to convince me otherwise. He must have an ulterior motive. But if his presence will keep me safe, then I might be selfish but I want him to stay with me. So, I put away my shame away and ask him an unbelievable request. “Please don’t go.” I say looking at him with soft eyes. His eyes soften a bit as he stares at me. “I don’t feel safe around anyone else.” I state trying to feed his ego. If I have to sweet talk him to get what I want then so be it. “Does t
DAMON’S POV The next day, Ryder is all set to go back out there and continue his mission. Now, he has two missions: finding Colton and then finding the vampires. “I’m counting on you, Ryder. I’m sorry I can’t be there with you two.” I say to Ryder as I prepare to bid him goodbye. “You can. You just don’t want to because you’re occupied with things you consider more important now.” Ryder states. “Ryder…” Ryder holds up his hand cutting my sentence short. “It’s okay Damon. You don’t need to justify yourself. Besides, it’s good that you’re here. There needs to be someone to keep the order in the castle and if all three of us go on a hunting mission, who’s going to take care of things here? You should be here. You need to watch over Reece. And Morgana.” Ryder states and my eyes widen at the mention of Morgana’s name. “So, when did all this start?” Ryder asks with a raise of his brow and a smirk. “What do you mean?” I ask him feigning ignorance. Is he seriously going to ask me about
COLTON’S POVRyder came back after leaving Reece back at the castle. Part of me knew he was going to come back for me so I left clues that would make it easier for him to find me. I waited for him in a cave nearby so he would find me faster.I may be angry at him and I may be stubborn but I know it would be stupid to continue this mission all by myself. I have no idea how many vampires there are and since they have humans now, we don’t know how strong they are. Plus they have their vampire lord with them. Going on this mission by myself will probably be a death trap.If only Reece didn’t slow us down, we probably would have made progress by now. Reece and Morgana have been major nuisances since this mission started and it’s so annoying. “Did Reece die on the way to the castle?” I ask Ryder with a smirk trying to tease him.“You’re not funny brother.” Ryder says to me with a scowl.“Have you made any progress?” Ryder questions.“None. They’ve hidden pretty well. There isn’t even the
COLTON’S POVAs I regain consciousness, I feel disoriented and confused. As I try to open my eyes, everything is blurry and I feel a sharp pain in my neck causing me to wince. What the hell? As my vision starts to clear, I look around and realize I’m surrounded by unfamiliar faces and the vampire lord.We’re in an unfamiliar cave as dark as midnight. The only thing illuminating it the light from the fire torches.As I lay on the ground, panic begins to settle in my chest as I remember what happened last night. I scan the room for Ryder hoping he was able to escape. What happened to him? Did they kill him? Did they capture him too? I really hope not.My neck pulses with pain as I move my body around. They bit me. Shit! This is bad. I’m surrounded by vampires and I’ve been drained of my blood. I’m weak and my werewolf senses are unresponsive. I really hope Ryder was able to get out alive.If he didn’t succeed to escape and warn Damon, then we’re done for.The unfamiliar faces that surr
MORGANA’S POVEver since the alpha came to me with his pathetic apology, I haven’t been able to think of anything else. It made me so angry that he thought he would be able to wipe away every horrible thing he has ever done with an apology.But talking to him like that made me realize one thing. He was genuine. All this time I’ve been telling myself that he was just using me, manipulating me, but when he apologized, no matter how hard I tried to ignore it, I saw something in his eyes.It was a kind of softness and vulnerability I had never seen him portray before. It didn’t make me hate him any less of course, but I just can’t help but ask myself why now? Is it because the vampires are back and the threat on his kingdom has finally knocked some sense into him?Maybe he’s scared he’ll die and he’s looking for some sort of redemption before he takes his last breath. It’s pathetic if you ask me.I’ve been brainstorming, trying to think of ways I can use the Alpha’s new weakness against h
MORGANA’S POV“Ryder, brother. Talk to me. Why do you look like that? Where’s Colton? What happened?” Damon impatiently asks as he studies his brother's looks. I stay put beside the window and watch them curiously, waiting to hear what Ryder has to say about Colton.“The vampires. They ambushed us. They took Colton Damon. They shot him with some sort of poison that paralyzed him. I couldn’t fight them off, we were outnumbered. Damon, Colton has been taken.” Ryder explains breathing heavily. He looks like he’s about to cry.A small smirk forms on my face as I hear the good news Ryder just announced. Even though I’m not the one to kill Colton myself, the fact that the vampires have him now means he is going to suffer in their hands and that makes me beyond happy.“I’m sorry I couldn’t protect him. I wasn’t strong enough.” Ryder says in a sad tone. He shouldn’t feel bad about his brother being captured. Colton was a menace and I’m sure even his brothers can testify to that. But I guess
MORGANA’S POVAs I sit in the Alpha’s bed contemplating my next move, the door slowly opens and a guard walks in with a girl. A girl with a face I remember all too well. The girl who was punished naked in front of an entire crowd. The girl who gave me half of her food and saved me from starving.The girl whose name I remember to be Chloe. The guard walks back out with no explanation and leaves the girl in the room with me. We stare at each other in confusion at first, then the girl smiles widely and rushes towards me.“Chloe?” I say as I slowly approach her. My ribs still hurt when I move around too much. “What are you doing here?”I ask the petite girl standing in front of me. She looks extremely better than the last time I saw her. Her skin has more color to it and her hair looks longer and brighter. There is no scar in sight on her skin and she’s in clean clothes.These are the advantages of the beta being away for a while. I’m sure life has been so great for Chloe, Colton’s pet, s