MORGANA’S POVI wonder how people feel moments just before they die. Do they feel joy? Or is it regret? Do they feel happy about the way they lived their lives or do they wish they had more time? I still remember the first dead person I ever saw. It wasn’t my parents though. It was a little girl called Lani. She was a cute five-year-old girl that lived next to my parents and I while we were still slaves in the vampire nation. She would come over to our house when my mom had enough flour on rare occasions to make us cookies. She had short brown curls and beautiful bronze skin. She was capable of putting a smile on anyone’s face. I wonder if Lani knew she was going to die that day. I wonder what she felt as water creeped up her lungs and stopped her breathing. You see, Lani had wondered too close to a well and she fell in, with no one around to supervise her that day. I remember the way her brown curls used to dance in the wind when she would jump around. Even though we were all unde
MORGANA’S POVThanks to Warren’s influence, Killian didn’t send vampires out for a hunt to find Damon. That would have been a problem because although it’s pretty obvious to Warren that I didn’t come alone, Damon and Ryder can’t be found out now. It will ruin the course of our plan. It doesn’t matter if he knows that Damon is here. All that matters is that he doesn’t know precisely where Damon is and that element of surprise is all we have now. “Surely you don’t think me that stupid, do you Morgana?” Warren says as he puts his hand gently around my waist and leads me further into their hideout. To where all the vampires are partying.I want to puke. That’s the first thing that comes to my mind as I take in the sight in front of me. “Savages, aren’t they?” Warren says leaning down to whisper into my ears and a shiver creeps up my spine and envelops me into a world of fear and disgust and dread. Blood is all I see. The pungent smell of dead bodies attack my nostrils and tear falls d
MORGANA’S POVI feel like I was in a tornado and while I was spinning, I kept hitting my head on random objects. I remember the first time I had such a bad headache. It was the first few weeks after my parents were killed and I was brought to the slavery organization. I was tossed to the floor and I hit my head pretty bad on one of the iron bars in my cage. I had to wake up early and try not to make the slave master angry as I carried out my duties as a slave. It was a terrible pain. None like I had ever felt before and the pain I feel right now is close to what I felt back then but worse. My vision is blurry and everything is in twos. I don’t know how long I’ve been passed out for but it can’t have been long because Ryder is on a horse back dragging our carriage recklessly along the road as he tries to get Damon and I back to the werewolf nation. He hasn’t even noticed I’m up yet. Next to me, in the carriage is Damon and he’s still unconscious. I touch my sides and notice I’m all
MORGANA’S POV“Oh, you’re not going to do anything Morgana. Not. One. Thing.” Chloe cuts me off. As soon as she speaks, I notice a darkness in her eyes I have never seen before. In fact, everything about Chloe right now is dark and I don’t know who I’m looking at. I have no idea who this person is in front of me but it is not Chloe. This is something else. Ryder winces in pain as he rests suspended in the air by Chloe’s magic. Damon is still in the carriage writhing in pain and all I can think about is how to get him inside so I can place him comfortably in bed. So, I can help him. I need to get Damon out of here because right now, Chloe looks unhinged and crazy and I have no idea when she might snap and try to hurt Damon. “You want me to let him go?” Chloe asks with a smirk and raises Ryder higher in the air. “Fine.” She says simply and moves her hand slightly in the air, making Ryder hit the wall next to her with a loud bump. Ryder’s eyes bulge open and a tear escapes my eyes. I
MORGANA’S POVI feel a pang of cold water hit my face as I lay on a cold floor. I blink away the liquid and groan as I try to clear my vision. It’s been a long time since I felt pain like the one I’m feeling now. I can’t even register it properly because it feels like a distant memory. It feels like forever since I have felt my muscles ache. It feels like forever since I have found it difficult to rise to my feet.Then I remember what Chloe did to me yesterday. She bit me, releasing God knows what into my system and now, I’m weak. I look around the cage I’m in and a wave of fear washes over me and I shiver as I try to stand and make something of my surroundings. I can’t see Damon or Ryder anywhere and I still don’t know where Colton is. A tear escapes my eyes and I feel a lump in the back of my throat as a sob forces its way through my mouth. “Oh, quit crying. You look pathetic. Like a little child who just lost her mommy.” I finally will myself to stand and notice Chloe standing ou
WARREN’S POVI underestimated her. Fuck! I underestimated her and she had me good. She had all of us good. What the fuck was even that? She had fire pouring out of her from every direction. It was the hottest thing I have ever felt. If I didn’t rush out of that cave when she blew up, I would have been roast beef by now. She burned and killed more than half of the vampire army. They’re outnumbered now twenty to one. They can’t fight this war anymore. They’ll lose, even more now that Killian is dead. That fucking incompetent fool. He couldn’t even save himself from Morgana. I don’t need weak people in my army. Good riddance. The vampires have lost hope. They’re confused. They don’t know what to do or where to go. They need a leader now more than ever. They need a new lord. And with me at their side, leading them, they can be better. They can help me get revenge against those scoundrels who call themselves alpha, beta and gamma.I could have killed Damon and ended this war already, but
WARREN’S POV“So what, you’re some kind of mind control freak now?” I ask Chloe as I take her in. She sits on the throne in all her dark glory. I couldn’t believe it when I arrived the werewolf nation last night. It was so quiet, I actually thought everyone was dead. The guards hardly put up a fight when I got here but I got into a frenzy and killed about twenty werewolves before Chloe came out and stopped me with her magic which I think has gotten stronger. The last time I saw Chloe was when she was teleporting herself to the forbidden forests. When she asked me to come with her but I wanted to stay back with Morgana. I was a foolish little boy in love. But Chloe never supported my decision back then anyways. Right now, standing in front of her as she sits on the throne, she feels even more powerful than Morgana did when she was burning my hands off. Which begs the question. What the hell happened to Chloe? Where the hell did she get this new power from and what has she done with
WARREN’S POV “I am going to kill you.” Morgana says to me as soon as Chloe leaves us alone. I roll my eyes at her aggression. The last time I saw her, she was full of anger but she looked healthy and full of life. Now, the color in her cheeks have disappeared and she has eye bags as dark as night. She has lost some weight probably due to the stress of sleeping in here every night. The floor must be so cold, so hard for her. I want to get her out of here but Chloe put a spell on Morgana’s cage so she’s the only one who can let her out. I notice her lips are cracked from the lack of moisture in this room and I suddenly have the urge to kiss her. My eyes soften as I take in the red-haired girl in. “You look like shit.” I say to her, taking a seat outside of her cell. Noticing she can’t do anything to get out of her cell, she sighs and takes a seat on the uncomfortable floor. The only thing separating us are the iron bars holding her in. “Come to get your other hand cut off Warren
NARRATORThe war was finally over. And though it was hard for everyone, they all found a way to cope. After Damon’s death, Morgana decided she would use her grief to make herself stronger. She hadn’t yet realized the amount of work that had to put in after a war was over. They had to build new houses. Plant crops, tend to the wounded. But Morgana, Colton, Ryder and Robert took it all with their heads raised high. When so many people are counting on you, Morgana realized, the only option you have is to be strong. Morgana thrived. The werewolf nation thrived as Ryder was names the new Alpha. It was normally supposed to be Colton because he was the beta and next in line, but they all agreed Ryder was more suitable for the title. After all Ryder was more intelligent that Colton was when it came to matters as such. Ryder was more compassionate and just generally a better person, Colton concluded. And although, Colton is a better person today, he still needs a lot of work before he can f
DAMON’S POVI knew this would happen. Sooner or later, I knew all my sins would catch up to me. I have hurt too many people. Killed too many people and I deserve this. Evil should not have a place in this world. A world which contains someone as beautiful as Morgana. She was the light to my darkness. She is everything I ever hoped for. Although it was short-lived, I adored every moment spent with her. She came into my life and taught me something powerful, something that changed my entire life’s trajectory. In a cruel, and wicked world, she taught me a better way to live. She taught me how to love. I couldn’t believe it first, when my feelings for her were reciprocated with such a willingness to forgive me. I was almost tempted to take back everything I said to her because I didn’t feel I deserved her. She was too much light for me and I was scared my darkness would poison her. I still have no idea how she was ever able to forgive me for what I did to her. I still cannot believe th
MORGANA’S POVMy mother said there is no way to save Damon. I must have been in the spirit realm for a few hours comparting it to the human world. I feel so useless, so desperate for anything. Anything that can help Damon. I wasn’t sure about Chloe said because it felt so unreal so I even consulted her mother and she assured me that Chloe’s curse on Damon was real.She sent me back and urged me to say my goodbyes to him before it’s too late. I have no idea why everyone is so determined to give up. they just expect me to let Damon die? Without trying every single thing I can to save him? How can they even expect me to do that?I didn’t realize how dark it had gotten. How far I had gone away. And then it hits me. All what happened during the day suddenly hits me like a tsunami. Damon is going to die and I should be with him right now. I should be spending the last moments I have with him but here I am, looking for a cure that doesn’t exist.I just can’t accept this and I don’t know if I
MORGANA’S POVAs soon as Chloe closes her eyes, she vanishes in the same exact way that the deity did. She turns into ash on the ground and vanishes as the wind carries her ashes away and Warren screams into the ground with the most agonizing wail I have ever heard.“You killed her. You fucking killed her!” He screams at me standing up from the ground and pointing his index finger angrily at me.“All she wanted to do was get justice and you killed her Morgana.” Warren falls to his knees. “Why did you kill her?” He sobs and falls to his knees to the ground.I can tell he has no fight in him anymore. He knows everything is over now and he knows he has lost. Putting up a fight will be foolish of him. Besides, I am not in the mood to have small talk with him or fight with him about something we have spoken about a million times. A crowd of werewolves and humans walks towards us from the castle shouting and roaring cheers of victory, already celebrating the freedom that we very much now h
MORGANA’S POVWhen the bright light clears, I see Chloe standing in the distance way outside the castle gates. I stare down at my hands in disbelief, unable to get it through my head that I was able to send her off that far. I guess I’m stronger than I thought. If I can keep her out of castle grounds then I won’t hold back. I’ll be able to use as much of my magic as I want to.“I’m going to go after Chloe.” I scream at the top of my lungs to the boys who are busy fighting off and knocking out the werewolves under Chloe’s control.Damon tries to come with me but I shake my head and he frowns. I want him to be with his brothers right now. They may be strong but the werewolves are numerous and Colton and Ryder will need all the help they get.He runs towards me desperately as if I would evaporate if he didn’t get to me fast enough. He breathes heavily and punches a werewolf in the face that came after him. He grabs my face and plants a strong kiss on my lips. I taste sweat and dirt and l
MORGANA’S POVWhat Damon and I saw when we finally got into his room isn’t at all what we were expecting. My hope was that we would see Chloe sitting on a chair nearby with that evil smile on her face waiting for us and I would send the signal to Colton and Ryder to start making preparations to open the gates.But when we walked in the only person we saw was Warren and I could not believe my eyes. The person standing in front of us right now looks like Warren, but if Warren felt dark before, he feels darker even now.I want to launch for him and rip is head of his neck but I hesitate, because I have no idea what Chloe has done to him. it is very clear from the aura coming off him that Chloe has messed with him even more because he feels so powerful and I can tell Damon has sensed it too because he places himself slightly in front of me.We don’t know what Warren is capable of right now and charging towards him blindly can turn out to be fatal so we need to be smart about this and calc
COLTON’S POV“Hey, do you think they’re going to be okay?” Ryder asks me as we make our way through the tunnels. There’s a path that leads directly towards the castle gates and hopefully, there won’t be a lot of guards guarding it so we can get it open with no problems.We reach an opening and make it onto the castle grounds not too far away from the main gate. I can see guards stationed at random spots eyeing nothing in particular. They all look dead an empty, under Chloe’s abominable spell. “They’ll be fine. Damon and Morgana are both smart and strong. Nothing is going to happen to them.” I say to Ryder, our voices barely above a whisper to avoid drawing attention to ourselves.“Are you saying that to convince me or yourself?” Ryder asks.“What does it matter Ryder? They’ll be fine, I know it.” I say getting irritated by his tone. I can’t even begin to thin or imagine that something might go wrong with Damon and Ana. I need them to come back alive. I don’t know if I’ll survive thi
DAMON’S POVIt’s time for everything to go down just how we planned. We have taken every precaution necessary and yet I still feel like there is something missing. There is a creeping fear climbing up my back that I cannot seem to shake off and it’s driving me insane. Morgana and I are supposed to distract Chloe and try to break her spell on the others while Colton and Ryder find a way to break the gates open and evacuate the humans. There are two options. We either find a way to get Chloe out of the castle so that everyone remains unharmed and take the fight far away. But if that’s not possible then that will leave us with the second option. Fighting right here in the castle and evacuating as many humans as we can. Morgana thinks she can get Chloe out with a teleportation spell but I don’t know if she’s strong enough to manage a spell like that again. She just teleported us back here and I don’t know if it is wise for her to do another teleportation spell in such a short time rang
MORGANA’S POVColton and Ryder are gearing up and wearing some fighting clothes they found here in the secret room in the tunnels. I haven’t had a chance to talk to Damon properly. This entire war has put a strain on our relationship and I miss him so much. I can see how stressed he is. How much he doesn’t want me to see how stressed he is.Damon has never been one to seek help in anything he does. He has a habit of getting things done himself and I really wish sometimes he would open up about somethings. He just tries so hard to be strong for everyone and he doesn’t let anyone see how much he struggles. “Hey.” I say walking up to him as he dresses up, and I can’t help but think that in all the months I have known Damon, I have never seen him in any attire quite like this one. It adds a bit of seriousness to his aura and I know I shouldn’t be thinking about it now but he literally looks the most handsome and sexiest I have ever seen him. The way the muscles of his biceps strain aga