Eziah POV Something is happening. The moment Jayden’s magic latches onto her, she jolts. A cold rush moves through me, and her eyes bleed black. She smiles sadistically. The look on her face is eerie, like she is looking straight through me. Jordan refuses to let me go to her, and I am a second away from blasting him with my magic as she speaks to something, agreeing with it, while Jayden tries to coax her out of whatever state she is in.He looks at her worriedly, whispering to her to ignore the voices. I can’t hear anything, but it is clear she can. Black tendrils writhe all over her exposed skin and she chuckles, smiling as what appears to be euphoria moves through her.Thunder and lightning streak the sky and rumble loudly, cracking like a whip and igniting the sky in angry streaks of light.Jayden speaks calmly when blood starts to stream from her eyes, nose, and ears. His voice grows higher and louder when he suddenly bites her. He sinks his teeth into her neck, remarking her. H
Marabella POVJayden looks at me before looking at the sky and back at his father. Something is flooding through him. It feels like determination as he takes off, runs outside the ruins, and grabs the Grimoire. He comes back, flicking through the pages before he looks back inside the coffin, rummaging around before pulling out the talisman from underneath Dominic.It is like the one in the dagger; it shares the same shape. I glance down at the open grimoire, noticing the drawing inside, a picture of the moon and the two stones. Yet, as I pick up the dagger that holds the other, I notice the differences. The one in the dagger is blood red and sparkles, the one Jayden holds is a crimson color, but dark and shadows make it almost appear smoky.Eziah comes to stand by me. He pockets the dagger to return it to the Moon Goddess realm while looking over at Jayden and watching him. Jayden finds the spell, making both Eziah and I repeat it before nervously glancing up at the moon, which is dire
Katya POVWe are eating dinner when I feel the pull. It sucked me in and I am suddenly standing in the fountain room of the Moon Goddess realm. I try to figure out what has pulled me here, yet as another wave of nausea rolls over me, the realm shakes. The water in the fountains sloshes over the sides and I grip onto one, trying to hold it steady.I stare down at Dominic’s wolf, who glows like a beacon amongst the mist. The shudders stop again and I regain my feet, moving to the fountain of life. I swipe through the smog and steam, clearing the water to see Eziah’s life force darkening and Marabella’s turning gold.My heart hammers in my chest as I try to figure out what is going on. What went wrong? Frantically, I drag my fingertips through the water, some spills over the edge, as I rewind the past to see. They opened the coffin! I gasp. I had no idea how they could do it, but I also knew it would be done. Never in my life have I wanted one of my visions to come true, but this one, the
Jordan POVI chase after Jayden, but Kaif takes off with him, taking control, and I know why. He wants to end it before he thinks much about it, so he needs to retrieve the dagger. Jayden knows for Mara to live, Kaif must die, and he sees no other way out. His pain crushes me, yet I have wandered from the trail and am now struggling to find my way back. I head back up the hill with no other choice, knowing it leads back to the ruins. I don’t want to wander too far and become lost. When I reach the top, I clutch my knees and try to catch my breath.Eziah and Marabella stand arguing with Katya, who pays them no mind as she looks at the grimoire she holds. Kat’s eyes flick to me before her voice is suddenly in my head.“Take Mara,” she says, and I swallow, trying to figure out what she is doing here and why she wants me to take Mara. Kat then tosses the grimoire into the coffin, and I move toward the ruins, slightly hesitant as I step inside the pentagram. The power emanating from the thr
Jayden POV I am halfway back to the manor when I hear the crack, the sound is so loud it hurts my ears, and I jump. The wind rushes toward me like a wall from the forest behind me, making me stop when I feel my father’s magic erupt in me. His power bursts from my fingertips, twisting and escaping through the air. I watch his magic float on the breeze back toward the forest, as the light engulfed the sky.It consumes the night and turns it to light. I watch as my father’s shadows move toward the ruins, slivering across the grass. “Kaif?” I ask because he is so quiet. I wonder if he is still with me.“She broke the curse,” Kaif whispers to me, and I can feel shock wash through him.“Marabella?” I worry.“No, Katya,” he murmurs. The shadows move across the ground, disappearing into the forest, and I run toward the treeline. The oppressive forest feels light, like the shadows and ghosts of my ancestors are no longer shackled by the errors of a past that held them here, the torment and ang
Marabella POV A month and a half later...“No. I’m telling you it goes there,” Dominic argues with my father Mateo.“Then what is this piece for? You have it upside down,” he replies, holding the piece of wood. They both look at my other father holding the instructions while I rock in the chair rubbing my huge round belly. I look like a beach ball.“I say, just screw it together, get some hex screws and duct tape,” Andrei says and they all look at him as he holds the drill.“And that is exactly why you pass the tools,” Mom tells him. She plucks the instructions out of Dad’s hands and turns them the right way up, clicking her tongue. “Out of all of you, you have half a brain cell between the lot of ya,” scolds my mother.“Yeah, leave it to the assembly Queen,” Sage says, pointing to herself and plucking the drill from Uncle Andrei’s hand.“Fine. We will start on the chest of draws,” Dominic says, turning to the other assembly kit.“No!” Mom, Sage, and I say in unison. All of them look
Jayden POV Cries fill the birthing suite as our son is finally born. We have all held our breaths ever since Marabella went into labor early, and our son's heart rate dropped as her contractions worsened, only to become stuck, and he was eventually delivered by forceps.Only when he was born he didn’t cry, and a flurry of nurses ran around, and doctors rushed in while they tried to get him to breathe. So when his ear-piercing scream resounds around the room, I suck in a breath of relief, and Jordan breaks down. Those few minutes are the most intense few minutes of my life. It was heart-stopping when we were only met with silence, and the fearful look on the midwife's face made my stomach drop.The midwife brings him back over to Mara, setting him on her naked chest while Jordan and I hover, watching over them. I thought no day would ever outmatch the day my father returned to me. How wrong I have been. Our son has only been born for a few minutes, and I know without a doubt that I lov
Jordan POVThe family fills the courtyard to celebrate Lucas’s first birthday. Dominic has gone way overboard, the kid won't even remember it, and despite only wanting a small family gathering, it somehow turns into a huge party in honor of our son.Ezra, Mateo, Dad, and Dominic have spent weeks planning it. Though as much as Jayden complains and whines about having so many people here, I know he secretly enjoys it. So we let them go, Marabella is doing better, and she and Kat seem closer than ever.Everyone seems happy, except two people. Casen and Eziah sit by the huge tree, watching. Casen watches Rose, who, as usual, is the life of the party, a scowl on his face. They still haven't patched things up, though I do know they are now living together despite my mother's protests and Rose’s. Dad forced Rose to move in with Casen after Mom, and she got into a fight over Rose sneaking out.Dad has had enough of her attitude, and Mom and her are constantly clashing. Rose is to take over the
JEREMY She looked like she wanted to be anywhere but here, and confusion was drawn on her face like a tattoo. "This is a prank." She stated with a shake of her head. "Please, I promise to stay out of everything that relates with the Terrors or the Girlfriends." I almost laughed out loud at the panic in her voice, but I refrained and kept a straight face instead. "I would've thought you had more balls than that, but I guess I was wrong." There was no way I was going to try to make an ally out of someone who was walking, breathing cowardice. If she didn't want any bit of revenge then so be it. "Wait!" She called out to stop me as I walked away from her. I turned back to face her, my eyebrows arched in silent question. "What do you want?" "I already told you what I want, Gwen. You're either brave enough to be a part of it or you're not." My gaze trailed over her from head to toe. "And something tells me you're on the side of not." "How do I know that you're not mislead
JEREMY'S POV I couldn't possibly be imagining this. This place was deserted to a very large extent. Something was most definitely up. Every single person that had walked past us or even peeked through their windows at us since we strolled by casually had been either female or child. It was Jayden that finally responded to my comment. "No, it's not just your mind. This is actually a space dominated by anything other than the male wolves." Jordan made a show of sniffing the air. "There's no single scent of a male wolf within a 50 mile radius of this place." "What do you think could be going on?" I asked. This was seriously crazy. There was no way in hell that all of the men in the pack had just decided to step out on the same day. Especially not after the number of traps we'd had to get past on our way here. "I think there was more than one trap left waiting for us." Jayden didn't sound too pleased by that possibility. Not that I could blame him, I wasn't pleased by it ei
JEREMY'S POV I couldn't possibly be imagining this. This place was deserted to a very large extent. Something was most definitely up. Every single person that had walked past us or even peeked through their windows at us since we strolled by casually had been either female or child. It was Jayden that finally responded to my comment. "No, it's not just your mind. This is actually a space dominated by anything other than the male wolves." Jordan made a show of sniffing the air. "There's no single scent of a male wolf within a 50 mile radius of this place." "What do you think could be going on?" I asked. This was seriously crazy. There was no way in hell that all of the men in the pack had just decided to step out on the same day. Especially not after the number of traps we'd had to get past on our way here. "I think there was more than one trap left waiting for us." Jayden didn't sound too pleased by that possibility. Not that I could blame him, I wasn't pleased by it ei
JORDAN'S POV "It's quite easy to make demands like that when you're sitting safe behind an office desk, isn't it?" I spat out before I could stop myself. Something about the woman made me want to vomit. She irritated the fuck out of me and I was always fighting the urge to simply wring her throat with my bare hands. "Excuse you?" Her eyes were oozing fire as she trained them on me. "There's just three of us. And yet we're constantly being pitted against a full army of wolves by ourselves." "You're Alphas." She deadpanned like that could justify everything in the world. "Doesn't make us infallible." I bit back. "Maybe if the board could be a little bit more considerate about the kinds of missions we were sent on, we wouldn't have a revenge on our hands now." My tone was becoming a lot more disrespectful with each word that came out of my mouth and I noticed my brother stiffen beside me. One of his palms dropped on my thighs, calming me down without words. As expected,
JAYDEN'S POV As soon as Sarah took my hard cock into her mouth, a groan traveled out from my throat. She might be obnoxious and irritable and all of the other depressing shit, but she certainly had a lot of use in the sex department. I grabbed a fistful of her hair to hold her head in one place, then I pulled my cock out of her warm mouth and jammed it back in with enough force to have tears spilling down her face. Her gag reflexes kicked in and she started to make room at the back of her throat for my throbbing member to visit more easily. I didn't even bother with slowing down, I just continued to fuck her mouth all the more violently. By the time I felt the pressure building in my balls, I pulled out, then dragged her off her knees until she was standing in front of me. "Did you like that?" She asked me with a sultry smile on her face. "I'm yet to decide." I spun her around and bent her over the back of the deckchair I was sprawled in when I first came in here with Gwen and
JAYDEN'S POV I didn't bother with waiting for them to snap into action, I was beyond confident that my demands would always be met so I turned on my heels and went in the opposite direction of the open doorway of the room. As expected, the footsteps of the two women escorted me down the stairs and all the way to our suite. When Jeremy came to me fuming that Jordan was beginning to act stupid I hadn't known how to react so I had done the only logical thing, go after my twin. "Jayden, I..." Gwen's annoying voice took over the space in my head as she tried to give me an excuse of some sort. "Can you do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut, Gwen? I would ask you to speak when I have absolutely no choice but to listen to your annoying voice." That shut her up pretty quickly. My face pulled up into a smile as silence stretched between us all the way to the suite. "What the fuck is she doing here, Jayden? I take it that you intend to punish her?" Jeremy still sounded terribly
GAZELLE'S POV I either didn't hear right or I heard completely wrong. Did Jordan just say he would have one of the Girlfriends bring dinner up to my room? My eyes moved up to meet his in obvious shock, and I noticed he wasn't even staring at me. He was too busy glaring at Sarah, who looked just about ready to have the earth swallow her up, to pay any attention other than the verbal acknowledgement that left me in shock. "What the hell, Jordan?! Are you fucking this pig? Is that why you care so much about her? I would've thought you had better taste than that, being Jayden's brother and all." Sarah's voice is high pitched and ringing with enough disbelief. Just as much as I felt up until het words registered in my skull. What? What was it with everyone and making disgusting assumptions today? Jordan's gaze finally landed on mine and his glare turned icier. I could totally see how he would be pissed off over the fact that people are now assuming he's having... eww with me.
JORDAN'S POV I was feeling a lot of different emotions, all of them in the negative. Gazelle's presence beside was doing a lot more than I expected it could to keep me calm and collected. The spoon in my hand lifted oh so slowly up into my mouth, carrying with it ice-cream that should be divine, but just tasted like sawdust. "What are you guys doing in here?" Jeremy's voice carried through the semi-open doorway. We both looked up at the sound of his voice, one of us frozen in her place. I glanced at her in a very brief way but she didn't even look back, her eyes were pinned on him as he strolled into the room. "Nothing that should concern you." My voice held a finality that would get anyone else to back off, but this was Jeremy I was speaking about. His face morphed into a huge smile. "Ah. You could've invited me to join in the fun." His eyes flickered between Gazelle and me, a knowing smile on his face. I almost gagged at the suggestion he was making. "Gross. Get your s
GAZELLE'S POV After what happened the previous night, I didn't think that I would want to attend another ball night. The plan was to remain in my bed and see Jenna later in the evening since she wasn't ready to see me this morning. But my little rest was caught short as I was sent a reminder of my punishment. I got off the bed dutifully and changed into a loose fitting outfit. I got my cleaning equipment and began my dirt. I cleaned up my dorm and thankfully, some cleaners had already cleaned the girlfriend's floor so I didn't have to deal with the obnoxious girls. The boys dorm was already cleaned so all I had to do was clean the surroundings and the boyfriend's suite. I took my time to clean because I didn't want them around when I was cleaning. By the time I was done with half of Wolverine, the ball had already begun and wolves were beginning to arrive. I spent one more hour cleaning before heading to the Boyfriends suite. There was no one at home which was a